MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20170091879A1
• Filed: 09/28/2016
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Smartvid.io, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Hiser, Andrew J., Kanner, Joshua, True, Sean D.
• Granted Patent: US 10,643,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/08 Construction

Abstract

Described herein are various techniques for managing media related to a construction project, which may relate to one or more buildings to be built and/or renovated as part of the construction project. In accordance with techniques described herein, the media may be managed according to information regarding the construction project that is stored by one or more other systems separate from a media management system. The other systems may be construction information management systems that each store information regarding a construction project, including information relating to planning and/or execution of the construction project. For example, the media management system may generate tags based on the information regarding the construction project, may be trained to recognize features in the media that relate to the tags, and add the appropriate tags to the media based on the recognized features.

Claims

1. A method of managing media regarding a construction project according to information regarding the construction project stored by one or more construction information management systems implemented via at least one first processor, the media comprising audio and/or visual content, the one or more construction information management systems storing information on planning and/or execution of the construction project, the construction project comprising at least one structure to be built, maintained, and/or renovated according to a plan for the construction project, the plan comprising a design of the at least one structure identifying components of the at least one structure, the method comprising:

based on determining that a first element of the information regarding the construction project is to be used by a media management system implemented via at least one second processor to organize the media,

configuring a first construction information management system, of the one or more construction information management systems, that stores information from which the first element was identified to request from the media management system media that is associated with the first element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the first construction information management system to request media that is associated with the first element comprises configuring the first construction information management system to communicate with the media management system to access information stored by the media management system and associated with the first element.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein configuring the first construction information management system to communicate with the media management system to access information associated with the first element comprises:

requesting that the first construction information management system store, in association with the first element in at least one data store of the first construction information management system, information to access media stored by the media management in association with the first element.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the first construction information management system is a building design tool implemented via the at least one first processor;

the information regarding the construction project stored by the building design tool comprises a Building Information Model (BIM) comprising information on the design of the at least one structure, the BIM comprising one or more data objects identifying the components of the at least one structure, the one or more data objects comprising a first data object associated with the first element; and

requesting that the first construction information management system store the information to access the media stored by the media management in association with the first element comprises requesting that the building design tool store in association with the first data object data instructing the media management system to provide media associated with the first element.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein requesting that the building design tool store, in association with the first data object, the information to instruct the media management system to provide the media comprises requesting that the building design tool store, as an attribute of the first data object, a universal resource locator (URL) to access media stored by the media management system.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein configuring the first construction information management system to communicate with the media management system to access information associated with the first element comprises:

requesting that the first construction information management system store, in association with the first element in at least one data store of the first construction information management system, information to access information regarding media stored by the media management system in association with the first element.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein requesting that the first construction information management system store the information to access information regarding media comprises requesting that the first construction information management system store information to request a count of media stored by the media management system in association with the first element.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the first construction information management system to request from the media management system media that is associated with the first element comprises configuring the first construction information system to output, via a user interface displaying information regarding the first element that is stored by the first construction information management system, an option for a user to request media associated with the first element.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein configuring the first construction information system to output the option via the user interface comprises configuring the first construction information system to output the option via a two-dimensional display device connected to a personal computing device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein configuring the first construction information system to output the option via the user interface comprises configuring the first construction information system to output the option via a three-dimensional display interface of an immersive 3D display device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving a request for media associated with the first element, the request identifying the first element,

identifying one or more media units with which the first element is associated as metadata; and

outputting for display a listing of the one or more media units.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more construction information management systems comprise a scheduling system, an accounting system, a safety management system, and/or a building design tool.

13. A media management system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one storage medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method comprising;

training a model to recognize a defect in an object using a plurality of media descriptive of the defect in the object, wherein training the model comprises extracting features corresponding to the defect from portions of the plurality of media descriptive of the defect, the portions of the plurality of media being associated with data indicating that the portions correspond to the defect;

further training the model using scale training data to recognize at least one dimension of the defect, wherein the scale training data comprises at least some of the plurality of media, wherein the at least some of the plurality of media depicts at least one other object, and wherein training the model using the scale training data comprises determining a scale for the at least some of the plurality of media in the scale training data based on at least one known dimension of the at least one other object and determining a dimension of the defect in the object in the at least some of the plurality of media based on the scale;

receiving media including content relating to a premises;

processing the media using the model to identify the defect in the media including content relating to the premises using the model and to determine a dimension of the defect in the media; and

adding at least one tag to the media responsive to identifying the defect in the media including content relating to the premises, the at least one tag being descriptive of a presence of the defect and the at least one dimension of the defect.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the media including content relating to the premises is an image of the premises, the defect is a crack in a wall, and the at least one dimension of the defect includes a length of the crack or a width of the crack.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein identifying the defect includes identifying a number of pixels illustrating the crack and generating a crack score based on the number of pixels illustrating the crack and wherein adding the at least one tag to the media includes adding a crack score tag descriptive of the crack score to the media.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the defect is a defect in a piece of equipment.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein outputting the tagged media includes at least one of:

storing the tagged media in a non-transitory computer readable medium, displaying the tagged media in a user interface, and transmitting the tagged media to another system.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein outputting the tagged media includes providing a link to the tagged media to an external system and providing the tagged media to the external system responsive to the link being activated.

19. A media management system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one storage medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method comprising;

receiving training media descriptive of a worker missing at least one piece of safety equipment;

receiving annotations in the training media indicative of a presence or an absence of the safety violation in the training media;

training a model using the annotated training media to detect the safety violation;

receiving the media including content relating to a construction project;

identifying the safety violation in the media including content relating to the construction project using the model; and

adding at least one tag to the media responsive to identifying the safety violating in the media including content relating to the construction project, the at least one tag being descriptive of a presence of the safety violation.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the safety equipment includes at least one of:

a hardhat, a harness, a respirator, and safety glasses.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

retrieving information from at least one data store indicative of at least one user to be notified when an enrolled tag is added to the media in response to adding the at least one tag to the media;

comparing the at least one tag added to the media with the enrolled tag to determine whether the at least one tag added to the media matches the enrolled tag; and

providing a notification to the at least one user regarding the tagged media in response to determining that the at least one tag matches the enrolled tag.