Method and apparatus for displaying program recommendations with indication of strength of contribution of significant attributes
    2.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for displaying program recommendations with indication of strength of contribution of significant attributes 有权
    用于显示程序建议的方法和装置,具有显着属性贡献强度的指示

    公开(公告)号:US06851090B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-01

    申请号:US09699608

    申请日:2000-10-30

    摘要: A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying available television programs with an indication of the strength of the contribution of one or more program attributes or features to the overall recommendation score assigned by a program recommender. The program and corresponding indication of the strength of the contribution of one or more program attributes can be presented to the user, for example, using grids listing the available television programs by time and date, channel and title. The overall recommendation scores or component scores associated with each program are also displayed to the user. The overall recommendation scores or component scores can be displayed with each program directly or can be mapped onto a color spectrum or another visual cue, such as a variable size-of-text, rate of blinking or bar height. The visual cues are then applied to each program in the program grid in accordance with the present invention.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于显示可用电视节目的方法和装置,其中指示一个或多个节目属性或特征对于由节目推荐者分配的整体推荐得分的贡献的强度。 可以向用户呈现一个或多个节目属性的贡献的强度的程序和相应的指示,例如,使用按时间和日期,频道和标题列出可用的电视节目的网格。 与每个程序相关联的整体推荐分数或分数分数也显示给用户。 可以直接显示每个程序的总体建议得分或组分分数,或者可以将其映射到色谱或其他视觉提示,例如可变大小的文本,闪烁速率或条高。 然后根据本发明将视觉提示应用于程序网格中的每个程序。

    Method and apparatus for selective updating of a user profile
    3.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for selective updating of a user profile 有权
    用于选择性地更新用户简档的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07721310B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-18

    申请号:US09730205

    申请日:2000-12-05

    IPC分类号: H04N5/445 H04H60/33 H04H60/32

    摘要: A television programming recommender is disclosed that selectively obtains feedback information from a user to update one or more profiles associated with the user. Previously obtained implicit and explicit preferences are utilized to selectively focus the collection of feedback information to further update and refine the implicit and explicit preferences. The present invention obtains feedback from a user in a manner that maximizes the value of the obtained information and improves the performance of the television programming recommender. The present invention automatically requests feedback from the user upon the occurrence of predefined criteria. The nature of the requested feedback, and the manner in which the obtained feedback is used to adjust a profile, can vary.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种电视节目推荐器,其选择性地从用户获得反馈信息以更新与用户相关联的一个或多个简档。 先前获得的隐式和明确的偏好被用于选择性地集中反馈信息的集合以进一步更新和改进隐含和明确的偏好。 本发明以使得获得的信息的价值最大化并提高电视节目推荐者的表现的方式从用户获得反馈。 本发明在发生预定标准时自动请求用户的反馈。 所请求的反馈的性质以及所获得的反馈用于调整简档的方式可以变化。

    Three-way media recommendation method and system
    4.
    发明授权
    Three-way media recommendation method and system 有权
    三媒体推荐方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US07937725B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-03

    申请号:US09627139

    申请日:2000-07-27

    IPC分类号: H04N5/445

    摘要: An electronic programming guide (EPG) system employing a preference engine and processing system that combines explicit rule profile, history profile, and feedback profile data to generate new predictions. Television shows are presumed to be indexed by many features. These features are extracted and counted for TV shows watched (implicit profile), and for TV shows rated by the viewer (feedback profile). These profiles are straightforward to combine with suitably greater weight being given to the feedback information. In addition, explicit profiles can make recommendations that stand alone or may be used to modify recommendations arising from either of the two sources. The modifications may take the form of additive or multiplicative changes to the existing recommendations or some other suitable mathematical form.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用偏好引擎和处理系统的电子节目指南(EPG)系统,其结合显式规则简档,历史简档和反馈简档数据以产生新的预测。 电视节目被推测由许多功能索引。 对于观看的电视节目(隐性配置文件)以及由观众评估的电视节目(反馈配置文件),都会提取和计数这些功能。 这些配置文件直接与给予反馈信息的适当更大的重量相结合。 此外,明确的个人资料可以提出独立的建议,也可以用来修改两个来源之一的建议。 修改可以采用对现有建议或某些其他合适数学形式的加法或乘法变化的形式。

    Dominant color extraction for ambient light derived from video content mapped through unrendered color space
    6.
    发明授权
    Dominant color extraction for ambient light derived from video content mapped through unrendered color space 失效
    通过未渲染色彩空间映射的视频内容导出的环境光的主色提取

    公开(公告)号:US08063992B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-11-22

    申请号:US11571284

    申请日:2005-06-27

    IPC分类号: H04N5/57 H04N5/58

    CPC分类号: H04N9/73 H05B37/029

    摘要: Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting dominant color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristimulus primary matrices to form a second rendered color space for ambient distribution. Steps include quantizing the rendered color space to form an assigned color distribution, such as by reducing possible color states, or binning to form superpixels; and selecting a dominant color using a mode, mean, median, or weighted average of pixel chromaticities. A color of interest can be further analyzed to produce a true dominant color, and past video frames can guide selection of dominant colors in future frames.

