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Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Manivel Sethu, Bangalore, IN;

Lokesh Amarnath Ravindranathan, Bangalore, IN;

Yongjun Wu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/81 (2011.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); G06K 9/00261 (2013.01); G06K 9/00744 (2013.01); G06K 9/6212 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus are described for automating aspects of the annotation of a media presentation. Events are identified that relate to entities associated with the scenes of the media presentation. These events are time coded relative to the media timeline of the media presentation and might represent, for example, the appearance of a particular cast member or playback of a particular music track. The video frames of the media presentation are processed to identify visually similar intervals that may serve as or be used to identify contexts (e.g., scenes) within the media presentation. Relationships between the event data and the visually similar intervals or contexts are used to identify portions of the media presentation during which the occurrence of additional meaningful events is unlikely. This information may be surfaced to a human operator tasked with annotating the content as an indication that part of the media presentation may be skipped.


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