Summarization of media object collections

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9507778-B2
Application number	US-43734406-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 19, 2006
Priority date	May 19, 2006
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

In one example, an apparatus and method are provided for summarizing (or selecting a representative subset from) a collection of media objects. A method includes selecting a subset of media objects from a collection of geographically-referenced (e.g., via GPS coordinates) media objects based on a pattern of the media objects within a spatial region. The media objects may further be selected based on (or be biased by) various social aspects, temporal aspects, spatial aspects, or combinations thereof relating to the media objects and/or a user. Another method includes clustering a collection of media objects in a cluster structure having a plurality of subclusters, ranking the media objects of the plurality of subclusters, and selection logic for selecting a subset of the media objects based on the ranking of the media objects.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving, from a client device operated by a user, a query for a summary of media objects;
determining logic, executed by the processor, for determining metadata associated with each of the media objects;
summarization logic executed by the pr…

Assignees

• Jaffe Alexander B
• Naaman Mor
• Davis Marc E
• Yahoo Inc

Inventors

• Jaffe Alexander B
• Naaman Mor
• Davis Marc E

Classifications

• G06V10/7625

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F18/231

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/6219

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/3005

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30241

  Physics · mapped topic