System and method for capturing a multimedia content item by a mobile device and matching sequentially relevant content to the multimedia content item

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9330189-B2
Application number	US-201414167388-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2014
Priority date	Oct 26, 2005
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

A method and system for matching sequentially relevant content to at least one multimedia content item (MMCI) captured by a mobile device are provided. The method comprises receiving from a mobile device the MMCI captured by at least one sensor of the mobile device; generating a signature for the captured MMCI; and matching at least one sequentially relevant content item respective of the signature of the captured MMCI.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for matching sequentially relevant content to at least one multimedia content item (MMCI) captured by a mobile device, comprising:
receiving from a mobile device the MMCI captured by at least one sensor of the mobile device;
generating a signature for the captured MMCI; and
matching at least one sequentially relevant content item respective of the signature of the captured MMCI.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one sensor is any one of: a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, a global positioning system (GPS), a pressure sensor, a light intensity sensor, an image analyzer, a sound sensor, an ultrasound sensor, and a speech recognizer.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
storing the captured MMCI in a database; and
retrieving the captured MMCI from the database upon receiving a request to match sequentially relevant content items to the captured MMCI.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing the at least one matched sequentially relevant content items to the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the matched content is determined based on at least one parameter related to the user.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the at least one parameter is at least one of: a time of a day at which the request is received, a location of the user, and weather within the location of the user.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the at least one parameter related to the user is collected by the at least one sensor of the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multimedia content item is at least one of: an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, images of signals, combinations thereof, and portions thereof.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sequentially relevant content item is successive to the MMCI.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute the method according to claim 1 .

11. A system for matching sequentially relevant content to at least one multimedia content item (MMCI) captured by a mobile device, comprising:
an interface to a network for receiving one or more multimedia content items (MMCIs) from a mobile device;
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor cause the system to:
receive from a mobile device MMCI captured by one or more sensors integrated in the mobile device;
cause generation of at least one signature for the captured MMCI; and
match one or more sequentially relevant content items respective of the signature of the captured MMCI.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the sensor is any one of: a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, a global positioning system (GPS), a pressure sensor, a light intensity sensor, an image analyzer, a sound sensor, an ultrasound sensor, and a speech recognizer.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the system further comprises:
a signature generator for generating the at least one signature for the captured MMCI.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the system is connected to a database, wherein the system is further configured to:
store the captured MMCI in the database; and
retrieve the captured MMCI from the database upon receiving a request to match sequentially relevant content items to the captured MMCI.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the matched content is determined based on at least one parameter related to the user.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one parameter is least one of: a time of the day at which the request is received, a location of the user, and weather within the location of the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one parameter related to the user are collected by the one or more sensors of the mobile device.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to match the at least one sequentially relevant content items to the mobile device.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the multimedia content is at least one of: an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, images of signals, combinations thereof, and portions thereof.

20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the sequentially related content item is successive to the MMCI.

21. An apparatus for matching sequentially relevant content to at least one captured multimedia content item (MMCI), comprising:
at least one sensor for receiving at least one multimedia content item (MMCI) from a mobile device;
a processor;
a signature generator system coupled to the processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor cause the apparatus to:
capture an MMCI;
generate a signature for the captured MMCI; and
match sequentially relevant content items respective of the signature of the captured MMCI.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the at least one sensor is at least one of: a camera, a microphone, a temperature sensor, global positioning system (GPS), a pressure sensor, a light intensity sensor, an image analyzer, a sound sensor, an ultrasound sensor, and a speech recognizer.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the apparatus further comprises a storage device.

24. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to:
store the captured MMCI in a database; and
retrieve the captured MMCI from the database upon receiving a request to match sequentially relevant content items to the captured MMCI.

25. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the matched content is determined based on at least one parameter related to the user.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the at least one parameter are at least one of: a time of a day at which the request is received, a location of the user, and weather within the location of the user.

27. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the at least one parameter relates to the user are collected by the one or more sensors.

28. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to display the matched one or more sequentially relevant content items.

29. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the multimedia content is at least one of: an image, graphics, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, images of signals, combinations thereof, and portions thereof.

30. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the sequentially related content item is successive to the MMCI.

Assignees

• Cortica Ltd
• Cortica Ltd

Inventors

• Raichelgauz Igal
• Odinaev Karina
• Zeevi Yehoshua Y

Classifications

• G06F16/9562 Primary

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