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A content-adaptive video preview system (100) allows to go faster through a video than existing video skimming techniques. Thereby, a user can interactively adapt (S1) the speed of browsing and/or the abstraction level of presentation.

According to one embodiment of the invention, this adaptation procedure (S1) is realized by the following steps: First, differences between precalculated spatial color histograms associated with chronologically subsequent pairs of video frames said video file is composed of are calculated (S1a). Then, these differences and/or a cumulative difference value representing the sum of these differences are compared (S1b) to a predefined redundancy threshold (S(t)). In case differences in the color histograms of particular video frames (302a-c) and/or said cumulative difference value exceed this redundancy threshold (S(t)), these video frames are selected (S1c) for the preview. Intermediate video frames (304a-d) are removed and/or inserted (S1d) between each pair of selected chronologically subsequent video frames depending on the selected abstraction level of presentation. Thereby, said redundancy threshold value (S(t)) can be adapted (S1b′) for changing the speed of browsing and/or the abstraction level of presentation.

In a similar face retrieval system for retrieving an image photographing a face similar to a face detected from a retrieval query image from a retrieval target image group by using an image photographing a human face as the retrieval query image, whole image features as features representative of background information are extracted from each whole area of an each image of a retrieval target image group, to calculate a degree of similarity through comparison with each set of whole image features, and an image having a degree of similarity not lower than a certain value and having a lower retrieval result order from retrieval results. It is possible to efficiently retrieve the same person playing in different scenes by utilizing different features for a retrieval process and a filtering process.

A system and process for navigating unstructured or loosely structured image sets on a display screen is presented. These image sets are navigated by grouping each image thereof into clusters and arranging the clusters in a left-to-right or up-and-down manner. A set number of the clusters are displayed to a viewer. The viewer can then scroll through and select another cluster in the arrangement as desired. Within a cluster, images are arranged in a grid in a sequence order based on a sequence number assigned to each in the clustering procedure. The viewer is also able to zoom into a selected cluster to, in effect, successively form smaller sub-clusters until only a single image is displayed in a cluster under consideration. In addition, the viewer can zoom out again in a similar manner.

On a device with an internet protocol network connection, an application is provided that allows a user to watch internet protocol television on the device. While the user is watching a first live internet protocol television program via the application on the device, an accurate current list of second through Nth live internet protocol television programs that are available to be watched by the user is displayed. The device could include, for example, a gaming console, a media streamer, or the like.

A browsing method and apparatus using metadata are disclosed. In the browsing method, multimedia content and metadata about the multimedia content are stored. The multimedia content is classified based on corresponding metadata of the multimedia content. Virtual folders containing the classified content are created. The content is browsed using the virtual folders. In a method of creating virtual folders, a root-node containing a plurality of multimedia content items is created. The root-node is divided into a number of nodes to create first-generation sub-nodes, and each of the first-generation sub-nodes is divided into a number of nodes to create n-th-generation sub-nodes. Nodes having no sub-nodes are created as virtual folders while searching the created nodes ranging from the first-generation sub-nodes to the n-th-generation sub-nodes in a certain sequence. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can efficiently browse and easily access desired content when there is a large number of content items.

The invention comprises, in one form thereof, an operator interface system for a touch screen device having a simplified graphic interface. The operator interface system includes a start screen having fewer than five start screen buttons. The touch screen device is generally a kiosk located within a store. A store map screen is linked to one of the start screen buttons and includes several department buttons integrated into a store layout. A products screen is linked to one of the start screen buttons and provides access to information about the plurality of products sold by the store organized into an intuitive hierarchy. A store services screen is linked to one of the start screen buttons and provides access to one or more service description screens.

The invention discloses an implementation method for an integrated security protection subsystem of a mobile office system. The implementation method includes the steps of triple mobile phone client identity authentication, triple background management system login security defense and tight service logic data security protection. The step of triple mobile phone client identity authentication includes password authentication, face recognition authentication and pattern password authentication. The step of triple background management system login security defense includes keyboard record prevention based on the simulative transmission keyboard information technology, a transparent one-time pad administrator login identity information encryption transmission mode based on RSA, and a double-factor authentication mode based on cloud pushing and combining dynamic passwords with static user names/passwords. Various kinds of security technology is transparently adopted, the data security is improved, multi-identity-authentication security defense is achieved, the access control capacity is enhanced, and notice announcement and news browsing of enterprises are safe and efficient through the integrated information security protection subsystem.

