Patent ID: 9247309
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing information relating to media content, the method comprising: determining, using a hardware processor, a channel that is providing a television program; causing, using the hardware processor, a plurality of images relating to the television program to be presented by a mobile device, wherein the plurality of images are selected based on the channel and a time parameter; receiving, using the hardware processor, a user selection of an image from the plurality of images; receiving, using the hardware processor, program information relating to the television program, wherein the program information includes information about one or more people appearing in the television program; causing, using the hardware processor, a plurality of question terms to be presented by the mobile device; receiving, using the hardware processor, a user selection of a question term from the plurality of question terms, wherein the user selection of the question term indicates that an entity to be identified is a person; receiving a user selection of a region of interest within the selected image; in response to receiving the user selection of the question term and the user selection of the region of interest, identifying, using the hardware processor, a person entity within the selected region of interest using one or more facial recognition techniques based on the one or more people appearing in the television program; generating, using the hardware processor, a search query based at least in part on the identified person entity; obtaining, using the hardware processor, a plurality of search results responsive to the generated search query; and causing, using the hardware processor, at least one of the plurality of search results to be presented to the mobile device in response to receiving the user selection of the image.