Patent ID: 7222300
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method for authoring a video composition from source video using short segments of the source video called video cliplets, comprising: generating a set of windows to be contained within the video composition; automatically selecting a cliplet to be placed within each window of the set of windows so as to create the video composition based on multi-dimensional cliplet interest ratings associated with the cliplet, wherein automatically selecting a cliplet further comprises: defining cliplet interest rating categories; ranking each of the cliplets in each of the cliplet interest rating categories; selecting the top-ranked cliplets in each of the cliplet interest rating categories to be placed in each of the windows; presenting the video composition to a user for review; allowing the user to change the cliplets within each of the windows if the user not satisfied with the video composition after the review; allowing a user to choose an output style of the video composition; determining whether any of the top-ranked cliplets in each of the cliplet interest rating categories are close in time; and if so, then choosing one of the top-ranked cliplets that are close in time and discarding the other ones of the top-ranked cliplets that are close in time.