Lubomira A Dontcheva

US Patent:

8612882, Dec 17, 2013

Filed:

Sep 14, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/807778

Inventors:

Lubomira Dontcheva - San Francisco CA, US
Wilmot Wei-Mau Li - San Francisco CA, US
Adrian Joseph Secord - Brooklyn NY, US
Holger Winnemoeller - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Adobe Systems Incorporated - San Jose CA
New York University - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715790

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for creating collections with automatic suggestions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a user specification containing at least one unquantified constraint defining particular items contained in a library, where the library comprises a plurality of items and metadata associated with each item in the plurality of items; parsing and translating the at least one unquantified constraint into at least one quantified constraint to define at least one item of the plurality of items in the library; creating a suggested collection comprising at least one suggested item selected from the library having metadata conforming to at least one quantified constraint; and refining the suggested collection to form a final collection.

US Patent:

20030227453, Dec 11, 2003

Filed:

Apr 8, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/408884

Inventors:

Klaus-Peter Beier - Ann Arbor MI, US
Denis Kalkofen - Tangermuende, DE
Lubomira Dontcheva - Ann Arbor MI, US
Lars Schumann - Ann Arbor MI, US
Lars Jensen - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

G09G005/00
G06T015/70
G06T013/00
G06T015/00
A63B069/00
G09B019/00
G09B009/00

US Classification:

345/419000, 345/757000, 434/247000, 345/473000

Abstract:

A method, system and computer program product for automatically creating animated 3-D scenarios from human position and path data are provided. The method and system may include immersive and non-immersive virtual reality technologies for the training and mental conditioning of trainees such as football players with a focus on visual perception skills. The method and system may include a unique combination of commercially available hardware, specially developed software, data sets, and data libraries, as well as commercially available software packages.

US Patent:

20060184872, Aug 17, 2006

Filed:

Feb 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/057997

Inventors:

Lubomira Dontcheva - Seattle WA, US
Steven Drucker - Bellevue WA, US
Michael Cohen - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 17/21

US Classification:

715512000

Abstract:

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates a viewer's viewing experience of a presentation as shown on the viewer's own machine. The system and method provide the viewer with navigation and annotation control of the viewer's view of the presentation without affecting the presenter's presentation and/or the presenter's display of the presentation. When viewing a presentation, the viewer can annotate at least a portion of the presentation with text, audio, ink markings, as well as insert URL or other web-based information. Searches can be conducted during the viewing of the presentation to further supplement content in the presentation. The search results including the pertinent URLs can be added in whole or in part to the relevant portions of the presentation. Furthermore, the viewer can view the presentation in a variety of perspectives and zoom levels to gain context over the presentation or parts thereof.

US Patent:

20080046218, Feb 21, 2008

Filed:

Aug 16, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/504834

Inventors:

Lubomira A. Dontcheva - Seattle WA, US
Steven M. Drucker - Bellevue WA, US
Michael F. Cohen - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 17/40

US Classification:

702186, 702182, 702187, 702189

Abstract:

Architecture for tracking, capturing, and visually summarizing information related to user activities and interactions of a network or web computing session. Documents or pages accessed during the session are tracked and presented graphically as miniature images that illustrate a history of the session of documents deemed important by the user. Activities tracked can be related to the dwell time at a web page, scrolling event(s) in the page, click-through activity, impression activity, referencing information of that page to other pages, the information sought, user intentions, goals, etc. The history of session documents are illustrated as a set of reduced images which can be manually and automatically filtered to graphically emphasize one subset of images more than another subset of images based on user criteria.

US Patent:

20130073952, Mar 21, 2013

Filed:

Aug 24, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/594381

Inventors:

Lubomira A. Dontcheva - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel C. Ritchie - Stanford CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/21

US Classification:

715246

Abstract:

Methods and apparatus for comic creation. A digital sketching system may provide various tools for creating and modifying comics consisting of one or more panels, and for creating, adding, and modifying text in the panels. This system, which may be referred to as a comic creation application, may be implemented according to a domain-specific digital sketchbook paradigm that is directed specifically to the needs of a comic artist. The comic creation application may be tailored for comics planning, may be designed with the structure of comic pages in mind, and may provide high-level editing tools and operations for this structure. The system may make a digital device (e.g., a touch- or multitouch-enabled device) an intelligent participant in the creative process, rather than a passive sketchbook, to facilitate story building in ways that pencil and paper cannot.

US Patent:

20130124968, May 16, 2013

Filed:

Aug 25, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/862940

Inventors:

Lubomira A. Dontcheva - San Francisco CA, US
Ranjitha S. Kumar - San Jose CA, US
Wilmot Wei-Mau Li - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715234

Abstract:

Various embodiments of a system and methods for using design features to search for page layout designs are described. The document and image structures of a page layout design may be analyzed to determine design features which define the style of the page layout design. Dependent on the design features, style scores may be calculated for the page layout design. Page layout designs may be stored in a database in association with corresponding style scores. A user may indicate a desired page layout style by indicating example page layout designs which exhibit the desired style. Style scores for the example page layout designs may be compared to the style scores for page layout designs stored in the database. Dependent on the comparison, page layout designs stored in the database may be selected and displayed to the user.

US Patent:

20130129316, May 23, 2013

Filed:

Nov 30, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/956863

Inventors:

Lubomira A. Dontcheva - San Francisco CA, US
Suporn Pongnumkul - Seattle WA, US
Wilmot Wei-Mau Li - San Francisco CA, US
Shmuel Avidan - Brookline MA, US
Lubomir Bourdev - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 9/80

US Classification:

386241, 386E09011

Abstract:

A plurality of segment transitions in a video data stream is identified. The identifying the plurality of segment transitions includes recognizing an interface feature of a first application interface displayed in the video data stream and generating metadata associating a selected segment transition with a particular point in the video data stream. The interface feature indicates the selected segment transition among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream. A navigation system for navigating among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream is provided. Responsive to input, navigation to the selected segment transition is performed and the video data stream is displayed from the particular point.

US Patent:

20140078075, Mar 20, 2014

Filed:

Nov 21, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/683278

Inventors:

Walter W. Chang - San Jose CA, US
Lubomira A. Dontcheva - San Francisco CA, US
Gierad P. Laput - Canton MI, US
Aseem O. Agarwala - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/0488
G10L 15/26

US Classification:

345173, 345156

Abstract:

Natural language image editing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is converted from audio data using a speech-to-text engine. A gesture is recognized from one or more touch inputs detected using one or more touch sensors. Performance is then initiated of an operation identified from a combination of the natural language input and the recognized gesture.