PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT AN OBJECT IN A DIGITAL VIDEO SEQUENCE

• US 20160353157A1
• Filed: 11/18/2014
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: RAJAPANDIYAN, Karthick, PANDURANGAN, Harikumar
• Application Number:
  US15/110,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20160353157A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

The method includes receiving a first input from a user to pause the digital video sequence running on a display device. A video frame is displayed to the user when the digital video sequence is paused. The video frame is shared with an image processing server to receive a processed image of the video frame. The processed image includes a plurality of objects identified in the video frame and allows navigating between the plurality of objects. A second input is received from the user upon selection of an object of interest from the plurality of objects. Based on the selection, a search request is sent to a search server. Search results received from the search server are provided to the user.

Claims

1. A method for providing information about an object in a digital video sequence, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a first input from a user to pause the digital video sequence running on a display device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames, and wherein a video frame is displayed to the user when the digital video sequence is paused;

sharing, by the processor, the video frame with an image processing server to receive a processed image of the video frame, wherein the processed image includes a plurality of objects identified in the video frame and allows navigating between the plurality of objects;

receiving, by the processor, a second input from the user, wherein the second input includes the object of interest selected from the plurality of objects of the processed image;

based on the selection, sending, by the processor, a search request to a search server, wherein the search request includes information pertaining to the object of interest; and

providing, by the processor, search results pertaining to the object of interest received from the search server, to the user.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sharing comprises converting the video frame into an image and sending the image to the image processing server.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the image is one of Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and Portable Network Graphics (PNG).

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sharing comprises,

bookmarking a current play time of the video frame in the digital video sequence;

and

providing the bookmarked digital video sequence and an address of a central server, to the image processing server for retrieving the video frame from the central server for processing.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sharing comprises,

bookmarking a current play time of the video frame in the digital video sequence;

and

sending the bookmarked digital video sequence to a central server for retrieving the video frame and forwarding the video frame to the image processing server.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the search request includes a plurality of keywords associated with the object of interest.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising filtering, by the processor, the search results based on relevance to the object of interest.

8. A processing device for providing information about an object in a digital video sequence, the processing system comprising:

a processor;

an input module, coupled to the processor, to,

receive a first input from a user to pause the digital video sequence running on a display device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames, and wherein a video frame is displayed to the user when the digital video sequence is paused;

share the video frame with an image processing server to receive a processed image of the video frame, wherein the processed image includes a plurality of objects identified in the video frame and allows navigating amongst the plurality of objects; and

obtain a second input from the user, wherein the second input includes the object of interest selected from the plurality of objects of the processed image; and

a search module, coupled to the processor, to,

based on the selection, send a search request to a search server, wherein the search request includes information pertaining to the object of interest; and

provide search results pertaining to the object of interest received from the search server, to the user.

9. The processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the input module shares the video frame by converting the video frame into an image with the image processing server.

10. The processing device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the image is one of Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and Portable Network Graphics (PNG).

11. The processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the input module shares the video frame by,

bookmarking a current play time of the video frame in the digital video sequence;

and

providing the bookmarked digital video sequence and an address of a central server, to the image processing server for retrieving the video frame from the central server for processing.

12. The processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the input module shares the video frame by,

bookmarking a current play time of the video frame in the digital video sequence;

and

sending the bookmarked digital video sequence to a central server for retrieving the video frame and forwarding the video frame to the image processing server.

13. The processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the search request includes a plurality of keywords associated with the object of interest.

14. The processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the search module further filters the search results based on relevance to the object of interest.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing a method for providing information about an object in a digital video sequence, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a first input from a user to pause the digital video sequence running on a display device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames, and wherein a video frame is displayed to the user when the digital video sequence is paused;

sharing, by the processor, the video frame with an image processing server to receive a processed image of the video frame, wherein the processed image includes a plurality of objects identified in the video frame and allows navigating between the plurality of objects;

receiving, by the processor, a second input from the user, wherein the second input includes the object of interest selected from the plurality of objects of the processed image;

based on the selection, sending, by the processor, a search request to a search server, wherein the search request includes information pertaining to the object of interest; and

providing, by the processor, search results pertaining to the object of interest received from the search server, to the user.