公开(公告)号：US08032539B2

公开(公告)日：2011-10-04

申请号：US12046206

申请日：2008-03-11

申请人： Shahram Ebadollahi ,  Milind Naphade ,  Apostol Ivanov Natsev ,  John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic ,  Lexing Xie

发明人： Shahram Ebadollahi ,  Milind Naphade ,  Apostol Ivanov Natsev ,  John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic ,  Lexing Xie

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30038 ,  G06Q30/0201 ,  G06Q30/0631

摘要： The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for assisting in rating and filtering multimedia content, such as images, videos and sound recordings. One embodiment comprises a computer implemented method for rating the objectionability of specified digital content that comprises one or more discrete content items, wherein the method includes the step of moving the specified content to one or more filtering stages in a succession of filtering stages. After the specified content is moved to a given one of the filtering stages, a rating procedure is carried out to determine whether a rating can be applied to one or more of the content items, and if so, a selected rating is applied to each of the one or more content items. The method further comprises moving content items of the specified content to the next stage in the succession after the given stage, when at least one content item of the specified content remains without rating, after the rating procedure at the given stage. When none of the content items of the specified content remains without a rating after the rating procedure has been completed at the given stage, ratings that have been respectively applied to at least some of the content items are selectively processed, in order to determine an overall objectionability rating for the specified content.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于协助评估和过滤诸如图像，视频和录音的多媒体内容的方法和装置。 一个实施例包括用于评估包括一个或多个离散内容项目的指定数字内容的不良性的计算机实现的方法，其中该方法包括将指定内容移动到一系列过滤阶段中的一个或多个过滤阶段的步骤。 在将指定内容移动到给定的一个过滤阶段之后，执行评级过程以确定评级是否可应用于一个或多个内容项，如果是，则将所选评级应用于 一个或多个内容项。 该方法还包括在给定阶段之后的指定内容的至少一个内容项目在给定阶段的评级过程之后保持没有评级的情况下，将指定内容的内容项移动到下一阶段。 当在给定阶段在评级程序完成之后，指定内容的内容项目中没有任何内容项目没有得到评级时，已经分别应用于至少一些内容项目的评级被选择性地处理，以便确定总体 指定内容的异议评级。

公开(公告)号：US20090234831A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-17

申请号：US12046206

申请日：2008-03-11

申请人： Shahram Ebadollahi ,  Milind Naphade ,  Apostol Ivanov Natsev ,  John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic ,  Lexing Xie

发明人： Shahram Ebadollahi ,  Milind Naphade ,  Apostol Ivanov Natsev ,  John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic ,  Lexing Xie

IPC分类号： G06F7/06 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30038 ,  G06Q30/0201 ,  G06Q30/0631

摘要： The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for assisting in rating and filtering multimedia content, such as images, videos and sound recordings. One embodiment comprises a computer implemented method for rating the objectionability of specified digital content that comprises one or more discrete content items, wherein the method includes the step of moving the specified content to one or more filtering stages in a succession of filtering stages. After the specified content is moved to a given one of the filtering stages, a rating procedure is carried out to determine whether a rating can be applied to one or more of the content items, and if so, a selected rating is applied to each of the one or more content items. The method further comprises moving content items of the specified content to the next stage in the succession after the given stage, when at least one content item of the specified content remains without rating, after the rating procedure at the given stage. When none of the content items of the specified content remains without a rating after the rating procedure has been completed at the given stage, ratings that have been respectively applied to at least some of the content items are selectively processed, in order to determine an overall objectionability rating for the specified content.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于协助评估和过滤诸如图像，视频和录音的多媒体内容的方法和装置。 一个实施例包括用于评估包括一个或多个离散内容项目的指定数字内容的不良性的计算机实现的方法，其中该方法包括将指定内容移动到一系列过滤阶段中的一个或多个过滤阶段的步骤。 在将指定内容移动到给定的一个过滤阶段之后，执行评级过程以确定评级是否可应用于一个或多个内容项，如果是，则将所选评级应用于 一个或多个内容项。 该方法还包括在给定阶段之后的指定内容的至少一个内容项目在给定阶段的评级过程之后保持没有评级的情况下，将指定内容的内容项移动到下一阶段。 当在给定阶段在评级程序完成之后，指定内容的内容项目中没有任何内容项目没有得到评级时，已经分别应用于至少一些内容项目的评级被选择性地处理，以便确定总体 指定内容的异议评级。

公开(公告)号：US20080201314A1

公开(公告)日：2008-08-21

申请号：US11676852

申请日：2007-02-20

申请人： John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic

发明人： John Richard Smith ,  Ioana Roxana Stanoi ,  Jelena Tesic

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/40

摘要： Embodiments of the invention exploit the complementary and correlated information that is available across multiple channels of digital multimedia distribution, in order to ensure more efficient multimedia data access. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for generating a response to a specified request for information, is associated with multiple channels that are each adapted to carry and disseminate data content. The method comprises extracting data elements from each of the multiple channels, wherein each extracted data element pertains to one dimension of a plurality of correlation related dimensions. The method further comprises assigning each extracted data element to one of a plurality of correlation sets, wherein all the extracted data elements assigned to a particular set pertain to the same dimension, and each set is assigned data elements extracted from two or more different channels. Two or more of the correlation sets associated with the request are then selected, and the data content thereof is used to generate the response to the specified request.

