Interactive broadcast media content provider with direct audience interaction

Abstract

A server system receives a digital media asset captured by a media capture device along with a dataset associated with the digital media asset. The server system generates a modified digital media asset by overlaying or embedding a glyph that encodes information pointing to the network location of the information page onto the digital media asset. A requesting device scans the glyph from the modified digital media asset and decodes from the glyph the information pointing to the network location. The information includes a certification that the digital media and the dataset associated with the digital media asset are unaltered. The requesting device may transmit communications to the server system to indicate approval or disapproval of the digital media asset, or to edit the digital media asset. The server system receives the communication and may modify the information to reflect comments, approvals, disapprovals, or edits.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of media processing, the method comprising:
 receiving a digital media asset captured by a media capture device;   generating a resource locator that is indicative of a network location associated with the digital media asset, wherein the network location is configured to be interactive;   generating a glyph that encodes the resource locator that is indicative of the network location, wherein the glyph is scannable by a device to indicate the network location to the device;   generating a modified digital media asset by overlaying the glyph on the digital media asset; and   outputting the modified digital media asset, wherein the glyph of the modified digital media asset is scannable as output.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the digital media asset includes an image. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving metadata associated with capture of the digital media asset, wherein the network location is also associated with the metadata.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the glyph includes a quick response (QR) code that optically encodes the resource locator. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the network location includes a portal that includes information about the digital media asset. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the network location includes a portal that includes an interface for providing feedback about the digital media asset. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving an indication that the device is attempting to access the network location through the resource locator encoded in the glyph of the modified digital media asset in response to output of the modified digital media asset.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 receiving a passcode from the device; and   causing information to be served to the device through the network location.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 storing an encrypted digital signature associated with the digital media asset, wherein authenticity of the digital media asset is verifiable by generating a hash of the digital media asset and comparing the hash to the encrypted digital signature as decrypted using a public key.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the network location is configured to provide the device with the encrypted digital signature and the public key for the device to verify the authenticity of the digital media asset. 
     
     
         11 . An apparatus for media processing, the apparatus comprising:
 at least one memory storing instructions; and   at least one processor that executes the instructions, wherein by executing the instructions, the at least one processor is configured to:
 receive a digital media asset captured by a media capture device; 
 generate a resource locator that is indicative of a network location associated with the digital media asset, wherein the network location is configured to be interactive; 
 generate a glyph that encodes the resource locator that is indicative of the network location, wherein the glyph is scannable by a device to indicate the network location to the device; 
 generate a modified digital media asset by overlaying the glyph on the digital media asset; and 
 output the modified digital media asset, wherein the glyph of the modified digital media asset is scannable as output. 
   
     
     
         12 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the digital media asset includes an image. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 receiving metadata associated with capture of the digital media asset, wherein the network location is also associated with the metadata.   
     
     
         14 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the glyph includes a quick response (QR) code that optically encodes the resource locator. 
     
     
         15 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the network location includes a portal that includes information about the digital media asset. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the network location includes a portal that includes an interface for providing feedback about the digital media asset. 
     
     
         17 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 receiving an indication that the device is attempting to access the network location through the resource locator encoded in the glyph of the modified digital media asset in response to output of the modified digital media asset.   
     
     
         18 . The apparatus of  claim 17 , further comprising:
 receiving a passcode from the device; and   causing information to be served to the device through the network location.   
     
     
         19 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 storing an encrypted digital signature associated with the digital media asset, wherein authenticity of the digital media asset is verifiable by generating a hash of the digital media asset and comparing the hash to the encrypted digital signature as decrypted using a public key.   
     
     
         20 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method of media processing, the method comprising:
 receiving a digital media asset captured by a media capture device;   generating a resource locator that is indicative of a network location associated with the digital media asset, wherein the network location is configured to be interactive;   generating a glyph that encodes the resource locator that is indicative of the network location, wherein the glyph is scannable by a device to indicate the network location to the device;   generating a modified digital media asset by overlaying the glyph on the digital media asset; and   outputting the modified digital media asset, wherein the glyph of the modified digital media asset is scannable as output.