30 results about "Famous persons" patented technology

An interaction competition provides an entertaining enjoyable environment for a player to compete against a celebrity in a head-to-head trivia game. The questions may be associated with the celebrity rather than random general information or general trivia. The celebrity can participate via stored audio media, stored audio-visual media, or in a live real-time format. A goal of the competition is for a player to gain more points than the celebrity. Another goal of the competition is for the player to answer more questions correctly than the celebrity. At least one or more game episodes can be provided on computer-readable media. A game episode may be implemented with a product featuring a celebrity. The competition can be provided in many different gaming environments. The competition can be provided online via a web-based format; a television game show format; telephone call-in radio talk show format; or a cellular phone game format.

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 the book based on the received book data, and the corresponding reciter voice data, and then displays the received book data and reciter images on the display. A user views the received book data and reciter images displayed on the display and causes the reciter images to read the book data aloud in voices represented by the reciter voice data.

A multiple wager, multiple potential winning outcome gaming “Spin Game” platform may be played in its native configuration as well as easily themed to allow variations and adaptations including but not limited to casino table games, sporting teams and events, entertainment, film, television, and celebrities, as well as various other pop-culture fashions and trends. Specific deployments may be used to aid in transitioning “slots only” (or other EGM exclusive) players to active participants in table games by providing a step-by-step confidence building path from individual standalone, to multi-player “Party Style” deployments of the “Spin Game”, and finally to the actual table games themselves. Countdown timers may be configured to encourage and even reward players to place their wagers before the timer reaches zero—when “No More Bets” is called and the “Game Wheel” is spun, thereby ensuring that casino “hands per minute” target goal requirements are met or exceeded.

A computer-implemented method for facilitating a guest reservable online celebrity interaction (GROCI) between a guest and a celebrity via a computer-network is provided. The celebrity is a fictional character. The computer-implemented method includes providing an avenue for promoting the celebrity. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving reservation data from the guest, the reservation data specifying at least a time to conduct the GROCI. The computer-implemented method further includes providing an online interactive environment to conduct the GROCI between the guest and the celebrity, whereby the celebrity is geographically remote from the guest but interacting with the guest via the online interactive environment. The computer-implemented method yet also includes processing payment for the GROCI.

The invention discloses a method, user modeling equipment and a corresponding system for carrying out personalized recommendation for users. The method comprises the following steps: extracting information models of famous persons concerned by a user from an information model database, wherein the famous persons are persons meeting predetermined conditions in a social network, and information models established for the famous persons on the basis of a first modeling strategy are stored in the information model database; establishing a user model for the user according to the information models of the famous persons concerned by the user and a second modeling strategy; acquiring information which is extracted according to the user model and is suitable for the user and recommending the information to the user. According to the method, the user modeling equipment and the corresponding system disclosed by the invention, the user model established according to the information models of the famous persons concerned by the user can accurately represent interests of the user, and the information recommended for the user according to the user model can be accurately matched with the interests of the user, thus the information recommendation accuracy is high, and the cold start problem caused by shortage or absence of historical behaviors of users is solved.

A method for marketing and promotion by marketing & purveying a general Text-To-Speech (TTS) voice system, which uses the voice of a famous person, as ancillary merchandise. First, procure a general-TTS voice system that uses the voice of a famous person known for something. In one embodiment, this system is a product that itself is marketed to customers; in another embodiment, the TTS voice system is incorporated into an other product to form a composite product, then the composite product is marketed to customers. Second, market & purvey the TTS to fans and customers as ancillary merchandise featuring the famous personality. This thus enables a wide range of venues, such as concerts, movie launches, charity auctions, sports events, etc. In one aspect, the act of marketing & purveying the ancillary TTS system thus creates or augments an overall marketing / sales promotion campaign. In another aspect, since a general TTS system is useful, it will likely be received favorably and used indefinitely. So the customer will continue to hear the famous personality's voice during everyday usage, and thus receive potentially hundreds of personal, favorable, high-quality marketing impressions over years of enjoyment. Costly marketing is thus reversed into a profit center when a TTS is marketed as ancillary merchandise using this method.

An interaction competition provides an entertaining enjoyable environment for a player to compete against a celebrity in a head-to-head trivia game. The questions may be associated with the celebrity rather than random general information or general trivia. The celebrity can participate via stored audio media, stored audio-visual media, or in a live real-time format. A goal of the competition is for a player to gain more points than the celebrity. Another goal of the competition is for the player to answer more questions correctly than the celebrity. At least one or more game episodes can be provided on computer-readable media. A game episode may be implemented with a product featuring a celebrity. The competition can be provided in many different gaming environments. The competition can be provided online via a web-based format; a television game show format; telephone call-in radio talk show format; or a cellular phone game format.

