Systems and Methods for Performing Semantic Analysis of Media Objects

摘要

System and method for identification of ownership to media objects through analysis of semantic information in the media objects are disclosed. Semantic information is a term that can be used to describe aspects of the content of a media object that are apparent to a human viewing or listening to the content. In many embodiments, the media object is analyzed for semantic information that are indicative of media ownership such as, but not limited to, station identification logos, franchise logos (e.g., the title credits of a popular television series), theme songs, the distinctive voice of a news presenter, the face and/or voice of an actor and/or other characteristics of the media object are used as a basis for determining entities associated with the media object. One embodiment of the invention includes extracting semantic information from a specified media object, matching said semantic information of the specified media object against known semantic information of known media objects, and taking action based on the result of the comparison.

主权项

1. A method of transmitting data in digital video content based on automatic recognition of a signaling image embedded within the video content that varies according to input data, the method comprising:
extracting the signaling image from the video content by combining several frames of video content; recognizing said signaling image extracted from the video content; retrieving the usage rights associated with the recognized signaling image; and restricting access to the digital video content in accordance with the retrieved usage rights.