Collecting event data and describing events

• US 6,810,397 B1
• Filed: 06/29/2000
• Issued: 10/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Qian, Richard J., Epshteyn, Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Metjahic, Safet
• Assistant Examiner(s): Filipczyk, Marcin
• Application Number:
  US09/605,883
• Time in Patent Office: 1,580 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1-10, 707/100-110, 707/103.R
• US Class Current: 707/794
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7837 using objects detected or recognised in the video content
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/914 Video
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/916 Audio
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

A method of and a system for collecting, data about an event and describing the event, which for example, might be an entertainment event, a sports event, or a political event. Identifying characteristics of the event, characteristics of types of data about the event, and a record of the event are acquired by a description generator. A person wishing to view a particular type of data utilizes an interactive receiver to select the type of data, and characteristics of the selected type of data within the record of the event are located so as to locate data of the selected type. The located data are then collected and displayed. By storing characteristics of different types of segments that occur in the event, a viewer can select segments of a particular type for viewing. Characteristics of the selected type of segments are then located within the record of the event so as to locate segments of the selected type, and the located segments are then displayed.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for collecting data about an event comprising:

identifying a plurality of contents within a particular type of event, and a plurality of temporal segments comprising the particular type of event;

generating a semantic model for each of the plurality of contents;

creating a schema for the particular type of event, said schema comprising an association of the plurality of semantic models to one or more of the plurality of temporal segments in which the semantic models may occur; and

annotating event segments of a recording of an event of the particular event type with semantic annotations based on the schema.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein annotating the recording comprises:

identifying the event segments in the recording that correspond to the plurality of temporal segments in the schema;

identifying, for each event segment, event contents that correspond to the semantic models associated with the given temporal segment by the schema; and

recording the semantic models identified for each event segment.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an indication of a particular semantic model from among the plurality of semantic models;

searching the semantic annotations for the particular semantic model; and

providing any event segments annotated with the particular semantic model.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an indication of a particular semantic model from among the plurality of semantic models;

searching the semantic annotations for the particular semantic model; and

compiling a statistical output corresponding to the particular semantic model based on any event segments annotated with the particular semantic model.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the event comprises a sports game.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the particular type of event comprises a type of sports.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of contents include at least one of a ball, a field, a goal, a player, a kick-off, a shootout, and a team.

8. A machine readable medium having stored thereon machine executable instructions for collecting data about an event, the execution of which to implement a method comprising:

identifying a plurality of contents within a particular type of event, and a plurality of temporal segments comprising the particular type of event;

generating a semantic model for each of the plurality of contents;

creating a schema for the particular type of event, said schema comprising an association of the plurality of semantic models to one or more of the plurality of temporal segments in which the semantic models may occur; and

annotating event segments of a recording of an event of the particular event type with semantic annotations based on the schema.

9. The machine readable medium of claim 8 wherein annotating the recording comprises:

identifying the event segments in the recording that correspond to the plurality of temporal segments in the schema;

identifying, for each event segment, event contents that correspond to the semantic models associated with the given temporal segment by the schema; and

recording the semantic models identified for each event segment.

10. The machine readable medium of claim 8, the method further comprising:

receiving an indication of a particular semantic model from among the plurality of semantic models;

searching the semantic annotations for the particular semantic model; and

providing any event segments annotated with the particular semantic model.

11. The machine readable medium of claim 8, the method further comprising:

receiving an indication of a particular semantic model from among the plurality of semantic models;

searching the semantic annotations for the particular semantic model; and

compiling a statistical output corresponding to the particular semantic model based on any event segments annotated with the particular semantic model.

12. The machine readable medium of claim 8 wherein the event comprises a sports game.

13. The machine readable medium of claim 8 wherein the particular type of event comprises a type of sports.

14. The machine readable medium of claim 8 wherein the plurality of contents include at least one of a ball, a field, a goal, a player, a kick-off, a shoot-out, and a team.