Method and system for gesture based searching

• US 9,449,107 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2014
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Captimo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Captimo, Inc.
• Inventors: Bliss, John, Keller, Gregory M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung
• Assistant Examiner(s): Park, Sunghyoun
• Application Number:
  US14/221,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/43 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

Some embodiments include a method for gesture based search. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of gesture based searching, at least part of the method being implemented via execution of computer instructions configured to run at one or more processing modules and configured to be stored at one or more memory storage modules, the method comprising:

communicating with a database comprising (a) a first media source having a first object, the first object having first media source metadata, and (b) at least one second media source, each of the at least one second media source having at least one second object, and each of the at least one second object having second media source metadata, respectively;

executing one or more first computer instructions configured to provide one or more search command targets to a user, the one or more search command targets corresponding respectively to one or more search field categories;

executing one or more second computer instructions configured to recognize one or more gestures of the user, the one or more gestures identifying at least one first search command target of the one or more search command targets and being provided by the user in response to the executing the one or more first computer instructions; and

executing one or more third computer instructions configured to filter the at least one second media source based on the first media source metadata and based on at least one first category of the one or more search field categories corresponding to the at least one first search command target;

wherein;

executing the one or more second computer instructions comprises executing one or more fourth computer instructions configured to recognize at least one voice-based input of the user;

the one or more gestures comprise the at least one voice-based input of the user;

the one or more search command targets indicate one or more voice-based search terms; and

the computer instructions comprise the one or more first, one or more second, and one or more third computer instructions.

2. A system comprising:

a search module;

wherein;

the search module is configured to communicate with a database comprising (a) a first media source having a first object, the first object having first media source metadata, and (b) at least one second media source, each of the at least one second media source having at least one second object, and each of the at least one second object having second media source metadata, respectively;

the search module comprises;

a target module configured to provide one or more search command targets to a user of the system at a display of a user electronic device of the user, the one or more search command targets corresponding respectively to one or more search field categories;

a gesture recognition module configured to recognize one or more gestures of the user, the one or more gestures identifying at least one first search command target of the one or more search command targets and being provided by the user to select the at least one first search command target;

and

a filter module configured to filter the at least one second media source based on the first media source metadata and based on at least one first category of the one or more search field categories corresponding to the at least one first search command target;

the search module is configured to communicate with at least one of;

(a) the user electronic device of the user or (b) at least one networked electronic device;

the one or more gestures comprise at least one voice-based input of the user; and

the one or more search command targets indicate one or more voice-based search terms.