System and method for flexible video construction

Abstract

A system and method for automatically constructing personalized video clips for a viewer.

1 - 47 . (canceled) 
     
     
         48 . A method for automatically constructing personalized, real-time and on-demand video clips for a viewer. 
     
     
         49 . The method of  claim 48 , wherein the video clips are at least one of:
 (a) informational video clips, to provide information to the viewer;   (b) instructional video clips, personalized according to at least one instructional requirement of the viewer, in which the viewer is instructed to perform at least one action.   
     
     
         50 . The method of  claim 49 , comprising:
 constructing the instructional or informational video clips for conveying information to a viewer;   instructing the viewer in health and wellness, regarding a proper administration of a medicament, through one or more automatically-constructed video clip.   
     
     
         51 . The method of  claim 50 , comprising:
 constructing the personalized instructional video clip in real time according to one or more instructional requirements of the viewer.   
     
     
         52 . The method of  claim 50 , further comprising:
 converting the video clip to an audio-only clip.   
     
     
         53 . The method of  claim 50 , comprising:
 issuing an order from an ordering user through an ordering user computer to construct the video clip,   wherein said constructing comprises:   receiving a plurality of recipient parameters from said ordering user computer by a video construction server;   instructing a video script engine by said video construction server with said parameters to construct a script;   constructing scenes of said script by a script preview engine;   retrieving video information by said video construction server; and   constructing the video clip for said scenes according to said script.   
     
     
         54 . The method of  claim 53 , wherein said issuing said order comprises entering the name of a recipient and at least one aspect of medical instruction that the recipient is to receive;
 wherein said constructing the video clip according to said script comprises: generating audio data, and overlaying said audio data over the video data to form the video clip.   
     
     
         55 . The method of  claim 53 , wherein said constructing said script by said video script engine comprises:
 constructing a dynamic script by providing a graph-like flow-chart that supports conditional branching and optionally one or more controlled loops over certain scenes.   
     
     
         56 . The method of  claim 53 , comprising:
 compiling said script to a native script language; and   injecting customized code into the compiled version,   wherein one or more input parameters are provided by the viewer.   
     
     
         57 . The method of claim any of  claim 53 , comprising:
 obtaining information about said medicament automatically from an official medical source, by using text processing or natural language processing.   
     
     
         58 . The method of  claim 53 , comprising:
 automatically inserting a medicament image or medicament video of said medicament into said video clip,   wherein said medicament video is automatically generated based on the description of said medicament.   
     
     
         59 . The method of  claim 53 , wherein said constructing the video clip for said scenes comprises:
 concatenating said scenes within an audio-video container format without re-encoding said scenes.   
     
     
         60 . The method of  claim 53 , comprising:
 truncating the audio and video components of each of said scenes to a multiple of a calculated time period such that said components are synchronized to start simultaneously and end simultaneously at said multiple of said time period;   calculating said time period based on at least one of: a codec, a sampling rate, or a frame rate of said components.   
     
     
         61 . A method comprising:
 automatically constructing personalized, real-time and on-demand video clips for a viewer,   wherein said video clips are selected from one of: video ecards; informational videos; instructional videos; training videos, or video advertisements;   wherein the personalized video clip is constructed according to at least one parameter describing the viewer.   
     
     
         62 . The method of  claim 61 , further comprising:
 issuing an order from an ordering user through an ordering user computer to construct the video clip,   wherein said constructing comprises:   receiving said at least one viewer parameter from said ordering user computer by a video construction server;   instructing a video script engine by said video construction server with said at least one parameter to construct a script;   constructing scenes of said script by a script preview engine;   retrieving video information by said video construction server;   constructing the video clip for said scenes according to said script;   generating audio data, and overlaying said audio data over the video data to form the video clip.   
     
     
         63 . A method comprising:
 creating a personalized medicament instructional video clip for a viewer relating to a medicament prescribed for said viewer, by performing:   issuing an order from an ordering user through an ordering user computer to construct the video clip;   receiving a plurality of viewer parameters from said ordering user computer by a video construction server;   instructing a video script engine by said video construction server with said parameters to construct a script;   constructing scenes of said script by a script preview engine;   retrieving video information by said video construction server;   constructing the video clip for said scenes according to said script.   
     
     
         64 . The method of  claim 63 , comprising:
 providing said video clip to said viewer on demand, in near real-time or in real-time.   
     
     
         65 . The method of  claim 63 , comprising:
 obtaining information about said medicament automatically from an official medical source, using text processing or natural language processing.   
     
     
         66 . The method of  claim 65 , comprising:
 automatically inserting a medicament image or medicament video of said medicament into said video clip,   wherein said medicament video is automatically generated based on the description of said medicament.   
     
     
         67 . The method of  claim 65 , comprising:
 constructing the video clip according to said script by generating audio data and by overlaying said audio data over the video data to form the video clip.