Metadata extraction and management

Number: 10007713
Published: 2018-06-26
Filed: 2015-10-15
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Farre Guiu; Miguel Angel et al.
CPC: G06F40/166; G06F16/2365; G06F16/955; G06F16/78; G06F16/258; G06F3/0484; G06F16/783; G06F3/0481
Verdict: Set aside metadata extraction/content management plumbing
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

There are provided systems and methods for performing metadata extraction and management. Such a system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, a system memory, and metadata extraction and management unit stored in the system memory. The system is configured to extract multiple metadata types from a media asset, and to aggregate the multiple metadata types to produce an aggregated metadata describing the media asset. The system is further configured to transform the aggregated metadata into at least one database entry identifying the media asset, and to map the at least one database entry into a graphical database so as to relate the media asset to at least one other media asset represented in the graphical database.

Background

BACKGROUND(1) Media assets, for example, movies or television (TV) programming, are typically rich in features and may require a variety of different categories of metadata to adequately describe their content. However, the conventional generation of metadata descriptive of a particular media asset is inadequate for enabling an effective comparison of content features across a library of such media assets. As a result, the conventional approach to generating and storing metadata descriptive of media assets fail to address large scale searching and cross-referencing of those media assets.SUMMARY(2) There are provided metadata extraction and management systems and methods, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, and as set forth more completely in the claims.

Claims

1. A system comprising: a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory; a metadata extraction and management unit stored in the system memory; wherein the hardware processor is configured to execute the metadata extraction and management unit to: extract a plurality of metadata types from a media asset; aggregate the plurality of metadata types to produce an aggregated metadata describing the media asset; use the aggregated metadata to include at least one database entry in a graphical database, wherein the at least one database entry describes the media asset; display a user interface for a user to view the media asset, the user interface further displaying a timeline metadata, and a plurality of horizontal bars each corresponding to a different one of tags associated with the media asset and each extending along the timeline metadata to indicate presence of the corresponding tag in the media asset; and correcting presence of one of the tags in the media asset, in response to the user extending or reducing the horizontal bar corresponding to the one of the tags via the user interface. 7. A method for use by a system including a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory having stored therein a metadata extraction and management unit, the method comprising: extracting, using the hardware processor, a plurality of metadata type from a media asset; aggregating, using the hardware processor, the plurality of metadata types to produce an aggregated metadata describing the media asset; using the aggregated metadata to include at least one database entry in a graphical database, wherein the at least one database entry describes the media asset; displaying a user interface for a user to view the media asset, the user interface further displaying a timeline metadata, and a plurality of horizontal bars each corresponding to a different one of tags associated with the media asset and each extending along the timeline metadata to indicate presence of the corresponding tag in the media asset; and correcting presence of one of the tags in the media asset, in response to the user extending or reducing the horizontal bar corresponding to the one of the tags via the user interface.