Authoring Diverse Media Presentation Patents (Class 715/202)
  • Publication number: 20140317481
    Abstract: An electronic document creation device for creating trial contents of an electronic document is provided. When the electronic document creation device creates trial contents, a dummy page for maintaining a layout of a two-page spread is inserted in addition to a page selected so as to be included in the trial contents. Consequently, in the case of a page, the page is displayed on the right side also in the trial contents, similarly to an original electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Sawada
  • Publication number: 20140317480
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a wearable camera that can be worn by a user. In one or more embodiments, the wearable camera can automatically take a series of photos and save those photos on the camera. The series of photos can be analyzed for various characteristics and properties. These characteristics and properties can be used to automatically select music from a music library. The music can then be used to create a video slideshow that includes music tailored to the characteristics and properties of the pictures. A link to an associated video file can be provided for sharing the video slideshow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seang Y. Chau, Michael J. Lammers
  • Patent number: 8869016
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating web pages for third party web sites such as Facebook. A page creation system is disclosed for creating web pages that encourage visitors to like a particular page on a third party site. Integration details are received about a third party site. Upon selecting a particular page template, the template is displayed with incomplete sections of the page template for the user to fill in. Content is received from the user for incomplete sections to form a completed page content. A create page selection is received from the user. A blurred version of a web page is created from the completed page content. A normal version of the web page that is designed for display after the blurred version is also created. The blurred version and normal version of the web page are published to the third party site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: You Everywhere Now, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Ray Barnes, Amit Chaudhary, Subrat Basnet
  • Patent number: 8860882
    Abstract: A system for constructing seamlessly viewable multimedia content from selectably presentable multimedia content blocks includes a block definition module for facilitating creation and modification of the content blocks. The block definition module includes a media assignment submodule for associating a synchronized audio and video segment with a content block. Also included is a block linking submodule for creating seamless connections between content blocks, whereby a transition between the connected blocks occurs substantially without interruption upon viewing the multimedia content. The block definition module further includes a layer submodule for associating an interactive layer having interactive controls with the content block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 Ltd—Israel
    Inventors: Jonathan Bloch, Barak Feldman, Tal Zubalsky, Kfir Y. Rotbard
  • Patent number: 8862976
    Abstract: In one aspect of a computer-implemented method of diagnosing formatting errors in document renderings, first and second renderings of a document are generated that correspond respectively to first and second locales. A first difference in a display characteristic of a first textual element of the document in the second rendering as compared to the first rendering is identified based on a first predefined criterion. A report is generated specifying the first textual element as having the first difference. In another aspect of the method, a rendering of a document is generated that corresponds to a locale. It is determined that a first element of the document having a first element type has a format in the rendering distinct from a format associated with the first element type in the locale. A report is generated specifying that the first element has a potential formatting error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Fishkin
  • Patent number: 8862173
    Abstract: A media selection and insertion control device implements a method for selecting media for delivery to a plurality of users at an incident. The media selection and insertion control device: receives a plurality of media inputs from multiple media sources; receives capabilities of devices of users at an incident; receives resource capabilities of a set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled; receives a set of incident-based rules and applies these rules to the plurality of media inputs to select media inputs to deliver to the users; and determines a mode of delivering the selected media inputs to the users based at least on the capabilities of the users' devices and on the resource capabilities of the set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Marocchi, John E. Emrich, John C. Kay, Daniel J. Naylor, Hemang F. Patel, Marianne J. Stanke
  • Patent number: 8856636
    Abstract: A media authoring application can be configured to use metadata associated with a media presentation to generate a score which serves to identify the interesting portions of the presentation and may thereby streamline the editing process. A method can comprise accessing metadata indicating at least one characteristic of a media presentation comprising a plurality of video segments, determining a qualitative score for at least one segment of the media presentation based on the metadata, and providing a user interface displaying the plurality of segments of the media file, the interface including a visual effect for at least one segment of the media file based on the segment's qualitative score. The method may comprise removing one or more segments based on comparing the score of the segment(s) to a parameter, such as a score threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Mike Iampietro, Arvinder Singh
