Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |