IP Library Granted Patent US 10,691,879
Granted Patent B2
US 10,691,879 · App. 14/973,412 · Granted Jun 23, 2020

Smart multimedia processing

Inventors: Sandro Jiawei Wu (Shanghai, CN); Chao Chen (Shanghai, CN); Patrick Minggang Lu (Shanghai, CN); Scott Shuo Xu (Shanghai, CN); Jingjing Liu (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
G06F40/169G06F16/43G10L15/26
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Patent No.
US 10,691,879
App. No.
14/973,412
Filed
Dec 17, 2015
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2144
USPC
715/231
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure intend to provide a method and system for processing multimedia data. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for processing multimedia data, comprising: generating an annotation text; and associating the annotation text with a corresponding partition in the multimedia data. By using the processing method and system according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, for example, multimedia data searching efficiency may be effectively enhanced.

Claims (54)

1. A method for processing multimedia data into annotated multimedia partitions using a multimedia processing system including one or more processors and memory, the method comprising:

obtaining a first multimedia partition of a first multimedia data stream;

obtaining a second multimedia partition of a second multimedia data stream, the second multimedia partition being different from the first multimedia partition;

generating a first annotation and a second annotation, the second annotation being different from the first annotation;

associating the first annotation with the first multimedia partition of the first multimedia data stream;

associating the second annotation with the second multimedia partition of the second multimedia data stream;

combining the first multimedia data stream and the second multimedia data stream to form a combined multimedia data stream that includes the first multimedia partition associated with the first annotation and the second multimedia partition associated with the second annotation, the first annotation including first annotation text, and the second annotation including second annotation text; and

performing a full-text search of at least the different first and second annotation texts associated with the different first and second multimedia partitions, respectively, for corresponding multimedia data, using the combined multimedia data stream.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second annotation includes information indicating start time and stop time of a corresponding partition.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second annotation comprises information indicating at least one of keyword, content description, importance level, classification information, main color, role attribute, hot degree graph, key area, security level and geographical location of the multimedia data.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the multimedia data is one of video data, audio data, image data, and text data.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein when the multimedia data is video data or image data, an optical character recognition technology is used to recognize characters in a video frame or an image, and the first and second annotation is generated based on the recognized characters.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein when the multimedia data is audio data, a voice recognition technology is used to recognize words in an audio, and the first and second annotation is generated based on the recognized words.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second annotation comprises information indicating at least one of a displaying location during play and a displaying format.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

having performed the full-text search of at least the first and second annotation texts, displaying a corresponding partition of the multimedia data based on a search result.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein performing the full-text search of at least the first annotation text and the second annotation text using the combined multimedia data stream comprises:

performing the full-text search further using at least one of a keyword, a content description, an importance level, classification information, a main color, a role attribute, a hot degree graph, a key area, a security level, and a geographical location of the multimedia data.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein performing the full-text search of at least the first annotation text and the second annotation text using the combined multimedia data stream is performed only if the first annotation or the second annotation respectively satisfies a threshold security level.

11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein displaying a corresponding partition of the multimedia data based on the search result is only displaying a corresponding partition satisfying a threshold security level in the first or second annotation.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the obtaining of the first multimedia partition includes obtaining the first multimedia partition that corresponds to a first continuously shot video partition, and wherein the obtaining of the second multimedia partition includes obtaining the second multimedia partition that corresponds to a second continuously shot video partition.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the combining of the first multimedia data stream and the second multimedia data stream to form the combined multimedia data stream includes forming the combined multimedia data stream that includes the first continuously shot video partition associated with the first annotation and the second continuously shot video partition associated with the second annotation, the first continuously shot video partition and the second continuously shot video partition being discontinuous in time.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a respective multimedia partition among the first multimedia partition and the second multimedia partition; and

obtaining a respective annotation among the first annotation and the second annotation, the respective annotation corresponding to the respective multimedia partition, the respective annotation including at least displayable information and a displaying location within the respective multimedia partition where the displayable information is to be displayed during play of the respective multimedia partition.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

playing the respective multimedia partition, the playing of the respective multimedia partition including displaying the displayable information included in the respective annotation at the displaying location within the respective multimedia partition.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a respective multimedia partition among the first multimedia partition and the second multimedia partition, the respective multimedia partition including non-stream image data.

17. A system for processing multimedia data into annotated multimedia partitions, comprising:

a database containing multimedia data communicatively coupled to a processor configured to store computer executable code, the computer executable code configured to perform the following steps:

obtaining a first multimedia partition of a first multimedia data stream;

obtaining a second multimedia partition of a second multimedia data stream, the second multimedia partition being different from the first multimedia partition;

generating a first annotation and a second annotation, the second annotation being different from the first annotation;

associating the first annotation with the first multimedia partition of the first multimedia data stream;

associating the second annotation with the second multimedia partition of the second multimedia data stream;

combining the first multimedia data stream and the second multimedia data stream to form a combined multimedia data stream that includes the first multimedia partition associated with the first annotation and the second multimedia partition associated with the second annotation, the first annotation including first annotation text, and the second annotation including second annotation text; and; and

performing a full-text search of at least the different first and second annotation texts associated with the different first and second multimedia partitions, respectively, for corresponding multimedia data, using the combined multimedia data stream.

18. The system according to claim 17 , wherein the first and second annotation includes information indicating start time and stop time of a corresponding partition.

19. The system according to claim 17 , wherein the first and second annotation comprises information indicating at least one of keyword, content description, importance level, classification information, main color, role attribute, hot degree graph, key area, security level and geographical location of the multimedia data.

20. The system according to claim 17 , wherein the first and second annotation comprises information indicating at least one of a displaying location during play and a displaying format.

21. The system according to claim 17 , wherein the computer executable code is further configured to perform the steps of:

having performed the full-text search of at least the first and second annotation texts, displaying a corresponding partition of the multimedia data based on a search result.

22. The system according to claim 21 , wherein performing the full-text search of at least the first annotation text and the second annotation text using the combined multimedia data stream comprises performing the full-text search further using at least one of a keyword, a content description, an importance level, classification information, a main color, a role attribute, a hot degree graph, a key area, a security level, and a geographical location of the multimedia data.

23. The system according to claim 21 , wherein performing the full-text search of at least the first annotation text and the second annotation text using the combined multimedia data stream is performed only if the first annotation or the second annotation respectively satisfies a threshold security level.

24. The system according to claim 21 , wherein displaying the corresponding partition of the multimedia data is performed only if the corresponding partition of multimedia data satisfies a security threshold contained within the first or second annotation level in the multimedia data.

25. A computer program product stored on a non-transient computer-readable memory medium for processing multimedia data, using a multimedia processing system including one or more processors and memory, so that the multimedia data becomes searchable, comprising:

a first program instruction for obtaining a first multimedia partition of a first multimedia data stream;

a second program instruction for obtaining a second multimedia partition of a second multimedia data stream, the second multimedia partition being different from the first multimedia partition;

a third program instruction for generating a first annotation and a second annotation, the second annotation being different from the first annotation;

a fourth program instruction for associating the first annotation with the first multimedia partition of the first multimedia data stream;

a fifth program instruction for associating the second annotation with the second multimedia partition of the second multimedia data stream;

a sixth program instruction for combining the first multimedia data stream and the second multimedia data stream to form a combined multimedia data stream that includes the first multimedia partition associated with the first annotation and the second multimedia partition associated with the second annotation, the first annotation including first annotation text, and the second annotation including second annotation text; and

a seventh program instruction performing a full-text search of at least the different first and second annotation texts associated with the different first and second multimedia partitions, respectively, for corresponding multimedia data, using the combined multimedia data stream.

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