Abstract: An example method involves causing a control device to display a graphical user interface that comprises an indication of a first zone of a media playback system, wherein the media playback system comprises the first zone and a second zone, and wherein the graphical user interface does not comprise an indication of the second zone. The example method further involves detecting, by the control device, an input that indicates a command to cause the first zone to form a zone group with the second zone and play back a target media in synchrony with the second zone. The method further comprises, based on the detected input, causing the first zone to form a zone group with the second zone and play back the target media in synchrony with the second zone.

Abstract: A playback of a video may be generated to include accompaniment of music. For parts of the video that includes voice, an instrumental version of the music may be used. For parts of the video that does not include voice, a singing version of the music may be used.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for optimizing the presentation of content through obtaining viewership metrics, generating multiple renditions of presentations of content, and selecting optimized renditions of content. One aspect includes associating a request for viewership metrics with a presentation of content, publishing the presentation of content, and receiving information of the viewership metrics associated with the presentation. Another aspect includes copying a presentation of a content item, creating a second presentation of the content item for publishing over one or more channels, and linking the presentation of the content item to the second presentation of the content item, such that a change to one propagates to the other of the presentation of the content item or the second presentation of the content item. In yet another aspect, a content rendition may be selected for presentation based on performance of the rendition out of multiple renditions in an auction.

Abstract: This application provides a method and apparatus for presenting an audiovisual work, a device, and a medium, and belongs to the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: displaying a map control of the audiovisual work, the map control displaying a map associated with a plot of the audiovisual work; determining a marker point on the map in response to a location marking operation on the map; and presenting a plot clip in the audiovisual work that corresponds to the marker point.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user request from a first user for generating a media montage from a client system during a dialog session with the first user, generating an initial media montage during the dialog session based on media collections associated with the first user, sending instructions for presenting the initial media montage to the client system during the dialog session, receiving a second user request from the first user from the client system during the dialog session for editing the initial media montage, generating an edited media montage from the initial media montage during the dialog session based on the second user request and a memory graph associated with the first user, and sending instructions for presenting the edited media montage to the client system during the dialog session.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means including circuitry configured for: applying equalization to a sub-set of a plurality of spatial sound sources, included in a sound scene, to modify the sound scene, wherein spatial sound sources are associated with respective locations in the sound scene, wherein equalization includes frequency-dependent level adaptation, and wherein the sub-set includes multiple spatial sound sources but does not include all of the plurality of spatial sound sources.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method comprises: generating a sticker from first content in a first application; mapping second content to the generated sticker, thereby resulting in a mapped sticker; and in response to receiving text input to a second application from a virtual keyboard, the text input having a meaning related to the second content, providing the mapped sticker to the second application.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a content item recommendation based on an identified posture. An input associated with a content item delivery service is received at a computing device. A capture of a user is received, and a digital representation of the user is generated based on the capture of the user. A posture of the user is determined based on the digital representation of the user, and a content item genre is identified based on the determined posture. A content item recommendation that is based on the identified genre is generated and output.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for configuring an electronic device to control a first controllable external device. The process includes receiving information corresponding to the first controllable external device, and determining, based on the received information, whether the first controllable external device is associated with a plurality of controllable functions associated with a plurality of subcomponents of the first controllable external device.

Abstract: Some existing health and fitness apps map athletic activity and track that activity over time and present to the athlete various aggregations of their activity. Other existing health and fitness apps create training schedules for the athlete to achieve a fitness goal. However, the training schedules provided by these apps are static in nature and provide a fixed quantity and type of exercise within a fixed schedule for the athlete to accomplish. The presently disclosed virtual athletic coach offers dynamic training schedules that can make incremental adjustments based on an athlete's performance to the training schedule over time.

Abstract: Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial. An implementation may include displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface including multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel. The implementation may include detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display and causing a paired playback device to play back an audio content snippet corresponding to each selectable regions that the touch input enters. The implementation may further include switching the playback device from playing back a given pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the full audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service.

Abstract: A home appliance configured to be registered in a server, the home appliance includes: a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) module, based on the home appliance being registered in the server, communicatively connected to an access point (AP) and configured to periodically operate in an AP mode through a virtual interface, and a controller configured to control the Wi-Fi module to periodically operate in the AP mode. The Wi-Fi module is configured to generate a beacon signal to search for an unregistered home appliance based on the Wi-Fi module being operated in the AP mode.

