Method of Generating and Methods of Filtering a User Profile
First Claim
1. Method of generating a user profile (7;
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17,19;
29) of a user of a device (14,15;
23-26) for processing data representative of items of content, a respective recording of at least one perceptible content element being associated with each item of content, includingdetermining a set (3) containing a plurality of recordings of at least one perceptible content element, each associated with one of a plurality of items of content associated with the user, andgenerating data representative of a user profile (7;
17,19;
29) indicating preferences of the user, wherein the data representative of the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) includes one or more parameter values within an at least one-dimensional feature space, each dimension representing a property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, such that at least one of the dimensions in the feature space represents a quantifiable property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, characterised in thatat least one set of parameter values, each set containing at least one parameter value and quantifying a dimension of the feature space in the user profile (7;
17,19;
29), is obtained by applying a pre-determined analysis algorithm to each of a plurality of signals, each signal representing at least a section of a recording of at least one perceptible content element, such that the set of parameter values is based on a plurality of the recordings in the set of recordings.
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Abstract
A method of generating a user profile (7;17,19;29) of a user of a device (14,15;23-26) for processing data representative of items of content, a respective recording of at least one perceptible content element being associated with each item of content, includes determining a set (3) containing a plurality of recordings of at least one perceptible content element, each associated with one of a plurality of items of content associated with the user, and generating data representative of a user profile (7;17,19;29) associating preferences of the user with the user, wherein the data representative of the user profile (7;17,19;29) includes one or more parameter values within an at least one-dimensional feature space, each dimension representing a property of at least a section of a recording of at perceptible content element, such that at least one of the dimensions in the feature space represents a quantifiable property of at least a section of a perceptible content element. At least one set of parameter values, each set containing at least one parameter value and quantifying a dimension of the feature space in the user profile (7;17,19;29), is obtained by applying a pre-determined analysis algorithm to each of a plurality of signals, each signal representing at least a section of a recording of at least one perceptible content element, such that the set of parameter values is based on a plurality of the recordings in the set of recordings.
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16 Claims
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1. Method of generating a user profile (7;
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17,19;
29) of a user of a device (14,15;
23-26) for processing data representative of items of content, a respective recording of at least one perceptible content element being associated with each item of content, includingdetermining a set (3) containing a plurality of recordings of at least one perceptible content element, each associated with one of a plurality of items of content associated with the user, and generating data representative of a user profile (7;
17,19;
29) indicating preferences of the user, wherein the data representative of the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) includes one or more parameter values within an at least one-dimensional feature space, each dimension representing a property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, such that at least one of the dimensions in the feature space represents a quantifiable property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, characterised in thatat least one set of parameter values, each set containing at least one parameter value and quantifying a dimension of the feature space in the user profile (7;
17,19;
29), is obtained by applying a pre-determined analysis algorithm to each of a plurality of signals, each signal representing at least a section of a recording of at least one perceptible content element, such that the set of parameter values is based on a plurality of the recordings in the set of recordings. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16)
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17,19;
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8. Method of filtering a user profile (7;
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17,19;
29) of a user of a device for processing data representative of items (1;
30) of content, a respective recording of at least one perceptible content element being associated with each item of content, includingdetermining a set containing at least one recording of at least one perceptible content element, respectively associated with items of content associated with the user, generating data representative of a user profile indicating preferences of the user, wherein the data representative of the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) includes one or more parameter values within an at least one-dimensional feature space, each dimension representing a property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, such that at least one of the dimensions in the feature space represents a quantifiable property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element the audio track, and transmitting the data representative of the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) to a second device arranged to determine, using a similarity metric, whether any of one or more further profiles including a set of one or more parameter values within the feature space match the user profile (7;
17,19;
29), characterised in thatat least one set of at least one parameter value quantifying a dimension of the feature space in the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) is obtained by applying a pre-determined analysis algorithm to at least one signal representing at least a section of a recording of at least one perceptible content element in the set of audio tracks. - View Dependent Claims (9, 12, 13, 15)
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17,19;
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11. Method of filtering a user profile (7;
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17,19;
29) expressing preferences of a user of a device (14,15;
23-26) for processing data representative of items of content having respective recordings of at least one perceptible content element associated with them, whereina second device (14,15;
23-27) receives from the device (14,15;
23-26) through a data link (16;
28) data representative of a user profile (7;
17,19;
29) indicating preferences of the user, wherein the data representative of the user profile (7;
17,19;
29) includes one or more parameter values within an at least one-dimensional feature space, each dimension representing a property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, wherein at least one of the dimensions in the feature space represents a quantifiable property of at least a section of a recording of a perceptible content element, and whereinthe second device retrieves one or more further profiles (19;
37) including a set of one or more parameter values within the feature space and determines, using a similarity metric, whether any of the retrieved profiles matches the user profile, characterised in thatthe second device (14,15;
23-27) receives and determines whether any of the retrieved profiles matches a user profile in which at least one of the parameter values is obtainable by applying a pre-determined analysis algorithm to at least one signal representing at least a section of a recording in the set of recordings.
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17,19;
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