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A method and system for description of synthetic audiovisual content makes it easier for humans, software components or devices to identify, manage, categorize, search, browse and retrieve such content. For instance, a user may wish to search for specific synthetic audiovisual objects in digital libraries, Internet web sites or broadcast media; such a search is enabled by the invention. Key characteristics of synthetic audiovisual content itself such as the underlying 2d or 3d models and parameters for animation of these models are used to describe it. More precisely, to represent features of synthetic audiovisual content, depending on the description scheme to be used, a number of descriptors are selected and assigned values. The description scheme instantiated with descriptor values is used to generate the description, which is then stored for actual use during query / search. Typically, a user, to search for a needed synthetic audiovisual content initiates a query that is passed on to a search engine that then retrieves the candidate content from one or more databases whose description closely matches the query criteria specified by the user.

The present invention is a system and method for integrated operation, provision of user services, and management and control, for a publicly accessible global network. The global network has one or more horizontal levels for the provision of user services, network operation, overall management and control in a vertical hierarchy, and one or more horizontal levels of data management, including data capture, processing, analysis, reporting, etc. The system further includes Universal Software which integrates the functionalities of various software platforms into one unified integrated software. The system incorporates a plurality of components for connecting any user directly to applications, and enterprise sites and consumer sites for connecting users via the global network directly to other networks, data bases and computer devices, of emergency services personnel / agencies, for performing simultaneously mathematical formulae, algorithms or procedures, and for displaying and updating advertisements appearing at specific points in a software operation.

The invention relates to a method for classifying Chinese webpages based on keyword frequency analysis. According to the analyzed keywords of the Chinese webpages and a Chinese classification subject thesaurus, the fuzzy matching of the classification of the Chinese webpages is carried out; and through the obtained HTML source code of the webpage, the webpage is pretreated. Through the testing and analysis, a regular expression filter is utilized to filter noise information; a Chinese text of the webpage is extracted; then, through a word classifier and a keyword frequency analyzer, the extracted Chinese text information is subjected to word classification; through the weighed ranking of the word in the text and fuzzy classification algorithm of the webpage, the class ranking of the class which the webpage keyword belongs to is obtained; and the keywords ranking in the several tops are selected and subjected to calculation of membership rate to obtain the fuzzy matching result of the class which the webpage belongs to. The method is favorable for organizing mass information on the Internet with high efficiency and is used for interestingness analysis of Internet users, catalogue updating of search engines, mining of Web contents, online document management, and digital library construction.

A method for centrally providing a profile of a user's degree of preference for one or more items across categories in a plurality of domains of interest in a taxonomy of preferences is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a user's degree of preference for an item from a plurality of indicators. The user's degree of preference for the item is associated with a category in a domain of interest and is stored in a profile of the user. In another embodiment, the profile identifies preferences of the user in a taxonomy of preferences across categories in a plurality of domains of interest.

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database. As a result, a user may query a search engine which then retrieves the multimedia content from the database whose integration description matches the query criteria specified by the user. The search engine can then provide the user a useful search result based on the multimedia integration description.

A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting aspects of change associated with a geographic area that has been captured by high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query directed at the geographic area that includes one or more inputs, the query seeking an identification of regions associated with the geographic area that are characterized by aspects of change based on the one or more inputs; applying the query to a dataset of geospatial information that stores imagery associated with the geographic area, wherein the dataset includes information that is sufficient to identify the regions, and wherein the imagery is derived from the high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery, which is characterized by having a resolution of three meters or less per pixel; receiving a first results set that includes a first plurality of keys and corresponding change scores, wherein, (1) each key is useable to identify a certain region, and (2) each change score indicates an amount of change in the certain region from a first state to a second state; and presenting at least a portion of the results set in a viewing application.

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database. As a result, a user may query a search engine which then retrieves the multimedia content from the database whose integration description matches the query criteria specified by the user. The search engine can then provide the user a useful search result based on the multimedia integration description.

