Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110007967 | Method and arrangement for retrieving information comprised in a barcode - A method of retrieving information comprised in a barcode is disclosed. The method comprises detecting that the barcode is present in a first image having a first image quality and capturing a first region, acquiring, when it is detected that the barcode is present, a second image having a second image quality and capturing a second region, wherein the second image quality is higher than the first image quality, and wherein the second region at least partly overlaps the first region, and decoding the barcode based on the second image to retrieve the information. A corresponding program product and a corresponding arrangement are also disclosed along with a communication device comprising the arrangement. | 01-13-2011 |
20110179043 | Double Weighted Correlation Scheme - A method is provided for determining a correlation between a reference user and another user on the basis of two sets of ratings, where each rating is associated with a respective user. In response to a trigger,user ratings associated with the reference user and user ratings associated with the other user are collected, and all co-rated items of these two sets are correlated in the basis of an adjusted cosine correlation function which is weighted by a first and a second weighting function. The correlation is then stored and may be repeated for a plurality of users. The stored correlations may be used e.g. for ranking purposes. | 07-21-2011 |
20110208752 | Method and Apparatus for Default Rating Estimation - A method of estimating a default rating of a rated dataset is provided, where the dataset comprises at least one series of ratings associated with at least one user and each series comprise ratings associated with at least two items. For a reference user and an item for which a rated value is missing the item's average rating, i | 08-25-2011 |
20120005216 | Providing Content by Using a Social Network - A method of providing content ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120023103 | Generation of Annotation Tags Based on Multimodal Metadata and Structured Semantic Descriptors - In one embodiment, a method of generating annotation tags ( | 01-26-2012 |
20130046761 | Method and Apparatus for Social Tagging of Media Files - Media tagging is significantly improved by fusing subjective, user-specific tags with collaborative, community based tags. Users share multimedia metadata tags in a network of users, to improve automatic tag generation for personal multimedia collections without compromising media privacy. In one method, a combined set of annotation tags is suggested to a user, for use in annotating a given media file. The combined set includes a first set drawn from a private, user-specific repository, and a second set drawn from a public, shared repository. In each case, determining which tags are suggested involves computing similarities between an attribute vector associated with the media file being tagged and attribute vectors associated with the tags. An attribute vector is a set of values representing given types of contextual metadata. The similarity determinations may be weighted according to user-specific and shared weights, and these weightings can be adapted to reflect user and community preferences. | 02-21-2013 |
20130066872 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing Images - A method and apparatus are defined for organizing a plurality of digital photos. The method comprises the steps of identifying a group of digital photos, receiving a number defining how many clusters to be formed from the group, receiving profile information to be used for clustering the digital photos into the number of clusters, clustering the group of digital photos according to the profile information, and identifying representative digital photo(s) of the clusters from the clustered digital photos based on the profile information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130159095 | Intelligent Automatic Brand Personality Agents In Social Media Services - A server includes a transceiver for connecting the server over a social network to a provider server and to a user device, a memory for storing information received from the provider server and a processor for instructing the transceiver to communicate information to the user device if the user device input to a prompt from a user home device communicating with the user device satisfies at least one condition stored in the memory. | 06-20-2013 |
20130226930 | Apparatus and Methods For Indexing Multimedia Content - A method, medium, and apparatus are disclosed for indexing multimedia content by a computer. The method comprises segmenting the multimedia content into a plurality of segments. For each segment, the method identifies one or more features present in the segment, wherein the features are of respective media types. The method then identifies, for each identified feature in each segment, one or more respective keywords associated the identified feature. Then, the method determines, for each identified keyword associated with an identified feature in a given segment, a respective relevance of the keyword to the given segment. The respective relevance is dependent on a weight associated with the respective media type of the identified feature. | 08-29-2013 |