  • Patent number: 8850328
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for dynamically profiling users for incentivized targeting of multimedia content to the users in a networked environment is provided. A server creates an advertiser network comprising advertisers and member websites, and creates a user network of users. The advertisers submit the multimedia content, advertising information, and targeting criteria to the server. The server and one or more publisher websites acquire marketing data from the users for creating dynamic user profiles for the users. The server and/or the publisher websites target the multimedia content to the users based on the created dynamic user profiles. The server and/or a client device of each of the users confirm viewing of the multimedia content using a challenge, random in content. The server and/or the publisher websites compensate the users by crediting the users with items of value based on confirmation of the viewing of the multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Genesismedia LLC
    Inventors: Richard Adam Smullen, Laurent Daniel Alhadeff, Jeremy Abraham Sterns
  • Publication number: 20140289595
    Abstract: A letter approval item including an approval document is created in an approval requester's PC and the approval document includes a signable region. An approval is requested by transmitting the letter approval item to a database server. A mobile-based approval item including the letter approval item is provided to a web/application server and then to an approver's mobile device when the approver's mobile device requests. The approval of the letter approval item is performed in the approver's mobile device in response to a direct signature of an approver. A signature image is created in the approver's mobile device by the direct signature of the approver. The signature image is transmitted to the web/application server and a final approval document is generated in the web/application server by inserting the signature image in the signable region of the approval document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Young-Woo PARK, Dong-Keun KIM, Dong-Min JU
  • Publication number: 20140289594
    Abstract: A media authoring application can be configured to use metadata associated with a media presentation to generate a score which serves to identify the interesting portions of the presentation and may thereby streamline the editing process. A method can comprise accessing metadata indicating at least one characteristic of a media presentation comprising a plurality of video segments, determining a qualitative score for at least one segment of the media presentation based on the metadata, and providing a user interface displaying the plurality of segments of the media file, the interface including a visual effect for at least one segment of the media file based on the segment's qualitative score. The method may comprise removing one or more segments based on comparing the score of the segment(s) to a parameter, such as a score threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Mike Iampietro, Arvinder Singh
  • Patent number: 8843816
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for document collaboration by transforming and reflecting a document object model. A DOM representation of a document to be shared is obtained at a host computer, transformed, and reflected to one or more participant computers. Each of the participant computers receives the DOM representation of the document and renders and displays the DOM representation locally. When the DOM representation is modified, changes to the DOM representation may also be transmitted to the participant computers, rendered, and displayed. Events occurring with respect to the DOM may also be synchronized between the host and participant computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Travis Stull, Nikolai Nedikov, Cameron John Parker, Brian J. Neufeld
  • Patent number: 8842100
    Abstract: In a pen-based computing system, a user-specific smart pen application is created from a template application using customer authoring tools. The template application contains computer program code that is to be executed by a processor of a smart pen. Application content and a representation for printed content are received. The application content, provided by user or customer, defines functional interactions between the printed content representation and a smart pen. The template application is combined with application content to generate a user-specific application comprising instructions for being executed on a processor of a smart pen. The user-specific application is stored on a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Livescribe Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy L. Edgecomb, Andrew J. Van Schaack, James L. Marggraff
  • Publication number: 20140281853
    Abstract: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for a Composite Content Generator. The disclosure teaches a Composite Content Generator, which provides a straightforward, unified, and transparent interface that presents users with the ability to customize publication purchases. Buyers of content may desire to customize their purchases in order to acquire certain sections of a work (e.g., select chapters from a travel book, select recipes from a cook book, choose certain subjects out of reference or medical journals, and specific sections of a periodical). In one embodiment, the Composite Content Generator allows buyers to view, select, and purchase portions of various works (e.g., such as books, periodicals, reference materials, and/or the like) and receive fulfillment of their purchase as a customized and modular composite publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Gary T. Bender, Stephen A. Cox
