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US 2023/0410508 A1Published application
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for selecting/generating visual representations of media content
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorEhsan Younessian
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Abstract
Content items may be represented in a listing by one or more thumbnails containing images from the content items. The images of a content item may be processed to recognize persons and/or objects, and frames of the content item may be selected based on interest values of the recognized persons and/or objects. For example, frames may be selected based on having uncommon (rare) objects and/or common (popular) persons.
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A method comprising:
- performing an image recognition process on frames of a content item;
- selecting, based on rarity of an object associated with an image recognized by the image recognition process, a frame of the content item;
- generating a visual representation of the content item, wherein the visual representation is based on the selected frame;
- and
- causing output of the visual representation of the content item.
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A method comprising:
- receiving image streams of a plurality of content items, wherein each image stream comprises a plurality of video frames for a corresponding content item of the plurality of content items;
- selecting, for each of the plurality of content items, based on rarity associated with objects recognized in the pluralities of video frames, a corresponding video frame to represent the corresponding content item;
- and
- causing output of a visual listing of the plurality of content items, wherein each of the plurality of content items is represented, in the visual listing, by the corresponding video frame selected for the content item.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, information indicating a plurality of persons or objects, and for each of the persons or objects, a corresponding quantity of times that the person or object was recognized in a library of content items;
- based on the information and based on rarity associated with objects recognized in the library of content items, selecting a frame from a content item;
- using the selected frame to generate an image to represent the content item in a content item listing;
- and
- causing, based on selection of the content item from the content item listing, output of the selected content item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.