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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2009
Apparatus and software system for and method of performing a visual-relevance-rank subsequent search
Lior Delgo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Eitan Sharon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Achiezer Brandt, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eran Borenstein, Oakland, CA (US);
Asael Moshe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lior Delgo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Eitan Sharon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Achiezer Brandt, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eran Borenstein, Oakland, CA (US);
Asael Moshe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Videosurf, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method analyzes the visual content of media such as videos for collecting together visually-similar appearances in their constituent images (e.g. same scenes, same objects, faces of the same people.) As a result, the most relevant and salient (of clearest and largest presence) visual appearances depicted in the videos are presented to the user, both for the sake of summarizing the video content for the users to 'see before they watch' (that is, judge by the depicted video content in a filmstrip-like summary whether they want to mouse-click on the video and actually spend time watching it), as well as for allowing to users to further refine their video search result set according to the most relevant and salient video content returned (e.g. largest screen-time faces).