Patents by Inventor Harriet Jane Nock

Harriet Jane Nock 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: 20040111432
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for analyzing multimedia content to identify the presence of audio, visual and textual cues that together correspond to one or more high-level semantics are provided. The apparatus and method make use of one or more analysis models that are trained to analyze audio, visual and textual portions of multimedia content to generate scores associated with the audio, visual and textual portions with respect to various high-level semantic concepts. These scores are used to generate a vector of scores. The apparatus is trained with regard to relationships between audio, visual and textual scores to thereby take the vector of scores generated for the multimedia content and classify the multimedia content into one or more high-level semantic concepts. Based on the scores for the various audio, video and textual portions of the multimedia content, a level of certainty regarding the high-level semantic concepts may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hugh William Adams, Giridharan Iyengar, Ching-Yung Lin, Milind R. Naphade, Chalapathy Venkata Neti, Harriet Jane Nock, John Richard Smith, Belle L. Tseng