A control surface designer (CSD) module may generate a configuration user interface that lists a plurality of applications and their respective plurality of commands, wherein the configuration user interface includes, for each command of the respective plurality of commands, parameters of specific command instances. The CSD module may receive, via the configuration user interface, selections of commands from different applications in the plurality of applications, and may generate code payloads that correspond to the commands. The CSD module may generate a customized user interface that includes the commands by compiling the code payloads.
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A MEDIA PRODUCTION WORK PACKAGE FOR A MEDIA PRODUCTION
A system is provided for dynamically managing a media production work package. The system includes a media production work package generator that builds a media production work package that includes media processing functions; and a processing function manager that generates function trackers that are each assigned to a respective one of the plurality of media processing functions and comprise a unique identity. Moreover, the system includes a function deployment manager that embeds the function trackers in the respective media processing functions, and deploys the media processing functions to resources available in a cloud computing network that includes both physical resources and software resources. A performance metric collector generates a graphical representation of respective total costs of each the deployed media processing functions and a work package controller generates a data point structure that uniquely identifies the deployed media processing functions and the total costs for each deployed function.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projets; Planification d’entreprise ou d’organisation; Modélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
A system is provided for dynamically modifying media processing functions to control optimization of a media production. The system includes a media processing function library that stores media processing functions that each include a subgraph embedded therein that has precalculated parameters and undefined variable parameters. Media processing engines execute the plurality of media processing functions to create the media production. Moreover, the system includes a media function management controller that places the media processing functions in a job queue to be executed by one or more of the media processing engines. A resource manager receives a media production instruction from a client device to partially deploy the media processing functions in the job queue. During execution, the media processing engine can receive an input deliverable that constrains the undefined variable parameters, such that the partially deployed media processing functions is dynamically modified during runtime to create the media production.
G06F 11/34 - Enregistrement ou évaluation statistique de l'activité du calculateur, p.ex. des interruptions ou des opérations d'entrée–sortie
G06F 16/901 - Indexation; Structures de données à cet effet; Structures de stockage
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H04L 67/10 - Protocoles dans lesquels une application est distribuée parmi les nœuds du réseau
H04N 21/637 - Signaux de commande émis par le client et dirigés vers les éléments du serveur ou du réseau
H04N 21/65 - Transmission de données de gestion entre le client et le serveur
H04N 21/6547 - Transmission du serveur vers le client comprenant des paramètres, p.ex. pour l'initialisation du client
H04N 21/85 - Assemblage du contenu; Génération d’applications multimédia
A system is provided for capturing a key signal within video frames that includes a camera that captures a sequence of media content of a live scene that includes an electronic display having a higher frame rate than an output frame rate of the camera, and a key signal processor that convert all frames in the sequence of media content to the output frame rate of the camera, analyzes a sequence of frames to determine the key signal based on the electronic display outputting a sequence of frames including media content and at least one key frame included in the sequence, and combine remaining frames of the sequence of frames to create a live output signal. Moreover, the key signal processor determines, for each pixel in the frames, whether the pixel has a set chromaticity, and generates a key mask for each pixel in each frame.
A system and method is provided for reducing the bandwidth for media broadcast production. The system includes a plurality of content providing devices and a remote production system. Each of the content providing devices has a corresponding variable encoder. The remote production system transmits control signals to the variable encoders, controlling them to use a high-fidelity encoding method or a compressed encoding method. The remote production system controls the variable encoders such that a media feed being included in a media production is encoded using the high-fidelity encoding method, and some or all of the other media streams are encoded using the compressed encoding method.