  • Publication number: 20140281848
    Abstract: In a method for generating a presentation, a computer communicates data representative of a plurality of presentation components. A computer receives data representative of a presentation component selected from the plurality of presentation components. A computer retrieves a predefined rule associated with the selected presentation component. A computer applies the rule associated with the selected presentation component. A computer inserts the presentation component in a presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Ala Mahafzah
  • Publication number: 20140281849
    Abstract: A number of supplemental media content selection periods may be identified within a narrative presentation consisting of a defined number and sequence of scenes. Within each of the supplemental media content selection periods, a number of selectable indicators, each corresponding to an associated aspect of inner awareness of a character included in the narrative may be provided. The aspects of inner awareness may include a thought or cognitive activity of the respective character, an emotion or emotional process of the respective character, or an instinct or bodily perception of the narrative character. Upon selecting a selectable indicator, a supplemental media content presentation logically associated with the aspect of inner awareness of the respective character is provided to a media content consumer. A media editing system can provide various options for transitioning between the narrative presentation and each of the supplemental media content presentations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MindsightMedia, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Siegel, Caroline S. Welch, Andrew L. Silver, Cynthia P. Brelis
  • Publication number: 20140281850
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for creating a content stream associated with a unique user identification. In one aspect, a method includes creating a content item; creating a content model associated with the content item; assigning one or more attributes or tags the content item or content model; selecting a content view style for the content item; publishing the content item in the selected content view style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Citta LLC
    Inventors: Sai Prakash, Edwin Gnichtel, Abu Moniruzzaman
  • Publication number: 20140281852
    Abstract: A multimedia presentation system facilitates efficient creation of multimedia presentations. For example, in an embodiment, a multimedia presentation system provides tools for creating an authoring notebook via which a user can (i) create graphics to be used in a presentation, (ii) create a script to be read, or be referred to, by a speaker during the presentation, and (iii) provide prompts to the speaker for when and/or how to modify the graphics during the presentation. A controller may be provided to allow a user to modify the visual portion of the presentation during performance of the presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: WOLFRAM RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Wolfram, Andre Kuzniarek
  • Publication number: 20140281847
    Abstract: When a social networking system receives an image and associated text for presentation to one or more users, the social networking system determines how to present the text and the image. For example, the social networking system determines if to overlay the text onto an area of the image. A readability score indicating the readability of the text if overlaid onto an area of the image is determined based on attributes of the image and of the text. Using the readability score, the social networking system overlays the text onto an area of the image when presented to other users or presents the text adjacent to the image when presented to other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Matthew Marra, Christopher Struhar
  • Publication number: 20140268184
    Abstract: A system and method for printing a multimedia document including a multimedia content in the form of video, animation or graphics. While printing a multimedia document including a video file, instead of printing the default poster view, a set of frames extracted from the video file is printed. In one embodiment of the invention, the frames are extracted from the video file using a frame extraction algorithm and temporary layout of the set of frames is created for printing. User can configure to print the set of frames in the same area of the video file in the multimedia document, or can configure to print them in a separate page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Romil Mittal, Narinder Beri, Ashu Mittal
  • Publication number: 20140281846
    Abstract: At least one analytical operation from a set of different analytical operations may be determined based on at least one input. The input(s) may comprise contextual information of working content being displayed to a user on a device and comprising numerical data. Supplemental information for the working content may be generated using the determined analytical operation(s), may comprise a numerical-based analysis of the numerical data, and may be caused to be displayed to the user concurrently with the working content. The contextual information may comprise structured data. The input(s) may further comprise at least one of a history of the user's interactions with the working content, a history of the user's interactions with recommendations of supplemental information for the working content, a history of other users' interactions with the working content, and a history of other users' interactions with recommendations of supplemental information for the working content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Alexander Sorin, David Siegel, Michael Thompson, Julian Gosper
  • Publication number: 20140281851
