Patent ID: 8301618

Claim:
A method comprising at a client device: receiving content in a broadcast; identifying a request received from a remote device to capture a still image from the content in the broadcast; capturing the still image from the content in the broadcast in response to the request from the remote device; transmitting the still image for receipt and display by the remote device; receiving from the remote device image data comprising a portion of the still image displayed at the remote device, the portion of the still image selected by a user via a user interface output at the remote device and including at least one object to be identified; transmitting the portion of the still image for receipt by one or more servers to identify metadata that is relevant to the request by processing the portion of the still image using image recognition to identify the at least one object; receiving the identified metadata from the one or more servers, the identified metadata associated with the at least one object in the portion of the still image; and outputting the received metadata for the remote device to display the received metadata.