APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF PERFORMING A VISUAL-RELEVANCE-RANK SUBSEQUENT SEARCH
First Claim
1. A method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a search query specifying search criteria;
searching for videos satisfying the search criteria;
identifying visual objects in the videos;
grouping the videos based on the visual objects; and
displaying images of the visual objects in association with respective ones of the groups of videos.
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Abstract
A method analyzes the visual content of media such as videos for collecting together visually-similar appearances in their constituent images (e.g. same scenes, same objects, faces of the same people.) As a result, the most relevant and salient (of clearest and largest presence) visual appearances depicted in the videos are presented to the user, both for the sake of summarizing the video content for the users to “see before they watch” (that is, judge by the depicted video content in a filmstrip-like summary whether they want to mouse-click on the video and actually spend time watching it), as well as for allowing to users to further refine their video search result set according to the most relevant and salient video content returned (e.g. largest screen-time faces).
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17 Claims
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a search query specifying search criteria; searching for videos satisfying the search criteria; identifying visual objects in the videos; grouping the videos based on the visual objects; and displaying images of the visual objects in association with respective ones of the groups of videos. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus comprising:
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an interface operating to receive a search query specifying search criteria; a search engine operating to search for videos satisfying the search criteria; a recognition engine operating to identify visual objects in the videos; a formatting engine operating to group the videos based on the visual objects; and a display engine operating to display images of the visual objects in association with respective ones of the groups of videos. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code including; computer readable program code for causing the computer to receive a search query specifying search criteria; computer readable program code for causing the computer to search for videos satisfying the search criteria; computer readable program code for causing the computer to identify visual objects in the videos; computer readable program code for causing the computer to group the videos based on the visual objects; and computer readable program code for causing the computer to display images of the visual objects in association with respective ones of the groups of videos.
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