Abstract: A media content steering solution is provided to identify a user query to steer playback of media content that is currently playing or has been played. The user steering query can include a voice request for playing media content that is relatively different from the media content being currently played or having been played. The media content steering solution analyzes the utterance of the user query and uses it to identify such different content that satisfies the user intent contained in the user query.

Abstract: An input display device includes a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel configured to be attached onto the display and include at least one three-dimensional UI portion on a surface of the touch panel, and a detection unit configured to detect an operation on the touch panel. The three-dimensional UI portion includes a pulling portion imitating the shape of a pulling type switch, and the detection unit determines a pulling operation by detecting a change in a capacitance in response to a change in a distance from a finger touching the pulling portion to the touch panel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive plain text comprising a sequence of text entities; generate a sequence of entity embeddings based on the plain text, wherein each entity embedding in the sequence of entity embeddings is generated based on a text entity in the sequence of text entities; generate style information for the text entity based on the sequence of entity embeddings; and generate a document based on the style information.

Abstract: Methods and systems provide for applying a video effect to a video corresponding to a participant within a video communication session. The system displays a video for each of at least a subset of the participants and a user interface including a selectable video effects UI element. The system receives a selection by a participant of the video effects UI element. In response to receiving the selection, the system displays a variety of video effects options for modifying the appearance of the video and/or modifying a visual representation of the participant. The system then receives a selection by the participant of a video effects option, and further receives a subselection for customizing the amount of the video effect to be applied. The system then applies, in real time or substantially real time, the selected video effect in the selected amount to the video corresponding to the participant.

Abstract: Example techniques involve identification of device groups. In an example implementation, a mobile device displays, via a control application, a synchrony group control including controls to select playback devices for a synchrony group. The mobile device receives input data representing a command to create a new synchrony group, the input data including input data representing selection of two or more playback devices for a new synchrony group. In response, the mobile device forms the synchrony group by receiving input data indicating a particular group identification for the new synchrony group, determining that the particular group identification is unique among other synchrony groups, and sending data representing instructions to the playback devices to form the new synchrony group with the particular group identification. In response to forming the new synchrony group, the mobile device updates an interface for the media playback system to indicate the new synchrony group.

Abstract: Swimming pools can be visualized according to some aspects described herein. In one example, a system can receive a user selection of a particular liner from among a plurality of liner options for a virtual swimming pool. The system can generate a virtual swimming pool having the particular liner. The virtual swimming pool can be a three-dimensional (3D) rendering of a swimming pool with the particular liner. The system can then output the virtual swimming pool for display on a display device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for processing listening resuming of music application, a device, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method includes: acquiring a playing characteristic parameter of a program subject to playing interruption if occurrence of an event where the program is subjected to playing interruption is monitored, and determining, according to the playing characteristic parameter, whether the program subject to playing interruption satisfies a preset counting rule for listening resuming; if yes, recording the program subject to playing interruption in a listening resuming module for a user to perform a listening resuming operation.

Abstract: Examples provided herein involve a playback history for media items played by playback zones of a media playback system. An example implementation involves a mobile device querying, via a network interface, a database hosted by one or more servers for a particular portion of a playback history stored in the database, the particular portion of the playback history corresponding to media items played by the media playback system during the particular time period. The mobile device displays graphical representations of the particular media items played during the particular time period by the media playback system. The mobile device may receive input data selecting one or more particular media items played during the particular time period by the media playback system and add the selected one or more particular media items to a queue.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for automated generation of database queries. Techniques described herein may provide an automated database query generation method and system that provides a graphical user interface with one or more user interface items representing records within a database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of a server. The server may receive an input from a graphical user interface, the input selecting one or more of the user interface elements. A processor of the server may configure the display of an indication within the graphical user interface that the one or more of the user interface elements has been selected. The processor of the server may automatically generate one or more queries to the database based upon the received input.

Abstract: A system is presented that comprises a third-party ad provider that serves advertisements to different websites being viewed at a plurality of display devices. The advertisements may be from different advertisers, and may include advertisements from a content service provider. The advertisements from the service provider may include a promotion for a video program presented by the service provider and may provide a selectable option for a viewer of the website to have that viewer's DVR service automatically programmed to record the promoted video program. The selectable option may be selected with a single action by the viewer, and all communications, associations between the display device and the DVR service, and programming of the DVR service may occur automatically without intervention by the viewer.

