Disney patents system to auto-cut highlights from live events
Disney describes a system that listens to live audio, turns it into text, and finds moments where specific people or topics are mentioned. It then automatically cuts those specific moments into short video clips for users to watch.
In the filing’s own words
Systems and Methods for Video/Audio Comprehension and Automated Clipping includes providing at least one media clip (MC) within an event for display or listening on a user device including receiving audio or video media data indicative of the event, transcribing the media data into timestamped text, identifying entities within the text, creating text segments having a begin timestamp and end timestamp and having a minimum number of entity mentions in the text segments, clipping from the media data the at least one media clip having a begin timestamp and end timestamp corresponding to the begin timestamp and end timestamp of a corresponding one of the text segments, and providing the at least one media clip to the user device for viewing or listening by a user. Feedback may also be provided to adjust the logic that identifies MCs. MC Alerts may also be sent to users autonomously or based on user-set parameters.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An automated computer-based system for providing at least one media clip (MC) from an event for display or listening on a user device, comprising: a processor configured to receive media data indicative of the event; the processor further configured to transcribe the audio portion of the media data into text with timestamps; the processor further configured to identify entities within the text, the entities being named in the content of the text; the processor further configured to perform phonetic correction and co-reference resolution of the entities using predetermined phonetic rules and predetermined co-reference rules, respectively; the processor further configured to segment the text into a plurality of text segments based on predetermined text segment creation rules, each of the text segments having at least one of the entities and having a segment begin timestamp and a segment end timestamp; the processor further configured to clip from the media data the at least one media clip having a clip begin timestamp and clip end timestamp that corresponds to the segment begin timestamp and the segment end timestamp of a corresponding one of the text segments; and the processor further configured to provide the at least one media clip for viewing or listening on the user device, wherein the processor being further configured to identify, perform, segment, and clip contiguously in an automated manner without human intervention after having received the media data, using the predetermined phonetic rules, the predetermined co-reference rules, and the predetermined text segment creation rules.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO/AUDIO COMPREHENSION AND AUTOMATED CLIPPING
- Publication number
- US20260268939A1
- Application number
- 19664258
- Filed
- Apr 30, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 35
Classified under
G11B 27/34 Physics & computingG06F 40/205 Physics & computingG06F 40/295 Physics & computingH04N 21/8549 Electricity & electronicsMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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