Patents by Inventor Bastiaan Zoetekouw

Bastiaan Zoetekouw has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110066961
    Abstract: A summary comprising a plurality of selected segments of the content item is presented to a user (step 202) and a user input is received (step 204). The non-selected segments located between a previously presented segment and the segment being presented at the time of receiving said user input are determined (step 206) and each non-selected segment is assigned a ranking value (step 208). At least one non-selected segment is presented (step 210). Presentation of the selected segment being presented at the time of receiving the user input is resumed (step 212).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Lu Wang, Pedro Fonseca, Bastiaan Zoetekouw
  • Publication number: 20100259688
    Abstract: A method of determining a starting point (12) of a segment (11) corresponding to a semantic unit of an audiovisual signal includes processing an audio component of the signal to detect sections (14) satisfying a criterion for low audio power, and processing the audiovisual signal to identify boundaries of sections corresponding to shots. A video component of the audiovisual signal is processed to evaluate a criterion for identifying video sections formed by at least one shot of a certain type, comprising images in which an anchorperson is likely to be represented. If at least an end point of a section (14) satisfying the criterion for low audio power lies on a certain interval between boundaries of an identified video section (13), a point coinciding with a section (14) satisfying the criterion for low audio power and located between the boundaries of the identified video section is selected as a starting point (12) of a segment (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Bastiaan Zoetekouw, Pedro Fonseca, Lu Wang