Abstract: An operation device includes a housing arranged on a center cluster located diagonally in front of a driver seat and a passenger seat of a vehicle, a left-side operation unit and a right-side operation unit arranged on a right side and a left side, respectively, of a front surface of the housing to receive an operation, a left-side operation detection unit and a right-side operation detection unit to detect an operation performed on the left-side operation unit and the right-side operation unit, respectively, a substrate on which the left-side and right-side operation detection units are arranged, and an output unit that outputs a sound in response to a received operation and is arranged on the substrate so as to be located between the left-side operation detection unit and the right-side operation detection unit at a position to equalize distances from the driver seat and the passenger seat.

Abstract: A method for controlling a virtual object to mark a virtual item is provided. The method includes: displaying a virtual environment picture, the virtual environment picture including the virtual object and the virtual item in a virtual environment; controlling the virtual object to move, in the virtual environment, into a proximity range of the virtual item; displaying a pick-up item list on the virtual environment picture, a field of the virtual item available for pick-up being displayed in the pick-up item list; and receiving a mark operation on the field of the virtual item, and marking the virtual item in the virtual environment according to the mark operation, the mark operation being an operation different from a pick-up operation.

Abstract: A menu display method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The menu display method includes: receiving a first input that is performed on N first controls in a shortcut menu by a user. The menu display method further includes: in a case that N is equal to 1, updating a display status of the first control from a first display size to a second display size in response to the first input; or in a case that N is greater than 1, merging the N first controls into M second controls in response to the first input.

Abstract: A device may receive employee data associated with an employee, and may determine, from the employee data, skill data identifying skills of the employee. The device may process the employee data and the skill data, with a similarity model, to determine similarity scores between the skills of the skill data, and may add or remove one or more skills to or from the skill data for predefined target skill profile categories to generate modified skill data. The device may compare the similarity scores and a predefined threshold to determine anchor skill data from the modified skill data, and may group the anchor skill data for corresponding pluralities of the predefined target skill profile categories to generate groups of the anchor skill data. The device may process the groups and the similarity scores, with a clustering model, to generate clustered anchor skill data, and may perform actions based on the clustered anchor skill data.

Abstract: Providing controlled access to content on a client system by providing protected content on a client system where the content is accessible with a token and providing a media file at the client system with the token embedded in association with the media file. The protected content is accessed by releasing the token to the client system when it is determined that an action condition of the media file has been met and using the token to enable access to the protected content on the client system.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for interacting with content using a second screen device are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving, from a remote media streaming device, a request to present media content items; sending, over the Internet, interactive content to the media streaming device as a stream of video; causing the interactive content to be presented by the media streaming device; causing a notification to be sent to a computing device associated with the media streaming device indicating that the content being presented by the media streaming device is interactive content; receiving instructions from the computing device to control how an object depicted in the interactive content is presented; updating the interactive content based on the instructions; sending the updated interactive content to the media streaming device as a stream of video; and causing the updated interactive content to be presented by the media streaming device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for providing, accessing, monitoring and updating content on an e-commerce platform. The platform may have different user interfaces for consultants who act on behalf of an entity to market a product provided by the entity, and for prospects who are interested in learning more about the product, purchase the product and/or become part of the team to market the product. The consultants may upload digital content to the platform via their dedicated consultant interface and the prospects may access the digital content on the platform via their dedicated prospect interfaces. Contents of the prospect webpage and how the prospects interacts with their prospect webpage may be monitored. The contents of the prospect webpage may be updated, automatically or by the consultant associated with that prospect, based on the monitoring.

Abstract: A system and method for real time marking of potential moments of interest in media produced by a media source. The system includes: a logging module configured to register moments and their attributes in real time; a marking trigger configured to indicate potential moments of interest; and a processing module configured to convert the registered moments and their attributes into desired features or elements and to match and align a series of moments with their corresponding media files or clips. The logging module includes either (a) an audio recorder to record audio or (b) a logging module controller to control the start and stop of the media source as a logging session commences or ends.

