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US 8,341,152 B1Granted
System and method for enabling objects within video to be searched on the internet or intranet
AssigneeCreatier Interactive, LLC
InventorDaniel L. Bates
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AssigneeCreatier Interactive, LLC
InventorDaniel L. Bates
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A method and system for generating and linking keywords to objects in videos, and then providing an internet searchable web page is disclosed. The objects also may be associated with hyperlinks to further information, further objects, or further videos or web pages. First, objects within a video are selected. Then software for tracking the objects throughout a video is used to determine in which frames the object appears. Data corresponding all frames in which the object first appears and last appears is determined. Second, an object descriptor term or phrase is associated with the object. The object descriptor is then used to generate a set of keywords, which along with the object descriptor, are stored in memory in association with the object and video, preferably an XML file or other format. Then, the keywords or keyword phrases are converted to a search engine searchable computer language, e.g., HTML, CSS, and posted to a web page. When a user searches the internet using a search term that sufficiently matches, in accordance with the search engine's search strategy, keywords (or the object descriptor itself which should be included in the set of searchable keywords in a searchable language) that are associated with an object in a video, the results will include a listing with a link to the video or videos at the video segment in which the object appears. The video thus can start playing at the first frame the object appears in and may end at the last frame the object appears in.
A method of making an object within a video segment of a video searchable by keyword or keyword phrases on a network having at least one search engine that searches on keywords, the method comprising the steps of:
A method of making video segments containing an object within a video searchable by keyword on the internet having at least one search engine that searches on keywords, the method comprising the steps of:
A method assigning keywords to objects that are tracked through a video and hyperlinked to web pages with additional information related to the object for use with searching video databases, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.