A system and method for interlinking differing taxonomies, the system including a communications module that provides access to corpora having electronic documents categorized in accordance with first and second taxonomies with a plurality of nodes. The system also includes an analysis module that analyzes the nodes of the first taxonomy, the nodes of the second taxonomy, and at least one of the first plurality of electronic documents and the second plurality of documents, to identify nodes of the second taxonomy that correspond to nodes of the first taxonomy. A processor generates an interlinked taxonomy structure with a plurality of links interlinking together nodes of the first and second taxonomies identified to be related to each other, while also providing informative glosses of each node.

One or more embodiments of the invention disclose a space-time coding method, a space-time index and a query method and device, which are used for realizing efficient organization, management and query of mass multi-source remote sensing data. The method comprises the following steps: dividing a latitude and longitude space of the earth according to a specified division mode to obtain a pluralityof grids; wherein the corresponding mesh numbers in the longitude direction and the latitude direction are the same; wherein the specified subdivision mode comprises specified subdivision hierarchies;carrying out integer coding on the coordinate information corresponding to each grid to obtain a first coded value corresponding to each grid; and establishing the grid and an association relationship between the first coding value corresponding to each grid and the remote sensing image data. According to the technical scheme, global multi-scale grid integer coding can be used for achieving position association with multi-source remote sensing data, and space-time indexing and query of the multi-source remote sensing data are achieved.

A method, system, and medium are provided for revising a first set of search results related to high-resolution satellite imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that seeks high-resolution, remotely sensed images of geographic areas that have changed consistent with a given change signature; returning indications of the geographic areas; and presenting a first set of images that corresponds to the indications; presenting a set of feedback of options in connection with each of the set of images, wherein the feedback options include one or more of a more-like-this option and a less-like-this option; such that a second set of images can be identified based on receiving input by way of the feedback options.

A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions.

Providing content to content receiving devices, such as digital video recorders, connected to a computer network through a content provider is described. According to one aspect, a server maintains a database correlating contact information to content receiving devices in its network. A user navigates to a web site of the content provider and selects a piece of content, which prompts the content provider to query the server for the contact information, and then transmit a request to download the piece of content to the content receiving device. The request can be a set of content identification information that automatically populates a content guide at the receiving device with an entry corresponding to the requested piece of content. This entry allows the user to confirm, interrupt, resume and cancel a download of the content as desired.

A model and system employing the model provides an organized structure for storing, displaying, and navigating content data regarding instruments for market driven industries (i.e., securities). A Market Research Model (MRM) paradigm is used to represent elemental concepts, a plurality of specific classes of entities form the MRM, and an interface is used to assemble, maintain, and interact with the model. Information may be added to the model by a research provider and provided to an end user on a subscription basis. The user is provided with an interconnected, navigable model of an item of interest for research and decision-making support.

A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying facilitating storage and retrieval of information associated with high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery. In one embodiment, a data structure includes information derived from change-detection information associated with remotely sensed imagery, which change-detection information is useable by the application program, and wherein the data structure includes a plurality of change indexes, each of which (1) indicates change in a given item from a first state to a second state and (2) is associated with a feature set that includes one or more of item-texture features and item-spectral features, wherein each of the change indexes is an entropy balanced statistical (EBS) k-d tree index that describes features associated with items within a geographic area that is reflected in the imagery, and wherein the features include one or more of the item-texture features and item-spectral features.

A method for organizing multiple documents includes carrying out cluster analysis on large amount of documents, displaying each level class to be virtual catalog according to cluster analysis result for assisting user to quickly navigate to document to be found, utilizing subject and abstract to assist navigation and controlling display content to be in screen size for decreasing operation frequency of user.

