Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080215704 | Transmission of Information Relating to a Quality of Service - Methods of transmitting information relating to a quality of service are shown, which information is to be transmitted in at least one direction between a first device | 09-04-2008 |
20090204865 | DATA REPAIR ENHANCEMENTS FOR MULTICAST/BROADCAST DATA DISTRIBUTION - A method, system, device, and computer code product is disclosed in which a sender transmits data to a plurality of receivers via a point-to-multipoint session. The receiver sends data repair requests to the sender requesting data expected but not received and the sender retransmits the expected but not received data via the point-to-multipoint session. The sender can also schedule point-to-point data repair sessions with individual receivers if the retransmission via the point-to-multipoint session does not correct all errors. The sender can be configured to delay point-to-point repair sessions using a randomization mechanism based on the number of receivers using the point-to-multipoint session. | 08-13-2009 |
20100029266 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE REPORTING - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, comprising; verifying, by a user equipment, that one or more rules associated with a process of reporting quality of experience metrics are satisfied, said quality of experience metrics being associated with a multimedia telephony call; generating quality of experience metrics report, by the user equipment, according to configuration information related to the process of reporting quality of experience metrics if the rules associated with a process of reporting quality of experience method are satisfied; and sending the quality of experience metrics report to a server according to the configuration information, wherein the server is outside data links connecting the user equipment to at least another user equipment participating in the multimedia telephony service. | 02-04-2010 |
20100135290 | USAGE OF FEEDBACK INFORMATION FOR MULTIMEDIA SESSIONS - An apparatus and method configure RTCP packets in a control feedback handling in multimedia sessions. The apparatus and method are configured to provide sending of any RTCP individual packet as a non-compound RTCP packet an order within a time interval. The apparatus and method are configured so that an excessive length of compound RTCP packets are handled by fragmenting each compound RTCP packet in smaller non-compound packets and sending it spaced over time. The apparatus and method guarantee RTCP non-compound packets to provide an equivalent functionality as the RTCP compound packets by providing the same information to the receiver, and the receiver does not lack any feedback information. The apparatus and method are also configured to use semi-compound RTCP packets, where at least two non-compound/individual RTCP packets (but less than all the non-compound/individual RTCP packets that would be sent as compound packet) are sent together as a semi-compound RTCP packet. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153578 | Method and Apparatus for Peer to Peer Streaming - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, An apparatus, comprising a processor configured to assign at least one of a plurality of real time transport protocol data units to at least one of at least two peer to peer partial real-time transport protocol streaming sessions, based at least in part on at least one timestamp associated with the at least one of the plurality of real time protocol data units. The plurality of real time transport protocol data units, is associated with the real time transport protocol media stream. | 06-17-2010 |
20100329126 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING BROKEN PATH IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A method comprises (a) detecting a packet loss in a partial data packet stream in a peer-to-peer network; (b) signaling an indication of lost packets to one or more sending peers serving the partial data packet stream corresponding to the packet loss; (c) after expiration of a threshold period of time without receiving lost packets, signaling one or more candidate peers a request for retransmission of the lost packets, the candidate peers being peers not serving the partial data packet stream; and (d) receiving the lost packets through one of the candidate peers. | 12-30-2010 |
20110211087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING FOR CONTROL OF A CONTENT CAPTURING DEVICE WITH A REQUESTING DEVICE TO THEREBY CAPTURE A DESIRED CONTENT SEGMENT - An apparatus providing for transmission of a desired content segment to a receiving device may include a content preview unit for displaying a content preview corresponding to a content segment captured by a content capturing device. A content capturing device selector may receive a selection of the content capturing device which satisfies one or more predefined conditions as determined by a condition testing unit of the apparatus. Once selected, a control unit may allow for control of the content capturing device with the receiving device to thereby capture a desired content segment. Control may occur directly or indirectly, such as through providing written control instructions, which may be translated using a translator of the apparatus. Thus, the apparatus may provide for transmission of the desired content segment to the receiving device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110219307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA MIXING BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - An apparatus for providing media mixing based on user interaction may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members, receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members, and mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content having audio mixing performed based at least in part on a configuration of the social interaction media relative to the shared content on a display. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 09-08-2011 |
