System and method for automatically creating personal profiles for video characters
First Claim
1. A system for generating a personal profile for a subject appearing in a video media source, said system comprising:
- a means for extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject appearing in said video media source;
a means for extracting text-related personal information that are related to said subject in said video source;
a means for correlating said extracted audiovisual-related personal information with said extracted text-related personal information to form a personal profile for said subject, said personal profile comprising a data structure including said text-related personal information and audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject.
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for generating personal profiles for subjects appearing in a video media source. The method includes extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to a subject appearing in the video media source; extracting text-related personal information that are related to the subject in the video source; correlating the extracted audiovisual-related personal information and the extracted text-related personal information related to the subject; and assembling a personal profile data structure for the subject, the personal profile data structure comprising the text-related personal information and audiovisual-related personal information related to the subject. The text-related personal information forms the name identity of the subject, while the audiovisual-related personal information includes audiovisual-related features including information forming one or more of: a visual identity, a kinematic identity and, a voice identity of the subject. In an alternate embodiment, in an iterative manner, the correlated extracted audiovisual-related personal information and extracted text-related personal information may be fed back and utilized for performing an additional search from external information sources, via a search engine, to obtain additional texts relating to the subject or obtain additional video media sources having the subject. There is further enabled the updating of an assembled personal profile of a subject as a new video media source having said subject becomes available.
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1. A system for generating a personal profile for a subject appearing in a video media source, said system comprising:
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a means for extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject appearing in said video media source; a means for extracting text-related personal information that are related to said subject in said video source; a means for correlating said extracted audiovisual-related personal information with said extracted text-related personal information to form a personal profile for said subject, said personal profile comprising a data structure including said text-related personal information and audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for generating a personal profile for a subject appearing in a video media source, said method comprising:
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extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject appearing in said video media source; extracting text-related personal information that are related to said subject in said video source; correlating said extracted audiovisual-related personal information with said extracted text-related personal information related to said subject; and assembling a personal profile data structure for said subject, said personal profile data structure comprising said text-related personal information and audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A program storage device tangibly embodying software instructions which are adapted to be executed by a machine to perform a method of generating a personal profile for a subject appearing in a video media source, said method comprising:
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extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject appearing in said video media source; extracting text-related personal information that are related to said subject in said video source; correlating said extracted audiovisual-related personal information with said extracted text-related personal information related to said subject; and assembling a personal profile data structure for said subject, said personal profile data structure comprising said text-related personal information and audiovisual-related personal information related to said subject. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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