Patent ID: 8422852
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for automated story generation, the method comprising: analyzing a group of one or more assets to mine metadata and feature information from the group of assets; analyzing the group of assets to determine if any corrections are required for any of the assets; rendering at least one correction to at least one asset of the group of assets wherein an asset that is corrected is a corrected asset; storing the corrected assets; applying, by a computing device, rules of a theme script to at least one asset of the group of assets to generate a story; applying rules of a theme script to at least one corrected asset to generate the story; creating an intro section for the generated story that begins the generated story pursuant to at least one rule of the theme script, wherein the intro section comprises a title comprising metadata mined from at least one asset from the group of assets; creating an outro section for the generated story comprising at least one final frame of the generated story, wherein the outro section is created pursuant to at least one rule of the theme script and wherein the outro section further comprises a credit comprising metadata mined from at least one asset from the group of assets; generating a first caption for at least one frame of a first group of frames of the generated story pursuant to at least one rule of the theme script wherein the first caption comprises text comprising metadata mined from at least one asset of the group of assets; and generating a second caption for at least one frame of a second group of frames of the generated story pursuant to at least one rule of the theme script wherein the second caption is automatically generated with generic text and wherein the generic text is thereafter replaced with text created from input received from a user; outputting the generated story; encoding the generated story; storing the generated story; and publishing the generated story.