Patent ID: 11948360
Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A system, comprising:
a memory that stores instructions, and
a processor that is coupled to the memory and, when executing the instructions, is configured to:
apply an embedding model to a plurality of faces included in a set of frames of video content for a media title to generate a plurality of face embeddings;
aggregate the plurality of face embeddings into a plurality of clusters representing a plurality of characters included in the media title, wherein each face embedding included in the plurality of face embeddings is associated with a face of a particular character included in the plurality of characters;
compute a plurality of prominence scores for the plurality of characters, wherein each prominence score is computed for a given character based on a number of face embeddings included in a cluster that corresponds to the given character and a total number of frames in the video content that include at least one face of a character included in the plurality of characters; and
select, from the set of frames, a frame of video content as representative of the media title based. at least in part, on at least one prominence score for at least one character included in the frame.