Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201370 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOOD DETECTION - A Method for mood detection is proposed, comprising: receiving audio data ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080215709 | Method For Updating a User Profile - The invention provides a method for updating a user profile on a server ( | 09-04-2008 |
20080276186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING A USER INTERFACE OF A DEVICE - Method for adapting a user interface of a device, comprising detecting user characteristic data of an active user, wherein said user characteristic data is descriptive of a capability of said active user to handle said user interface, determining an adapted user interface based on said user characteristic data; and approving said adapted user interface based on user feedback of at least one user with similar user characteristic data. | 11-06-2008 |
20080319747 | SPOKEN MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE WITH SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - The method of operating a man-machine interface unit includes classifying at least one utterance of a speaker to be of a first type or of a second type. If the utterance is classified to be of the first type, the utterance belongs to a known speaker of a speaker data base, and if the utterance is classified to be of the second type, the utterance belongs to an unknown speaker that is not included in the speaker data base. The method also includes storing a set of utterances of the second type, clustering the set of utterances into clusters, wherein each cluster comprises utterances having similar features, and automatically adding a new speaker to the speaker data base based on utterances of one of the clusters. | 12-25-2008 |
20090013002 | METHOD FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - A method for content recommendation for a user, wherein a song or a video is recommended to the user and a confidence measure is determined for the recommended song. The confidence measure is displayed to the user, so the user may get more confidence into the recommendation of the system. | 01-08-2009 |
20090031882 | Method for Classifying Music - A method for classifying music includes providing music classification data, providing an unclassified piece of music to be classified, and deriving for each music class within the music classification data a respective Gish distance value. A finite set of a finite number of Gish distance values is descriptive for the relation of the unclassified piece of music to be classified with respect to a discrete and finite set of a finite number of music classes. Alternatively, for a given piece of music to be classified, music classification data of a n-tuple of at least three numbers are obtained, which are representative for the mood of the piece of music. From the n-tuple of numbers of the music classification data a pair of two dimensional coordinate values are determined, which are representative for the mood of the piece of music. | 02-05-2009 |
20090069914 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING AUDIO DATA - A method for classifying audio data. For a given piece of audio data a location or position for the given audio data within a mood space is generated and compared to a comparison mood space location. As a result of the comparison, comparison data are generated and provided as a classification result with respect to the given audio data. | 03-12-2009 |
20090084249 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF PIECES OF MUSIC - Method for providing an overview of pieces of music, comprising: providing at least two pieces of music; determining at least two sections of said pieces of music, wherein one of said sections is determined from one of said pieces of music and another of said sections is determined from another of said pieces of music; and arranging said sections in a sequence. | 04-02-2009 |
20090248607 | METHOD TO DETERMINE A SUBGROUP OF USERS - A method to determine a subgroup of users out of a group of users, comprising providing user profiles for each user of said group of users; providing real-time data of users of said group of users; determining said subgroup of users depending on said user profiles and said real-time data. | 10-01-2009 |
20090282034 | METHODS TO CREATE A USER PROFILE AND TO SPECIFY A SUGGESTION FOR A NEXT SELECTION OF A USER - A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user profile is used. In other words, for each application where a user profile is used a special set of user features are defined which are able to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user. Based on these user features the weights in the list of word-weight pairs or weighted keywords which represents the user profile are computed or influenced during the creation of the user profile, and/or a mufti-user profile is split during the creation of an individual user profile from a mufti-user profile, and/or during specification of a suggestion a user history which is used to create the user profile, and/or the user profile, and/or the suggestion results are filtered. | 11-12-2009 |
20100020290 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROJECTION, IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROJECTION SCREEN - A method for image projection on a screen, including providing an image to be projected on the screen, determining excitation light representing the image, and illuminating with the excitation light at least one light excitable layer disposed on the screen, wherein the light excitable layer is configured to be stimulated for the emission of visible light based on the excitation light. | 01-28-2010 |
20100040342 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POINT IN TIME WITHIN AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for determining a point in time within an audio signal, the audio signal having been transmitted from a broadcast station to a client and to a server, the method including: deriving, at the server, first signature data from the audio signal, wherein a reference point in time is associated with the beginning or end of the audio data corresponding to the first signature data; deriving, at the client, second signature data from the audio signal, wherein the second signature data are derived in the same manner as the first signature data at the server; comparing the first and second signature data; and determining the point in time to be equal to the reference point in time depending on a result of the comparing. | 02-18-2010 |
20100053168 | METHOD FOR GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING PIECES OF MUSIC - A Method for graphically displaying pieces of music on a screen, comprising: providing a plurality of pieces of music, each piece of music having a music attribute; calculating a mapping function that maps values of said music attribute to coordinate values of a dimension of said screen; determining, for each of said pieces of music, a respective coordinate value based on said mapping function and a respective value of a respective music attribute; displaying on said screen a graphical symbol representing a respective piece of music at said respective coordinate value of said dimension. | 03-04-2010 |
20100088649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT ITEMS - A method for recommending content items of a content item data base to a user, including: broadcasting user group characteristics, wherein a respective user group characteristic is descriptive of a respective user group; receiving at a user's location the user group characteristics; assigning at the user's location the user to at least one of the user groups, providing user group preference data, the user group preference data being descriptive of a relation between the user groups and the content items; and recommending content items according to the user group preference data. | 04-08-2010 |
