Indicating a tag with visual data

• US 7,694,885 B1
• Filed: 01/26/2006
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Bourdev, Lubomir
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US11/341,941
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/381, 235/382, 235/487, 707/3, 707/E17.111, 707/E17.026, 707/100
• US Class Current: 235/487
• 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: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/70 Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions

Abstract

Indicating a tag is disclosed. Indicating includes receiving an object that has been automatically detected from visual data, receiving a tag associated with the object, and indicating the tag with the visual data.

Claims

1. A method, including:

receiving, at a processor, an indication of an object that has been automatically detected from visual data, wherein the object includes a face;

receiving, at the processor, a tag associated with the object; and

using the processor to indicate the tag with the visual data in a display at least in part by displaying the tag in proximity to the object in the visual data.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the association between the tag and the object is indicated.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator with the visual data.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator with the visual data, wherein the tag indicator includes a graphic.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator with the visual data, wherein the tag indicator includes text.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator with the visual data, wherein the tag indicator is displayed selectively.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the association between the tag and the object is indicated at least in part by displaying a tag indicator in proximity to the object.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein placement of a tag indicator is based at least in part on a location of an object that has been detected from the visual data.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein placement of a tag indicator is based at least in part on a location of another tag indicator.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein placement of a tag indicator is user controlled.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual data is associated with video and the tag indicator is placed at a first location associated with a first frame of the video and the tag indicator is placed at a second location associated with a second frame of the video.

12. A method as recited in claim 1, further including indicating another tag associated with the object.

13. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator in response to user input.

14. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating is in response to receiving an indication that a cursor is hovering over the object.

15. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating is in response to receiving an indication that a pointing device has clicked on the object.

16. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes playing audio data.

17. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual data includes an image.

18. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the visual data includes a video.

19. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the tag is associated with a name, a thought, speech, or a facial expression.

20. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the format of a tag indicator indicates information about the tag.

21. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying tag data in a speech bubble.

22. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein indicating includes displaying an indication that a tag has not been confirmed.

23. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein a tag indicator can be toggled on or off.

24. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the tag includes tag data that is user specified.

25. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an indication of an object that has been automatically detected from visual data, wherein the object includes a face;

receiving a tag associated with the object; and

indicating the tag with the visual data in a display at least in part by displaying the tag in proximity to the object in the visual data.

26. A computer program product as recited in claim 25, wherein placement of a tag indicator is based at least in part on a location of an object that has been detected from the visual data.

27. A computer program product as recited in claim 25, the computer program product further comprising computer instructions for indicating another tag associated with the object.

28. A computer program product as recited in claim 25, wherein indicating includes displaying a tag indicator in response to user input.

29. A system, including:

a processor; and

a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to;

receive an indication of an object that has been automatically detected from visual data, wherein the object includes a face;

receive a tag associated with the object; and

indicate the tag with the visual data in a display at least in part by displaying the tag in proximity to the object in the visual data.