Abstract: A master recording session at a server computer corresponds to a video content stored in memory accessible by the server computer. A first device and a second device are provided access to the master recording session and the master recording session is updated responsive to receipt of an update from the first device, where the update reflects initiation of playback of the video content at a time stamp corresponding to the timeline of the video content and includes an audio input configuration for the second device. The update is provided to the second device and an audio recording is received from the second device corresponding to a portion of the video content from the time stamp, where the audio recording is recorded by the second device using the implemented audio input configuration for the second device.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided.

Abstract: A display method of causing a display apparatus having a display screen to display a document is provided. The method includes a displaying step of causing a page image that is an image of a page of the document and thumbnail images of pages to be displayed on the display screen, a first receiving step of receiving a first operation for issuing an instruction for enlarging the page image, and an enlarging step of, in response to receiving the first operation, causing the page image displayed in the display area to be enlarged and displayed and causing the thumbnail images to be moved in a first direction in the display area. In the enlarging step, the thumbnail images are enlarged compared to those before the execution of the enlarging step with some portions of the thumbnail images being hidden, and the display in the display area is updated.

Abstract: A system that facilitates sharing of multimedia content includes a user interface, network circuitry; and one or more processors. The processors perform operations that include displaying, via the user interface, a list of one or more media playback devices available to be added to a social networking group. A selection of first and second media playback devices to be associated with a particular social networking group is received via the user interface. The first media playback device is associated with a first playback queue that specifies a first set of media items associated with first media content that can be streamed from a first streaming service to the first media playback device. An indication to the social networking system that specifies the selection of the first and second media playback devices to be associated with the group is communicated via the network circuitry.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for limiting provision and display of redundant digital components on a client. Methods can include storing, by a client device, a list of digital components specifying digital components available for provision to the client device. For a first digital component received within a first application, the client device detects a set of signals specifying a first user interaction with the first digital component and a second user interaction with content provided in response to the first user interaction. Based on whether an affirmative user action was performed, the client device can modify the list of digital components. When a request to access a content page within a second application is received, the client device can receive the second digital component, which can be selected from among digital components included on the modified list of digital components.

Abstract: An acoustic imaging system includes a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a signal from a microphone and reverberation channel data, update latent variables, latent labels, a source amplitude, and a phase estimation based on an optimization of the signal and reverberation channel data to obtain updated latent variables, updated latent labels, an updated source amplitude, and an updated phase estimation, generate, via a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) of the updated latent variables and the updated latent labels, an acoustic source map tuned via the updated source amplitude and the updated phase estimation, optimize the acoustic source map, and output the optimized acoustic source map.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating an improved user interface that dynamically refers to related portions of media content items. First media content item is sent for display to a device. A first keyword associated with a currently transmitted first portion of the first media content item is identified. A first related media content item comprising a first portion associated with the identified first keyword is identified. The device displays a first identifier of first related media content item including an identification of the first portion of the first related media content item that is associated with the identified first keyword. The device then pauses the displaying the first media content item. The first portion of the identified first related media content item that is associated with the identified first keyword is displayed. The device then resumes generating for display the media content item.

Abstract: A method, comprising receiving live video streams from different live streaming platforms, presenting the live video streams to users in video tiles in an aggregated live streaming platform, and allowing the users to navigate and select among the video tiles of the aggregated live streaming platform to view and interact with the live video streams.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing fast forwarding recommendations based on the user's consumption history are disclosed. The consumption history includes data relating to attributes that were previously rewinded and watched and those that were skipped and forwarded. It also includes scores for attributes that were present and absent in a portion that was previously rewinded or forwarded. A score is assigned to the attributes and used for determining a consumption pattern. If the consumption pattern indicates that the user previously rewinded and watched the attribute, then a recommendation not to skip an upcoming portion that includes the attribute is provided. A graphical timeline that depicts the amount of time saved by skipping the portion of the media asset with the attribute is also provided.

