Apple Inc.

Zachary H Smith

Eric Circlaeys

Killian Huyghe

James Alan Queen

Patrick H Kelly

Aaron M Eppolito

Christopher John Moulios

Kevin Bessiere

Daniel Cartoon

David E Conry

Sabrine Rekik

Matthias Mauch

Conner Stuart Richardson

Betim Deva

Nathaniel B Chapman

Bruno J Conejo

Brian J Rogosky

Alfredo Ramos-Alvarez

Bruno Di Giorgi

Jeremy P Bogle

Hao Yang

Neil C Foley

Menelaos D Kokolios

Lewis Kaneshiro

Jorge A Herrera Soto

James E Hewitt

Casey W Baker

Alexis H Durocher

Trevor M Slaton

Cristina N Smith

Alexa Rockwell

Techniques for suggesting media assets, the technique including: requesting a set of candidate media assets for a set of user media items based on a knowledge graph metadata network describing the set of user media items; receiving metadata for the set of candidate media assets; determining one or more sets of ranked media assets based on the received metadata; and outputting the determined one or more sets of ranked media assets.

Automatic media asset suggestions for presentations of selected user media items

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining at least one valid mood for a collection of media content items of a media library are provided.

Mood determination of a collection of media content items

In some implementations, a computing device can generate personalized music selections to associate with any collections of visual media (e.g., photos and videos) stored on the computing device. A user may prefer particular genres of music and listen to some genres more frequently than others. The computing device can create measures of the user's genre preferences and use these measures to select music that is preferred by the user and music that may be significant or relevant to the particular collection of visual media. The computing device may also determine music that was being played when and where the visual media were being created. The computing device may store the visual media and music items in association with each other. The computing device may generate composite media items that combine the visual media and music items. When the visual media are viewed, the selected music item is also played.

Music selections for personal media compositions

Some embodiments provide an audio authoring method that provide a set authoring tools for specifying rules for combining sections of a first song to generate a second song. The set of authoring tools allow an array of cells to be arranged in first and second directions, and allow each body section to be associated with one set of cells that are arranged in the first direction and another set of cells that are arranged in the second direction. At each cell that belongs to one set of cells arranged in the first direction for a first body section and another set of cells arranged in the second direction for a second body section, the set of tools also allow the user to specify whether the second body section is allowed to follow the first body section. Some embodiments provide a method for compositing audio. The method receives (1) several song sections, and (2) for each particular song section, a priority value and a set of succession rules that identify a set of song sections that cannot follow the particular song section. Based on the priority values, the method adds the song sections to the first song until a desired first-song duration is reached without exceeding the duration or until all song sections have been examined for adding to the first song. The method then analyzes a sequence of song sections in the first song to remove any song section that violates a succession rule.

Audio authoring and compositing

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Zachary H Smith