MEDIA ASSET EVALUATION BASED ON SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

• US 20090132264A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Birkelund, John R., Wood, Mark D.
• Application Number:
  US11/941,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132264A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/10 Terrestrial scenes scenes under surveillance with static cameras G06V20/52; scenes perceived from the exterior of a vehicle G06V20/56; scenes perceived from the interior of a vehicle G06V20/59
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie

Abstract

A method for evaluating media assets in a set of media assets including the step of obtaining information defining at least social relationships of an audience. The social relationships include relationships between a member of the audience and someone recorded in at least one of the media assets. For each media asset in the set of media assets, the method includes identifying one or more people recorded in the digital media asset, computing, for each person recorded in the digital media asset, the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience based at least upon the social relationships, and computing an overall measurement of the social significance of the digital media asset as a function of the expected social significance of each person recorded in the asset. In addition, the method includes storing the overall measurement for each digital media asset in a processor-accessible memory system.

Claims

1. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for evaluating media assets in a set of media assets, and the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining information defining at least social relationships of an audience, wherein the social relationships include relationships between a member of the audience and someone recorded in at least one of the media assets;

for each media asset in the set of media assets;

identifying one or more people recorded in the digital media asset,

computing, for each person recorded in the digital media asset, the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience based at least upon the social relationships, and

computing an overall measurement of the social significance of the digital media asset as a function of the expected social significance of each person recorded in the asset; and

storing the overall measurement for each digital media asset in a processor-accessible memory system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the audience comprises multiple persons.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the computing of a person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience comprises computing an expected social significance relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the computing of the overall measurement of the social significance of a media asset comprises combining the expected social significances computed for each person recorded in the digital media asset relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtained information further defines at least a digital-media-asset presentation theme, and wherein the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience is computed based at least upon the social relationships and the digital-media-asset presentation theme.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the social relationships include familial relationships, friendships, or business relationships.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the audience comprises a single person and multiple people are identified as being represented in a media asset.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the computing of the overall measurement of the social significance of a media asset comprises combining the expected social significances computed for each person recorded in the digital media asset relative to the person in the audience.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of media assets comprises multiple media assets, and the method further comprises the step of combining the overall measurements of social significance for the set of media assets into a measurement of social significance of the set of media assets.

10. A processor-accessible memory system storing instructions configured to cause a data processing system to implement a method for evaluating media assets in a set of media assets, wherein the instructions comprise:

instructions for obtaining information defining at least social relationships of an audience, wherein the social relationships include relationships between a member of the audience and someone recorded in at least one of the media assets;

instructions, for each media asset in the set of media assets, for;

identifying one or more people recorded in the digital media asset,

computing, for each person recorded in the digital media asset, the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience based at least upon the social relationships, and

computing an overall measurement of the social significance of the digital media asset as a function of the expected social significance of each person recorded in the asset; and

instructions for storing the overall measurement for each digital media asset in a processor-accessible memory system.

11. The processor-accessible memory system of claim 10, wherein the audience comprises multiple persons.

12. The processor-accessible memory system of claim 11, wherein the computing of a person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience comprises computing an expected social significance relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

13. The processor-accessible memory system of claim 12, wherein the computing of the overall measurement of the social significance of a media asset comprises combining the expected social significances computed for each person recorded in the digital media asset relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

14. The processor-accessible memory system of claim 10, wherein the obtained information further defines at least a digital-media-asset presentation theme, and wherein the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience is computed based at least upon the social relationships and the digital-media-asset presentation theme.

15. A system comprising:

a data processing system; and

a memory system communicatively connected to the data processing system and storing instructions configured to cause the data processing system to implement a method for evaluating media assets in a set of media assets, wherein the instructions comprise;

instructions for obtaining information defining at least social relationships of an audience, wherein the social relationships include relationships between a member of the audience and someone recorded in at least one of the media assets;

instructions, for each media asset in the set of media assets, for;

identifying one or more people recorded in the digital media asset,

computing, for each person recorded in the digital media asset, the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience based at least upon the social relationships, and

computing an overall measurement of the social significance of the digital media asset as a function of the expected social significance of each person recorded in the asset; and

instructions for storing the overall measurement for each digital media asset in a processor-accessible memory system.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the audience comprises multiple persons.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the computing of a person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience comprises computing an expected social significance relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the computing of the overall measurement of the social significance of a media asset comprises combining the expected social significances computed for each person recorded in the digital media asset relative to each person of the multiple persons in the audience.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the obtained information further defines at least a digital-media-asset presentation theme, and wherein the person'"'"'s expected social significance relative to the audience is computed based at least upon the social relationships and the digital-media-asset presentation theme.