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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69713419T2

    公开(公告)日:2003-02-20

    申请号:DE69713419

    申请日:1997-03-06

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to enable a user watching and/or listening to a program to retrieve supplemental information or supplemental entertainment pertaining to an item just seen or words just heard. The apparatus includes a recognition system which recognizes the user's request and causes its satisfaction to be provided. A dynamically changing dictionary is created from items or keywords extracted from the most recently received program portion. The items or keywords may be contained in closed caption text in a TV signal. Particular items or keywords may be assigned a high priority so that they are maintained in the dictionary for a long duration. The user's request is matched against this continually changing dictionary. Upon recognition of the request, a search is initiated to access, import and deliver to the user the information required to satisfy the request. The information may be presented to the user separately or in coincidence with the normal program using picture in picture or split screen. Alternate embodiments enable preprocessing to obtain and store expanded information for such items and keywords deemed to be of high priority. This speeds up the satisfaction of the user's request for these items or 1 keywords.

    CONTEXTED-BASED INTERACTIVE REAL TIME INFORMATION RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:HK1001882A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-07-17

    申请号:HK98100881

    申请日:1998-02-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to enable a user watching and/or listening to a program to retrieve supplemental information or supplemental entertainment pertaining to an item just seen or words just heard. The apparatus includes a recognition system which recognizes the user's request and causes its satisfaction to be provided. A dynamically changing dictionary is created from items or keywords extracted from the most recently received program portion. The items or keywords may be contained in closed caption text in a TV signal. Particular items or keywords may be assigned a high priority so that they are maintained in the dictionary for a long duration. The user's request is matched against this continually changing dictionary. Upon recognition of the request, a search is initiated to access, import and deliver to the user the information required to satisfy the request. The information may be presented to the user separately or in coincidence with the normal program using picture in picture or split screen. Alternate embodiments enable preprocessing to obtain and store expanded information for such items and keywords deemed to be of high priority. This speeds up the satisfaction of the user's request for these items or 1 keywords.

    3.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69713419D1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-25

    申请号:DE69713419

    申请日:1997-03-06

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to enable a user watching and/or listening to a program to retrieve supplemental information or supplemental entertainment pertaining to an item just seen or words just heard. The apparatus includes a recognition system which recognizes the user's request and causes its satisfaction to be provided. A dynamically changing dictionary is created from items or keywords extracted from the most recently received program portion. The items or keywords may be contained in closed caption text in a TV signal. Particular items or keywords may be assigned a high priority so that they are maintained in the dictionary for a long duration. The user's request is matched against this continually changing dictionary. Upon recognition of the request, a search is initiated to access, import and deliver to the user the information required to satisfy the request. The information may be presented to the user separately or in coincidence with the normal program using picture in picture or split screen. Alternate embodiments enable preprocessing to obtain and store expanded information for such items and keywords deemed to be of high priority. This speeds up the satisfaction of the user's request for these items or 1 keywords.

    INTERRUPTION TOLERANT VIDEO PROGRAM VIEWING DEVICE AND THE METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:HK1001806A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-07-10

    申请号:HK98100791

    申请日:1998-02-04

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Allows a video broadcast viewer to pause at anytime while viewing a program, and upon returning to be able to view the intervening segment. The video received during the pause period is stored and available for recall upon user command. The storage medium is circular in so much that the memory, upon becoming filled to capacity continues to write incoming information data over the previously stored data. The storage circuits employs a sequential access storage device and/or a direct access storage device. The storage circuit has a high speed memory input buffer and a high speed memory output buffer to account for the relatively long READ and WRITE access times of the storage device employed. At the end of the pause period, the user can view the stored video. The user has a choice between catching up to the regular broadcast or watching the remaining program video in a delay mode. The stored video may be viewed intermittently or continuously in regular, slow or fast motion, under user direct or remote VCR-type of video function control.

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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE3779202D1

    公开(公告)日:1992-06-25

    申请号:DE3779202

    申请日:1987-06-26

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A thin film transistor technology where a gate member (3) on a substrate surface (2) is in electric field influenceable proximity to active semiconductor devices in the direction normal to the substrate surface and the ohmic electrodes (32-35) of the active device are parallel with the substrate surface. The gate is formed on the substrate and conformal coatings of insulator (6) and semiconductor (31) are provided over it. A metal is deposited from the direction normal to the surface that is thicker in the horizontal dimension than the vertical so as to be susceptible to an erosion operation such as a dip etch which separates the metal into self-aligned contact areas (32, 33; 34, 35) on each side of a semiconductor device channel without additional masking. Self-alignment of the source, drain and gate can be achieved by insulator additions above and under the gate fabricated without additional masking.

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