Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-10
2006-10-10
Abebe, Daniel (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Application
C396S300000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07120586
ABSTRACT:
A method for automatically organizing digitized photographic images into events based on spoken annotations comprises the steps of: providing natural-language text based on spoken annotations corresponding to at least some of the photographic images; extracting predetermined information from the natural-language text that characterizes the annotations of the images; segmenting the images into events by examining each annotation for the presence of certain categories of information which are indicative of a boundary between events; and identifying each event by assembling the categories of information into event descriptions. The invention further comprises the step of summarizing each event by selecting and arranging the event descriptions in a suitable manner, such as in a photographic album.
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Loui Alexander C.
Stent Amanda J.
Abebe Daniel
Walker Robert Luke
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