56 results about "Multimedia search" patented technology

An automatic multimedia searching method and the multimedia downloading system thereof are provided, which are capable of increasing user's convenience on multimedia searching and downloading events. The method includes the following steps. First, an electronic device which stores a multimedia file and a data source connection are provided. Next, a multimedia file is played. When playing the multimedia file, the electronic device automatically searches the data source for multimedia files having the same content as the content of the information tag in the multimedia file. Finally, the found multimedia files are displayed on the electronic device.

An architecture for a multimedia search system is described. To perform similarity matching of multimedia query frames against reference content, reference database comprising of a cluster index using cluster keys to perform similarity matching and a multimedia index to perform sequence matching is built. Methods to update and maintain the reference database that enables addition and removal of the multimedia contents, including portions of multimedia content, from the reference database in a running system are described. Hierarchical multi-level partitioning methods to organize the reference database are presented. Smart partitioning of the reference multimedia content according to the nature of the multimedia content, and according to the popularity among the social media, that supports scalable fast multimedia identification is also presented. A caching mechanism for multimedia search queries in a centralized or in a decentralized distributed system and a client based local multimedia search system enabling multimedia tracking are described.

An architecture for a multimedia search system is described. To perform similarity matching of multimedia query frames against reference content, reference database comprising of a cluster index using cluster keys to perform similarity matching and a multimedia index to perform sequence matching is built. Methods to update and maintain the reference database that enables addition and removal of the multimedia contents, including portions of multimedia content, from the reference database in a running system are described. Hierarchical multi-level partitioning methods to organize the reference database are presented. Smart partitioning of the reference multimedia content according to the nature of the multimedia content, and according to the popularity among the social media, that supports scalable fast multimedia identification is also presented. A caching mechanism for multimedia search queries in a centralized or in a decentralized distributed system and a client based local multimedia search system enabling multimedia tracking are described.

The invention discloses a network multimedia searching and inquiry method integrating individualization and collaboration, which includes the following steps: (1) existing semantic information is adopted to automatically mark media object semanteme; (2) a user sub-file containing user information and personal preferences is established and a searching system sorts and optimizes the searched results according to the intention of the user; (3) the weight of each key phrase in the user sub-file is dynamically adjusted according to relevant feedbacks of the user so as to more accurately reflect the user intention; (4) a multi-layer sub-file mode respectively including the user sub-file, group sub-file and community sub-file is established and a succession and sharing mechanism is preserved between layers so as to both strive for sameness and allow the existence of difference and support a mass storage; (5) multi-modal information is converged and analyzed for multimedia semantic understanding so as to realize the cross-modal multimedia object searching. The invention can accurately learn about the intention of users and realize the high-accurate, individualized and cross-modal multimedia searching.

A multimedia search and indexing system automatically selects scenes or events of interest from any media, i.e., video, film, sound for replay, in whole or in part, in other contexts. The entire audio track of a recorded event in video, film, sound, etc., is analyzed to determine audio levels within a set of frequency ranges of interest. Audio clip levels within the selected frequency ranges are chosen as audio cues representative of events of interest in the track. The selection criteria are applied to the audio track of the recorded event. An Edit Decision List (EDL) is generated from the analysis of the audio track. The list is representative of scenes or sounds of interest as clips for reuse. The clips are reviewed and accepted or rejected for reuse. Once selected, the clips are edited using industry standard audio and video editing techniques.

A method and apparatus for timed tagging of content is featured. The method and apparatus can include the steps of, or structure for, obtaining at least one keyword tag associated with discrete media content; generating a timed segment index of discrete media content, the timed segment index identifying content segments of the discrete media content and corresponding timing boundaries of the content segments; searching the timed segment index for a match to the at least one keyword tag, the match corresponding to at least one of the content segments identified in the segment index; and generating a timed tag index that includes the at least one keyword tag and the timing boundaries corresponding to the least one content segment of the discrete media content containing the match.

