77 results about "Audiovisual technology" patented technology

Methods, devices, systems and tools are presented that allow the summarization of text, audio, and audiovisual presentations, such as movies, into less lengthy forms. High-content media files are shortened in a manner that preserves important details, by splitting the files into segments, rating the segments, and reassembling preferred segments into a final abridged piece. Summarization of media can be customized by user selection of criteria, and opens new possibilities for delivering entertainment, news, and information in the form of dense, information-rich content that can be viewed by means of broadcast or cable distribution, “on-demand” distribution, internet and cell phone digital video streaming, or can be downloaded onto an iPod™ and other portable video playback devices.

A system and method permit remote recovery of audio from audiovisual or multimedia content for a video display unit. Audio is recovered from the audiovisual content sent to a first network address and is packetized for transmission over a network that may utilized an existing wiring infrastructure that provides audio and video-on-demand content to a second network address. The audio packets are reassembled by hardware associated with the second network address and analog audio created from the audio packets is provided at an output to an audio device.

This is a portable information system which uses Global Positioning System (GPS) data as a key to automatically retrieve audiovisual data from a database. On a journey the system can automatically identify and describe places of specific interest to the user, landmarks and the history of nearby buildings, or locate hotels, hospitals, shops and products within a radius of the present position. Audible menus and voice command give hands-free and eyes-free control while driving, flying, sailing or walking.

An audiovisual system for displaying an audiovisual advertisement to a user includes a storage subsystem adapted to receive and store audiovisual advertising segments and to retrieve and transmit stored advertising segments. The audiovisual system further includes a preference determination module coupled to the storage subsystem. The preference determination module is responsive to user input and to metadata to generate one or more user profiles. Each user profile is indicative of characteristic viewing preferences of a corresponding user. The audiovisual system further includes a system controller coupled to the storage subsystem. The system controller is responsive to the metadata and to the user profile corresponding to the user to select and retrieve a plurality of stored advertising segments from the storage subsystem and to dynamically assemble the retrieved plurality of stored advertising segments to form the advertisement which is tailored to the characteristic viewing preferences of the user.

Embodiments of a method and a system are disclosed for remotely and dynamically managing, sequencing and retrieving audio-visual items from a central database in order to generate a customized digital audio-visual data stream. The content of this stream is associated to the selected items and can be visualized and/or stored in a storing device for a later use. An embodiment of this method is carried out via a central content database, central rights database and any number of rules databases (“Filters”) which can reflect changing parameters and rules of the system, which can pertain to evolving digital rights and permissions, marketing and other system goals and rules pertaining to information exchange between users. An example of a graphic and user-friendly interface is presented on a user terminal unit which can dynamically reflect both user and system generated changes, and dynamically present customized audio-visual streams (playlists) based on user selection and personalized preferences, system objectives and eventual play-list sharing between users.

A multicast scalable video communication server (MSVCS) is disposed in a multi-endpoint video conferencing system having multicast capabilities and in which audiovisual signals are scalably coded. The MVCVS additionally has unicast links to endpoints. The MSVCS caches audiovisual signal data received from endpoints over multicast communication channels, and retransmits the data over either unicast or multicast communication channels to an endpoint that requests the cached data.

The invention discloses a man-machine interaction method and system for online education based on artificial intelligence, and relates to the digitalized visual and acoustic technology in the field ofelectronic information. The system comprises a subsystem which can recognize the emotion of an audience and an intelligent session subsystem. Particularly, the two subsystems are combined with an online education system, thereby achieving the better presentation of the personalized teaching contents for the audience. The system starts from the improvement of the man-machine interaction vividnessof the online education. The emotion recognition subsystem judges the learning state of a user through the expression of the user when the user watches a video, and then the intelligent session subsystem carries out the machine Q&A interaction. The emotion recognition subsystem finally classifies the emotions of the audiences into seven types: angry, aversion, fear, sadness, surprise, neutrality,and happiness. The intelligent session subsystem will adjust the corresponding course content according to different emotions, and carry out the machine Q&A interaction, thereby achieving a purpose ofenabling the teacher-student interaction and feedback in the conventional class to be presented in an online mode, and enabling the online class to be more personalized.

Systems and methods are described for creating and expiring ad hoc communities of mobile and fixed-line phone and Internet users for the purpose of facilitating one-to-many communication amongst the users in response to live events. Embodiments of the invention allow one-to-many communication by any individual participant in a community to all other participants in a community via standard messaging protocols, and further allow dynamically generated content to be distributed amongst the participants in the community. Such dynamically generated content may include interactive contests amongst participants, surveys of the participants, or the distribution of audio visual content generated from or transmitted via mobile devices used by the participants. Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for preserving state data regarding the communities, participants, and events in order to facilitate concurrent participation in multiple communities.

Access to an audiovisual product is controlled by obscuring data. Cells 420 of audiovisual data A,B,C are reproduced by a sequence instruction 410 (e.g. a PGC or Program Chain). One such sequence instruction 410a correctly reproduces the audiovisual data A,B,C, but is hidden amongst many other sequence instructions 410b which incorrectly reproduce the sequence of cells 420 (e.g. as BAC, ACB, CAB, etc.).

According to one embodiment, video image and audio signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and an audio reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and audio has been set in a mute state is acquired from each of the electronic devices. Based on the information, a processing operation is applied to the video image and audio signals supplied to each of the electronic devices.

This is an invention of computing and its applications, more specifically information systems, in the areas of user interface and interactive systems for distribution of videos and games, with applications in various segments of networking systems and tele-radio digital diffusion. Particularly, it is about to a dynamic visual browser and its method of operation, which allows users to interact with video playlists while videos are being reproduced, ensuring an individualized, intuitive, and continuous experience simulating the behavior of consumption of television content, which can be shared with other users.

A method of and system of providing a realistic audiovisual representation at a remote location of a game occurring at a base location in which the base location and remote location are linked by a communications channel, including the steps of preparing a library of prerecorded video clips depicting events typically encountered in conducting a game, storing the library of the remote location, transmitting information as to the progress of a game from the base location to the remote location over the communication channel at the base location using the information to select appropriate video clips from the library that replicate the game, and presenting the selected video clips at the remote location to provide a realistic audiovisual representation.

Systems and methods to analyze a person's social media photos or videos, such as those posted on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. and determine properties of their social life. Using information on the number of people appearing in the photos or videos, their ages, and genders, this method can predict whether the person is in a romantic relationship, has a close family, is a group person, or is single. This information is valuable for generating audiovisual content recommendations as well as for advertisers, because it allows targeting personalized advertisements to the person posting the photos. The described methods may be performed (and the advertisements or other content may be selected for recommendation) substantially in real-time as the user accesses a specific online resource.

A first and a second language are presented in audiovisual and printed format with equal emphasis, so that either language can be learned. Moreover, the audiovisual and the printed format are presented in consistent format to reinforce the learning experience. The printed material may include a slider with a picture consistent with the image shown on the audiovisual format, and the slider can be moved to selectively reveal the spelling of the word in either the first or the second language. Other items, such as electronic books, toys and apparel can be used to present consistent images to reinforce the bilingual training.

The invention discloses a method for binding a mobile terminal to a digital audiovisual terminal. The method includes: acquiring an IP (internet protocol) of a private cloud server by the digital audiovisual terminal, generating a binding code from an IP of the digital audiovisual terminal and the IP of the private cloud server together with a random code, storing the binding code locally; acquiring the binding code from the digital audiovisual terminal by the mobile terminal, analyzing out the IP of the digital audiovisual terminal and the IP of the private cloud server from the binding code; transmitting the binding code to the private cloud server by the mobile terminal; analyzing the binding code by the private cloud server to acquire the IP of the audiovisual terminal, transmitting the binding code to the IP of the digital audiovisual terminal; comparing the received binding code with the locally stored binding code by the digital audiovisual terminal, judging whether the results are identical or not, and marking the binding code as a legal binding code by the digital audiovisual terminal when the results are identical.

A computer-implemented method is described for receiving at a computer identification of a product or service that is to be the subject of a video presentation, generating at the computer step-by-step guidance to a user specific to the subject of the video presentation on what to say in the video presentation, when to say it and how to record the subject of the video presentation, providing the step-by-step guidance from the computer to the user, receiving the video presentation at the computer and editing the video presentation at the computer. In some embodiments, the presentation is automatically processed to enhance it by combining it with additional audiovisual material, to compress it, to format it for Internet or broadcast delivery, and/or to route it for Internet or broadcast delivery. Computer apparatus for performing these steps is also described.

A method of healthcare management wherein set required standards of healthcare for insured participating physicians are controlled by the physicians liability insurer. The required standards include requiring audio or audio visual recording, and retention of such recordings, of consultations between the participating physician and a patient, and upon the occurrence of a malpractice claim by a patient, evaluating the claim as to whether litigation is warranted or unwarranted. Such evaluation includes at a minimum review of the audio recording by the participating physician, the patient and the physician's liability insurer. Additional parties, such as the court, may be involved in such evaluation as necessary. The patient is awarded compensation in cases of warranted litigation in accordance with the evaluation, and malpractice insurance premiums are reduced for the participating physicians.