The present disclosure relates generally to analysis of multimedia content, and more specifically to a system and method for customizing a display of a user device based on an analysis of multimedia content elements.
Search engines are common tools used for finding relevant information over the world-wide web. Search engines are additionally implemented to search items locally with a user device, such as a personal computer or a smart phone. A search query is entered by a user into such a search engine in order to receive search results, either from the world wide web or from a local device. The search query may be in a form of a textual query, an image, or an audio query.
Searching for multimedia content elements (e.g., pictures, video clips, audio clips, etc.) stored locally on the user device as well as on the web may prove to be a difficult task. According to some existing solutions, an input query for multimedia contents is utilized to search through metadata of the available multimedia content elements. The metadata is typically associated with a multimedia content element and includes parameters such as the element's size, type, name, and short description, and so on. The description and name of the element are typically provided by the creator of the element and/or by a person storing the element in, e.g., a local device or a remote database. Therefore, metadata of an element, in most cases, is not sufficiently descriptive of the multimedia element. For example, a user may save a picture of a cat under the file name of “weekend fun.” In such a scenario, the metadata would not be sufficiently descriptive of the contents of the picture to enable a user to easily search for said picture using the word “cat.” Thus, searching for multimedia content elements based solely on their metadata may not provide the most accurate results.
In computer science, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information, such as multimedia content elements. Tagging, or associated a tag with a particular content element, has gained wide popularity due to the growth of social networking, photograph sharing, and bookmarking of websites. Some websites allow users to create and manage tags that categorize content using simple keywords. The users of such sites manually add and define the description of the tags. However, some websites limit the tagging options of multimedia elements, for example, by only allowing tagging of people and not object shown in a picture. Therefore, searching for all multimedia content elements solely based on the tags would not be efficient.
Additionally, existing solutions provide several tools to identify users' preferences. Some of these existing solutions attempt to identify and recommend content that is similar to content enjoyed by the user based on information noted by tags of the content such as, for example, subject matter, the entity that created the content, actors or actresses appearing in the content, and the like. However, as noted above, tags are often incomplete or inaccurate. As a result, such tag-based solutions also face challenges based on lack of accurate information regarding what content the user has viewed and whether the user enjoyed such content.
It would be therefore advantageous to provide a solution that overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art.
A summary of several example embodiments of the disclosure follows. This summary is provided for the convenience of the reader to provide a basic understanding of such embodiments and does not wholly define the breadth of the disclosure. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated embodiments, and is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of all embodiments nor to delineate the scope of any or all aspects. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more embodiments in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later. For convenience, the term “some embodiments” may be used herein to refer to a single embodiment or multiple embodiments of the disclosure.
Certain embodiments disclosed herein include a method for customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content element signatures, where the method includes: detecting a trigger event; upon detecting the trigger event, identifying a user profile of the user device, wherein the user profile includes at least one signature indicating at least one user interest, each signature representing a concept, wherein each concept is a collection of signatures and metadata representing the concept; comparing the at least one signature of the user profile to a plurality of signatures of multimedia content elements; determining, based on the comparison, at least one interesting multimedia content element, wherein the at least one interesting multimedia content element is relevant to at least one of the at least one user interest; and customizing the display of the user device, wherein the customized display includes the at least one interesting multimedia content element.
Certain embodiments disclosed herein include a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute a method, the method including detecting a trigger event; upon detecting the trigger event, identifying a user profile of the user device, wherein the user profile includes at least one signature indicating at least one user interest, each signature representing a concept, wherein each concept is a collection of signatures and metadata representing the concept; comparing the at least one signature of the user profile to a plurality of signatures of multimedia content elements; determining, based on the comparison, at least one interesting multimedia content element, wherein the at least one interesting multimedia content element is relevant to at least one of the at least one user interest; and customizing the display of the user device, wherein the customized display includes the at least one interesting multimedia content element
Certain embodiments disclosed herein include a system for customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content element signatures, where the method includes: detecting a trigger event; upon detecting the trigger event, identifying a user profile of the user device, wherein the user profile includes at least one signature indicating at least one user interest, each signature representing a concept, wherein each concept is a collection of signatures and metadata representing the concept; comparing the at least one signature of the user profile to a plurality of signatures of multimedia content elements; determining, based on the comparison, at least one interesting multimedia content element, wherein the at least one interesting multimedia content element is relevant to at least one of the at least one user interest; and customizing the display of the user device, wherein the customized display includes the at least one interesting multimedia content element.