A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

The Invention is a method and apparatus for automatic retrieval, organization, correlation and presentation of text, image, audio, or video data in a sequential manner. A user searches a database available on a computer network using a text search engine to locate a text document. The text document is automatically read and parsed to identify text portions and key phrases. The key phrases are used to automatically search a multimedia file database available on the computer network using a multimedia search engine, such as an image search engine. Multimedia documents containing multimedia files are retrieved. Text in the multimedia documents is compared to the key terms and to the query terms and the multimedia documents are ranked by relevance using a variety of techniques including ranking, indexing, statistical analysis and natural language processing. Each text portion in the text document is stored in association with the most relevant multimedia file for that text portion. The resulting correlated information is displayed to the user in a sequence of text, audio, image or video data.

A system and method for generating responsibility vectors associated with multi-media files (e.g., audio and / or video files) is provided. The responsibility vectors are based upon responsibility of mixture components fitted to a mixture model for frames of the files. The responsibility vectors can be grouped based upon clustering related to extracted identifiable features of frames of the multi-media files. Once generated, responsibility vectors can be searched by a multi-media searching system.Also provided is a system for multi-media searching based, at least in part upon responsibility vectors associated with a query segment and multi-media files. The system can generate a query profile based, at least in part, upon responsibility vectors of frames of the query segment. The system can further generate segment profiles of segments of the multi-media files. The system can then provide information associated with a likelihood that a particular file of the multi-media files includes the query segment based, at least in part, upon the query profile and a segment profile of the particular file.

A multi-media search and indexing system for automatic selection of scenes or sounds recorded in media for replay in other context by analyzing the media for a set of frequency ranges of interest for replay. The media is analyzed to select desired frequency ranges of interest within the media, the selected frequency ranges being indicative of a scene or sound of interest. The granularity or length of the selected frequency ranges is selected for analysis. A number of analysis intervals are determined in the selected frequency ranges. The media is filtered for the selected frequency ranges and the audio level is measured for each interval. An audio clip level is established for each frequency range as indicative of a scene or sound of interest. The interval frequency range and audio level are recorded for subsequent replay.

A system and method is disclosed for processing viewer profiles and program metadata from a number of sources to provide viewing suggestions and recommendations to one or more viewers.

The invention aims at providing a method and an equipment used for multi-media resource searching, wherein the multi-media searching equipment obtains the query sequence of the user; according to the query sequence, matching query is conducted in an index information bank so as to obtain a multi-media searching result corresponding to the query sequence; according to the multi-media searching result and a page corresponding to the multi-media searching result, a searching result corresponding to the query sequence is generated; and the searching result is provided for the user. The method and equipment realize that the user can obtain the multi-media resource information corresponding to the query sequence by directly browsing the searching result without clicking the searching result; the searching result clicking cost of the user, caused by querying the multi-media resource needed, can be reduced; the fast positioning of the multi-media resource searching result is realized; the searching efficiency and the searching accuracy of the user can be greatly improved, and the searching experience of the user is promoted.

The present invention relates generally to a multiple deck multimedia device suitably seamless, that is, transparent to the user, through its interconnection, control, signal routing, multimedia content management, and the like. For example, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the multimedia device enables viewing, listening, multimedia searching and fetching, and similar functions while simultaneously providing the ability to record and / or store other multimedia content through a single user interface. Additionally, while the following description is directed to a dual DVD and VCR, in accordance with various alternative embodiments of the present invention, the multimedia device may suitably comprise other sources of multimedia content delivery systems. For example, various analog and / or digital systems including hard disk drives, magnetic tape, alternative optical media, solid state memory and other removable or fixed media may be used. Likewise, any number of these decks may be included into the multimedia device.

