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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2012
Applicants:

Priyanka Sinha, Kolkata, IN;

Rohit Kumar Gupta, Kolkata, IN;

Avik Ghose, Kolkata, IN;

Bhaumik Chirabrata, Kolkata, IN;

Diptesh Das, Kolkata, IN;

Inventors:

Priyanka Sinha, Kolkata, IN;

Rohit Kumar Gupta, Kolkata, IN;

Avik Ghose, Kolkata, IN;

Bhaumik Chirabrata, Kolkata, IN;

Diptesh Das, Kolkata, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/278 (2011.01); H04N 21/4545 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04H 60/48 (2008.01); H04H 60/64 (2008.01); H04H 60/80 (2008.01); H04H 20/08 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/235 (2013.01); G06F 17/3082 (2013.01); H04H 60/48 (2013.01); H04H 60/64 (2013.01); H04H 60/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/24 (2013.01); H04N 21/278 (2013.01); H04N 21/45455 (2013.01); H04N 21/47205 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04H 20/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for tracking of objects in a video is disclosed. The method of the present invention enables user to indicate a boundary-box to the identified object of interest in the broadcast video on television or any other communication media. The object indicted in the boundary-box is than tracked by the users connected in a social community network in the upcoming video frames of the broadcasted video. The tracked object is then tagged by the users in the social community network. Further, the present invention enables augmentation of the tracked object in the video by extracting additional information from the online service providers. The augmentation and tagging of the object generates metadata related to the object. The metadata generated is stored on a server to track the object in future based on the metadata related to the object.


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