Patent ID: 6833865
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
An integrated data and real-time metadata capture system, comprising:a digital capture device producing a digital representation of one or more forms of media content; a feature extraction engine integrated with the digital capture device, the feature extraction engine having a plurality of feature extractors to automatically extract metadata in real-time from the digital content simultaneously with encoding of the content; a storage device capable of storing the encoded media content and the metadata, wherein selected portions of the metadata are associated with selected portions of the encoded media content; and an output interface in data communication with the storage device and generating output data, wherein the output interface is capable of preserving a temporal relationship between a sequence of the metadata and the digital content, wherein the digital capture device comprises a digital video camera including an audio capture capability, and wherein the feature extraction engine generates a plurality of time-based tracks of metadata that index the audio content and the video content.