US 9,069,850 B2 · Content descriptor

Abstract

An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for generating one or more descriptors that may be associated with content. A teaser for the content may be identified based on contextual similarity between words and/or phrases in the segment and one or more other segments, such as a previous segment. An optical character recognition (OCR) technique may be applied to the content, such as banners or graphics associated with the content in order to generate or identify OCR'd text or characters. The text/characters may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). One or more strings of characters or words may be compared with (pre-assigned) tags associated with the content, and if it is determined that the one or more strings or words match the tags within a threshold, the one or more strings or words may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). One or more candidate descriptor identification techniques may be combined.

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A method comprising:

performing by a computing device, an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on at least one of a banner or a graphic associated with a content item to generate OCR text;
determining at least a portion of the OCR text as a first candidate descriptor,
based on a transcript associated with the content item, comparing at least one term included in the content item to at least one tag assigned to the content item, wherein the at least one term is selected based at least in part on the at least one term falling within a threshold distance of a beginning of a segment of the content item;
determining that the comparison generates a match within a threshold;
responsive to determining that the comparison generates a match, determining the at least one term as a second candidate descriptor;
and
causing the first candidate descriptor and the second candidate descriptor to be presented to a user.

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