Provided is a system of servicing famous people's character in smart phone and method for managing it, which image-processes the picture images of famous people such as singer, actor, sports player, celebrity, etc. who are registered in a server into characters and stores them, downloads them on the smart phone, makes the displayed character acts variously through stimulating them with screen touch, etc. of the smart phone, and enjoys or learns the song, new issue of songs, dance, exercise, lecture, etc. in multimedia, and it is possible to enjoy various genre's contents of a favorite celebrity through the properties including the smart phone, the communication network, and a character server, and to get taught by the favorite famous person, and the user can obtain an emotional stability by exchanging emotions with the character of the favorite famous person, and manages his or her own schedule.

System and method for graphically displaying a coin toss using sensors to detect the physical movement of a coin or instrumented coin, communication of sensor-derived data to remote graphical display system, display of a virtual coin that represents movement and orientation of the tossed coin. May utilize a sensor system, communication system and display system. Sensor system and part of a wireless communication system may be embedded in a coin shaped housing or may be external to coin. Display system and part of wireless communication system may include a remote or repeater station. Graphical coin movement and orientation may mimic the actual coin being tossed or may be represented as any avatar or other graphical object that represents the coin including celebrity pictures, videos, faces, logos or any other object that may represent a “head” or “tail”. May generate a random number that allows viewers to win a prize.

The present invention discloses a method for predicting the number of suicides using social information by considering more realistic factors such as the current environment where the individuals are frequently exposed to the social atmosphere and interact with each other with the development of the social media as well as the climate and economic conditions affecting suicides, modeling the regression analysis model by reflecting the social information such as the number of suicide-related postings posted in the social network services, the situation in which the suicide of the specific famous person is reported, and the like, and applying the social indicators such as the posting indicator, the specific person's suicide indicator, and the like to the regression analysis model to predict the number of suicides, and a device using the same.

The invention relates to an English word memory system and an English word memory method. The English word memory system comprises an overview module and a word net graph corresponding to information of the overview module; the word net graph comprises a plurality of Chinese modules arranged according to meanings and Chinese character units, a plurality of mother word units and a plurality of child word units , which correspond to the Chinese modules; the overview module comprises a plurality of scene modules arranged according to meanings and famous person units arranged on the corresponding scene modules according to meanings; the scene modules are provided with a plurality of mother word units and a plurality of child word units, which are arranged according to represented meanings or prefix letters. When the English word memory system and the English word memory method are in use, the relative positions of the scene modules, the famous person units and the mother word units as well as the child word units are firstly memorized and the related positions of the Chinese character units, the mother word units and the child word units of the Chinese module are memorized so as to reach situation correlation and position correlation, thereby enabling the English word memory system and the English word memory method to reach practical advancement of promoting the speed of connecting and memorizing English words.

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a rawhide pet chew including the steps of obtaining rawhide and cleaning it to remove fats, oils, salts, and other contaminants. The rawhide is wrung to remove excess water, and while still wet, formed into a design of an object primarily associated with a geographic area. Finally, the rawhide is dried. The design of the object may be selected from animals, plants, landmarks, famous people, and inanimate objects, primarily associated with any country or territory in the world, in particular the states and territories of the United States. Various techniques may be utilized to form the rawhide, including molding, stamping, and cutting. The rawhide pet chews serve as souvenirs and gifts for pets that are specific to vacation, resort, and other tourist oriented attractions or events.

A location based mobile device system and application for providing artifact tours is described. The mobile device application of illustrative embodiments provides multimedia information regarding an array of artifacts pertinent to the location of the mobile device. The artifacts include both current and historical events, in addition to landmarks, architecture, famous persons associated with the location, natural phenomenon and age-based activities. Illustrative embodiments generate tours that connect artifacts by common theme and the current location of the mobile device. Information relevant to a particular location may be displayed or pushed on the mobile device unprompted when the device passes in proximity to a Bluetooth beacon.

Customers can become bored with an interaction with an agent. By providing speech and / or images, of a celebrity disguising the speech, and / or image, of the agent, customers can appear to interact with a particular celebrity. As a result, customers are more likely to stay engaged and have a positive experience. The celebrity, or a particular persona of a celebrity, may be selected from customer preferences and / or a purpose of the call. For example, a movie star's role may have a persona, such as a “heavy,” suitable for collection calls (audio or audio-video), whereas a scientific or technical innovator may be selected for technical support calls.

