Of Audio Data (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.101)
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Patent number: 12200285Abstract: Techniques are described herein for creating, managing, and playing back a collaborative playlist. A platform server receives a request from a first of multiple users to insert a first media content item to the collaborative playlist. The first media content item is provided by a first media content service of multiple heterogeneous media content services. The platform server receives a request from a second of multiple users to insert a second media content item to the collaborative playlist. The second media content item is provided by a second media content service. The platform server generates a first entry and a second entry, each corresponding to the first and second media content items, respectively. The platform server inserts the first and second entries to the collaborative playlist.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: QUEUED UP, LLCInventor: Jackson A. Detrick
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Patent number: 12143669Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed. An example method includes collecting a first signature for media being presented to a plurality of households; crediting the media when the first signature matches a reference signature in a reference signature database; in response to determining that the first signature does not match a reference signature in the reference signature database and the first signature does not match an unidentified signature in an unknown signature database, storing the first signature in the unknown signature database; in response to determining that a second signature does not match the reference signature in the reference signature database and the second signature matches the unidentified signature in the unknown signature database, and increasing a count associated with the unidentified signature.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski, Daniel Nelson
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Patent number: 12124505Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein use acoustic features of a music track to capture information for a recommendation system. The recommendation can work without analyzing label data (e.g., genre, artist) or usage data for a track. For each audio track, a descriptor is generated that can be used to compare the track to other tracks. The comparisons between track descriptors result in a similarity measure that can be used to make a recommendation. In this process, the audio descriptors are used directly to form a track-to-track similarity measure between tracks. By measuring the similarity between a track that a user is known to like and an unknown track, a decision can be made whether to recommend the unknown track to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Oren Barkan, Noam Koenigstein, Nir Nice
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Patent number: 12072929Abstract: According to a song recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, a first page can be displayed firstly, and the first page includes a target song selected according to a song release date; then, in response to a trigger operation performed for the target song on the first page, the first page is switched to a second page of the selected target song. The song release date of the target song in the present embodiment is determined according to release information and auditory perception information of a song, and in this way, a real song release date of a song can be effectively identified, which in turn enables the target song shown on the first page to be selected based on the real song release date thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhixin Zhou, Jian Zhu, Wangwen Wu, Jiarui Xu, Weiming Zheng, Bilei Zhu, Peiwen Guan
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Patent number: 11983573Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for resource allocation using fingerprint representations of telemetry data. The method may include receiving, at a resource allocation device, a request to execute a workload; obtaining, by the resource allocation device, telemetry data associated with the workload; identifying, by the resource allocation device, a breakpoint based on the telemetry data; identifying, by the resource allocation device, a workload segment using the breakpoint; generating, by the resource allocation device, a fingerprint representation using the workload segment; performing, by the resource allocation device, a search in a fingerprint catalog using the fingerprint representation to identify a similar fingerprint; obtaining, by the resource allocation device, a resource allocation policy associated with the similar fingerprint; and performing, by the resource allocation device, a resource policy application action based on the resource allocation policy.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Eduardo Vera Sousa, Tiago Salviano Calmon
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Patent number: 11962846Abstract: The disclosure provides for use of steganographically-encoded data as a basis to control content modification. A server could determine through a fingerprint comparison that a portion of media content on a channel being rendered by a content presentation device matches at least one modifiable-content segment, such as at least one replaceable ad. The server could then use watermark data encoded in the media content of the channel as a basis to determine an actual identity of a modifiable-content segment present on the channel, so as to then control content modification.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ROKU, INC.Inventors: Shashank Merchant, Do Phuoc Hoang Tuong Lan
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Patent number: 11949935Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for network-based monitoring and serving of media to in-vehicle occupants. An example method includes linking panelist data corresponding to media exposure to first telemetry data collected by a vehicle to create linked panelist-telemetry data; and training a neural network to estimate vehicle occupant demographics based on second telemetry data using a first subgroup of the linked panelist-telemetry data.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Edward Murphy, Kelly Dixon, Jennifer Carton, Francis C. Fasinski, III
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Patent number: 11929090Abstract: A method for matching audio clips includes: obtaining a first feature sequence corresponding to a first audio clip and a second feature sequence corresponding to a second audio clip; constructing a distance matrix, elements in the distance matrix representing respective distances between first positions in the first feature sequence and second positions in the second feature sequence; calculating a first accumulation distance between a start position and a target position in the distance matrix, and calculating a second accumulation distance between an end position and the target position in the distance matrix; and calculating a minimum distance between the first feature sequence and the second feature sequence based on the first accumulation distance and the second accumulation distance, and determining a degree of matching between the first audio clip and the second audio clip according to the minimum distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Fang Chao Lin, Wei Biao Yun, Peng Zeng