An image processing apparatus capable of automatically adjusting the enlargement ratio and the position of images and to display the noticed areas of all selected images is disclosed. When a two image display mode is selected, an image previously displayed (a first image) and an image to be displayed in the two image display mode (a second image) are loaded from a memory into a display controlling unit and a correction value calculating unit. The display controlling unit performs enlarging and moving operations with respect to the first image and the second image simultaneously. The correction value calculating unit searches for an area in the second image (a corrected area) most resembling an enlarged area in the first image so as to enlarge the corrected area in the second image. The images processed by the display controlling unit are transmitted to an image display memory.

The invention discloses a ship monitoring video key frame extraction method based on a two-way GRU and an attention mechanism, comprising the following steps: step S1: training a two-way GRU and an attention mechanism model by using a large number of seaside ship monitoring video data sets. Step S2, extracting key frames from ship monitoring video by using trained two-way GRU and attention mechanism model, and providing a set of key frames for quickly retrieving ship. By adopting the technical proposal of the invention, the key frames are extracted and applied to the ship monitoring video, a large number of redundant video frames are eliminated, efficient search and browsing of ship events are provided, and the overhead of video storage is saved. At the same time, two-way GRU and attentionmechanism are used to model the relationship between the video frames, and the temporal information is fused into the model, and the information at each time is given different weight, that is, eachtime gives different attention degree, so that the key frame set which is more consistent with human semantics can be obtained.

Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade, and create a barter listing or link between items, each link including one or more items a party wants to acquire, and one or more items the party has available to trade. The links are analyzed to determine when a potential trade can be completed between multiple parties to provide each party with one or more items they want from another party involved in the potential trade. If so, the parties involved in the potential trade are notified of the possibility of realizing the trade to enable the parties to approve or reject the potential trade.

In one aspect, a method of providing directive transitions between audio signals comprises associating a first/second browsing direction (A1, A2) with a first/second transition effect template. In response to a browsing action in one of said browsing directions, a transition is played in which an exit segment (S0-out1, S0-out2) and an entry segment (S1-in, S2-in) are mixed in accordance with the associated transition effect template. A further aspect proposes a method of transitioning between audio signals decoded from audio data including time markers encoded as audio metadata and indicating at least one section of the respective audio signal. The method includes retrieving time marking information in the audio data; extracting an exit segment (S0-out1, S0-out2) and an entry segment (S1-in, S2-in), wherein an endpoint of at least one of the segments is synchronized with a time marker; and playing a transition in which the exit and entry segments are mixed in accordance with a transition effect template.

The method comprises: a) the network client-side sends the HTTP request for browsing WEB or RSS website to WAP serving module through WAP gateway; b) the WAP serving module receives the HTTP request from client side, extracts the network address of WEB or RSS network to be browsed, and send it out; c) WEB browsing module receives the WEB or RSS network address relayed from WAP serving module and simulates the client side to construct a new HTTP request to establish network connection; d)the relevant WEB and RSS network returns the HTML or RSS content to the WEB browsing module according to the request; e) the WEB browsing module receives and relay the response message; f) format converting module receives the HTML data and makes conversion for it; g) WAP serving module transmitted the data to the WAP client side to display, browse and process through WAP gateway.

A digitalized audio-video information resource system for remote educatino is composed of information acquisition and edit system, andio-video informatino resource library system, user application system, and management system. It features that the hybrid architecture of said audio-video information resource library stem for integrating the advantages of B/S and C/S, hierarchical data managing mode, parallel presentation layer function layer/data layer/information service layer, two server systems for information service layer, and advanced stream medium technique.

A method and an apparatus for encoding and playing multimedia contents are provided. The method includes: separating media data and metadata from the multimedia contents; creating multimedia application format (MAF) metadata by using the separated metadata, the format of the MAF metadata being predetermined; and encoding the media data and the MAF metadata to generate an MAF file including a header, the MAF metadata, and the media data, the header having information that provides a location of the media data. Accordingly, in a process of integrating digital photos and other multimedia content files into one file in the application file format MAF, visual feature information obtained from photo data and the contents of the photo images, and a variety of hint feature information for effective indexing of photos are included as metadata and content application method tools based on the metadata are included. As a result, even when the user does not have a specific application or a function for applying metadata, general-purpose multimedia content files can be effectively used by effectively browsing the multimedia content files.

