Patents by Inventor Timo Kosonen
Timo Kosonen 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).
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Patent number: 10296571Abstract: In general, a method, system, apparatus, network entity and computer program product are provided for presenting to a user an editable webpage corresponding to virtually any non-editable webpage that is capable of being accessed by the user. The web browser operating on the user's device may be modified, either directly or through a plug-in, in order to automatically provide an editable webpage for each URI input by the user. When a user inputs a URI associated with a webpage he/she would like to visit, his or her browser may automatically send a request to an indexing web server for an editable page associated with the input URI. The indexing web server may access a mapping of URIs to editable web pages, and provide the browser with the URI for the corresponding editable web page.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventor: Timo Kosonen
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Patent number: 9623332Abstract: The present invention relates to an operation method for executing games on mobile camera enabled terminal devices and to devices capable of executing the method. The method is based on hiding augmented reality messages in pictures by taking an image of an object, providing symbols; linking the symbols to the image, such that the symbols are not visible when displaying the image, and sending the image and the linked invisible symbols via a wireless connection as a first image to a mobile camera terminal device. The invention also provides a second component to re-visualize the hidden message by receiving the first image, taking a second image with a camera of the mobile camera terminal device, displaying the second image, comparing the first and second images to determine a matching measure, and visibly displaying the linked invisible symbols on the display, if the comparison fulfills at least one predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Mikko O. Heikkinen, Kai Havukainen, Jukka Antero Holm, Antti Johannes Eronen, Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20150104061Abstract: The present invention relates to an operation method for executing games on mobile camera enabled terminal devices and to devices capable of executing the method. The method is based on hiding augmented reality messages in pictures by taking an image of an object, providing symbols; linking the symbols to the image, such that the symbols are not visible when displaying the image, and sending the image and the linked invisible symbols via a wireless connection as a first image to a mobile camera terminal device. The invention also provides a second component to re-visualize the hidden message by receiving the first image, taking a second image with a camera of the mobile camera terminal device, displaying the second image, comparing the first and second images to determine a matching measure, and visibly displaying the linked invisible symbols on the display, if the comparison fulfills at least one predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Mikko O. HEIKKINEN, Kai HAVUKAINEN, Jukka Antero HOLM, Antti Johannes ERONEN, Timo KOSONEN
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Patent number: 8933889Abstract: The present invention relates to an operation method for executing games on mobile camera enabled terminal devices and to devices capable of executing the method. The method is based on hiding augmented reality messages in pictures by taking an image of an object, providing symbols; linking the symbols to the image, such that the symbols are not visible when displaying the image, and sending the image and the linked invisible symbols via a wireless connection as a first image to a mobile camera terminal device. The invention also provides a second component to re-visualize the hidden message by receiving the first image, taking a second image with a camera of the mobile camera terminal device, displaying the second image, comparing the first and second images to determine a matching measure, and visibly displaying the linked invisible symbols on the display, if the comparison fulfills at least one predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Mikko O. Heikkinen, Kai Havukainen, Jukka Holm, Antti Eronen, Timo Kosonen
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Patent number: 8845496Abstract: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in gaming. Functionality might, for instance, be provided wherein one or more users are, in the context of a video game, presented with one or more real-world fitness tasks to be performed. Various monitoring operations might, for example, be performed. Various compensatory operations might, for example, be performed. Such compensatory operations might, for instance, take into account user fitness levels and/or environments in which real-world fitness tasks are performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Juha Arrasvuori, Jukka A. Holm, Antti Eronen, Timo Kosonen, Kai Havukainen, Mikko Heikkinen
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Patent number: 8838728Abstract: In general, a method, system, apparatus, network entity and computer program product are provided for presenting to a user an editable webpage corresponding to virtually any non-editable webpage that is capable of being accessed by the user. The web browser operating on the user's device may be modified, either directly or through a plug-in, in order to automatically provide an editable webpage for each URI input by the user. When a user inputs a URI associated with a webpage he/she would like to visit, his or her browser may automatically send a request to an indexing web server for an editable page associated with the input URI. The indexing web server may access a mapping of URIs to editable web pages, and provide the browser with the URI for the corresponding editable web page.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20090307594Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining music information that defines at least one characteristic of audible music; and controlling changes to an appearance of a graphical user interface using the music information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Timo Kosonen, Kai Havukainen, Jukka Holm, Antti Eronen
