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7596801 |
Single wire return device in a fiber to the home system
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing reverse signals from a plurality of DHCTs to a downstream modulator that is located in the headend facility. The present invention includes a single...
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7590998 |
Television system having internet web browsing capability
A television system for providing standard television programming and Internet browsing includes a television set for viewing digital and/or analog programming and includes a memory storage device...
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7584495 |
Redundant stream alignment in IP datacasting over DVB-H
A real-time program transmission system and method may receive a signal from a content source, and generate two different data streams. One stream may be of a higher quality than the other. The two...
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7583887 |
Recording medium having data structure for managing main data additional content data thereof and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
A recording medium having a data structure for managing additional content data of main data recorded thereon in accordance with the present invention comprises a data area storing at least one...
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7577978 |
System for converting TV content to interactive TV game program operated with a standard remote control and TV set-top box
A system for converting TV content to an interactive TV game program uses viewer input pointing to “hot spot” objects in TV programs to enter answers in the game program. Viewers can point to...
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7577976 |
Support server, support method, and program for determining providing route of content
A support server receives via a communication network, facility condition information provided by a content providing terminal that provides a content, showing the condition of the facility where a...
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7540011 |
Caching graphical interface for displaying video and ancillary data from a saved video
A system and a method for attaining a selectable image sequence are provided. The system includes a viewer display component configured to transmit a request from a user's interface component for...
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7536706 |
Information enhanced audio video encoding system
A system includes additional information together with a video stream, where the additional information is related to at least one of the frames. Preferably the additional information is related to...
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7503059 |
Method of enhancing media content and a media enhancement system
A media enhancement system and method, the system including a media player structured to deliver a media selection to a user and an enhancement registry associated with the media selection and...
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7503057 |
Client and server system
An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client...
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7392312 |
Method for utilizing visual cue in conjunction with web access
The use of a visual indicia or cue facilitates computer based access of a network by a consumer witnessing a presentation. A visual indicia or cue is provided during the presentation indicative of...
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7386875 |
Freezing live video frames with interactive links
An embodiment of the present invention allows a user to maintain the display of a video frame containing one or more interactive links while also maintaining access to the links. Thus allowing the...
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7346920 |
System, method and article of manufacture for a common cross platform framework for development of DVD-Video content integrated with ROM content
A method for providing enhanced content for play across multiple play platforms employs steps of delivering media content to a client device; delivering HTML content to a client device, the HTML...
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7346918 |
Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system
A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information...
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7320134 |
System and method for cable operator control over enhanced programming
A system and method are described for allowing cable operators to actively block, pass through, modify, append, filter, or replace triggers corresponding to various forms of enhanced content being...
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7308701 |
Web site load management
A system for broadcasting enhanced television content may provide for early notification of web hosting facilities when uniform resource locators may be broadcast with television content. When...
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7296287 |
Image down-loading apparatus and system, and image down-loading method
A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a...
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7296282 |
Interactive optical cards and other hand-held devices with increased connectivity
A system for deriving benefits from the reception and processing of composite video signals by a hand-held device, such as a smart card. Video signals are modulated with auxiliary data creating...
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7219173 |
System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal interrupts and schedule commands are transmitted at precise time
A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of...
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7213255 |
Set-top preview program
Disclosed is a system for generating a graphics window that is capable of emulating enhanced video from a combined video and interactive content stream. The set-top emulator can randomly access the...
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7206754 |
System for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices
An improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer to select discount or promotional coupons while viewing a television commercial. Coupon information relating to the commercial...
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7206303 |
Time ordered indexing of an information stream
Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered...
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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...
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7107605 |
Digital image frame and method for using the same
A digital image frame and method for using the same are provided. In one embodiment, the digital image frame is coupled with a computer system via a local area network (LAN). Data is sent between...
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7010263 |
System and method for distributing music and data
A system and method for distributing music and data. The music or data is first transmitted to a consumer via a satellite radio network. The system includes a satellite radio receiver for the user...
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6959449 |
System and method for simultaneously accessing video data and internet page data
A system and method for simultaneously accessing video data and Internet page data includes a format manager that inserts a video tag into page data to concurrently display a positionable video...
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6912726 |
Method and apparatus for integrating hyperlinks in video
Hypervideo data is encoded with two distinct portions, a first portion which contains the video data and a second portion, typically much smaller than the first, which contains hyperlink...
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6795973 |
Enhanced television recorder and player
An enhanced television recorder and player includes a trigger inserter unit that inserts triggers into vertical blanking intervals of audio/video signals. The triggers point to resources that are...
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6766528 |
Apparatus and method for displaying additional information
An apparatus and method for displaying additional information on a TV program is disclosed. In the present invention, both a detail information included in the additional information transmitted by...
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6748423 |
Remote control of a linked computer
Techniques for using a controlling computer to control another computer with special instruction package prior to launch of the operating system in the controlled computer. For example, a method...
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6728763 |
Adaptive media streaming server for playing live and streaming media content on demand through web client's browser with no additional software or plug-ins
A method and system for providing media content in real-time on a web client is disclosed. The web client includes a browser utilizing a cache. The media content can be separated into a plurality...
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6658662 |
Retrieving information from a broadcast signal
A broadcast video signal is captured on user command and processed to identify network addresses contain therein. Network addresses are stored together with information about the program during...
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6651250 |
Digital broadcast receiving system in information processor
A digital satellite broadcast receiving system is proposed in which the necessary packets of an MPEG2-based transport stream can be transferred to the system memory of a computer to facilitate...
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6642966 |
Subliminally embedded keys in video for synchronization
A data file containing metadata and/or control data is synchronized with associated audio/video data by subliminally embedding a key in a frame of the audio/video. The key indicates the location of...
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6615408 |
Method, system, and apparatus for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production
Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production. According to the disclosure a method for providing action...
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6549241 |
Methods and apparatus for processing multimedia broadcasts
A receiver arranged to receive and store broadcast data transported by elementary stream of a multiplexed and modulated digital television signal in a rewritable memory during a low power...
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6510558 |
Discrimination of information access methods
A broadcast station 10 transmits a broadcast signal having content data and origin data both multiplexed thereto. An information access system 20 receives the broadcast signal, and extracts the...
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6473903 |
Method and system for implementing interactive broadcast programs and commercials
A system for implementing an interactive broadcast program which includes a transmitter for transmitting a multiplexed data stream which includes a main program and a plurality of different...
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6392664 |
Method and system for presenting television programming and interactive entertainment
An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes....
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6370543 |
Display of media previews
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
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5987509 |
System and method for displaying active uniform network resource locators during playback of a media file or media broadcast
A system and method are provided for displaying an active uniform network resource locator during playback of a media file or media broadcast. In one embodiment, a uniform network resource locator...
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5929849 |
Integration of dynamic universal resource locators with television presentations
A display system receives a data stream having successive image frame data in frame regions and Internet Universal Resource Locator (URL) data and association data in data regions between frame...
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5630119 |
System and method for displaying program listings in an interactive electronic program guide
Disclosed herein is an interactive entertainment distribution network including a headend which is connected to provide programs to a plurality of user interface units in individual homes. The user...
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5587743 |
Signal processors for transparent and simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in a video signal
Signal processors for permitting the transparent, simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in the video bandwidth is disclosed. The signal processor in the transmitter rasterizes...
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5262860 |
Method and system communication establishment utilizing captured and processed visually perceptible data within a broadcast video signal
A method and system are disclosed for capturing and processing visually perceptible data, such as address or telephone numbers, within a broadcast video signal. Optically recognizable text,...
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