公开(公告)号：US07401121B2

公开(公告)日：2008-07-15

申请号：US11464081

申请日：2006-08-11

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04H60/73 ,  H04H20/93 ,  H04L12/1831 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/26 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system and method are disclosed which enable a user to locate target data from a temporal broadcast of data. The system includes a transportable identifier that represents the target data. The identifier further includes metadata that provides sufficient information about the broadcast of the target data such that the target data can be acquired when broadcast. The transportable identifier further may be sent to one or more other users to enable such users to locate the broadcast of the target data. As a result, one or more users may employ identifiers to locate the broadcast of the target data and, in turn, monitor and/or store the target data from the temporal broadcast.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种使得用户能够从数据的时间广播定位目标数据的系统和方法。 系统包括表示目标数据的可移动标识符。 标识符还包括提供关于目标数据的广播的足够信息的元数据，使得可以在广播时获取目标数据。 可传送标识符还可以发送到一个或多个其他用户，以使得这些用户能够定位目标数据的广播。 结果，一个或多个用户可以使用标识符来定位目标数据的广播，并且依次从时间广播监视和/或存储目标数据。

公开(公告)号：US20070294612A1

公开(公告)日：2007-12-20

申请号：US11425343

申请日：2006-06-20

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Georg F. Petschnigg ,  Maneesh Agrawala

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Georg F. Petschnigg ,  Maneesh Agrawala

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G09B5/00 ,  G06F16/4393

摘要： Sections of two or more sequential visual media are compared to identify correspondences between the two or more sequential visual media. A visualization of section correspondences between the two or more sequential visual media is generated.

摘要翻译： 比较两个或更多个顺序视觉媒体的部分以识别两个或更多个顺序的视觉媒体之间的对应关系。 生成两个或多个顺序视觉媒体之间的部分对应的可视化。

公开(公告)号：US07120619B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-10

申请号：US10420414

申请日：2003-04-22

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/3002 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/30058

摘要： The present invention provides a unique method and user interface that facilitates accessing and browsing objects in which a user begins with a center object (e.g., one or a few focal objects) displayed on a screen and related objects are populated on the screen as well. The related objects can be further organized into clusters whereby each cluster or grouping of objects expands on a particular attribute of the center object. The attributes correspond to metadata. Thus, the objects are populated based upon the metadata of the center object. According to one aspect, the user can access one or more specific objects having a plurality of attributes and then relax at least one of the attributes to see what other objects share at least one attribute with the center object. According to another aspect, the object having the closest match to a search request can be centrally displayed with other close matches arranged by their respective metadata.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的方法和用户界面，其便于访问和浏览用户以屏幕上显示的中心对象（例如，一个或几个焦点对象）开始的对象，并且相关对象也被填充在屏幕上。 可以将相关对象进一步组织成群集，由此每个群集或对象组在中心对象的特定属性上展开。 属性对应于元数据。 因此，基于中心对象的元数据填充对象。 根据一个方面，用户可以访问具有多个属性的一个或多个特定对象，然后放松至少一个属性，以查看哪些其他对象与中心对象共享至少一个属性。 根据另一方面，具有与搜索请求最匹配的对象可以通过其各自的元数据排列的其他紧密匹配集中显示。

公开(公告)号：US07117453B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-03

申请号：US10348122

申请日：2003-01-21

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve Glenner ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven D. DeMar

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve Glenner ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven D. DeMar

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30011 ,  G06F17/30274 ,  G06F17/30749 ,  G06F17/30775 ,  G06F17/30817 ,  G06F17/30849 ,  Y10S715/974

摘要： The present invention provides a unique system and method for facilitating browsing, sorting, clustering, and filtering any number of media objects grouped together in a quick and easy manner. In particular, the invention involves annotating the media objects, which have been clustered, sorted, and/or filtered en masse rather than individually, with metadata. The media objects may be selected by a user and annotated with a plurality of metadata as desired by a user in order to optimize utilization of the media objects. The media objects may also be combined and/or mixed in any number of ways to create new media objects. Media objects may include an audio component, a visual component, a portion thereof, and/or any combination thereof.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的系统和方法，用于以快速和容易的方式便于浏览，排序，聚类和过滤分组在一起的任何数量的媒体对象。 特别地，本发明涉及通过元数据来集成，排序和/或过滤集成，排序和/或过滤的媒体对象而不是单独地注释。 可以由用户选择媒体对象并且用用户期望的多个元数据注释，以便优化媒体对象的利用。 媒体对象也可以以任何数量的方式组合和/或混合以创建新的媒体对象。 媒体对象可以包括音频组件，视觉组件，其一部分和/或其任何组合。

