Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

James H Errico

Petrus J L Van Beek

Baoxin Li

M Ibrahim Sezan

Gary Alan Feather

George Rome Borden

Mick G Grover

Ahmet Mufit Ferman

Louis Joseph Kerofsky

Petrus Van Beek

Dean Messing

A Mufit Fennan

A collaborative information system in which a first display device provides a recommendation of programming content to a viewer of a second display device, where the recommendation is based on content characteristics of the recommended content, and where the recommendation is based on assigning those content characteristics respectively different weights.

Collaborative recommendation system

Networked video devices

Presence based technology

A system including a video stream and a data stream. The system synchronizes the data stream to different portions of the video stream.

Synchronization of video and data

A system for structuring usage history for audiovisual materials.

Audiovisual management system

A system for presenting a summarization of audio and/or visual content having a plurality of segments to a user together with a graphical user interface that preferably indicates to the viewer the relative temporal position of video segments viewed in the summary within the content from which the summary was derived.

System for presenting audio-video content

A user profiling system preferably includes a set of fuzzy logic operators. Based upon the fuzzy logic operators the user profile may be updated.

Automatic user profiling

A technique for describing an image where a number of test areas are located on the image.

Method for image description using color and local spatial information

An agent for audiovisual materials is disclosed.

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Arlington Heights, IL, United States of America

James H Errico