System and method for automatically authoring interactive television content

US8646006B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Lee Begeja · Gillette, US
• David Crawford Gibbon · Lincroft, US
• Zhu Liu · Marlboro, US
• Bernard S. Renger · New Providence, US
• Behzad Shahraray · Holmdel, US
• Mitchell Weinraub · Englewood, US
• Stephanie A. Morrison · Mendham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 10, 2011
• Grant date: Feb 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N21/858
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

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.