Patents by Inventor Tom Hirshberg

Tom Hirshberg 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).

  • Publication number: 20240370661
    Abstract: Multimedia content is summarized with the use of summary prompts that are created with audio and visual insights obtained from the multimedia content. An aggregated timeline temporally aligns the audio and visual insights. The aggregated timeline is segmented into coherent segments that each include a unique combination of audio and visual insights. These segments are grouped into chunks, based on prompt size constraints, and are used with identified summarization styles to create the summary prompts. The summary prompts are provided to summarization models to obtain summaries having content and summarization styles based on the summary prompts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Tom HIRSHBERG, Yonit HOFFMAN, Zvi FIGOV, Maayan YEDIDIA DOTAN, Oron NIR
  • Publication number: 20240303442
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for extracting and processing terms referenced in multimedia content with the use of different term extraction models to determine the relevance of categories to the referenced terms and to rank the categories by relative dominance for the multimedia content. The most dominant category for the multimedia content and/or particular segment(s) of the multimedia content can then be identified and used to link to supplemental content and/or to identify multimedia content related to topics of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Tom HIRSHBERG, Yonit HOFFMAN, Zvi FIGOV, Maayan YEDIDIA
  • Patent number: 12026200
    Abstract: A video-processing technique uses machine-trained logic to detect and track people that appear in video information. The technique then ranks the prominence of these people in the video information, to produce ranking information. The prominence of a person reflects a level of importance of the person in the video information, corresponding to the capacity of the person to draw the attention of a viewer. For instance, the prominence of the person reflects, at least in part, an extent to which the person appears in the video information. The technique performs its ranking based on person-specific feature information. The technique produces each instance of person-specific feature information by accumulating features pertaining to a particular person. One or more application systems make use of the ranking information to control the presentation of the video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yonit Hoffman, Tom Hirshberg, Maayan Yedidia, Zvi Figov
  • Publication number: 20240020338
    Abstract: A video-processing technique uses machine-trained logic to detect and track people that appear in video information. The technique then ranks the prominence of these people in the video information, to produce ranking information. The prominence of a person reflects a level of importance of the person in the video information, corresponding to the capacity of the person to draw the attention of a viewer. For instance, the prominence of the person reflects, at least in part, an extent to which the person appears in the video information. The technique performs its ranking based on person-specific feature information. The technique produces each instance of person-specific feature information by accumulating features pertaining to a particular person. One or more application systems make use of the ranking information to control the presentation of the video information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yonit HOFFMAN, Tom HIRSHBERG, Maayan YEDIDIA, Zvi FIGOV
  • Publication number: 20230366697
    Abstract: A method for localization of a drone within a building, the method may include (a) detecting, by an acoustic detection unit of the drone, sounds generated by a propulsion unit of the drone while the drone is located within the building; and (b) determining, by a processing unit of the drone, the location of the drone within the building, based on the sounds and on building acoustic information regarding sounds detected at different portions of the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Tom Hirshberg, Alexander Bronstein