Relating objects in different mediums

• US 9,330,170 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2006
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Purang, Khemdut, Plutowski, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, TUANKHANH D
• Application Number:
  US11/435,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20070271264A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,640 Days
• Field of Search: 707/728
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/632 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

Metadata associated with a first multimedia object in a first medium is used to find a second multimedia object in a second medium. The metadata includes category data.

Claims

1. A computerized method comprising:

receiving a second multimedia object;

mapping, by an automatic recommendation computer, a current piece of metadata included in the second multimedia object in a second multimedia medium to a modified piece of metadata using similarity data, wherein the modified piece of metadata is similar to the current piece of metadata and the metadata comprises category data and the similarity data includes a list of modifications to the current piece of metadata that are considered similar;

searching a first multimedia medium for a first multimedia object using the modified piece of metadata, wherein the first and second multimedia mediums are different types of multimedia.

2. The computerized method of claim 1 further comprising:

searching the second multimedia medium for a third multimedia object that has similar metadata to the second multimedia object; and

searching the first multimedia medium for a fourth multimedia object using metadata associated with the third multimedia object.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the first multimedia object is a movie and the first multimedia object is a song.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the modified and current pieces of metadata are similar when there is a difference in one of the characteristics of the modified and current pieces of metadata.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the characteristic difference is one of a letter difference between the modified and current pieces of metadata, and when the modified piece of metadata is a first artist and the current piece of metadata is a second artist and the first and second artists are similar.

4. The computerized method of 3, wherein the metadata associated with the song comprises artist name, year of production, genre, name of album.

7. A machine-readable storage medium having executable instructions to cause a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a second multimedia object;

mapping a current piece of metadata included in the second multimedia object in a second multimedia medium to a modified piece of metadata using similarity data, wherein the modified piece of metadata is similar to the current piece of metadata and the metadata comprises category data and the similarity data includes a list of modifications to the current piece of metadata that are considered similar;

searching a first multimedia medium for a first multimedia object using the modified piece of metadata, wherein and the first and second multimedia mediums are different types of multimedia.

8. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

searching the second multimedia medium for a third multimedia object that has similar metadata to the second multimedia object; and

searching the first multimedia medium for a fourth multimedia object using metadata associated with the third multimedia object.

9. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the first multimedia object is a movie and the first multimedia object is a song.

11. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the modified and current pieces of metadata are similar when there is a difference in one of the characteristics of the modified and current pieces of metadata.

12. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the characteristic difference is one of a letter difference between the modified and current pieces of metadata, and when the modified piece of metadata is a first artist and the current piece of metadata is a second artist and the first and second artists are similar.

10. The machine-readable storage medium of 9, wherein the metadata associated with the song comprises artist name, year of production, genre, name of album.

13. A computer system comprising:

a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and

a process executed from the memory by the processor to cause the processor to;

receive a second multimedia object,

map a current piece of metadata included in the second multimedia object in a second multimedia medium to a modified piece of metadata using similarity data, wherein the modified piece of metadata is similar to the current piece of metadata and the metadata comprises category data and the similarity data includes a list of modifications to the current piece of metadata that are considered similar, and

search a first multimedia medium for a first object using the modified piece of metadata, wherein the first and second multimedia mediums are different types of multimedia.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the process further causes the processor to:

search the second multimedia medium for a third multimedia object that has similar metadata to the second multimedia object; and

search the first multimedia medium for a fourth multimedia object using metadata associated with the third multimedia object.

15. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the modified piece of metadata has at least one letter different than the current piece of metadata.

16. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the characteristic difference is one of a letter difference between the modified and current pieces of metadata, and when the modified piece of metadata is a first artist and the current piece of metadata is a second artist and the first and second artists are similar.

17. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a second multimedia object;

means for mapping a current piece of metadata included in the second multimedia object in a second multimedia medium to a modified piece of metadata using similarity data, wherein the modified piece of metadata is similar to the current piece of metadata and the metadata comprises category data and the similarity data includes a list of modifications to the current piece of metadata that are considered similar;

means for searching a first multimedia medium for a first multimedia object using the modified piece of metadata, wherein the first and second multimedia mediums are different types of multimedia; and

means for outputting the first multimedia object.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

means for searching the second multimedia medium for a third multimedia object that has similar metadata to the second multimedia object; and

means for searching the first multimedia medium for a fourth multimedia object using metadata associated with the third multimedia object.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the multimedia object is a movie and the first object is a song.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the metadata associated with the song comprises artist name, year of production, genre, and name of album.