US 12,067,657 B2
Digital image annotation and retrieval systems and methods
Samuel Michael Gustman, Los Angeles, CA (US); Andrew Victor Jones, Los Angeles, CA (US); Michael Glenn Harless, Los Angeles, CA (US); Stephen David Smith, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Heather Lynn Smith, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Story File, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by StoryFile, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/175,945.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/314,977, filed on Feb. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0274481 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 16/632 (2019.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 13/00 (2011.01); G06V 10/77 (2022.01); G06V 10/86 (2022.01); G06V 10/94 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 11/60 (2013.01) [G06F 16/632 (2019.01); G06T 13/00 (2013.01); G06V 10/77 (2022.01); G06V 10/86 (2022.01); G06V 10/945 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06V 2201/10 (2022.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. At least one computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, the computer-executable instructions structured, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
identifying an image feature in an image included in a set of images;
generating a feature annotation, comprising:
capturing a narrative, via one or more information capturing devices, the narrative comprising at least one of a video file, an audio file, or text;
based on the captured narrative, generating a transcript;
using the transcript to determine set a set of narrative units; and
mapping a particular narrative unit from the set of narrative units to the identified image feature to generate the feature annotation; and
using the generated feature annotation and based on the image, generating an enriched image,
wherein the enriched image comprises rich metadata, the rich metadata comprising the feature annotation.