20120009890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A GEO-PREDICTIVE STREAMING SERVICE - A method for providing geo-predictive streaming services may include receiving, at a mobile terminal, an indication of network performance parameters associated with a corresponding time and location of a projected route of the mobile terminal, determining, at the mobile terminal, whether a portion of the projected route corresponds to an outage event with respect to data being streamed to the mobile terminal, and, in response to a determination that the outage event corresponds to the portion of the projected route, causing communication of at least one of a geo-predictive next application data unit and an estimated capacity vector to a streaming server to a streaming server providing the data being streamed to cause a modification to a data transmission rate at which data is to be streamed to the mobile terminal. A corresponding computer program product, system and apparatus are also provided. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011265 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING A PROBABLE THROUGHPUT FOR A LOCATION BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON A RECEIVED THROUGHPUT - An apparatus for calculating a probable throughput for a location may include a compiler for organizing a received throughput corresponding to a recorded throughput and a location indicator stored in a memory device. The calculation of the probable throughput may be conducted by a probable throughput calculator. The stream rate may thus be adapted by a stream rate adaptor in response to the probable throughput at the location to thereby create a buffer of sufficient size to continue rendering the content at the location. For example, the stream rate may be adapted to a maximum throughput value which is determined by a maximum throughput determiner. | 01-12-2012 |
20120059826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SYNTHESIS - An approach is provided for generating a compilation of media items. A plurality of media items is received. Respective context vectors for the media items are determined. The context vectors include, at least in part, orientation information, tilt information, altitude information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of the respective media items. A compilation of at least a portion of the media items is generated based, at least in part, on the context vectors. | 03-08-2012 |
20120060077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SYNTHESIS - An approach is provided for generating a compilation of media items. A plurality of media items is received. Respective context vectors for the media items are determined. The context vectors include, at least in part, orientation information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of the respective media items. A compilation of at least a portion of the media items is generated based, at least in part, on the context vectors. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A RELATIVE POSITION OF A SENSING LOCATION WITH RESPECT TO A LANDMARK - An apparatus may include a landmark selector configured to receive selection of a landmark. A sensory device may determine at least one position indicator relating to alignment with the landmark from a sensing location, such as orientation, attitude, and/or altitude. The apparatus may further include a position determiner configured to determine a relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark based at least in part on the position indicator. Accordingly, the apparatus may determine the relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark. In some embodiments the apparatus may be further configured to determine the absolute position of the sensing location. Thereby position information may be used, for example, to create collaborative content captured at an event occurring near the landmark. | 03-22-2012 |
20120077522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ROLES FOR MEDIA GENERATION AND COMPILATION - An approach is provided for determining roles for multi-device recording. A media platform determines one or more devices for generating one or more media items of at least one subject and then determines the respective locations of the one or more devices relative to one or more focal areas of the at least one subject. Based, at least in part, on the respective locations, the media platform determines respective roles for the one or more devices for generating the one or more items. | 03-29-2012 |
20120203925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA MIXING WITH REDUCED UPLOADING - A method for providing media mixing with reduced uploading may include receiving device situation description data and content analysis data from each of a plurality of devices. The device situation description data and content analysis data received from each of the plurality of devices may be descriptive of media data associated with a common event and recorded separately at respective ones of the plurality of devices. The method may further include determining media segments defining one or more portions of the media data to be requested from selected ones of the plurality of devices based on the device situation description data and content analysis data, causing communication of a request for corresponding ones of the media segments to respective devices among the selected ones of the plurality of devices, and causing generation of mixed content based on receipt of the media segments. A corresponding apparatus and user terminal-side method and apparatus are also provided. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212632 | APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: generating a content request comprising a first content parameter; receiving a first content message comprising at least one image frame associated with the first content parameter; determining at least one further content parameter dependent on the content message; generating a content selection message comprising the least one further content parameter; and receiving a further content message, wherein the further content message comprises content generated dependent on the at least one further content parameter. | 08-23-2012 |