摘要翻译： 本发明的实施例利用可跨越多个数字多媒体分发通道的互补和相关信息，以便确保更有效的多媒体数据访问。 针对用于产生对指定的信息请求的响应的方法的本发明的一个实施例与多个信道相关联，每个信道适于承载和传播数据内容。 该方法包括从多个通道中的每一个提取数据元素，其中每个提取的数据元素属于多个相关相关尺寸的一个维度。 该方法还包括将每个提取的数据元素分配给多个相关集合中的一个，其中分配给特定集合的所有提取的数据元素均属于相同的维度，并且每个集合被分配从两个或更多个不同信道提取的数据元素。 然后选择与请求相关联的两个或多个相关集，并且其数据内容用于生成对指定请求的响应。

公开(公告)号：US08738695B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-27

申请号：US11748716

申请日：2007-05-15

申请人： John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

发明人： John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/252 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/4788

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided to analyze social and content networks, to identify new relationships among users and content, and to more effectively link users to content. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate more relevant searches over both social and content data. One embodiment is directed to analyzing integrated social and content networks, and includes specifying a social network comprising multiple user nodes, and specifying a content network comprising multiple multimedia content nodes. Data elements associated with respective nodes of the user and content networks are analyzed, in order to detect a set of nodes comprising at least first and second user nodes and first and second content nodes, and to further detect at least three commonality links that join all the nodes of the set together. It is also determined whether a further link is a valid commonality link. The further link is initially inferred to extend between two of the nodes in the set, and to cooperatively join with the three identified commonality links to form a closed loop.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种分析社会和内容网络，识别用户和内容之间的新关系以及更有效地将用户链接到内容的方法和装置。 本发明的实施例还促进了对社会和内容数据的更多相关搜索。 一个实施例涉及分析综合的社交和内容网络，并且包括指定包括多个用户节点的社交网络，以及指定包括多个多媒体内容节点的内容网络。 分析与用户和内容网络的相应节点相关联的数据元素，以便检测包括至少第一和第二用户节点以及第一和第二内容节点的一组节点，并进一步检测至少三个共同点链接 节点的集合在一起。 还确定进一步的链接是否是有效的通用链接。 最初推断进一步的链接在集合中的两个节点之间延伸，并且与三个标识的通用链接协同地结合以形成闭环。

公开(公告)号：US07707162B2

公开(公告)日：2010-04-27

申请号：US11620838

申请日：2007-01-08

申请人： Milind R. Naphade ,  John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

发明人： Milind R. Naphade ,  John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

IPC分类号： G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30707 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  Y10S707/99944

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a multimedia artifact based on scoring, and selecting the appropriate set of ontologies from among all possible sets of ontologies, preferably using a recursive routing selection technique. The semantic tagging of the multimedia artifact is enhanced by applying only classifiers from the selected ontology, for use in classifying the multimedia artifact, wherein the classifiers are selected based on the context of the multimedia artifact. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for classifying a multimedia artifact, uses a specified criteria to select one or more ontologies, wherein the specified criteria indicates the comparative similarity between specified characteristics of the multimedia artifact and each ontology. The method further comprises scoring and selecting one or more classifiers from a plurality of classifiers that respectively correspond to semantic element of the selected ontologies, and evaluating the multimedia artifact using the selected classifiers to determine a classification for the multimedia artifact.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种方法和装置，用于基于评分来自动分类多媒体伪影，并且优选地使用递归路由选择技术从所有可能的本体集合中选择适当的本体集合。 通过仅从所选择的本体应用分类器来增强多媒体伪像的语义标记，用于对多媒体伪影进行分类，其中基于多媒体伪影的上下文来选择分类器。 本发明的一个实施例涉及一种用于分类多媒体伪影的方法，使用指定的标准来选择一个或多个本体，其中，所指定的标准表示多媒体伪影的特定特征与每个本体之间的比较相似度。 该方法还包括从分别对应于所选本体的语义元素的多个分类器中对一个或多个分类器进行评分和选择，以及使用所选择的分类器来评估多媒体伪影以确定多媒体伪像的分类。

