Microsoft's "annotating" patent applications
US appl 20050160457 is entitled Annotating programs for automatic summary generations and has first claim
One or more computer readable media having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform acts including: receiving the audio portion of a sporting event; classifying a set of segments of the audio portion as excited speech; classifying a set of frame groupings as including baseball hits; combining the set of segments and the set of frame groupings to identify probabilities for each segment that the segment is an exciting segment; and saving an indication of the set of segments and the corresponding probabilities as meta data corresponding to the sporting event.
Note how "sporting event" shrinks into "baseball hits".
Claim 62:
62. A system comprising: a feature extractor to extract a plurality of audio features from programming content; an excited speech classification subsystem to identify, based on a sub-set of the audio features, a set of segments of the programming content and corresponding probabilities that the segments include excited speech; a baseball hit detection subsystem to identify, based on another sub-set of the audio features, a set of frame groupings of the programming content and corresponding probabilities that the frame groupings include baseball hits; and a probabilistic fusion subsystem to combine the probabilities that the segments include excited speech and the probabilities that the frame groupings include baseball hits, and to generate a probability that portions of the programming content are exciting based on the combination.
US appl 20050159956 is entitled Annotating programs for automatic summary generation and has first claim (claim 66):
A method for automatically summarizing a program, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of content-generic events from the audio of the program; identifying a plurality of content-specific events from the audio of the program; identifying portions of the program as a summary of the program based on the identified content-generic events and the identified content-specific events.
As to priority, this application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/153,730, filed Sep. 13, 1999, entitled "MPEG-7 Enhanced Multimedia Access" to Yong Rui, Jonathan Grudin, Anoop Gupta, and Liwei He, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Hmm, the '956 application was filed March 4, 2005 (more than one year after 1999) and there are no other claims to priority.
One or more computer readable media having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform acts including: receiving the audio portion of a sporting event; classifying a set of segments of the audio portion as excited speech; classifying a set of frame groupings as including baseball hits; combining the set of segments and the set of frame groupings to identify probabilities for each segment that the segment is an exciting segment; and saving an indication of the set of segments and the corresponding probabilities as meta data corresponding to the sporting event.
Note how "sporting event" shrinks into "baseball hits".
Claim 62:
62. A system comprising: a feature extractor to extract a plurality of audio features from programming content; an excited speech classification subsystem to identify, based on a sub-set of the audio features, a set of segments of the programming content and corresponding probabilities that the segments include excited speech; a baseball hit detection subsystem to identify, based on another sub-set of the audio features, a set of frame groupings of the programming content and corresponding probabilities that the frame groupings include baseball hits; and a probabilistic fusion subsystem to combine the probabilities that the segments include excited speech and the probabilities that the frame groupings include baseball hits, and to generate a probability that portions of the programming content are exciting based on the combination.
US appl 20050159956 is entitled Annotating programs for automatic summary generation and has first claim (claim 66):
A method for automatically summarizing a program, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of content-generic events from the audio of the program; identifying a plurality of content-specific events from the audio of the program; identifying portions of the program as a summary of the program based on the identified content-generic events and the identified content-specific events.
As to priority, this application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/153,730, filed Sep. 13, 1999, entitled "MPEG-7 Enhanced Multimedia Access" to Yong Rui, Jonathan Grudin, Anoop Gupta, and Liwei He, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Hmm, the '956 application was filed March 4, 2005 (more than one year after 1999) and there are no other claims to priority.
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