The invention discloses a disaster rescue transport vehicle management scheduling system. The system comprises a vehicular terminal, an emergency rescue vehicle monitoring center and a disaster field detection network. According to the invention, limited transport power resources are distributed reasonably, transport power is accurately put in needed positions within shortest time by use of a relatively economical mode, and emergency rescue transport work of organizing emergency transport vehicles in a reasonable, orderly and efficient manner represents important content of research on disaster rescue work in China.

The invention discloses an occlusion-eliminating radiation energy density simulation method in a tower-type solar thermal power generation system. The method comprises the following steps: (1) an axially-parallel large bounding box for an overall heliostat field is built; (2) the large bounding box is equidistantly divided along a heliostat distribution direction; (3) light poles reflected and incident by the heliostats are modeled; (4) as for each light pole, an intersected grid intersected with the light pole is found out; (5) intersection determination is carried out on the heliostats in the intersected grid and the corresponding light poles; (6) shadow is converted into occlusion; (7) a corresponding relationship between a receiving panel and streamline drawing cache is built; (8) the heliostats and the occlusion thereof are projected on the receiving panel; (9) a sequence of heliostats in the streamline and the occlusion heliostats is organized and depth valuation is carried out; and (10) an occlusion area with reflection light spots is eliminated and is parallelly accumulated to cumulative cache. The quick simulation method of the invention can effectively improve the calculation accuracy and the efficiency, and the simulation result is more authentic and reliable.

The invention relates to a solid state disk for rapidly storing and displaying massive image data, which comprises a hardware architecture and a software algorithm for rapidly storing and displaying the massive image data. On the hardware architecture, solid state storage medium is reasonably and efficiently organized through comprehensive utilization of a channel internal bus extension technology, a channel internal pipelining technology and a multichannel parallel technology, so that the access speed of the storage medium is improved, and the data-transfer capacity of a system is improved through utilizing a PCIE (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) interface to transfer data; and on a software architecture, rapid storage and display of the image data is mainly realized through a blocking storage and address mapping technology of the image data. The channel internal bus extension technology, the channel internal pipelining technology and the multichannel parallel technology are comprehensively utilized aiming at the characteristics of the massive image data, so that the organization of FLASH is more reasonable and efficient.

The invention relates to a maritime search and rescue system based on BeiDou satellite navigation and positioning. The maritime search and rescue system comprises an individual device, a command center and a search and rescue device. A BeiDou satellite positioning module and a first wireless communication module are arranged on the individual device and the individual device is used for sending position information and ID information to the command center. The command center comprises a second wireless communication module, a first GIS electronic map and a first judgment module. The position information and the ID information are reflected on the GIS electronic map by the command center, and the command center dispatches the corresponding search and rescue device to conduct rescue. A third wireless communication module, a second GIS electronic map and a second judgment module are arranged on the search and rescue device and the search and rescue device is used for receiving help seeking information sent within the range of 40 kilometers, and reflecting the help seeking information on the second GIS electronic map. By the adoption of the maritime search and rescue system based on BeiDou satellite navigation and positioning, an emergency reaction action to a maritime emergency can be rapidly, orderly and efficiently organized, persons in distress are rescued, extension of the maritime emergency is controlled, loss of life, personal injuries and property loss caused by the maritime emergency are reduced to the maximum extent.

A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions.

The invention relates to the technical field of information and communication, in particular to an organization mechanism of a centralized large-scale wireless sensing network and an implementation device. In the technical scheme, a sensing gateway controller realizes the functions of management, monitoring, dynamic configuration, control and the like of the large-scale wireless sensing network. A wireless sensing access point can be regarded as a lightweight sensing gateway; and data forwarding functions of a sensor and the sensing gateway controller and topology maintenance and management functions of the local wireless sensing network are realized under the control of the sensing gateway controller. The wireless sensing gateway controller uniformly configures and controls the wireless sensing access points in the wireless sensing network, and uniformly bridges, forwards and encrypts the traffic of the sensing network to enhance the manageability of the large-scale wireless sensing network. Therefore, efficient organization, centralized control and management of the large-scale wireless sensing network can be realized.

