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An approach is provided for supporting multi-media conferencing. Textual information (e.g., text associated with a presentation) is received for display during a conference session to multiple participants. For a particular participant, configuration information corresponding to the participant specifies language assistance for the textual information. Language assistance involves augmenting the textual information according to the configuration information for comprehension of the textual information by the particular participant. In one embodiment, the augmented textual information includes language translation of the textual information. Additionally, the augmented textual information can encompass definitions of terms, including acronyms. The augmented textual information is forwarded for display to the participant during the conference session.

A subscriber characterization system is presented in which the subscriber's selections are monitored, including monitoring of the time duration programming is watched, the volume at which the programming is listened to, and any available information regarding the type of programming, including category and sub-category of the programming. The characterization system can extract textual information related to the programming from closed captioning data, electronic program guides, or other text sources associated with the programming. The extracted information is used to form program characteristics vectors. The programming characteristics vectors can be used in combination with the subscriber selection data to form a subscriber profile. Heuristic rules indicating the relationships between programming choices and demographics can be applied to generate additional probabilistic information regarding demographics and programming and product interests.

Disclosed is a method for linguistic pattern recognition of information. Initially, textual information is retrieved from a data source utilizing a network. The textual information is then segmented into a plurality of phrases, which are then scanned for patterns of interest. For each pattern of interest found a corresponding event structure is built. Event structures that provide information about essentially the same incident are then merged.

An approach is provided for enhancing verbal communication sessions. A verbal component of a communication session is converted into textual information. The converted textual information is scanned for a text string to trigger an application. The application is invoked to provide supplemental information about the textual information or to perform an action in response to the textual information for or on behalf of a party of the communication session. The supplemental information or a confirmation of the action is transmitted to the party.

A system or method consistent with an embodiment of the present invention is useful in analyzing large volumes of different types of data, such as textual data, numeric data, categorical data, or sequential string data, for use in identifying relationships among the data types or different operations that have been performed on the data. A system or method consistent with the present invention determines and displays the relative content and context of related information and is operative to aid in identifying relationships among disparate data types. Various data types, such as numerical data, protein and DNA sequence data, categorical information, and textual information, such as annotations associated with the numerical data or research papers may be correlated for visual analysis. A variety of user-selectable views may be correlated for user interaction to identify relationships that exist among the different types of data or various operations performed on the data.

Furthermore, the user may explore the information contained in sets of records and their associated attributes through the use of interactive 2-D line charts and interactive summary miniplots.

Serving advertisements with (e.g., in) audio documents may be improved by (a) accepting at least a portion of a document including audio content, (b) analyzing the audio content to determine relevancy information for the document, and (c) determining at least one advertisement relevant to the document using at least the relevancy information and serving constraints associated with advertisements. The advertisements may be scored if more than one advertisement was determined to be relevant to the document. Then, at least one of the advertisements to be served with an ad spot for the document may be determined using at least the scores. Examples of documents include radio programs, live or recorded musical works with lyrics, live or recorded dramatic works with dialog or a monolog, live or recorded talk shows, voice mail, segments of an audio conversation, etc. The audio content may be analyzed to determine relevancy information for the document by converting the audio content to textual information using speech recognition. Then, relevancy information may be determined from the textual information.

A highly integrated and flexible system for vending products and services to consumers. The system receives information in advance of the vend by having the consumer insert an identification (ID) card, preferably a driver's license, into a point-of-purchase terminal (referred to as an OSU device). The OSU device preferably contains an Optical Scanning Unit (OSU), capable of scanning the textual information on the ID card. In one embodiment, the scanned information is compared against optical templates present in the system to discern or verify the information on the ID card, and is then used by the system to enable or disable the vending transaction, and/or to allow access to several preregistered system accounts.

This invention provides a video search system based on content including an analysis server of video, phone, caption and man-face, a merging analysis server, a video search server cluster and a search dispatch server, in which, the analysis server can analyze and pick up video content information from the video and generate related spelling pattern information by analyzing audio signals to set up video index by analyzing and describing video content word information, the merging analyzing system merges data got from video analysis, phone analysis and caption analysis to generate index information, the video index server cluster stores the video content and the structure by the analysis system, the search system can enquires various information and feed back the result to the search dispatch server, which receives the research request of the customer end to analyze and transmit the request to the research cluster and generate ordered enquiry result.