公开(公告)号：US6049805A

公开(公告)日：2000-04-11

申请号：US28544

申请日：1998-02-24

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Kirk J. Marple ,  Don P. Mitchell ,  Manny Vellon

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Kirk J. Marple ,  Don P. Mitchell ,  Manny Vellon

IPC分类号： G06F9/46 ,  H04J3/02

CPC分类号： G06F9/542 ,  G06F9/465 ,  Y10S707/99931 ,  Y10S707/99943

摘要： A dynamic or latebound event mechanism provides event mechanism operation according to associational relationships among objects. In addition, objects may be responsive to event notification methods that are not initially within the original object definition, thereby allowing the event notification methods to be inherited by objects dynamically during run-time. One implementation utilizes the associations Self, Contents, and Peer for objects representing entities in a virtual world environment. Event notifications methods are promulgated among the objects corresponding to the entities in a sequence based upon the associational relationships between the entities.

摘要翻译： 动态或迟到事件机制根据对象之间的关联关系提供事件机制操作。 此外，对象可以响应于最初不在原始对象定义内的事件通知方法，从而允许事件通知方法在运行时动态地被对象继承。 一个实现利用虚拟世界环境中表示实体的对象的自身，内容和对等体的关联。 基于实体之间的关联关系，事件通知方法在与序列中的实体相对应的对象中公布。

公开(公告)号：US5736987A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-07

申请号：US618194

申请日：1996-03-19

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Donald P. Mitchell

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Donald P. Mitchell

IPC分类号： G06T15/00

CPC分类号： G06T15/00

摘要： Geometric data for a three-dimensional surface are compressed in regard to the data representing the continuity between triangles in a mesh that represents the three-dimensional surface. The geometric data include information defining the vertices of the triangles comprising the mesh, an indication of the triangle faces, and corner normals to each of the vertices shared by triangles having a common vertex, which indicates the continuity or discontinuity between adjacent triangles of the surface. Vertex rotation continuity (VRC) data are determined for each vertex shared by adjacent triangles, indicating whether the transition between the adjacent triangles is continuous or discontinuous. Further, a dihedral angle between each pair of adjacent triangles is determined and associated with the VRC bit. The VRC data are sorted by the associated dihedral angles, enabling an optimal dihedral angle to be selected. The optimal dihedral angle is chosen so as to minimize the number of errors in predicting the nature of the transition between adjacent triangles based on the dihedral angle between the adjacent triangle. Next, exception data are generated by comparing the dihedral angle for each pair of adjacent triangles to the optimal dihedral angle to predict a VRC bit, and noting any errors within the exception data. The exception data are encoded to further reduce the size of the compressed data used to represent the three-dimensional surface. The compressed data require less space for storage and are more efficiently transmitted to a remote site.

摘要翻译： 关于代表表示三维表面的网格中的三角形之间的连续性的数据，三维表面的几何数据被压缩。 几何数据包括定义包括网格的三角形的顶点的信息，三角形面的指示，以及由具有共同顶点的三角形共享的每个顶点的角法线，其指示表面的相邻三角形之间的连续性或不连续性 。 针对由相邻三角形共享的每个顶点确定顶点旋转连续性（VRC）数据，指示相邻三角形之间的过渡是连续的还是不连续的。 此外，确定每对相邻三角形之间的二面角并与VRC位相关联。 VRC数据按照相关的二面角进行排序，从而能够选择最佳的二面角。 选择最佳二面角，以便基于相邻三角形之间的二面角来最小化预测相邻三角形之间的过渡的性质的误差数。 接下来，通过将每对相邻三角形的二面角与最佳二面角进行比较来预测VRC位，并注意异常数据内的任何错误，产生异常数据。 编码异常数据以进一步减小用于表示三维表面的压缩数据的大小。 压缩数据需要更少的存储空间，并且更有效地传输到远程站点。

公开(公告)号：US20130268520A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-10

申请号：US13439563

申请日：2012-04-04

申请人： Danyel A. Fisher ,  Arnd Christian König ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Danyel A. Fisher ,  Arnd Christian König ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30477 ,  G06F17/30554

摘要： The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate.

