Customization of information retrieval through user-supplied code
    1.
    发明授权
    Customization of information retrieval through user-supplied code 有权
    通过用户提供的代码定制信息检索

    公开(公告)号:US06611834B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-08-26

    申请号:US09481359

    申请日:2000-01-12

    IPC分类号: G06F1730

    摘要: A user at a client machine can customize components of a database search performed at a server. The user does this by sending executable code to the database server. Software code runs as middleware on the database server machine to communicate between the database server and the client and performs the functions of supplying the client with vital information required for generating code which will be used for customizing various processes of the database retrieval session. Typically, the server comprises a set of database servers and the middleware runs on each database server machine to communicate between the database servers and the client. The middleware provides a virtual machine on which the user-supplied code written in a virtual machine language is executed, giving a uniform interface across the set of database servers on which the same user-supplied code will be executed ensuring that the user-supplied code executes under database server specified access privileges.

    摘要翻译: 客户端机器上的用户可以定制在服务器上执行的数据库搜索的组件。 用户通过向数据库服务器发送可执行代码来执行此操作。 软件代码作为数据库服务器机器上的中间件进行运行,以在数据库服务器和客户端之间进行通信,并执行为客户端提供生成代码所需的重要信息的功能,这些代码将用于定制数据库检索会话的各种进程。 通常,服务器包括一组数据库服务器,并且中间件在每个数据库服务器机器上运行,以在数据库服务器和客户端之间进行通信。 中间件提供了一个虚拟机,在其上执行以虚拟机语言编写的用户提供的代码,在整个数据库服务器集合中提供统一的接口,在该数据库服务器上将执行相同的用户提供的代码,确保用户提供的代码 在数据库服务器上执行指定的访问权限。

    Interactive framework for understanding user's perception of multimedia data
    2.
    发明授权
    Interactive framework for understanding user's perception of multimedia data 有权
    用于了解用户对多媒体数据的感知的交互框架

    公开(公告)号:US06408293B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-06-18

    申请号:US09328968

    申请日:1999-06-09

    IPC分类号: G06F1730

    摘要: A methodology of highly interactive intra-object relevance feedback is used to retrieve multimedia data from a database. The query object could consist of one or more images, images derived from video, a video sequence, or an audio clip. The query is adjusted using the information fed-back by the user about the relevance of previously extracted part(s) from the object itself, such that the adjusted query is a better approximation to the user's perception. The information fed-back by the user during intra-query modification is used for intra-object learning of the user's perception. The refined query is subsequently used for inter-object relevance feedback where data is retrieved from the database based on parameters learnt by intra-query object feedback mechanism, and the user provides feedback by ranking the retrieved objects in order of their relevance to him or her. In the system according to the invention, inter-object learning of user's perception is expedited by utilizing the learnt parameters in the intra-object relevance feedback. Furthermore, the methodology of the invention allows for building refined queries based on part(s) or sub-sequence(s) of the query object rather than the entire object itself, thereby reducing the number of irrelevant objects, retrieved from the database. The methodology allows synthesis and modification of the input query object itself in the event a query object is not directly available, and, also to learn the user's perception.

    摘要翻译: 高度交互的对象内相关反馈的方法用于从数据库检索多媒体数据。 查询对象可以包括一个或多个图像,从视频,视频序列或音频剪辑导出的图像。 使用用户反馈的关于先前提取的部分与对象本身的相关性的信息来调整查询,使得经调整的查询更好地逼近用户的感知。 用户在查询修改期间反馈的信息用于用户感知的对象内学习。 精确查询随后用于对象间相关性反馈,其中基于由查询内对象反馈机制学习的参数从数据库检索数据,并且用户按照与他或她的相关性的顺序对所检索的对象进行排序来提供反馈 。 在根据本发明的系统中,通过利用对象内相关性反馈中的学习参数来加快用户感知的对象间学习。 此外,本发明的方法允许基于查询对象的部分或子序列而不是整个对象本身构建精简查询,从而减少从数据库检索的不相关对象的数量。 该方法允许在查询对象不直接可用的情况下对输入查询对象本身进行合成和修改,还可以了解用户的感知。

    Method for controlled and meaningful shape modifications
    3.
    发明授权
    Method for controlled and meaningful shape modifications 失效
    控制和有意义的形状修改的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06625330B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-23

