Tivo Corporation

Mobitv, Inc.

Adeia Media Holdings LLC

Ray DeRenzo

Allen Billings

Stephen Coney

David Brubeck

John Hinman

Timothy Chan

Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.

Character based search and discovery of media content

Systems and methods are provided for relevance-based media content discovery. Relevance scores for segments of a media asset are calculated based on a time amount that at least one viewer has viewed the segments of the media asset. Segments are then chosen for display based on the relevance score. Users may select segments based on representative images of the segments.

Relevance-based search and discovery of media content

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Walnut Creek, CA, United States of America

Ray DeRenzo