IMAGE ANNOTATIONS ON WEB PAGES

• US 20130204608A1
• Filed: 02/06/2012
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: LIN, Dahua, BAKER, Simon John, BERNSTEIN, Juliet Anne, RAMNATH, Krishnan, KANNAN, Anitha, KE, Qifa, UYTTENDAELE, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,432 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

An image in a web page may be annotated after deriving information about an image when the image may be displayed on multiple web pages. The web pages that show the image may be analyzed in light of each other to determine metadata about the image, then various additional content may be added to the image. The additional content may be hyperlinks to other webpages. The additional content may be displayed as annotations on top of the images and in other manners. Many embodiments may perform searching, analysis, and classification of images prior to the web page being served.

Claims

1. A method performed on at least one computer processor, said method comprising:

receiving a first image to display on a first web page;

identifying at least one additional web page comprising a second image related to said first image;

analyzing each of said web pages to determine a context for said image;

from said context, identifying a text string; and

displaying said text string as part of said first web page.

2. The method of claim 1, said image to display being performed by a web browser.

3. The method of claim 2, said text string being displayed by said web browser with a hyperlink.

4. The method of claim 3, said text string being displayed as a hot spot on said image.

5. The method of claim 4, said analyzing being performed prior to said receiving an image to display.

6. The method of claim 5, said text string being provided from a source other than said at least one additional web page.

7. The method of claim 1, said context being metadata derived from tags associated with said image.

8. The method of claim 7, said text being text on said at least one additional web page comprising said image.

9. The method of claim 7, said text being text retrieved from a source other than a website comprising said image.

10. The method of claim 1, said second image being the same as said first image.

11. The method of claim 1, said second image comprising an image found in said first image.

12. A system comprising:

a processor;

an application operating on said processor;

said application that;

receives an image to display, said image coming from a first source;

transmits metadata associated with said image to a remote source;

receives an image page with said image and an annotation.

13. The system of claim 12, said application having a plug in that transmits said metadata.

14. The system of claim 12, said metadata comprising information derived from said image.

15. The system of claim 12, said annotation comprising a link to a second web page comprising said image.

16. The system of claim 15, said annotation being made visible on a mouseover performed on said image.

17. The system of claim 16, said remote source comprising a predefined annotation for said image.

18. A method comprising:

receiving a web page to display, said web page comprising an image;

transmitting said image to a remote source, said remote source having a predefined annotation for said image;

receiving said predefined annotation from said remote source;

adding said annotation to said web page and displaying said web page with said annotation.

19. The method of claim 18, said image being transmitted by transmitting a link to a source for said image.

20. The method of claim 19, said annotation comprising a link to a second web page comprising said image.