Video-based rendering
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the following description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which ... Read More
Inventors: Szeliski, Richard S.; Salesin, David; Schodl, Arno;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Device and method of browsing an image collection
The invention claimed is: 1. A device for browsing an image collection, comprising browsing means for showing a sequence of representations in a browsing area, each representation corresponding to an ... Read More
Inventors: Van Den Hoven, Elise Anna Walthera Hendrina; Eggen, Josephus Hubertus;, Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
Computer system having fixed computers and mobile computers
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring firstly to FIG. 1 it can be seen that there is provided an airline system 1 which has a computer server device 3 provided within a secure area 5 within an airport. ... Read More
Inventors: Baxter, Geoffrey David;, Assignee: AAV Australia Pty Ltd (South Melbourne, AU) |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing firmware
The invention is a method and apparatus for synchronizing firmware, such as versions of software, associated with a first computer device and a second computer device. In accordance with one embodimen... Read More
Inventors: Northcutt, J. Duane; Wall, Gerard A.; Hanko, James G.; Stoltz, Benjamin H.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Information retrieval system
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be disclosed with reference to the attached drawings. First Embodiment FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a first p... Read More
Inventors: Yamaga, Yoko;, Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (Kanagawa-Ken, JP) |
Multiprocessor computer system
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION 2. NETWORK TOPOLOGY 3. SWITCH NODES 4. NETWORK CONTROLLERS 5. DIAGNOSTIC PROCESSORS 6. PACKAGING 7. TYPE-A BOARD 8. TYPE-B BOARD 9. TYPE-C BOARD 10.... Read More
Inventors: Neches, Philip M.; McMillen, Robert J.; Watson, M. Cameron; Chura, David J.;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
Virtual processor method and apparatus for enhancing parallelism and availability in computer systems
To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present inventio... Read More
Inventors: Kandasamy, David R.; Catozzi, John R.; Heying, Douglas W.;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
Truck bed cover
Accordingly, the above problems and difficulties are obviated by the present invention which provides a novel cover for a conventional truck bed which employs a rigid frame mountable along the edge ma... Read More
Inventors: Pirhonen, Ilkka J.;, Assignee: |
Vibration damper for the crankshaft of a piston engine
One feature of the present invention resides in the provision of a piston engine which comprises a housing, a crankshaft which is rotatably journalled in the housing, and means for damping vibrations ... Read More
Inventors: Haas, Wolfgang; Schmitt, Ruben; Gerhardt, Friedrich; Reik, Wolfgang; Lehmann, Steffen; Ruder, Willi;, Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau GmbH (Buhl/Baden, DE) |
Method of making an article from a lightweight cementitious composition and a decorative article made therefrom
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The system and method 10, shown schematically in FIG. 1, according to the present invention, mixes a castable cementitious mixture 20 including cement and perlite and form... Read More
Inventors: Spragg, Peter H.;, Assignee: |
Self tuning database retrieval optimization using regression functions
OF THE PREFERED EMBODIMENT With general reference to the figures and with special reference now to the basic steps of sampling and training, an application of a preferred embodiment of the present in... Read More
Inventors: Keller, Martin; Zuzarte, Calisto P.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for measuring similarity between a set of known temporal media segments and a one or more temporal media streams
OF THE INVENTION This system for measuring similarity between a set of known temporal media segments (reference streams) and one or more target media streams, or segments of target media streams, has... Read More
Inventors: Bolle, Rudolf Maarten; Hampapur, Arun;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, NY) |
Full-text relevancy ranking
A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. Each category of metadata includes at least o... Read More
Inventors: Diamond, Theodore George; Hendrick, Daniel Allen; Rehm, Eric Carl; Riesland, Melissa Anne;, Assignee: America Online, Inc. (Dulles, VA) |
Rich media event production system and method including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of RGB-based graphic content
An exemplary embodiment relates to a rich media event production method including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of RGB-based graphic content. The method includes capturing audio and video... Read More
Inventors: Dias, James; Subranmanian, Shankara;, Assignee: Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Madison, WI) |
Method and apparatus of retrieving continuous and non-continuous media data from a file system
FIG. 1 shows an exemplary architecture of a multimedia data file system 100 which provides for the retrieval of continuous and non-continuous media data files in accordance with the present invention... Read More
Inventors: Ozden, Banu; Rastogi, Rajeev; Silberschatz, Abraham;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Watermark enabled video objects
The following sections detail ways to encode and decode information, actions and links into video objects in a video sequence. A video object refers to a video signal depicting an object of a scene i... Read More