The invention discloses a multisource internet resource device based on meta search engine, and a method thereof. The device is provided with a user unit, an overlay network unit, a search unit and a downloading unit, all the units or software are deployed at the client terminal to complete all the downloading operation at the client terminal so as to weaken dependence of existing downloading devices on central server or multimedia search database, and fully utilize development of meta search engine to perform downloading application of internet. The device fully utilizes meta search engine of internet to position and discover file source address, performs multi-address search of the same resource to a target file, and perform parallel downloading and merging to the target resource by the multisource downloading technology, thus utilizing development of various search engines, improving accuracy of search results, and providing more fast and stable downloading service by utilizing the multisource downloading technology. Moreover, the resource addresses and search are set based on users, thus meeting personalized demand of users.

Disclosed is a multimedia searching method and apparatus that can achieve a high performance and provide a interoperability by defining a histogram using uniformly quantized bin values as a standard histogram, and a comparative search can be performed using a search histogram having non-uniformly-quantized bin values based on the standard histogram. The non-uniformly quantized bin values of the search histogram can be determined for each application by non-uniformly combining the uniformly-quantized bin values. According to a method, the histogram is defined as a standard histogram, and a comparative search is performed by converting the standard histogram. Further, a standard histogram obtained by uniformly quantizing a given color space can be converted into a search histogram (e.g., determined for a certain application) by non-uniformly combining the bins obtained by uniformly quantizing the color space into the N partial regions.

An architecture for a multimedia search system is described. To perform similarity matching of multimedia query frames against reference content, reference database comprising of a cluster index using cluster keys to perform similarity matching and a multimedia index to perform sequence matching is built. Methods to update and maintain the reference database that enables addition and removal of the multimedia contents, including portions of multimedia content, from the reference database in a running system are described. Hierarchical multi-level partitioning methods to organize the reference database are presented. Smart partitioning of the reference multimedia content according to the nature of the multimedia content, and according to the popularity among the social media, that supports scalable fast multimedia identification is also presented. A caching mechanism for multimedia search queries in a centralized or in a decentralized distributed system and a client based local multimedia search system enabling multimedia tracking are described.

A MediaDescription data structure that includes both descriptive metadata, such as EPG information, about a multimedia content item and instructions for acquiring the content item is assigned to each multimedia content item in a multimedia system. A MediaDescription data structure is transferable as a token for representing the content item. The acquisition information may also include information about presenting the content item in different view contexts, as well as information about relationships to other pieces of content, and information about how each different version of the content item is to be acquired and displayed. MediaDescription data structure tokens can be used to facilitate digital video recording (DVR) processes, Internet content rendering processes, multimedia search processes, search results aggregating processes, video-on-demand (VOD) processes, pay-per-view processes, and program guide rendering processes.

This invention provides a multimedia resource sharing method, a system and a mobile terminal of instant communication, wherein the method includes the following steps: a first mobile terminal enters into a multimedia searching interface through an interface port assembled in the instant communication interface according to instructions of users; the first mobile terminal produces multimedia searching requests according to searching words input by the users, and sends the multimedia searching requests to a searching server; the searching server searches the corresponding multimedia resources based on the multimedia search requests, and returns address information of the multimedia resources back to the first mobile terminal; the first mobile terminal generates an instant message according to the address information of the multimedia resources, and sends the instant messages to the first mobile terminal. The second mobile terminal gains the corresponding multimedia resources according to the address information. The content transmission of the multimedia resources is unnecessary, the sharing efficiency of the instant communication of the multimedia resources is improved, and the multimedia resource sharing method, the system and the mobile terminal of the instant communication have the advantages of being strong in instantaneity, easy to operate, good in user experience.

This invention discloses a multimedia search process method based on TV used in wideband video selection system containing a pilot server and at least one terminal, the server stores total program information provided by network program providers and provides enquiry operation to the terminal including: 1. when the terminal requests for enquiry to the server which finds out necessary information from all program information and delivers the result directly to the user terminal, 2. the terminal stores the result, 3. the terminal fetches coherent data program information from the result and display it on TV according to numbers of programs displayed on TV.