The subject matter disclosed herein is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion of the specification. The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the disclosed embodiments will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
It is important to note that the embodiments disclosed herein are only examples of the many advantageous uses of the innovative teachings herein. In general, statements made in the specification of the present application do not necessarily limit any of the various claimed embodiments. Moreover, some statements may apply to some inventive features but not to others. In general, unless otherwise indicated, singular elements may be in plural and vice versa with no loss of generality. In the drawings, like numerals refer to like parts through several views.
The various disclosed embodiments include a method and system for customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content elements. One or more data sources associated with a user are accessed to identify a plurality of multimedia content elements stored therein. At least one signature is generated for each identified multimedia content element, where each generated signature represents a concept. The generated signatures are analyzed to generate contextual insights. Based on the contextual insights and at least one profile variable, current user interests are determined. A user profile indicating the current user interests is generated. As a non-limiting example, the user profile may indicate that the user is interested in “bicycle,” “extreme sport,” “outdoor activity,” and the like.
Based on the user profile, a display of a user device is customized. To this end, data sources are searched through to identify an interesting multimedia content element that is relevant to at least one of the user interests. The interesting multimedia content element may be obtained. The interesting multimedia content element is caused to be displayed on the user device, thereby customizing the display.
Further connected to the network 110 is a user device 120. The user device 120 may be, but is not limited to, a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a smart phone, a tablet computer, an electronic wearable device (e.g., glasses, a watch, etc.), a smart television, or another kind of wired or mobile device equipped with browsing, viewing, capturing, storing, listening, filtering, and managing capabilities enabled as further discussed herein below.
In some embodiments, the user device 120 may have installed therein an interest analyzer 125. The interest analyzer 125 may be a dedicated application, script, or any program code stored in a memory of the user device 120 and is executable, for example, by a processing system (e.g., microprocessor) of the user device 120. The interest analyzer 125 may be configured to perform some or all of the processes performed by a server 130 and disclosed herein. It should be noted that only one user device 120 and one interest analyzer 125 are discussed with reference to
In some embodiments, the interest analyzer 125 is located on the server 130, and the user device is configured to communicate with the interest analyzer 125 through the network 110.
In another embodiment, the user device 120 may include a local storage 127. The local storage 127 may include multimedia content captured or received by the user device 120. For example, the local storage 127 may include photographs and videos either captured via a camera (not shown) of the user device 120 or downloaded from a website (e.g., via the network 110).
Also communicatively connected to the network 110 is a data warehouse 160 that stores multimedia content elements associated with a user of the user device 120. According to an embodiment, the data warehouse 160 may be associated with a social network the user belongs to. According to another embodiment, the data warehouse 160 may be a cloud-based storage accessible by the user device 120. In the embodiment illustrated in
In an example embodiment, a signature generator system (SGS) 140 and a deep-content classification (DCC) system 170 are connected to the network 110 and may be utilized by the server 130 to perform the various disclosed embodiments. Each of the SGS 140 and the DCC system 170 may be connected to the server 130 directly or through the network 110. In certain configurations, the SGS 140, the DCC system 170, or both may be embedded in the server 130. It should be noted that the server 130 typically comprises a processing system (not shown) such as a processor and a memory (not shown). The processing system is coupled to the memory, which is configured to contain instructions that can be executed by the processing system. The server 130 also includes a network interface (not shown) to the network 110. In one embodiment, the server 130 is communicatively connected to or includes an array of computational cores (not shown) configured as discussed in more detail herein below.
A plurality of web sources 150-1 through 150-m (hereinafter referred to individually as a web source 150 and collectively as web sources 150, merely for simplicity purposes) are further communicatively connected to the network 110 and accessible by the server 130. The web sources 150 may include, but are not limited to, a search engine, a content provider server, a vertical comparison engine, a content publisher server, a mobile application installed on the user device, a social network, a content website, a combination thereof, and the like. The web sources 150 generate, store, or otherwise serve multimedia content elements utilized for generating contextual insights. Alternatively or collectively, the multimedia content elements utilized for generating contextual insights may be stored in the local storage 127 of the user device 120, a storage of the server 130, or both.