The present invention comprises a method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) with a linear map component. A database that includes data representing transportation segments and point of interest (POI) features is employed. Once the desired location is determined, the data relating to it is extracted from the database and presented to the user in a GUI in which individual transportation segments along the predetermined route or projected path of travel are shown in a linear format. The linear formatted segments are oriented vertically in the map display or printout in order to easily accommodate the display of textual information and/or links associated with POIs along the path of travel. Further information is displayed pursuant to user selection of links or icons in the main GUI screen.

A method is provided for optimizing an objective measure used to estimate mean opinion score or naturalness of synthesized speech from a speech synthesizer. The method includes using an objective measure that has components derived directly from textual information used to form synthesized utterances. The objective measure has a high correlation with mean opinion score such that a relationship can be formed between the objective measure and corresponding mean opinion score. The objective measure is altered to provide a different function of textual information derived from the utterances so as to improve the relationship between the scores of the objective measure and subjective ratings of the synthesized utterances.

A system, method, and computer-program product is provided for answering a natural language query in an automated manner. The answer is drawn from a body of textual information. Concepts in the body of textual information in a domain are expressed as a set of semantic headers. The semantic headers represent formalizations of select concepts in the information domain, and are created on the basis of expected queries. Moreover, queries are reduced to a canonical form. The answering process comprises the step of matching the formalized query, or translation formula, to one or more semantic headers. The pieces of text which correspond to those semantic headers are returned to the user as answers. The generality of a translation formula can be controlled. Steps can be taken to make the translation formula more general or less general. A user can clarify a translation formula if necessary. If the user provides a term that is not immediately recognized, then the user will be presented with a number of options. Each option represents one way in which the term in question can be clarified. The invention can then incorporate the new term into the translation formula and attempt to match one or more appropriate semantic headers. In addition, the domain can be expanded by parties other than the provider of the domain.

A computer implemented natural language processing method, the method including the steps of: analysing a sentence string within textual information to determine sub-components of the sentence string, assigning one or more unique tokens to each determined sub-component, determining a probability of use that a determined sub-component has one or more specific meanings, based on the determined probability of use, creating a valid set of unique tokens that are associated with the sentence string, and linking verb sub-components associated with one or more of the unique tokens in the valid set of unique tokens to a pre-defined limited sub-set of verbs to create an identification tuple that maps onto the sub-set of verbs.

The techniques described include generating tonal information from a textual entry and, further, applying this tonal information to PINYIN sequences using decision trees. For example, a method of predicting tone pattern information for textual information used in telecommunication systems includes parsing a textual entry into segments and identifying tonal information for the textual entry using the parsed segments. The tonal information can be generated with a decision tree. The method can also be implemented in a distributed system where the conversion is done at a back-end server and the information is sent to a communication device after a request.

The present invention involves detecting unsolicited electronic mail distributed in bulk. In one embodiment, a method for automatically processing electronic mail loads an electronic mail message. Non non-textual information is removed from the electronic mail message. A first portion from the electronic mail message is located and a first code smaller than the first portion and indicative of the first portion is generated. A second portion from the electronic mail message is located and a second code smaller than the second portion and indicative of the second portion is generated. The first code and the second code are stored.

This invention is a business system and method to perform categorization (classification) of multimedia items and to make business decisions based on the categorization of the item. The multimedia items are comprised of a multitude of disparate information sources, in particular, visual information and textual information. Classifiers are induced based on combining textual and visual feature vectors. Textual features are the traditional ones. Visual features include, but are not limited to, color properties of key intervals and motion properties of key intervals. The visual feature vectors are determined in such a fashion that the vectors are sparse. The text and the visual representation vectors are combined in a systematic and coherent fashion. This vector representation of a media item lends itself to well-established learning techniques and can be used for multimedia item categorization. The resulting business system, subject of this invention, can be used for many purposes. An example here are enforcement of copyright, trademark, intellectual property, parental guidance and common decency restrictions. Other uses are multimedia item classifier to determine routing of incoming items or building user profiles based on user multimedia preferences.

