Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam

Krishnan Ramanathan

Krusheel Munnangi

Sriganesh Madhvanath

Anjaneyulu Seetha Rama Kuchibhotla

Abhishek Chakraborty

Anbumani Subramanian

Serene Banerjee

Srinivasan Ramani

Badri Narayanan Ranganathan

Nagabhushana Ayyanahal Matad

Vidhya Govindaraju

A topic is extracted from a digital text document (). A video is selected from a video source for the extracted topic (). The selected video is associated with the extracted topic ().

Topic extraction and video association

A method and apparatus for joint profiling for identifying one or more common interests of members of a group and recommending items accordingly. The method comprises receiving a user profile for each member, the user profile comprising a set of one or more topics of interest to that member; automatically mapping at least one topic from each of the profiles to a concept; deriving a group profile, in dependence upon the concepts and the topics; and generating a list of recommended items for the group based on the group profile. Also presented is a method and apparatus for joint profiling wherein a joint weight for each topic is calculated by: for each user, calculating the reciprocal of a weight associated with the topic for that user; calculating the sum of the resulting reciprocals; and calculating the joint weight as the reciprocal of the resulting sum.

Content recommendation for groups

Hand pose recognition comprises determining an initial hand pose estimate for a captured input hand pose and performing iterations based upon hand pose estimates and residues between such estimates and hand pose estimates. One or more control signals are generated based upon the hand pose recognition.

Hand pose recognition

Proposed is the use of a document widget for representing a property of a document. The document widget comprises: a human-readable portion for interpretation by a user; and a machine-readable portion representing the document property. By comprising information about a property of a document, a document widget may be processed in accordance with an optical recognition process so as to identify the document widget and enable extraction of the document property.

Document processing

A document processing method comprises adding document markers to predetermined locations of an electronically stored document. These are printed with the document. The document is scanned and the scanned document markers are used to process the scanned image. This processing comprises at least pixel threshold setting, and determination of the locations of the scanned image which are to be processed to derive the pixels of a digital version of the document. This enables local deformations in the paper document to be corrected, and enables correct thresholds for the printing and scanning operations to be applied. The electronically stored document can be processed to derive a set of document properties which can be used when constructing the digital version.

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Karnataka, India

Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam