Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Obscura Digital

Vulcan Patents LLC

Interval Licensing LLC

Interval Research Corporation

Casttv Inc.

Michael Harville

Michele Mae Covell

Donald Ovila Tanguay, Jr

Harlyn Baker

John Iselin Woodfill

Gaile Gordon

Trevor J Darrell

Nina Bhatti

Steve Mason

Niklas Lundback

Susie J Wee

Henry Harlyn Baker

Daniel George Gelb

W Bruce Culbertson

Ramin Samadani

Andrew E Fitzhugh

Sumit Roy

Irwin E Sobel

Sabine Susstrunk

Travis Threlkel

Nikolai Cornell

John George Apostolopoulos

Bo Shen

Wai-Tian Tan

Aleksandra R Vikati

Edwin Seng Eng Ong

Kyle Maxwell

Ammon Haggerty

John Ankcorn

Ali Rahimi

Michael Hongmai Lin

Andrew S Cantino

Thomas Malzbender

John Philip MacCormick

Bruce Culbertson

Nina T Bhatti

Adrian E Broadhurst

Dan Gelb

John G c/o Hewlett-Packard Company Apostolopoulos

Susie J c/o Hewlett-Packard Company Wee

Sumit c/o Hewlett-Packard Company Roy

J G c/o Hewlett-Packard Company Apostolopoulos

Sumit c/o Hewlett-Packard Roy

Roy Sumit

Bruce W Culbertson

Donald Tanguay

A large scale multi-user, multi-touch system with a specialized zone-based user interface including methods for space management and spatial apportioning of audio cues. The system comprises a multi-touch display component fabricated in dimensions sufficient for at least a plurality of users and for displaying projected images and for receiving multi-touch input. The apparatus includes a plurality of image projectors, a plurality of cameras for sensing multi-touch input and the apparatus includes interface software for managing user space. The interface software implements techniques for managing multiple users using the same user interface component by allocating physical spaces within the multi-touch display component and coordinating movement of displayed objects between the physical spaces. Embodiments include a plurality of audio transducers and methods for performing audio spatialization using the plurality of audio transducers corresponding to the physical spaces, apportioning of volume levels to the audio transducers based on movement of a displayed object.

User interface for a large scale multi-user, multi-touch system

One form of the present invention provides a method of displaying multiple image streams that includes providing a first plurality of image streams, processing the plurality of image streams, thereby generating at least one processed image stream, and projecting the at least one processed image stream onto a non-planar surface with at least one projector, thereby generating a plurality of different projected image streams at a corresponding plurality of different positions on the non-planar surface.

System and method for projecting multiple image streams

A method for clustering a set of web search results is disclosed. A first signature is compared based at least in part on an analysis of multimedia content associated with a first web search result with a second signature based at least in part on an analysis of multimedia content associated with a second web search result. The first web search result is clustered with the second web search result based at least in part on the comparison of the first signature with the second signature.

Clustering multimedia search

Position data is generated. The position data describes a respective current position of each of one or more game objects (e.g., billiard game objects) in relation to a playing surface (e.g., a playing surface of a billiard table) defining a boundary of a field of play of a game involving use of the one or more game objects in the field of play. A graphical interface image is displayed on the playing surface. Whether the position data in relation to the displayed graphical interface image satisfies an input instruction predicate is determined. In response to a determination that the position data satisfies the input instruction predicate, the input instruction is executed on a machine.

Automated enhancements for billiards and the like

Identification of starting and ending times of commercial breaks and commercials within those commercial breaks found in audiovisual content is disclosed. A solution to a 'batch optimization' problem is used in which commercial locations within a set of audiovisual content are detected as a group by choosing a set of commercial locations which optimizes a cost function which can include considerations of, for example, 1) one or more cues, 2) relative locations of commercials within the audiovisual content, and/or 3) probability models based on statistics obtained regarding characteristics of typical commercial and commercial breaks. Optimization can be done over the total set of commercial location decisions, rather than on a per-commercial basis. Additionally, the cost function can be iteratively evaluated and many more types of cues and combinations of cues can be used in detection of commercials.

Iterative, maximally probable, batch-mode commercial detection for audiovisual content

A method and system for estimating the three dimensional position of an object in a three dimensional physical space. Specifically, the method discloses capturing a plurality of images of a human form within the three dimensional (3D) physical space. Each of the plurality of images is captured from a different viewpoint location of the human form. At least one image capturing device calibrated within the 3D physical space is used to capture the images. A plurality of silhouettes of the human form is extracted from the plurality of images. A plurality of contours of an object of the human form is obtained from the plurality of silhouettes. A location of the object within the 3D physical space is determined from an object model of the object based on the plurality of contours.

Method and system for estimating the three dimensional position of an object in a three dimensional physical space

Position data is generated. The position data describes real-time positions of each of one or more billiard balls moving on a playing surface of a billiard table. Imagery is displayed on the playing surface. The imagery dynamically responds to the position data as the one or more billiard balls move on the playing surface.

Large scale multi-user, multi-touch system

Position data is generated. The position data describes a respective current position of each of one or more billiard game objects in relation to a billiard table having a playing surface. A state of a billiards game being played is determined based on the position data. One or more perceptible effects associated with the determined state of the billiards game are selected. The one or more perceptible effects are produced in connection with the billiards game.

Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for improving the fidelity of a dialog system. In one embodiment, a first input generated by a user of a first system operating in a first modality is accessed. In embodiments of the present invention, the first system also generates a first output corresponding to the first input. An second input from a second user, who is engaged in a conversation with the first user, is accessed by a second system. The second input is then utilized to modify the first output of the first system.

Method and system for improving the fidelity of a dialog system

One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a video system that can include a display screen and a plurality of video capturing devices located behind the display screen. It is noted that each of the plurality of video capturing devices is for capturing a video stream through the display screen.

Projection screen and camera array

A method performed by a processing system includes determining at least first and second distances between a first pixel location having a first pixel value in a first image frame and first and second edges of the first image frame, respectively, and determining a first factor that is proportional to a first product of the first and the second distances and configured to attenuate the first pixel value in response to the first pixel value being displayed by a first projector on a display screen such that the first pixel value overlaps with a second pixel value displayed by a second projector.

Blend maps for rendering an image frame

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Michael Harville