A method and apparatus for providing an interactive mapping and panoramic imaging application for utilization by a computer user is provided. A plurality of panoramic images are stored on a panoramic database, each panoramic image corresponding to a geographical location. A panoramic image is displayed on a screen and is navigable in response to input by the user. The panoramic image has embedded hotspots corresponding to selected panoramic images of geographically adjacent locations. Also displayed on the screen, simultaneously with the panoramic image, is a map image corresponding with the panoramic image. The map image is stored on a map database, and the map is navigable in response to input by the user. The map has embedded hotspots corresponding to the plurality of panoramic images. Also displayed on the screen, simultaneously with the panoramic image and the map image, is a text panel displaying textual information corresponding to the displayed panoramic image. The text panel is capable of receiving textual input from the user for activating a search of a text database having a plurality of text data corresponding to the plurality of panoramic images. The displayed panoramic image, the displayed map image and the displayed textual information are updated in response to the user activating a hotspot, such that the displayed panoramic image, the displayed map image and the displayed textual information correspond to one another.

The invention relates to computer science, information-search and intelligent systems, and can be used in developing information-search and other information and intelligent systems that operate on the basis of Internet. The invention provides the possibility of automatic creation of knowledge by extraction of knowledge from textual documents in electronic form in different languages; intelligent processing of textual information and users' requests to extract knowledge in any foreign language. The claimed method provides a mechanism of self-learning in the form of a stochastically indexed system of artifical intelligence, providing automatic instruction of the system in rules of grammatical and semantic analysis. The method includes creating databases of stochastically indexed dictionaries, tables of indices of linguistic texts and knowledge bases of morphological analysis; performing morphological and syntactical analysis, and also stochastic indexing of textual documents in respect to a given theme from the search system in a given language, and creating knowledge base of syntactical analysis. Stochastically indexed textual documents pertaining to the given theme are subjected to semantic analysis, and knowledge bases of semantic analysis. A user's request is compiled and transformed, in the stochastically indexed form, into a plurality of new requests that are equivalent to the original request; and stochastically indexed fragments of textual documents that comprise all word combinations of the transformed request are selected. A stochastically indexed structure is generated from the selected documents and basing on said structure by means of logical conclusion a brief reply of the system is generated. Relevancy of the obtained brief reply is checked by generating an interrogative sentence based on said reply, and by comparing said sentence with the request. When the user's request is identical to the obtained interrogative sentence, the decision is made that the brief reply of the system is identical to the request, and the reply is submitted to the user.

Methods and systems are provided that enable text in various sections of data records to be separately catalogued, indexed, or vectorized for analysis in a text visualization and mining system. A text processing system receives a plurality of data records, where each data record has one or a plurality of attribute fields associated with the records. The attributes fields containing textual information are identified. The specific textual content of each attribute field is identified. An index is generated that associates the textual content contained in each attribute field with the attribute field containing the textual content. The index is operable for use in text processing. The plurality of data records may be located in a data table and the textual information may be contained within cells of the data table. In another aspect, a plurality of data records is received, where at least some of the data records contain text terms. A first method is applied to weight text terms of the data records in a first manner to aid in distinguishing records from each other in response to selection of the first method. A second method is applied to weight text terms of the data records in a second manner to aid in distinguishing records from each other in response to selection of the second method. A vector is generated to distinguish each of the data records based on the text terms weighted by either the first or second method.

A computer system includes a symptoms database having symptoms that relate to problems, where each symptom includes an event correlation rule having corresponding predicates. To identify a root cause of a problem, collected events are correlated with symptoms based upon their associated event correlation rule(s). For each symptom at least partially matched to an event, visualization information is associated with corresponding events based upon the visualization attribute of the symptom, and textual information is associated with event based upon the recommendation of the symptom. Moreover, recommendations may be provided to an operator, such as based upon information associated with the symptom. The event and symptom data is analyzed by grouping events in the set of events based upon their associated visualization information and presenting the textual information associated with an operator-selected event.