A multimedia content element may be, but is not limited to, an image, a graphic, a video stream, a video clip, an audio stream, an audio clip, a video frame, a photograph, and an image of signals (e.g., spectrograms, phasograms, scalograms, etc.), a combination thereof, or a portion thereof. The at least one storage unit may include any of the web sources 150, the local storage 127 of the user device 120, or a combination thereof.
According to an embodiment, upon receiving at least one variable captured or otherwise provided via the user device 120, the server 130 is configured to analyze the variable. The variables may include at least one of: personal variables associated with the user, environmental variables associated with the user device 120, and direct user inputs. The environmental variables may include, for example, a search history, a time of day, a list of social friends as posted on a social web site, location information, motion information, weather information, and so on. The personal variables may include any type of demographic information related to the user. The direct user inputs may include a search query that comprises text, audio or image inputs.
Based on the variables, the server 130 is configured to query a user profile stored in the data warehouse 160 to determine at least one current user interest. As a non-limiting example, environmental variables may indicate that the user device 120 is currently located in Manhattan and that it is currently morning. The user profile indicates that the user interacts with financial content on a daily basis. Thus, the current user interest may be determined to be “Wall Street articles” or “finance articles published in New York.”
According to another embodiment, at least one data storage unit associated with the user of the user device 120 is crawled through to identify, based on the current user interest, multimedia content elements that are potentially interesting to the user. In an embodiment, the crawling may be based on a textual representation of the user interest.
In an embodiment, the server 130 is configured to send each potentially interesting multimedia content element identified to the SGS 140, the DCC system 170, or both. The decision as to whether the potentially interesting multimedia content elements are sent to the SGS 140 or to the DCC system 170 (or to both) may be predetermined or may be based on the request. In a further embodiment, the SGS 140 receives the potentially interesting multimedia content elements and returns at least one signature for each potentially interesting multimedia content element. The generated signatures may be robust to noise and distortion. The process for generating the signatures is discussed in detail herein below. In an alternative embodiment, the server 130 or the DCC system 170 may generate the signatures for the potential multimedia content elements.
According to an embodiment, the user device 120 may be configured to provide the server 130 with tracking information related to a multimedia content element viewed or uploaded by the user and the interaction of the user with the multimedia content element. In an example implementation, the user device 120 have installed thereon an agent (not shown) configured to collect and send tracking information to the server 130. The information may include, but is not limited to, the multimedia content element (or a URL referencing the multimedia content element), the amount of time the user viewed the multimedia content element, the user's gesture with respect to the multimedia content element, a URL of a webpage that the multimedia content elementwas viewed or uploaded to, and so on. The tracking information is provided for each multimedia content elementdisplayed on a user's web browser.
In an embodiment, the server 130 is configured to determine the user impression with respect to the received tracking information. The user impression may be determined per each multimedia content elementor for a group of multimedia content elements. As noted above, the user impression indicates the user attention with respect to an multimedia content element. In an embodiment, the server 130 may first filter the tracking information to remove details that cannot help in the determination of the user impression.
A user impression may be determined by, e.g., a user's click on an multimedia content element, a scroll, hovering over an multimedia content elementwith a mouse, change in volume, one or more key strokes, and so on. These impressions may further be determined to be either positive (i.e., demonstrating that a user is interested in the impressed multimedia content element) or negative (i.e., demonstrating that a user is not particularly interested in the impressed multimedia content element).
According to an embodiment, a filtering operation may be performed in order to analyze only meaningful impressions. Impressions may be determined as meaning measures and thereby ignored, e.g., if they fall under a predetermined threshold. For example, in an embodiment, if the user hovered over the MMCE using his mouse for a very short time (e.g., less than 0.5 seconds), then such a measure is ignored. In an embodiment, the filtering may be based on a score for the impression, where meaningful impressions have scores above a predetermined threshold. To this end, in a further embodiment, the server 130 is configured to compute a score for the impression.
In an embodiment, the server 130 is configured to send the multimedia content element or elements that are determined as having a positive user impression to the SGS 140. The SGS 140 is configured to generate at least one signature for each multimedia element or each portion thereof. The generated signature(s) may be robust to noise and distortions.
