Donna Romer

Technology & business executive with extensive experience in:

* Start-up business creation and operation
* Company management, strategy, revenue/channel growth
* Product/service design & development, launch, roadmap
* M&A deal experience: sourcing, contract negotiations, integration management (list provided on request)
* Technology and product innovation (see patent and product list)

• Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration

  • United States Patent 7,418,444
  • Issued April 21, 2002
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer

  A system stories digital media records and includes a search engine searching the stored digital media records. It receives search requests from users, logs the search requests, expands the search requests, applies a statistical clustering algorithm, thereby grouping similar search requests together, identifies, using a semantic net hierarchy, a lowest-level term in the hierarchy that subsumes all of the queries in a grouping of search requests, and communicates the identified term to a user.

• Method and Apparatus for Digital Media Management, Retrieval and Collaboration: Search Term Clustering

  • United States Patent 6,895,407
  • Issued April 21, 2002
  Inventors: Donna Romer, James Rothey

  The system performs clustering on search queries, and searches media records multi-modally, using two or more approaches such as image searching and text searching. An administrator can tune search parameters. Two or more streams of metadata may be aligned and correlated with a media file, facilitating later searching. The system evaluates itself. It folds popularity information into rankings of search results. The software incorporates a glossary management tool that makes it easy for each client to customize terminology to the needs of a particular business. With this tool, termed a glossary manager, a company can customize a number of feature names in the system to provide a more familiar context for their users. A system administrator can also customize the manner in which "thumbnail" or "preview" images are presented.

• Method and Apparatus for Digital Media Management, Retrieval and Collaboration: Multiple User Ranking Feedback

  • United States Patent 6,944,611
  • Issued April 21, 2002
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Sharon Flank, Ruth Sperer

  A system stores digital media records and has a search engine searching the stored digital media records. The system receives first search requests from a plurality of first users. The system performs, by the search engine, searches based upon the first search requests, yielding respective first search results, each first search result defining first selected digital media records. The first search results are logged. Information is received from the first users indicative of subsequent actions by the first users selecting particular ones of the selected digital media records. A second search request is received from a second user. A search is performed, by the search engine, based upon the second search request, yielding respective second search results, the second search results defining second selected digital media records. The second selected media records are then ranked differently, for example upward or downward, based upon the longed first search results.

• Digital Image Processing Method for Storage and Retrieval of Images in an Image Database based upon Open Space Metadata

  • United States Patent 6,115,717
  • Issued June 30, 1997
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Rajiv Mehrotra, James Warnick

  A system for the storage of a digital image in an image database, the system comprises: a processor; software for automatically generating with said processor open space metadata from the digital image independent of manually inputting data; and software for storing the open space metadata along with the associated image in the image database.

• Method and System for Detection and Characterization of Open Space in Digital Images

  • United States Patent 5,901,245
  • Issued January 23, 1997
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Rajiv Mehrotra, James Warnick

  A method for detecting open space in a digital image, the method comprises the steps of creating an activity map for permitting determination of the activity of the digital image; determining which pixels in the activity map are below a threshold; and identifying open space as contiguous pixels of the activity map having values below the predetermined threshold.

• Electronic Imaging System capable of Image Capture, Local Wireless Transmission and Voice Recognition

  • United States Patent 5,737,491
  • Issued June 28, 1996
  Inventors: Donna Romer, James Allen, Omid Moghadam

  A system for digital image capture and transmission, includes a digital camera that has an electronic image sensor for sensing an image and producing a digital image; a memory for storing digital images produced by the image sensor in digital image files, the digital image files having associated information for controlling a remote image fulfillment server; a voice recorder for digitizing voice commands relating to control of the image fulfillment server; and a transmitter for transmitting the digital image file to the image fulfillment server. Either the camera or the fulfillment server includes a voice recognition module responsive to the digitized voice commands for producing control signals for the image fulfillment server. The image fulfillment server includes a receiver for receiving the digital image file and control signals; a memory for storing the received digital image file; and a file manager for managing the digital image file in response to the control signals.

• Handheld Multisource Fusion With SmartWrap and Layered Verification Options

  • United States Patent Application 61/454,854
  • Filed April 21, 2011
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Emil Ciurczak, Sharon Flank, Gary Ritchie

• System and method for intent-based content matching

  • United States Patent Application 13/053,961
  • Filed March 22, 2011
  Inventors: Donna Romer, Jonathan Mendez, Richard Shea

Interests:

Languages: French, Japanese, Homeric Greek, C++ Interests: Electronics & LED’s, chess, classical pianist, cycling, European history/culture, community volunteering