1829 results about "Content determination" patented technology

Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and / or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media.

Managing controlled content on a web page is disclosed. A web page is analyzed. Controlled content and revenue-generating code are detected on the web page. A party to contact is determined based on the revenue-generating code or the controlled content.

A voice recognition device, method, and program for operating a plurality of control objects recognizing a plurality of user-provided verbal commands. The voice recognition device determines a control object and control content from predefined types of control objects and contents, based on a recognition result of the input verbal command. A voice recognition unit converts input verbal commands into a text expressed with a series of words, a first parsing unit performs an identification process of a first control candidate group as a control candidate for the control object and control content, a second parsing unit performs an identification process of a second control candidate group as a control candidate for the control object and control content, and a control candidate identification unit identifies a final control candidate group for determining the control object and control content from the first control candidate group and the second control candidate group.

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for selecting relating to content selection. In one aspect, the invention provides methods and apparatus for determining appropriate content based upon various other input data, particularly for individuals on whom personal data is already known. In another aspect of the invention provides method and apparatus for analyzing feedback statistics obtained from previously delivered content in order to update new content for delivery. Another aspect of the invention is combinations of content determination with the analysis of feedback statistics, preferably in real-time, to take into account not only individual preferences, but environmental and other factors. An embodiment of the present invention is directed toward personalized advertisements, with particularly preferred embodiments described that are implemented with an Internet media platform, an interactive digital television platform, as well as cross-platform implementations.

The invention relates to the technical field of application access and discloses a personal assistant application access method and system. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a voice signal input by a user; identifying command content and parameters in the voice signal; according to the command content, determining application which needs to access; and according to the parameters, operating the application. By utilizing the personal assistant application access method and system disclosed by the invention, the human-computer interaction efficiency can be improved.

A computer implemented method and a content determination and targeting system (CDTS) dynamically target time, event and inventory based, location-specific, and behavior relevant content and services to users in an omnichannel environment. The CDTS identifies target users using user characteristic information, item information, and event information received from information sources. The CDTS determines a target item based on each item's item relevancy score and item relevancy priority generated based on an analysis of the user characteristic information, the item information, the event information, user intent dimensions, user interest dimensions, and global interest dimensions. The CDTS generates and targets relevant content associated with the target item and service information to the identified target users based on recommendations dynamically generated based on a content relevancy score, a content relevancy priority, targeting triggers, and the analysis of the user characteristic information, the item information, and the event information using content selection parameters.

The present invention relates to a real-time interactive system and method regarding an interactive technology between miniatures in real environment and digital contents in virtual environment, and a recording medium storing a program for performing the method. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a real-time interactive augmented reality system including: an input information acquiring unit acquiring input information for an interaction between real environment and virtual contents in consideration of a planned story; a virtual contents determining unit determining the virtual contents according to the acquired input information; and a matching unit matching the real environment and the virtual contents by using an augmented position of the virtual contents acquired in advance. According to the present invention, an interaction between the real environment and the virtual contents can be implemented without tools, and improved immersive realization can be obtained by augmentation using natural features.

A method and system within a data processing system for executing a program under one of a number of mutually exclusive operating systems are disclosed. The data processing system includes a nonvolatile mass storage device, a volatile memory, and a processor. According to the present invention, a program which executes under a second operating system is invoked while the processor is executing a first operating system. In response to invocation of the program, the data processing system is forced to a quiescent state. A state of the first operating system is then determined from contents of the volatile memory and stored within either the volatile memory or the nonvolatile mass storage device. In response to storage of the state of the first operating system, at least a portion of the second operating system is automatically loaded into the volatile memory. Thereafter, the program is executed under the second operating system, wherein interchange between mutually incompatible operating systems within a single data processing system is efficiently accomplished. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method of the present invention is embodied within a computer program product for causing a data processing system to perform the foregoing steps.

The present invention provides a means to display the contents of a document using a selected display condition, while preserving the layout of the document. It provides an information processing system comprising: a web browser for displaying a document having a predetermined layout; and a display controller for controlling a method used by the web browser to display the document. The display controller includes: a layout structure analyzer for analyzing the structure of the layout for the document; a region arrangement determiner for dividing a web page under a desired display condition, whereby the contents of the page are displayed in order to display the document in accordance with regions that are allocated and that reflect the structure of the document layout obtained by the layout structure analyzer; and an intra-region contents determiner for determining which contents of the document are to be displayed inside each of the allocated regions that are determined by the region arrangement determiner.

An interactive television program guide application on an interactive television system that determines approximated information using historical content is provided. The interactive television program guide application may retain and store interactive television program guide information. Using the available information, the interactive television program guide application may determine approximated information when information is not available or has not been received.