20100250585 | CONTEXT BASED VIDEO FINDER - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for video retrieval by providing a first audio video file, determining a first identifier of a first piece of music in the first audio video file, looking up for the first identifier first meta data in a music database, in which said first meta data are associated with said first identifier, providing second meta data of a second piece of music from the music database. The second piece of music is included in a second audio video file. Further the method is conducted by determining a similarity measure by comparing the first and second meta data, and providing the second audio video file or an identifier thereof depending on the similarity measure. Further embodiments relate to a server, a user device and a system and a computer program product for video retrieval. | 09-30-2010 |
20110029112 | METHOD FOR DERIVING ANIMATION PARAMETERS AND ANIMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - Method for deriving at least one animation parameter from audio data, said animation parameters being descriptive of the mood of said audio data, comprising the following steps: determining a current mood model for said audio data; calculating at least one distance measure for at least one reference mood model, wherein said distance measure represents the distance between said current mood model and the respective reference mood model; setting of at least one animation parameter depending on said distance measure. | 02-03-2011 |
20110196634 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SENSOR FOR IDENTIFYING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE CONNECTED TO A MAINS GRID - A method for identifying an electrical device connected to a mains grid is provided, the method comprising measuring at least one electrical characteristic on the mains grid with a sensor connected to a socket of the mains grid; comparing the at least one electrical characteristic with a plurality of stored candidate electrical characteristics each corresponding to one of a plurality of candidate electrical devices; and identifying the electrical device based on the stored candidate electrical characteristic that is closest to the at least one electrical characteristic. A corresponding system and a corresponding sensor are provided as well. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196865 | METHOD FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - A method for content recommendation for a user, wherein a song or a video is recommended to the user and a confidence measure is determined for the recommended song. The confidence measure is displayed to the user, so the user may get more confidence into the recommendation of the system. | 08-11-2011 |
20110252947 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING, DISPLAYING AND SELECTING MUSIC FILES - At an apparatus ( | 10-20-2011 |
20110301730 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PROCESSED AUDIO SIGNAL AND A HANDHELD DEVICE - A method for determining a processed audio signal, comprising: establishing an ad-hoc network between a plurality of handheld devices, each handheld device having a microphone; picking up a plurality of audio signals with each microphone of the plurality of handheld devices; distributing the plurality of audio signals within the ad-hoc network such that in at least one handheld device at least two of the plurality of audio signals are available; combining, in said at least one handheld device, the at least two of the plurality of audio signals to obtain said processed audio signal. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302115 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - A method of information retrieval, comprising: determining, using a microprocessor, Q generative models (λ) in accordance with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), said Q generative models being determined in an offline training; receiving a user query (q); choosing, using said microprocessor, N generative models out of the Q generative models, with N≦Q; determining, using said microprocessor, a content item (d) based on said query and a combination of the N generative models. | 12-08-2011 |
20120284069 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS IN A RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Method for optimizing a current set of parameters in a recommendation system during runtime, including a determining step for determining a first set of parameters depending on the current set of parameters and a second set of parameters depending on the first set of parameters and on user actions with respect to previous recommendations; a testing step for comparing, during runtime and with respect to a predetermined target function, an output of the recommendation system using the first set of parameters against an output of the recommendation system using the second set of parameters; and a selecting step for selecting the first set of parameters or second set of parameters as the current set of parameters depending on a comparison result of the testing step. | 11-08-2012 |
20130137552 | ELECTRONIC FITNESS TRAINER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC FITNESS TRAINER - A device for controlling and supervising a user during performing a fitness exercise at a fitness device (electronic Fitness Trainer) comprises a controller module for selecting at least one music piece suited for executing the fitness exercise according to a training plan, for monitoring biofeedback data obtained from the user during executing the exercise, for monitoring device data obtained from the fitness device during executing the exercise and for controlling other components of the device, an explanation module for generating an explanation message, a correction module for generating a correction message, a feedback module for generating a feedback message and an input/output module for receiving biofeedback data from the user and device data from the fitness device and for outputting the explanation message, the correction message and the feedback message as well as the selected at least one music piece to the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130262478 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS - Recommending one or more items among a plurality of items to a first user by generating a weighted data set by applying a weight factor to each of a plurality of user event data sets each derived from a previous user event of a second user of the recommendation system. Each of the user event data sets includes a user identifier of the second user, an item identifier of an item involved in the previous user event, and time information regarding a time of the previous user event. The weight factor is derived from the time information of the corresponding previous user event. One or more recommended items are determined based on an algorithm using the weighted data set. | 10-03-2013 |
20140129227 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A parse unit parses an input sequence of token elements for an input string, wherein each token element contains a token and/or at least one corresponding token classifier. In a first mode the parse unit applies regular production rules on the token elements and on multi-token classifiers for phrases obtained from the token classifiers. If the first mode parsing does not result in a multi-token classifier encompassing all tokens of the input string, a control unit controls the parse unit to parse the input sequence in a second mode that applies both the regular and artificial production rules. A rule generator unit generates the artificial production rules based on the input sequence and/or intermediate results of the parsing. The parser unit provides a complete parse tree for ungrammatical sentences and a solution where the regular production rules do not cover the complete grammar of the respective natural language. | 05-08-2014 |
20140297209 | METHOD, SENSOR AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING APPLIANCES IN A POWER LINE NETWORK - A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network, comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network on the basis of the electrical characteristic of the power line network and a model profile. The model profile is based on electrical characteristics of one or more candidate appliances and on a configuration of the power line network. | 10-02-2014 |