Patents by Inventor James Lanagan

James Lanagan 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: 9830320
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device (D) for assigning time information to a main multimedia content related to a given object. To this end, said device comprises: a clustering module (4) configured to cluster a set of auxiliary multimedia contents with time information and related to said object, so as to deliver clusters comprising some of said auxiliary multimedia contents; a determining module (5) configured to determine a time data for each cluster; a computing module (6) configured to compute a distance between the main multimedia content and each of said clusters, an assigning module (7) configured to assign to the main multimedia content, the time data of the cluster having the smallest distance said amongst computed distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Marie Guegan, James Lanagan, Frederic Plissonneau
  • Patent number: 9740695
    Abstract: According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps of: clustering said plurality of creators to deliver clusters comprising at least two creators, called relevant creators; assigning, to at least some relevant creators of the cluster comprising the first creator, called first cluster, a score of relevance determined from at least one criterion of similarity between said relevant creators and said first creator; ranking relevant creators of said first cluster according to their scores of relevance; selecting, among a plurality of multimedia contents, at least one second multimedia content related to said first multimedia content and delivered by a ranked relevant creator of said first cluster; enriching said first multimedia content based on said second multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: James Lanagan, Marie Guegan, Philippe Schmouker
  • Publication number: 20150358665
    Abstract: A transmission method in a video apparatus connected to a database system of visual entities is disclosed. The method comprises: selecting a first visual entity in the video content; selecting a second visual entity in the video content; transmitting to the database system at least one information relative to an association of the first visual entity with the second visual entity. A receiving method in a database system of visual entities associated with metadata, the database system being connected to a video apparatus, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Philippe SCHMOUKER, Izabela ORLAC, James LANAGAN
  • Publication number: 20150058346
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device (D) for assigning time information to a main multimedia content related to a given object. To this end, said device comprises: a clustering module (4) configured to cluster a set of auxiliary multimedia contents with time information and related to said object, so as to deliver clusters comprising some of said auxiliary multimedia contents; a determining module (5) configured to determine a time data for each cluster; a computing module (6) configured to compute a distance between the main multimedia content and each of said clusters, an assigning module (7) configured to assign to the main multimedia content, the time data of the cluster having the smallest distance said amongst computed distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Marie GUEGAN, James LANAGAN, Frederic PLISSONNEAU
  • Publication number: 20150019555
    Abstract: According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps of: clustering said plurality of creators to deliver clusters comprising at least two creators, called relevant creators; assigning, to at least some relevant creators of the cluster comprising the first creator, called first cluster, a score of relevance determined from at least one criterion of similarity between said relevant creators and said first creator; ranking relevant creators of said first cluster according to their scores of relevance; selecting, among a plurality of multimedia contents, at least one second multimedia content related to said first multimedia content and delivered by a ranked relevant creator of said first cluster; enriching said first multimedia content based on said second multimedia content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: James LANAGAN, Marie GUEGAN, Philippe SCHMOUKER
  • Publication number: 20140229472
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for enriching a multimedia content defined by a timeline and by a chronological text description, wherein it comprises the following steps of: identifying using natural language processing at least one feature in at least a part of a text document retrieved from a network, automatically aligning said determined part of the text document to at least a part of the chronological text description, which semantically corresponds to said determined part of the text document, so that at least the part of the text document is automatically synchronized with the timeline of the multimedia content, the chronological text description being itself synchronized with the timeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Marie GUEGAN, James Lanagan, Philippe Schmouker, Anne Lambert