Patents by Inventor JEFF AMSTERDAM

JEFF AMSTERDAM 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: 11012748
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically providing customized versions of video content are disclosed. In embodiments, a method comprises: analyzing a video to determine content and context of portions of the video; assigning one or more content editing categories to the portions of the video based on the analyzing; determining an unwanted scene of the video based on the one or more content editing categories and user profile data of a viewer; determining a style component of the unwanted scene based on context of the unwanted scene and the user profile data; generating custom content to replace the unwanted scene of the video based on an acceptable portion of content corresponding to the unwanted scene and the style component; editing the video to replace the unwanted scene of the video with the custom content to produce an edited video including the custom content; and providing the edited video to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Jeff Amsterdam, Craig M. Trim, Christopher E. Holladay
  • Patent number: 10621990
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that subtitle streaming video with audio and identify a speaker in a streaming video with audio according to words spoken by the speaker matched to a cognitive print. The cognitive print includes traits classified according a hierarchical long short term model (LSTM). The hierarchical LSTM includes layers of LSTMs and each layer corresponds to the classification of one trait. A processor annotates a subtitle of the words spoken by the speaker, which decorates the subtitle with a label representative of the identified speaker, and streams the decorated subtitle with the streaming video with audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Amsterdam, Aaron K. Baughman, Stephen C. Hammer, David A. Provan
  • Publication number: 20200092610
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically providing customized versions of video content are disclosed. In embodiments, a method comprises: analyzing a video to determine content and context of portions of the video; assigning one or more content editing categories to the portions of the video based on the analyzing; determining an unwanted scene of the video based on the one or more content editing categories and user profile data of a viewer; determining a style component of the unwanted scene based on context of the unwanted scene and the user profile data; generating custom content to replace the unwanted scene of the video based on an acceptable portion of content corresponding to the unwanted scene and the style component; editing the video to replace the unwanted scene of the video with the custom content to produce an edited video including the custom content; and providing the edited video to the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Aaron K. BAUGHMAN, Jeff AMSTERDAM, Craig M. TRIM, Christopher E. HOLLADAY
  • Publication number: 20190333520
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that subtitle streaming video with audio and identify a speaker in a streaming video with audio according to words spoken by the speaker matched to a cognitive print. The cognitive print includes traits classified according a hierarchical long short term model (LSTM). The hierarchical LSTM includes layers of LSTMs and each layer corresponds to the classification of one trait. A processor annotates a subtitle of the words spoken by the speaker, which decorates the subtitle with a label representative of the identified speaker, and streams the decorated subtitle with the streaming video with audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: JEFF AMSTERDAM, Aaron K. Baughman, Stephen C. Hammer, David A, Provan
  • Publication number: 20190250307
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for the contextualized weather summarization for a target event includes the receipt in memory of a computer of a weather report corresponding to a geographical locale corresponding to a particular event and venue for the event and the processing of the received weather report to generate a multiplicity of different contextual summarizations utilizing a pre-established weather grammar. Then, a processor of the computer analyzes each one of the different contextual summarizations to measure a tone ranging from negative to positive. Finally, the processor transmits a most positive measured one of the contextual summarizations over the computer communications network to end users seeking a weather forecast for the geographical locale corresponding to the particular event and venue for the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Jeff Amsterdam, Stephen C. Hammer