Digital Media Recognition Apparatus and Methods

• US 20090164213A1
• Filed: 12/09/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syte - Visual Conception, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: John W. Lennington, Stanley Sternberg, Thomas Voiles, William Dargel
• Inventors: Lennington, John W., Sternberg, Stanley, Dargel, William, Voiles, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 7,756,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7328 Query by example, e.g. a complete video frame or video sequence graphical querying G06F16/7335
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7847 using low-level visual features of the video content
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/42 Global feature extraction by analysis of the whole pattern, e.g. using frequency domain transformations or autocorrelation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44

Abstract

One of the embodiments of the invention includes a method of identifying illegal uses of copyright material. The steps of the method preferably include the steps of: (a) providing a primary digital media object, (b) associating an auxiliary construct with the object, (c) transforming the construct using at least one of the attributes of the object to generate a unique key representative of the primary object, (d) receiving a plurality of secondary digital media objects, (e) performing steps (b) and (c) on the secondary objects to generate unique keys representative of the secondary objects, (f) comparing the keys of the secondary objects with the key of the primary object to identify if any of the secondary objects are substantially similar to the primary object.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A method of identifying illegal uses of copyright material, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a primary digital media object;

b) associating an auxiliary construct with the object; and

c) transforming the construct using at least one of the attributes of the object to generate a unique key representative of the primary object;

d) receiving a plurality of secondary digital media objects;

e) performing steps (b) and (c) on the secondary objects to generate unique keys representative of the secondary objects; and

f) comparing the keys of the secondary objects with the key of the primary object to identify if any of the secondary objects are substantially similar to the primary object.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the auxiliary construct of Step (b) is a grid of points, each having an initial position.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the transformation of Step (c) warps the grid, thereby moving some or all of the points to different positions.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein the primary and secondary objects are derived from an electronic waveform.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein the primary and secondary objects include images.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein the primary and secondary objects include video clips.

31. The method of claim 25, wherein the primary and secondary objects include audio clips.