    Abstract: A computer-readable storage device embodies instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive data from a rifle scope corresponding to a hunt. Further, the instructions cause the processor to automatically generate a story corresponding to the hunt based on the data from the rifle scope and provide the story to an output interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: John Francis McHale
  • Patent number: 8833768
    Abstract: A method of play, wherein play emphasizes storytelling and story recounting abilities, and wherein the method comprises: (a) providing a gaming device which provides for: a plurality of subject elements, wherein each subject element from the plurality of subject elements comprises a topic for a particular story; and a plurality of situational elements, wherein each situational element from the plurality of situational elements qualifies the subject element; (b) pairing a subject element from the plurality of subject elements with a situational element from the plurality of situational elements; and (c) providing a story based on the paired subject element and selected situational element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Inventor: Jacob G. R. Kramlich
  • Publication number: 20140258817
    Abstract: An apparatus includes memory, a processor and a visualization analysis unit coupled with the memory and the processor. The visualization analysis unit is configured to detect a visualizable subject matter contained within data. The visualization analysis unit is also configured to determine a context in which the visualizable subject matter appears. The visualization analysis unit is also configured to select a visualization engine from a plurality of visualization engines based, at least in part, on the context in which the visualizable subject matter appears. The visualization analysis unit is also configured to configure the visualization engine to generate a visualization of the visualizable subject matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott R. Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling R. Smith, David B. Styles, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20140250355
    Abstract: A eBook generation system generates a time-synchronized, talking electronic book (ā€œeBookā€). The system uses searchable digital text of a work of authorship and corresponding marker data to generate eBook text data. Using an audio narration recording of the work and the generated eBook text data, the system generates synchronized text-to-audio metadata that associates a plurality of components of the eBook text data with time the components present in the audio narration recording. Furthermore, the system uses generated synchronized text-to-audio metadata and bibliographic metadata associated with the work to generate navigation control data that is capable of being used by an eBook reading device for navigational control of the display of eBook text data and playing of the audio narration recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: The Cutting Corporation
    Inventors: David Michael Jimison, Jeffrey R. Crouse, Jacob Milam, William Van Dusen Wishard, JR.
  • Patent number: 8826169
    Abstract: In some implementations, content of a content item may be presented on an electronic device and a portion of the content item may be selected to be hidden from presentation. The electronic device may hide the selected portion of the content during presentation of the content. Further, selection information identifying at least the location of the selected portion of the content item may be communicated over a network to a computing device to enable synchronization of the hidden content with other instances of the content item on other devices of the user. In some examples, the user may select one or more chapters of the content item to be hidden by selecting one or more chapter identifiers in a table of contents of the content item. Hidden content may include text, images, audio and/or video content, depending on the type of content item that is accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sherif M. Yacoub, Xi Long, Ming Zhao, Xuping Zhang, Manikandan Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8826111
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus and method for display of final superimposed scenes from a receiver adapted to receive shared object control information used for forming final superimposed scenes and display final superimposed scenes. The final superimposed scenes are formed by superimposing two or more shared scenes each comprising one or more shared objects. The shared object comprises user-selectable command objects that are separately controllable independent of the shared scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140245116
    Abstract: The present application provides a system and method for providing a digital art platform. Data structure(s) configured for storing information associated with digital art may be provided. A graphical user interface (ā€œGUIā€) operable on each of a plurality of client computing devices is provided and configured to provide a virtual canvas. A transformation module can be configured to receive at least one instruction and to modify the digital art when executed by at least one processor in response to the at least one instruction. Moreover, an update module can be included to transmit at least one instruction to at least one second of the plurality of computing devices. The modified digital art can be provided in each respective canvas of the at least one second of the plurality of computing devices in response to the at least one instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Particle, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas E. Dangerfield, Kostadin Krajcev
  • Publication number: 20140245115
