WO2002050709A2 - Gestion d'une base de donnees du type multimedia - Google Patents

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WO2002050709A2
WO2002050709A2 PCT/GB2001/005594 GB0105594W WO0250709A2 WO 2002050709 A2 WO2002050709 A2 WO 2002050709A2 GB 0105594 W GB0105594 W GB 0105594W WO 0250709 A2 WO0250709 A2 WO 0250709A2
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  • the present invention relates to a database system for media data.
  • the Internet provides a convenient way of allowing people to purchase licences for using selected media data such as digital images and there are several digitally enabled image agencies and picture libraries which emphasize in the retrieval and sale of images via the World-Wide Web. Similar companies also exist who specialize in moving images and sound. Users of these normally rely on the media classification systems developed and maintained by the agencies themselves. This can prove problematic as the amount of media data available through such an agency increases because the classification system needs to become more detailed, and therefore more complex, in order for it to accurately facilitate the retrieval of media data by the user.
  • the degree to which it can be indexed depends upon the resources available to the agencies providing the images. This means that they might rely on whoever supplied the media data to classify it, and so inaccuracies can arise if the contributor wrongly categorises an image.
  • the agency can employ personnel to accurately classify images, which increases running costs and therefore the cost of purchasing rights in the media data to the end user as well as delaying the availability of the images.
  • the present invention is intended to address this problem by allowing users, which are not necessarily the same people normally responsible for maintaining the database, to create subsets/collections of media data from substantially the entire contents of the media data database and associate additional information with the media data contained in the collection. This means that detailed information can be made available to end users . It can also be the case that end users will be interested in particular collections due to the individual taste of the person who built the collection or that the collection contains only images relating to a particular subject.
  • a method of managing a database system of media data comprising steps of: storing a plurality of media data in a data store; allowing a collector-user to select one or more subsets of the stored media data; allowing the collector-user to associate additional information with the subset or with the media data in the subset; storing the additional information with an association to the subset, and allowing a viewer-user to selectively retrieve the media data and the additional information.
  • media data any data which can be represented digitally, including an image, a plurality or sequence of images, audio, text or any combination of these.
  • a contributor-user is a user who supplies media data to be added to the database.
  • a collector-user is a user who selects media data from the database to create a subset/collection of media data, adding additional information to be associated with the selected media data.
  • a viewer-user is a user who may merely view media data from the database, possibly with the intention of buying rights in the media data.
  • the additional information preferably includes key word data for searching, the key word data normally relating to the content of the media data or the subset.
  • the additional information that can be associated with a said subset may include a title or code for the subset; text describing in detail the content of the subset; a date when the subset was created; a ranking for the collection; details of the collector-user who created the subset.
  • the additional information that can be associated with the media data may further include data selected from the following: text describing in detail the content of the media data; a date on which the media data was added to the subset; a text caption summarising the content of the media data.
  • the additional information may be in more than one language.
  • additional data could also be associated with the media data, for example network addresses (e.g. hyperlinks).
  • the viewer-user may selectively retrieve the media data by searching for media data or subsets associated with specified key words.
  • the viewer-user may select to retrieve all the media data contained within a particular subset (and possibly also the additional data associated with the media data and/or the subset) .
  • the database entry for said media data may include data selected from the set: data describing the contributor-user who added it to the database; a date on which the media data was added to the database.
  • the method may further include a step of allowing the viewer-user to associate comment-information with a said subset or a said media data in a said subset.
  • the comment- information may indicate that the viewer-user considers that all or some of the additional information associated with the media data is inappropriate.
  • the comment- information may indicate how the viewer-user ranks the subset of media data in view of the contents of the database as a whole, or how the viewer-user ranks the image in view of the contents of the subset.
  • the method may further include a step of allowing the viewer-user to purchase a right in connection with the media data.
  • the method may further include a step of rewarding a contributor-user in connection with the right purchase.
  • the method may further include a step of rewarding a collector-user in connection with the purchase of a right in media data included in a subset selected by the collector-user.
  • the users typically communicate with the database system over a communications network.
  • the network may include the Internet.
