Snap Inc.

Daniel Szeto

Ning Xu

Jianchao Yang

Jia Li

Rahul Bhupendra Sheth

Nathan Litke

Jose Jesus (Joseph) Paredes

Jeremy Baker Voss

Christie Marie Heikkinen

Newar Husam Al Majid

Laurent Desserrey

Nathaniel Parrott

Sana Park

Method starts with processor receiving media content item and selection of personalized media overlay. Personalized media overlay includes image with space for text. Processor generates modified media content item by overlaying personalized media overlay on media content item. Modified media content item includes the image with the space for text overlaid on the media content item. Processor receives a selection of recipients including second user and third user. Processor generates recipient-personalized media content items including recipient-personalized media content item for second user by adding second user's name to the space for text in the image and recipient-personalized media content item for third user by adding the third user's name to the space for text in the image. Processor causes recipient-personalized media content item for second user to be displayed by second client device and recipient-personalized media content item for third user to be displayed by third client device.

Generating recipient-personalized media content items

Systems and methods are described for determining a first media item related to an event, of a plurality of stored media items each comprising video content related to the event, that was captured in a device orientation corresponding to a first device orientation detected for the first computing device; providing, to the first computing device, the first media item to be displayed on the first computing device; in response to a detected change to a second device orientation for the first computing device, determining a second media item that was captured in a device orientation corresponding to the second device orientation detected for the first computing device; and providing, to the first computing device, the second media item to be displayed on the first computing device.

Processing and formatting video for interactive presentation

Systems and methods are described for determining that the user interaction with a display of a computing device during display of a video comprising a sequence of frames indicates a region of interest in a current frame of the sequence of frames of the displayed video. For each frame of the sequence of frames after the current frame, the frame is cropped to generate a cropped frame comprising a portion of the frame including the region of interest in the frame, the cropped frame is enlarged based on a display size corresponding to an angle or orientation of the computing device during display of the video, and the enlarged cropped frame replaces the frame such that the enlarged cropped frame is displayed in the sequence of frames of the video on the display of the computing device instead of the frame.

Systems and methods are described for receiving, at a computing device, a plurality of video sources related to an event. For each video source of the plurality of video sources, the systems and methods further provide for analyzing, by the computing device, the video source of the plurality of video sources to determine a device orientation to associate with the video source, associating, by the computing device, the device orientation with the video source, and storing, by the computing device, the video source and the associated device orientation.

Systems and methods are described for receiving, at a computing device, a video comprising a plurality of frames and determining, by the computing device, that vertical cropping should be performed for the video. For each frame of the plurality of frames, the computing device processes the video by analyzing the frame to determine a region of interest in the frame, wherein the frame is a first frame, cropping the first frame based on the region of interest in the frame to produce a vertically cropped frame for the video, determining a second frame immediately preceding the first frame, and smoothing a trajectory from the second frame to the vertically cropped frame. The vertically cropped frame is displayed to a user instead of the first frame.

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Daniel Szeto