公开(公告)号：US20110239115A1

公开(公告)日：2011-09-29

申请号：US12732258

申请日：2010-03-26

申请人： Jay J. Williams ,  Renxiang Li ,  Jingjing Meng

发明人： Jay J. Williams ,  Renxiang Li ,  Jingjing Meng

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/01

CPC分类号： G06F3/167 ,  G06F3/04815

摘要： Disclosed are techniques that allow the user of a mobile device to select an avatar within a virtual world presented on the display screen of the mobile device. In some embodiments, a user manipulates a thumbwheel. As the thumbwheel is turned, the avatars on the display screen are highlighted one after another. The user then presses a thumbwheel button to select a desired avatar. Some embodiments allow the user to select more than one avatar at a time. Several highlighting techniques are available. In some embodiments, the user uses speech commands instead of a thumbwheel to highlight the avatars one by one. Speech input is also used to select one or more avatars. Some devices support a touch-screen interface. Embodiments for these devices allow the user to select an avatar by, for example, drawing an arc enclosing the avatar.

摘要翻译： 公开了允许移动设备的用户在移动设备的显示屏幕上呈现的虚拟世界中选择化身的技术。 在一些实施例中，用户操纵指轮。 当指轮转动时，显示屏上的化身依次突出显示。 然后用户按下指轮按钮选择所需的化身。 一些实施例允许用户一次选择多于一个化身。 有几种突出显示技术可用。 在一些实施例中，用户使用语音命令而不是指轮来逐一突出化身。 语音输入也用于选择一个或多个化身。 一些设备支持触摸屏界面。 这些设备的实施例允许用户通过例如绘制围绕化身的弧来选择化身。

公开(公告)号：US20090254832A1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-08

申请号：US12061743

申请日：2008-04-03

申请人： Renxiang Li ,  Jingjing Meng

发明人： Renxiang Li ,  Jingjing Meng

IPC分类号： G06F15/177

CPC分类号： G06T11/60 ,  G06Q10/10

摘要： A method and apparatus for collaborative design of a graphical structure is by users of a network. First, a description of the graphical structure is downloaded from a network server to client devices of the users. User modifications of the graphical structure are then uploaded to the network sever from the client devices. The modifications from multiple users are aggregated to produce an aggregated modification, which is then used to update the graphical structure. A description of the modifications may be a text-based description, in which case it is mapped to a numerical description of the modifications. Alternatively, the descriptions of the modifications may be numerical values. The modifications from a plurality of users (received during a specified time period) may be aggregated by calculating a statistical measure of numerical values corresponding to the modifications. The graphical structure may be an avatar, for example.

摘要翻译： 用于协同设计图形结构的方法和装置是由网络的用户。 首先，将图形结构的描述从网络服务器下载到用户的客户端设备。 图形结构的用户修改然后从客户端设备上传到网络服务器。 聚合来自多个用户的修改以产生聚合修改，然后用于更新图形结构。 修改的描述可以是基于文本的描述，在这种情况下，它被映射到修改的数值描述。 或者，修改的描述可以是数值。 可以通过计算对应于修改的数值的统计度量来聚合来自多个用户（在指定时间段期间接收）的修改。 图形结构可以是例如头像。

公开(公告)号：US20080301556A1

公开(公告)日：2008-12-04

申请号：US11755503

申请日：2007-05-30

申请人： Jay J. Williams ,  Carl M. Danielsen ,  Renxiang Li

发明人： Jay J. Williams ,  Carl M. Danielsen ,  Renxiang Li

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06T13/00

CPC分类号： G06T13/40

摘要： A method (100) and apparatus (300) for displaying operational information about an electronic device, that determines a change of an operational status of the electronic device, maps the operational status to at least one of an appearance characteristic and an action of an avatar (205, 210, 215, 220) related to the operational status changes the at least one of the appearance characteristic and action of the avatar in a manner related to the change of the operational status, and presents the avatar on a display (345) of the electronic device.