  • users of the database can fall into three categories (contributor-user, collector-user and viewer- user) it will be understood that a single user can fall into more than one of these categories over a period of time depending upon how he/she is using the database. For example, a user who is normally a collector-user but does not actually select a subset of media data whilst logged onto the database but only views media data can be classified a viewer-user. Similarly, a regular contributor-user who does not actually supply media data to the database whilst logged on but only views media data may also be considered to be a viewer-user.
  • a database system for media data including: a data store for storing a plurality of media data; a selection component for allowing a collector-user to select one or more subsets of the stored media data; an additional information component for allowing the collector-user to associate additional information with the subset or with the media data in the subset; an additional information data store for storing the additional information, and a viewing component for allowing a viewer-user to selectively retrieve the media data and the additional information.
  • yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of allowing a collector-user to select a subset of media data and associate additional information with it, the method comprising steps of: selecting one or more subsets of media data stored in a media database system; associating additional information with the subset or the media data in the subset, and storing the additional information with an association to the subset so that a viewer-user can selectively retrieve the media data and the additional information.
  • a computer program product comprising a computer readable medium, having thereon: computer program code means, when the program code is loaded, to make the computer execute a procedure to: store a plurality of media data in a data store; allow a collector-user to select one or more subsets of the stored media data; allow the collector-user to associate additional information with the subset or with the media data in the subset; store the additional information with an association to the subset, and allow a viewer-user to selectively retrieve the media data and the additional information.
  • Figure 1 illustrates schematically personal computers communicating with a database system of the preferred embodiment
  • Figure 2 illustrates an example of steps that the various users can perform in connection with the database system
  • Figure 3 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to manage his/her collections of media data
  • Figure 4 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to edit additional information associated with media data in his/her collection
  • Figure 5 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to view and edit the details associated with his/her collections
  • Figure 6 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to view and edit his/her images in a collection
  • Figure 7 illustrates a screen display presented to a collector-user or a viewer-user in response to a search
  • Figure 8 illustrates a screen display showing user details stored by the system
  • Figure 9 illustrates a screen display which can be used to send information regarding a collection of media data to another party.
  • Figure 10 illustrates schematically data which is stored in connection with the database system.
  • FIG. 1 three personal computers (PCs) are shown communicating with a media database system 10 over the internet 11.
  • the user of the first PC 12 acts as a contributor-user; the user of the second PC 13 as a collector-user and the user of the fourth PC 14 as a viewer-user.
  • the database system 10 has a processor and a data store 15 for storing media data, additional information created by users and any other information that may be needed for running the database.
  • An interface component 16 is also included in the database system for communicating with other terminals over the internet.
  • the database system 10 further includes the following modules, whose which functions will be described below: a selection component 17; an additional information component 18 and a viewing component 19.
  • the preferred embodiment is merely an example of how the media data database system can be implemented, and although it uses the World-Wide Web to display and transfer data, other types of networks, e.g. a local area network, could be used to implement the database.
  • other types of networks e.g. a local area network
  • FIG. 1 different PCs are shown being used by different types of users, it will be understood that a single PC or any one of the PCs 12 to 14 could be used by any type of user.
  • the database need not be distributed or accessed over a network at all and could be run on a single computer which is used by different people.
  • a contributor- user's PC 12 communicates with the database system 10 via the Internet.
  • the database which may involve the interface component 16 requesting and verifying a password and username
  • the contributor-user can transfer media data to be stored on the database.
  • Allowing a contributor-user to directly send digital images to the database system means that the agency responsible for maintaining the database need not scan in printed photographs sent in by contributors as is usually the case with existing image agencies. However, it is also the case that a contributor-user could send images through the post to the database company, either in the form of prints or as digital data, e.g. on a CD. In this case a person at the database company would enter the data into the database, including details of the contributor-user who supplied the image (s). The contributor-user can also provide brief text describing the contents of the image which can function as key words for searching. The contributor-user also specifies an approval method (see below) for the images.
  • a collector-user's PC 13 communicates with the database system 10 so that the collector-user can add/edit media data contained in his/her collection or collections.
  • the interface component 16 may be used to request and verify a username and password.