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Patent number: 11868602Abstract: A method includes receiving, during playback of a content item in a content player of a first mobile application presented on a client device of a first user, an indication of a user request pertaining to a second mobile application, the user request corresponding to a first point in the content item played in the content player of the first mobile application. The method additionally includes causing the playback of the content item to continue in the content player presented on a client device while a user interface of the second mobile application is displayed on the client device, wherein the content player persists on top of the user interface of the second mobile application to provide the playback of the content item in a continuous manner from the first point in the content item.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Davies
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Patent number: 11861140Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Munetomo, Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto
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Patent number: 10277945Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: deriving text data from an input of audiovisual data; analyzing the text data to form one or more key words; selecting the one or more key words to obtain one or more relevant key words, wherein selecting comprises selection based on text data from user specific data sources; forming the one or more relevant key words into a query for obtaining relevant content; and issuing one or more queries to obtain related content from a network connected device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Jefferson Logan Holt
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Patent number: 10032477Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for modifying playlists of media assets. In some aspects, these methods and systems are provided by way of receiving a user input that causes a media asset in a playlist to cease from being played back and to be removed from the playlist. User interactions associated with the playlist may subsequently be monitored, where, in response to detecting a user interaction while monitoring, a number of user interactions that have been received subsequent to the user input may be determined. The number of user interactions may be compared to a threshold number, and, when the number of user interactions corresponds to the threshold number, the media asset may be inserted into the playlist.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Michael Shane Losey, Maeve Kathleen Sullivan
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Patent number: 9712569Abstract: A computer implemented method and apparatus for timeline-synchronized note taking during a web conference. The method comprises receiving a note from a user in a web conference; generating metadata that identifies a timestamp in the web conference when the note was created and a user identifier of the user who authored the note; and storing the note and the metadata with a recording of the web conference.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Samartha Vashishtha, Vikrant Rai, Gaurav Gupta, Aman Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Satija
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Patent number: 8762402Abstract: A control unit in a first playback system connected to a musical piece searching unit via a path having the highest data transfer rate includes a determining unit for discriminating between a request for musical piece information from the first playback system and a request for musical piece information from a second playback system, a temporary storage unit for holding data information acquired in response to the request from the second playback system, and a musical piece information transmitting unit for transferring the musical piece information read from the temporary storage unit to the second playback system according to the data transfer rate of a path connecting with the second playback system, and each of the first and second playback systems makes a request of the musical piece searching unit for musical piece information via the control unit, and acquires the data information satisfying the request.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Makoto Oi, Masaharu Tamanaha
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Publication number: 20140114917Abstract: A device may play a content item and detect an event while the content item is playing. The device may also determine a position, within the content item, at which the content item is playing when the event is detected, to obtain position information. In addition, the device may associate the position information with information obtained based on the event to generate a log entry. The device may update an experience log with the log entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications ABInventor: David Karlsson
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Publication number: 20140032481Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to add opaque state information to a data file that includes dynamic content and is organized according to a page descriptive format. The opaque state information can be referenced to a comment and a comment state selected from a plurality of states associated with the dynamic content. In some embodiments, the apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to access the data file and the opaque state information to recreate the comment state associated with the dynamic content. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventor: Grayson Squier Lang
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Publication number: 20130311506Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling user query disambiguation based on a user context of a mobile computing device. According to embodiments of the invention, a first user search query, along with sensor data, is received from a mobile computing device. A recognition process is performed on the sensor data to identify at least one item. In response to determining the at least one item is a result for the first search query, data identifying the at least one item is transmitted to the mobile computing device as a response to the first search query. In response to determining the at least one item is not the result for the first search query, search results of a second search query is transmitted to the mobile computing device as the response to the first search query, the second search query comprising a query of the at least one item.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Gabriel Taubman, David Petrou, Hartwig Adam, Hartmut Neven
