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7606471 Video language filtering based on user profile  
The invention relates to video player devices intended to play a video content DSC including audio tracks forming a disc audio languages list DAL and/or subtitles forming a disc subtitle languages...
7587748 Method and apparatus for retrieving data from a broadcast signal  
A broadcast signal is received that includes a data identifier that identifies data associated with the broadcast signal. The broadcast signal also includes the data associated with the broadcast...
7584492 Program-selection device, program selection method, and program information providing system  
A program-selecting apparatus well applied to a broadcast receiving set sets automatic picture-recording by setting program selection conditions comprising a genre, a keyword, and a time zone. A...
7571458 Method and apparatus for selecting and displaying multi-media messages  
Apparatus and method for remote viewing of selected messages at a subscriber remote receiving location, the apparatus including at least one messaging server (such as, but not limited to, a unified...
7518657 Method and system for the automatic collection and transmission of closed caption text  
A system for the automatic collection of closed caption text wherein broadcast source of closed caption text are received by a tuner, then decoded and a text handler writes text files. A remote...
7487527 Interactive television program guide with selectable languages  
An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and...
7467398 Apparatus and method of searching for desired television content  
The present invention is an apparatus and method for allowing a user to search for specific content across many television channels in order to locate desirable television shows related to the...
7415718 Receiving and processing vertical blanking interval data  
A system and method for receiving, processing, and storing electronic data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The system provides a flexible mechanism for reading...
7367040 View restriction method, view restriction setting method, receiver, and device and programs for setting view restriction  
A view restriction method surely blocks a program voluntarily designated by a viewer from view. When a restricted program is designated by the viewer (step S 1 ), receiver identification...
7366671 Speech displaying system and method  
A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech...
7337462 System and method for providing timing data for programming events  
A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine...
7305698 Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, and data receiving apparatus  
A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit...
7268823 Method and system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption text originating from multiple geographic locations, and resulting databases produced thereby  
There is provided a system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption texts originating from multiple geographic locations, comprising: (1) at least one remote capture client...
7165264 Client-side tool for splitting or truncating text strings for interactive television  
A tool usable in an interactive television environment comprises a module having code to analyze a dynamic text string and to determine where to split or truncate the text string, at spaces, for...
7117523 Book on-demand system  
A book on-demand system having reading data for reading book contents and printing and bookbinding data for printing and bookbinding on the server thereof and also having a function to transmit the...
6903779 Method and system for displaying related components of a media stream that has been transmitted over a computer network  
A system and method for displaying related components of a media stream that has been transmitted over a computer network includes at least one storage device that communicates with a television...
6829656 Tuner FCM for HAVi architecture  
A tuner component module within a home network based on the HAVI standard, i.e. a tuner FCM, according to the present invention includes the funtionality to provide the capability of the tuner...
6775842 Method and arrangement for transmitting and receiving encoded images  
TeleWeb services are currently being developed, in which HTML-encoded images are transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a conventional analog television signal. For special applications,...
6710812 Geographically diverse closed captioned news text database  
A news search resultant database containing a plurality of decoded closed captioned common news story texts from geographically diverse television stations, which texts have format consistency...
6694518 Method and apparatus for carrying data across high definition analog component video interfaces  
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for generating a video signal having an auxiliary data payload complying with a data payload protocol selectable from at least two available data payload...
6687908 Interactive television  
An interactive television system for selectively retrieving video images or teletext pages from a remote transmitter ( 1 ). User requests are communicated to the transmitter through the telephone...
6634028 Television system communicating individually addressed information  
A CATV system including a CATV network, a multiplicity of subscriber units, apparatus for transmitting over said CATV network encrypted information individually addressed to a subscriber unit and...
6580437 System for organizing videos based on closed-caption information  
A system for organizing digital videos to archive and access them at different levels of abstraction uses data available from a closed-caption text along with off-the-shelf natural language...
6493877 Digital data distribution system having a reduced end station memory requirement  
A digital data distribution system that comprises a broadcasting station and an end station. The broadcasting station broadcasts a broadcast signal repetitively modulated with a digital information...
6462782 Data extraction circuit used for reproduction of character data  
In a data extraction circuit used for reproducing character data such as a closed caption and a text, a horizontal sync digital PLL circuit generates an fh sync system clock signal, which is...
6412111 Data processing system and method for implementing programmable distribution of information by a video server  
A video source provides information to a communication device that results in an icon being displayed on the communications device during a preview of a television program or segment of a...
