Abstract: Natural language image editing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is converted from audio data using a speech-to-text engine. A gesture is recognized from one or more touch inputs detected using one or more touch sensors. Performance is then initiated of an operation identified from a combination of the natural language input and the recognized gesture.

Abstract: Natural language image spatial and tonal localization techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is processed to determine spatial and tonal localization of one or more image editing operations specified by the natural language input. Performance is initiated of the one or more image editing operations on image data using the determined spatial and tonal localization.

Abstract: Natural language image tags are described. In one or more implementations, at least a portion of an image displayed by a display device is defined based on a gesture. The gesture is identified from one or more touch inputs detected using touchscreen functionality of the display device. Text received in a natural language input is located and used to tag the portion of the image using one or more items of the text received in the natural language input.

Abstract: Natural language vocabulary generation and usage techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more search results are mined for a domain to determine a frequency at which words occur in the one or more search results, respectively. A set of the words is selected based on the determined frequency. A sense is assigned to each of the selected set of the words that identifies a part-of-speech for a respective word. A vocabulary is then generated that includes the selected set of the words and a respective said sense, the vocabulary configured for use in natural language processing associated with the domain.

Abstract: Natural language and user interface control techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is received that is indicative of an operation to be performed by one or more modules of a computing device. Responsive to determining that the operation is associated with a degree to which the operation is performable, a user interface control is output that is manipulable by a user to control the degree to which the operation is to be performed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating collections with automatic suggestions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a user specification containing at least one unquantified constraint defining particular items contained in a library, where the library comprises a plurality of items and metadata associated with each item in the plurality of items; parsing and translating the at least one unquantified constraint into at least one quantified constraint to define at least one item of the plurality of items in the library; creating a suggested collection comprising at least one suggested item selected from the library having metadata conforming to at least one quantified constraint; and refining the suggested collection to form a final collection.

Abstract: A plurality of segment transitions in a video data stream is identified. The identifying the plurality of segment transitions includes recognizing an interface feature of a first application interface displayed in the video data stream and generating metadata associating a selected segment transition with a particular point in the video data stream. The interface feature indicates the selected segment transition among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream. A navigation system for navigating among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream is provided. Responsive to input, navigation to the selected segment transition is performed and the video data stream is displayed from the particular point.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and methods for using design features to search for page layout designs are described. The document and image structures of a page layout design may be analyzed to determine design features which define the style of the page layout design. Dependent on the design features, style scores may be calculated for the page layout design. Page layout designs may be stored in a database in association with corresponding style scores. A user may indicate a desired page layout style by indicating example page layout designs which exhibit the desired style. Style scores for the example page layout designs may be compared to the style scores for page layout designs stored in the database. Dependent on the comparison, page layout designs stored in the database may be selected and displayed to the user.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for comic creation. A digital sketching system may provide various tools for creating and modifying comics consisting of one or more panels, and for creating, adding, and modifying text in the panels. This system, which may be referred to as a comic creation application, may be implemented according to a domain-specific digital sketchbook paradigm that is directed specifically to the needs of a comic artist. The comic creation application may be tailored for comics planning, may be designed with the structure of comic pages in mind, and may provide high-level editing tools and operations for this structure. The system may make a digital device (e.g., a touch- or multitouch-enabled device) an intelligent participant in the creative process, rather than a passive sketchbook, to facilitate story building in ways that pencil and paper cannot.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates a viewer's viewing experience of a presentation as shown on the viewer's own machine. The system and method provide the viewer with navigation and annotation control of the viewer's view of the presentation without affecting the presenter's presentation and/or the presenter's display of the presentation. When viewing a presentation, the viewer can annotate at least a portion of the presentation with text, audio, ink markings, as well as insert URL or other web-based information. Searches can be conducted during the viewing of the presentation to further supplement content in the presentation. The search results including the pertinent URLs can be added in whole or in part to the relevant portions of the presentation. Furthermore, the viewer can view the presentation in a variety of perspectives and zoom levels to gain context over the presentation or parts thereof.

Abstract: Architecture for tracking, capturing, and visually summarizing information related to user activities and interactions of a network or web computing session. Documents or pages accessed during the session are tracked and presented graphically as miniature images that illustrate a history of the session of documents deemed important by the user. Activities tracked can be related to the dwell time at a web page, scrolling event(s) in the page, click-through activity, impression activity, referencing information of that page to other pages, the information sought, user intentions, goals, etc. The history of session documents are illustrated as a set of reduced images which can be manually and automatically filtered to graphically emphasize one subset of images more than another subset of images based on user criteria.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates a viewer's viewing experience of a presentation as shown on the viewer's own machine. The system and method provide the viewer with navigation and annotation control of the viewer's view of the presentation without affecting the presenter's presentation and/or the presenter's display of the presentation. When viewing a presentation, the viewer can annotate at least a portion of the presentation with text, audio, ink markings, as well as insert URL or other web-based information. Searches can be conducted during the viewing of the presentation to further supplement content in the presentation. The search results including the pertinent URLs can be added in whole or in part to the relevant portions of the presentation. Furthermore, the viewer can view the presentation in a variety of perspectives and zoom levels to gain context over the presentation or parts thereof.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for automatically creating animated 3-D scenarios from human position and path data are provided. The method and system may include immersive and non-immersive virtual reality technologies for the training and mental conditioning of trainees such as football players with a focus on visual perception skills. The method and system may include a unique combination of commercially available hardware, specially developed software, data sets, and data libraries, as well as commercially available software packages.