Snap Inc.

Ian Anthony Wehrman

Giles Goodwin

David LeMieux

Jared Iwata

Chinmay Lonkar

David Michael Hornsby

Devin Doty

Zhimin Wang

Jeffrey Kile

Eugene Feingold

Khalil Chatoo

Menglei Chai

Joel Richard Brandt

Shubham Vij

Imani Ritchards

Nathan Kenneth Boyd

Laurent Desserrey

Brian Yee

Richard Andrew Leatham

Nikhil Halkude

Venkatraman Sridharan

Fei Li

Dmitry Berezhnoy

Yuriana Zamora

Systems and methods are provided for presenting videos in a playback sequence. The systems and methods receive, by a first client device, a message comprising an identifier of a first video from a second client device. The message is generated by the second client device responsive to a request to share the first video from a video playback graphical user interface (GUI) that automatically plays back a first plurality of videos in sequence. The systems and methods receive input by the first client device that selects the identifier of the first video. The systems and methods, in response to receiving the input, launch, by the first client device, the video playback GUI that automatically plays back a second plurality of videos in sequence and present, by the first client device, the first video corresponding to the identifier before presenting the second plurality of videos in the sequence.

Video sharing system

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for inserting ads into a video. The program and method provide for receiving a request to play a video, the video comprising plural shots separated by breakpoints, each shot of the plural shots corresponding to a contiguous sequence of video frames that is free of cuts or transitions; initiating, in response to receiving the request, playback of the video from a selected shot of the plural shots; receiving indication of an ad to present at a breakpoint following the selected shot; determining, in response to receiving the indication, that a first threshold amount of time has passed since initiating the playback of the video; and inserting, based on the determining, the ad at the breakpoint following the selected shot.

Inserting ads into a video within a messaging system

Systems and methods are provided for determining a set of selectors associated with the publisher identifier, each selector comprising specified content to extract from source data and one or more rules for extracting the specified content. The system and methods further provided for each location data in the list of location data, extracting, from the source data, specified content for each selector of at least a subset of the set of selectors based on the one or more rules specified in each selector of the at least the subset of the set of selectors; determining a template to use to generate the media content item, the template comprising regions corresponding to the one or more selectors; populating each region of the template using specified content for the corresponding selector; and generating the media content item from the populated template.

Media content item generation for a content sharing platform

An image segmentation system to perform operations that include causing display of an image within a graphical user interface of a client device, receive a set of user inputs that identify portions of a background and foreground of the image, identify a boundary of an object depicted within the image based on the set of user inputs, crop the object from the image based on the boundary, and generate a media item based on the cropped object, wherein properties of the media object, such as a size and a shape, are based on the boundary of the object.

Image segmentation system

Systems and methods are provided for notifying users about videos in a playback sequence. The systems and methods determine that a video that meets a criterion is currently available on a video server associated with a messaging client. In response to determining that the video that meets the criterion is currently available, the messaging client on the client device prefetches a sequence of videos from a recommendation engine that match a profile of a user associated with the messaging client. The recommendation engine is being used to provide sequence of videos to a video playback graphical user interface (GUI) that automatically plays back the videos in the sequence. The systems and methods determine that the video that meets the criterion is in a first position in the sequence of videos and, in response, present a notification that indicates the availability of the video on the video playback GUI.

Video notification system

Systems and methods herein describe generating a unified content feed accessible from within a conversation thread. The systems and methods access a chat session between a first user and a second user, access user data, activity data and personalized media content associated with each user, the media personalized content comprising public media content that is related to each user's user data and activity data, generates a shared dataset based on identifying common aspects between each user's user data and activity data, generates shared content comprising public media content that is related to shared dataset, and causes display of a unified content feed comprising the shared content and personalized content to each user's computer device.

Unified content feed

A method, to navigate a video editing project within a video editing application, includes storing a project timeline comprising a plurality of media content items arranged in a chronological sequence, the project timeline having a start time and an end time; causing presentation of a first tool interface, the first tool interface comprising: a video editing canvas for playback of the project timeline; a plurality of tools to enable respective video editing functions; and a plurality of indicia representing the respective plurality of media content items; detecting activation of a first indicium associated with a first media content item of the plurality of media content items; and advancing the playback of the project timeline to a chronological location corresponding to the location of the first media content item within the project timeline.

Video editing application for mobile devices

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for setting ad breakpoints in a video. The program and method provide for accessing a video; determining plural shot boundaries for the video, each shot boundary defining a shot corresponding to a contiguous sequence of video frames that is free of cuts or transitions; and for each shot boundary of the plural shot boundaries, performing a set of breakpoint tests on the shot boundary, each breakpoint test configured to return a respective score indicating whether the shot boundary corresponds to a breakpoint for potential insertion of an ad during playback of the video, calculating a combined score for the shot boundary based on combining the each of the respective scores, and setting, in a case where the combined score meets a threshold value, the shot boundary as the breakpoint.

Setting ad breakpoints in a video within a messaging system

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Ian Anthony Wehrman