Physical Visual ID as Means to Tie Disparate Media Collections
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorFernando A BRUCHER
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically associating collections of media files are provided. A first tying-identifier is determined from at least one media file in a first media collection. A second tying-identifier is determined from at least one media file in a second media collection. The first tying-identifier is then compared to the second tying-identifier. The first media collection and the second media collection are then associated together based on the similarity between the first tying-identifier and the second tying-identifier.
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A computer system for associating collections of media files, comprising:
- a tying-identification module configured to:
- generate a unique tying-identifier;
- provide the unique tying-identifier to one or more first users;
- determine whether the unique tying identifier is present in a first media collection, wherein the first media collection includes a plurality of first media files;
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- determine an additional tying identifier in a second media collection, wherein the additional tying identifier is different from the unique tying identifier, and wherein the second media collection includes a plurality of second media files and the additional tying identifier is based on metadata associated with at least one second media file of the plurality of second media files;
- a collection-tying module configured to associate the first media collection for which the unique tying-identifier is present with the second media collection for which the additional tying identifier different than the unique tying identifier is determined when the unique tying-identifier is determined to be present in the first media collection and the additional tying identifier from the second media collection meets a similarity threshold with the unique tying-identifier from the first media collection;
- at least one memory unit configured to store at least one of the tying-identification module or the collection-tying module;
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- at least one computer processor configured to execute at least one of the tying-identification module or the collection-tying module.
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A computer-implemented method for associating collections of media files, comprising:
- generating a unique tying-identifier;
- providing the unique tying-identifier to one or more first users;
- determining, by at least one processor, whether the unique tying-identifier is included in one or more media collections of a plurality of media collections, wherein each of the one or more media collections includes a plurality of media;
- determining, by at least one processor, an additional tying identifier in an additional media collection of the plurality of media collections, wherein the additional tying identifier is different from the unique tying identifier, and wherein the additional media collection includes a plurality of additional media files and the additional tying identifier is based on metadata associated with at least one media file of the plurality of additional media files;
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- associating each of the one or more media collections together that includes the unique tying-identifier along with the additional media collection for which the additional tying identifier different than the unique tying identifier is determined when the additional tying identifier meets a similarity threshold with the unique tying identifier.
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An apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoding instructions thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- generating a unique tying-identifier;
- providing the unique tying-identifier to one or more first users;
- determining whether the unique tying identifier is present in a first media collection, wherein the first media collection includes a plurality of first media files;
- determining an additional tying identifier in a second media collection, wherein the additional tying identifier is different from the unique tying identifier, and wherein the second media collection includes a plurality of second media files and the additional tying identifier is based on metadata associated with at least one second media file of the plurality of second media;
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- associating the first media collection for which the unique tying-identifier is present with the second media collection for which the additional tying identifier different than the unique tying identifier is determined when the unique tying-identifier is determined to be present in the first media collection and the additional tying identifier from the second media collection meets a similarity threshold with the unique tying-identifier from the first media collection.
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