Techniques for object based operations

• US 9,516,391 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2011
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Ferren, Bran, Booth, Cory J., Bell, Genevieve
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Allen
• Application Number:
  US13/819,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20130321570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,930 Days
• Field of Search: 348/42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/20 Position of source determined by a plurality of spaced direction-finders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0383 Signal control means within the pointing device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0414 using force sensing means to determine a position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/635 Overlay text, e.g. embedded captions in a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/40 Remote control systems using repeaters, converters, gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 : Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 : PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 : User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 : Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 : involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 : Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 : Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/437 : Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server flow control in data networks H04L47/10; streaming protocols, e.g. RTP or RTCP, H04L65/65; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests in data packet switching networks H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 : Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 : Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4508 : Management of client data or end-user data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 : involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 : involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 : for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 : End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 : for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/63 : Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients or between remote clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing real-time session protocols H04L65/1101; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 : using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/654 : Transmission by server directed to the client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 : specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 : Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 : Television signal processing therefor

Abstract

Techniques for object based operations may include identifying one or more objects in a multimedia stream. The one or more objects may be classified. An operation may be performed based on the classification of the one or more objects. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An article comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed enable a system to:

identify one or more objects in a multimedia stream;

classify at least one object of the one or more objects as a salient object and at least one other object of the one or more objects as a replaceable object; and

perform an operation based on the classification of the one or more objects, the operation to position a secondary object to cover-up the replaceable object and to not cover-up the salient object.

2. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to identify the one or more objects embedded in the multimedia stream.

3. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to identify the one or more objects via object character recognition.

4. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to identify the one or more objects via stereoscopic techniques.

5. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to classify at least one of the one or more objects as an information portal object.

6. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to classify the one or more objects via a bar code.

7. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to present a secondary object based on the one or more objects.

8. The article of claim 1, comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to present context-driven content based on the one or more objects.

9. The article of claim 1,

the secondary object comprising a product placement template.

10. A method comprising:

identifying one or more objects in a multimedia stream;

classify at least one object of the one or more objects as a salient object and at least one other object of the one or more objects as a replaceable object; and

performing an operation with a secondary object based on the classification of the one or more objects, the operation to position the secondary object to cover-up the replaceable object and to not cover-up the salient object.

11. The method of claim 10, comprising

identifying the one or more objects embedded in the multimedia stream.

12. The method of claim 10, comprising

identifying the one or more objects via object character recognition.

13. The method of claim 10, comprising

identifying the one or more objects via stereoscopic techniques.

14. The method of claim 10, comprising

identifying the one or more objects via image analysis.

15. The method of claim 10, comprising

identifying the one or more objects via texture recognition.

16. The method of claim 10,

the salient object comprising images of a person'"'"'s face, a ball, a puck, or a scroll bar.

17. The method of claim 10, comprising:

classifying the one or more objects via a bar code.

18. The method of claim 10, comprising:

presenting a template as the secondary object based on the one or more objects.

19. The method of claim 10, comprising:

presenting context-driven content as the secondary object based on the one or more objects.

20. The method of claim 10, comprising:

the secondary object comprising a product placement template.

21. An apparatus, comprising:

a processing component; and

a object based operation component operative on the processing component to

navigate a multimedia stream, the object based operation component comprising;

an object identification component operative to identify one or more objects in the multimedia stream,

an object classification component operative to classify at least one object of the one or more objects as a salient object and at least one other object of the one or more objects as a replaceable object; and

an operation component operative to perform an operation based on the classification of the one or more objects, the operation to position a secondary object to cover-up the replaceable object and to not cover-up the salient object.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, the object classification component operative to classify at least one of the one or more objects as an information portal object.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, the object identification component operative to identify the one or more objects via object character recognition.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, the object identification component operative to identify the one or more objects via stereoscopic techniques.

25. The apparatus of claim 21 comprising:

a digital display on a media processing device.