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7614068 |
Prioritization of electronic service guide carousels
Prior art methods of receiving, organizing, and implementing the data transmitted to mobile devices, such as ESG fragments, have a great impact on mobile device performance and battery lifetime....
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7610601 |
Apparatus and method for automatically recording content, and recording medium and program thereof
An automatic recording apparatus for content includes a preference operation history managing unit operable to generate history information of an operation relating to a preference for a content...
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7610599 |
Information providing device and method for index information for scene changes
The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such...
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7607107 |
On-screen user interface device
A navigation device that allows a user to quickly navigate a television environment that provides multiple services, features and options. The navigation device of the present invention is a...
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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...
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7603685 |
Program guide system with combination category search
An interactive television program guide system is provided in which the program guide may provide the user with a selectable list of combination categories. Combination categories are composed of...
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7603684 |
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...
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7600245 |
System and methods for subscribers to view, select and otherwise customize delivery of programming over a communication system
A program source is linked to event information, which is coupled via a broadcast programming communication system to a number of subscribers. Each of the subscribers to the broadcast communication...
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7600241 |
Document data structure and method for integrating broadcast television with web pages
Described are a method and apparatus for incorporating broadcast television into Web pages. Broadcast television can be embedded into Web pages using, for example, a “tv:” attribute in...
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7596799 |
System and method of communicating video content
A system and method of communicating video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes communicating a selection of a channel from a set-top box device to at least one...
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7594247 |
Method and apparatus for preparing and transmitting electronic program information and apparatus for producing electronic program guide from the electronic program information
General electronic program information described on a general level and individual electronic program information described on an individual level are prepared according to electronic program...
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7594244 |
Program recommendation system
A system and a method for program recommendation are described. In order to present a user a recommendation for a choice of audio or video content pieces broadcast consecutively at a plurality of...
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7593003 |
Image processing unit, method, and program
A display of “scroll up by 1 hour” is overlaid on sections of station name of a program schedule Fa 1 when an up arrow key of a cross key provided to a remote commander is operated when a...
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7587731 |
Program guide information providing device, program device information providing system, information receiving device, remote operating system, and method thereof
A program guide information providing device is arranged so that reference information corresponding to identification information transmitted from a communication terminal device is read from...
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7587729 |
Tracking promoted listings
Promoted listing are generated and transmitted to client devices where they are displayed prominently in relation to non-promoted listings. The client devices record tracking data that indicates...
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7584214 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program
Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as “already recorded”, “not recorded”, “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received”...
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7581238 |
Program episodes recording
A client device for a television-based entertainment system receives a viewer request to record episodes of a program and generates an episode record chart that designates a start time to record...
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7577973 |
Client terminal for displaying program guide information associated with different programs within a pop-up
A client terminal providing an on-screen program guide that allows a user to easily navigate through program guide information within a pop-up for different programs on a selected channel. A head...
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7577972 |
Extracting keywords from multilingual alphabetic and glyph scripts in an electronic programming guide
An automatic keyword extraction apparatus includes a first extraction unit operable to extract a first keyword from title character string information of contents using a first keyword dictionary...
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7574719 |
Program guide data compression
For data encoded with an encoding scheme, a data compression technique utilizes encoding scheme values as compression indexing values where the encoding scheme values are part of the encoding...
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7571453 |
Apparatus and method for constrained selection of favorite channels
An interactive program guide system is provided in which an interactive program guide offers a user access to content from multiple available media types. The program guide system allows the...
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7571232 |
Method and apparatus for managing channel information
A request for content associated with a particular channel is received from a client device. A system identifies service information data associated with the channel. The system then determines how...
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7568213 |
Method for providing episodic media content
A personalized media service provides, e.g., user customization of radio channel selections, immediate availability of multiple preprogrammed and/or customized channels, the ability to intersperse...
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7565673 |
Apparatus and method for using keyboard macros to control viewing channel
In a converged computer and television system, the TV network viewed in a TV mode can be changed by entering an alphanumeric channel macro on the computer keyboard.
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7565104 |
Broadcast audio program guide
An audio programming guide provides identification and timing information (i.e., beginning and/or ending times) for broadcast audio programs. The information may be gathered from the broadcasters,...
