Patent ID: 8782709
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of presenting a program guide, comprising: (a) receiving a media program, the media program received from a media program source wherein the media program comprises a plurality of video frames, the media program one of a plurality of media programs of a media program database; (b) searching the plurality of video frames of the received media program to identify a set of video frames that depict different performers in a plurality of performers; (c) generating thumbnail metadata for the identified set of video frames, the thumbnail metadata relating information describing one of the plurality of performers to an identifier of the identified video frame that depicts the one of the plurality of performers; (d) associating the thumbnail metadata with the received media program in the media program database; (e) accepting a search request from a user, the search request comprising a search parameter having a search value associated with one of the plurality of performers; (f) searching the media program database for the search value; (g) determining when the search value corresponds to the information describing a performer in the plurality of performers; (h) determining the identifier related to the information describing the performer in the thumbnail metadata; and (i) providing a search result identifying the media program, wherein a thumbnail of a video frame that depicts the performer is determined using the determined identifier and used to identify the media program in the search result, and wherein different thumbnails of different video frames that depict different performers in the plurality of performers are used to identify the media program in search results corresponding to different search requests for different performers.