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Publication number: 20130218929Abstract: An integrated system of song personalization facilitates the customization of user song lyrics and the association of multimedia content with the lyrics to generate a personalized song. The system allows users to create personalized songs from song templates for different occasions, and the system further allows users to select multimedia content to be associated with specific sections of the song templates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventor: Jay Kilachand
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Patent number: 8504367Abstract: Disclosed are a speech retrieval apparatus and a speech retrieval method for searching, in a speech database, for an audio file matching an input search term by using an acoustic model serialization code, a phonemic code, a sub-word unit, and a speech recognition result of speech. The speech retrieval apparatus comprises a first conversion device, a first division device, a first speech retrieval unit creation device, a second conversion device, a second division device, a second speech retrieval unit creation device, and a matching device. The speech retrieval method comprises a first conversion step, a first division step, a first speech retrieval unit creation step, a second conversion step, a second division step, a second speech retrieval unit creation step, and a matching step.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Dafei Shi, Yaojie Lu, Yueyan Yin, Jichuan Zheng, Lijun Zhao
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Publication number: 20130191348Abstract: A method and system for identifying and tracing copies of a file is disclosed herein. The method/system includes assigning a unique serial number to each of the copies of the file; and designating a barcode corresponding to the unique serial number. The method/system requires identification of a purchaser of a given copy to be linked with the barcode, so that it can reference the association relations between the serial number and barcode to determine the identity of the purchaser.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventor: Ali Vahabzadegan
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Publication number: 20130158690Abstract: A media player can identify one or more elements of a media presentation and select an element of the media presentation for generating output. The elements may be identified in a playlist or elsewhere. For example, the playlist may specify a composition of a plurality of visual, audio, or other elements for generating output or other behavior in parallel and/or in series over the course of the media presentation. The media player can comprise a playback component configured to utilize at least one selectively-enabled functional component of the media player to generate output based on evaluating the trait(s) exposed by the selected element. Traits may be determined based on analyzing media types or other data regarding the elements of the presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Edwin Van Rijkom, Brian Riggs, Vijay Ghaskadvi
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Publication number: 20130132382Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically identifying end credits in a media item are disclosed. An analysis component analyzes a media item and identifies a transition point in the media item where end credits begin and a presentation component presents a prompt, such as a survey, based on the transition point. In another aspect, a monitoring component monitors at least one of content or audio of the media item. According to this aspect, the analysis component analyzes the at least one of the content or the audio, identifies a pattern of the media item associated with the end credits, and identifies the transition point as a function of the pattern. In various aspects, the pattern is associated with a streaming of text, a music soundtrack, an absence of speech, an absence object movement, or an absence of an appearance of objects included in the body of the media item.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: RAWLLIN INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Andrey N. Nikankin
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Publication number: 20130124462Abstract: Clustering and synchronizing content may include extracting audio features for each of a plurality of files that include audio content. The plurality of files may be clustered into one or more clusters. Clustering may include clustering based on a histogram that may be generated for each file pair of the plurality of files. Within each of the clusters, the files of the cluster may be time aligned.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Nicholas James Bryan, Paris Smaragdis, Gautham J. Mysore
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Publication number: 20130073584Abstract: Methods and apparatus to share file(s)/recommendation(s) are disclosed. An example method includes verifying a first service used by a first user recommending a file and encoding a first service identification code with the file based on the first service, verifying a second service used by a second user upon receipt of a file request by the second user and/or detection of a mention of the second user in the file recommendation, searching for a second service identification code associated with the file based on the second service and encoding the second service identification code with the file, and providing the file recommendation with the first service identification code to the second user where the second service and the first service are the same or providing the file recommendation with the second service identification code to the second user where the second service and the first service are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Ron Kuper, Joni Hoadley
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Publication number: 20130054609Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for accessing a specific location in voice site audio content. The method includes indexing, in a voice site index, a specific location in the voice site that contains the audio content, mapping the audio content with information regarding the location and adding the mapped content to the index of the voice site, using the index to determine content and location of an input query in the voice site, automatically marking the specific location in the voice site that contains the determined content and location of the input query, and automatically transferring to the marked location in the voice site.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nitendra Rajput, Kundan Shrivastava