Inventors: Rhoads, Geoffrey B.;, Assignee: Digimarc Corporation (Tualatin, OR) |
System and method for efficiently encoding an image by prioritizing groups of spatially correlated coefficients based on an activity measure
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS While this invention is susceptible of embodiment in many different forms, there are shown in the drawings and will herein be described in detail specific embodiments, wi... Read More
Inventors: Suarez, Jose I.; Prieto, Yolanda; Pirez, Yolanda M.;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Method and system for gathering information by voice input
The present invention discloses a method and system for gathering information by voice input, especially a method and system for context-independent navigation in Web applications or related Web pages... Read More
Inventors: Guenther, Carsten; Haenel, Walter; Schaeck, Thomas;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method, product, and apparatus for processing a data request
The present invention assures that a response type may be automatically selected when a data request cannot be processed. The invention integrates the processing of fictitious domain names, valid doma... Read More
Inventors: Schneider, Eric;, Assignee: |
HTML guided web tour
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a guided tour of some portion of the World Wide Web which works as part of an ordinary web page, can be served by any web server, and can ... Read More
Inventors: Greer, Timothy Dan; Phillips, William Francis; Roden, Jr., Will Joseph;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Web application for accessing media streams
FIG. 1 shows a media access web page 10 generated by an Internet site that is particularly suited for accessing multimedia streams. The Internet site is "sequence-oriented", i.e., the user controls t... Read More
Inventors: Katinsky, Steve; Burress, Michael; Furtado, Jeffereson;, Assignee: SuperTuner.com (Santa Monica, CA) |
System and method for maintaining up-to-date link information in the metadata repository of a search engine
The present invention is a system and method for updating search engine indexes and link structure information that is more efficient, less time-consuming and less costly than prior techniques. The pr... Read More
Inventors: Huang, Anita Wai-Ling; Sundaresan, Neelakantan;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinks
The invention in which an exclusive right is claimed is defined by the following: 1. A method for promoting contextual information pertaining to a linked document to a display page containing a hyperl... Read More
Inventors: Hennings, Eric; Angiulo, Michael A.; Smith, Michael D.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Internet web browser with proximity sensitie hyperlink history report
Broadly, the present invention provides a web browser program that enables a computer to present historical information about hyperlinks shown on web pages. Initially, the computer determines whether ... Read More
Inventors: Becker, Craig Henry; Glass, David Wayne; Hocker, Michael David; McLean, James Gordon; Pickover, Clifford Alan; Winarski, Daniel James;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for providing a web-based operating system
The present invention is directed to a system and method that solves the problems of conventional computer systems by providing a web-based operating system and web-based computer applications to a us... Read More
Inventors: Malmer, Fredrik; Arvidsson, Erik Viktor; Morris, Drew E.; Pishevar, Shervin;, Assignee: Freewebs Corporation (Silver Spring, MD) |
Playlist mechanism for specification of complex memory objects
OF INVENTION The memory playlist is a data structure that defines the component objects, as well as the algorithm for combining those objects into a complex composite media object or data stream. The... Read More
Inventors: Hancock, Steven M.; Paulat, Jr., Martin J.; Parsons, Jr., John E.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Hierarchical menu graphical user interface
A system including an on-screen User interface display generates a display of multiple hierarchically ordered menus. The menus include a current menu and a preceding parent menu showing a selection pa... Read More
Inventors: Miller, Robert Howard; Crosby, Sheila Renee; Logan, Robert Joseph;, Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A. (Boulogne, FR) |
Semiconductor memory card, playback apparatus, recording apparatus, playback method, recording method, and computer-readable recording medium
It is a first object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor memory card that protects the copyrights of music contents stored therein while allowing users to edit the music contents. It i... Read More
Inventors: Hirota, Teruto; Tagawa, Kenji; Matsushima, Hideki; Ishikawa, Tomokazu; Inoue, Shinji; Kozuka, Masayuki;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Run-time object-synthesis and transparent client/server updating of distributed objects using a meta server of all object descriptors
A run-time object-updating system updates a distributed-object client-server application with client objects and server objects. The run-time object-updating system has a network connection on a serve... Read More
Inventors: Ma, Henry Chi-To; Lo, George C.;, Assignee: Adaptivity Inc. (San Mateo, CA) |
System and method for creating, executing and maintaining cross-enterprise processes
The present invention is a system and methods for creating, executing, and maintaining cross-enterprise processes. Cross-enterprise processes are shared automated business processes or workflows among... Read More
Inventors: Olsen, Gregory R.; Frost, Hildreth R.; Thirunavukkarasu, Chelliah; Nibbelink, Mitchell W.;, Assignee: Peregrine Force, Inc. (San Diego, CA) |
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