Patent Document ID: 7599965
Application ID: 11616315

Base Claim:
1. A device for generating description records from media content, the device comprising: a processor; a module configured to control the processor, based on media content, to generate non-hierarchical entity relation graph descriptions for at least one multimedia type, wherein the non-hierarchical entity relation graph descriptions are associated with communication between multimedia objects and based at least in part on a relationship of media objects selected from the group comprising media feature relationships, semantic feature relationships, and temporal feature relationships; and a module configured to control the processor to integrate the multimedia object descriptions and the entity relation graph descriptions to generate at least one description record to represent content embedded within the multimedia content.

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Claim 24:
24. The device of claim 1 , further comprising the module configured to control the processor to combine the multimedia object description, the multimedia object hierarchy descriptions, and the entity relation graph description to form a multimedia description, and receive and encode the multimedia description into encoded description information, and store the encoded description information as the at least one description record.