The invention relates to a transmitting method based on parallel batch network coding. According to the transmitting method, network coding is used for transmitting data, data flow to be transmitted is divided into batches comprising the same number of groups, the groups in each coding batch are coded and transmitted together, and a target node can decode one batch after receiving the enough number of the coded groups. The method can be applied to a wireless Mesh network, and provides reliable and efficient data transmission service; network coding is utilized for improving the transmission efficiency; to overcome the defect of low efficiency caused by an existing research and use stop wait strategy, the invention provides a parallel transmission method; a sending window which can dispatch a plurality of batches at the same time is maintained on a source node, and parallel dispatching of the multiple batches is controlled according to feedback information; in comparison with an existing research result, batch transmission can be organized more flexibly and efficiently, and then the end-to-end handling capacity is improved.

Providing content to content receiving devices, such as digital video recorders, connected to a computer network through a content provider is described. According to one aspect, a server maintains a database correlating contact information to content receiving devices in its network. A user navigates to a web site of the content provider and selects a piece of content, which prompts the content provider to query the server for the contact information, and then transmit a request to download the piece of content to the content receiving device. The request can be a set of content identification information that automatically populates a content guide at the receiving device with an entry corresponding to the requested piece of content. This entry allows the user to confirm, interrupt, resume and cancel a download of the content as desired.

The invention relates to a Web data processing method based on formal concept analysis. The method comprises the steps of analyzing the latent semantic relation of Web services on each granularity level by using the prior Web service describing information, expressing the relation between the services by using a concept lattice so as to realize concept grouping of the Web services, and providing an increment maintenance method for a service lattice to realize Web service management. A reduction method for the service lattice is provided through research on the similarity of the services under the condition of gradual increment of Web service quantity and category in Internet environment. The established service lattice carries out service search according to service request.

A method for assisting a user to design an image-based product includes storing a component dependency map on a computer device that defines relationships among a first component, a second component, and a third component, which each comprises functions that define actions and states at a user interface on the computer device. The method also includes executing a page controller in association with the user interface on the computer device, detecting an activation of the functions of the first component at the user interface by the first component, and executing functions of the second component and the third component in the user interface in accordance to the component dependency map to obtain a design of the image-based product to be produced by the image-service provider.

The present invention relates to the field of GPU parallel computing, in particular to a method and an apparatus for scheduling a GPU to perform batch operation. Aimed at the problems in the prior art, the present invention provides the method and the apparatus for scheduling the GPU to perform the batch operation. According to the method and the apparatus provided by the present invention, a separate GPU scheduling module is designed and coordinates with the GPU to perform calculation task processing together with an API application module so as to sufficiently exert the operational capability of the GPU; the API application module sends an operation task to the GPU scheduling module and the GPU scheduling module stores calculation tasks received within a cycle in a cache; and when the GPU completes the calculation tasks in the last batch, the GPU scheduling module submits the cached calculation tasks to the GPU in batches and then the API application module completes the subsequent operations of the calculation tasks in a synchronous mode or an asynchronous mode.

A method and system for description of synthetic audiovisual content makes it easier for humans, software components or devices to identify, manage, categorize, search, browse and retrieve such content. For instance, a user may wish to search for specific synthetic audiovisual objects in digital libraries, Internet web sites or broadcast media; such a search is enabled by the invention. Key characteristics of synthetic audiovisual content itself such as the underlying 2d or 3d models and parameters for animation of these models are used to describe it. More precisely, to represent features of synthetic audiovisual content, depending on the description scheme to be used, a number of descriptors are selected and assigned values. The description scheme instantiated with descriptor values is used to generate the description, which is then stored for actual use during query / search. Typically, a user, to search for a needed synthetic audiovisual content initiates a query that is passed on to a search engine that then retrieves the candidate content from one or more databases whose description closely matches the query criteria specified by the user.