Patents Assigned to Virage, Inc.
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Patent number: 8576342Abstract: A system and method that processes video to extract a keyframe-based adequate visual representation is disclosed. Certain embodiments utilize a hierarchical processing technique. A first stage in the hierarchy extracts a chromatic difference metric from a pair of video frames. An initial set of frames is chosen based on the chromatic metric and a threshold. A structural difference measurement is extracted from this initial set of frames. A second threshold is used to select key frames from the initial set. The first and second thresholds can be user selectable. The output of this process is the visual representation. The method is extensible to any number of metrics and any number of levels.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Arun Hampapur, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Chiao-Fe Shu, Amarnath Gupta
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Patent number: 8548978Abstract: A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Owen Lynn, Richard Humphrey, Dale Thoms
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Patent number: 8495694Abstract: A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media content on a network or Internet website. The system and method additionally provide website community building mechanisms to community members, thereby allowing the members to customize the actual community websites that many companies and website owners seek in order to enhance e-commerce revenue generation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Publication number: 20130145388Abstract: A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. Certain embodiments provide media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, are served to which user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventor: Virage, Inc.
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Patent number: 8387087Abstract: A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. Certain embodiments provide media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, are served to which user.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Publication number: 20120215629Abstract: A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. Certain embodiments provide media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, are served to which user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Publication number: 20120128242Abstract: A system and method that processes video to extract a keyframe-based adequate visual representation is disclosed. Certain embodiments utilize a hierarchical processing technique. A first stage in the hierarchy extracts a chromatic difference metric from a pair of video frames. An initial set of frames is chosen based on the chromatic metric and a threshold. A structural difference measurement is extracted from this initial set of frames. A second threshold is used to select key frames from the initial set. The first and second thresholds can be user selectable. The output of this process is the visual representation. The method is extensible to any number of metrics and any number of levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Arun Hampapur, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Chiao-Fe Shu, Amarnath Gupta
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Patent number: 8171509Abstract: A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. One embodiment provides media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, served to which user.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Publication number: 20110214144Abstract: A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media content on a network or Internet website. The system and method additionally provide website community building mechanisms to community members, thereby allowing the members to customize the actual community websites that many companies and website owners seek in order to enhance e-commerce revenue generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: VIRAGE, INC.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Patent number: 7962948Abstract: A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media content on a network or Internet website. The system and method additionally provide website community building mechanisms to community members, thereby allowing the members to customize the actual community websites that many companies and website owners seek in order to enhance e-commerce revenue generation.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Patent number: 7769827Abstract: A system and method that provide a hosted application and associated services for encoding, indexing, publishing and searching video media to content owners on a public network. The system and method allow the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms, thereby greatly enhancing the website's branding, advertising, and community building capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Patent number: 7403224Abstract: A digital capture system, such as a digital still camera or digital video recorder, has an embedded real-time content-based analysis function in the capture device to extract metadata from the digital signals. In one embodiment, metadata (descriptive information about the digital content) is formatted and stored separately from the content. In another embodiment, the metadata may be formatted and combined with the digital content in a container format such as MPEG-7, QuickTime, or FlashPix.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Charles Fuller, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Richard D. Humphrey
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Publication number: 20080028047Abstract: A system and method that provide a hosted application and associated services for encoding, indexing, publishing and searching video media to content owners on a public network. The system and method allow the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms, thereby greatly enhancing the website's branding, advertising, and community building capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Publication number: 20070282818Abstract: A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Owen Lynn, Richard Humphrey, Dale Thoms
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Publication number: 20070282819Abstract: A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Owen Lynn, Richard Humphrey, Dale Thoms
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Patent number: 7295752Abstract: One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Jain, Charles Fuller, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Bradley Horowitz, Richard D. Humphrey, Michael J. Portuesi, Chiao-fe Shu, Arun Hampapur, Amarnath Gupta, Jeffrey Bach
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Patent number: 7260564Abstract: A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The operation of the guide includes mechanisms for search application hosting and processes for content gathering. Video index information can be derived from random content owners, guide affiliates, proactively gathered public domain content, and proactively harvested video content from the network via a video spidering mechanism. The video index information can be collected and maintained in a hosted, centralized repository and made available via an application interface, which can be customized, to users of the network. The video spidering mechanism generates an index of each accessed video, and the index is committed to the guide repository along with the URL information of the video being indexed.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Owen Lynn, Richard Humphrey, Dale Thoms
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Patent number: 7222163Abstract: A system and method that provide a hosted application and associated services for encoding, indexing, publishing and searching video media to content owners on a public network. The system and method allow the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms, thereby greatly enhancing the website's branding, advertising, and community building capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: David Girouard, Bradley Horowitz, Richard Humphrey, Charles Fuller
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Patent number: 7093191Abstract: One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. In one embodiment, the video is cataloged concurrently with encoding of the video.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Jain, Charles Fuller, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Bradley Horowitz, Richard D. Humphrey, Michael J. Portuesi, Chiao-fe Shu, Arun Hampapur, Amarnath Gupta, Jeffrey Bach
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Patent number: 6877134Abstract: One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for a digital capture system, such as a digital encoder, having an embedded real-time content-based analysis function in the capture device to extract metadata from the digital signals. In one embodiment, metadata (descriptive information about the digital content) is formatted and stored separately from the content. In another embodiment, the metadata may be formatted and combined with the digital content in a container format such as MPEG-7, QuickTime, or FlashPix. Digital encoding mechanisms, both pure hardware and hardware/software combinations, convert an analog video signal into a digitally encoded video bitstream. The system extracts metadata in real-time during the encoding process.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Virage, Inc.Inventors: Charles Fuller, Mojgan Monika Gorkani, Richard D. Humphrey