Patents by Inventor Michael Clive Salmon

Michael Clive Salmon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for multimedia content composition
    Patent number: 10592926
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of blending multimedia with a multimedia composition system may include generating a swap list by identifying potential match points of objects, scenes, or assets, in a multimedia template that are capable of being replaced with personal multimedia assets (PMA) in a user's collection, generating a composition list by designating particular PMA from the PMA in the user's collection to replace at least a portion of the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template identified in the swap list by matching metadata of the particular PMA with metadata of the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template, and composing blended multimedia using the composition list by swapping the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template with the particular PMA matched based on the respective metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Clive Salmon, Sheau Bao Ng
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20160180379
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of blending multimedia with a multimedia composition system may include generating a swap list by identifying potential match points of objects, scenes, or assets, in a multimedia template that are capable of being replaced with personal multimedia assets (PMA) in a user's collection, generating a composition list by designating particular PMA from the PMA in the user's collection to replace at least a portion of the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template identified in the swap list by matching metadata of the particular PMA with metadata of the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template, and composing blended multimedia using the composition list by swapping the objects, scenes, or assets in the multimedia template with the particular PMA matched based on the respective metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Clive Salmon, Sheau Bao Ng