The invention provides a positioning system of an indoor mobile device. The positioning system comprises three base stations, a mobile terminal, a signal processing module, a wireless transmitting module and a background server. The three base stations are used for periodically sending Bluetooth signals in a Bluetooth wireless transmission mode, and the Bluetooth signals comprise broadcast packets of mark information of the base stations and signal intensities. The mobile terminal comprises a receiving module, wherein the receiving module is used for receiving the Bluetooth signals and determining the mark information of the base stations and the signal intensities according to the content of the broadcast packets. The signal processing module is used for calculating the distances between the three base stations and the mobile terminal according to the signal intensities of the three base stations and determining position information of the mobile terminal according to the three-point positioning algorithm. The wireless transmitting module is used for transmitting the position information to the background server through a wireless communication network. The background server is used for selectively pushing service information to the mobile terminal according to information of the distances between the mobile terminal and the base stations. After accurate positioning is carried out, data can be accurately pushed, and therefore various kinds of applications such as position marketing can be achieved.

The invention relates to a method for encoding a digital image, in which method the digital image is divided into blocks (C, L, U, UL, UR). In the method a spatial prediction for a block (C) is performed to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted, wherein at least one prediction method (P1-P13) is defined. In the method a classification is determined for at least one neighbouring block (L, U) of said block (C) to be predicted according to the contents of the neighbouring block (L, U), and a prediction method (P1-P13) is selected for the current block (C) on the basis of at least one classification.

A key update process applied to encrypted memory in a processing system determines an address from contents of a boundary register, reads an encrypted data block from a memory location specified by the address, decrypts the encrypted data block using a first key, re-encrypts the decrypted data block using a second key, writes the re-encrypted data block back to the memory location specified by the address, and updates the boundary register. These operations are repeated for one or more additional addresses. The boundary register contents are also used to determine appropriate keys for use in other read and write transactions to the memory. The key update process can be run as a background process, separate from the other read and write transactions to the memory, so as to incur minimal processing overhead.

A system for facilitating post-trade processing of a securities trade including an integration server, a plurality of post-trade systems accessible by the integration server, software executing on the integration server for receiving trade allocation data from at least one investment manager via a user interface, software executing on the integration server for receiving trade execution data from at least one broker, software executing on the integration server for determining, at least in part based on content of the data, at least one of the post-trade systems corresponding to at least one of the trade execution data and the trade allocation data, software executing on the integration server for sending at least a portion of the trade execution data and the trade allocation data to the at least one determined post-trade system, and software executing on the integration server for receiving confirmation data from the at least one determined post-trade system.

A three-dimensional image sensor for detecting the three-dimensional position of an object, a coordinate detection unit for detecting the coordinate position of an objective point on a display screen based on the position of the object in a virtual pointing space, a movement detection unit for detecting the three-dimensional movement of the object in the pointing space, and an operation input contents determination unit for determining an operation based on the three-dimensional movement or the like of the object are provided, so that the inconvenience of moving a pointing device such as a finger to a fixed spatial plane is avoided by setting the pointing space which can be operated by the pointing device as a pyramid shape defined by connecting the display screen and a reference point.

The invention relates to a method for rendering images on display devices with improved quality. To allow adjusting luminance values of pixels depending on image information, it is proposed that contents of said image are analysed at least partially, a tone rendering curve based on said analysed image content is determined and luminance values of pixels within said image are adjusted according to said determined tone rendering curve.

In an interface unit, an input section obtains an input signal of user's speech or the like and an input processing section processes the input signal and detects information relating to the user. On the basis of the detection result, a response contents determination section determines response contents to the user. While, a response manner adjusting section adjusts a response manner to the user, such as speech speed and the like, on the basis of the processing state of the input signal, the information relating to the user detected from the input signal, and the like.

A method of searching a corpus including a plurality of files includes automatically determining, using a processor, a historical ranking for each file using respective changeset information. Search term(s) of a query are received. A textual ranking is determined for each file using the search term(s) and contents of that file. The historical and textual rankings are combined to provide a result ranking. A data processing system includes a storage system storing the corpus including the plurality of files, a processor configured to determine the result rankings, and a user interface system configured to receive query results from the processor and present them to a user.

A system is disclosed for creating a media object. The system may include a database for maintaining a first set of information including a plurality of media objects, each of the plurality of media objects having an associated object content, and a second set of information including a plurality of advertisement, each of the plurality of advertisements having an associated advertisement content. The system may also include a media creation server in communication with the database and configured to (1) determine, based on the object content and the advertisement content, if at least one media object is appropriate for inclusion in a new media object including a selected one of the plurality of advertisement objects, and (2) create a new media object including the selected advertisement and the determined appropriate media object.

