Patent ID: 9516251
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying a product which appears in a video stream comprising: a) playing said video stream on a video playback device: b) stopping said playing to display a single video frame; c) selecting a video pixel cluster within a video frame corresponding to said product, said video pixel cluster being a unique and identifiable cluster of pixels in said predetermined video frame which uniquely represent a specific product in said predetermined video frame, said selecting including searching for pixels with a similar color around a center pixel, said similar color being a color which is within a predetermined color distance of a color of said center pixel; d) marking said selected video pixel cluster using a predetermined color and making adjustments to said selected video pixel cluster to ensure that the selected video pixel cluster is a unique and identifiable cluster of pixels in said predetermined video frame; wherein said selected video pixel cluster corresponds to an image of a product which appears in said video stream, and forms a portion of said image of the product as displayed; e) after said marking, displaying a dialog box for supplying data required for storing said video pixel cluster; f) after said displaying, storing said video pixel cluster in an area definition database representing the selected video pixel cluster, said video pixel cluster being stored using a unique identifier; g) associating a product identifier with said stored video pixel cluster for subsequently enabling a viewer of said video stream to identify said product during a subsequent playback of said video stream by said viewer.