Multimedia object retrieval from natural language queries

• US 8,370,376 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Balduccini, Marcello, Girotto, Sara
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US13/351,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 707/759, 707/E17.014, 707/766, 707/769, 707/E17.009, 707/706, 707/805, 704/1, 704/9, 704/10, 704/251, 706/45, 706/50, 715/716, 715/777
• US Class Current: 707/759
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/43 Querying

Abstract

A method for identifying multi-media assets from a multi-media collection, and the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising the steps of: receiving a search query, the search query, or a derivative thereof, including a possessive phrase, wherein the possessive phrase includes a possessor and a possession category; identifying a denoted object referred to by the possessive phrase using a predefined relationship database that establishes social relationships between objects; identifying one or more additional possessors of the denoted object using the predefined relationship database; generating one or more additional possessive phrases for the denoted objects relating the identified additional possessors to the denoted object; and identifying one or more multi-media assets from the multi-media collection containing the denoted object responsive to the one or more additional possessive phrases.

Claims

1. A method for identifying multi-media assets from a multi-media collection, the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising the steps of:

receiving a search query, the search query, or a derivative thereof, including an indication of a possessive phrase;

processing the search query to derive the possessive phrase, wherein the possessive phrase includes a possessor and a possession category, the possessor being a person and the possession category denoting a family relationship between two persons;

identifying a denoted object referred to by the possessive phrase using a predefined relationship database that establishes social relationships between objects;

identifying one or more additional possessors of the denoted object using the predefined relationship database;

generating one or more additional possessive phrases for the denoted objects relating the identified additional possessors to the denoted object; and

identifying one or more multi-media assets from the multi-media collection containing the denoted object responsive to the one or more additional possessive phrases.