VIDEO REMIXING SYSTEM

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App. No.: 14/444,129

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Abstract

A method and an apparatus for selecting content for a media remix, comprising: obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix in a media remix service; retrieving one or more supplementary media content from one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information, said supplementary media content being at least partly similar and/or relevant to the base media content; and generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content.

Claims (67)

1 . A method for selecting content for a media remix, the method comprising:

obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix in a media remix service;

retrieving one or more supplementary media content from one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information, said supplementary media content being at least partly similar and/or relevant to the base media content; and

generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content.

2 . A method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising

verifying that said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content are sufficiently similar and/or relevant according to at least one predetermined parameter; and

in response to retrieving a predetermined number of sufficiently similar and/or relevant supplementary media content, generating the media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content

3 . A method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising

searching information about said one or more supplementary media content from said one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information about the base media content;

arranging the one or more supplementary media content in a priority order on the basis of metadata of said base media content; and

retrieving said one or more supplementary media content from said one or more network domains or multimedia content databases in said priority order.

4 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one parameter for verifying sufficient similarity and/or relevance indicates at least one of the following:

the base media content and the supplementary media content have been captured from the same audio scene;

the base media content and the supplementary media content use the same audio track;

the base media content and the supplementary media content include a common object of interest;

the base media content and the supplementary media content are corresponding to the same event;

the base media content and the supplementary media content complement semantic information;

the base media content and the supplementary media content have at least partly similar video content or similar video content properties in at least one view;

the base media content and the supplementary media content have been captured within a predetermined time interval;

the base media content and the supplementary media content have a predetermined set of connections within a social media portal.

5 . A method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising

signaling said information about the base media content to the media remix service, the information comprising one or more of the following: a URI of the base media content, metadata about the base media content, a media file comprising the base media content.

6 . A method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising

determining said predetermined number of sufficiently similar and/or relevant supplementary media content as a threshold for a completeness parameter, wherein said completeness parameter indicates a status of available supplementary media content.

7 . A method according to claim 6 , wherein the completeness parameter is derived using one or more of the following parameters:

the number of supplementary media content verified to match the base media content;

the number of retrieved supplementary media content verified not to match the base media content;

one or more user-defined parameters for the remix;

media information, such as duration, quality, semantic characteristics;

content variety information, such as source of content, difference in content based on dominant color, number of faces, view angle.

8 . A method according to claim 7 , wherein the completeness parameter has a value as a number which is derived using one or more of said parameters.

9 . A method according to claim 8 , wherein the completeness parameter has a value in the range of first and second values, where the second value of for the completeness parameter indicates that all the necessary content is available, and the first value indicates that no content is available; and

the completeness parameter value between the first and second value is used as a threshold for starting to generate the media remix.

10 . An apparatus comprising at least one processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix;

generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content.

11 . An apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

verifying that said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content are sufficiently similar and/or relevant according to at least one predetermined parameter; and

12 . An apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

arranging the one or more supplementary media content in a priority order on the basis of metadata of said base media content; and

retrieving said one or more supplementary media content from said one or more network domains or multimedia content databases in said priority order.

13 . An apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one parameter for verifying sufficient similarity and/or relevance indicates at least one of the following: