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20100088097 | USER FRIENDLY SPEAKER ADAPTATION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - Improved performance and user experience for speech recognition application and system by utilizing for example offline adaptation without tedious effort by a user. Interactions with a user may be in the form of a quiz, game, or other scenario wherein the user may implicitly provide vocal input for adaptation data. Queries with a plurality of candidate answers may be designed in an optimal and efficient way, and presented to the user, wherein detected speech from the user is then matched to one of the candidate answers, and may be used to adapt an acoustic model to the particular speaker for speech recognition. | 04-08-2010 |
20120102066 | Method, Devices and a Service for Searching - A method, devices and an internet service is disclosed for carrying out an improved search. Audio features formed from audio data are associated with the image data. The audio features are formed by applying a transform to the audio data, for example to form mel-frequency cepstral coefficients from the audio data. A search criterion for the audio features is specified in addition to a search criterion for the image data. A search is carried out to find image data, and the search criterion for the audio features is used in the search. | 04-26-2012 |
20130053069 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT UTILIZING FEATURES OBTAINED BY MULTIPLE RADIO RECEIVERS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the determination of the environmental context of a mobile terminal. In this regard, the method, apparatus and computer program product may utilize the features obtained by a plurality of different types of radio receivers in order to more precisely determine the environmental context of the mobile terminal. The performance of the mobile terminal including applications executed by the mobile terminal may correspondingly be more accurately tailored to the current environmental context of the mobile terminal. | 02-28-2013 |
20130184007 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTEXT DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatuses are provided for context determination. A method may include determining a location identifier. The location identifier may be indicative of a location of an apparatus. The method may further include determining a location cluster based at least in part on the location identifier. The method may additionally include determining a first probability for each of one or more contexts based at least in part on the determined location cluster. The method may also include determining a context of the apparatus based at least in part on the determined first probability. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 07-18-2013 |
20130226850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING A CONTEXT MODEL - A method, devices, computer program products and an internet service is disclosed for adapting a context model. In the method a media clip is received. Also sensor data captured at least partly when the media clip was captured is received. A context is derived using a context model based at least partly on the sensor data and an indication on the context is provided to a user. Feedback on the relevance of the context is received from the user. Based on the feedback, the context model may then be adapted. | 08-29-2013 |
20130238535 | ADAPTATION OF CONTEXT MODELS - There is disclosed a method including receiving sensor data extracted from one or more physical sensors, using the extracted sensor data and a context model to perform a first level context determination, and examining the at least one condition. If the examining indicated that the at least one condition was fulfilled, the context model is adapted on the basis of the sensor data, otherwise adaptation data formed on the basis of the sensor data is provided to a second level context determination. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242106 | MULTICAMERA FOR CROWDSOURCED VIDEO SERVICES WITH AUGMENTED REALITY GUIDING SYSTEM - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code may be configured to determine at least one desired media content to be captured. The apparatus may be configured to cause information regarding a request to be transmitted to at least two media capturing devices to capture media content at distinct positions. The apparatus may be configured to receive information regarding the captured media content captured by the media capturing devices. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246192 | SYSTEM FOR ENABLING AND INCENTIVIZING ADVERTISEMENTS IN CROWDSOURCED VIDEO SERVICES - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory, computer program code, and processor configured to cause the apparatus to receive a first media content that is being captured by the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured to receive an insertion indication from the user of a portion of the first media content at which a second media content is to be inserted to enable a combination of the second media content with the first media content. The apparatus may be configured to cause the first media content and at least one of the insertion indication or a composite media content comprising the first media and second media content to be transmitted. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130282269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CALCULATED ROUTE USING WAYPOINTS ASSOCIATED WITH A TRAVELED ROUTE - An approach is provided for providing a calculated route using waypoints associated with a traveled route. A traveled route platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more location logs to determine one or more waypoints, wherein the one or more location logs include, at least in part, one or more location samples for at least one device on a traveled route. The traveled route platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more waypoints via one or more routing engines to determine a calculated route as a representation of the traveled route. | 10-24-2013 |
20130321208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION OF USER DEVICES BASED ON SIGNAL FREQUENCIES OF TRANSMITTERS - An approach is provided for providing location information of user devices based on signal frequencies of transmitters. The positioning platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more signals, from one or more transmitters, captured at one or more user devices to determine one or more frequencies of the one or more signals. Next, the positioning platform determines device location information of the one or more user devices based, at least in part, on the one or more frequencies. | 12-05-2013 |
20140063057 | SYSTEM FOR GUIDING USERS IN CROWDSOURCED VIDEO SERVICES - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code may be configured to receive data corresponding to a first media content from a user captured by a first media capturing device. The apparatus may be configured to determine at least one media capturing parameter of the first media content to be changed. The apparatus may be configured to cause information regarding the media capturing parameter of the first media content to be changed to be transmitted to at least the first media capturing device. The apparatus may be configured to receive a second media content from a user captured by the first media capturing device, wherein the second media content differs from the first media content by at least the media capturing parameter to be changed. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMODAL BIDIRECTIONAL CROWD SHAPING - A method, apparatus, computer program product and system are provided for facilitating multimodal bidirectional crowd shaping. In this regard, a method is provided that includes receiving at least two types of positional information. The method further includes determining respective weights for the at least two types of positional information and then determining an estimated number of users located at one or more positions based on the positional information and respective weights. According to a further embodiment, one or more statuses may also be determined and the weights may be determined based at least in part on the status, such that the respective weights may be adjusted in accordance with changes in the one or more statuses. | 03-06-2014 |
20140136696 | Context Extraction - There is disclosed a method comprising receiving identifier data relating to a communication network; examining a set of identifier data to identify number of different identifier data in the set of location data; on the basis of the examining determining a status of an apparatus; and if the examining indicates that the status of the apparatus is a first state, examining context data relating to the first state to determine the current context of the apparatus. There is also disclosed a computer program comprising computer-executable program code portions stored therein, comprising program code instructions for performing the method. There is further disclosed an apparatus comprising a processor and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to performing the method. | 05-15-2014 |
20140324745 | METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR CONTEXT RECOGNITION - Various embodiments relate to a context recognition. Classification of a context is performed by using features received from at least one sensor of a client device, and model parameters being defined by a training data to output a result and a likelihood of the context. The result is shown to the user, who provides feedback regarding the result. The features, result, likelihood, and the feedback are stored, whereby the model parameters are adapted using the features, result, likelihood and the feedback to obtain adapted model parameters. The result, likelihood and the feedback can also be used for performing confidence estimation to obtain a confidence value. The confidence value can then be used for performing an action, e.g. adding a new sensor, adding a new feature, changing a device profile, launching an application. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325408 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MUSICAL CONTENT BASED ON GRAPHICAL USER INPUTS - Mechanisms are provided for receiving a graphical input from a user, such as a sketch, determining at least one musical element represented by the graphical input, identifying at least one item of musical content including the musical element(s), and providing for presentation of the at least one item of musical content to the user, such as by creating a playlist for the user of the identified content. Certain musical elements represented in the graphical input may be emphasized or deemphasized to indicate a dominance of the particular musical element in the desired musical content. The graphical input may be modified by the user to allow the user to iteratively search for music in a dynamic, real-time manner. | 10-30-2014 |
20140344685 | MEDIA CONTENT CONSUMPTION - A method, apparatus and computer program instructions are provided. The method comprises: providing credit that enables a user to skip playback of media content items; identifying that a user has provided input to skip from playing a first media content item to playing a second media content item; and determining, on the basis of at least one contextual characteristic associated with the input, a value by which to reduce the credit. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344686 | MEDIA CONTENT CONSUMPTION - A method, apparatus and computer program instructions are provided. The apparatus comprises: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer program instructions configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed: causing display of a graphical item pictorially identifying media content and having an appearance that depends upon prior playback of the media content. | 11-20-2014 |
20150039632 | Media Tagging - The invention relates to media tagging of a media content. At least one media tag is determined on the basis of obtained context recognition data formed prior to and after a time point of capturing of the media content. Determined at least one media tag is associated with said media content. | 02-05-2015 |
20150081699 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Capturing Media Items - An apparatus, method and computer program, the method comprising:
| 03-19-2015 |
20150095778 | MEDIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Apparatus, a method and a computer program are provided. The apparatus comprises: at least one processor; and memory storing computer program code configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed: responding to user input by selecting a media content item and a further media content item from multiple media content items in a playlist; causing at least one other media content item to be selected for inclusion in the playlist based on the selected media content item and the selected further media content item; and introducing the at least one other media content item into the playlist between the media content item and the further media content item. | 04-02-2015 |
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20110190008 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT-BASED NAVIGATION SERVICES - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for providing context-based navigation services. A method may include determining a first location and a second location. The method may further include extracting context information from a context model based at least in part upon one or more of the first location or the second location. The extracted context information may include one or more of audio context information, activity context information, social context information, or visual context information. The method may additionally include determining at least one route between the first location and the second location based at least in part upon the extracted context information. The method may also include providing the at least one determined route to a client apparatus. Corresponding apparatuses and systems are also provided. | 08-04-2011 |
20130057394 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Context Sensing and Fusion - A method for providing context sensing and fusion may include receiving physical sensor data extracted from one or more physical sensors, receiving virtual sensor data extracted from one or more virtual sensors, and performing context fusion of the physical sensor data and the virtual sensor data at an operating system level. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided. | 03-07-2013 |
20140254817 | Orientation Free Handsfree Device - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided to indicate or automatically configure headphone channel orientation based on a physical orientation determination. An apparatus is provided that is configured to at least determine an orientation of the headphone device; analyze the determined orientation; and provide an indication of the determined orientation or adjust the output channel configuration of the apparatus for the headphone device. The apparatus may be further configured to determine the orientation of the headphone device based on at least one of: a head turn position; a direction of one or more audio signals; a direction of movement, wherein the movement is determined based on a determination of acceleration or trajectory of the headphone device; two or more compass data, wherein at least one compass is located in each of the apparatus and the headphone device; and a difference in characteristics of one or more audio signals. | 09-11-2014 |
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 |
20140357291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL-BASED POSITIONING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to normalize signal strengths and compensate for the variety of factors that may cause erroneous distance estimation, thereby increasing the accuracy of the distance estimation. In the context of a method, signal information is received relating to a signal transmitted by a first device and measured by a second device. Normalization information is accessed relating to the first device or the second device and normalized signal information is generated based on the signal information and the normalization information. A distance between the first device and the second device is estimated based on the normalized signal information. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA TO USERS - An approach is provided for determining at least two associated users who are presented media items based on respective playlists of media items. The approach further involves analysing media items in the respective playlists to determine similarity information for the media items in the respective playlists. The approach further involves causing insertion of at least one further media item in the respective playlists of the at least two users at least in part based on the determined similarity information. | 12-04-2014 |
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 |
20150094835 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising: an analyser determiner configured to determine at least one sub-set of analysers, wherein the sub-set of analysers are determined from a set of possible analysers; at least one analyser module comprising the sub-set of analysers configured to analyse at least one audio signal to generate at least two analysis features; at least one predictor configured to determine from the at least two analysis features the presence or absence of at least one accentuated point within the at least one audio signal. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095749 | Visual Representation of a Character Identity and a Location Identity - A method comprising determining that, at least a part of, content of a section of a document is being displayed, determining at least one character identity, determining at least one location identity indicated by the section, and determining at least one visual representation of the location identity such that the visual representation of the location identity comprises a visual representation of the character identity that indicates a relationship between the character identity and the location identity is disclosed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150110413 | Relevance Based Visual Media Item Modification - A method comprising receiving a visual media item, determining an identity of at least one intended viewer of the visual media item, identifying a visual representation of an object that is comprised by the visual media item, determining a relevance of the object based, at least in part, on the identity, and generating a modified visual media item such that the modified visual media item differs from the visual media item, at least, by visual emphasis of the visual representation of the object is disclosed. | 04-23-2015 |
20150235405 | DISPLAY OF A DATA SOURCE INDICATOR AND A DATA SINK INDICATOR - A method comprising causing display of a plurality of program interface elements, identifying, from the plurality of program interface elements, of at least one source program interface element that represents a source program, the source program being a program that is configured to send data to one or more programs, causing display of a data source indicator at a position that corresponds with a position of the source program interface element, identifying, from the plurality of program interface elements, of at least one sink program interface element that represents a sink program, the sink program being a program that is configured to receive data from one or more programs, and causing the sink program interface element to comprise a data sink indicator is disclosed. | 08-20-2015 |
20150253158 | Determination of a Charge Surface Position - A method comprising determining that the apparatus is placed at a charge surface position on a charger apparatus, the charge surface position being a position of the apparatus on the charge surface of the charger apparatus, and the apparatus being configured to receive a charge signal from the charger apparatus based, at least in part, on placement of the apparatus at the charge surface position, determining that the charge surface position is associated with control of at least one separate apparatus, determining at least one operational directive associated with control of the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the determination that the charge surface position is associated with control of the separate apparatus, and causing sending of the operational directive to the separate apparatus is disclosed. | 09-10-2015 |
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20130143535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING A COMMUNICATION AMONG WIRELESS DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for enabling a communication intended for a device to be automatically conveyed to a group of other devices within proximity of the device. A method may include determining at least one communication directed to at least one device and one or more other devices within a proximity of the at least one device. The method also comprises causing a conveying of the at least one communication to at least one of the one or more other devices based, at least in part, on a determination of a request to receive the at least one communication by the at least one of the one or more other devices. | 06-06-2013 |
20130198276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DEVICES - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to enable the provision of a mechanism by which a device participating in a collaborative application may synchronize with other participating devices. A method may include providing for operation of a collaboration application, receiving a signal from a sensor, establishing a reference time in response to receiving the signal from the sensor, and synchronizing the collaboration application using the reference time. The sensor may include an accelerometer and the signal may include a sampling of information from the sensor. The sampling may be conducted during a pre-defined time interval or possibly until a bump is detected. Establishing the reference time may include detecting a maximum value of the signal and/or detecting the signal exceeding a pre-defined threshold. Establishing the reference time may not require wireless communication. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DEVICES - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to enable the provision of a mechanism by which a device participating in a collaborative application may synchronize with other participating devices. A method may include providing for operation of a collaboration application, providing for transmission of a multicast reference time request to a wireless access point, receiving a multicast reference time message, establishing a reference time in response to receiving the reference time message, and synchronizing the collaboration application using the reference time. The synchronization of the collaboration application may be performed in response to receiving an acknowledgement message from collaborating devices. The method may further include providing for transmission of a second multicast reference time request in response to not receiving an acknowledgement message from the collaborating devices. The multicast reference time message may be received from the wireless access point. | 08-01-2013 |
20140101222 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MASHUP SERVICE OF COMPONENT SERVICES - An approach for providing mashup service of component services is described. A mashup service platform determines one or more component services available to at least one device. The mashup service platform also determines at least one mashup service based, at least in part, on a combination of the one or more component services. The mashup service platform further cause, at least in part, a generation of at least one mashup agent for interfacing with the at least one mashup service, the one or more component services, or a combination thereof. | 04-10-2014 |
20150163635 | METHOD, A SERVER AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCAL DISCOVERY - In a method for local discovery a request to make a search for at least one local service is received from at least one device. A search is performed by means of at least one service directory to discover the at least one local service. As a result of the search, information on such local services in proximity of the device is provided to the device. | 06-11-2015 |
20150228274 | Multi-Device Speech Recognition - One or more devices in physical proximity of a user of a principal device are identified. Multiple audio samples captured by the identified devices are received. An audio sample comprising a voice of the user of the principal device is selected from among the multiple audio samples captured by the identified devices based on suitability of the audio sample for speech recognition. | 08-13-2015 |