20130246206 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE - A method in a Service agent, a Service Agent and a computer-readable medium comprising a computer program are provided for providing a service to a user. The method comprises detecting connection of a Personal Profile Device, operated by the user, to the Service Agent. The method further comprises receiving a service information message from a Service Provider, comprising a service identifier, and obtaining a service profile from the Personal Profile Device using the service identifier. The method further comprises logging in to at least one Information Source identified from the service profile using personal credentials comprised in the service profile in order to allow the Service Provider to access the information needed for providing the service and requesting the Service Provider to set up a connection to the at least one Information Source and to obtain the information needed for providing the service. Thereby, delivery of the service from the Service Provider to a Service Endpoint, which is operatively connected to the Service Agent, based on the information is enabled | 09-19-2013 |
20130292473 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION COMPRISED IN A BARCODE - A method of retrieving information comprised in a barcode is disclosed. The method comprises detecting that the barcode is present in a first image having a first image quality and capturing a first region, acquiring, when it is detected that the barcode is present, a second image having a second image quality and capturing a second region, wherein the second image quality is higher than the first image quality, and wherein the second region at least partly overlaps the first region, and decoding the barcode based on the second image to retrieve the information. A corresponding program product and a corresponding arrangement are also disclosed along with a communication device comprising the arrangement | 11-07-2013 |
20130325865 | Method and Server for Media Classification - The embodiments of the present invention relates to a method and system for classifying media. The classification is achieved by using annotation ontolgies and by associating bottom level concepts of the annotation ontology tree with explanatory representation data of a selected representation domain and then comparing the explanatory representation data with transformation of the media in the selected representation domain. In this way tags can be generated which corresponds to bottom level concepts of the ontology tree which corresponds to explanatory representation data which can be found in the transformed media. | 12-05-2013 |
20140032562 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT INDEXING - A method and client device is disclosed for indexing content of a multimedia file. The method comprises using a client device to segment the content of the multimedia file into a plurality of segments and to determine structure-searchable data for each segment. Determining structure searchable data for a segment comprises (1) identifying one or more features of respective multimedia types in the segment; (2) correlating each of the identified features to one or more respective keywords; and (3) calculating one or more respective relevance factors for each of the keywords, where at least one of the relevance factors is based on one or more characteristics of the client device. The method also comprises the client device transmitting the structure-searchable data (including the keywords, relevance factors, and respective media types of the identified features) to an indexing server. | 01-30-2014 |
20140045459 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING BIOMETRICS - A communication apparatus for connecting to a network that requires authentication is provided. The apparatus includes a network controller for connecting to the network; a controller for controlling a connection to the network via the network controller; a sensor for obtaining biometric information of a user of the communication apparatus; and a memory for storing a subscription module applied to authentication towards the network. The subscription module includes identification information created based on biometric information of the user. In order to establish a connection to the network by use of the subscription module stored in the memory, the controller obtains biometric information of the user by use of the sensor and compares the obtained biometric information to the identification information in the subscription module. | 02-13-2014 |
20140129981 | Electronic Device and Method for Handling Tags - A method in an electronic device ( | 05-08-2014 |
20140222755 | Assigning Tags to Media Files - There is described a device and method for assigning a tag to a media file associated with metadata describing features of the media file. The metadata is converted into a query feature vector associated with the media file. A weighted distance is calculated between the query vector and each of a plurality of tag feature vectors, where each tag feature vector is included in a tag instance stored in a database, each tag instance further comprising a tag and a weight vector. The weighted distance is determined by comparing each feature of the query vector with the corresponding feature in the tag feature vector to obtain an initial distance value for that feature, modifying the initial distance value by a weight for that feature obtained from the weight vector in the tag instance to obtain a comparison value for that feature, and combining the comparison values of all of the features to obtain the weighted distance. Those tag instances whose tag feature vectors have the smallest weighted distance from the query vector are selected. The user chooses one or more of the selected tags, which are then associated with the media file. The weight for each feature in the weight vectors in the tag instances selected by the tag selection unit is updated on the basis of whether or not the tag in each tag instance was chosen by the user, and the distance between the feature of the tag feature vector and the corresponding feature in the query vector. | 08-07-2014 |
20140244667 | Method and Apparatuses for Enabling Recommendations - Method and a recommendation system ( | 08-28-2014 |
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