Tcl Research America Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Marvell International Limited

Shenzhen Tcl New Technology Ltd.

Tcl Lab (us) Inc.

Haohong Wang

Xiaobo Ren

Khaled Helmi El-Maleh

Lifan Guo

Sharath Manjunath

Li Sha

Hsiang-Tsun Li

Xinpeng Liao

Guanghan Ning

Narendranath Malayath

Michael Iliadis

Yimin Yang

Xinyao Sun

Yue Shang

Leung Chung Lai

Zixiao Yu

Wanying Ding

Yunsen Chin

Xiaoyun Jiang

Shuxue Quan

Chinchuan Andrew Chiu

Shuhua Xiang

Liang Leon Peng

Behnam Katibian

Vijay Mahadevan

Mengwen Liu

Jianbo Yuan

Zhi Zhang

Armin Kappeler

Tzun Wei Lee

Mea Wang

Wenqiang Bo

Fausto C Fleites

Yingyong Qi

Suhail Jalil

Kai Yang

Ching-Han Tsai

Lin Sun

Yi Liang

Glenn Adler

Jia Le He

Di Meng

Dae Hoon Park

Tzun-Wei Lee

Tao Xie

Satish Kumar Vutukuri

Jim Xiao

Kyle Otto Jorgensen

Jun Tang

Zhiqun Zhao

Hsin-Tai Wu

Haiguang Li

Allan He

Bo Song

Yizhou Zang

Jianliang Yi

Ziju Feng

Yuchen Wang

Qiqin Dai

Qiusha Zhu

Weilun Cheng

Nathaniel Rossol

Chen Huang

Hao Ding

Jia Huang

Michail Iliadis

Benny Katibian

A method and device for one-click filmmaking are provided. The method includes: obtaining a script from a user, detecting a single user operation, in response to the single user operation, obtaining a plurality of shots and estimating information of the plurality of shots based on the script, and automatically generating a film based on an auto-cinematography algorithm and the estimated information of the plurality of shots. The estimated information of one of the plurality of shots comprises at least one of a character of a shot, a scene of the shot, one or more positions of the character in the shot, a duration of the shot, or a shot type.

One-click filmmaking

A script-to-movie generation method for a computing device includes: obtaining a movie script; generating a list of actions according to the movie script; generating stage performance based on each action in the list of actions; extracting observation information from the stage performance; using a camera agent trained with a reinforcement learning algorithm to select a camera based on the observation information, where the camera includes camera setting that defines a position of the camera with respect to a character for which the camera shoots; using the selected camera to capture a video of the stage performance; and outputting the video.

Automatic cinematography system using reinforcement learning

A method and device for reversible story are provided. The method includes: when presenting a media stream of a current story, detecting a request performed by a user for generating an alternative story corresponding to the current story; in response to the request for generating the alternative story, determining a target path in a hyperstory, the hyperstory including multiple paths corresponding to multiple stories that describe different status change trends of one or more story characters, and the target path sharing a same initial segment with a path of the current story in the hyperstory and including a branch point where a story trend change occurs; determining a media stream of the alternative story according to the target path; and presenting the media stream of the alternative story.

1-click reversible story

An experience-aware anomaly processing system and a method for an experience-aware anomaly processing system are provided. The experience-aware anomaly processing system comprises an anomaly detection module configured to receive geographic location data with corresponding time information of a target object, and analyze target object behavior based on the geographic location data with corresponding time information of the target object; a user feedback module configured to receive user feedback from a user and model user feedback behavior when the user receives an alarm message indicating the target object is abnormal; and a decision module configured to receive user setting from the user, and make a detection decision through fusing target object behavior information corresponding to the target object behavior, user feedback behavior information corresponding to the user feedback behavior, and the user setting.

Experience-aware anomaly processing system and method

A script-to-movie generation method for a computing device includes obtaining a movie script, generating a video according to the movie script, optimizing the generated video until a pass condition is satisfied, and outputting the optimized video.

Write-a-movie: visualize your story from script

A context-aware method for answering a question about a video includes: receiving the question about the video that is paused at a pausing position; obtaining and analyzing context information at the pausing position of the video, the context information including supplementary materials of the video; and automatically searching an answer to the question based on the context information at the pausing position of the video.

Context-aware question-answer for interactive media experiences

A method and device for implementing Write-A-Movie technology. The method includes: obtaining a screenplay of a movie; generating, according to the screenplay, an action list by performing natural language processing (NLP) on the screenplay, the action list comprising a plurality of actions with attributes, the attributes of each action including a subject, a predicate, and a location of the action; rendering, according to the action list, three-dimensional (3D) data in 3D scenes of the movie, the 3D data reflecting, for each action, the subject performing the action at the location in a corresponding 3D scene; determining camera sequence of cameras for shooting two-dimensional (2D) frames in the 3D scenes by performing an auto-cinematography optimization process; and generating a 2D video of the movie by combining the 2D frames shot by the cameras based on the determined camera sequence.