A system for computer-based storing of information about a current state so that later recall of the information can augment human memories In particular, when information about a current event of interest is to be stored, a variety of current state information of different types (e.g., video, audio, and textual information) about the environment and about a user can be acquired via sensors and other input devices. The variety of state information can then be associated together as a group and stored for later retrieval. Other information can also be associated with the group, such as one or more recall tags that facilitate later retrieval of the group, or one or more annotations to provide contextual information when the other state information is later retrieved and presented to the user. When information about a past event is to be recalled, one or more identifying recall tags can be received that are used to identify one or more state information groups that match the identifying tags. Some or all of the previously-acquired state information for the identified state information groups can then be presented to the user on appropriate output devices. Other information, such as annotations, can also be presented to the user in order to describe the state information and thus assist the user's recollection of the previous state when the information was stored.

This invention provides a method and system for analyzing and deriving analytical insights from textual information. The information structuration process determines the structure in which the text information is rendered. A cyclical extraction process using the parameters of co-frequency, co-dependency, and co-relatedness and parts of speech, determines various textual aspects and their subcomponents such as themes and dimensions. Using the subcomponents of the textual aspects, relationship maps are built, disambiguated and ranked. A text analytics and decision support matrix is created using the ranked relations, thereby providing a highly relevant result set to the user's information need. A multidimensional navigation matrix is created that helps a user navigate across dimensions.

A video display apparatus with separate display means is provided so that the textual information can be displayed without preventing viewers from watching the full picture. The separate display means can be provided for a television receiver so that textual information, which includes closed caption text and subtitles, can be displayed on the separate display means without occupying the picture area. The separate display means can be provided for a screen in a movie theater so that subtitles can be displayed on the separate display means when a foreign movie is played. The separate display unit can be used to display other textual information, including a channel number, a name of the broadcasting station, the title of the current program and the remaining time of the current program. Furthermore, the separate display unit can display information on a local weather and a local time.

The present invention provides a very flexible, digital system for capturing and storing panoramic images using progressive scan (that is, non interlaced) technology. The system includes a digital image input device and an associated control computer. Since the image capture device is digital it can be easily and flexibly controlled by software in the control computer. The image input device has six lenses positioned on the six faces of a cube. While the image input system can have other lens configurations, the use of six lenses in a cubic configuration is optimal for a system that is used to capture a spherical panorama. The six lenses simultaneously focuses different images on six CCDs (Charge Coupled Devices). The image input device also includes an embedded controller, and data compression circuitry. The embedded controller controls the exposure time of the CCDs (i.e. the effective aperture and effective shutter speed) and reads image data from the CCDs. The image data read from the CCDs is compressed, multiplexed, and sent to the control computer. The control computer stores the images in frames, each of which have one image from each of the six lenses. Each frame includes six images that were simultaneously recorded and any associated information, such as audio tracks, textual information, or environmental information such as GPS (Global Position System) data or artificial horizon data. The control computer includes a user interface which allows a user to specify control information such as frame rate, compression ratio, gain, etc. The control computer sends control information to the embedded controller which in turn controls the CCDs and the compression circuitry. The images can be sent from the control computer to a real time viewer so that a user can determine if the correct images are being captured. The images stored at the control computer are later seamed into panoramas and made into panoramic movies.

An optically transparent, ghost-free visual display system that superimposes a virtual image comprising graphical or textual information onto a field of vision. Embodiments of the visual display system utilize illumination and optical components that introduce a virtual image onto a field of vision while minimally obstructing and/or attenuating other objects within the field of vision. Embodiments of the visual display system can be used in numerous applications, including head-up displays (“HUDs”) for automotive, tracked and rail-mounted vehicles, marine, aerospace applications, see-through speech prompt displays, and see-through projection displays.