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Publication number: 20120323897Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for providing query-dependent audio and video clip previews are provided. Using the systems and methods described herein, an identification of an audio or video clip relevant to a user search query is received. The user search query has one or more keywords. Occurrences of the keywords and the locations of the occurrences are identified in a transcription of the identified audio or video clip. Clip segments are extracted from the audio or video clip. Each extracted clip segment includes an identified keyword occurrence. A query-dependent clip preview is created that includes at least one extracted clip segment. The query-dependent clip preview can be provided in search results for the user search query to provide an informative preview that is specific to the query to which the clip is relevant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: ANTOINE EL DAHER, FARAH M. ALI
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Publication number: 20120322401Abstract: A wireless, mobile device application for a first-responder to create incident reports for events such as an automobile accident or natural disaster, including digital photographs, audio recordings, notes, ordinance numbers, number of individuals affected, type of incident, real time global positioning satellite coordinates (GPS), and any other relevant information that a first-responder deems necessary. Such a report may then be transmitted to a server for access by emergency personnel, E-911 dispatchers, or any others with access to a secure server hosted on the World Wide Web.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventor: Lee Collins
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Publication number: 20120296938Abstract: Various embodiments enable audio data, such as music data, to be captured, by a device, from a background environment and processed to formulate a query that can then be transmitted to a content recognition service. In one or more embodiments, multiple queries are transmitted to the content recognition service. In at least some embodiments, subsequent queries can progressively incorporate previous queries plus additional data that is captured. In one or more embodiments, responsive to receiving the query, the content recognition service can employ a multi-stage matching technique to identify content items responding to the query. This matching technique can be employed as queries are progressively received.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kazuhito Koishida, David Nister, Ian Simon, Tom Butcher
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Publication number: 20120296914Abstract: Techniques are provided for capturing events and activities that occur during a conference, generating metadata related to the events, and correlating the metadata with specific points in time, within the conference, at which the corresponding events occurred. The resulting temporally-correlated event metadata may be stored as part of the conference recording, or separate from the conference recording. Once the temporally-correlated event metadata has been stored for a conference, the conference may be indexed based on the metadata. The index may then be used to not only to locate a conference that satisfies specified search criteria, but to identify the points or snippets, within the conference, that correspond to the search criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Mikhail Romanov, Kiran Vedula Venkata Naga Ravi, Eric S. Chan
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Publication number: 20120278358Abstract: A user inputs, as a query pattern, a desired search-object rhythm pattern using a control, corresponding to a desired one of a plurality of performance parts constituting a performance data set (automatic accompaniment data set), in a rhythm input device. An input rhythm pattern storage section stores the input rhythm pattern (query pattern) into a RAM on the basis of a clock signal output from a bar line clock output section and input trigger data. A part identification section identifies a search-object performance part corresponding to the user-operated control. For the identified performance part, a rhythm pattern search section searches an automatic accompaniment database for an automatic accompaniment data set including a rhythm pattern that matches, i.e. has the highest similarity to, the input rhythm pattern (query pattern).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Daichi Watanabe, Takuya Fujishima
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Publication number: 20120278337Abstract: Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: LIMELIGHT NETWORKS, INC.Inventor: Soam Acharya
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Publication number: 20120278348Abstract: Systems and methods enhance content from one source with content obtained from another source. Information about content, such as content that is or will be experienced by a user, is used to identify the content from another source. The content from the other source may be content of a different type than the content being enhanced. The content from the two (or more) sources are combined and provided simultaneously. The combined content may be provided using a set of one or more electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: LOGITECH INC.Inventors: Jean-Michel Chardon, Mark Connolly, Rajiv Bansal
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Publication number: 20120271847Abstract: A user inputs, as a query pattern, a desired search-object rhythm pattern by operating a rhythm input device. At that time, a determination is made of a style of operation performed by a user on a rhythm input device, such as whether the user has operated a single key or a plurality of keys, or duration or intensity of the operation, and then, a user-intended performance part is identified, on the basis of the determined style of operation, from among one or more performance parts constituting a performance data set (automatic accompaniment data set). For the thus-identified performance part, a rhythm pattern search section searches an automatic accompaniment database for an automatic accompaniment data set including a rhythm pattern that matches the input rhythm pattern (query pattern).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Daichi WATANABE, Takuya Fujishima
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Publication number: 20120254256Abstract: A computer program product, tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium, includes instructions, which when executed by a data processor of a multimedia player, cause the data processor to examine media content characteristics that characterize a user-specific collection of media content to identify a first cluster of media content that share similar media content characteristics; generate a first set of media content objects that characterize the first cluster of media content; and identify at least a subset of the first set of media content objects as potential seed objects for a set of media content channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Bose CorporationInventor: Keith Dana Martin