    申请号:US09516142

    申请日:2000-03-01

    IPC分类号: G06K932

    CPC分类号: G06K9/6204

    摘要: A method of doing meaningful modifications on an image is presented. These modifications can then be used in variety of applications related to image shape manipulation and similar shape retrieval. The method extracts macrofeatures and microfeature from a given shape. Deformations are done on the macrofeatures only. These deformations are either predefined, or are taken from a deformation library, or are calculated from the shape itself, The microfeatures are then added to the deformed macrofeatures to get a deformed shape. The shape deformations then allow user's perception of shape similarity to be learned, which is reflected in the values of parameters in a parameterized shape similarity metric. The user can use one of the deformed shapes as the initial query point, instead of the shape he or she started with. The shape database compression is achieved by storing only the identification of a similar shape and value of global deformations which will generate this shape approximately, instead of storing every shape feature individually.

    摘要翻译: 提出了对图像进行有意义的修改的方法。 然后,这些修改可用于与图像形状操纵和类似形状检索有关的各种应用。 该方法从给定的形状提取宏特征和微特征。 变形仅在宏观特征上进行。 这些变形是预定义的,或者是从变形库中获取的,或者是根据形状本身计算的。然后将微特征加到变形的宏观特征中以得到变形的形状。 形状变形然后允许用户对形状相似度的感知被学习,这反映在参数化形状相似性度量中的参数值中。 用户可以使用其中一个变形的形状作为初始查询点,而不是他或她开始的形状。 形状数据库压缩是通过仅存储将产生该形状的全局变形的类似形状和值的识别来实现的,而不是分别存储每个形状特征。

    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions
    4.
    发明申请
    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions 失效
    在图像区域操作期间曝光的像素的自动着色

    公开(公告)号:US20050084151A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-21

    申请号:US10981216

    申请日:2004-11-04

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying images characterized in that it includes the ability to assign colour intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations comprising: means for using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in the original image, and means for assigning color values to the exposed pixels that are similar to those of the surrounding pixels so that the exposed regions blends smoothly with the surrounding region. The instant invention also provides a configured computer program product for carrying out the above method.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于修改图像的方法和系统,其特征在于它包括将颜色强度值分配给在图像处理操作期间暴露的像素的能力,包括:用于使用原始图像中的剩余像素的颜色强度值的装置, 用于将颜色值分配给与周围像素类似的曝光像素,使得曝光区域与周围区域平滑地融合。 本发明还提供了一种用于执行上述方法的配置的计算机程序产品。

    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions
    5.
    发明授权
    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions 失效
    在图像区域操作期间曝光的像素的自动着色

    公开(公告)号:US07676086B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-09

    申请号:US12173843

    申请日:2008-07-16

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying images characterized in that it includes the ability to assign colour intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations comprising: means for using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in the original image, and means for assigning color values to the exposed pixels that are similar to those of the surrounding pixels so that the exposed regions blends smoothly with the surrounding region. The instant invention also provides a configured computer program product for carrying out the above method.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于修改图像的方法和系统,其特征在于它包括将颜色强度值分配给在图像处理操作期间暴露的像素的能力,包括:用于使用原始图像中的剩余像素的颜色强度值的装置, 用于将颜色值分配给与周围像素类似的曝光像素,使得曝光区域与周围区域平滑地融合。 本发明还提供了一种用于执行上述方法的配置的计算机程序产品。

    Automatic Coloring of Pixels Exposed During Manipulation of Image Regions
    6.
    发明申请
    Automatic Coloring of Pixels Exposed During Manipulation of Image Regions 失效
    在图像区域操纵期间曝光的像素的自动着色

    公开(公告)号:US20090003694A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-01

    申请号:US12173843

    申请日:2008-07-16

    IPC分类号: G06K9/36 G06K9/00 G06K9/34

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying images characterized in that it includes the ability to assign colour intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations comprising: means for using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in the original image, and means for assigning color values to the exposed pixels that are similar to those of the surrounding pixels so that the exposed regions blends smoothly with the surrounding region. The instant invention also provides a configured computer program product for carrying out the above method.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于修改图像的方法和系统,其特征在于它包括将颜色强度值分配给在图像处理操作期间暴露的像素的能力,包括:用于使用原始图像中的剩余像素的颜色强度值的装置, 用于将颜色值分配给与周围像素类似的曝光像素,使得曝光区域与周围区域平滑地融合。 本发明还提供了一种用于执行上述方法的配置的计算机程序产品。

