Patent Document ID: 8274544
Application ID: 12408898
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of automated videography, in which video images of at least one subject in a local environment are acquired using an automated videography system, comprising: capturing video images with the automated videography system according to current video capture settings while using one or more cameras during a videography event of one or more video scenes which involves the at least one subject within the local environment, where the current video capture settings at least define current subject framing of the at least one subject within a selected shot; analyzing the captured video images of a current video scene as captured according to the current video capture settings, to assess subject activity and changes thereof, relative to the current subject framing and video image quality; determining whether the analyzed changes in subject activity, relative to the current subject framing, correspond to either an intra-scene transition or an inter-scene transition, for which an intra-scene change probability based on the analyzed changes in subject activity and current shot framing indicates that reframing to modify the current shot framing can adapt to the changing subject activity, or to an inter-scene transition, for which an inter-scene change probability based on the analyzed changes in subject activity indicates for a change to a selected new shot with new shot framing; determining next shot options, including associated shot selection probabilities, based upon the assessed level of subject activity, if the determined inter-scene change probability for providing the new subject framing is greater than a predetermined value; selecting a next shot from among the determined next shot options based in part upon the determined shot selection probabilities, and determining a next shot subject framing and associated video capture settings; and automatically modifying ongoing video image capture to apply either the modified current shot framing or the next shot framing, as indicated by the inter-scene change, intra-scene change, and the shot selection probabilities.