Bell Laboratories develops "Pictorial Transcripts" for World Wide Web users on Internet.MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
"The technology distinguishes key still images from a television program and stores them as separate frames," said researcher Behzad Shahraray, who along with colleague David C. Gibbon gibbon, small ape, genus Hyloblates, found in the forests of SE Asia. The gibbons, including the siamang, are known as the small, or lesser, apes; they are the most highly adapted of the apes to arboreal life. and other Bell Labs scientists, developed the process. "Our method also captures closed-caption text, and creates hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links to additional information." "Pictorial Transcripts" are ready for presentation over the Web only minutes after a television program has concluded, with no human technical support required. This is achieved with computer programs that analyze the content of video frames and closed-caption text. Shahraray devised a method called content-based sampling to represent a segment of a video program with a single frame. A software program analyzes video techniques, such as fade-ins and -outs, cutaways and shifts in camera angles, and detects repetitive scenes before parsing See parse. parsing - parser the video into key still images. A collection of the key images represents the visual content of the entire program. Gibbon developed the technology that refined and synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. the television program's closed-caption text to the key video frames. "Closed-caption text is widely available for many television programs, and once captured, this provided the raw information to generate the text for pictorial transcripts," said Gibbon. "This eliminated the need to pursue the more difficult and less reliable task of using speech-to-text conversion." To complete a pictorial transcript, the program's closed-caption information is refined using lexical lex·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to the vocabulary, words, or morphemes of a language. 2. Of or relating to lexicography or a lexicon. [lexic(on) + -al1. and linguistic processing Noun 1. linguistic process - a process involved in human language linguistics - the scientific study of language agglutination - the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining . This processing also extracts key words and automatically generates hypertext "point-and-click" links to other multimedia documents, to provide the World Wide Web-site visitor with supplementary information. The entire process of generating the transcripts is completed and stored on a Web site within minutes of the television program's conclusion. Shahraray, Gibbon and others at Bell labs are currently preparing their system for potential television network field trials. Bell Laboratories, which is headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., is one of the world's preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae research and development organizations. CONTACT: Bell Laboratories Media Relations, Christine Waring, 908/582-7889 (office) 908/889-6853 (home) |
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