Information pushing method and system

• US 10,270,872 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd.
• Inventors: Wu, Youzhao
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US15/536,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20180020069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7847 using low-level visual features of the video content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/785 using colour or luminescence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/40 using histogram techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method for pushing information is disclosed by which a client acquires the statistical characteristic information of a current video frame in real time during video playback on the client; the client then searches a first mapping relationship table consisting of mapping relations between the statistical characteristic information and index values that is established by the client for the index value that matches the acquired statistical characteristic information, and sends the index value thus found to a cloud server; the cloud server searches a second mapping relationship table consisting of mapping relations between the index values and push information that is established by the cloud server for the push information that corresponds to the index value; and finally the client receives and plays or displays the push information. There is also provided a system for pushing information.

Claims

1. A method for pushing information, comprising:

acquiring, by a client in real time, statistical characteristic information of a current video frame during video playback on the client;

searching in a first table of mapping relationships between the statistical characteristic information and index values for an index value that matches the acquired statistical characteristic information, and sending the searched index value to a cloud server, wherein the first mapping relationship table is established by the client;

searching, by the cloud server, in a second table of mapping relationships between the index values and push information for the push information that corresponds to the searched index value, and sending the corresponding push information to the client, wherein the second mapping relationship table is established by the cloud server; and

receiving and playing or displaying the push information by the client.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein obtaining the histogram information of the luminance signals comprises:

dividing the luminance signals in a sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels which are then compressed by a number of 2i times, taking every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and counting the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, both n and i being positive integers; and

obtaining the average pixel level value of the luminance signals comprises;

obtaining a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculating an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and taking the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, subsequent to acquiring the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame:

determining, by the client, whether the acquired statistical characteristic information of the current video frame is consistent with the statistical characteristic information that last successfully matches an index value; and

performing block 2searching in the first mapping relationship table for the index value that matches the acquired statistical characteristic information and sending the searched index value to the cloud server when they are inconsistent.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein obtaining the histogram information of the luminance signals comprises:

dividing the luminance signals in a sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels which are then compressed by a number of 2i times, taking every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and counting the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, both n and i being positive integers; and

obtaining the average pixel level value of the luminance signals comprises;

obtaining a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculating an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and taking the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein acquiring the statistical characteristic information of the currently played video frame comprises:

setting a sampling window for sampling the statistical characteristic information and obtaining the statistical characteristic information from the sampling window, according to a preset policy.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the preset policy is to filter out the information that is superimposed on the current played video frame and that affects the statistical characteristic information.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein obtaining the histogram information of the luminance signals comprises:

dividing the luminance signals in the sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels which are then compressed by a number of 2i times, taking every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and counting the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, both n and i being positive integers; and

obtaining the average pixel level value of the luminance signals comprises;

obtaining a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculating an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and taking the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.

11. A system for pushing information, comprising:

a client configured to acquire in real time statistical characteristic information of a current video frame during video playback on the client, search in a first table of mapping relationships between the statistical characteristic information and index values that is established by the client for the index value that matches the acquired statistical characteristic information, send the searched index value to a cloud server, and receive and play or display push information sent from the cloud server; and

a cloud server configured to search in a second table of mapping relationships between the index values and push information for the push information that corresponds to the index value sent from the client and send the corresponding push information to the client, wherein the second mapping relationship table is established by the cloud server.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the client is configured to divide the luminance signals in a sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels and compress them by a number of 2i times, take every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and count the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, where both n and i are positive integers;

and/or obtain a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculate an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and take the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the client is further configured to determine, subsequent to acquiring the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame, whether the acquired statistical characteristic information of the current video frame is consistent with the statistical characteristic information that last successfully matches an index value, and, if they are inconsistent, search in the first mapping relationship table for the index value that matches the acquired statistical characteristic information and send the searched index value to the cloud server.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the client is configured to divide the luminance signals in a sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels and compress them by a number of 2i times, take every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and count the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, where both n and i are positive integers;

and/or obtain a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculate an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and take the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.

17. The system according to claim 11, wherein the client is configured to set a sampling window for sampling the statistical characteristic information and obtain the statistical characteristic information from the sampling window, according to a preset policy.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the preset policy is to filter out the information that is superimposed on the current video frame and that affects the statistical characteristic information.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the statistical characteristic information of the current video frame comprises histogram information and/or an average pixel level value of luminance signals of the current video frame prior to picture quality processing of the current video frame.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the client is configured to divide the luminance signals in the sampling window into a number of 2n gray levels and compress them by a number of 2i times, take every 2n-i of gray levels as a statistical interval and count the number of pixels in each statistical interval into the corresponding level that ranges from the 0th level to the (2i-1)th level in the histogram to obtain the histogram information of the luminance signals, where both n and i are positive integers;

and/or obtain a greyscale value of each sampling point in the sampling window and calculate an average greyscale value of all the sampling points, and take the average greyscale value as the average pixel level value of the luminance signals.