Abstract: A queue or media queue of music is generated by multiple listeners for playing by one or more devices. Listeners may select music using user interfaces rendered by their respective devices, and rank or vote to determine an order in which the music is played in accordance with the queue or media queue. Where a song or another media entity is accessible at a premium or only with a subscription, and one of the multiple listeners is not authorized to access the song, an unauthorized listener may be invited to purchase a subscription, or a substitute song may be selected for the unauthorized listener. Once a queue or media queue has been generated, music may be played in accordance with the queue or media queue by a single device in the presence of the multiple listeners, or by multiple devices each having any number of listeners within a vicinity.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a media editing application with an anchored timeline for editing captions and subtitles. In an embodiment, a method comprises: causing to display on a display device, by one or more hardware processors executing a media editing application, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a timeline; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a first lane including a media object; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a second lane including a caption or subtitle object; and anchoring, by the one or more hardware processors, the media object to the caption or subtitle object in the timeline.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with an episodic series. In some embodiments, the user interface includes representations of episodes that are downloaded on the device, does not include a representation of a given not-yet-downloaded episode, and optionally includes a download affordance that is selectable to initiate a process for downloading not-yet-downloaded episodes. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with an episodic series, wherein the user interface associated with the episodic series of content includes representations of episodes of the episodic series. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the user input selecting a respective representation, the device either initiates a process to display the respective episode or displays a user interface associated with the respective episode without displaying the respective episode.

Abstract: Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial. An implementation may include displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface including multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel. The implementation may include detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display and causing a paired playback device to play back an audio content snippet corresponding to each selectable regions that the touch input enters. The implementation may further include switching the playback device from playing back a given pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the full audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining one or more incentives for a user. For example, a method that may include: receiving a selection of an objective from among a plurality of objectives from a user via a client device; presenting, based on the selected objective, one or more incentives from among a plurality of incentives to the user, the plurality of incentives being based on a machine learning model trained to determine the plurality of incentives based on past purchases; receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more incentives from the user via the client device; and determining whether to allocate the selected one or more incentives based on a performance of the user.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, by a device, speech input to select augmented reality content for display, determining at least one keyword included in the speech input; identifying, from plural augmented reality content items, an augmented reality content item corresponding to the at least one keyword; and displaying the augmented reality content item with an image captured by a camera of the device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented environment for creating, curating, sharing and storing document contents in a concise, structured, modular, standardized and Story-like format. The environment also enables users to define content with a set of Tiles, and arrange, connect and disconnect Tiles so as to define a distinct Story. The environment additionally provides a user-adjustable Tile content separator configured so that content below the separator is not instantly visible to the user. Furthermore, the environment helps users collect, organize and structure large amounts of document contents by (a) suggesting document locations for new and existing content, (b) suggesting groups and sequences for existing content, (c) initiating web and document searches for new and related content, (d) generating relations among content components, (e) assembling new and customizing existing documents, as well as (f) converting files, data feeds and search results into Tiles and Stories.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for displaying a video playback page, an electronic device, and a medium. A specific implementation of the method includes: displaying the video playback page, where the video playback page includes a video playback view and a progress adjustment control for adjusting video playback progress; and updating a progress displayed in the progress adjustment control based on a playback progress of a currently played video in the video playback view at intervals of a target duration, where the target duration is determined based on a size of a screen of a video playback device and a total duration of the currently played video. This implementation realizes differentiation of callback duration for videos of different durations, thereby avoiding a video freeze caused by setting a fixed callback duration.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing and sharing contextually-relevant media content. In some embodiments, a device receives an input, and in response, displays a suggested collection of media items for sharing with a recipient, wherein the collection is relevant to a message conversation with the recipient. Subsequent to displaying the suggested collection, the device transmits a message to the recipient as part of the message conversation that provides access to the at least a portion of the suggested collection of media items. In some embodiments, a device receives an indication, from an external device, that a first user has shared a first collection of media items with a second user. Subsequent to receiving the indication that the first user has shared the first collection of media items with the second user, the device outputs a prompt to share, with the first user, one or more suggested media items.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a first electronic device shares a portion of a content item corresponding to a respective portion of lyrics for the content item with a second electronic device. In some embodiments, a system facilitates securely sharing a portion of a content item between two devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a server address for accessing a portion of a content item. In some embodiments, a uniform resource locator includes an identification of content, an indication of a first subset of the content, and authentication data.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically modifying values of content elements in frames of a video. One example method includes obtaining an input video. A set of elements included in one or more frames of the input video is identified. Metadata is generated for each element in the set of elements. A determination is made that a value for a particular element in the set of elements is targeted for replacement. A replacement value is determined for the particular element and updated metadata is generated. A metadata entry for the particular element is updated to include the determined replacement value. Output content is generated based on the updated metadata the output content is provided for display.