A tossable head advertising system includes a soft or semi soft head shaped object for tossing into a crowd of people. The head includes long hair or a long cord attached to it such that the head may be hurled by the hair or cord into a crowd. The head further includes the face of a famous person and a pre-recorded sound byte within an audio generator that activates on contact. The sound byte is personalized for the famous person.

The invention provides a social network famous person information recommending device. The social network famous person information recommending device comprises a preference information collecting module, an analysis module and a recommending module. The preference information collecting module is used for collecting appraisal of a user on information on a social network as preference informationof the user; the analysis module is used for analyzing the preference similarity between the user and a network famous person according to the preference information of the user and the network famous person; the recommending module is used for recommending the information of the network famous person with the preference similarity meeting the requirement to the user. According to the social network famous person information recommending device, the preference information of the user can be effectively analyzed according to the behavior of the user on the social network, the network famous person with close preference can be matched to be recommended to the user, and high objectivity and accuracy are achieved.

The invention provides an intelligent router hotspot video distribution method which includes the steps that the probability that videos in various channels become hotpot videos is predicted through the playing amount of the videos in a period of time, or price change events of the videos or whether the videos are videos of famous persons or not; according to the predicted hotspot video probability in the hotspot video predicting step, a number of hotspot videos to be pushed are fused; in the low bandwidth cost time frame of all regions, the hotspot videos to be pushed are pushed to intelligent routers of all the regions in advance; users in the regions initiate the video-on-demand step to intelligent servers to obtain the required videos. Accordingly, by means of the method, the hotspot videos to be played can be predicted and are distributed in the low bandwidth cost time frame in advance, the predicting efficiency is improved as much as possible, the network playing cost is reduced, and the video playing quality is improved.

A location based mobile device system and application for providing artifact tours is described. The mobile device application of illustrative embodiments provides multimedia information regarding an array of artifacts pertinent to the location of the mobile device. The artifacts include both current and historical events, in addition to landmarks, architecture, famous persons associated with the location, natural phenomenon and age-based activities. Illustrative embodiments generate tours that connect artifacts by common theme and the current location of the mobile device. Information relevant to a particular location may be displayed or pushed on the mobile device unprompted when the device passes in proximity to a Bluetooth beacon.

The invention discloses an electronic recording / playback folding culture fan, and relates to a folding fan. The fan comprises a fan body; five notches are formed on one fan handle of the fan body, and a battery, a recording key, a dial wheel key, an electronic recording / playback system integrated circuit board and a loudspeaker are placed in the five notches respectively; a notch is formed on the other fan handle of the fan body, and a strong magnet is placed in the notch; and the battery, the recording key, the dial wheel key and the loudspeaker are connected with the electronic recording / playback system integrated circuit board respectively. Various voice contents corresponding to the contents on the surface of the fan can be designed and made according to the change of markets, and the language of the voice contents can be adjusted as required; and the fan is suitable to be matched with calligraphy and painting of famous persons and made into high-grade craft gifts, and particularly can be used for protecting various oral intangible cultural heritages.

The invention discloses an electronic recording / playback folding culture fan, and relates to a folding fan. The fan comprises a fan body; five notches are formed on one fan handle of the fan body, and a battery, a recording key, a dial wheel key, an electronic recording / playback system integrated circuit board and a loudspeaker are placed in the five notches respectively; a notch is formed on theother fan handle of the fan body, and a strong magnet is placed in the notch; and the battery, the recording key, the dial wheel key and the loudspeaker are connected with the electronic recording / playback system integrated circuit board respectively. Various voice contents corresponding to the contents on the surface of the fan can be designed and made according to the change of markets, and thelanguage of the voice contents can be adjusted as required; and the fan is suitable to be matched with calligraphy and painting of famous persons and made into high-grade craft gifts, and particularly can be used for protecting various oral intangible cultural heritages.

The invention relates to a celebrity contact center. Customers may become anorexia to interactions with agents. By providing the voice and / or image of a celebrity that masks the voice and / or image of the agent, the customer may appear to interact with a particular celebrity. As a result, customers are more likely to remain engaged and have a frontal experience. A celebrity or a particular personality of the celebrity may be selected from customer preferences and / or the purpose of the call. For example, the role of a movie star may have personality, e.g., "strict", suitable for soliciting calls (audio or audio-video), while scientists or technical innovators may be selected for technical support calls.