Method and apparatus for generating meta data of content

• US 9,560,411 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Joon-kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): STREGE, JOHN B
• Application Number:
  US14/072,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20140059577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 382/118, 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/436 using biological or physiological data of a human being, e.g. blood pressure, facial expression, gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/175 Static expression
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45

Abstract

A method of providing content includes receiving emotional information in relation to the content; generating information about a representative type of emotion associated with the emotional information received from the client; updating an Electronic Program Guide associated with the content or a header of the content using the information about the representative type of emotion; and providing the content with the updated Electronic Program Guide or the updated header to the user.

Claims

1. A method of reproducing content in a client device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the client device, the content with metadata corresponding to the content, from a server, the metadata comprising information about a representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, wherein the information about the representative type of emotion is generated from emotional information in relation to the content, and is recorded in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) associated with the content, and wherein the emotional information in relation to the content is obtained by extracting facial information from user images of one or more users who are provided with the content;

providing the information about the representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, that is obtained from the metadata corresponding to the content, to a user of the client device in a viewable format so that the user can reproduce portions of the content by referring to the representative type of emotion in the EPG; and

reproducing the content based on the information about the representative type of emotion.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata is further recorded in a header of the content.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for performing a method of reproducing content, the method comprising:

receiving, by a client device, the content with metadata corresponding to the content, from a server, the metadata comprising information about a representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, wherein the information about the representative type of emotion is generated from emotional information in relation to the content, and is recorded in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) associated with the content, and wherein the emotional information in relation to the content is obtained by extracting facial information from user images of one or more users who are provided with the content;

providing the information about the representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, that is obtained from the metadata corresponding to the content, to a user of the client device in a viewable format so that the user can reproduce portions of the content by referring to the representative type of emotion in the EPG; and

reproducing the content based on the information about the representative type of emotion.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 3, wherein the metadata is further recorded in a header of the content.

5. An apparatus for reproducing content, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive, by a client device, the content with metadata corresponding to the content, from a server, the metadata comprising information about a representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, wherein the information about the representative type of emotion is generated from emotional information in relation to the content, and is recorded in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) associated with the content, and wherein the emotional information in relation to the content is obtained by extracting facial information from user images of one or more users who are provided with the content,

provide the information about the representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, that is obtained from the metadata, to a user of the client device in a viewable format so that the user can reproduce portions of the content by referring to the representative type of emotion in the EPG, and

reproduce the content based on the information about the representative type of emotion.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the metadata is further recorded in a header of the content.

7. A system comprising:

a server comprising a processor configured to

receive emotional information corresponding to content from at least one client, the emotional information being generated by extracting facial information from user images of one or more users who are provided with the content,

generate information about a representative type of emotion associated with the emotional information,

generate metadata corresponding to the content using the information about the representative type of emotion, and

provide the content with the metadata comprising the information about the representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, wherein the metadata is recorded in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) associated with the content; and

a client device comprising a processor configured to

receive the content with the metadata corresponding to the content, from the server,

provide the information about the representative type of emotion corresponding to the content, that is obtained from the metadata, to a user of the client device in a viewable format so that the user can reproduce portions of the content by referring to the representative type of emotion in the EPG, and

reproduce the content based on the information about the representative type of emotion.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the metadata is further recorded in a header of the content.