公开(公告)号：US20080288596A1

公开(公告)日：2008-11-20

申请号：US11748716

申请日：2007-05-15

申请人： John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

发明人： John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tesic

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/252 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/4788

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided to analyze social and content networks, to identify new relationships among users and content, and to more effectively link users to content. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate more relevant searches over both social and content data. One embodiment is directed to analyzing integrated social and content networks, and includes specifying a social network comprising multiple user nodes, and specifying a content network comprising multiple multimedia content nodes. Data elements associated with respective nodes of the user and content networks are analyzed, in order to detect a set of nodes comprising at least first and second user nodes and first and second content nodes, and to further detect at least three commonality links that join all the nodes of the set together. It is also determined whether a further link is a valid commonality link. The further link is initially inferred to extend between two of the nodes in the set, and to cooperatively join with the three identified commonality links to form a closed loop.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种分析社会和内容网络，识别用户和内容之间的新关系以及更有效地将用户链接到内容的方法和装置。 本发明的实施例还促进了对社会和内容数据的更多相关搜索。 一个实施例涉及分析综合的社交和内容网络，并且包括指定包括多个用户节点的社交网络，以及指定包括多个多媒体内容节点的内容网络。 分析与用户和内容网络的相应节点相关联的数据元素，以便检测包括至少第一和第二用户节点以及第一和第二内容节点的一组节点，并进一步检测至少三个共同点链接 节点的集合在一起。 还确定进一步的链接是否是有效的通用链接。 最初推断进一步的链接在集合中的两个节点之间延伸，并且与三个标识的通用链接协同地结合以形成闭环。

公开(公告)号：US06408300B1

公开(公告)日：2002-06-18

申请号：US09360366

申请日：1999-07-23

申请人： Lawrence David Bergman ,  Vittorio Castelli ,  Yuan-Chi Chang ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

发明人： Lawrence David Bergman ,  Vittorio Castelli ,  Yuan-Chi Chang ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F17/30333 ,  Y10S707/99934 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： Linear optimization queries, which usually arise in various decision support and resource planning applications, are queries that retrieve top N data records (where N is an integer greater than zero) which satisfy a specific optimization criterion. The optimization criterion is to either maximize or minimize a linear equation. The coefficients of the linear equation are given at query time. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for constructing, maintaining and utilizing a multidimensional indexing structure of database records to improve the execution speed of linear optimization queries. Database records with numerical attributes are organized into a number of layers and each layer represents a geometric structure called convex hull. Such linear optimization queries are processed by searching from the outer-most layer of this multi-layer indexing structure inwards. At least one record per layer will satisfy the query criterion and the number of layers needed to be searched depends on the spatial distribution of records, the query-issued linear coefficients, and N, the number of records to be returned. When N is small compared to the total size of the database, answering the query typically requires searching only a small fraction of all relevant records, resulting in a tremendous speedup as compared to linearly scanning the entire dataset.

摘要翻译： 通常在各种决策支持和资源规划应用中出现的线性优化查询是检索满足特定优化标准的前N个数据记录（其中N是大于零的整数）的查询。 优化标准是最大化或最小化线性方程。 查询时给出线性方程的系数。 公开了用于构建，维护和利用数据库记录的多维索引结构以提高线性优化查询的执行速度的方法和装置。 具有数值属性的数据库记录被分为多个层，每个层表示一个称为凸包的几何结构。 通过从该多层索引结构的最外层向内搜索来处理这样的线性优化查询。 每层至少一个记录将满足查询条件，需要搜索的层数取决于记录的空间分布，查询发出的线性系数，N，要返回的记录数。 当N与数据库的总大小相比较小时，回答查询通常只需要搜索所有相关记录的一小部分，与线性扫描整个数据集相比，导致了巨大的加速。

公开(公告)号：US06326965B1

公开(公告)日：2001-12-04

申请号：US09079662

申请日：1998-05-15

申请人： Vittorio Castelli ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

发明人： Vittorio Castelli ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

IPC分类号： G06T1700

CPC分类号： G06F17/30241 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： An apparatus and method for representing and retrieving multi-dimensional data such as large satellite images. Images are stored in forms that allow them to be rapidly browsed and retrieved by remote client applications in a drill-down fashion. The data can be represented and retrieved using a view element data structure that includes node elements and transition elements between nodes. The data is decomposed (in space or spatial-frequency to construct a tree-based or graph-based data structure) into view elements. A set of view elements is selected, compressed and stored without adversely impacting image view extraction or generation speed. View elements are placed into the node elements of the data structure and the transition elements indicate the processing to generate other view elements in the data structure. In a server-side view construction, the view elements are selectively retrieved from storage, decompressed, and processed to generate the views of the data. In a client-side progressive view construction, the client caches the view elements and processes them in combination with view elements retrieved from the server to generate views of the data. The data reuse at the client reduces data transmission in drill-down or roll-up browsing. Data can be ingested, read and written in units of spatial blocks and decomposed into view elements using the spatial block units. Thus, the ingestion, decomposition, compression, and view retrieval for large images can be done using computer devices that have limited storage and processing capabilities.

