Patents by Inventor Ivars Blodnieks

Ivars Blodnieks 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).

  • Patent number: 9596502
    Abstract: A method comprising the steps of: generating an acoustic fingerprint that is responsive to a playing of a movie; searching, responsive to the acoustic fingerprint, an acoustic database; generating a dialogue fingerprint that is responsive to the playing of the movie; searching, responsive to the dialogue fingerprint, a dialogue database; identifying, responsive to the searching of the acoustic database and responsive to the searching of the dialogue database, a location within the movie; and displaying, responsive to the identified location, an information item that is associated with the identified location; and wherein the generating the dialogue fingerprint comprises a conversion of a portion of dialogue to text; wherein the searching the acoustic database is initially limited to a portion of the acoustic database; wherein the identifying is further responsive to a confidence indicator; and wherein a subsequent searching is responsive to a synchronization suspend timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventors: Max Abecassis, Ivars Blodnieks