The present invention relates to a method for generating a multimedia user profile, and a multimedia search and browsing method using the user profile, which is capable of displaying search items in order of higher user preference to the ordering criteria of the search item that the user prefers, and searching and browsing a multimedia object using the search items displayed according to the user preference. The present invention can be adapted to multimedia service systems such as a digital VTR (Video Tape Recorder), a VOD (Video On Demand), an AOD (Audio On Demand), and an Internet. In addition, the user profile for searching and browsing the multimedia according to the present invention can creates an environment that a user can perform a convenient and easy method of searching and browsing the user-desired multimedia object according to the user preference.

In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method selects a program from a library of programs. A user selection is determined based upon a voice command, and the program is presented at a display device in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a system selects a program from a library of programs. The system includes a processor that determines a user selection based upon a voice command, and also includes a display device that presents the program in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with yet another embodiment of the present invention, a computer-readable medium contains a set of instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to determine a user selection based upon a voice command and to command a display device to present the program, in accordance with the voice command.

A multimedia search system that provides search results which may be in the form of multiple data types, including text, icon, audio, video, and / or multimedia. The system also provides the ability to preview data video associated with a potentially linkable Web site listed in the search results screen, without linking directly to the Web site, by previewing a video file from that linkable Web site on the search results screen. The searcher then has the option of linking to that Web site based on information delivered by the previewed video file. The user also has the ability to search using the numerical system in which a numerical index is used to access data which is hierarchically categorized and sub categorized in a station / channel / program structured environment. The user can directly access stations, channels, or programs using predefined numerical index numbers.

A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and / or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic.

The invention provides a multi-media searching method, comprising the following steps: a search condition sent by a client side is received, and the search condition comprises feature extraction algorithm ID and eigenvalue extracted by the feature extraction algorithm, corresponding to the feature extraction algorithm ID; a member multi-media search engine, corresponding to the feature extractionalgorithm ID, is chosen according to the feature extraction algorithm ID; the feature extraction algorithm ID and a search query of the eigenvalue are sent to the member multi-media search engine to search. A meta-search server is in charge of interoperability information maintenance of the feature extraction algorithm, a standardized feature extraction algorithm is avoided, support capacity of feature extraction algorithm of all member multi-media search engines is integrated by the meta-search server, so as to ensure the consistence of the feature extraction algorithm of the client side andthe member multi-media search engine.

The invention provides a multimedia file searching method and device, and relates to the field of internet multimedia. The multimedia file searching method and device can expand the searching range of a user, improve the searching matching rate and reduce the searching cost. The multimedia file searching method comprises the steps that a network-wide data base is established in advance, wherein the network-wide data base at least comprises multimedia file resources, with playing copyright, of a website itself, multimedia file resources of foreign cooperation websites and multimedia file resources which are captured from external websites through the crawler technology; a multimedia searching device receives multimedia file searching information sent from an electronic device and obtains the multimedia file resource matched with the multimedia file searching information from the network-side data base according to the multimedia file searching information; then, the multimedia file resource is sent to the electronic device.

A method and system for allowing a regional advertiser or publisher or merchant to assemble one or more natural language phrases: from information about the advertiser or publisher or merchant, from the region in which they wish to associate, from natural language phrases with which they wish to associate, from data feeds, and from programmatic instructions they wish to convey. When an enduser uses natural language phrases in a search or directory navigation system that matches the natural language phrases placed in the system, directly or indirectly, provided by the advertiser or publisher or merchant, text and / or glyphs are returned along with the company business listing so as to explain to a user why the result set matches the enduser request. An application programming interface ensures that, if a business is listed as a regional advertiser or publisher or merchant, then the text and / or glyph is stored in association with the business listing. The enduser accesses the system via web, wireless, or a voice-driven interface.

A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and / or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic.

A multimedia system including a system database, an input module, a search module and an output module is provided. At least one multimedia content and its subtitle file are stored in the system database firstly. The subtitle file has a plurality of start times and subtitles of segments. A keyword is input in the input module and the segments having the keyword are searched from the subtitle files of the system database by the search module. The segments having the keyword and their subtitles are output by the output module finally. A multimedia search engine is also disclosed therein.