AUGMENTING METADATA USING COMMONLY AVAILABLE VISUAL ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Methods and systems are described herein for improving the metadata available for describing any given media asset. The metadata may be sourced from any known form of media, such as a poster, fan art, a trailer, an audio advertisement, and the like. As an example, if a user were to capture an image of a movie poster, information of the poster may be parsed and analyzed in order to learn information about the movie. The information could be analyzed to determine which aspects of the poster are more important than others (e.g., actors appearing in the poster may be more important than actors already named in a database, but whom do not appear in the poster), and this information could be used to supplement or replace editorial information presently in place in a database.

主权项

1. A method for compiling metadata based on audio or visual information pertaining to a media asset, the method comprising:
receiving an image or audio that is associated with a media asset; identifying a plurality of information that describes the media asset from the image or the audio; retrieving known information about the media asset from a database; determining a relative importance of first information of the plurality of information as compared to (1) second information of the plurality of information and (2) the known information; and transmitting a command to the database to (1) store the first information and second information in the database in a data structure that includes the known information and (2) organize the first information, the second information, and the known information in the database based on the determined relative importance.