Based on the generated signatures, the server 130 is configured to search for similar multimedia content elements in a data source such as, but not limited to, the data warehouse 160, the local storage 127, a storage of the server 130, a combination thereof, and the like. In an embodiment, searching for similar multimedia content elements may include matching between the generated signatures and signatures representing the multimedia content elements in the data source. The matching may be based on similarities between signatures. An example process of matching between multimedia content elements is discussed in detail below with respect to
The server 130 is configured to analyze the potentially interesting multimedia content elements based on the generated signatures to determine whether the potentially interesting multimedia content elements match the current user interest. In an embodiment, the analysis may include identifying the source in which each multimedia content element was identified. The determination of whether the potentially interesting multimedia contents match the current user interest may further be based on the identified sources. For example, a website accessed by the user device 120 on a daily basis is more likely to include content that matches the user's current interests than generic content retrieved from a search engine. It is notes that in further embodiments, the analysis and comparison of the signatures are executed by the user device 120 instead of the server 130.
According to another embodiment, metadata associated with each potentially interesting multimedia content element may be identified by the server 130. The metadata may include, for example, a time pointer associated with the capture of each multimedia content element, a time pointer associated with the upload of each multimedia content element, a location pointer associated the capture of each multimedia content element, a location pointer associated with the upload of each multimedia content element, one or more tags added to each multimedia content element, a combination thereof, and the like.
In a further embodiment, such metadata may be analyzed, and the results of the metadata analysis may be utilized to, e.g., determine whether the multimedia content element is of interest to the user. For example, if a user interest is “Tennis,” a multimedia content element associated with a location pointer indicating the geographic location of a tennis court may be of interest to the user.
According to another embodiment, the analysis of the potentially interesting multimedia content element may further be based on one or more concept structures (hereinafter referred to as “concepts”). A concept is a collection of signatures representing elements of the unstructured data and metadata describing the concept. As a non-limiting example, a ‘Superman concept’ is a signature-reduced cluster of signatures describing elements (such as multimedia elements) related to, e.g., a Superman cartoon: a set of metadata representing proving textual representation of the Superman concept. Techniques for generating concept structures are also described in U.S. Pat. No. 8,266,185 to Raichelgauz et al., which is assigned to the common assignee, and is incorporated hereby by reference for all that it contains.
In a further embodiment, a query is sent to the DCC system 170 to match an identified potentially interesting multimedia content element to at least one concept. The identification of a concept matching the identified multimedia content element includes matching at least one signature generated for the potentially interesting multimedia content element (which may be generated either by the SGS 140 or the DCC system 170) and comparing the generated potentially interesting multimedia content element signatures to signatures representing each concept. The matching can be performed across all concepts maintained by the system DCC 160.
In an embodiment, based on the analysis, the server 130 is configured to determine a multimedia content element that matches the user's interest and to cause customization of the user device 120 based on the interesting multimedia content element. To this end, in a further embodiment, the server 130 may be configured to obtain the interesting multimedia content and to send the interesting multimedia content element to the user device 120 for display.
At S210, multimedia content elements are identified through one or more data sources associated with a user of a user device. The multimedia content elements may be identified based on a request for creating a user profile. The request may indicate, for example, particular multimedia content elements to be identified, data sources in which the multimedia content elements may be identified, metadata tags of multimedia content elements to be identified, combinations thereof, and the like.
In a further embodiment, S210 may include pre-filtering multimedia content elements that are unrelated to the user's face or to faces generally. To this end, S210 may further include analyzing metadata tags associated with multimedia content elements in the one or more data sources to identify multimedia content elements featuring the user's face. As a non-limiting example, if tags associated with a multimedia content element indicate that the multimedia content element does not show a person or, in particular, does not show the user, the multimedia content element may be pre-filtered out. The pre-filtering may reduce subsequent usage of computational resources due to, e.g., signature generation, concept correlation, and the like.
At S220, at least one signature is generated for each identified multimedia content element. In an embodiment, S220 may include generating a signature for one or more portions of any or all of the multimedia content elements. Each signature represents a concept associated with the multimedia content element. For example, a signature generated for a multimedia content element featuring a man in a costume may represent at least a “Batman®” concept. The signature(s) are generated by a signature generator (e.g., the SGS 140 or the signature generator 710) as described herein below with respect to
At S230, the identified multimedia content elements are analyzed based on the signatures. In an embodiment, the analysis includes determining a context of the identified multimedia content elements related to the user's face. In a further embodiment, the analysis includes determining, based on the context, multimedia content elements that optimally describe the user's face and generating a cluster including signatures representing the optimally descriptive multimedia content elements. Determining a context of multimedia content is described further herein below with respect to
At optional S240, based on the analysis, a facial representation of the user of the user device is generated. In an embodiment, generating the facial representation may include filtering out multimedia content elements or portions thereof that are not related to the user's face. In an embodiment, generating the facial representation may include generating a cluster of signatures including signatures associated with multimedia content elements that optimally describe the face of the user. In another embodiment, generating the facial representation may include determining a list of facial features representing the user's face.
