AUTOMATED THUMBNAIL SELECTION FOR ONLINE VIDEO

Patent №

US 9,501,779

Granted

2016-11-22

Filed 2015

Owner

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

AI components

7

ml · nlp · vision · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14442759

Access is provided to optimal thumbnails that are extracted from a stream of video. Using a processing device configured with a model that incorporates preferences generated by the brain and behavior from the perception of visual images, the optimal thumbnail(s) for a given video is/are selected, stored and/or displayed.

Machine learningNatural languageVisionSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06Q 30/0201G06F 3/015H04N 21/252H04N 21/44218H04N 21/4662H04N 21/4667G06F 2203/011G06Q 30/02

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Vision1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.94
Knowledge representation0.73
Evolutionary computation0.01

Ownership

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

assignment · 358140803

Assignors

LEBRECHT, SOPHIE, TARR, MICHAEL JAY, JOHNSON, DEBORAH, DESNOYER, MARK, MALLYA KASARAGOD, SUNIL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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