Method and apparatus for content manipulation

• US 9,569,440 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: McCoy, Charles, Xiong, True, Wallace, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Perveen, Rehana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Loc
• Application Number:
  US13/773,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20140244640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,453 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737, 707/754, 707/752
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method and system for organizing content data by adding one or more identifiers that place the content data in context or provide additional details about the content. The method includes attaching a label to image data and classifying the image data based on the label.

Claims

1. A method for organizing content data comprising:

inputting image content data;

extracting from the image content data contextualized objects within the image, the contextualized objects being associated with respective ones of different environments of the image;

identifying the extracted contextualized objects by identifying particular parameters associated with the extracted contextualized objects;

referencing the extracted contextualized objects to a previously established library of objects in an environment to determine matches between the extracted contextualized objects and the objects in the environment library;

labeling the image content data with an environment identifier associated with the environment library containing the matched object;

establishing one or more categories for content, the categories being associated with groups of the contextualized objects;

grouping the contextualized objects into groups based on the objects of the library to which the contextualized objects extracted from the image content data are matched; and

classifying the image content data in a category based on the grouping of the matched contextualized objects extracted from that image content data.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the grouping of the image content data comprises naming the image content data using the contextualized objects extracted from said image content data.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

accessing user feedback related to the classification of the image content data; and

modifying the grouping step based on the user feedback.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

clustering the image content data based on the classification step.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

identifying time data associated with the image content data; and

clustering the image content data based on the time data.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contextual objects include facial features.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

generating advertisement data based on the classifying step; and

providing the advertisement data to selected users.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

providing the image content data to a user based on the classifying step.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

utilizing social media to provide the image content data to the user.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the classification of particular content is appropriate for an existing grouping; and

establishing one or more additional clustering categories when the particular content is not appropriate for the existing grouping.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

identifying content that is appropriate for the additional clustering groupings and/or the existing groupings.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

filtering the image content data based on one or more filtering parameters to extract the contextualized objects and label the extracted contextualized objects corresponding to a set or folder.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein one filtering parameter is removal of duplicate content.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

classifying the image content data into clusters based on one or more similar properties of the image content data.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

identifying image quality of the image content data;

determining whether the image quality is unacceptable;

identifying one or more reasons for the unacceptable image quality of the image content data; and

generating a notification based on the one or more reasons.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15 further comprising:

generating a representation of the classified image content data; and

providing the representation to a remote location.

17. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

generating a user profile based on the classification of grouped image content data.

18. The method as claimed in claimed claim 17, further comprising:

providing the user profile to a remote location.