Methods and systems for crowd sourced tagging of multimedia
First Claim
1. A method for indexing at least one occurrence-of-interest in a multimedia file, wherein an occurrence-of-interest comprises at least one item in the multimedia that is visible or audible and being selected from a pre-existing group comprising a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, the method comprising:
- providing a facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag associated to at least one of the pre-existing group of occurrence-of-interest items, wherein said tag comprises a unique identifier that uniquely identifies an occurrence-of-interest tagged by the user, wherein said unique identifier comprises a combination of a brand key and a user key for tagging and facilitates ability to aggregate data relating to instances of its use;
determining a discrete time, tx, within said multimedia file, wherein said multimedia file has a run duration of t0 to tend; and
indexing the multimedia file to indicate the discrete times, tx, of the tagged occurrence items and the unique identifier,wherein said facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag is provided by executable program code on a mobile computing device,wherein said mobile computing device comprises a viewing screen and a touch-sensitive input interface,wherein said viewing screen is able to display one or more linking elements,wherein performing a gesture on a portion of said viewing screen corresponding to a linking element is recognized by said touch-sensitive input interface,wherein said linking element comprises a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, andwherein said linking element is selected from a palette of linking elements, wherein at least one linking element functions to specify a time duration for the tag defined by the type or duration of the gesture.
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Abstract
The invention relates to deploying a synchronization index and associated multimedia, for manipulations to the synchronization index, for navigation between the synchronization index and associated multimedia, and for synchronous playback of the multimedia and associated text, using a computing device. The system may use multimedia with a synchronized text transcription, or a synchronization index, on a computing device for viewing and manipulating the multimedia, using the synchronized text transcription. The computing device may be used to navigate the multimedia, annotate the text transcription, achieve synchronous play of the multimedia, and communicate to another computer manipulations performed on the text or multimedia.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for indexing at least one occurrence-of-interest in a multimedia file, wherein an occurrence-of-interest comprises at least one item in the multimedia that is visible or audible and being selected from a pre-existing group comprising a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, the method comprising:
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providing a facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag associated to at least one of the pre-existing group of occurrence-of-interest items, wherein said tag comprises a unique identifier that uniquely identifies an occurrence-of-interest tagged by the user, wherein said unique identifier comprises a combination of a brand key and a user key for tagging and facilitates ability to aggregate data relating to instances of its use; determining a discrete time, tx, within said multimedia file, wherein said multimedia file has a run duration of t0 to tend; and indexing the multimedia file to indicate the discrete times, tx, of the tagged occurrence items and the unique identifier, wherein said facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag is provided by executable program code on a mobile computing device, wherein said mobile computing device comprises a viewing screen and a touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said viewing screen is able to display one or more linking elements, wherein performing a gesture on a portion of said viewing screen corresponding to a linking element is recognized by said touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said linking element comprises a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, and wherein said linking element is selected from a palette of linking elements, wherein at least one linking element functions to specify a time duration for the tag defined by the type or duration of the gesture. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for advertising by indexing multimedia having occurrences-of-interest that can be tagged by at least one user, wherein an occurrence-of-interest comprises at least one item in the multimedia that is visible or audible and being selected from a pre-existing group comprising a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, the method comprising:
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providing a facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag associated to at least one of the pre-existing group of occurrence-of-interest items, wherein said tag is associated to a multimedia file and a discrete time, tx, within said multimedia file, wherein said multimedia file has a run duration of t0 to tend; wherein said tag comprises a unique identifier, wherein said unique identifier comprises a combination of a brand key and a user key for tagging and facilitates ability to aggregate data relating to instances of its use; wherein said facility for a user of multimedia to create a tag is provided by executable program code on a mobile computing device, wherein said mobile computing device comprises a viewing screen and a touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said viewing screen is able to display one or more linking elements, wherein performing a gesture on a portion of said viewing screen corresponding to a linking element is recognized by said touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said linking element comprises a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, and wherein said linking element is selected from a palette of linking elements, wherein at least one linking element functions to specify a time duration for the tag defined by the type or duration of the gesture. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for indexing multimedia based on a brand key, wherein said brand key has an owner and is associated to at least one item of a brand key group comprising a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, the method comprising:
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providing a brand key; providing a user key for tagging, wherein said user key for tagging is issued to a user; combining said brand key with said user key for tagging to form a unique identifier for tagging, wherein said unique identifier facilitates ability to aggregate data relating to instances of its use; providing a facility to associate said unique identifier to a discrete time, tx, within a multimedia file having a run duration of t0 to tend, corresponding to at least one occurrence in a multimedia file of said at least one item; providing a facility for a computer system to receive said unique identifier for at least one occurrence in a multimedia file of said at least one item; providing a facility for a computer system to determine said user based on said unique identifier; and indexing the multimedia by aggregating instances in which a unique identifier was used to indicate the discrete times, tx, of the at least one occurrence in a multimedia file of said at least one item, wherein said facility to associate said unique identifier is provided by executable program code on a mobile computing device, wherein said mobile computing device comprises a viewing screen and a touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said viewing screen is able to display one or more linking elements, wherein performing a gesture on a portion of said viewing screen corresponding to a linking element is recognized by said touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said linking element comprises a brand, a trademark or servicemark, an indicia of source of origin, a product or good, a place, a person, an event, a character, and a business, and wherein said linking element is selected from a palette of linking elements, wherein at least one linking element functions to specify a time duration for the tag defined by the type or duration of the gesture. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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