The invention discloses a system for managing a shear plate, which comprises an acquisition module, a memory module, a management module and a display module, wherein the acquisition module is used for detecting the cutting operation and/or the copying operation in a terminal, and acquiring cutting data; the memory module comprises a cache module and a fixed memory module; the cache module is used for reading out free cache space in the terminal and saving all the cutting data in the free cache space; the fixed memory module is used for saving historical cutting data in the cache module; the management module comprises a processing module and a sort module; the processing module is used for endowing each cutting data with a unique mark, saving the unique mark in the memory module, and unloading the historical cutting data in the cache module into the fixed memory module; the sort module is used for sorting the cutting data; and the display module is used for displaying information of the cutting data in the memory module. The invention further discloses a method for managing the shear plate.

Disclosed is an information display system capable of efficiently browsing items of information related by links. When displaying the information obtained by accessing a network, a plurality of display areas are formed, and plural items of information are displayed in these display areas. In this case, a display history of the information displayed may be stored, and the items of information displayed at the present or in the past may be displayed in a predetermined order in the respective display areas. When a first item of information displayed in a first display area is related to a second item of information, and when given an indication of displaying a second item of information, the second item of information may be displayed in a second display area while keeping the display of the first item of information in the first display area.

The invention discloses an automatic selecting method of a three-dimensional model optimal view. The automatic selecting method comprises the following steps of three-dimensional model set preprocessing, candidate view selection, and view evaluation. In the three-dimensional model set preprocessing, each three-dimensional model in a three-dimensional module set which is input is pre-processed so that the types of all three-dimensional models can be obtained, the process of three-dimensional model set preprocessing includes the steps of gesture correction, size scale normalization and three-dimensional model type judgment, and a type identification is set on each three-dimensional model in the three-dimensional model set. In candidate view selection, each view of the three-dimensional model is sampled, features and clusters are extracted so that a set of candidate views of the three-dimensional models can be obtained, and the process of the candidate view selection comprises the steps of three-dimensional view sampling, view feature extracting and view clustering. In view evaluation, the candidate views of the three-dimensional models are sorted, the view which is near the front is selected as an optimal view, and the process of view evaluation comprises the steps of distance computing and optimal view studying. The automatic selecting method is suitable for multiple types of three-dimensional models, and the obtained optimal view of the three-dimensional models with the same type has high posture consistency.

For courses that deal with media content, such as sound, music, photographic images, hand sketches, video, conventional techniques for automatically evaluating and grading assignments are generally ill-suited to direct evaluation of coursework submitted in media-rich form. Likewise, for courses whose subject includes programming, signal processing or other functionally-expressed designs that operate on, or are used to produce media content, conventional techniques are also ill-suited. Instead, it has been discovered that media-rich, indeed even expressive, content can be accommodated as, or as derivatives of, submissions using feature extraction and machine learning techniques. In this way, e.g., in on-line course offerings, even large numbers of students and student submissions may be accommodated in a scalable and uniform grading or scoring scheme. Likewise, large collections of coursework submissions (whether or not graded or scored) or media content more generally, may be efficiently browsed and grouped using techniques described herein.

The invention relates to the technical field of surveying and mapping, and discloses a street view image storage method and device based on mixed tile pyramids. The method includes acquiring and storing street view images; sorting the street view images according to the street view images to establish street view image sequences; calculating the horizontal angle width of a shooting camera according to the width of a street, and calculating overlapping regions of the street view images in the street view image sequences according to shooting positions of the street view images and the horizontal angle width of the shooting camera; when the overlapping regions of the street view images are larger than an overlap threshold, judging the street view images to be overlapped street view images, performing tile dividing on non-overlapped street view images in the street view image sequences, and establishing mixed tile pyramids to store the street view images. Overlapping degree of the street view images is reduced effectively, data redundancy is removed, efficient browsing of images is realized, and accurate measurement can be considered during quick browsing.