Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Motorola Corporation

General Instrument Corporation

Dongge Li

Nevenka Dimitrova

Bhavan Gandhi

Karen Irene Trovato

Angel Janevski

Zhu Li

John Doyle Zimmerman

Lira Nikolovska

Muralidharan Ramaswamy

Andreas Henricus Elisabeth Lamers

Andrew Hochherr Miller

Johanna Maria Bont

Nevenka Dimtrova

A method for providing complementary informationfor a video program is provided that includes receiving complementary informationfor a video program. A query is received from a consumer. The query is related to a specified portion of the complementary information. A query response is provided to the consumer based on the specified portion of the complementary information

Method and system for providing complementary information for a video program

An object detection algorithm that generates a two-layer Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) during a training session, and subsequent to the training session, uses the two-layer GMM to perform face detection. No labeling of local features is needed. The only input that is provided by a user is the setting of a few global parameters for the image being captured during the training session, such as, for example, the person's facial pose.

Method and apparatus for performing object detection

A system and method is provided for synthesizing audio-visual content in a video image processor. A content synthesis application processor extracts audio features and video features from audio-visual input signals that represent a speaker who is speaking. The processor uses the extracted visual features to create a computer generated animated version of the face of the speaker. The processor synchronizes facial movements of the animated version of the face of the speaker with a plurality of audio logical units such as phonemes that represent the speaker's speech. In this manner the processor synthesizes an audio-visual representation of the speaker's face that is properly synchronized with the speaker's speech.

System and method for audio-visual content synthesis

A processor () utilizes information regarding one or more physical dimensions of an individual () to better inform a personal identification process. In one embodiment, the measured physical dimensions are utilized to influence the conduct of a face recognition process. In one embodiment, a Bayesian Belief Network can be utilized to facilitate such processes.

Personal identification method and apparatus

A method and system which enable a user to query a multimedia archive in one media modality and automatically retrieve correlating data in another media modality without the need for manually associating the data items through a data structure. The correlation method finds the maximum correlation between the data items without being affected by the distribution of the data in the respective subspace of each modality. Once the direction of correlation is disclosed, extracted features can be transferred from one subspace to another.

Content retrieval based on semantic association

A method of synchronizing visual information with audio playback includes the steps of selecting a desired audio file from a list stored in memory associated with a display device, sending a signal from the display device to a separate playback device to cause the separate playback device to start playing the desired audio file; and displaying visual information associated with the desired audio file on the display device in accordance with timestamp data such that the visual information is displayed synchronously with the playing of the desired audio file, wherein the commencement of playing the desired audio file and the commencement of the displaying step are a function of the signal from the display device.

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Dongge Li