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7624344 Method and system for creating a video presentation  
A method and system for creating a commemorative presentation. The subject of the commemoration can take a variety of forms, including living or deceased individuals, organizations, entities,...
7623757 Remote control device for recording/reproducing apparatus and video signal recording/reproducing apparatus  
It aims to make it possible to simultaneously record and reproduce a video signal and improve convenience of operation. A video recording/reproducing apparatus capable of recording an image into a...
7614009 Method for controlling filename display for image and video file types  
A method, system and article of manufacture suitable for rendering a graphical user interface including at least one viewable graphical element, the graphical element having a filename associated...
7610554 Template-based multimedia capturing  
Systems and methods for template-based multimedia capturing are described. In one aspect, a capturing template is selected to facilitate capturing a particular quantity and type(s) of media...
7594177 System and method for video browsing using a cluster index  
A “Video Browser” provides an intuitive user interface for indexing, and interactive visual browsing, of particular elements within a video recording. In general, the Video Browser operates by...
7581185 Interface and related methods for reducing source accesses in a development system  
A method of generating a filter graph of a development project is presented comprising identifying a plurality of source clips comprising the development project, wherein each source clip...
7577921 Method and system for performing search using acronym  
Techniques for facilitating efficient local search using acronym are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a graphic user interface is provided to accept inputs from a user; letters...
7564455 Global visualization process for personal computer platforms (GVP+)  
A system and process that incorporates hardware and software as elements to be combined with procedures and processes to obtain, format, store, combine, control, display, record, and visualize...
7562308 Providing user input values in input controls  
A method of providing user input values for input controls includes receiving, in a graphical user interface wherein input controls are associated with predefined alternative input values, a first...
7552460 Modifying an electronic program guide based on viewer statistics  
Displaying the numbers of viewers who are watching currently-broadcasted television programs on electronic program guides (EPGs) using information gathered via back channels from home entertainment...
7552395 Graphical user interface for building boolean queries and viewing search results  
Graphical user interfaces and method for building Boolean queries and viewing search results using search cells, combination cells, toolbar, and menu bar. Search cells are movable within a...
7548565 Method and apparatus for fast metadata generation, delivery and access for live broadcast program  
Techniques for fast indexing of live video broadcasts are provided which incorporate both efficient manual processing and automatic indexing steps to generate semantically meaningful and...
7546554 Systems and methods for browsing multimedia content on small mobile devices  
The multimedia content browsing system for small mobile devices smoothly blends three key tasks: querying the multimedia contents by keywords, exploring the search results by viewing keyframes of...
7526723 System and method for emulating enhanced and interactive streaming media delivery  
A media player, as may be employed in conjunction with a streaming media enhancement authoring application, is embedded in a browser window. A software program, operable to detect and extract...
7516407 Timeline random access for multi-format time-based file recording and playback  
A random access recording method and system for recording and playing back of avionics data, includes: storing data received from a plurality of data channels in respective data files. The method...
7509581 Video browser based on character relation  
A video data structure and a video browser for video browsing based on content is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention allows users to easily understand relationships between...
7503003 Electronic programming guide  
An electronic programming guide (“EPG”) in accordance with the invention provides pictograms and/or logos, to indicate to a television viewer the television programs being displayed on a...
7496845 Interactive presentation viewing system employing multi-media components  
An interactive, multi-media presentation viewing system and process for viewing educational or business presentations integrating presentation graphics in the form of presentation slides, video,...
7493643 Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing  
An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer...
7480864 Zoom editor  
A method and apparatus for processing media items is disclosed. The method involves selecting a sub-set ( 106 ) of the media items ( 102 ), and concurrently displaying a spatial representation (...
7478414 Method and apparatus for alerting a television viewers to the programs other viewers are watching  
Described are methods and apparatus that allow viewers to access timely data showing what other viewers are watching at (or near) a given moment. Thus, for example, a viewer could tune in, find out...
7451469 Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming  
A system for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) to a viewer. The system includes displaying one or more data slices representative of broadcast programming to a viewer. In response to...
7437682 Icon label placement in a graphical user interface  
To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the...
7412654 Apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display  
An apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display comprises a window manager in an operating system that is called by application programs to create special windows. The window...
7383507 Display apparatus and remote control apparatus  
A remote control apparatus is disclosed, in which a first remote control device and a second remote control device can be separated or combined. A configuration is also disclosed in which a remote...