摘要翻译： 主题公开涉及模拟查询执行以为全局数据集提供增量可视化。 数据存储可以被配置用于搜索存储在企业级数据存储中的全局数据集的至少一部分。 响应于用户发出的查询，部分查询结果被提供给前端接口以供用户显示。 前端接口还提供与全局数据集有关的部分查询结果对应的统计信息，可用于确定当前查询结果集合何时可接受为真实/准确的估计。

公开(公告)号：US08027541B2

公开(公告)日：2011-09-27

申请号：US11725129

申请日：2007-03-15

申请人： Gang Hua ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Michael Revow ,  Paul A. Viola ,  Richard Zemel

发明人： Gang Hua ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Michael Revow ,  Paul A. Viola ,  Richard Zemel

IPC分类号： G06K9/46

CPC分类号： G06K9/00228 ,  G06K9/6251

摘要： A system for organizing images includes an extraction component that extracts visual information (e.g., faces, scenes, etc.) from the images. The extracted visual information is provided to a comparison component which computes similarity confidence data between the extracted visual information. The similarity confidence data is an indication of the likelihood that items of extracted visual information are similar. The comparison component then generates a visual distribution of the extracted visual information based upon the similarity confidence data. The visual distribution can include groupings of the extracted visual information based on computed similarity confidence data. For example, the visual distribution can be a two-dimensional layout of faces organized based on the computed similarity confidence data—with faces in closer proximity faces computed to have a greater probability of representing the same person. The visual distribution can then be utilized by a user to sort, organize and/or tag images.

摘要翻译： 用于组织图像的系统包括从图像中提取视觉信息（例如，面部，场景等）的提取组件。 提取的视觉信息被提供给计算提取的视觉信息之间的相似性置信度数据的比较部件。 相似性置信度数据是提取的视觉信息的项目相似的可能性的指示。 然后，比较组件基于相似性置信度数据生成所提取的视觉信息的视觉分布。 视觉分布可以包括基于计算的相似性置信度数据提取的视觉信息的分组。 例如，视觉分布可以是基于所计算的相似性置信度数据组织的面部的二维布局，其中更接近的面中的面被计算为具有更大的代表同一人的概率。 然后用户可以利用视觉分布来对图像进行分类，组织和/或标记。

公开(公告)号：US07479950B2

公开(公告)日：2009-01-20

申请号：US12102236

申请日：2008-04-14

申请人： Joel P. Dehlin ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis Glenn Wong ,  Asta J. Roseway

发明人： Joel P. Dehlin ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis Glenn Wong ,  Asta J. Roseway

IPC分类号： G06F3/041

CPC分类号： G06F3/014 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G09G5/14 ,  G09G2354/00

摘要： Data elements stored in a computing system and associated with a physical object are reassociated with the same or another physical object. An identifying characteristic presented by the physical object, such as a reflective pattern applied to the object, is detected when the object is positioned adjacent to the interactive display surface. Images or other files associated with the identifying characteristic are accessed and displayed on the interactive display surface. A gesture by a user adjacent to the interactive display surface is detected to reassociate a selected representation. For example, the user can change where the selected element fits in a sequence of data elements, or reassociate the selected element with a second object placed on the interactive display surface. In a networked environment, the reassociated element can be stored on a server and subsequently accessed from a different interactive surface via the network using the second physical object.

摘要翻译： 存储在计算系统中并与物理对象相关联的数据元素与相同或另一物理对象重新关联。 当对象位于与交互式显示表面相邻时，检测由物理对象呈现的识别特征，例如应用于对象的反射图案。 与识别特征相关联的图像或其他文件被访问并显示在交互式显示表面上。 检测到与交互式显示表面相邻的用户的手势以重新关联所选择的表示。 例如，用户可以改变所选择的元素适合于数据元素序列的位置，或者将所选择的元素与放置在交互式显示表面上的第二对象重新关联。 在联网环境中，重新关联的元素可以存储在服务器上，并且随后通过使用第二物理对象的网络从不同的交互式表面访问。

公开(公告)号：US07383497B2

公开(公告)日：2008-06-03

申请号：US10348277

申请日：2003-01-21

申请人： Steve Glenner ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Steve Glenner ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30017

摘要： The present invention provides a unique system and method for facilitating browsing, sorting, clustering, and filtering any number of media objects grouped together in a quick and easy manner. In particular, the invention involves annotating the media objects, which have been clustered, sorted, and/or filtered en masse rather than individually, with metadata. The media objects may be selected by a user and annotated with a plurality of metadata as desired by a user in order to optimize utilization of the media objects. The media objects may also be combined and/or mixed in any number of ways to create new media objects. Media objects may include an audio component, a visual component, a portion thereof, and/or any combination thereof.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的系统和方法，用于以快速和容易的方式便于浏览，排序，聚类和过滤分组在一起的任何数量的媒体对象。 特别地，本发明涉及通过元数据来集成，排序和/或过滤集成，排序和/或过滤的媒体对象而不是单独地注释。 可以由用户选择媒体对象并且用用户期望的多个元数据注释，以便优化媒体对象的利用。 媒体对象也可以以任何数量的方式组合和/或混合以创建新的媒体对象。 媒体对象可以包括音频组件，视觉组件，其一部分和/或其任何组合。