Visual hash tags via trending recognition activities, systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9860601-B2
Application number	US-201615362618-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2016
Priority date	Dec 13, 2013
Publication date	Jan 2, 2018
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018

Abstract

A system and method of treating image data as a visual hash tag are presented. A device is able to subscribe to a content channel, possibly a channel that provide social media information, by the act of recognizing related objects without requiring a user to annotate content with unnatural hash tags.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A digital content subscribing device comprising:
a display;
a non-transitory computer readable memory storing software instructions; and
a processor coupled with the display and the non-transitory computer readable memory, and that, upon execution of the software instructions, operates as:
a recognition module configurable to:
acquire a digital image that includes images of a plurality of objects; and
derive a set of descriptors associated with the plurality of objects from the digital image as a function of an implementation of at least one object recognition algorithm;

an object analysis module coupled with the recognition module and configurable to:
identify subsets of descriptors relevant to object features of objects in the plurality of objects;
recognize some of the plurality of objects as recognized objects as a function of the subsets of descriptors; and
weight the subsets of descriptors according to relevancy rules as a function of the recognized objects thereby forming weighted subsets of descriptors; and

a subscription agent coupled with the object analysis module and configurable to:
receive a list of content channel identifiers for the recognized objects based on a submission of the weighted subsets of descriptors as a query to a channel database;
subscribe to at least one digital content channel associated with the recognized objects based on content channel identifiers;
render, via the display, digital content from the at least one digital content channel and retrieved from a source device.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital image comprises video data.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital image comprises at least one of the following: a healthcare image, a media file, and an x-ray.

4. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a computing device that includes the display, the non-transitory computer readable memory, and the processor operating as the recognition module, the object analysis module, and the subscription agent.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the computing device includes at least one of the following: a mobile phone, a vehicle, a tablet, a phablet, a game console, a kiosk, an appliance, a set top box, a server, a computer, a virtual reality device, a projected reality device, a point-of-sales device, a vending machine, and a toy.

6. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a medical device that includes the display, the non-transitory computer readable memory, and processor operating as the recognition module, the object analysis module, and the subscription agent.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of objects comprises different objects.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the recognized objects include at least one of the following: a poster, a person, a vehicle, a building, a toy, a logo, an album cover, a product, a celebrity, and a symbol.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the recognized objects include at least a portion of a patient.

10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the at least a portion of a patient includes a face.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one object recognition algorithm includes one of the following algorithms: SIFT, FREAK, FAST, DAISY, BRISK, Harris, edge detection, and MSER.

12. The device of claim 1 , wherein the subsets of descriptors include at least one of the following types of descriptors: SIFT descriptors, FREAK descriptors, FAST descriptors, DAISY descriptors, BRISK descriptors, Harris descriptors, MSER descriptors, and edge descriptors.

13. The device of claim 1 , wherein the channel identifiers include at least one of the following: a URL, a URI, an IP address, a TCP port, a UDP port, a radio station, a wireless channel, a wavelength, a GUID, and a UUID.

14. The device of claim 1 , wherein the query is submitted over a network to a search engine operating as the channel database.

15. The device of claim 1 , wherein a list of content channel identifiers comprises a ranked list of the content channel identifiers.

16. The device of claim 15 , wherein the content channel identifiers are ranked as a function of at least one of the following: a distance from the subsets of descriptors to corresponding indexing descriptors, a device location information, a time information, a context information, a user preference, a relationship between users, an advertiser information, a payment, and a fee schedule.

17. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises a medical feed.

18. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises biometrics.

19. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises healthcare records.

20. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises at least one of the following: a social feed, an advertising feed, a curated feed, a programmed feed, and a peer-to-peer feed.

21. The device of claim 1 , wherein the digital content comprises at least one of the following types of content: image content, video content, advertisement content, application data, and game content.

22. The device of claim 1 , wherein the subscription agent is further configurable to use the channel identifiers to subscribe to the at least one digital content channel by establishing a communication session with the source device.

23. The device of claim 22 , wherein the communication session is a persistent session.

24. The device of claim 22 , wherein the subscription agent is further configurable to retrieve the digital content from the source device via at least one of: a continuous feed, a periodic feed, a push feed, and a pull feed.

Assignees

• Nant Holdings Ip Llc

Inventors

• Soon-Shiong Patrick

Classifications

• H04N21/278

  Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access {(details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4826 Primary

  using recommendation lists, e.g. of programmes or channels sorted out according to their score · CPC title

• H04N21/2665

  Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite · CPC title

• H04N21/4722

  for requesting additional data associated with the content · CPC title

• H04N21/84

  Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} · CPC title