At S250, a user profile is generated. The user profile may include the facial representation. The user profile may further include metadata associated with one or more of the identified multimedia content elements, metadata associated with the user, or both. In a further embodiment, creating the user profile may include analyzing a plurality of multimedia content elements associated with the user to determine information related to the user such as, for example, interests of the user, contacts of the user (e.g., friends, family, and acquaintances), events the user has attended, a profession of the user, and the like. An example method and system for creating user profiles based on analysis of multimedia content elements is described further in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/280,928, which is assigned to the common assignee, which is hereby incorporated by reference for all that it contains.
At S260, the generated user profile is sent for storage in a storage such as, for example, the data warehouse 160.
At S310, a DCC system is queried with the generated signatures to identify at least one concept structure matching the multimedia content elements. The metadata of the matching concept structure is used for correlation between a first multimedia content element and at least a second multimedia content element of the plurality of multimedia content elements.
At optional S320, a source of each multimedia content element is identified. As further described hereinabove, the source of each multimedia content element may be indicative of the content and/or the context of the multimedia content element. In an embodiment, S320 may further include determining, based on the source of each multimedia content element, at least one potential context of the multimedia content element. In a further embodiment, each source may be associated with a plurality of potential contexts of multimedia content elements. As a non-limiting example, for a multimedia content stored in a source including video clips of basketball games, potential contexts may include, but are not limited to, “basketball,” “the Chicago Bulls®,” “the Golden State Warriors®,” “the Cleveland Cavaliers®,” “NBA®,” “WNBA®,” “March Madness®,” and the like.
At optional S330, metadata associated with each multimedia content element is identified. The metadata may include, for example, a time pointer associated with a capture of each multimedia content element or with an upload of each multimedia content element, a location pointer associated with a capture of each multimedia content element or with an upload of each multimedia content element, one or more tags added to each multimedia content element, a combination thereof, and so on.
At S340, a context of the multimedia content elements is determined. In an embodiment, the context may be determined based on the correlation between a plurality of concepts related to multimedia content elements. The context may be further based on relationships between the multimedia content elements.
At S350, based on the determined context, a cluster including signatures related to multimedia content elements that optimally describe the user's face is generated. In an embodiment, S350 includes matching the generated signatures to a signature representing the determined context. Signatures matching the context signature above a predefined threshold may be determined to represent multimedia content elements that optimally describe the user's face. In a further embodiment, the cluster may be a signature reduced cluster.
Video content segments 2 from a Master database (DB) 6 and a Target DB 1 are processed in parallel by a large number of independent computational Cores 3 that constitute an architecture for generating the Signatures (hereinafter the “Architecture”). Further details on the computational Cores generation are provided below. The independent Cores 3 generate a database of Robust Signatures and Signatures 4 for Target content-segments 5 and a database of Robust Signatures and Signatures 7 for Master content-segments 8. An example process of signature generation for an audio component is shown in detail in
To demonstrate an example of the signature generation process, it is assumed, merely for the sake of simplicity and without limitation on the generality of the disclosed embodiments, that the signatures are based on a single frame, leading to certain simplification of the computational cores generation. The Matching System is extensible for signatures generation capturing the dynamics in-between the frames. In an embodiment the server 130 is configured with a plurality of computational cores to perform matching between signatures.
The Signatures' generation process is now described with reference to
In order to generate Robust Signatures, i.e., Signatures that are robust to additive noise L (where L is an integer equal to or greater than 1) by the Computational Cores 3 a frame ‘i’ is injected into all the Cores 3. Then, Cores 3 generate two binary response vectors: {right arrow over (S)} which is a Signature vector, and {right arrow over (RS)} which is a Robust Signature vector.