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Publication number: 20120254168Abstract: Disclosed herein is a playlist creation apparatus including a person specification section, a liking extraction section, a searching section, and a playlist creation section. The person specification section is adapted to specify a person captured in an image based on image data. Also, the liking extraction section is adapted to extract a liking of the person specified by said person specification section. The searching section is adapted to search, based on the liking extracted by said liking extraction section, for sound data of sound conforming to the liking. In addition, the a playlist creation section is adapted to create a playlist which defines a reproduction order of the sound data searched out by said searching section during displaying of the image based on the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Inventors: Mai Shibata, Masafumi Kato, Takashi Nishita, Kazutaka Gogo, Hiroshi Takagi
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Publication number: 20120239617Abstract: Media files are drop box-synchronized to limit the amount of new functionality to which a user must grow accustomed in order to synchronize the content of a media player with a remote server within a cloud computing network. Thusly, users are not required to change the way they use their media player(s), but rather are required to use the familiar drag and drop functionality of their native media player. The present invention contemplates automatic versus interval file synchronization between host and nodal processing units via a server within native media player formats. This is achieved through the creation of a media file play list folder that acts as a drop box into which the user drops the desired play list to synchronize with the server. Certain methodology enhances and supports the synchronization process, which methodology incorporates the use of signature waveform metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Alexander Savenok, Pavel Savenok, Dmitry Solovyev, Vassili Altynikov
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Publication number: 20120232681Abstract: A system and a method use a list of audio media to create a list of audiovisual media. A user of a computing device may create, may access, may edit and/or may use a list of audio media objects, such as, for example, an audio playlist. The the user may request generation of a list of audiovisual media objects which correspond to the audio media objects in the list of audio media objects. The user may request generation of the list of audiovisual media objects using a user interface on the computing device. The list of audio media objects may be provided to a list conversion engine which may discover, create, and/or obtain audiovisual media objects which correspond to the audio media objects in the list of audio media objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: L. Starlight Mundy, Dann Wilkens, Christina Sanini, Ralph Neff, Joel Rolfe
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Publication number: 20120185488Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems, and data structures for providing a music-subscription service customer with a portable music device that has been preloaded with customer-selected music. A music-subscription service provider receives a customer order to purchase a portable music device, and also receives the customer's selection of less than all of the music available on the music-subscription service provider's music database. The music-subscription service provider uses a computer to download the customer-selected music to the portable music device ordered by the customer. The music-subscription service provider then provides to the customer the portable music device that has been preloaded with the customer-selected music. The steps may be performed over the Internet and/or at a retail location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventor: Harold B. Oppenheimer
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Publication number: 20120179693Abstract: A computer implemented process encompasses the following steps: Identify the user's current media content library/ies; Analyse the content of those libraries, deriving a “taste signature” for the user from that analysis; Match the derived “taste signature” to other media content and to other users; and provide the user with recommendations based on that automatic matching process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Omnifone Ltd.Inventors: Mark Knight, Christopher Evans, Tom Boswell
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Publication number: 20120173574Abstract: An information retrieving apparatus is provided which has excellent usability using voice inputs. Search queries input by a user via a touch panel or the like are used as voice recognition vocabulary. Further, the search queries are edited by use of morpheme information and/or other information in a database, thereby providing such voice recognition vocabulary that can be easily uttered by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Hiroaki Kokubo, Yoshiyuki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20120166436Abstract: A method and system for generating playlists for content items is provided. Generating a playlist involves monitoring user interaction with one or more content items as user-content interactions, determining a context associated with one or more user-content interactions, and generating a playlist of the content items based on the user-content interactions and the associated context.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Swaroop KALASAPUR, Yu SONG, Doreen CHENG
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Publication number: 20120150890Abstract: Provided are a method of searching for multimedia contents and an apparatus therefor. The method includes separating an audio signal from indexing target multimedia contents and performing pre-processing on the audio signal, extracting a silence period of the audio signal, extracting an audio feature in at least one predetermined length period after an end point of the silence period, storing at least two of information for the multimedia contents, the audio feature and the end point of the silence period, to be associated with each other, in a database, and receiving the audio feature of the multimedia contents and searching the database for multimedia contents having the same or a similar audio feature as the search target multimedia contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Hyuk JEONG, Weon Geun OH, Sang Il NA, Keun Dong LEE, Sung Kwan JE