Write-a-movie: unifying writing and shooting

A method for interactive video presentation includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, video data corresponding to a story; presenting, through a display interface, a portion of the video data corresponding to a selected storyline path of the story; receiving, by the input interface, a user request for switching between a two-dimensional (2D) video streaming mode and a three-dimensional (3D) exploration mode; and in response to the user request being switching from the 2D video streaming mode to the 3D exploration mode: acquiring, by the processor, 3D video scenes with exploration options for an avatar, the 3D video scenes matched to a current story status and currently presented video data; and presenting, through the display interface, the 3D video scenes with the exploration options.

Device and method for interactive video presentation

A method for generating speech animation from an audio signal includes: receiving the audio signal; transforming the received audio signal into frequency-domain audio features; performing neural-network processing on the frequency-domain audio features to recognize phonemes, wherein the neural-network processing is performed using a neural network trained with a phoneme dataset comprising of audio signals with corresponding ground-truth phoneme labels; and generating the speech animation from the recognized phonemes.

Device and method for generating speech animation

A method of generating video in three-dimensional animation environment is provided. The method includes: obtaining and translating directorial hints for making a 3D animated movie based on user input; determining camera configurations in a 3D environment according to the directorial hints; establishing a camera search space that includes multiple candidate cameras to be used at different timestamps to shoot one or more scenes of the movie based on the camera configurations; performing editing optimization based on the camera search space and the directorial hints, to obtain an edited video. The editing optimization is formalized into a process of finding a path with minimum cost in a graph model, each path describing a candidate camera sequence for producing the movie, and at least some of the directorial hints are translated into cost functions of the graph model. The edited video is output as the produced 3D animated movie.

Director hint based auto-cinematography

An interaction method includes receiving an interaction indicating a user's wish, interpreting the interaction to obtain an interpreted wish, identifying a realization story in a hyperstory according to the interpreted wish, sending a feedback message indicating a time the user's wish will be realized and a response-to-wish confidence level, generating a realization video according to the realization story, and outputting the realization video.

Wishing television

A method for making a zoomable user interface for a television (TV) comprises the steps of: assigning a plurality of tags to a video title; collecting tags of a plurality of video titles of a video group; building a tag-relationship map based on a relationship of the tags, wherein the tag-relationship map represents a hierarchical structure of the tags in the video group; building a plurality of tag trees based on the hierarchical structure of the tags; calculating each total distance of each of the plurality of tag trees, wherein the total distance of the tag tree is a sum of distances from a root node to all nodes in the tag tree; and displaying the zoomable user interface having a minimum value of the total distance of the tag tree.

Zoomable user interface for TV

A method for displaying digital content in an interactive navigation interface is provided. The method includes: displaying a plurality of top-level category groups on a display screen; receiving a user pointing operation selecting one of the top-level category groups from a remote controller; providing visual feedback for the selected top-level category group; and in response to a zoom-in operation on the selected top-level category group received from the remote controller, displaying a plurality of digital content objects within the selected top-level category group.

Method and system for digital content display and interaction

A privacy reserving camera including a frame buffer, an object detection and tracking module, an object identification module, an instance segmentation module and an object removal and inpainting module. The frame buffer stores frames of a video stream captured by the privacy preserving camera. The object detection and tracking module detects a moving object in the video stream. The object identification module determines whether the moving object is a privacy protecting object. The instance segmentation module parses the moving object in the video stream. The object removal and inpainting module removes at least a portion of the moving object from the video stream, fills an area of the removed moving object in the video stream with a compensated patch from a neighbor frame of the video stream, and outputs a modified video stream having at least a portion of the moving object replaced with the compensated patch.

Privacy preserving camera

A method is provided for recommending a desired func sequence schedule to a user. The method includes obtaining at least one user intention inputted by the user; creating a func sequence including a plurality of funcs for fulfilling the user intention; and determining user preference on scheduling of the plurality of funcs in the func sequence. The method also includes determining a dependency relationship among the plurality of funcs in the func sequence; and determining scheduling constraints to the scheduling of the plurality of funcs in the func sequence. The method further includes, based on the user preference, the dependency relationship, and the scheduling constraints, performing an optimization process to determine a desired schedule for the plurality of funcs in the func sequence to fulfill the user intention; and recommending the func sequence with the desired schedule to the user.

Personalized FUNC sequence scheduling method and system

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