摘要翻译： 用于显示关于电子设备的操作信息的方法（100）和装置（300），其确定电子设备的操作状态的变化，将操作状态映射到化身的外观特征和动作中的至少一个 （205,210,215,220）以与操作状态的改变相关的方式改变化身的外观特征和动作中的至少一个，并将化身呈现在显示器（345）上， 的电子设备。

公开(公告)号：US20080151786A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-26

申请号：US11614560

申请日：2006-12-21

申请人： Renxiang Li ,  Carlo M. Danielsen ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Jay J. Williams

发明人： Renxiang Li ,  Carlo M. Danielsen ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Jay J. Williams

IPC分类号： H04L5/14

CPC分类号： H04M3/567 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04M1/576 ,  H04M1/72544 ,  H04M3/2227 ,  H04M3/563 ,  H04N7/142 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04W84/042

摘要： A method and apparatus for providing communication between a sending terminal and one or more receiving terminals in a communication network. The media content of a signal transmitted by the sending terminal is detected and one or more of a voice stream, an avatar control parameter stream and a video stream are generated from the media content. At least one of the voice stream, the avatar control parameter stream and the video stream are selected as an output to be transmitted to the receiving terminal. The selection may be based on user preference, channel capacity, terminal capabilities or the load status of a network server performing the selection. The network server may be operable to generate synthetic video from the voice input, a natural video input and/or incoming avatar control parameters.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在通信网络中的发送终端与一个或多个接收终端之间提供通信的方法和装置。 检测由发送终端发送的信号的媒体内容，并从媒体内容生成语音流，化身控制参数流和视频流中的一个或多个。 选择语音流，化身控制参数流和视频流中的至少一个作为要发送到接收终端的输出。 选择可以基于用户偏好，信道容量，终端能力或执行选择的网络服务器的负载状态。 网络服务器可以用于从语音输入，自然视频输入和/或传入化身控制参数生成合成视频。

公开(公告)号：US07412077B2

公开(公告)日：2008-08-12

申请号：US11618396

申请日：2006-12-29

申请人： Renxiang Li ,  Carl M. Danielsen ,  Cuneyt M. Taskiran

发明人： Renxiang Li ,  Carl M. Danielsen ,  Cuneyt M. Taskiran

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/00335

摘要： A method for head pose estimation may include receiving block motion vectors for a frame of video from a block motion estimator, selecting at least one block for analysis, determining an average motion vector for the at least one selected block, combining the average motion vectors over time (all past frames of video) to determine an accumulated average motion vector, estimating the orientation of a user's head in the video frame based on the accumulated average motion vector, and outputting at least one parameter indicative of the estimated orientation.

摘要翻译： 用于头部姿势估计的方法可以包括从块运动估计器接收用于视频帧的块运动矢量，选择至少一个块进行分析，确定所述至少一个选定块的平均运动矢量，将平均运动矢量合并 时间（所有过去的视频帧），以确定累积的平均运动矢量，基于累积的平均运动矢量来估计用户头部在视频帧中的方向，以及输出至少一个指示估计方向的参数。

公开(公告)号：US20130125188A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-16

申请号：US13297394

申请日：2011-11-16

申请人： Hiren M. Mandalia ,  Bhavan Gandhi ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Renxiang Li

发明人： Hiren M. Mandalia ,  Bhavan Gandhi ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Renxiang Li

IPC分类号： H04N21/40 ,  H04N5/93

CPC分类号： H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/4333 ,  H04N21/47214

摘要： Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating or selecting bookmarks for a multimedia presentation. These bookmarks may be encoded with the multimedia presentation into a multimedia container, which may then be transmitted to an end-user device. Also, these bookmarks may be made available to an end-user device over the Internet. Each bookmark may demarcate a content event and may comprise semantic information for that content event. Bookmarks may be generated automatically (e.g., by performing a media-analysis process) reviewed by a human. The end-user device may use the bookmarks to perform a trick play (e.g., semantic trick play) on the multimedia presentation.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于生成或选择用于多媒体呈现的书签的方法和装置。 这些书签可以用多媒体呈现编码到多媒体容器中，然后可将其传送到最终用户设备。 此外，这些书签可以通过因特网对最终用户设备可用。 每个书签可以划分内容事件并且可以包括该内容事件的语义信息。 可以自动生成书签（例如，通过执行媒体分析过程），由人评估。 最终用户设备可以使用书签在多媒体呈现上执行特技播放（例如，语义特技播放）。

公开(公告)号：US20130144725A1

公开(公告)日：2013-06-06

申请号：US13309585

申请日：2011-12-02

申请人： Renxiang Li ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Nitya Narasimhan ,  Michael L. Needham ,  Isselmou Ould Dellahy

发明人： Renxiang Li ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Nitya Narasimhan ,  Michael L. Needham ,  Isselmou Ould Dellahy

IPC分类号： G06Q30/02

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/0241 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/4542

摘要： Systems and methods are provided for presenting content to a user. An exemplary method involves establishing a relationship between a first device and the user, wherein, based on the relationship, one or more instances of secondary content are automatically excluded from display by the first device while primary content is displayed by the first device. The method continues by presenting an instance of secondary content to the user in a manner that is influenced by the relationship.