Even if a mistaken reply to a host name resolution request of IPv6 is issued by a DNS contents server, a requesting terminal can still acquire an IPv4 address. When a host name resolution request of IPv6 (AAAA query) is received, a DNS proxy server generates a host name resolution request of IPv4 having an identical domain name, transmits this together with the AAAA query to the DNS contents server, and determines the DNS reply which should be returned to the terminal from the contents of the DNS reply of IPv6 (AAAA reply) and the DNS reply (A reply) of IPv4 received from the DNS contents server. Hence, even if a reply message showing a domain name error is received from the DNS contents server, if the A reply is correct, the DNS proxy server generates an AAAA reply showing that the desired address does not exist, and returns this to the terminal.

A video input signal is analyzed to detect image content and image properties, wherein detecting the image content includes automatically deriving image features. A content group is determined for the video input signal based on the detected image content, the content group including predefined image properties. The image properties of the video input signal are adjusted based on a difference between the detected image properties and the predefined image properties.

The invention discloses a method and device for identifying a falsified webpage. The method comprises the following steps of: initiating a request of accessing a target webpage by simulating a mode of inputting an uniform resource locator (URL) in a browser address bar; determining an obtained page content as a first page content; initiating a request of accessing the target webpage by simulating a mode of skipping from a link; determining the obtained page content as a second page content; comparing the first page content with the second page content to obtain a comparison result; and according to the comparison result, identifying whether the target webpage is the falsified webpage. According to the method and the device, whether the target webpage is falsified or not can be effectively identified, and an effective means for judging whether the target page is falsified is provided for users and computer service.

A device for recording hand-written information in the form of characters, symbols, graphs, drawings, calligraphy and similar hand-written information defined by a hand movement, comprises recording means (3) which are adapted to be moved by a hand which carries out the hand movement and to record a plurality of images with partially overlapping contents while the recording means are being moved. The device further comprises image-processing means (4) which are adapted to determine the relative position of the images with the aid of the partially overlapping contents for providing a description in digital format of how the unit has been moved and, in this way, a digital representation of the hand-written representation. A method of recording hand-written information is also disclosed.

A visual refinement interface enables users to adjust and / or refine search results by selecting results that match a user's interest, and displaying subsequent results that are closer to the selected items. Multiple result sets can be displayed concurrently such that the user can maintain context for the results. Further, the user can quickly go back to modify an earlier selection without having to navigate to a previous page, for example, and a single modification can cause several subsequent result sets to automatically change such that the user can quickly view dozens of new results, for example, simply by selecting at least one different result from a displayed result set. Prior result sets can be modified, such as by reducing the size or adjusting the placement of the sets, such that the user can easily determine the current set and the relatedness to previous results sets.

The invention discloses a transaction commit method of a distributed database system, belonging to the technical field of computer network. The transaction commit method comprises the following steps: 1) a cache area is respectively allocated in memories of participant nodes and coordinator nodes and used for caching transaction logs; 2) the coordinator nodes determine the participant nodes and establishes connection with the participant nodes according to the transaction content, and simultaneously determines operation request information of the transaction; 3) the coordinator nodes send the one-step operation request messages of the transaction to the participant nodes and simultaneously records the transaction request logs of each operation request; 4) the participant nodes process local logs according to the completion condition of each operation request and send corresponding messages to the coordinator nodes; and 5) the coordinator nodes judge whether the transaction is completed according to the received messages sent by all the participant nodes, and if so, a final decision is given. Compared with the prior art, the transaction commit method greatly reduces the operation times of logs, improves system efficiency and transaction efficiency and has extremely high availability.

An image reporting method is provided. The image reporting method comprises the steps of retrieving an image representation of a sample structure from an image source; mapping a generic structure to the sample structure, the generic structure being related to the sample structure and having at least coordinate data defined therein; determining one or more regions of interest within the sample structure based on content of the image representation of the sample structure; associating an annotation to at least one of the regions of interest; and generating a report based at least partially on one of the regions of interest and the annotation.

The present invention provides a method and system of assigning a publication date for at least one electronic document, where the publication date includes the year that the document was published, the month that the document was published, and the day that the document was published. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) recognizing the publication date in the document by regular expression pattern matching, (2) if the publication date is ambiguous, resolving the ambiguous publication date, and (3) validating the publication date. In an exemplary embodiment, the recognizing includes determining at least one candidate publication date from the document identifier of the document. In an exemplary embodiment, the recognizing includes determining the publication date from the textual content of the document. In an exemplary embodiment, the recognizing includes determining the publication date from the metadata of the document.

A method for constructing a composite image comprises determining in an alignment between at least a first and a second image based on the content of the first and second image frames, and combining in a transform domain at least the first and second images with the determined alignment to form a composite image.