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Publication number: 20080294750Abstract: In general, a method, system, apparatus, network entity and computer program product are provided for presenting to a user an editable webpage corresponding to virtually any non-editable webpage that is capable of being accessed by the user. The web browser operating on the user's device may be modified, either directly or through a plug-in, in order to automatically provide an editable webpage for each URI input by the user. When a user inputs a URI associated with a webpage he/she would like to visit, his or her browser may automatically send a request to an indexing web server for an editable page associated with the input URI. The indexing web server may access a mapping of URIs to editable web pages, and provide the browser with the URI for the corresponding editable web page.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventor: Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20070261537Abstract: A method, device, system and apparatus are provided for creating and sharing variations of a music file, wherein a variation metadata file is created that indicates which beats, measures and/or segments of an original music file are included in the variation created, in what order these beats, measures and/or segments have been combined, how many times each is looped, and the like. In particular, the variation metadata file may include a combination of indices associated with respective beats, measures and/or segments of the variation, wherein the indices have been listed or otherwise combined in the order and combination in which the various beats, measures and/or segments of the corresponding variation have been combined. As a result, the variation metadata file includes a relatively limited amount of data that can subsequently be transmitted and/or used to recreate the variation or remix.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2006Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Antti Eronen, Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20070239479Abstract: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in gaming. Functionality might, for instance, be provided wherein one or more users are, in the context of a video game, presented with one or more real-world fitness tasks to be performed. Various monitoring operations might, for example, be performed. Various compensatory operations might, for example, be performed. Such compensatory operations might, for instance, take into account user fitness levels and/or environments in which real-world fitness tasks are performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventors: Juha Arrasvuori, Jukka Holm, Antti Eronen, Timo Kosonen, Kai Havukainen, Mikko Heikkinen
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Publication number: 20070024527Abstract: The present invention relates to an operation method for executing games on mobile camera enabled terminal devices and to devices capable of executing the method. The method is based on hiding augmented reality messages in pictures by taking an image of an object, providing symbols; linking the symbols to the image, such that the symbols are not visible when displaying the image, and sending the image and the linked invisible symbols via a wireless connection as a first image to a mobile camera terminal device. The invention also provides a second component to re-visualize the hidden message by receiving the first image, taking a second image with a camera of the mobile camera terminal device, displaying the second image, comparing the first and second images to determine a matching measure, and visibly displaying the linked invisible symbols on the display, if the comparison fulfills at least one predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2005Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Mikko Heikkinen, Kai Havukainen, Jukka Holm, Antti Eronen, Timo Kosonen
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Patent number: 7045700Abstract: A method and corresponding equipment by which a synthesizer/MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) device (10) is able to optimally perform a MIDI file (11) taking into account not the polyphony required by the MIDI file (11) as in SP-MIDI (scalable polyphony MIDI), but taking into account instead extended scalable polyphony (XSP) data 12b including the maximum number of instantaneous voices required by the MIDI file and the categories in which they occur for different channel masking, and also taking into account the architecture of the synthesizer/MIDI device (10) in terms of a voice complexity coefficient table (12b) indicating the relative complexity (corresponding to a resource requirement) for voices in each category. The result is a total voice requirement table 12c-1 indicating typically less masking than would be required for the same synthesizer/MIDI device to play the MIDI file according to SP-MIDI.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Matti S. Hämäläinen, Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20060065107Abstract: In one aspect thereof this invention provides a method to estimate pitch in an acoustic signal. The method includes initializing a function ƒt and a time t, where t=0, x?0=ƒ0(F0), x?0 is a pitch estimate at time zero and F0 is a frequency of the acoustic signal at time zero; determining at least one pitch estimate using the function x?t=ƒt(Ft) by an iterative process of creating ƒt+1(Ft+1) based at least partly on pitch estimates x?t, x?t?1, x?t?2, x?t?3, . . . , and functions ƒt(Ft), ƒt?1(Ft?1), ƒt?2(Ft?2), ƒt?3(Ft?3) . . . and incrementing t; and calculating at least one final pitch estimate. Embodiments of this invention can be applied to pitch extraction with various different input acoustic signal characteristics, such as just intonation, pitch shift in the frequency domain, and non-12-step-equal-temperament tuning.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2004Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventor: Timo Kosonen
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Publication number: 20040267541Abstract: A method and corresponding equipment by which a synthesizer/MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) device (10) is able to optimally perform a MIDI file (11) taking into account not the polyphony required by the MIDI file (11) as in SP-MIDI (scalable polyphony MIDI), but taking into account instead extended scalable polyphony (XSP) data 12b including the maximum number of instantaneous voices required by the MIDI file and the categories in which they occur for different channel masking, and also taking into account the architecture of the synthesizer/MIDI device (10) in terms of a voice complexity coefficient table (12b) indicating the relative complexity (corresponding to a resource requirement) for voices in each category. The result is a total voice requirement table 12c-1 indicating typically less masking than would be required for the same synthesizer/MIDI device to play the MIDI file according to SP-MIDI.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Matti S. Hamalainen, Timo Kosonen