For generation of signatures robust to additive noise, such as White-Gaussian-Noise, scratch, etc., but not robust to distortions, such as crop, shift and rotation, etc., a core Ci={ni} (1≤i≤L) may consist of a single leaky integrate-to-threshold unit (LTU) node or more nodes. The node ni equations are:
where, θ is a Heaviside step function; wij is a coupling node unit (CNU) between node i and image component j (for example, grayscale value of a certain pixel j); kj is an image component ‘j’ (for example, grayscale value of a certain pixel j); Thx is a constant Threshold value, where ‘x’ is ‘S’ for Signature and ‘RS’ for Robust Signature; and Vi is a Coupling Node Value.
The Threshold values Thx are set differently for Signature generation and for Robust Signature generation. For example, for a certain distribution of Vi values (for the set of nodes), the thresholds for Signature (ThS) and Robust Signature (ThRS) are set apart, after optimization, according to at least one or more of the following criteria:
It should be understood that the generation of a signature is unidirectional, and typically yields lossless compression, where the characteristics of the compressed data are maintained but the uncompressed data cannot be reconstructed. Therefore, a signature can be used for the purpose of comparison to another signature without the need of comparison to the original data. The detailed description of the Signature generation can be found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,326,775 and 8,312,031, assigned to the common assignee, which are hereby incorporated by reference for all the useful information they contain.
A Computational Core generation is a process of definition, selection, and tuning of the parameters of the cores for a certain realization in a specific system and application. The process is based on several design considerations, such as:
(a) The Cores should be designed so as to obtain maximal independence, i.e., the projection from a signal space should generate a maximal pair-wise distance between any two cores' projections into a high-dimensional space.
(b) The Cores should be optimally designed for the type of signals, i.e., the Cores should be maximally sensitive to the spatio-temporal structure of the injected signal, for example, and in particular, sensitive to local correlations in time and space. Thus, in some cases a core represents a dynamic system, such as in state space, phase space, edge of chaos, etc., which is uniquely used herein to exploit their maximal computational power.
(c) The Cores should be optimally designed with regard to invariance to a set of signal distortions, of interest in relevant applications
A detailed description of the Computational Core generation and the process for configuring such cores is discussed in more detail in the above-referenced U.S. Pat. No. 8,655,801.
At S610, a plurality of multimedia content elements associated with a user are identified through data sources accessible by a user device. The plurality of multimedia content elements may be identified based on, but not limited to, a request for recommendations, an existing user profile of the user, a combination thereof, and the like. The data sources may include web sources, a local storage of the user device, a local storage of a server, or a combination thereof.
In an embodiment, the plurality of multimedia content elements may be identified in response to storage of new multimedia content elements in the data sources. For example, if the data sources include a local storage in a smartphone of the user, the plurality of multimedia content elements may be identified when new images are captured by the smart phone and stored in the local storage. Such responsive identification allows for creation user profiles in real-time as new multimedia content elements are added to the data sources and, consequently, become associated with the user. Such real-time user profile creation further allows for automatically updating the user profile based on the most current interests of the user. For example, if a user initially does not have any pets, but subsequently purchases a puppy and begins taking pictures of the puppy, a new user profile indicating that the user is a dog owner may be created automatically.
At S620, at least one signature is identified for each identified multimedia content element. The signature(s) may be generated by a signature generator (e.g., the SGS 140) as described hereinabove with respect to
At S630, the plurality of multimedia content elements is analyzed based on the generated signatures. In an embodiment, the analysis may include determining a context or one or more concepts of the signatures as described further herein above with respect to
At S640, profile variables for creating the user profile are identified. Each of the profile variables is associated with the user or with the user device. The profile variables may include, but are not limited to, environmental variables, personal variables, and a combination thereof. The environmental variables may include, but are not limited to, at least one of: a search history, a time of day, a list of social friends as posted on a social web site, location information, motion information, weather information, network connection, and other user devices in proximity to the user device. The personal variables may include demographic information related to the user.
In an embodiment, S640 may further include identifying metadata associated with the user. The metadata may include, for example, a time pointer associated with the capture or upload of each multimedia content element, a location pointer associated with the capture or upload of each multimedia content element, one or more tags added to each multimedia content element, a combination thereof, and the like. In a further embodiment, S640 may include analyzing the identified metadata associated with the user to determine one or more variables associated with the user.
