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7000004 |
Streaming data from multiple sources according to storage location information
In a data processing system, device, and method and a program storage medium, provided are data storage devices that store data and a data processing device that receives a list describing...
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6996390 |
Smart car radio
The present invention provides a large capacity, user defined audio content delivery system. The system delivers uninterrupted music and delivers information content (e.g., news by evaluating and...
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6990448 |
Database annotation and retrieval including phoneme data
The data structure is used in accessing a plurality of data files. The data stucture comprises a plurality of annotation storage areas adapted to correspond with the data files, each annotation...
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6988093 |
Process for indexing, storage and comparison of multimedia documents
A method of comparing two multimedia documents includes a three-step registration process. Each document is analyzed to extract concrete or abstract single medium or multimedia elements...
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6985913 |
Electronic book data delivery apparatus, electronic book device and recording medium
An electronic book device receives from an external delivery source book data representing the contents of a book, a reciter images, for example, of famous persons who read aloud the contents of...
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6983287 |
Database build for web delivery
Prestructuring disparate content data types prior to receiving any access requests to provide fast retrieval, assembly, and delivery of content data. Source content data are obtained from a source...
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6981208 |
Multimedia data routing system and method
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A variety of multimedia objects are...
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6976229 |
Method and apparatus for storytelling with digital photographs
A display showing an imported story track, an authored story track, and a story-in-progress track. Each story contains one or more objects. The display also shows a large photo corresponding to a...
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6976028 |
Media content creating and publishing system and process
A system and process for creating, editing, uploading, storing, sharing, and publishing media content. The system and process occurs within an online environment including one or more user network...
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6973574 |
Recognizer of audio-content in digital signals
An implementation of a technology is described herein for recognizing the audio content of digital signals. The technology determines one or more hash values for the original audio content of a...
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6968973 |
System and process for viewing and navigating through an interactive video tour
A system and process for providing an interactive video tour of a tour site to a user is presented. In general, the system and process provides an image-based rendering system that enables users to...
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6970859 |
Searching and sorting media clips having associated style and attributes
A style identifier is associated with each of a plurality of media clips stored in a database, based on a subjective evaluation of various characteristics of each media clip by an expert. The style...
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6971013 |
Recognizer of content of digital signals
An implementation of a technology is described herein for recognizing the content of digital signals. The technology determines one or more hash values for the original content of a digital signal....
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6968506 |
Method of and system for composing, delivering, viewing and managing audio-visual presentations over a communications network
A system for composing an audio-visual presentation over a communications network includes a composer system having a computer processor and associated memory and a telephone device, the composer...
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6968366 |
System and method for management, creation, storage, search and delivery of rich media optimized for e-commerce in a distributed information network
Techniques are provided for managing the creation, storage, search and delivery of rich media optimized for e-commerce in a distributed information network, e.g., the Internet. In an illustrative...
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6965546 |
Sound critical points retrieving apparatus and method, sound reproducing apparatus and sound signal editing apparatus using sound critical points retrieving method
A sound features extracting unit receives a sound signal of a music piece to extract sound features. A peak detecting unit detects a peak time when a cost function calculated by a cost function...
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6965890 |
Hyper video: information retrieval using realtime buffers
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to...
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6961549 |
Method for recording an audio broadcast by user preference
A method for recording an audio broadcast by user preference has been developed. The method includes recording an audio broadcast and then converting the broadcast to text. The text is then scanned...
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6957235 |
Automatic document archiving for a computer system
A system and method for processing documents is described. The system and method provide for executing a command as part of the execution of an application program, where execution of the command...
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6952697 |
Media validation system
A media validation system including a plurality of media storage devices which contain a quantity of content thereon, a user computer processor assembly structured to operatively access a select...
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6947958 |
System and method for documenting composite data products
A process is provided for documenting the contents of at least one version of a plurality of data products stored in a database, at least one of the products being a composite product having at...
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6948123 |
Multimedia information arranging apparatus and arranging method
A multimedia information arranging apparatus that utilizes various feature values contained in multimedia information, carries out a flexible retrieval and classification and displays the...
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6947922 |
Recommender system and method for generating implicit ratings based on user interactions with handheld devices
A recommender system employs implicit ratings generated from monitoring user interaction with an item, such as while listening to a music track on a MP3 player or reading an electronic book. A...
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6944585 |
Dynamic personalized content resolution for a media server
A streaming media server is provided for dynamically resolving a request for digital content based upon the identity of the requester. The digital content may be specifically tailored to the...
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6942143 |
System and method for accessing broadcast media in data communication with a broadcast receiving device
A system for granting permission of a user's personal information to a third party includes a terminal unit for entering a personal information of a user and a permission information indicating at...
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6941325 |
Multimedia archive description scheme
A multimedia archive description scheme is provided for characterizing a multimedia archive having records and associated record descriptions. The multimedia archive description scheme provides a...
