Patent ID: 9659219
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06K,G11B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving multiple visual media items from one or more media databases; associating the visual media items with one or more story topics; and in response to deciding that a given story topic is associated with sufficient suitable visual media items, initiating computer-aided creation of a video clip relating to the given story topic using the associated visual media items, wherein initiating the computer-aided creation comprises presenting to a human moderator one or more candidate story topics for which sufficient suitable visual media items are available, and receiving from the human moderator a selection of the story topic for which the video clip is to be created, and wherein presenting the candidate story topics comprises displaying to the human moderator multiple windows, which correspond to the respective candidate story topics and whose sizes depend on respective composite scores assigned to the candidate story topics.