Multimedia archive description scheme
First Claim
1. A method of describing the content of a multimedia archive, having records and record descriptions associated with the records, comprising:
- evaluating the record descriptions to identify cluster attributes and cluster relationships in a plurality of records in the archive;
wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group including feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
generating an archive description record including at least one cluster describing at least one common cluster attribute and at least one cluster relationship in at least two records.
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Abstract
A multimedia archive description scheme is provided for characterizing a multimedia archive having records and associated record descriptions. The multimedia archive description scheme provides a data structure which relates records by similarity measures. The principle data structure in the multimedia archive description scheme is a cluster. A cluster includes one or more attributes of the records in the archive and can include one or more cluster relationships. Cluster attributes can include feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes of the records in the archive. The cluster relationships can relate records to clusters or clusters to clusters. Cluster relationships can include feature space (syntactic) relationships, semantic relationships, media relationships and meta relationships. The multimedia archive description scheme provides an efficient form for describing a collection of records.
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42 Claims
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1. A method of describing the content of a multimedia archive, having records and record descriptions associated with the records, comprising:
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evaluating the record descriptions to identify cluster attributes and cluster relationships in a plurality of records in the archive;
wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group including feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
generating an archive description record including at least one cluster describing at least one common cluster attribute and at least one cluster relationship in at least two records. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for generating a multimedia archive description Comprising:
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a digital storage subsystem for storing multimedia records and descriptions of the records in accordance with a media description scheme;
a computer processor operatively coupled to the digital storage subsystem, the computer processor accessing the record descriptions and identifying at least one cluster from the multimedia record descriptions of at least two media records, extracting at least one cluster attribute and at least one cluster relationship from the at least one cluster, the processor generating an archive description record including said at least one cluster, said at least one cluster attribute and said at least one cluster relationship, wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group including feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
archive description storage operative coupled to the computer processor for storing the archive description record. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A media archive system comprising:
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a computer readable storage system for storing a plurality of media records;
at least one media description engine, said media description engine accessing a media record stored in the computer readable storage system and generating a media description record corresponding thereto;
a cluster processor operatively coupled to the computer readable storage system, the cluster processor accessing the media description records and generating an archive description record, the archive description record including at least one cluster which relates at least two records in the storage system each said at least one cluster being defined at least in part by a cluster attribute and a cluster relationship of the media description records, wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group consisting of feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
a query processor operatively coupled to the cluster processor, the query processor receiving archive search parameters from a user and providing a search query to the cluster processor. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An archive description file defined in computer readable media for describing the content of a multimedia archive, having records and record descriptions associated with the records, comprising:
- at least one cluster attribute and at least one cluster relationship describing at least one cluster in the record descriptions, wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group consisting of feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
a collection index structure relating the clusters to the records. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
- at least one cluster attribute and at least one cluster relationship describing at least one cluster in the record descriptions, wherein the cluster attributes are selected from the group consisting of feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes; and
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