    Abstract: A computerized method for automatically generating display content includes receiving a uniform resource locator, wherein the uniform resource locator specifies a landing resource and extracting visual information from the landing resource, wherein the visual information defines one or more images, texts, and colors displayed on the landing resource. The method further includes selecting one or more images, one or more text snippets, and one or more colors based on the visual information extracted from the landing resource, generating a layout for a content item based on one or more of the selected images or selected text snippets, and assembling the content item by applying the selected images, the selected text snippets, and the selected colors to the generated layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Guannan Zhang, Kai Ye, Yongtai Zhu, Zuo Yan, Andrew Foster, Jordan Bayliss-McCulloch, Daly Chang, Ayaka Nonaka
  • Patent number: 8819533
    Abstract: An interactive multimedia diary system is presented. The system can include one or more interfaces for media content devices (e.g., communications devices, still or video cameras, audio devices, or any other suitable media content storing or generating devices). An interactive multimedia diary can be composed by collecting and arranging a plurality of media types (e.g., images, video, audio, text, etc.). Alternatively, other suitable data collections such as a journal, a scrapbook, an album, a log, a notebook, or a memoir can be composed. The system can prompt a user for input based on input previously entered. The system can scan input text for keywords, such as verbs associated with common activities, previously used or new names, locations, or any other suitable concepts and prompt the user for more information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Laureen A. Trotto, Maureen T. Trotto, Robert A. Ruginis, Robert W. Jeffway, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8819564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for distributed discussion collaboration and making an agenda for an event over a network. In an embodiment, a system may include an aggregator configured to aggregate discussion items submitted by collaborators, and a view controller associated with the collaborators and configured to provide for display the aggregated items. A system may also include a voting module configured to receiving voting information submitted by the collaborators for the discussion items, and an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and order the aggregated items based on the analyzed voting information. In another embodiment, a method includes aggregating discussion items submitted by collaborators and receiving voting information for the aggregated items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Taliver Heath, John Mishanski
  • Publication number: 20140237330
    Abstract: A system for creating a memoir includes: a physical memory; and a processing unit executing instructions stored on the physical memory to perform the following steps: receiving a request from a user to create the memoir; obtaining information about a subject for the memoir; assigning writing of the memoir to a writer; receiving and distributing drafts of the memoir; and presenting the memoir to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: James Montgomery Pitzner, Elizabeth Hilton, William Routhier, Smitaben I. Giesen
  • Publication number: 20140237333
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for digital media personalization are provided herein. Methods may include selecting an upcoming digital media publication to be published over a network, selecting prior to publishing the digital media publication, a portion of the digital media publication that is to be personalized after the digital media publication is published, establishing, prior to publishing the digital media publication, characteristics for personalization of the portion of the digital media publication, and publishing the personalizable digital media publication over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Steven Victor McKinney, Ron Severdia
  • Publication number: 20140237334
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for use in populating at least one document are disclosed. One example portable communication device includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon. When executed by a controller, the computer-executable instructions cause the controller to access content stored on a host server, wherein the content is related to at least one of a safety talk and a training session, output the content, and generate a report indicating which users viewed the output content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: TRUQC LLC
    Inventor: Ross Donnell Boyd
  • Publication number: 20140237332
    Abstract: Applications are managed in an interactive media environment by the creation of a logical model for the lifetime of an application. The model is applicable to concurrently and/or consecutively running applications and governs the creation of applications, manipulation of applications by other applications, resource consumption, visibility of an application to a user, and application shutdown in the interactive media environment using the construct of application ā€œstate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Finger, John Andre Yovin, Khurshed Mazhar, Olivier Colle, Arthur William James Freeman
  • Publication number: 20140237331
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and systems facilitate development and distribution of content for presentation on a display or a multiplicity of networked displays, the content including content elements. The content elements may include graphics, text, video clips, still images, audio clips or web pages. The development of the content is facilitated using a database comprising design rules based on principles of cognitive and vision sciences. The database may include design rules based on visual attention, memory, and/or text recognition, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Brian E. Brooks
