System for Social Media Tag Extraction

A system for extracting and tracking media tags within video content, comprising:

• a media capture server and an analysis server, the media capture server and the analysis server being in communication with each other;
• the media capture server in communication with a plurality of content sources, the media capture server receiving video content from the content sources and having a recorder which saves the video content;
• a detector receiving at least one frame of the video content, the detector detecting one or more unknown text within the frame and creating one or more images, each of the one or more images associated with one of the one or more unknown text, the detector generating metadata associated with the one or more unknown text appearing in the frame;
• an optical character recognition engine scanning the one or more images and converting the one or more images into one or more known text, each of the one or more known text associated with one of the one or more unknown text;
• the analysis server having an analyzer which receives the one or more known text from the optical character recognition engine, the analyzer determining whether the one or more known text is a media tag;
• and
• an interface in communication with the media capture server and the analysis server, the interface receiving a request to monitor for the media tag in the video content from a user computer;
• wherein the analysis server generates alerts notifying when the media tag is detected in the video content.

The method for extracting and tracking media tags within video content, comprising the steps of:

• receiving video content with a server from one or more content sources;
• saving the video content in a storage;
• extracting on the server at least one frame of the video content;
• detecting on the server one or more unknown text within the frame and creating one or more images, each of the one or more images associated with one of the one or more unknown text;
• retrieving metadata associated with the one or more unknown text appearing in the frame;
• scanning the one or more images using optical character recognition and converting the one or more images into one or more known text, each of the one or more known text associated with one of the one or more unknown text;
• and
• determining whether the one or more known text is a media tag.