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7562376 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, broadcast system, storage medium, and computer program
An information processing apparatus has the capability of making a registration for timer-controlled automatic viewing/recording not only in units of programs but also in units of sub-programs. The...
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7554606 |
EPG-conditioned letterbox-to-anamorphic conversion
Designed for use with widescreen TVs or high-end TVs with a mode for accommodating anamorphic programs, an EPG client is equipped with an electronic program guide (EPG) and a...
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7552463 |
Television receiver, receiver and program execution method
A television receiver includes an LCD unit and an EEPROM in which broadcasting program selection information for controlling a tuner section and channel numbers are stored in a coordinated...
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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...
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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...
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7546621 |
Interactive television program guide display
A full service cable television system and method are provided. The system comprises a cable headend, at least one fiber transport, at least one distribution hub, at least one hybrid fiber coax...
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7545363 |
User interface controlling apparatus, user interface controlling method, and computer program
A user interface controlling apparatus is disclosed which includes an inputting section for inputting user operation information, and a display controlling section for controlling display of data...
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7543322 |
Method for enhanced event specific features on personal video recorders
A method for enhanced presentation of sports audio video (A/V) content, the method includes: receiving a user's preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and...
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7530087 |
System for displaying programming guide information
A method is provided for displaying programming information. A video comprising a plurality of frames is displayed on a portion of a display. A first panel is displayed in response to a first...
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7526786 |
Content programmer control of video and data display using associated data
An interactive video system is disclosed that processes a video data stream and an associated data stream corresponding to the video data stream. The interactive video system displays a video image...
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7526566 |
Methods of operating radio communications devices including predefined streaming times and addresses and related devices
Methods of operating radio communications devices may include accepting user input at the radio communications device of a streaming time to initiate media streaming, and accepting user input at...
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7523476 |
Digital/analogue TV receiver that renews a channel map using event information and virtual channel tables
A digital/analogue TV receiver having a function for displaying an EGP screen comprises a controller for displaying the EPG (electric program guide) screen including channels and TV program...
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7523475 |
Method of data display for electronic program guides (EPGs) on a remote control
A method of displaying Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data on a remote control in substantially a grid format, without using “channel” information as an axis. Instead of being presented by...
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7519982 |
Efficient delivery of interactive program guide using demand-cast
Techniques to efficiently deliver interactive program guide (IPG). In one aspect, if an IPG page is requested by a viewer and not already transmitted, only the guide portion for the requested page...
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7516467 |
Method and apparatus for preparing and transmitting electronic program information and apparatus for producing electronic program guide from the electronic program information
General electronic program information described on a general level and individual electronic program information described on an individual level are prepared according to electronic program...
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7509662 |
Method and apparatus for generation of a preferred broadcasted programs list
A second set of broadcasted programs is added to a first set of broadcasted programs. The second set of broadcasted programs includes broadcasted programs viewed by a viewer for a period of time at...
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7506350 |
System and method for simplifying different types of searches in electronic program guide
A system and a method for processing program guide information are presented. Electronic program guide information is received and stored. A first search criterion from a user for a first type of...
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7505519 |
Method and apparatus for compressing video sequences
A method and apparatus for compressing a plurality of video sequences, where each sequence has information that is common with other video sequences. The invention ensemble encodes the video...
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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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7503056 |
Receiver, program retrieval method, and receiving method
An EPG object of a program A to be broadcast from 19:00 to 20:49 is copied to generate a first clone EPG object and a second clone EPG object. 00 minute is set as the relative start time of the...
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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...
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7493646 |
Interactive television systems with digital video recording and adjustable reminders
An interactive television system is provided in which an interactive television application is used to support network-based or local personal video recorder capabilities. A user may use this...
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7493642 |
Method of selecting a portion of a block of data for display based on characteristics of a display device
A method of selecting a portion of a block of data for display based on characteristics of a display device. The method comprises several steps. In the first step, a block of Electronic Program...
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7493640 |
Advertisement and tracking in a television apparatus
A system and a method is disclosed which allows both advertisement and program information to be shown on a channel banner, while user changes channel. In another embodiment, an “advertisement...
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7493639 |
Interactive program summary panel
The present invention includes a method of displaying for a viewer summary information relating to programming available on an interactive television or televideo system. In a preferred embodiment,...
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