In S650, at least one contextual insight is generated based on the analysis of the identified multimedia content elements. The contextual insights are conclusions related to a preference of the user. For example, if a user interest is “motorcycles” and a concept related to multimedia content elements viewed by the user is “red vehicles,” a contextual insight may be a user preference for “red motorcycles.” As another example, if a user interest is “shopping” and a concept related to multimedia content elements viewed by the user is “located in Las Vegas, Nev.,” a contextual insight may be a preference for shopping outlets in Las Vegas, Nev.
In an embodiment, S650 may include storing the signatures, concepts, contexts, profile variables, or a combination thereof, in a storage. In a further embodiment, only signatures, concepts, contexts, and profile variables related to currently identified multimedia content elements (e.g., generated for such multimedia content elements or otherwise determined in response to identification of such multimedia content elements) may be stored. Storing data related only to currently identified multimedia content elements allows for generating contextual insights based on current and previously identified data while minimizing use of storage due to, e.g., determining and re-storing data related to previously identified multimedia content elements.
In an embodiment, the at least one contextual insight may be generated further based on a time of capture or storage of each multimedia content element. To this end, in a further embodiment, S650 further includes analyzing metadata associated with each multimedia content element to determine a time of capture or storage thereof. In yet a further embodiment, the at least one contextual insight may be ranked or scored based on current relevance. Contextual insights that are ranked or scored below a predetermined threshold may be determined to be currently irrelevant. The ranking or scoring may be based on, but not limited to, a time of capture or storage of multimedia content elements related to each contextual insight, a number of multimedia content elements associated with each contextual insight, a combination thereof, and the like.
At S660, a user profile is created based on the contextual insights. In an embodiment, the user profile includes associations between each contextual insight and at least one of the identified variables. The associations between contextual insights and variables may be utilized to determine, for example, current user interests based on recent identification of particular variables. In an embodiment, the generated user profile may be sent for storage in, for example, a storage (e.g., the data warehouse 160).
In an embodiment, the interest analyzer 125 includes a signature generator (SG) 710, a data storage (DS) 720, and a display customization engine 730. The signature generator 710 may be configured to generate signatures for multimedia content elements. In a further embodiment, the signature generator 710 includes a plurality of computational cores as discussed further herein above, where each computational core is at least partially statistically independent of the other computations cores.
The data storage 720 may store a plurality of multimedia content elements, a plurality of concepts, signatures for the multimedia content elements, signatures for the concepts, or a combination thereof. In a further embodiment, the data storage 720 may include a limited set of concepts relative to a larger set of known concepts. Such a limited set of concepts may be utilized when, for example, the data storage 720 is included in a device having a relatively low storage capacity such as, e.g., a smartphone or other mobile device, or otherwise when lower memory use is desirable.
The display customization engine 730 may be configured to identify contextual insights based on user profiles, to determine current user interests based on the contextual insights, to query sources of information (including, e.g., the data storage 720 or another data source) to identify interesting multimedia content elements (i.e., related to at least one user interest in a user profile), and to cause a display of interesting multimedia content elements on the user device 120.
According to an embodiment, the interest analyzer 125 is configured to receive at least one multimedia content element. The interest analyzer 125 is configured to initialize a signatures generator (SG) 710 to generate at least one signature for the received at least one multimedia content element. The memory further contains instructions to query a user profile of the user stored in a data storage (DS) 720 to determine a user interest. The memory further contains instructions to generate a contextual insight based on the user interest and the at least one signature. Based on the contextual insight, a recommendations engine 730 is initialized to search for one or more content items that match the contextual insight. The matching content items may be provided by the recommendations engine 730 to the user as recommendations via the interface.
Each of the display customization engine 730 and the signature generator 710 can be implemented with any combination of general-purpose microprocessors, multi-core processors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), field programmable gate array (FPGAs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), controllers, state machines, gated logic, discrete hardware components, dedicated hardware finite state machines, or any other suitable entities that can perform calculations or other manipulations of information.
In certain implementations, the display customization engine 730, the signature generator 710, or both can be implemented using an array of computational cores having properties that are at least partly statistically independent from other cores of the plurality of computational cores. The computational cores are further discussed herein above with respect to
According to another implementation, the processes performed by the display customization engine 730, the signature generator 710, or both can be executed by a processing system of the user device 120 or of the server 130. Such processing system may include machine-readable media for storing software. Software shall be construed broadly to mean any type of instructions, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise. Instructions may include code (e.g., in source code format, binary code format, executable code format, or any other suitable format of code). The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processing system to perform the various functions described herein.
