Abstract:
A display device (40) comprising: a display panel (41) comprising a set of pixels (41R, 41L) the pixels being spatially distributed over the display panel, and each pixel being for providing a light output, the set of pixels comprising a plurality of different subsets (411) of pixels, each subset of pixels comprising one or more pixels of the set of pixels, an imaging unit (42) arranged for imaging the one or more pixels of a subset of pixels to form pixel images on a plurality of view areas on an imaginary plane located at a first distance in front of the display, the plurality of view areas not overlapping each other, with at least one pixel image of each one of the different subsets of pixels overlapping on a same one of the plurality of view areas, the imaginary plane comprising an imaginary circle having the diameter of the pupil of an eye, and the imaginary circle enclosing at least a part of at least two of the plurality of view areas, where the at least two of the plurality of view areas at least partly enclosed within the imaginary circle differ from each other with respect to at least one of the pixel images therein. The display system may be for one eye only or for two eyes of a viewer or for more eyes of more viewers.
Abstract:
A system (800), apparatus (700), and method are provided to select a best set of TV programs for reception and recording by at least one tuner, said TV programs being broadcast over a set of channels during a given time period [b, e] having a beginning time b and an ending time e. Partial and entire TV programs are considered and for each partial or entire TV program a user preference value is provided for its reception and recording. Further, pre-rolls and post-rolls are included in order to insure that partial TV programs are entirely received. A minimum-cost network algorithm is used that solves the selection and viewing problem but is not necessarily optimal. Additional time is allowed, before or after reception of a part of a TV program, to ensure that the entire part of the TV program has been received.
Abstract:
The recommender system uses stored representations of relations between users. Access to an item by one or more first users in the storage system is recorded.. When the recommender system detects a request for a rating of the item from a second user, the recommender system selects at least one of the first users that occurs in a stored relation with the second user. A query message that refers to the second user is then automatically transmitted to enter a rating for the item to a user address associated with the selected first users. Preferably at least one first user is selected for which it has been recorded that it has accessed the item but for which it has not yet given a rating. Preferably, the rating from the first user is passed to the second user via the recommender system, which records the rating for further use. The selection of the first user may be based on recorded data that measures correlation between ratings from the first and second user.
Abstract:
A device operable with an image-viewing apparatus identifies known points/objects of interest in an image and superimposes onto the image being viewed labels to identify the known points/objects. Identification is made based on stored information for each point/object in a world model database and based on device location and orientation parameters that are updated automatically in real time.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for creating recommendations for a user is described. A user input relating to an item is received (step 200). A hierarchy of categories is determined from the metadata of the item (step 204). A rating of at least one category within any one level of the hierarchy is received (step 208). Recommendations for the user are created based on at least the received rating of the at least one category (step 210).
Abstract:
Energy still is a precious commodity for portable consumer devices. In such devices, data is usually read from a mass storage device like a harddisk, buffered in a solid state memory and then rendered (processed) for reproduction over usually headphones (and a screen when applicable). The invention is aimed at more efficient use of the buffer memory, which is usually divided in compartments. The invention is based on the recognition that individual compartments of a (e.g.) dynamic buffer memory should be emptied as fast as possible as compared to gradually reading data from various compartments of the memory. In this way, considerable amounts of energy can be saved as an inactive memory compartment consumes less power than an active memory compartment.
Abstract:
The invention proposes a photo display system that allows photo collages from any photo collection (2), in which the collage is changing over time in such a way that the refresh time and presentation form is dependent on user choices for selection and non-selection on photo per photo basis. The display dynamics of each photo are also dependent on the characteristics of the photo relative to that of the other photos in the collection (2), including such matters as photo quality and uniqueness of picture action.