  • the collector-user may view images in the database using the viewing component 19.
  • the viewing component 19 may allow the collector-user to view the images in many ways, for example, simply browsing successively through the database entries; searching for particular images using the keyword text provided by the contributor-users (or other collector- users) ; viewing only recently added images to the database or by viewing other collector-users' collections.
  • the collector-user selects an image for inclusion in his/her collection using the selection component 17.
  • the database system checks the approval method specified for the image by its contributor-user. If the contributor-user specified that all requests for inclusion of the image in any collection are to be automatically accepted then step 204 is directly executed. However, if the contributor-user specified that he/she needs to give his/her approval for the inclusion of the image in a collection then this must be obtained before the image can be included.
  • the database system can send an e- ail to the contributor-user giving details of the collector-user, details of the collection in which the image is to be included and which image he/she wishes to include.
  • the contributor-user can provide a yes/no answer to inclusion requests either by sending a reply e-mail or by logging on to the database system and navigating to an "Image Management" page (see below) which displays a list of all of his/her images for which requests to include in a collection have been made.
  • the contributor-user can specify whether they want to allow their image to be available for the collector-user to use in all the collector-user's collections or in one or more specific collections.
  • the list can include a link so that he/she can view the collections corresponding to the requests.
  • the contributor- user can select icons on the page to give yes/no answers to the requests.
  • the collector-user can select in which of his/her collections the image is to be included, providing the contributor-user has not specified particular collections only.
  • the collector-user can either create a new collection or add the image to an existing collection.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a screen display which the collector-user can use to create (301) , delete (302) or rename (303) his/her collections.
  • the collector-user enters information to be associated with the added image using the additional information component 18.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a screen display that the collector-user can use to add textual information to be associated with an image.
  • the additional information is divided into three fields: a caption field (401) which will be displayed next to a thumbnail representation of the image to a viewer-user; a Key words field (402) which can be used for entering text for searching purposes and a Description field (403) which the collector-user can use to write a detailed description of the contents of the image.
  • the text in the caption and description fields may also be used for searching purposes.
  • the text fields can be entered in more than one language increasing the number of potential users of the database system.
  • Figure 5 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to view and/or edit his/her collection.
  • a collection has generic search and display information associated with it as a whole. There is as well similar data associated with the individual images within the collection.
  • the data associated with and stored against a "collection" can include a collection code, title/name, keywords and a textual description, date created, and a ranking for the collection. This data can be amended at any time by the collector-user.
  • the collector-user can choose the collection to be viewed/edited by selecting from a menu 501.
  • the collection name is shown in 502 and the keywords in 503 and the description in 504. By clicking in the keywords or description fields the text in these fields can be edited.
  • the collector-user can also change the collector name under which the collection is made available on the database by adding a new name into field 508, as a collector-user can have a pseudonym(s) associated to their collector-user name and these pseudony (s) can be displayed as the author of each collection.
  • the collector-user has made he/she presses the "Update" button, 506.
  • To view the images in the collection the collector user clicks on the link "Modify collection details" 507.
  • Figure 6 illustrates a screen display which a collector-user can use to view and/or edit his/her images in the collection.
  • a thumbnail representation 606 of each image in the collection is shown along with the additional textual information 604 entered by the collector-user associated with each image.
  • the file name of the image (as stored by the database system) as well as the date on which the image was added to the collection is also displayed.
  • Under each thumbnail image there is a "Remove from Collection" icon 602 which is used to delete the adjacent image from the collection.
  • a view/edit details icon 605 is also located adjacent to the thumbnail images which the collector-user can select to enter the editing screen display shown in Figure 4.
  • the collector-user can also move images between his/her collections by choosing the name of another collection from a menu 603 then clicking a "Move" icon 607, providing the correct permissions have been given for each image.
  • the database entry corresponding to the collection is updated with data describing the images contained in the collection and the additional information associated with the images entered by the collector-user. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that updating the database entry could be performed at one of several opportunities (e.g. every time any of the additional information is edited by the collector-user or when the collection view/edit screen of Figure 6 is closed) and that the sequence of steps shown in Figure 2 are merely an example of one way in which this could be achieved. Steps 202 to 206 can be repeated if the collector-user wishes to add more than one image to his/her collection (s) , although it will be understood that the collector-user does not need to log-on to the database more than once in one session.