7334191 Segmentation and detection of representative frames in video sequences  
A method for organizing a sequence of video frames includes selecting one of the frames in the sequence as an initial frame in a first portion of a segment of the sequence and adding further frames...
7318197 Apparatus for displaying internet site search menu of video apparatus having internet function and method therefor  
A method for displaying an Internet site search menu of a video apparatus having an Internet function, which is capable of easily selecting and editing a plurality of Internet sites on the screen...
7312796 Perpendicular view three dimensional electronic programming guide  
A method and apparatus of displaying an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG). In one embodiment, an EPG is constructed of a three dimensional virtual mesh, in which independent objects representing...
7284202 Interactive multi media user interface using affinity based categorization  
Computing devices capable of internetworking and receiving, storing and viewing programmed (scheduled) television and multimedia content provide a platform for access to a combination of Internet...
7272780 System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization  
An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program...
7257774 Systems and methods for filtering and/or viewing collaborative indexes of recorded media  
Systems and methods for filtering and viewing collaborative indexes of annotations of multimedia or video streams can include obtaining a multimedia or video stream, obtaining user indexes of...
7237190 System and method for generating multiple customizable interfaces for XML documents  
An XML schema and a set of user customization rules are utilized to produce a set of components that interact to provide a user-specific, document specific, multi-modal interface for an XML...
7231604 Individualized content guide  
A computer and Internet-based system and method for providing television and radio programming information to users, through a multi-tabbed viewing screen, where at least one of the tabs is...
7222300 System and method for automatically authoring video compositions using video cliplets  
The present invention includes a system and a method for automatically authoring video compositions from longer units of digitized video (or a source video) by using short segments of video (or...
7207007 Editing system, editing method, clip management device, and clip management method  
The relation between the edit resultant clip and the clip to be edited is managed with the hierarchical structure by managing means, so that the complicate editing works can be easily performed if...
7200814 Reproduction apparatus  
There is provided a reproduction apparatus for reproducing stream data recorded on a recording medium, the stream data containing menu item coordinate information representing a display location of...
7185283 Screen control method  
A feature video image vdt and a thumbnail picture sdt read from a receiving section C 10 are recorded onto a mass storage medium M 1, and meta information mdt is recorded into a high-speed...
7178161 Method and apparatus for creating a connection speed detecting movie and rich media player customization on the fly  
A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a...
7178106 Presentation of media content from multiple media sources  
A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed...
7167191 Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations  
Techniques for capturing information during multimedia presentations. According to an embodiment, the presentation recording appliance (PRA) receives multimedia presentation information comprising...
7159177 System and method for focused navigation within a user interface  
A sequence of cards is stored that graphically represents available options within an information system. In response to a single user action, the sequence of cards is successively displayed within...
7159175 Cut-list creation system, center server, advertisement creation terminals, computer programs, storage media and cut-list creation method of center server  
The present invention provides a cut-list creation system allowing a cut list to be made and edited automatically through a network at a request made by the user. The cut-list creation system...
7155674 Accessing television services  
A television system allows viewers to access a number of different groups of television content, or “service aggregates.” A portal interface for each group provides a direct means for the...
7149974 Reduced representations of video sequences  
A system that represents a video sequence comprising plurality of video clips as a number of images. The plurality of video clips is represented as a reduced representation of video images. A video...
7149972 Display of follow-up information relating to information items occurring in a multimedia device  
The invention relates to a multimedia device, which detects at least one information item in an audio and/or video data stream processed by the multimedia device, saves the detected information...
7143353 Streaming video bookmarks  
A method, apparatus and systems for bookmarking an area of interest of stored video content is provided. As a viewer is watching a video and finds an area of interest, they can bookmark the...
7143352 Blind summarization of video content  
A method summarizes unknown content of a video. First, low-level features of the video are selected. The video is then partitioned into segments according to the low-level features. The segments...
7124424 Method and apparatus for providing interactive program guide (IPG) and video-on-demand (VOD) user interfaces  
User interfaces for a number of services offered by an information distribution system. In one method, first (e.g., interactive program guide) and second (e.g., video-on-demand) applications are...
7117441 Grid-based system and method for interacting with electronic program guide grid  
An embodiment of the invention is a technique to navigate a user interface for program selection. Program information of a plurality of program cells is displayed in a visible window. The plurality...
7117440 Method and apparatus for providing a menu structure for an interactive information distribution system  
A method and apparatus for providing an improved interactive menu structure for an on-screen program guide within an interactive information distribution system. The menu structure is generated in...
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