Patent ID: 9305600
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. A method for the automated production of a single video file from a multi-view video capture, the method comprising the steps of: i) gathering video data from a plurality of camera sources; ii) gathering audio data from a plurality of microphone sources; iii) using audio and video information to automatically locate and track a moving target object in a 3D space, so as to determine the region occupied by the said target object in each available camera; iv) determining from the identified regions in each camera view, the most optimum view of said target object; v) modelling skin colour under varying illumination; vi) analysing 3D foreground denoting possible target object occupancy from which individual regions of the foreground can be determined through a 3D connect component and shape analysis; and vii) composing a single view video sequence consisting of a user defined main view and an automatically inserted optimum view of said target object over the duration of the video capture.