Ana H Benitez

US Patent:

6941325, Sep 6, 2005

Filed:

Feb 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/889859

Inventors:

Ana B. Benitez - New York NY, US
Alejandro Jaimes - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Chung-Sheng Li - Ossining NY, US
John R. Smith - New York NY, US

Assignee:

The Trustees of Columbia University - New York NY
IBM Thomas J. Watson Search Center - York Town Heights NY

International Classification:

G06F017/30

US Classification:

707200, 707100, 707103 R, 7071041, 709219, 709224, 345440, 345763

Abstract:

A multimedia archive description scheme is provided for characterizing a multimedia archive having records and associated record descriptions. The multimedia archive description scheme provides a data structure which relates records by similarity measures. The principle data structure in the multimedia archive description scheme is a cluster. A cluster includes one or more attributes of the records in the archive and can include one or more cluster relationships. Cluster attributes can include feature space attributes, semantic attributes, media attributes and meta attributes of the records in the archive. The cluster relationships can relate records to clusters or clusters to clusters. Cluster relationships can include feature space (syntactic) relationships, semantic relationships, media relationships and meta relationships. The multimedia archive description scheme provides an efficient form for describing a collection of records.

US Patent:

7143434, Nov 28, 2006

Filed:

Nov 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/831218

Inventors:

Seungyup Paek - New York NY, US
Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Atul Puri - Riverdale NY, US
Chung-Sheng Li - Ossining NY, US
John R. Smith - New Hyde Park NY, US
Lawrence Bergman - Mount Kisco NY, US

International Classification:

G09G 5/00
H04B 1/66
G06K 9/00

US Classification:

725142, 345619, 37524012, 382181, 382203

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a system for generating a description record from multimedia information including, e. g. , video data. A multimedia information input interface is used to receive multimedia information. A computer processor receives the multimedia information, processes the video information by performing video object extraction processing to generate video object descriptions from the video information, processes the generated video object descriptions by object hierarchy construction and extraction processing to generate video object hierarchy descriptions, and processes the generated video object descriptions by entity relation graph descriptions.

US Patent:

7185049, Feb 27, 2007

Filed:

Feb 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/495175

Inventors:

Ana Belen Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Qian Huang - Ocean NJ, US
Seungyup Paek - New York NY, US
Atul Puri - Riverdale NY, US

Assignee:

AT&T Corp. - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

709203, 707103

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database.

US Patent:

7254285, Aug 7, 2007

Filed:

Nov 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/831215

Inventors:

Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Chung-Sheng Li - Ossining NY, US
John R. Smith - New York NY, US
Lawrence D. Bergman - Mt. Kisco NY, US
Atul Puri - Mountain View CA, US
Qian Huang - Rockville MD, US

International Classification:

G06K 9/60

US Classification:

382305, 382282, 382295, 358538, 358453

Abstract:

Systems and methods for describing image content establish image description records which include an object set (), an object hierarchy () and entity relation graphs (). For image content, image objects can include global objects (O) and local objects (O and O). The image objects are further defined by a number of features of different classes ( and ), which in turn are further defined by a number of feature descriptors. The relationships between and among the objects in the object set are defined by the object hierarchy () and entity relation graphs (). The image description records provide a standard vehicle for describing the content and context of image information for subsequent access and processing by computer applications such as search engines, filters, and archive systems.

US Patent:

7506024, Mar 17, 2009

Filed:

Apr 4, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/278671

Inventors:

Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Qian Huang - Ocean NJ, US
Seungyup Paek - New York NY, US
Atul Puri - Riverdale NY, US

Assignee:

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - New York NY
Columbia University in the city of New York - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 12/00

US Classification:

709203, 709217

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database.

US Patent:

7599965, Oct 6, 2009

Filed:

Dec 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/616315

Inventors:

Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Qian Huang - Ocean NJ, US
Seungyup Paek - New York NY, US
Atul Puri - Riverdale NY, US

Assignee:

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - New York NY
Columbia University in the City of New York - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

7071041

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database.

US Patent:

7653635, Jan 26, 2010

Filed:

Nov 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/830899

Inventors:

Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US

Assignee:

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707100

Abstract:

Systems and methods for generating standard description records from multimedia information are provided. The system includes at least one multimedia information input interface () receiving multimedia information, a computer processor, and a data storage system (), operatively coupled to said processor, for storing said at least one description record. The processor performs object extraction processing to generate multimedia object descriptions () from the multimedia information, and object hierarchy processing () to generate multimedia object hierarchy descriptions, to generate at least one description record including the multimedia object descriptions () and multimedia object hierarchy descriptions for content embedded within the multimedia information.

US Patent:

7809760, Oct 5, 2010

Filed:

Sep 15, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/559817

Inventors:

Ana Benitez - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Qian Huang - Ocean NJ, US
Seungyup Paek - New York NY, US
Atul Puri - Riverdale NY, US

Assignee:

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - New York NY
Columbia University in the City of New York - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707798, 707778

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database.