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7177860 Information processing system, method and recording medium for controlling same  
An information processing system, method and recording medium for use therewith enables a user to search for (and locate) different types of information contained in a plurality of information...
7176921 Graphical rewriting system for multimedia descriptions  
Graphs representing multimedia content are validated and modified through graph matching and graph rewriting techniques using pre-defined model graphs. In one aspect, an input graph is validated...
7174053 Information processing apparatus  
Thumbnail images are promptly created while reducing the required memory capacity for storing the thumbnail images. When input (of an image or a command) is not completed in more than a prescribed...
7167857 Method and system for finding approximate matches in database  
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A...
7167864 Multimedia inspection database system (MIDaS) for dynamic run-time data evaluation  
An object-oriented system provides a comprehensive and integrated tool to manage, operate, analyze and inspect structures by providing 3-D visualization of the structures, a database interface,...
7167191 Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations  
Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations. According to an embodiment, the presentation recording appliance (PRA) receives multimedia presentation information comprising...
7167868 Partition-based high dimensional similarity join method  
A partition-based high dimensional similarity join method allowing similarity to be efficiently measured by beforehand dynamically selecting space partitioning dimensions and the number of the...
7162690 Annotations for multiple versions of media content  
Multiple different versions of the same multimedia content are available to a multimedia server. An annotation server maintains annotations corresponding to the multimedia content, each such...
7162197 Picture book production system, server for producing picture book, and recording medium  
The object of the invention is to provide a picture book production system accompanied with a server and a recording medium for creating a picture book, in order to reduce a user's energy and to...
7155456 Storing and recalling information to augment human memories  
A system for computer-based storing of information about a current state so that later recall of the information can augment human memories In particular, when information about a current event of...
7152163 Content-recognition facilitator  
Described herein is a technology for facilitating the recognition of the content of digital signals. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present...
7151864 Information research initiated from a scanned image media  
A device scans text of an image media and generates text data corresponding to the scanned text. A research component of the device generates a phrase list from the text data and initiates research...
7149411 Non-linear reproduction control method of multimedia stream and apparatus thereof  
The present invention relates to a non-linear reproduction control method of multimedia stream and an apparatus thereof, the present invention comprises judging a skip direction by interpreting...
7149758 Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing program  
Conventionally, when a multimedia data processing section that has become a component is taken out of a database, it is necessary that the multimedia data processing section is taken out of the...
7149750 Method, system and program product for extracting essence from a multimedia file received in a first format, creating a metadata file in a second file format and using a unique identifier assigned to the essence to access the essence and metadata file  
Provided is a method, system, and program for storing data in a data store, a first file in a first file format is received including essence, metadata objects providing information on the essence,...
7149755 Presenting a collection of media objects  
Systems and methods of presenting media objects are described. In one aspect, a group of media objects is selected from the collection based upon media object relevance to one or more data...
7146349 Network for describing multimedia information  
A method and apparatus for encoding knowledge using a multimedia network. A multimedia network represents semantic concepts and their relations using multimedia content. A multimedia network...
7143102 Autogenerated play lists from search criteria  
A method and apparatus for automatically creating a play list from search criteria. A user inputs at least one search parameter for a store of music files. The player then builds a search query...
7142645 System and method for generating and distributing personalized media  
Personalized media is generated by obtaining a master clip having predefined insert points, obtaining an insert clip, seamlessly merging the insert clip into the selected master clip to generate a...
7142325 Document management device, communications terminal device, document management program, communications control program and document management system  
A document management device obtains thumbnail information as to a requested document out of an image transmitted via a public network, judges as to whether the thumbnail information is correct...
7143083 Method and apparatus for retrieving multimedia data through spatio-temporal activity maps  
Techniques for retrieval of multimedia data through visual representations are provided. Such visual representations, preferably in the form of visual activity maps or spatio-temporal activity...
7139743 Associative database scanning and information retrieval using FPGA devices  
A data storage and retrieval device and method is disclosed. The device includes at least one magnetic storage medium configured to store target data and at least one re-configurable logic device...
7139983 Interactive content guide for television programming  
A navigation interface display system generates a navigation element that organizes television programming data in an easy-to-use manner. The navigation element employs a hierarchical display...
7136884 File managing method and data recorder using the same, data reproducing apparatus, data recording/reproducing apparatus, and disk recorded by the file managing method  
A file management method for reducing a seek operation to a minimum even when a UDF file system is used is provided. The file management method has file management information for managing...
