Enabling intelligent media naming and icon generation utilizing semantic metadata

• US 9,104,683 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fitzpatrick, Gregory P., Flores, Romelia, Santana, Endemecio, Supakkul, Tassanee K., Vora, Janki Y., Bubash, Tanya E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Uddin, Md. I
• Application Number:
  US13/826,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737, 707/741, 707/748, 707/821, 707/822, 715/745, 715/748
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/166 File name conversion

Abstract

A set of media files are identified within a data store. Each of the media files lack user established file names, lack user established icons, or lack user established file names and icons. The media files are analyzed to determine semantic metadata. For at least a subset of the media files, the semantic metadata is utilized to automatically generate unique and meaningful file names, file icons, or both file names and file icons for each of the media files in the subset.

Claims

1. A method for intelligent media naming comprising:

a computing device identifying a plurality of media files within a data store, each of the media files lacking user established file names, lacking user established icons, or lacking user established file names and icons;

the computing device analyzing the plurality of media files to determine semantic metadata using semantic analysis processes that includes image recognition, voice recognition, facial recognition and audio recognition;

the computing device, for at least a subset of the media files, utilizing the semantic metadata to automatically generate unique and meaningful file names, file icons, or both file names and file icons for each of the media files in the subset, wherein the analyzing comprises extract semantic metadata from the medial files having digitally encoded image, voice, facial and audio wherein the semantic metadata is a content identification keyword;

the computing device computing frequency, weighting, and priority values to determine a score to rank the keyword in order of significance;

the computing device establishing a filename prefix from the semantic metadata for the subset of media files and determining a unique filename suffix for the subset of media files; and

concatenating the filename prefix and unique filename suffix to create a unique filename for the subset of media files.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the media files is a user taken photograph or video, wherein the computing device is a digital camera, a video recorder, or mobile phone, said computing device comprising a camera and a memory, wherein the camera captures environmental input used to create the media files, and wherein the memory stores the media files.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a set of one or more servers linked to a network, wherein the one or more servers permit users to upload and view the media files, wherein the set of one or more servers provide an option for automatically renaming uploaded media files utilizing semantic metadata.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device utilizes the semantic metadata to generate unique and meaningful file names for the subset of the media files.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises hardware and software that is stored on a non-transitory storage medium, said software executing on the hardware to perform actions of the method.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the semantic metadata comprises one or more images extract or derived from corresponding media files, which comprise digitally encoded images or video, wherein the generated unique and meaningful file icons comprise the one or more images that were extracted or derived from corresponding media files.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device utilizes the semantic metadata to generate unique and meaningful file names and file icons for the subset of the media files.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of media files comprise one or more file types from a group of file types comprising an image file type, a video file type, an audio file type, and a document file.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computing device prompting a user via a graphical user interface to select which of the subset of media files are to be modified to the generated file name, file icon, or both and which of the subset of media files are not to be modified to the generated file name, file icon, or both.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing comprises extracting meaning from one of the media files having digitally encoded audio using a speech recognition function, wherein resulting semantic metadata comprises information produced from processing of the speech recognition function.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing comprises extracting meaning from one of the media files having digitally encoded image using an image recognition function, wherein resulting semantic metadata comprises information produced from processing of the image recognition function.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing determines an identity of a human depicted in the corresponding one of the subset of media files, wherein a file name that includes a name of the identified human is generated for the corresponding media file.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the computer establishing a filename prefix from the semantic metadata for the subset of media files, wherein the prefix is a keyword;

the computer determining a unique filename suffix for the subset of media files wherein the suffix is a keyword; and

the computer concatenating the filename prefix and unique filename suffix to create a unique filename for the subset of media files.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

persisting the semantic metadata within at least one of the plurality of media files as metadata tags.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the semantic metadata is at least one of a keyword tag, a location information, a personally identifiable information, a presence information, and a content information.

16. A system for intelligent media naming comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories storing program instructions executable by the one or more processors;

a naming engine, comprising at least a subset of the program instructions, configured to analyzing the plurality of media files to determine semantic metadata using semantic analysis processes that includes image recognition, voice recognition, facial recognition and audio recognition, to utilize the semantic metadata to automatically generate unique and meaningful file names, file icons, or both file names and file icons for each of the media files in the subset, wherein the analyzing comprises extract semantic metadata from the medial files having digitally encoded image, voice, facial and audio wherein the semantic metadata is a content identification keyword, to compute frequency, weighting, and priority values to determine a score to rank the keyword in order of significance, to establish a filename prefix from the semantic metadata for the subset of media files and determining a unique filename suffix for the subset of media files, and to concatenate the filename prefix and unique filename suffix to create a unique filename for the subset of media files; and

a data store able to persist the at least one unique filename and at least the subset of media files.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a media handler, comprising at least a subset of the program instructions, configured to manage the media file within the data store; and

a candidate engine, comprising at least a subset of the program instructions, configured to generate a plurality of candidate filenames and candidate icons.

18. The system of claim 17, the candidate engine able to present the plurality of candidate filenames and candidate icons within a user interface for user selection.

19. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:

computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to identify a plurality of media files within a data store, each of the media files lacking user established file names, lacking user established icons, or lacking user established file names and icons;

computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to analyze the plurality of media files to determine semantic metadata using semantic analysis processes that includes image recognition, voice recognition, facial recognition and audio recognition;

computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to utilize the semantic metadata to automatically generate unique and meaningful file names, file icons, or both file names and file icons for each of the media files in the subset, wherein the analyzing comprises extract semantic metadata from the medial files having digitally encoded image, voice, facial and audio wherein the semantic metadata is a content identification keyword;

usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to compute frequency, weighting, and priority values to determine a score to rank the keyword in order of significance;

usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to establish a filename prefix from the semantic metadata for the subset of media files and determining a unique filename suffix for the subset of media files; and

usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is run by a processor it is operable to concatenate the filename prefix and unique filename suffix to create a unique filename for the subset of media files.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein each of the media files is a user taken photograph or video, wherein the computing device is a digital camera, a video recorder, or mobile phone, said computing device comprising a camera and a memory, wherein the camera captures environmental input used to create the media files, and wherein the memory stores the media files.