Watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements
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1. A method comprising:
- in a network system, receiving items of content captured by electronic devices associated with users, the received items being uploaded to the network system, and the network system is configured to stream or download the received items to other users of the network system;
with one or more processors, executing instructions to perform the acts of;
extracting digital watermarks in audio signals from the received items of captured content;
with watermark IDs decoded from the digital watermarks, querying a database to obtain a first instance of metadata associated with a first watermark ID extracted from a corresponding first instance of received item and querying the database to obtain other instances of metadata associated with other watermark IDs extracted from corresponding other instances of the received items;
correlating the first instance of metadata associated with the first instance of received item with the other instances of metadata corresponding to the other instances of the received items, the correlating identifying related received items that have correlated metadata; and
aggregating the related received items for presentation to a user of the network system.
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Abstract
Content is identified using watermarking and/or other content recognition combined with contextual metadata, which facilitates identification and correlation with other content and metadata when it is posted to a network.
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1. A method comprising:
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in a network system, receiving items of content captured by electronic devices associated with users, the received items being uploaded to the network system, and the network system is configured to stream or download the received items to other users of the network system; with one or more processors, executing instructions to perform the acts of; extracting digital watermarks in audio signals from the received items of captured content; with watermark IDs decoded from the digital watermarks, querying a database to obtain a first instance of metadata associated with a first watermark ID extracted from a corresponding first instance of received item and querying the database to obtain other instances of metadata associated with other watermark IDs extracted from corresponding other instances of the received items; correlating the first instance of metadata associated with the first instance of received item with the other instances of metadata corresponding to the other instances of the received items, the correlating identifying related received items that have correlated metadata; and aggregating the related received items for presentation to a user of the network system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system comprising:
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an uploading system, the uploading system configured to receive items of content captured by electronic devices associated with users and transform the received items to a format for downloading or streaming to other users of the system; a watermark recovery system communicatively coupled to the uploading system, the watermark recovery system configured to extract digital watermarks in audio signals from the received items of captured content; and a server communicatively coupled with the watermark recovery system to receive watermark IDs decoded from the digital watermarks, and configured to query a database to obtain a first instance of metadata associated with a first watermark ID extracted from a corresponding first instance of received item and to query the database to obtain other instances of metadata associated with other watermark IDs extracted from corresponding other instances of the received items and provide the first and other instances of metadata to the uploading system; wherein the uploading system is configured to correlate the first instance of metadata associated with the first instance of received item with the other instances of metadata corresponding to the other instances of the received items, the uploading system executing the correlating to identify related received items that have correlated metadata; and
the uploading system configured to aggregate the related received items for presentation to a user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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