Hierarchical method and system for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation
First Claim
1. A hierarchical system for associating object-based information with images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, comprising:
- an object-based selection mechanism for selecting an object of interest in an image;
hierarchical data structure generation means for generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating object-based information with said image;
a transmission/storage mechanism for storing the image and the hierarchical data structure;
a retrieval and manipulation mechanism for allowing a user selectively to retrieve and manipulate the image and the object-based information associated therewith; and
a generation mechanism for generating an overlay associated with said image, wherein said overlay includes at least one hot spot which is visually distinguishable from the remainder of the image when highlighted by the user.
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Abstract
A hierarchical system for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, includes: an object-based selection mechanism for selecting an object of interest in said image; hierarchical data structure generation means for generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating auxiliary information with said image; and a transmission/storage mechanism for storing the image and the hierarchical data structure. A hierarchical method for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, includes: selecting an object of interest in said image with an object-based selection mechanism; generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating auxiliary information with said image; and transmitting/storing the image and the hierarchical data structure.
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28 Claims
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1. A hierarchical system for associating object-based information with images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, comprising:
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an object-based selection mechanism for selecting an object of interest in an image; hierarchical data structure generation means for generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating object-based information with said image; a transmission/storage mechanism for storing the image and the hierarchical data structure; a retrieval and manipulation mechanism for allowing a user selectively to retrieve and manipulate the image and the object-based information associated therewith; and a generation mechanism for generating an overlay associated with said image, wherein said overlay includes at least one hot spot which is visually distinguishable from the remainder of the image when highlighted by the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A hierarchical system for associating object-based information with images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, comprising:
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an image acquisition mechanism for acquiring an image; an object-based selection mechanism for selecting an object of interest in said image; hierarchical data structure generation means for generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating object-based information with said image, thereby forming an information-enhanced image; a transmission/storage mechanism for storing the information-enhanced image; a display mechanism for displaying the information-enhanced image to a user; a retrieval and manipulation mechanism for allowing a user selectively to retrieve and manipulate the image and the object-based information associated therewith; and a generation mechanism for generating boundary information for identifying a boundary about an object of interest, and wherein said boundary groups all of the information within said boundary for manipulation by the user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A hierarchical method for associating object-based information with images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, comprising:
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selecting an object of interest in an image with an object-based selection mechanism; generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating object-based information with the image, including generating a base layer which includes only content-related information indicators, and generating a second layer which includes content-related information; selectively retrieving and manipulating the image and the information associated therewith;
including;(a) retrieving the image data; (b) reading the base layer information; (c) displaying the image; (d) generating an overlay to visually indicate the regions that contain object-based information in terms of "hot spots", according to the region information contained in the base layer; (e) displaying pop-up menus as the user points and clicks on the hot spots, wherein the types of available object-based information are featured in the menus; and (f) retrieving and rendering the object-based information selected by the user when the user clicks on the appropriate entry in the menu; and transmitting/storing the image and the hierarchical data structure. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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