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6938209 |
Audio information provision system
An audio information provision system for providing a target with an audio information stream suitable to the target includes a database for storing a plurality of audio information streams; an...
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6935566 |
Portable instrument for electro-optically reading indicia and for projecting a bit-mapped image
A portable instrument incorporates an electro-optical assembly for reading indicia during for projecting a bit-mapped image during a display mode. A manually operable switch on the instrument is...
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6938029 |
System and method for indexing recordings of observed and assessed phenomena using pre-defined measurement items
Pre-defined descriptor or measurement questions or items are presented to a user or operator using a computer with a storage and a display for use in systematic observation and assessment....
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6938032 |
Presentation builder
The invention comprises a system for easily searching multiple multislide POWERPOINT™ presentations, selecting slides from each presentation, and combining them to form a new presentation. The...
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6933433 |
Method for producing playlists for personalized music stations and for transmitting songs on such playlists
A method of producing a playlist of music for a personal music station comprising the steps of assigning a artist block rating to each of a plurality of predefined artist blocks, using the artist...
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6934837 |
System and method for regulating the transmission of media data
A system and method regulate the transmission of media data. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a header portion of a media file is encoded to include an access code. The access...
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6924741 |
Method and system for displaying guidance information
In an airport terminal 1 , an identification tag 5 for transmitting inherent identification tag information and its position information is handed to a customer 6 . The information is received...
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6925475 |
Process and apparatus for management of multimedia databases
The management system comprises a set of specialized operational units with an acquisition module, a multimedia database, indexing and search agents that can be subdivided into subagents, an agent...
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6925455 |
Creating audio-centric, image-centric, and integrated audio-visual summaries
Systems and methods create high quality audio-centric, image-centric, and integrated audio-visual summaries by seamlessly integrating image, audio, and text features extracted from input video....
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6922702 |
System and method for assembling discrete data files into an executable file and for processing the executable file
A system and method for efficiently creating a multi-media presentation, as well as allowing for searching through the presentation to retrieve and display desired subject matter within the...
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6920637 |
Method and apparatus for implementing alerts on a browser running on a portable handheld device
A method and apparatus for implementing alerts on a browser running on a portable handheld device is disclosed. The method generates an asynchronous notification action from the server and in...
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6917965 |
Facilitating annotation creation and notification via electronic mail
A network system includes a client computer that can present multimedia content to a user and an annotation server that can transmit, to the client computer, annotations for the multimedia content....
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6917927 |
Method for indexing feature vector data space
A method is provided for indexing feature vectors within feature vector data space which includes adaptively forming approximation of the feature vectors on the basis of statistical distribution of...
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6915176 |
Music marking system
A method and apparatus that permits a user to electronically make a notation of a recorded music selection that he or she would like to take a later action on. Such later actions might include...
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6912544 |
System and method for interleaving of material from database and customized audio-visual material
A system and method for real-time transfer of multimedia material from a remote device to a centralized multi-media storage unit, wherein the multimedia material is combined with extrinsic material...
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6910220 |
Demand-based goal-driven scheduling system
A Scheduling System is disclosed for automatically scheduling music performances as would be used in professional radio broadcasting. The general-purpose system is a demand-based, goal-oriented...
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6910030 |
Adaptive search method in feature vector space
An adaptive search method in feature vector space which can quickly search the feature vector space indexed based on approximation for a feature vector having features similar to a query vector...
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6910072 |
Method and apparatus for providing media-independent self-help modules within a multimedia communication-center customer interface
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...
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6910035 |
System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to consonance properties
In connection with a classification system for classifying media entities that merges perceptual classification techniques and digital signal processing classification techniques for improved...
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6907570 |
Video and multimedia browsing while switching between views
Preferred implementations of the invention permit a user to seamlessly switch from a first media stream to a second media stream in a synchronized way, such that the second media stream picks up...
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6907397 |
System and method of media file access and retrieval using speech recognition
An embedded device for playing media files is capable of generating a play list of media files based on input speech from a user. It includes an indexer generating a plurality of speech recognition...
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6907414 |
Hierarchical interface to attribute based database
The present invention provides a hierarchical interface to an attribute based database. The method includes organizing a number of classifiers of data into a hierarchical structure and organizing...
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6907450 |
Method and apparatus for the synchronized representation of network contents
A method and accompanying apparatus forms a synchronized representation of network contents within a group of users. This makes it possible to realize a series of new applications, for instance...
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6883008 |
SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING AUDIBLE, VISUAL AND TEXTUAL DATA WITH ALTERNATIVE COMBINABLE MULTIMEDIA FORMS OF PRESENTING INFORMATION FOR REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE USE BY MULTIPLE USERS IN DIFFERENT REMOTE ENVIRONMENTS
A system is provided for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with multimedia forms of presenting information for real-time interactive use by multiple users in different remote environments....
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