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US 5,903,892 AGranted
Indexing of media content on a network
AssigneeMagnifi, Inc.
InventorsEric M. Hoffert, Karl Cremin, Adnan Ali, Stephen R. Smoot
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
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A computer implemented method of indexing media comprising:
- a) the computer examining HTML to locate media;
- b) the computer locating lexical information near the media in the HTML;
- c) the computer generating an index for later use in retrieval of the media, the index including the lexical information and information based on the content of the media;
- d) the computer weighting the index;
- e) computing an aspect ratio A;
- f) determining a target height IH of a preview image from the media as the preview height FH less the height of any top and bottom border;
- g) determining a target width IW of said preview image as a function of said target height IH and said aspect ratio A.
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A method of providing access to media content stored on a network comprising the steps of:
- a) crawling and indexing said network for media content
- b) said step of indexing said network including examining context and content of media objects by:
- (i) examining HTML lexical information surrounding said media object and storing selected lexical information for indexing;
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- (ii) examining said media object for lexical information and non-lexical information, the non-lexical information comprising brightness, contrast and color, and storing said lexical and non-lexical information for indexing;
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- c) building previews of said media objects for retrieval.
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A method of providing access to media content stored on a network comprising the steps of:
- a) crawling and indexing said network for media content;
- c) said step of indexing said network including examining context and content of media objects by:
- (i) examining HTML lexical information surrounding said media object and storing selected lexical information for indexing, and
- (ii) examining said media object for lexical information and non-lexical information, the non-lexical information comprising motion and chrominance, and storing said lexical and non-lexical information for indexing;
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- c) building previews of said media objects for retrieval.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.