Abstract: To improve a cropping system by obtaining coverage of a wide range of contents for smaller sized displays of handheld devices, a method starts from a metadata aggregation and corresponding video, e.g. in post-production, program exchange and archiving, wherein (a) video is passed to a video analysis to deliver video, e.g. by use of motion detection, morphology filters, edge detection, etc.

Abstract: As the amount of audiovisual data that can be received by consumers increases rapidly, there is an increasing need for proper summarisation of audiovisual data like films. Thereto, the invention provides a method of creating a multimedia summary of a stream of audiovisual data like a film. First, a textual summary is retrieved (204). Next, the stream of audiovisual data is segmented (208) and information is extracted from the stream of audiovisual data (210) and the textual summary (206). Finally, segments are selected (212) that carry information matching information carried by the textual summary. Summaries of films and series are abundantly available on the internet and are made by and for devotees, providing a reliable seed for creating a multimedia summary.

Abstract: A system architecture for providing human intelligible information by processing a flow of input data; e.g., converting speech (source information) into printable data (target information) based on target-dependent probabilistic models; and for enabling efficient switching from one target field of information into another. To that end, the system is provided with a language modeling device including a data base loadable with an application-dependent corpus of words and/or symbols through a workstation; and a language modeling processor programmed to refresh, in practice, a tree-organized model, efficiently, with no blocking situations, and at a reasonable cost.