  • Patent number: 8812946
    Abstract: Generally, the systems and methods described herein are directed to rendering a document containing textual elements and graphical elements. The systems and methods include separating the graphical elements from the textual elements, and generating a bitmap rendering of the graphical elements and an HTML rendering of the textual elements. The HTML rendering may then be overlaid on the bitmap rendering to generate a composite document having textual elements that are accessible to screen reader software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Kopylov, Michael Frederick
  • Patent number: 8812945
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a method of dynamically creating real-time presentations responsive to search expressions. The method comprises retrieving information from search engines, parsing the retrieved information to create dynamically a structured document including mark-up tags, and rendering the structured document as a slide show presentation of images by a multimedia presentation module. The structured document may be editable, annotatable, storable, and publishable by a user viewing the slide show presentation on the client device. The information retrieved from the one or more search engines may be restricted to one or more specified web domains. Pertinent textual information about the object of interest may also be retrieved along with the image information for convenient review by the user. Each displayed image in the slideshow presentation may have an embedded hyperlink to the source page of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Laurent Frederick Sidon
    Inventors: Laurent Sidon, Charles L. Johnson, Ronen Lasry
  • Publication number: 20140229810
    Abstract: A topic is extracted from a digital text document (102). A video is selected from a video source for the extracted topic (104). The selected video is associated with the extracted topic (106).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Krishnan Ramanathan, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam, Vidhya Govindaraju
  • Publication number: 20140229809
    Abstract: An electronic magazine generation system includes an original information division recording unit which records a plurality of sorting information pieces into which each piece of original information for generating a plurality of magazines is divided in the unit of themes, a main page creation unit which controls display sizes of the main image and the related image and font sizes of text information and text string as size information in accordance with a display region of a display apparatus, and creates a main page in which the main image and the text string are arranged on a background image on the basis of controlled correspondence information, and a detailed information page creation unit which creates a detailed information page for displaying a related image of a selected main image and text information having correspondence information with the related image when the main image is selected by the user on the main page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: papelook Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsuura, Ichiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8799774
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to generating a translatable and annotated multimedia or video presentation of a software program operation. An aspect of the disclosure comprises recording user interaction data that includes user interface gestures and text entries from a keyboard and other user devices while the program is operating. Embodiments of the disclosure transform recorded text and visual contents of the program to a selected format or language, annotate contents of interest, and merge recorded user interface gestures, transformed text and visual contents, and transformed annotations into the output presentation. The embodiments of the disclosure optionally generate an accessibility script in a selected format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Randall Chafy, Mario Francois Daigle, Craig Allen Statchuk, Wayne Robert Stevens
  • Patent number: 8799756
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a server for creating photo-based projects is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Interactive Memories, Inc.
    Inventors: Aryk Erwin Grosz, Anthony Jan Fung Lai, Dan Schultz, Denys Barushev, Anton Vladimirovich Astashov
  • Publication number: 20140215295
    Abstract: A computer inserts a 3D image file into a webpage, and inserts a 3D image into the 3D image file. The computer generates a control file and associates the control file with the 3D image file. The computer displays the 3D image in a webpage and operating the 3D image by invoking the control file when the webpage is accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD
    Inventors: CHUNG-I LEE, DE-YI XIE, SHUAI-JUN TAO, ZHI-QIANG YI, JUN-CHAO YAO
  • Patent number: 8793129
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to make an act of viewing an image interactive and further enriched. A microphone 18 inputs a voice signal of a voice uttered by a viewer who is viewing a display image displayed on a display portion 17, and causes the voice signal to be stored in a buffer 19. A voice recognition portion 20 identifies at least one word from the voice uttered by the viewer based on the voice signal, and acquires them as a keyword. A counter 21 calculates the number of incidences of the keyword. A display driver 16 causes information including a keyword having a number of incidences that exceeds a threshold value or information derived from the keyword to be displayed together with the display image displayed on the display portion 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Handa, Kimiyasu Mizuno, Takehiro Aibara, Hitoshi Amagai, Naotaka Uehara, Takayuki Kogane, Sumito Shinohara, Masato Nunokawa