20120251070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING CONTENT SEGMENTS - A method, apparatus and computer program product select content segments based at least in part on a contextual similarity level between the content segments and at least one of brightness levels, blur levels, and shake levels of the content segments. As such, a resultant video may be produced that comprises selected content segments. Accordingly, brightness levels of the content may be improved and shake and blur levels reduced while maintaining a desired field of view. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278499 | TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO A QUALITY OF SERVICE - Methods of transmitting information relating to a quality of service are shown, which information is to be transmitted in at least one direction between a first device | 11-01-2012 |
20130093899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA CONTENT EXTRACTION - Various methods are provided for analyzing media content. One example method may include extracting media content data and sensor data from a plurality of media content, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of data modalities. The method may also include classifying the extracted media content data and the sensor data. The method may further include determining an event-type classification based on the classified extracted media content data and the sensor data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100307 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ANALYZING CONTEXT-BASED MEDIA DATA FOR TAGGING AND RETRIEVAL - An apparatus for enabling retrieval of media content and identifying an interestingness of the media content may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including capturing items of media content including objects and assigning context data indicating a determined location of one of the captured objects and a time that the object was captured to the media content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign a detected item of orientation information indicating an orientation of a media capturing device, capturing the objects, to the context data associated with the media content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable retrieval of the media content from a memory based on analyzing the location of the captured object, the time and the orientation information. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110841 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUERYING MEDIA BASED ON MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS | 05-02-2013 |
20130159518 | TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO A QUALITY OF SERVICE - Methods of transmitting information relating to a quality of service are shown, which information is to be transmitted in at least one direction between a first device | 06-20-2013 |
20130176438 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ANALYZING CROWD SOURCE SENSED DATA TO DETERMINE INFORMATION RELATED TO MEDIA CONTENT OF MEDIA CAPTURING DEVICES - An apparatus for classifying focus points detected in media content associated with an event(s) and generating a media content recording with media segments associated with a portion of the focus points may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving items of recorded media content and sensor data, from one or more devices, corresponding to at least one event. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to determine one or more focus points of interest in the media content indicating areas or locations of interest that are associated with the event. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to classify the focus points of interest based in part on analyzing respective items of the sensor data. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176453 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING IMAGE REGISTRATION BASED IN PART ON USING SENSOR DATA - An apparatus for performing image registration based on sensor data may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including capturing successive images corresponding to a scene. The successive images are captured during successive exposure time intervals. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to detect sensor data during the exposure time intervals. The sensor data may be utilized to determine horizontal and vertical orientation differences between at least two consecutive images of successive images. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to perform registration to align pixels of the two images by shifting pixels of a first image of the two images to align with pixels of a second image of the two images based on the horizontal orientation difference and the vertical orientation difference. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF ROLES FOR IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to assign roles to respective image capturing devices regarding at least one object that is a target during the subsequent recording. In the context of a method, at least one object is detected within a recorded image. The method may also cause information regarding the recorded image and information regarding the at least one object that was detected to be transmitted. The method may also include receiving an assignment of a role regarding at least one object being a target during subsequent recording. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130282869 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCHEDULING FILE UPLOADS - A method, apparatus and computer program product for scheduling file uploads are provided. A request may be received to upload a file and, utilizing any of personal preferences, position data, network access point data and power consumption data, a time to begin the file upload and/or a network access point(s) by which to upload the file may be scheduled. The scheduling may comprise calculating a suitability score for a network access point(s). | 10-24-2013 |
20140019860 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A MULTIMODAL USER INTERFACE TRACK - An approach is provided for providing a multimodal user interface track. A multimodal generation platform determining one or more user interface elements for interacting with at least one media segment. The multimodal generation platform further causes, at least in part, an inclusion of the one or more user interface elements as at least one track of the at least one media segment. Accordingly, when the at least one track is processed during a presentation of the at least one media segment by at least one device, the at least one track causes, at least in part, an enablement of the one or more user interface elements. | 01-16-2014 |
