Patent ID: 9274678
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N

Claim Text:
1. A thumbnail image selection system comprising: a processor; an image-frame identifying utility operatively configured to identify a set of image frames from a media presentation comprising a plurality of image frames; a thumbnail-selection utility operatively configured to select thumbnail images from the set of image frames identified by the image-frame identifying utility as candidate thumbnails representative of the media presentation; a candidate-thumbnail-ranking calculator operatively configured to calculate a success ranking of each candidate thumbnail selected by the thumbnail-selection utility relative to a target metric, the target metric comprises rate information related to the media presentation; a probabilistic-learning utility operatively configured to determine an optimum candidate thumbnail in view of an indicator representing a relationship between the success ranking of a selected candidate thumbnail and the success rankings of other selected thumbnail images; and a candidate thumbnail presentation utility configured to provide data for displaying the optimum candidate thumbnail to a user as representative of the media presentation.