Patents by Inventor Hugh W. Adams

Hugh W. Adams 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).

  • System and method for annotating multi-modal characteristics in multimedia documents
    Patent number: 7793212
    Abstract: A manual annotation system of multi-modal characteristics in multimedia files. There is provided an arrangement for selection an observation modality of video with audio, video without audio, audio with video, or audio without video, to be used to annotate multimedia content. While annotating video or audio features is isolation results in less confidence in the identification of features, observing both audio and video simultaneously and annotating that observation results in a higher confidence level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hugh W. Adams, Jr., Giridharen Iyengar, Ching-Yung Lin, Chalapathy V. Neti, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng
  • System and method for annotating multi-modal characteristics in multimedia documents
    Publication number: 20040123231
    Abstract: A manual annotation system of multi-modal characteristics in multimedia files. There is provided an arrangement for selection an observation modality of video with audio, video without audio, audio with video, or audio without video, to be used to annotate multimedia content. While annotating video or audio features in isolation results in less confidence in the identification of the features, observing both audio and video simultaneously and annotating that observation results in a higher confidence level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Hugh W. Adams, Giridharan Iyengar, Ching-Yung Lin, Chalapathy V. Neti, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng