Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Distributed data processing – Client/server
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-24
2007-04-24
Zia, Syed A. (Department: 2131)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Distributed data processing
Client/server
C725S046000, C725S135000, C725S139000, C725S141000, C725S143000, C725S145000, C725S146000, C725S053000, C709S203000, C709S217000, C709S218000, C709S230000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09472068
ABSTRACT:
By moving image analysis, acoustic/speech analysis, or text analysis for multimedia information in a database, feature data representing the type of information is acquired, and the feature data is stored into the database added to the multimedia information. A search engine extracts partial images of user's interest from the multimedia information on the basis of the feature data and a user profile data. A link section associates the representative images (still images) of the partial images with multimedia images and displays the list of representative images and feature data. Thus, only a portion of the user's concern is extracted from an enormous amount of multimedia information, and individual information is selectively provided in units of users.
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Doi Miwako
Hirakawa Hideki
Hori Osamu
Sumita Kazuo
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Zia Syed A.
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