  • a viewer-user logs on to the database with the intention of viewing, and possibly purchasing rights in one or more images.
  • the interface component 16 may be used to request and verify a username and password.
  • the viewer-user can use the viewing component 19 to choose the way in which he/she views the database images. For example, the viewer-user may select to view one or more collections of a particular collector-user.
  • the viewer-user may also search using key words so that images and collections associated with additional information (in specified or all fields) containing all or some of the key words will be shown.
  • the viewer-user will be able to see tightly defined collections of images corresponding to his keyword search by viewing the collections that are returned from his search.
  • the search may be limited to one or more specified collection (s) , for example by entering the name of a collector-user, by searching on the title, keywords or description of a collection as a whole, or by specifying criteria of collector-user, e.g. occupation.
  • Figure 7 illustrates a screen display showing the results of such a search.
  • the display also includes a "lightbox" feature, which is a known way of selecting which images to view from an image database.
  • the viewer-user is presented with thumbnail representations of the images and the collections whose associated information contain words which match those entered by the viewer-user for searching.
  • the searching mechanism could be implemented using any of a number of known techniques, for example, simply by iteratively comparing the key words and descriptions for each image and collection in the database with those entered by the viewer-user or could involve more sophisticated searching algorithms.
  • Each thumbnail image is associated with a plurality of options, which can be displayed by moving the cursor over the image, including a "add to cart” option 703 which the viewer-user can select to purchase rights in the image.
  • An “info” option 704 can be selected to show all of the additional information associated with the image, along with a "zoom” option to view the image in greater detail.
  • a “bad match” option 705 can also be selected if the viewer-user considers that the image is inappropriate for inclusion in the results of his/her search, i.e. its associated information includes one or more inaccurate key word. This feature can improve the quality of the search facility over a period of time, improving the database system for its users.
  • the viewer-user wants to act as a collector-user then he/she can select an "add to collection" option 702.
  • the name of the collection to which the image is to be added is selected using a menu 701.
  • the viewer-user can also view the images in the collection by clicking on the collection heading, option 708, and will then be presented with all the images in the collection and for which he/she will be able to perform the same options of 702, 703, 704 and 705.
  • results of the search return several images and collections then the viewer-user can select a "Search within results" option 706, which will perform a new search for specified key words within the additional information of only the images and collections already returned by the search.
  • the viewer-user can also rank the images within the collections. This can be achieved by the viewer-user clicking on a thumbnail representation of an image, which displays a page containing the additional information associated with it (similar to the display shown in Figure 6 for images in a collection) .
  • the page includes icons which the viewer-user can select to give the image a rating between 1 and 5 based upon the aesthetic quality of the image .
  • the user is requested to select the type of rights which he/she would like to purchase in connection with the selected image. This is achieved by selecting from an option from a list 707. The selection from the list can be made before the shopping trolley icon is clicked but if no such selection has been made then the user is asked to make one.
  • the types of licences which can be selected include: Royalty Free (a one-off payment for being able to use the image in any way) ; a traditional licence/Rights Protected (which can specify that the image can only be used by the purchaser for specific purposes, geographical territory or time period) or a non-exclusive traditional Licence (which is usually less expensive than an exclusive licence but means that other purchasers can also use it for the same purposes, territory and time) .
  • a purchasing screen not shown
  • This may be achieved by using secure layer credit card data transfer means or by deducting the appropriate amount from an account previously set up with the database system itself.
  • payments can be made to a contributor-user and a collector-user in connection with the viewer-user's rights purchase.
  • the contributor-user who supplied the image to the database is rewarded a payment, either a fixed amount or a percentage of the rights purchase fee.
  • a collector-user is also be rewarded a payment (fixed or percentage amount) if the viewer-user purchased rights in an image which he/she found in one of the collector-user's collections before the purchase was made.
  • Figure 8 illustrates a screen display showing details stored for a user of the database system.
  • the details stored can include name, e-mail address, postal address, postcode and country of residence.
  • a new user of the system will usually have to fill in these details before being allowed to act as a contributor-user, collector-user or viewer-user.
  • the new user may have to specify in which of these three categories of users he/she would like to be classified or the database system itself may update the user category as he/she performs different acts in connection with the database, e.g. transferring image files for adding to the database or creating a new collection.
  • the screen also includes a "change account settings" option 801 which can be used to change the stored user details.
  • a "view order history” option 802 is shown on screen so that he/she can review purchases made. If the user has acted as a contributor-user then a "view sales icon” option 803 is shown on screen so that the user can see a record of purchases of images which he/she has added to the database.
  • a contributor-user can also select an "Image Management” option 804 to see in which collections his/her images are included or have inclusion requests pending. The contributor-user can also use this option to edit his/her keywords for images. If the user has acted as a collector-user then a "view your collections” option 805 is shown. Selecting this takes the user to the screen display shown in Figure 6.
  • FIG. 9 A screen display showing how this facility is implemented is shown in Figure 9.
  • the name of the collection can be selected using a menu 901.
  • the e-mail address of the recipient can be entered in a field 902 and the sender's e-mail address is entered in another field 903.
  • Fields for entering a subject line 904 and text 905 describing the collection or for including a message are also provided.
  • the information is sent as an e-mail to the recipient by clicking a "Send" icon 906.
  • Figure 10 schematically illustrates how data stored in connection with the database system can be arranged.
  • Visitor data type 1001 contains records of users of the system. Each user is given an identification string/number. This user ID can be used as a key to link common details shared by an individual user who is both a contributor-user and a viewer-user.
  • Buyers data type 1002 contains information regarding collector-users. Each entry of this type includes the user ID and other information pertinent to a viewer-user, such as the information shown in Figure 8 and rights purchase history.
  • Contributors data type 1003 includes data relating to contributor-users. Each entry of this type includes a user ID and data such as that shown in Figure 8 and sales history for the contributor-user's images. The data could further include personal information about the contributor- user, e.g. any awards won, occupation, etc. This data could be user so that a viewer-user could search for collection created by certain types of people, e.g. professional photographers or art gallery owners.
  • Each entry of a Media data type 1004 includes a user ID identifying which user contributed the image to the database, as well as data describing the media data itself (e.g. an image) and any properties particular to that type of media. Each entry is also given a Media ID string/number allowing it to be linked to the actual digital data representing the image. Each entry also contains a description field containing the text entered by the contributor-user when he/she supplied the image to the database system.
  • Collectors data type 1005 includes data relating to collector-users. Each entry of this type includes a collector ID string/number and collector details such as the personal information shown in Figure 8.
  • Each entry of a Collection data type 1006 includes a Collector ID identifying the collector who created and who can edit the collection. Each individual collection is given a unique collection ID string/number. Each entry of the collection data type 1006 also includes information regarding the charge rate which is used to calculate the reward which will be paid to the collector in connection with licence purchases for the image.
  • Collected Media data type 1007 specifies which images are contained within which collections. This is achieved by linking the media ID of a Media data type 1004 to a Collection ID of a Collection data type 1006. Each Collected Media entry also includes a description field containing the additional information entered by the collector-user.
  • a Collection Rating data type 1008 is used to store information regarding viewer-user's ratings of individual collections. Each entry of this type includes the collection ID and data describing the viewer-user's rating of the collection.

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L'invention concerne la sélection, par un utilisateur de système de base de données (appelé 'utilisateur/récupérateur'), d'un sous-ensemble d'images enregistrées dans une base de données, afin d'établir une ou plusieurs séries de données recueillies. L'utilisateur/récupérateur ajoute des informations (par exemple, textes décrivant les images), aux fins d'association avec les données recueillies et d'enregistrement dans la base de données. On peut utiliser ces informations additionnelles comme mots clés pour aider d'autres utilisateurs à explorer la base de données. L'utilisateur/récupérateur est récompensé si un autre utilisateur acquiert les droits relatifs à l'exploitation des images récupérées, après avoir localisé telle ou telle image dans la série de données recueillies.
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