METHOD FOR ADDING AN OBJECT MAP TO A VIDEO SEQUENCE

• US 20140068664A1
• Filed: 09/05/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bourne, Keith Edward
• Original Assignee: Bourne, Keith Edward
• Inventors: Bourne, Keith Edward
• Application Number:
  US14/019,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068664A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A method to provide image recognition within a video and to add time-based data to the video. The time-based data is from a manually or automatically classified and indexed video database. The time-based data is dependent upon the recognized image within the video. Hence, the time-based data is available as a function of times when the image is available.

Claims

1. A method for a broadcaster to add an object map(s) with linked data to a video residing on a server, the method comprising:

broadcasting the video to a viewer;

linking an object(s) within the video to the object map(s), wherein each object is linked to one object map;

having the broadcaster enter data associated with the object, wherein the data comprise elements which define object(s) characteristics;

having the broadcaster specify a time-frame that each object map remains linked to each object within the video;

receiving viewer data from the viewer; and

providing a data overlay to the viewer, wherein the data overlay is a combination of object data, object map data, and viewer data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising after the last step, presenting the data associated with the object(s) to the viewer and enabling the viewer to access the linked time-frames via the data overlay.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising after the last step, presenting the data associated with the object(s) to the viewer and enabling the viewer to access a time frame which is related to the data associated with the object(s).

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising after the last step, grouping the data associated with the object map(s), wherein the grouping enables the viewer to access the time-frame that each object map remains linked to each object within the video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the object map is indexed in a local database.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the time-frame is a function of a scene change within the video.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the object(s) are further defined as comprising elements, (i.e. characteristics of the object such as style, color, size, and other aspects).

8. The method of claim 7, wherein algorithms are used to identify elements which are used in more than one object.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the data associated with the object map(s) is also associated with the elements.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the object map is indexed in a local database which is combined with a third-party database.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the time-frame is a function of a scene change within the video.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the object(s) are further defined as comprising elements.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein algorithms are used to identify elements which are used in more than one object.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data associated with the object map(s) is also associated with the elements.