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Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, Sas

Marie Guegan

Christopher Howson

Philippe Schmouker

James Lanagan

Quang Khanh Ngoc Duong

Alexey Ozerov

Frederic Plissonneau

A home assistant device captures voice signal expressed by users in the home and extracts vocal features from these captured voice recordings. The device collects data about the current context in the home and requests from an aggregator a background model that is best adapted to the current context. This background model is obtained and locally used by the home assistant device to perform the speaker recognition. Home assistant devices from a plurality of homes contribute to the establishment of a database of background models by aggregating vocal features, clustering them according to the context and computing background models for the different contexts. These background models are then collected, clustered according to their contexts and aggregated by an aggregator in the database. Any home assistant device can then request from the aggregator the background model that fits best its current context, thus improving the speaker recognition.

Apparatus and method for residential speaker recognition

An automated creation of a summary video based on video segments extracted from several videos by using a social network of viewers and a social curve specified by a user in order to select and order the video segments. A social network of viewers (influence scores, experts) may be used to establish metrics for video segments. A social curve may be defined with respect to the video segment metrics to allow for the automatic creation of a summary video.

Method and apparatus for creating a summary video

A method and apparatus for processing audio content is described. The method and apparatus include receiving () audio content, the audio content including an input audio signal, a first reference audio signal, and a second reference audio signal, determining () a processing function for the input audio signal, the processing function determined based on a cost function between the input audio signal, the first reference audio signal and a second reference audio signal, and processing () the input audio signal using the determined processing function in order to produce an output audio signal.

Method and apparatus for processing audio content

The invention concerns a device (D) for assigning time information to a main multimedia content related to a given object. To this end, said device comprises:

Method and device for assigning time information to a multimedia content

According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps of:

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Thorigne-Fouillard, France

Marie Guegan