System and method for automatically authoring interactive television content

摘要

A system and method is provided to automatically generate content for ITV products and services by processing primary media sources. In one embodiment of the invention, keywords are automatically extracted from the primary media sources using one or more of a variety of techniques directed to video, audio and/or textual content of the multimodal source. In some embodiments, keywords are then processed according to one or more disclosed algorithms to narrow the quantity of downstream processing that is necessary to associate secondary sources (reference items) with the primary video source. Embodiments of the invention also provide automatic searching methods for the identification of reference items based on the processed keywords in order to maximize the value added by the association of reference items to the video source.

主权项

1. A method for delivering a media source, comprising:
determining, by a processor, a first plurality of keywords from a portion of the media source, wherein the first plurality of keywords is generated from a language analysis process on words collected from the portion of the media source; selecting, by the processor, a second keyword from the first plurality of keywords, wherein the selecting the second keyword comprises scoring each of the first plurality of keywords based on a type of collection process that determined each of the corresponding first plurality of keywords, wherein a first type of collection process is always scored higher than a second type of collection process, wherein the second keyword is determined based upon one or more of the first plurality of keywords that have a score above a threshold; searching, by the processor, a memory to identify a reference item related to the media source based upon the second keyword, wherein the reference item is external to the media source; embedding, by the processor, the reference item into the media source; and delivering, by the processor, the media source embedded with the reference item to a customer premises.