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H04H 60/13 - Dispositions de commande de dispositifs, affectés par les informations radiodiffusées
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECIMATION OF IMAGE DATA FOR MULTIVIEWER DISPLAY
A system is provided for displaying content streams on a multiviewer device and includes a GPU that resizes image data loaded therein for display in a multiviewer tile, and an image decimation controller that performs a decimation of a content stream by removing a predetermined number of lines from each frame of the content stream before loading the content stream to the internal memory of the GPU for resizing and display on the multiviewer tile. In this system, the content stream is loaded to a full resolution buffer in system memory if the content stream is not a proxy stream of the media content and the tile designated for the content stream is less the predetermined threshold, such that the image decimation controller performs the decimation to delete the predetermined number of lines before the content stream is loaded in the internal memory of the GPU as the image data.
A virtualized production switcher for media production is provided that includes a script database that stores predefined macros that each define a script for applying media production functions to media content, and a script optimizer that selects a subset of the predefined macros to be presented on a user interface as suggested scripts for each of a plurality of scenes of a media stream. Moreover, a program generator receives a user input via the user interface that selects one of the predefined macros and applies the corresponding script to a selected scene of the media stream for a media production by applying the at least one media production function to the selected scene based on an identified key-frame thereof. A script profiler identifies metadata related to the selected scene and updates the script database to store a correspondence between the selected scene and the selected predefined macro.
A system is provided for optimizing deployment of a processing function in a media production workflow. The system includes a media production workflow generator that builds the media production workflow that includes the processing function and determines deployment criteria that includes an input dataset for the processing function and an atomic compute function for executing the processing function. Moreover, a deployment topology generator generates a topologies of the resources available in a cloud computing network and based on the determined deployment criteria, with the generated topologies indicating different configurations of resources for executing the processing function and a processor for executing the atomic compute function of the processing function. Furthermore, a deployment optimizer selects an optimal topology to deploy the processing function within the cloud computing network, with the optimal topology selected to include the processor for optimizing accessibility of electronic memory to execute the atomic compute function.
H04L 12/24 - Dispositions pour la maintenance ou la gestion
H04L 12/16 - Dispositions pour la fourniture de services particuliers aux abonnés
H04L 12/28 - Réseaux de données à commutation caractérisés par la configuration des liaisons, p.ex. réseaux locaux [LAN Local Area Networks] ou réseaux étendus [WAN Wide Area Networks]
H04N 5/262 - Circuits de studio, p.ex. pour mélanger, commuter, changer le caractère de l'image, pour d'autres effets spéciaux
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA CONTENT USING TIMESTAMPS
A system and method is provided for synchronizing media content in a media distribution network using timestamps. The system includes a decoder configured to parse a plurality of data packets of a media stream to determine a timestamp value for each video frame in the media stream; and a media content synchronizer. The media content synchronizer generates a media content timeline based on the determined timestamp value of each of video frame, generates the media content timeline based on a cadence having monotonic increasing count, determines whether each video frame of the media stream is a next frame in a video sequence of the media stream based on the timestamp value for the respective video frame, and repeats a previous frame in the video sequence to generate the media content timeline when a current frame in the video sequence was dropped based on the determined timestamp value.
A system and method are provided for generating a factory layout to dynamically optimize a media content production in a real-time environment. The system includes a media production optimizer with a widget controller that provides widgets that represent work packages as micro-services that perform functions of the media content production, respectively. A user interface controller receive inputs from a user interface to dynamically update the factory layout for the media content production. The media production optimizer then recompiles underlying code to update a model of the factory layout in response to the inputs from the operator of the system, and also migrates the updated factory layout to a cloud platform that includes a plurality of media production components including the plurality of micro-services for deployment thereon.
G11B 27/031 - Montage électronique de signaux d'information analogiques numérisés, p.ex. de signaux audio, vidéo
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H04N 21/80 - Génération ou traitement de contenu ou de données additionnelles par un créateur de contenu, indépendamment du processus de distribution; Contenu en soi
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA CONTENT IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
A system is provided for distributing media content in a distributed network. The system includes a count sequence generator that generates a monotonic increasing count sequence, a signal processor that generates a correspondence between media content and the count sequence, such that the monotonic increasing counter sequence is configured for a media content request defined by the increasing count sequence; and a media content database configured to store the media content and corresponding count sequence. Moreover, the signal processor receives a media content request that includes media request parameters that define a portion of the media content based on the corresponding count sequence and at least one of content quality, cost of the requested media content and a delivery time for the requested media content. The signal processor also accesses the requested media content from the media content database and distributes the media content to the media processing node.