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Publication number: 20120147216Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing a geographically tagged media file, the method obtaining geographical information for the media file; identifying a subfolder for the media file; and placing the media file in the identified subfolder. Also, a method and apparatus for utilizing an album of geographically tagged media files within a media application, the method allowing a third party application access to the geographically tagged media files; and upon selection of the third party application within the media application, launching the third party application populated with the album of geographically tagged media files.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Piotr Konrad TYSOWSKI
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Publication number: 20120143855Abstract: A method for managing reference to an entity on a network includes determining shares of voice for an entity and other entities across a plurality of channels with respect to a plurality of search terms. The method also includes correlating shares of voice for the entity and the other entities with respect the search terms to determine a relative change in share of voice for the entity with respect to the other entities. Thereafter, shares of voice for the entity across the plurality of channels may be correlated to determine relative changes in share of voice for the entity within each of the channels. The relative change in share of voice for the entity with respect to the other entities and the relative changes in share of voice for the entity within each of the channels may then be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: BRIGHTEDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: JIMMY YU, SAMMY YU, LEMUEL S. PARK, ROLLAND YIP
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Publication number: 20120136870Abstract: Systems and methods provide for indexing audio content by fusing the indexes derived from a keyword stream and a large vocabulary stream search. For example, systems and methods provide for two stream searching of Spoken Web VoiceSites, wherein metadata is extracted from the VoiceSite and is used to determine a set of keywords for high precision search while a traditional standard vocabulary set is used to perform a high results, low precision search. The results of the keyword search and the standard vocabulary search are fused together to form a comprehensive, ranked list of results.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Anupam Joshi, Sougata Mukherjea, Nitendra Rajput
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Publication number: 20120109657Abstract: The invention consists of a compilation of unified audio tour files in compressed format i.e. MP3 or MP4 that provides pre-recorded spoken commentary to Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled devices. Using satellite technology, audio is triggered based on a user's location, providing relevant facts, geography, points of interest, history, and trivia of every city/town/area as it is being traveled throughout the World. These audio tour files will be provided in multiple languages. Upgrades shall be available via the Internet. The invention will narrate the entire World beginning with the large metropolitan areas of the United States of America, through to the smallest towns in Malta.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventor: Cristian Partan
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Publication number: 20120106801Abstract: A vehicle tracking and locating system provides information to a user about a vehicle of interest, and includes a database controller in operative communication with a database, and configured to receive data corresponding to vehicles from a plurality of client sources, and configured to save the data as information records corresponding to each client source. A plurality of external communication devices transmit a data request by the user corresponding to the vehicle of interest. A request server receives the data request in one a variety of communication formats. An input request processor operatively coupled to the request server is configured to obtain information records from the database corresponding to the data request. An output processor operatively coupled to the request server provides data of interest from the obtained information records for transmission to the respective communication device to satisfy the user request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventor: Scott A. Jackson
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Publication number: 20120109904Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for replacing a master media file. Data indicates characteristics of a first user's multiple media files. At least one of the multiple media files matches content in a master media file. The content in the matching media file is of a second quality that is higher than the first quality of the master media file. A server system stores the matching media file in place of the master media file. The server system receives a request from a second user for content matching the master media file, and accesses quality parameters that indicate the second user can access a version of the content at a third quality that is less than the second quality. A media file that contains the requested content at the third quality is generated and sent to the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: David L. Sparks, Marco Nelissen
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Publication number: 20120102033Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method and system called “Universal Learner (UL),” which provides a unified framework to understand multimedia signals. The UL utilizes the loosely annotated multimedia data on the Web, analyses it in various signal domains, such as text, image, audio and combinations thereof, and builds an association graph called the “Multimedia Brain,” which basically comprises visual signals, audio signals, text phrases and the like that capture a multitude of objects, experiences and their attributes and the links among them that capture similar intent or functional and contextual relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Nima Sarshar, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Publication number: 20120078861Abstract: A method for processing a digital file of the images, video and/or audio type which comprises a phase for putting into line per color layer and/or per audio channel, digital data of any audio, image and video file, a compression phase using algorithm in which each compressed value VCn of position N is obtained by subtracting from the value Vn of same position N of the original file, a predetermined number of successive compressed values (VCn-1, VCn-2, . . . ) calculated previously, and a restoration phase using an algorithm in which each restored value VDn of position N is obtained by adding to the value VCn, of the same position of the compressed file, a predetermined number of successive compressed values (VCn-1, VCn-2, . . . ).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: I-CES Innovative Compression Engineering SolutionInventor: Than Marc-Eric Gervais