Content annotation tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9438947-B2
Application number	US-201313874541-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 1, 2013
Priority date	May 1, 2013
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

A content annotation tool is disclosed. In a configuration, a portion of a movie may be obtained from a database. Entities, such as an actor, background music, text, etc. may be automatically identified in the movie. A user, such as a content producer, may associate and/or provide supplemental content for an identified entity to the database. A selection of one or more automatically identified entities may be received. A database entry may be generated that links the identified entity with the supplemental content. The selected automatically identified one or more entities and/or supplemental content associated therewith may be presented to an end user.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
obtaining a portion of a movie;
automatically identifying an entity within the portion of the movie using a technique selected from the group consisting of: face recognition, voice recognition, object recognition, individual characteristic recognition, scene break recognition, object tracking, speech recognition, and audio recognition;
receiving supplemental content from a first user about the identified en…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Schneiderman Henry Will
• Sipe Michael Andrew
• Paglia Marco
• Köser Mikkel Crone

Classifications

• G06F17/30855

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/4722

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/278 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F16/748 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/02

  Electricity · mapped topic