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20090148122 | IDENTIFYING BROADCAST CONTENT - In a broadcast system ( | 06-11-2009 |
20090150935 | Method and Network Device for Assisting a User in Selecting Content - The invention relates to a method and a network device for assisting a user in selecting content. This is done by entering a user group comprising users having a common interest, requesting an indication of content of interest from at least a part of said user group, receiving an indication of content of interest from at least a part of said user group, generating a list of most popular content based on said indication of content of interest received from at least a part of said user group, and assisting the user in selecting said content by presenting said list to said user. | 06-11-2009 |
20100002941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT CAPTURED BY A DIGITAL IMAGE - An object captured by a digital image is automatically identified by determining a location at which a digital image is captured; retrieving a plurality of candidate objects associated with said determined location; comparing an object captured by said digital image with each of said retrieved plurality of candidate objects to identify said object. One of the candidate images can be selected and used to create a collage of the captured image and a more complete image of the object. | 01-07-2010 |
20100092077 | DOMINANT COLOR DESCRIPTORS - A system computes a combined dominant color descriptor (DCD) of a plurality of images (IM | 04-15-2010 |
20100278421 | EXTRACTING COLORS - A method of processing an image signal comprises receiving an image signal comprising a series of frames, calculating a plurality of dominant colors, over the series of frames, selecting a subset of frames of the image signal, calculating a plurality of dominant colors, over the subset of frames, comparing the dominant colors of the subset of frames to the dominant colors of the series of frames, and determining the dominant color in the subset of frames, with the largest difference from the closest dominant color in the series of frames. | 11-04-2010 |
20100284612 | FLASH DETECTION - A method of processing an image signal comprises: receiving an image signal comprising a series of frames, performing light source detection on each frame, and detecting a flash at frame n of length m frames when the following criteria are satisfied: the difference between the detected light source in frame n−1 and frame n is above a first predetermined threshold, the difference between the detected light source in frame n+m−1 and frame n+m is above the first predetermined threshold, and the difference between the detected light source in frame n−1 and frame n+m is below a second predetermined threshold. | 11-11-2010 |
20110080424 | IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of processing a plurality of images comprises receiving a plurality of images, defining a set of images for processing, from the plurality of images, aligning one or more components within the set of images, transforming one or more of the aligned images by cropping, resizing and/or rotating the image(s) to create a series of transformed images, and creating an output comprising the series of transformed images, the output comprising either a stop motion video sequence or a single image. | 04-07-2011 |
20110123124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE COLLECTION - A method of generating an image collection is described. A plurality of images are retrieved (step | 05-26-2011 |
20110184542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SEQUENCE OF A PLURALITY OF IMAGES TO BE DISPLAYED WHILST ACCOMPANIED BY AUDIO - A sequence of a plurality of images to be displayed as a slide show whilst accompanied by an audio item is generated by extracting ( | 07-28-2011 |
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20120121171 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF AN ATTRIBUTE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMAGE - A method for determining a value of an attribute to be associated with an image, the method comprising the steps of: determining saturation of each of a plurality of pixels of an image; selecting a set of a plurality of pixels from the pixels of the image having a saturation above a predetermined level; determining a value of an attribute on the basis of the selected set of pixels; and associating the determined value of the attribute with the image. | 05-17-2012 |
20120134595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN IMAGE FOR DISPLAY - At least one region of interest within an image is determined, step | 05-31-2012 |
20130121586 | DETERMINING REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES FOR A VIDEO - A video comprises at least one shot (SH), which is a continuous sequence of images representing a scene viewed from a particular location. Images are selected from a shot (SH) so as to obtain a continuous sequence of selected images (SI) that are evenly distributed throughout the shot. At least one continuous subsequence (SB | 05-16-2013 |
20140067847 | GENERATING A QUERY - A system for generating a query comprises a term unit ( | 03-06-2014 |