摘要翻译： 一种用于表示和检索诸如大卫星图像的多维数据的装置和方法。 图像以允许远程客户端应用程序以深入方式快速浏览和检索的表单存储。 可以使用包括节点元素和节点之间的过渡元素的视图元素数据结构来表示和检索数据。 数据被分解（在空间或空间频率上构建基于树或基于图形的数据结构）到视图元素中。 一组视图元素被选择，压缩和存储，而不会对图像视图提取或生成速度产生不利影响。 视图元素被放置在数据结构的节点元素中，过渡元素指示在数据结构中生成其他视图元素的处理。 在服务器侧视图结构中，从存储器，解压缩和处理中选择性地检索视图元素以生成数据的视图。 在客户端逐行视图构造中，客户端缓存视图元素并将其与从服务器检索的视图元素组合进行处理，以生成数据视图。 客户端的数据重用可以减少下拉列表或汇总浏览中的数据传输。 可以以空间块为单位摄取，读取和写入数据，并使用空间块单位将其分解为视图元素。 因此，对于大图像的摄取，分解，压缩和视图检索可以使用具有有限的存储和处理能力的计算机设备来完成。

公开(公告)号：US20080168070A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-10

申请号：US11620838

申请日：2007-01-08

申请人： Milind R. Naphade ,  John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tasic

发明人： Milind R. Naphade ,  John Richard Smith ,  Jelena Tasic

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30707 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  Y10S707/99944

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a multimedia artifact based on scoring, and selecting the appropriate set of ontologies from among all possible sets of ontologies, preferably using a recursive routing selection technique. The semantic tagging of the multimedia artifact is enhanced by applying only classifiers from the selected ontology, for use in classifying the multimedia artifact, wherein the classifiers are selected based on the context of the multimedia artifact. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for classifying a multimedia artifact, uses a specified criteria to select one or more ontologies, wherein the specified criteria indicates the comparative similarity between specified characteristics of the multimedia artifact and each ontology. The method further comprises scoring and selecting one or more classifiers from a plurality of classifiers that respectively correspond to semantic element of the selected ontologies, and evaluating the multimedia artifact using the selected classifiers to determine a classification for the multimedia artifact.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种方法和装置，用于基于评分来自动分类多媒体伪影，并且优选地使用递归路由选择技术从所有可能的本体集合中选择适当的本体集合。 通过仅从所选择的本体应用分类器来增强多媒体伪像的语义标记，用于对多媒体伪影进行分类，其中基于多媒体伪影的上下文来选择分类器。 本发明的一个实施例涉及一种用于分类多媒体伪影的方法，使用指定的标准来选择一个或多个本体，其中，所指定的标准表示多媒体伪影的特定特征与每个本体之间的比较相似度。 该方法还包括从分别对应于所选本体的语义元素的多个分类器中对一个或多个分类器进行评分和选择，以及使用所选择的分类器来评估多媒体伪影以确定多媒体伪像的分类。

公开(公告)号：US06925453B1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-02

申请号：US09614141

申请日：2000-07-13

申请人： Lawrence David Bergman ,  Vittorio Castelli ,  Yuan-Chi Chang ,  Matthew L. Hill ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

发明人： Lawrence David Bergman ,  Vittorio Castelli ,  Yuan-Chi Chang ,  Matthew L. Hill ,  Chung-Sheng Li ,  John Richard Smith

IPC分类号： G06F15/18 ,  G06N5/02

CPC分类号： G06N5/022

摘要： Distributed resource discovery is an essential step for information retrieval and/or providing information services. This step is usually used for determining the location of an information or data repository which has relevant information. The most fundamental challenge is the usual lack of semantic interoperability of the requested resource. In accordance with the invention, a method is disclosed where distributed repositories achieve semantic interoperability through the exchange of examples and, optionally, classifiers. The outcome of the inventive method can be used to determine whether common labels are referring to the same semantic meaning.

摘要翻译： 分布式资源发现是信息检索和/或提供信息服务的重要步骤。 此步骤通常用于确定具有相关信息的信息或数据存储库的位置。 最根本的挑战是通常缺乏所请求资源的语义互操作性。 根据本发明，公开了一种方法，其中分布式存储库通过交换示例和可选地分类器来实现语义互操作性。 本发明方法的结果可用于确定通用标签是指相同的语义含义。