  • Patent number: 8793341
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for reformatting web content into a format readable on one or more mobile devices is provided. A user generates a user request for a web page from a mobile device to a proxy server. The proxy server forwards the user request to an origin web server, which returns the requested web page to the proxy server. A conversion engine within the proxy server extracts the desired content from the web page, and reformats the content in accordance with one or more predefined transform methods associated with the one or more mobile devices before transmitting the transformed web page with the desired content to the one or more mobile devices. Secure or unsecure connection provided via a decorated uniform resource locator can be used to connect a mobile device, the proxy server, and an origin web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: CRFD Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Yin Cheng, Wilfredo Padin, Rongli Jiang, Andrew Fedorchek
  • Patent number: 8793401
    Abstract: A network-based publication system, to publish data over a communications network, includes an interface to receive, via the communications network and from a first user, user data to be published by a network-based publication system. The publication system further includes a publisher component to generate publication data (e.g., an HTML document) including the user data and function modifying code. The publisher component generates the publication data in accordance with a publication format. The interface publishes the publication data via the communications network. The function modifying code is interpreted and executed, at a browser application, to disable (or modify) least one function of programming language supported by the browser application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy A. Davis
  • Patent number: 8793583
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for annotating video content with metadata generated using speech recognition technology. The method begins by rendering video content on a display device. A segment of speech is received from a user such that the speech segment annotates a portion of the video content currently being rendered. The speech segment is converted to a text-segment and the text-segment is associated with the rendered portion of the video content. The text segment is stored in a selectively retrievable manner so that it is associated with the rendered portion of the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. McKoen, Michael A. Grossman
  • Patent number: 8788346
    Abstract: Advertisements displayed in a web page are enabled to be changed as a context of the web page changes without reloading the web page. A first set of one or more advertisements may be displayed on a web page. One or more of the displayed advertisements may be replaced with one or more alternative advertisements. Selection of the alternative advertisements is triggered based on the occurrence of one or more events that cause a change in a context of the web page. The display of the alternative advertisements is performed dynamically, without the web page needing to be reloaded. In this manner, the advertisements displayed on a web page may be changed based on the change in web page context, to provide advertisements to users that correspond to the changing context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: M. Cameron Jones, Elizabeth F. Churchill
  • Publication number: 20140201608
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for extracting information from the Internet and generating a report on the basis of the extracted information are disclosed. A user can browse various websites, grab content of interest to him/her and assign notations to the information. Metadata corresponding to the selected information is stored in a database and can be retrieved by the user as and when desired to create a report corresponding to the selected information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinoth KUMAR Arputharaj, Nikesh Anand Rajagopalan
  • Publication number: 20140201609
    Abstract: A method for providing a multimedia service in a server is provided. The method includes generating a mark-up file including at least scene layout information for supporting a multimedia service based on multiple screens, and providing the mark-up file to a multimedia device supporting the multimedia service based on multiple screens. The scene layout information may include scene layout information for one multimedia device and scene layout information for multiple multimedia devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Sun RYU
  • Publication number: 20140201610
    Abstract: A method whereby dynamic, interactive, two or more dimensional media can be assembled and delivered where the need for pre-packaged binary content files and pre-compiled content is eliminated by using a markup language, a standard URI to identify local and/or remote media resources within a markup text, a standard protocol to retrieve the resource, a parser to load resources from the native format and a markup language to define behavior and where dynamic, interactive, n-dimensional media is achieved by using a markup language, connecting or embedding content into a local or remote data source, dragging-and-dropping markup text into a content provider application, updating content using a form, establishing a two-way connection between content and one or more data sources such that changing to the data source(s) and seeing the results propagate to the scene changing the content and seeing the results propagate to the data source(s) and using a markup language to issue commands, configure interaction, and crea
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: BRIDGEBORN, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Ambrosino, Kevin M. Curry, Ted E. Ingalsbe, Robert G. Johns, Michael C. Brazell