摘要翻译： 系统和方法被提供用于向用户呈现内容。 一种示例性方法涉及建立第一设备和用户之间的关系，其中，基于该关系，由第一设备显示主内容时，辅助内容的一个或多个实例被第一设备自动排除在显示之外。 该方法通过以受关系影响的方式向用户呈现次要内容的实例而继续。

公开(公告)号：US09628829B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-18

申请号：US13533247

申请日：2012-06-26

申请人： Renxiang Li ,  Kevin L. Baum ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Michael L. Needham

发明人： Renxiang Li ,  Kevin L. Baum ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Michael L. Needham

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  G06F3/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/439

CPC分类号： H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/42203 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/6581 ,  H04N21/8133 ,  H04N21/8352

摘要： Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.

公开(公告)号：US20140028917A1

公开(公告)日：2014-01-30

申请号：US13561222

申请日：2012-07-30

申请人： Alfonso Martinez Smith ,  Kevin L. Baum ,  Anthony J. Braskich ,  Stephen P. Emeott ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Renxiang Li ,  Isselmou Ould Dellahy

发明人： Alfonso Martinez Smith ,  Kevin L. Baum ,  Anthony J. Braskich ,  Stephen P. Emeott ,  Faisal Ishtiaq ,  Renxiang Li ,  Isselmou Ould Dellahy

IPC分类号： H04N5/445

CPC分类号： H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4312 ,  H04N21/440263 ,  H04N21/440272 ,  H04N21/4661 ,  H04N21/4668 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/4821

摘要： Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying multimedia feeds. The method comprises receiving a plurality of multimedia feeds and, for each of the plurality of multimedia feeds, acquiring a value of a metric and displaying, on a common display, the plurality of multimedia feeds. The metric is variable and its value for a particular multimedia feed and for a particular time is dependent upon either events occurring within that particular multimedia feed at or before that particular time or upon a rating (by one or more entities), at that particular time, of that particular multimedia feed. The multimedia feeds are displayed on the common display such that a first feed is displayed in a manner different from the manner of display of a second feed, the first feed having a first metric value, the second feed having a second metric value, and the first and second metric values being different.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于显示多媒体馈送的方法和装置。 所述方法包括接收多个多媒体馈送，并且对于所述多个多媒体馈送中的每一个，获取度量的值并且在公共显示器上显示所述多个多媒体馈送。 度量是可变的，并且其对于特定多媒体馈送的价值以及特定时间取决于在该特定时间之前或之前发生在该特定多媒体馈送内的事件，或取决于在该特定时间（由一个或多个实体）评估 ，那个特定的多媒体资讯提供。 多媒体馈送显示在公共显示器上，使得以与第二馈送的显示方式不同的方式显示第一馈送，第一馈送具有第一度量值，第二馈送具有第二度量值， 第一和第二度量值不同。

公开(公告)号：US20100169933A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：US12347360

申请日：2008-12-31

申请人： Wei Wang ,  Dongge Li ,  Renxiang Li ,  Cuneyt M. Taskiran ,  Yong Wang

发明人： Wei Wang ,  Dongge Li ,  Renxiang Li ,  Cuneyt M. Taskiran ,  Yong Wang

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02

摘要： Disclosed is a “bundle” of event-related multi-media content items provided to a customer of the event. The customer navigates through the bundle, tracks down selections of interest to himself, and “consumes” them. In some embodiments, the multi-media content items include recorded video clips, interviews, and other background information. Other content items can be live video feeds of the event taken from various viewpoints. Advertising for merchandise related to the event can be included. Some of the multi-media content items are designed to enhance the customer's experience of the event or to build loyalty. The media bundle is updated during the course of the event, removing items no longer of interest and adding new ones to keep the customer engaged. When the event is over, the media bundle can continue to operate to provide event recaps, post-event interviews, schedules for future events, and opportunities to purchase tickets for those future events.

摘要翻译： 公开了提供给事件的客户的与事件相关的多媒体内容项目的“捆绑”。 客户通过捆绑进行导航，追踪自己感兴趣的选择，并“消耗”他们。 在一些实施例中，多媒体内容项目包括记录的视频剪辑，访谈和其他背景信息。 其他内容项目可以是从各种观点获取的事件的实况视频馈送。 可以包括与该活动有关的商品广告。 一些多媒体内容项目旨在增强客户的活动体验或建立忠诚度。 媒体捆绑在活动过程中更新，删除不再感兴趣的项目，并添加新的项目以保持客户的参与。 当事件结束时，媒体包可以继续运行，以提供事件重述，事件后访问，未来事件的时间表以及为未来事件购买机票的机会。