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Multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface means for interactive multimedia system having cognitive adaptive capability

AssigneeSyneola Luxembourg SA

InventorsMyrian Muller, Joseph Hess

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Abstract

A multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface means includes: an interactive user interface means comprising at least one multilevel semiotic means addressable by a user and a fuzzy logic descriptor set module for storing multiple fuzzy logic descriptor sets; a metadata layer for linking said multilevel semiotic means to interactivity points present in content of the multimedia representation and defined by the metadata layer such that each level of each of the multilevel semiotic means identifies an interactivity point in the content and allows by selection of the interactivity point to perform a selectively varying content manipulation and to receive a resulting interactive presentation of content according to the selection: and a user control device for addressing the multilevel semiotic means.

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Dependent claims

A multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface apparatus for varying content manipulation of an interactive multimedia representation in a multimedia system, wherein the multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface apparatus comprises:

(a) an interactive user interface comprising
i. one or more multilevel semiotic means addressable by a user, wherein the one or more multilevel semiotic means comprise an interactive content display;
and
ii. a fuzzy logic descriptor set module that stores multiple fuzzy logic descriptor sets,
wherein each fuzzy logic descriptor set is related to a respective level of each of the multilevel semiotic means and describes at least one level of significance of interactivity corresponding to the respective level of each of the multilevel semiotic means, wherein the level of significance is directly related to the importance of a level addressed and thus selected by the user of the multilevel semiotic means,
wherein each fuzzy logic descriptor set defines at least one fuzzy semiotic membership function definable by and based on addressing of a level of each of the multilevel semiotic means and at least one significance attributed to the level;
(b) a metadata layer that links the one or more multilevel semiotic means to interactivity points present in the content of the interactive multimedia representation, wherein the interactivity points are defined by the metadata layer so that each level of each of the one or mores multilevel semiotic means identifies a first interactivity point in the content and allows, by selection of the first interactivity point, selectively varying of content manipulation and receipt of a resulting interactive presentation of content according to the selective varying of content manipulation;
and
(c) a user control device operably connected to address the one or more multilevel semiotic means.

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A multimedia system comprising a multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface apparatus operable to vary content manipulation of an interactive multimedia representation in the multimedia system, wherein the multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface apparatus comprises:

(a) an interactive user interface comprising
i. one or more multilevel semiotic means addressable by a user, wherein the one or more multilevel semiotic means comprise an interactive content display;
and
ii. a fuzzy logic descriptor set module that stores multiple fuzzy logic descriptor sets,
wherein each fuzzy logic descriptor set is related to a respective level of each of the multilevel semiotic means and describes at least one level of significance of interactivity corresponding to the respective level of each of the multilevel semiotic means, wherein the level of significance is directly related to the importance of a level addressed and thus selected by the user of the multilevel semiotic means,
wherein each fuzzy logic descriptor set defines at least one fuzzy semiotic membership function definable by and based on addressing of a level of each of the multilevel semiotic means and at least one significance attributed to the level;
(b) a metadata layer that links the one or more multilevel semiotic means to interactivity points present in the content of the interactive multimedia representation, wherein the interactivity points are defined by the metadata layer so that each level of each of the one or more multilevel semiotic means identifies a first interactivity point in the content and allows, by selection of the first interactivity point, selectively varying of content manipulation and receipt of a resulting interactive presentation of content according to the selective varying of content manipulation;
and
(c) a user control device operably connected to address the one or more multilevel semiotic means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/064,726Filed 17 Aug 2006
Priority: EP 0501822223 Aug 2005
Published: US 2009/0132441 A121 May 2009
Granted: 2 Oct 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 21/466
Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data…
H04N 7/163
Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing: by receiver means only
H04N 21/44224
Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programmes or purchase activity: monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet…
H04N 21/4438
OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB: window management, e.g. event…