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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2008
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Weda, Eindhoven, NL;
Mauro Barbieri, Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Weda, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method of automatically generating metadata for association with a collection of content items accessible to a system () for processing data included in the content items, includes obtaining sets of metadata associated with the content items individually, each set of metadata including at least one attribute value associated with the content item. At least one distribution of values of an attribute over the sets of metadata associated with the respective content items is analyzed. At least one attribute value is selected in dependence on the analysis. The selected attribute value(s) are processed to generate the metadata for association with the collection, and the generated metadata are made available to the system () for processing data included in the content items in connection with an identification of the collection of content items.