It should be noted that, although
At S810, a display customization trigger event is detected. In an embodiment, the customization trigger event may include, but is not limited to, receiving a request to customize a display of a user device, identification of at least one trigger variable, and the like. In a further embodiment, the at least one trigger variable may be at least one predetermined value and may include, but is not limited to: personal variables associated with the user, environmental variables associated with the user device, and user inputs. The personal variables may include any type of demographic information related to the user such as, but not limited to, gender or age. The environmental variables may include, but are not limited to, a search history, a time of day, a list of social friends as posted on a social web site, location information, motion information, weather information, and so on. The user inputs may include, but are not limited to, a textual, image-based, or audio-based search query. The trigger variables may be received from, e.g., the user device to be customized.
At S820, a user profile is identified. In an embodiment, the user profile is a user profile created as described herein above with respect to
At S830, an interesting multimedia content element to be displayed is determined with respect to the identified user profile. In an embodiment, S830 includes comparing signatures of the user profile to a plurality of signatures associated with multimedia content elements in at least one data source. The data sources may include, but are not limited to, the user device for which the display is to be customized, at least one other user device, a local storage, one or more web sources, a combination thereof, and the like. The interesting multimedia content element may have a signature matching at least one signature indicating a user interest of the user profile above a predetermined threshold. Each of the signatures of the user profile may indicate a user interest. Alternatively or collectively, signatures representing contextual insights of the user profile may be compared to the plurality of signatures associated with multimedia content elements.
In an embodiment, when it is determined that a plurality of signatures of multimedia content elements match signatures of the user profile, the interesting multimedia content elements to be displayed may be selected from among the plurality of matching multimedia content elements. In a further embodiment, the selection may be based on the trigger variables such that the selected multimedia content element is relevant with respect to a current user interest. The current user interests may be based on associations between variables and contextual insights of the user profile as described further herein above with respect to
At optional S840, the determined interesting multimedia content element may be obtained. In an embodiment, S840 may include retrieving the interesting multimedia content element.
At S850, interesting multimedia content element is caused to be displayed on the user device. In an embodiment, S850 may include sending the interesting multimedia content element to the user device.
As a non-limiting example, when a user is passing by a bicycle shop, a trigger event may be detected based on an environmental variable indicating a location of a user device carried by the user. A user profile of the user is identified. Signatures of the user profile are compared to signatures of a plurality of multimedia content elements stored in a server of a social media website to determine an interesting image showing a person riding a bicycle. The image is obtained from the social media website server and sent to the user device for display
It should be noted that
The method discussed herein with reference to
The various embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented as hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof. Moreover, the software is preferably implemented as an application program tangibly embodied on a program storage unit or computer readable medium consisting of parts, or of certain devices and/or a combination of devices. The application program may be uploaded to, and executed by, a machine comprising any suitable architecture. Preferably, the machine is implemented on a computer platform having hardware such as one or more central processing units (“CPUs”), a memory, and input/output interfaces. The computer platform may also include an operating system and microinstruction code. The various processes and functions described herein may be either part of the microinstruction code or part of the application program, or any combination thereof, which may be executed by a CPU, whether or not such a computer or processor is explicitly shown. In addition, various other peripheral units may be connected to the computer platform such as an additional data storage unit and a printing unit. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer readable medium is any computer readable medium except for a transitory propagating signal.
As used herein, the phrase “at least one of” followed by a listing of items means that any of the listed items can be utilized individually, or any combination of two or more of the listed items can be utilized. For example, if a step in a method is described as including “at least one of A, B, and C,” the step can include A alone; B alone; C alone; A and B in combination; B and C in combination; A and C in combination; or A, B, and C in combination.
All examples and conditional language recited herein are intended for pedagogical purposes to aid the reader in understanding the principles of the disclosed embodiment and the concepts contributed by the inventor to furthering the art, and are to be construed as being without limitation to such specifically recited examples and conditions. Moreover, all statements herein reciting principles, aspects, and embodiments of the disclosed embodiments, as well as specific examples thereof, are intended to encompass both structural and functional equivalents thereof. Additionally, it is intended that such equivalents include both currently known equivalents as well as equivalents developed in the future, i.e., any elements developed that perform the same function, regardless of structure.
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