The present invention requires to protect a conditional generative adversarial network-based online handwriting identification method. The method comprises the steps of 101 using a user registration module to register the basic information of a user; 102 using a reception module to receive a section of character information inputted by the user, wherein the information comprises the character writing style, the character writing strength and the character writing spacing; 103 training a conditional generative adversarial network on a handwriting signature data set by taking the category labels as the conditions, and being able to generate the corresponding directional digital features according to the information of the category labels; 104 using a handwriting identification module, using the conditional generative adversarial network to mine the personalized handwriting of the user and using an adversarial network signature discrimination model D which is a dichotomy device to discriminate whether the inputted data is the real handwriting data or a generated sample; 105 using an application module to apply the handwriting identification to an access control system and a plurality of user document signing scenes. The conditional generative adversarial network-based online handwriting identification method of the present invention has higher stability, safety and convenience, at the same time, can identify the handwriting style, strength and spacing information of the users by combining a conditional generative adversarial network method, and avoids the problem that the character features are not extracted completely.

The invention provides a voice recognition processing and feedback system and a voice response method. The method includes the steps of collecting user's voice information, identifying the user's voice information and transforming the identified voice information into text information, generating a text feedback corresponding to the text information, detecting the user's gender and age, acquiring and storing a male speech database, a female voice database and a children speech database, selecting the female speech database to perform the speech synthesis of the text feedback so as to generate a female voice file to reply to the user when the detected user is a male but not a child, selecting the male speech database to perform the speech synthesis of the text feedback so as to generate a male voice file to reply to the user when the detected user is a female but not a child, and selecting the children database to perform the speech synthesis of the text feedback so as to generate a cartoon voice file to reply to the user when the detected user is a child. With the method, different voice responses with different tones can be generated based on a speaker's age and gender.

The present invention provides methods and systems to enable fast, efficient, and scalable means for fingerprinting textual information using word runs. The present system receives textual information and provides algorithms to convert the information into representative fingerprints. In one embodiment, the fingerprints are recorded in a repository to maintain a database of an organization's secure data. In another embodiment, textual information entered by a user is verified against the repository of fingerprints to prevent unauthorized disclosure of secure data. This invention provides approaches to allow derivative works (e.g., different ordering of words, substitution of words with synonyms, etc.) of the original information to be detected at the sentence level or even at the paragraph level. This invention also provides means for enhancing storage and resource efficiencies by providing approaches to optimize the number of fingerprints generated for the textual information.

The invention relates to a system and method for converting audio/video data into written records. The system comprises a data acquisition part, a data recognition part and a data organization part. The data acquisition part comprises an audio acquisition module and a video acquisition module. The data recognition part comprises a voice and voiceprint recognition module and a face and expression recognition module. The data organization part generates the written records according to text information, recognition starting time, the identity tag of the current speaker and the emotion of the current speaker. The whole audio/video data process is saved more meticulously and more completely, so as to be closer to reality. Audio/video data are converted into texts to be saved, so that storage cost and transmission cost are reduced greatly, follow-up checking of records can be achieved conveniently, and conference content can be browsed and positioned more quickly.

The invention discloses a mobile terminal learning method and a learning system thereof. The mobile terminal learning method comprises the following steps of step 1: capturing a text image through a camera of a mobile terminal, identifying the type of information on the image, and transmitting the image to a server through the mobile terminal, wherein the type of information comprises character information type and picture information type; step 2: identifying the information of the image and extracting character or/and picture information on the image through the server; step 3: invoking relative learning material information in a server database according to the identified character or/and picture information; and step 4: transmitting the learning material information to the mobile terminal, overlaying the learning material information and an original text image captured by the camera and displaying on a display interface of the mobile terminal. According to the mobile terminal learning method and the learning system thereof, disclosed by the invention, internet information is obtained and is provided for a user by constructing connection between the server and the mobile terminal, so that a simple, practical, abundant-content and visual learning manner is provided for the user, and the internet information can be updated in real time.

A computer method and system for storing, retrieving and displaying information has a multiplexing agent (20) that calculates a new document vector (25) for a new document (21) to be added to the system and transmits the new document vector (25) to master cluster agents (22) and cluster agents (23) for evaluation. These agents (22, 23) perform the evaluation and return values upstream to the multiplexing agent (20) based on the similarity of the document to documents stored under their control. The multiplexing agent (20) then sends the document (21) and the document vector (25) to the master cluster agent (22), which then forwards it to a cluster agent (23) or creates a new cluster agent (23) to manage the document (21). The system also searches for stored documents according to a search query having at least one term and identifying the documents found in the search, and displays the documents in a clustering display (80) of similarity so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other.