6400408 Television signal processing device having a data block address memory for autonously determining television program information  
A television signal processing device ( 12 ) for receiving and processing a television signal (F) and an information signal (I) which contains television program information (FPI) about future...
6260194 Information handling for interactive apparatus  
An interactive entertainment apparatus and a method for controlling the same are described, in which the apparatus presents to the user a branch structured narrative (90), and user input determines...
6111612 System for forming and processing text data for use in program specific information for broadcast  
Packetized video program information used in video processing and storage medium formats includes program related text messages. A decoder decodes packetized video program information including...
6037996 Data broadcast receiving apparatus with screen display state control  
A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such...
6031578 Apparatus for receiving and decoding a broadcast signal  
A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such...
6028644 Data broadcast receiving apparatus receiving a television broadcast signal with a superposed data broadcast signal  
A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such...
5936661 Interactive television game system  
An interactive television system includes television transmission apparatus (TTA), a transmission path (TPA) and a plurality of television receivers (TRA-1 to TRA-n). The television receivers...
5905524 Digital ISDN video server  
Creation of a digital ISDN server for distribution and interactive services in video telephony, which can be used for a great number of video telephones including video telephones of different...
5903262 Interactive television system with script interpreter  
A broadcasting station transmits script for presenting plural types of additional information relating to main broadcast in a vertical blanking interval included in a video signal. A television...
5880789 Apparatus for detecting and displaying supplementary program  
A teletext/data transmission decoder decodes information on characters and graphics and produces a supplementary program video signal. A proper program video signal arriving by way of a video...
5859662 Apparatus and method for selectively viewing video information  
A television presentation and editing system uses closed captioning text to locate items of interest. A closed captioning decoder extracts a closed captioning digital text stream from a television...
5821982 Method and device for securely transmitting teletext pages to specific users  
In interactive teletext, an individual user establishes a connection (6) with a central computer (14). Requested information is applied to a television transmitter (12) via a teltext inserter (11)...
5781245 Merging of video mosaic with teletext  
Video data and TXT data are combined into a single image. The video data is representative of a mosaic of video windows. The TXT data form a plurality of TXT pages. Each TXT page is transparent in...
5758080 System for providing closed captioning to an electronic discussion group  
An electronic discussion group includes interaction with closed captioning from a media program, in substantially real time. Video clips from the program may also be displayed on users' computer...
5568182 Teletext and videotex processing system and method  
A teletex and videotex processing system permits concurrent processing of broadcast teletext (TTX) transmitted through a wireless network and a videotex transmitted through a telephone network. The...
5552833 Transmission system and receiver using teletext information for programming video recorder  
A method and system in which television-program table information is transmitted using teletext formats in a coding transmission system. On the reception side, reservation of video recording with...
5532734 Method of transmitting picture data from a transmitter to a selected receiver  
Method of transmitting picture data from a transmitter to a selected receiver. The picture data to be transmitted are split up into specific picture data intended for an individual receiver and...
5524001 Dynamic cable signal assembly  
The present invention relates to a method of data assembly for distribution of the data via a mass audience distribution system, comprised of storing in a random access memory packets of data which...
5519780 System and method for providing compressed digital teletext services and teletext support services  
A teletext system provides teletext services and teletext support services in a multiservice communication system. Multiplexed data streams for a plurality of services, including teletext data, are...
5517254 Program table displaying apparatus  
A program table displaying apparatus includes a display controlling apparatus for displaying a program table for a plurality of programs in a table on a display. The table has a horizontal row with...
5359367 Personal computer with broadcast receiver on expansion board controlled by computer microprocessor  
A broadcast receiver (22) for receiving television broadcast signals carrying encoded data e.g. teletext information, includes a tuner (30), a demodulator (32) and a data extractor (36) for...
5235415 Device for the intelligible consultation of data relating to the fees programs of a subscription television and/or radio service  
A device for allowing fee paying subscribers access to television or radio programs includes a keyboard unit for requesting messages concerning the programs. Information describing the program fees...
5051829 Method for automatically controlling optimal tuning point for receiving teletext  
Method for automatically controlling the optimal tuning point for receiving teletext increases or decreases the tuning point of steps of a certain frequency for the byte error at each step tuning...
4894714 Apparatus using teletext to provide channel identification information in a television transmission system  
In a television transmission system, for example, a community antenna television system the transmitter station transmits a teletext page in an information channel, which page indicates in which TV...
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