7136866 Media identifier registry  
A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical...
7136870 Method and apparatus for accessing and displaying multimedia content  
A multimedia delivery engine and associated database for accessing and displaying varied multimedia content, whether stored on local storage devices or stored remotely on an Internet server, as one...
7130067 Image data management system for image processing  
The object of the system according to the present invention is to relieve the user from the burden of printing and storing image data from a digital camera and to effectively utilize the image...
7130860 Method and system for generating sequencing information representing a sequence of items selected in a database  
A method and a system for generating sequencing information representing a sequence of items selected in a database. Similarity relation techniques are applied between the items.
7130251 Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its method  
A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage...
7127736 Content processing apparatus and content processing method for digest information based on input of a content user  
Value-added information is created based on favorite information of a content user. The content is processed according to the generated value-added information. Favorite data indicating operations,...
7123814 Audio/video production method  
A method of facilitating identification of audio and/or video productions, comprising the steps of maintaining a register of unique program identification codes which identify corresponding...
7123696 Method and apparatus for generating and distributing personalized media clips  
The invention has many different applications and implementations. One or more embodiments of the invention, however, are directed to a software program and/or computer hardware configured to...
7120626 Content retrieval based on semantic association  
A method and system which enable a user to query a multimedia archive in one media modality and automatically retrieve correlating data in another media modality without the need for manually...
7120634 Computerized prepress  
Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program...
7120700 Method and system for processing multi-media transactions in a communication center  
In a multimedia call center (MMCC) operating through an operating system, a client-specific self-help wizard is provided for active clients and updated periodically with information related to...
7120619 Relationship view  
The present invention provides a unique method and user interface that facilitates accessing and browsing objects in which a user begins with a center object (e.g., one or a few focal objects)...
7120640 Formal verification of semantic DS  
A method for use in classifying, storage and retrieval of audiovisual information. The method uses the elements of a semantic description to describe arbitrary structure related to the audiovisual...
7117157 Processing apparatus for determining which person in a group is speaking  
Image data from cameras showing movement of a number of people, and sound data, is archived and processed to determine the position and orientation of each person's head and to determine at whom...
7111009 Interactive playlist generation using annotations  
A plurality of user-selected annotations are used to define a playlist of media segments corresponding to the annotations. The user-selected annotations and their corresponding media segments are...
7099894 Multimedia information collection control apparatus and method  
In a multimedia information collection control apparatus, a multimedia information collection unit collects information from more than one kind of medium (multimedia). A multimedia correspondence...
7099490 Information providing system and identification information adding device  
The present invention has an object to facilitate investigation of access status in internet. To achieve this object, when the HTTP server ( 203 ) transmits prescribed image data, identity...
7096226 Database system, particularly for multimedia objects  
A database system stores data relating to media objects and includes a meta table, a supplementary meta table, a content table, a supplementary content table, each supplementary content data record...
7096234 Methods and systems for providing playlists  
Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This...
7092961 Data map forming system and method of forming a data map based on evaluation values  
A data display system ( 10 ) and a patent map forming system ( 20 ) give evaluation values obtained by a predetermined evaluation axis or an arbitrarily set evaluation value in cooperation with...
7092009 Data capture and relay terminal with temperature sensor  
A data terminal includes a digital camera for capturing an image and data processing/storage/encoding means for processing the image information, together with an internal server for creating a web...
7092369 Communications network with wireless gateways for mobile terminal access  
Access to a communications network is provided to a user supporting a mobile unit capable of wireless communication with at least one access node of a local area network that is capable of...
7089188 Method to expand inputs for word or document searching  
An electronic document searching system or word searching system which when given an input, expands the input as a function of acoustic similarity and/or word sequence occurrence frequency. Results...
7089497 Managing interactions between computer users' context models  
Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is represented with multiple attributes. In some situations, the providing includes a first computer receiving...
7089543 Use of formal logic specification in construction of semantic descriptions  
An occurrence description scheme that describes an occurrence of a semantic entity in multimedia content is encoded into a content description for the content. The occurrence description scheme is...
7085770 Method and system for generating a file containing graphical displays from content stored on a computing network location  
A user compiling graphic slides for a presentation has the ability search or navigate through a presentation slide repository, select slides that the user desires, download the selected slides to a...