Google Inc.

Nec Corporation

Shoji Ogura

Yi Yang

Edward Santos

Prashant Baheti

Chériana Crystal Gretchen Griggs

Kathryn Malia Tice

Pierce Anthony Vollucci

Sam Becker

Rick Maria Frederikus Van Mook

Tsutomu Ohkura

Yossi Matias

Dimitra Papachristou

Tal Cohen

Sasha Goldshtein

Neesha Subramaniam

Nicolas Crowell

Gabe Culbertson

Steffanie Lee McBrian

Wei Peng

Sivan Eiger

Tal Snir

Zahi Akiva

Gadi Ben Amram

Ran Dahan

Matthew Linkous

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating video anchors for a video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining key moment identifiers for a video, where each key moment identifier includes a time index value specifying a playback time in the video, and is indicative subject matter of the video that has been determined to meet one or more interest criteria that define salient topics within the video. For each key moment identifier, a video anchor is generated, where each video anchor indicates a playback time for the video, and may include an image of a frame that occurs near the playback time. Upon a selection of the video anchor by the user, an instruction in the video anchor causes a video player to begin playback of the video at the playback time specified by the video anchor.

Video timed anchors

Implementations are provided for automatically mining corpus(es) of electronic video files for video clips that contain spoken utterances that are suitable usage examples to accompany or compliment dictionary definitions. These video clips may then be associated with target n-grams in a searchable database, such as a database underlying an online dictionary. In various implementations, a set of candidate video clips in which a target n-gram is uttered in a target context may be identified from a corpus of electronic video files. For each candidate video clip of the set, pre-existing manual subtitles associated with the candidate video clip may be compared to text generated based on speech recognition processing of an audio portion of the candidate video clip. Based at least in part on the comparing, a measure of suitability as a dictionary usage example may be calculated for the candidate video clip.

Using video clips as dictionary usage examples

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are provided, for generating video anchors for a video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining key moment identifiers for a video, where each key moment identifier includes a time index value specifying a playback time in the video, and is indicative subject matter of the video that has been determined to meet one or more interest criteria that define salient topics within the video. For each key moment identifier, a video anchor is generated, where each video anchor indicates a playback time for the video, and may include an image of a frame that occurs near the playback time. Upon a selection of the video anchor by the user, an instruction in the video anchor causes a video player to begin playback of the video at the playback time specified by the video anchor.

An information processing device of the present invention includes: an index generating means for generating index data distributedly stored into a plurality of servers, each index data being generated for each data point information including metadata representing a characteristic of data to be searched, and each index data being associated with reference point information that are other data point information such that distances to the each data point information based on a preset reference are within a preset range; and a communication cost storing means for storing, for each of the servers storing the index data, communication cost information representing a preset cost that costs in communication with the server. The index generating means selects the reference point information to be associated with specific one of the data point information, based on the communication cost information of the server storing the index data corresponding to the reference point information.

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Shoji Ogura