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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLawrence David Bergman, Michelle Yoonk Yung Kim, Chung-Sheng Li, Rakesh Mohan, John Richard Smith
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A framework is provided for describing multimedia content and a system in which a plurality of multimedia storage devices employing the content description methods of the present invention can interoperate. In accordance with one form of the present invention, the content description framework is a description scheme (DS) for describing streams or aggregations of multimedia objects, which may comprise audio, images, video, text, time series, and various other modalities. This description scheme can accommodate an essentially limitless number of descriptors in terms of features, semantics or metadata, and facilitate content-based search, index, and retrieval, among other capabilities, for both streamed or aggregated multimedia objects.
A method for describing a multimedia content source including at least one terminal object, said at least one terminal object including one or more modalities, each of said one or more modalities having one or more fidelities associated therewith, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for creating a multimedia content source including at least one terminal object, said at least one terminal object including one or more modalities, each of said one or more modalities having one or more fidelities associated therewith, said method comprising the steps of:
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