Snapscreen Clip Share: Utilizing Computer Vision to Bridge TV and Social Media

This demonstration showcases Snapscreen Clip Share: a second-screen technology for seamless identification and social sharing of live or recorded TV content. With Clip Share, app users take a snapshot of their viewing screen to generate a broadcast-quality clip of the current program instantly on their mobile device; then, users rewind through the retrieved segment, trim the beginning and end of their clip, add a personal message to kick-off discussion, and share the clip through a range of messaging apps and social media platforms. Where existing clip solutions allow broadcasters and rights-holders to produce clips from broadcast content, Clip Share facilitates fast and easy clipping for app users in order to drive content distribution and recirculation by viewers themselves. Leveraging computer vision to streamline clip creation and sharing provides an intuitive bridge between TV content and social media interactions.