Method for providing keywords, and video apparatus applying the same

• US 9,396,213 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoon, Soo-yeoun, Park, Jung-chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Jessica N
• Application Number:
  US12/128,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20090177627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,973 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for providing keywords and a video apparatus applying the method are provided. The method for providing keywords includes separating metadata from content, extracting keywords in the content from the metadata, and generating a keyword list using the keywords and images related to the keywords. It is thus possible to display the keywords together with the images related to the keywords, so a user may register desired keywords more conveniently without needing to manually individually input keywords.

Claims

1. A method for providing keywords of a video apparatus, the method comprising:

separating, by a processor, metadata from a first content;

extracting, from the separated metadata, one or more keywords in the first content;

displaying a keyword list including the extracted keywords and images corresponding to the extracted keywords;

receiving a user input to select at least one keyword from the displayed keyword list;

determining whether the images related to the keywords have been stored previously;

determining whether there is a connection to a network; and

generating, in response to determining that there is no connection to the network and that the images related to the keywords have not been stored previously, the keyword list using the keywords and using visual items previously stored instead of the images related to the keywords and searching for the images related to the keywords through the network,

wherein the generating of the keyword list further comprises generating the keyword list using the keywords and the images found during the search, and

wherein the corresponding images are acquired from a second content which is different from the first content where the keywords are extracted.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, in response to determining that the images related to the keywords have been stored previously, the keyword list using the keywords and the previously stored images.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content is broadcasting content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyword list comprises a plurality of items, each of which comprises a corresponding pair of one of the keywords and one of the images uniquely matched to the keyword.

5. A video apparatus comprising:

a keyword extracting unit configured to extract one or more keywords in a first content currently played back;

an image storage unit configured to store extracted keywords together with images corresponding to the extracted keywords;

an image search unit configured to search for stored images from the image storage unit related to the extracted keywords received from the keyword extracting unit;

a display unit configured to display a keyword list including the extracted keywords and images corresponding to the extracted keywords;

a controller configured to display the keyword list on the display unit upon receiving a user input to select at least one keyword from the displayed keyword list; and

an interface connected to an Internet protocol network,

wherein the corresponding images are acquired from a second content which is different from the first content where the keywords are extracted,

wherein, in response to determining that the interface is not connected to the network, the image search unit searches for visual items previously stored in the image storage unit instead of the images related to the keywords, and

wherein, in response to determining that the images related to the keywords are not stored in the image storage unit, the image search unit determines whether the interface is connected to the network; and

in response to determining that the interface is connected to the network, the image search unit searches for the images related to the keywords through the network.

6. The video apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first content is broadcasting content.

7. The video apparatus of claim 5, wherein the keyword list comprises a plurality of items, each of which comprises a corresponding pair of one of the extracted keywords uniquely matched to a corresponding one of images.

8. The video apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

an input unit through which the first content is received;

a demultiplexer configured to divide the received first content into main content and sub-content;

an audio/video processor configured to process the divided main content to provide video and/or audio data; and

a metadata separator configured to extract metadata from the sub-content, wherein the keyword extracting unit extracts the keywords from the extracted metadata.

9. The video apparatus of claim 8, wherein the video data and the generated keyword list are selectively displayed.

10. The video apparatus of claim 5, further comprising a network interface, wherein the image search unit connects to an external storage device through the network interface to select at least one of the images stored on the external storage device.

11. The video apparatus of claim 10, wherein the external storage device is connected to the network interface via an Internet protocol network.

12. The video apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a local storage unit within the video apparatus, wherein the image search unit selects other ones of the images stored on the local storage unit and selects the at least one of the images stored on the external storage device.

13. The video apparatus of claim 12, wherein the image search unit selects the at least one of the images stored on the external storage device when it is determined that the at least one image is not stored on the local storage unit.

14. A method for providing keywords of a video apparatus, the method comprising:

extracting one or more keywords, from metadata separated from a first content received at the video apparatus, by a keyword extracting unit, the keywords being descriptive of the first content;

selecting images corresponding to the extracted keywords;

displaying a keyword list including the extracted keywords and images corresponding to the extracted keywords; and

receiving a user input to select at least one keyword from the displayed keyword list,

wherein the corresponding images are acquired from a second content which is different from the first content where the keywords are extracted, and

wherein the selecting of the images comprises, for each keyword;

detecting if an image exists on a storage unit of the video apparatus which corresponds to the keyword,

selecting, when the image exists on the storage unit, the stored image, and

establishing, when the image does not exist on the storage unit, a network connection to select the image from a storage unit exterior to the video apparatus.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first content is retrieved from one or more storage media.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with processing instructions for executing the method of claim 14 using one or more computers.