Medium, system, and method for identifying collections associated with subjects appearing in a broadcast

• US 10,405,059 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2016
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Liden, Lars Hasso
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Brittney N
• Application Number:
  US15/077,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20160205447A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: 705 271, 382100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for presenting collections of items related to subjects in a performance to viewers. The collections are assumed to be identified prior to the performance by individuals with knowledge of subjects expected to appear in the performance. The subject'"'"'s appearance may be detected based on a user input indicating the appearance or by a subject recognition algorithm. The collections may be presented to a customer in a display also rendering the performance or in a separate display. The customer may select the collections and/or items therein for performing an action with the item, such as, for example purchasing the item.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, the program, when executed, causing the at least one computing device to at least:

obtain an indication of a subject appearing in a broadcast;

detect a depiction of the subject in the broadcast by applying a subject recognition algorithm to video data of the broadcast;

identify a collection of at least one of a plurality of items associated with the subject in response to detecting the depiction of the subject in the broadcast; and

communicate an indication of the collection of items to a client device associated with a viewer of the broadcast.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the subject recognition algorithm comprises a facial recognition algorithm.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program further causes the at least one computing device to at least:

obtain at least one image associated with the subject; and

wherein the subject recognition algorithm is applied to the video data of the broadcast as a function of the at least one image.

4. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device configured to at least;

obtain an indication of a subject appearing in a broadcast;

detect a depiction of the subject in the broadcast by applying a subject recognition algorithm to video data of the broadcast;

identify a collection of at least one of a plurality of items associated with the subject in response to detecting the depiction of the subject in the broadcast; and

communicate an indication of the collection of items to a client device associated with a viewer of the broadcast.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least generate an administrator user interface facilitating obtaining the indication of the subject.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least:

obtain a selection of at least one of the items in the collection; and

perform at least one of a plurality of actions based on the selection.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one of the plurality of actions comprises initiating a purchase of the at least one of the items corresponding to the selection.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one of the plurality of actions comprises adding the at least one of the items to an item list.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the collection is one of a plurality of collections associated with the subject, and at least one computing device is further configured to at least encode for rendering a user interface facilitating a navigation of the plurality of collections by the client device.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the client device is a first display device and the video data of the broadcast is rendered in a second display device.

11. The system of claim 4, wherein the video data of the broadcast is rendered by the client device.

12. The system of claim 4, wherein the subject recognition algorithm comprises a facial recognition algorithm.

13. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least:

obtain at least one image associated with the subject; and

wherein the subject recognition algorithm is applied to the video data of the broadcast as a function of the at least one image.

14. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by at least one computing device, an indication of a subject appearing in a broadcast;

detecting, by the at least one computing device, a depiction of the subject in the broadcast by applying a subject recognition algorithm to video data of the broadcast;

identifying, by the at least one computing device, a collection of at least one of a plurality of items associated with the subject in response to detecting the depiction of the subject in the broadcast; and

communicating, by the at least one computing device, an indication of the collection of items to a client device associated with a viewer of the broadcast.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

obtaining, by the at least one computing device, a selection of at least one of the items in the collection; and

performing, by the at least one computing device, at least one action based on the selection.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the subject recognition algorithm comprises a facial recognition algorithm.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

obtaining, by the at least one computing device, at least one image associated with the subject; and

wherein the subject recognition algorithm is applied to the video data of the broadcast as a function of the at least one image.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the collection is one of a plurality of collections associated with the subject, and the method further comprises encoding for rendering a user interface facilitating a navigation of the plurality of collections by the client device.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

obtaining, by the at least one computing device, a selection of at least one of the items in the collection; and

performing, by the at least one computing device, a plurality of actions based on the selection.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the plurality of actions comprises at least one of:

adding the at least one of the items to a wish list, adding the at least one of the items to a shopping cart or initiating display of an item detail page related to the at least one of the items.