TAGGING OF IMAGES BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK TAGS OR COMMENTS

• US 20150186420A1
• Filed: 06/23/2014
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visier Solutions Inc. (Visier, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ABBYY InfoPoisk LLC
• Inventors: Anisimovich, Konstantin, Yan, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,778,817 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/156 Query results presentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2246 Trees, e.g. B+trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/483 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5846 using extracted text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 : Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning

Abstract

Various embodiments are provided for enabling tagging of image files based on tagging or commenting on images on a social networking site. The tagging or commenting on an image on the social networking site is detected by the system. The social network tag or comment is analyzed to determine a textual tag to be assigned to image files corresponding to the social network images that have been tagged or commented on. In some implementations semantic analysis of text component of the social network tags or comments is performed. In some implementations the textual tags are then propagated to other image files associated with the user.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

detecting one or more social network tag associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network tags are tags associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network tags; and

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises performing semantic analysis of the social network tags.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more image files are from a plurality of image files associated with the user, the method further comprising:

assigning the one or more textual tags to a second image file from the plurality of image files associated with the user based on a comparison of one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file are selected from the following group:

file name, file location, file metadata, file creation date, file size, geographical location of a place where the image was captured, and file image analysis results.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more social network images are digital photographs.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more social network images are digital video files.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises selecting the one or more textual tags from a tag library.

8. A method implemented by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

detecting one or more social network comments associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network comments are comments associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network comments; and

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the social network comments comprise second level social network comments.

10. A system comprising:

a machine-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon; and

a data processing apparatus in communication with the machine-readable storage device and operable to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising;

detecting one or more social network tag associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network tags are tags associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network tags;

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises performing semantic analysis of the social network tags.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more image files are from a plurality of image files associated with the user, the method further comprising:

assigning the one or more textual tags to a second image file from the plurality of image files associated with the user based on a comparison of one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file are selected from the following group:

file name, file location, file metadata, file creation date, file size, geographical location of a place where the image was captured, and file image analysis results.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more social network images are digital photographs.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more social network images are digital video files.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises selecting the one or more textual tags from a tag library.

17. A system comprising:

a machine-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon; and

a data processing apparatus in communication with the machine-readable storage device and operable to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising;

detecting one or more social network comments associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network comments are comments associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network comments; and

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the social network comments comprise second level social network comments.

19. A storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising

detecting one or more social network tag associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network tags are tags associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network tags;

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

20. The storage device of claim 19, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises performing semantic analysis of the social network tags.

21. The storage device of claim 19, wherein the one or more image files are from a plurality of image files associated with the user, the method further comprising:

assigning the one or more textual tags to a second image file from the plurality of image files associated with the user based on a comparison of one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file.

22. The storage device of claim 21 wherein the one or more properties of the one or more image files and the second image file are selected from the following group:

file name, file location, file metadata, file creation date, file size, geographical location of a place where the image was captured, and file image analysis results.

23. The storage device of claim 19, wherein the one or more social network images are digital photographs.

24. The storage device of claim 19, wherein the one or more social network images are digital video files.

25. The storage device of claim 19, wherein the determining the one or more textual tags comprises selecting the one or more textual tags from a tag library.

26. A storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising

detecting one or more social network comments associated with one or more social network images, wherein the one or more social network images are images posted by a user on a social networking site, and the one or more social network comments are comments associated by one or more social network users to the one or more social network images;

determining one or more textual tags based on the one or more social network comments; and

assigning the one or more textual tags to one or more image files, wherein the image files correspond to the one or more social network images.

27. The storage device of claim 26 wherein the social network comments comprise second level social network comments.