20140085443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING EVENT INFORMATION WITH CAPTURED MEDIA - An approach is provided for associating relevant metadata and heuristics with one or more media segments of an even. An event analysis platform processes context information associated with one or more media capture devices to determine at least one event type. The event analysis platform further determines one or more event objects, one or more event heuristics, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the at least one event type. The event analysis platform associates the one or more event objects, the one or more event heuristics, or a combination thereof with one or more media segments captured by the one or more media capture devices. | 03-27-2014 |
20140125867 | Methods and Apparatuses for Providing Automatic Interactive Area of Visability Video Zooming for Low Light Environments - A method of performing automatic interactive area of visibility video zooming for low light environments is provided. The method includes defining a first set of candidate frame perimeters comprising a subset of one or more frames of recorded video based upon a cropping threshold for cropping the one or more frames; determining a first brightness value within the first set of candidate frame perimeters for the one or more frames; in response to the first brightness value being above a minimum brightness threshold, not displaying all content outside of the first set of candidate frame perimeters; in response to the first brightness value being at or below the minimum brightness threshold, defining a second set of candidate frame perimeters which comprise a subset of the first set of candidate frame perimeters, and determining a second brightness value within the second set of candidate frame perimeters. | 05-08-2014 |
20140161354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEMANTIC EXTRACTION AND VIDEO REMIX CREATION - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for extracting semantic information from user-generated media content to create a video remix which is semantically enriched. An exemplary method comprises extracting media content data and sensor data from a plurality of media content, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of data modalities. The method may also include classifying the extracted media content data and the sensor data. The method may further include detecting predefined objects or events utilizing the sensor data to create remix video. | 06-12-2014 |
20140212002 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSOR AIDED EXTRACTION OF SPATIO-TEMPORTAL FEATURES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for extracting spatio-temporal features with the aid of sensor information. An exemplary method comprises receiving video data and auxiliary sensor data and associating the two with timestamp information. The method may also include segmenting an input data stream into stable segments and extracting temporal features from the associated video data. The method may further include extracting temporal features either form the whole video or only from the video data where little or no stable segments are detected and performing camera view motion compensation by using information provided by the auxiliary sensors for modifying the feature-descriptors. | 07-31-2014 |
20140259179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CROWD SOURCED CONTENT CREATION - A method, apparatus, computer program product and system are provided for managing crowd sourced content creation. In this regard, a method is provided that includes receiving information regarding at least one content recording device and information regarding a recording subject. The method further includes determining whether the at least one content recording device is eligible to receive at least one permission indicator, based at least in part on the information regarding the at least one content recording device and the information regarding the recording subject. The method also includes causing the at least one permission indicator to be provided to the at least one content recording device in an instance in which it is determined that the at least one content recording device is eligible to receive the at least one permission indicator. | 09-11-2014 |
20140366710 | AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS - Apparatus for audio processing comprises: a beat tracking module for identifying beat time instants in an audio signal and a downbeat identifier for identifying downbeats occurring at beat time instants, each downbeat corresponding to the start of a musical bar or measure. A pattern identifier identifies two or more adjacent bars or measures containing musical characteristics which repeat within the audio signal, the pattern identifier being configured to: generate for each downbeat a plurality of scores using respective analysis methods for indicating different characteristics within the audio signal at the downbeat; combine the scores for each downbeat; and identify based on the combined scores non-adjacent downbeats that correspond to the start of a musical pattern. | 12-18-2014 |
20150074123 | VIDEO REMIXING SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for selecting content for a media remix, comprising: obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix in a media remix service; retrieving one or more supplementary media content from one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information, said supplementary media content being at least partly similar and/or relevant to the base media content; and generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMART VIDEO RENDERING - A method generating control data for displaying a video sequence on a low resolution display may comprise providing at least a first video sequence, the first video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames, determining whether a first image frame of the first video sequence comprises a sub-image of a primary object, selecting a first position of a primary image portion of an image frame such that the first position substantially matches with the position of the sub-image of the primary object, if the first image frame has been determined to comprise said sub-image of said primary object and providing control data, which indicates said first position. | 03-19-2015 |