    System and method for modifying images having an ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations
    7.
    发明授权
    System and method for modifying images having an ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations 失效
    用于修改具有将颜色强度值分配给在图像操作操作期间暴露的像素的能力的图像的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07457462B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-11-25

    申请号:US10981216

    申请日:2004-11-04

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: A system and method for modifying images has an ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations. The system and method for modifying images comprises means for using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in the original image, and for assigning color values to the exposed pixels that are similar to those of the surrounding pixels so that the exposed regions blends smoothly with the surrounding region. The means for assigning color values assigns the value of color intensity based on the color intensity value function determined at a location of a pixel. The color intensity value function used to assign values to exposed pixels is determined by fitting a function to the known color intensity values of pixels in the boundary regions of the exposed surrounding pixels. The color intensity value function is approximated using energy minimization along with boundary conditions.

    摘要翻译: 用于修改图像的系统和方法具有将颜色强度值分配给在图像操纵操作期间暴露的像素的能力。 用于修改图像的系统和方法包括用于使用原始图像中的剩余像素的颜色强度值的装置,并且用于将颜色值分配给与周围像素的像素类似的曝光像素,使得曝光区域与 周边地区。 用于分配颜色值的装置基于在像素的位置处确定的颜色强度值函数来分配颜色强度的值。 通过将功能拟合到曝光的周围像素的边界区域中的像素的已知颜色强度值来确定用于将曝光像素分配值的色彩强度值函数。 使用能量最小化以及边界条件近似颜色强度值函数。

    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions
    8.
    发明授权
    Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions 失效
    在图像区域操作期间曝光的像素的自动着色

    公开(公告)号:US06879717B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-12

    申请号:US09782937

    申请日:2001-02-13

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: A system, method, and program storage device implementing the method for modifying images has the ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations. The method comprises using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in the original image, and assigning color values to the exposed pixels that are similar to those of the surrounding pixels so that the exposed regions blend smoothly with the surrounding region.

    摘要翻译: 实现用于修改图像的方法的系统,方法和程序存储设备具有将颜色强度值分配给在图像操作操作期间暴露的像素的能力。 该方法包括使用原始图像中的剩余像素的颜色强度值,并将颜色值分配给与周围像素相似的曝光像素,使得曝光区域与周边区域平滑地融合。

    Searching products catalogs
    9.
    发明授权
    Searching products catalogs 有权
    搜索产品目录

    公开(公告)号:US06728706B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-04-27

    申请号:US09815614

    申请日:2001-03-23

    IPC分类号: G06F1730

    CPC分类号: G06Q30/02 Y10S707/99935

    摘要: Searching online catalog databases by shoppers is improved by performing similarity searching on searches performed by the shopper, in conjunction with adjusting the similarity metric used during the search to interactively improve the relevance of the resulting search results to the shopper. This involves using relevance feedback and/or product redefinition to learn the “implied concept” of the shopper's stated product requirements; that is, the quality of the search results is enhanced through understanding the concept implied by the shopper's queries by, for example, learning from the product results marked as “relevant” or “irrelevant” by the shopper. This approach is in contrast with attempts to enhance search results using, for example, the shopper's past orders or previous actions, or the past orders or previous actions of other shoppers who may have a purchase history similar to that of the current shopper.

    摘要翻译: 通过对购物者执行的搜索执行相似性搜索,结合调整搜索期间使用的相似性度量来交互地提高所得到的搜索结果与购物者的相关性,从而改善了购物者对在线目录数据库的搜索。 这涉及使用相关性反馈和/或产品重新定义来了解购物者声明的产品要求的“隐含概念”; 也就是说,通过了解购物者查询所隐含的概念,例如从购物者标识为“相关”或“无关”的产品结果中学习,可以提高搜索结果的质量。 这种方法与使用例如购物者的过去订单或先前操作或其他可能具有与当前购物者的购买历史相似的购买历史的其他购物者的过去订单或之前的动作来增强搜索结果形成对比。