H04N 21/242 - Procédés de synchronisation, p.ex. traitement de références d'horloge de programme [PCR]
H04N 21/238 - Interfaçage de la voie descendante du réseau de transmission, p.ex. adaptation du débit de transmission d'un flux vidéo à la bande passante du réseau; Traitement de flux multiplexés
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H04N 21/647 - Signalisation de contrôle entre des éléments du réseau et serveur ou clients; Procédés réseau pour la distribution vidéo entre serveur et clients, p.ex. contrôle de la qualité du flux vidéo en éliminant des paquets, protection du contenu contre une modification non autorisée dans le réseau ou surveillance de la charge du résea
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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING VIDEO AND AUDIO CLIPS WITH AUDIO DATA
A system is provided for synchronizing video clips with audio data. The system includes one or more video capture devices that captures audio and video data of a scene, and a data store for the audio data, the metadata, and the video data generated by each respective capture device. Moreover, the system includes an audio analyzer that analyzes the audio data to determine one or more groups of overlapping video clips in the video data and to generate offset information for each video clip in the one or more groups. A metadata analyzer then corrects the one or more groups of the overlapping video clips based on camera identification data, and a sequence generator generates a plurality of video sequences with synchronized audio, based on the corrected one or more groups.
A system is provided for live video production and asset management that includes an orchestration software and platform that uses artificial intelligence or machine learning to automate show rundown and playlist assembly based on social topical trends, historical and predictive content and associated advertising performance by type and consumer demographics by platform viewership. The system and method provides an automated lineup (or suggested lineup that can be modified by the producer) of the best predictive performance results rather than solely based on experience of the producer himself or herself.
H04N 21/262 - Ordonnancement de la distribution de contenus ou de données additionnelles, p.ex. envoi de données additionnelles en dehors des périodes de pointe, mise à jour de modules de logiciel, calcul de la fréquence de transmission de carrousel, retardement d
H04N 21/24 - Surveillance de procédés ou de ressources, p.ex. surveillance de la charge du serveur, de la bande passante disponible ou des requêtes effectuées sur la voie montante
H04N 21/258 - Gestion de données liées aux clients ou aux utilisateurs finaux, p.ex. gestion des capacités des clients, préférences ou données démographiques des utilisateurs, traitement des multiples préférences des utilisateurs finaux pour générer des données co
H04N 21/85 - Assemblage du contenu; Génération d’applications multimédia
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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING EQUIVALENTS FOR TASK COMPLETION
A system is provided for determining equivalence to execute a task. The system includes an identity module that obtains a unique identity for each of a plurality of resources, and a metadata collection module that collects metadata information relating to the plurality of resources based on the obtained unique identifier for each resource, and that stores the collected metadata information in a metadata database, with the metadata information relating to capabilities of the respective resource for executing the task. Moreover, the system includes an equivalence processor that determines a set of resources of the plurality of resources that are configured to execute the task defined by a requesting client device in an equivalent manner based on the collected metadata information of the at least one set of resources.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projets; Planification d’entreprise ou d’organisation; Modélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
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SHARED PHOTODIODE RESET IN A 5 TRANSISTOR - FOUR SHARED PIXEL
An image sensor that provides global shutter scanning with exposure time control during image capture. The image sensor includes a pixel array with shared pixel units that each include four photodiodes with a floating diffusion node shared therebetween and respective global shutter gates disposed between each photodiode and a supply voltage of the pixel array. Moreover, an image capture timing controller controls an exposure time of each photodiode by adjusting a width of a global shutter reset pulse applied to the plurality of global shutter gates after each readout cycle during image capture to change the respective exposure time of each shared pixel unit.
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