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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method for visualizing multimedia objects assigns a feature vector to each multimedia object. The feature vector of each multimedia object is reduced to a location vector having a dimensionality of a display device. A cost function is evaluated to determine an optimal location vector for each multimedia object, and each multimedia object is displayed on a display device according to the optimal location vector. The reducing can use principle component analysis. In addition, a relevance score can be determined for each displayed multimedia object, and the multimedia objects can than be visually enhanced according to the relevance score.