Patent ID: 8855471

Claim:
A system for generating automatically a near-live highlight summary of a live performance, the system comprising: a user operated event logging processor that logs one or more event codes, each of which is selected by the user from a set of event codes, each of the event codes in the set representing a predetermined event that is selectable by the user based on the live performance, and an ingestion processor that receives the event codes, receives live-feed signals produced by capturing a representation of the live performance, compares the event codes with a predetermined editing action list, the editing action list specifying for each of the event codes at least a predetermined period of time, and generates automatically the near-live highlight summary of the performance by including the predetermined period of time of the live feed signals representative of the live performance in the near-live highlight summary in accordance with the predetermined period of time specified by the editing action list for the event code based on the comparison, wherein the event logging processor logs the one or more event codes in an event log and records a time reference at which the event code is selected by the user, the ingestion processor receives the event log including the event codes and the time reference associated with each event code, and generates the near-live highlight summary of the performance by extracting a portion of the live performance before and after the time reference based on the predetermined period of time specified for the event code by the editing action list, and the event log and time reference are stored in memory.