    摘要翻译: 提取和处理被渲染的颜色空间中编码的要被环境光源模拟的视频内容,包括从视频信号中提取主要颜色信息,并使用三色主矩阵来转换未渲染颜色空间的颜色信息,以形成第二渲染颜色空间, 环境分布。 步骤包括量化所渲染的颜色空间以形成所分配的颜色分布,例如通过减少可能的颜色状态或合并形成超像素; 并使用像素色度的模式,均值,中值或加权平均来选择主色。 可以进一步分析感兴趣的颜色以产生真正的主色,并且过去的视频帧可以指导未来帧中的主色选择。

    Method and apparatus for recommending items of interest to a user based on recommendations for one or more third parties
    7.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for recommending items of interest to a user based on recommendations for one or more third parties 失效
    基于对一个或多个第三方的建议来向用户推荐感兴趣的项目的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07571452B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-04

    申请号:US10014194

    申请日:2001-11-13

    申请人: Srinivas Gutta

    发明人: Srinivas Gutta

    IPC分类号: H04N5/445 G06F13/00 G06F3/00

    摘要: A method and apparatus are disclosed for recommending items of interest to a user based on recommendations made to one or more third parties. The recommendation scores generated by a primary recommender are influenced by recommendations generated for one or more third parties, such as a friend, colleague or trendsetter. The disclosed recommender corroborates with other recommenders when recommending items of interest and adjusts a conventional recommender score based on third party recommendations. The third party recommendations may be a top-N list of recommended items for a given third party, and may optionally include a recommendation score and an indication of whether or not the third party actually selected the recommended item. A recommender evaluates the viewing or purchase habits of a user and communicates with one or more other recommenders to determine the items that are being recommended by such other recommenders.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种方法和装置,用于基于对一个或多个第三方的建议向用户推荐感兴趣的项目。 主要推荐者产生的推荐分数受到为一个或多个第三方(如朋友,同事或潮流引擎)生成的建议的影响。 当推荐感兴趣的项目时,所公开的推荐者与其他推荐者确认,并且基于第三方建议来调整常规的推荐者评分。 第三方建议可能是给定第三方的推荐项目的前N列表,并且可以可选地包括推荐分数以及第三方是否实际选择了推荐项目的指示。 推荐者评估用户的观看或购买习惯,并与一个或多个其他推荐者进行通信,以确定由其他推荐者推荐的项目。

    Method and Apparatus for Protection of Content Using Biometric Watermarks
    8.
    发明申请
    Method and Apparatus for Protection of Content Using Biometric Watermarks 审中-公开
    使用生物特征水印保护内容的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20080235808A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-09-25

    申请号:US10586078

    申请日:2005-01-17

    IPC分类号: H04L9/32

    摘要: A method and apparatus are that restrict access to digital content to an authorized user on one or more systems using biometric watermarks. The disclosed biometric watermarking techniques allow an authorized user to be uniquely identified. Access to digital content is restricted to digital content in accordance with the present invention by embedding a biometric watermark, such as a biometric image, in the content. Thereafter, a user can only access the content if a biometric sample of the user matches the embedded biometric watermark. In one variation, the user can only access the content if the biometric sample is a live biometric sample. The embedded biometric watermark optionally includes information describing a system employed by the user to obtain the content. The user can optionally be permitted to access the content, without a biometric evaluation, if the content is on a system that has been previously authorized for the user using a biometric evaluation.

    摘要翻译: 一种方法和装置是在使用生物特征水印的一个或多个系统上限制对授权用户的数字内容的访问。 所公开的生物特征水印技术允许授权用户被唯一地识别。 根据本发明,通过在生物特征图像中嵌入诸如生物特征图像的生物特征水印,对数字内容的访问仅限于数字内容。 此后,如果用户的生物测定样本与嵌入的生物测定水印匹配,则用户只能访问内容。 在一个变体中,如果生物测定样本是活体生物特征样本,则用户只能访问内容。 嵌入式生物水印可选地包括描述用户获取内容所采用的系统的信息。 如果内容在先前已经为用户使用生物特征评估授权的系统上,则可以可选地允许用户访问内容,而不进行生物特征评估。

    Automatic Generation of Personalized Meeting Lists
    9.
    发明申请
    Automatic Generation of Personalized Meeting Lists 审中-公开
    自动生成个性化会议列表

    公开(公告)号:US20080235071A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-09-25

    申请号:US10597284

    申请日:2005-01-17

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/00 G06F15/16

    CPC分类号: G06Q10/10 G06Q10/06311

    摘要: A method and system for providing a personalized list of meetings per subject per user of the system (1), includes a system computer (4) and user computer (12) each configured for bidirectionally communicating over the Internet (8), whereby the system computer (4) is programmed to first obtain either explicitly (20) or implicitly (26) a profile listing various meeting preferences of a user, to next obtain a list of future meetings corresponding to at least a portion of the user's profile, followed by sending the user the list of recommended meetings generated, along with location specific information if requested by the user.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于为系统(1)的每个用户提供每个对象的个性化会议列表的方法和系统包括系统计算机(4)和用户计算机(12),每个配置用于通过因特网(8)双向通信,由此系统 计算机(4)被编程为首先明确地(20)或隐含地(26)获得用户的各种会议偏好的简档,以便接下来获得对应于用户简档的至少一部分的未来会议的列表,其次是 向用户发送生成的推荐会议列表,以及如果用户请求的位置特定信息。