Automated Creation of Storyboards from Screenplays

Patent №

US 9,106,812

Granted

2015-08-11

Filed 2011

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

6

ml · nlp · vision · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13340029

Computing resources may automatically generate a rough draft of storyboard by using textual analysis to extract meaning from a screenplay. The storyboard may be accompanied by spoken dialog, sound effects, and a soundtrack. Users may provide pre-production decisions regarding appearance of characters and backgrounds. The users may include a community of different individuals who contribute content and suggest modifications to the storyboard. The computing resources may also access logic to select visual elements for the storyboard from libraries of existing content or from custom content prepared by one of the users. Pagination of the screenplay and location of dialog and action on the pages of the screenplay may be used to create a timeline for the storyboard and any accompanying audio.

Machine learningNatural languageVisionSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningH04N 21/8549G06F 16/40G06F 16/43G06F 16/433G06F 16/483G10L 13/027G11B 27/036H04N 1/212+6 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Vision0.96
Machine learning0.55
AI hardware0.14
Evolutionary computation0.01

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 274590247

Assignors

PRICE, ROY F., SCHWABLAND, PETER A., KING, JOSEPH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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