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US20110214144 |
VIDEO-ENABLED COMMUNITY BUILDING
A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media... |
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US20140059605 |
PANEL USER INTERFACE FOR AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION
An intelligent television and methods for displaying content are disclosed. Specifically, a user may cause an application panel to be displayed, which displays content based on the panel tab... |
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US20140196088 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER-DEFINABLE AUDIO INDICATORS FOR MULTIMEDIA CHANNEL SELECTIONS
A method includes providing a user interface to a set-top box. The user interface facilitates an association of an audio indicator with a channel selection action. The method includes receiving,... |
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US20130347035 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING TO A FAVORITE CONTENT SOURCE WITHOUT AN ADVERTISEMENT
Systems and methods are provided for displaying media assets on user equipment. One of several content sources is designated as a first favorite content source. A first media asset that the user... |
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US20110289522 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BUILDING A WANTED LIST QUEUE FOR A USER IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
A system and method for communicating content to a user device includes a head end that communicates metadata for a plurality of content including the content titles. The system also includes the... |
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US20070006077 |
Sectorizing a display to present audience targeted information within different ones of the sectors
A media presentation method can include the step of identifying a display capable of presenting audio/video content. A viewing area of the display can be divided into more than one sector.... |
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US20120001759 |
USING IPTV AS HEALTH MONITOR
An IPTV can receive a user name and present a screen enabling a user by means of a remote control to select health information categories, inputting numeric parameters into the selected categories... |
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US20120180092 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION TO TELEVISION
A system and method of displaying messages at a television is described. The method of displaying messages at a television includes: establishing communication over the Internet between a... |
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US20140250460 |
VIRTUAL DESKTOP SERVICES
Methods and apparatus are described for providing access to arbitrary applications via an interactive television service using a pool of remote virtual desktops. |
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US20140181865 |
SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND TELEVISION SET
A speech recognition apparatus includes: a speech acquisition unit which acquires speech uttered by a user; a recognition result acquisition unit which acquires a result of recognition performed... |
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US20150249865 |
CONTEXT-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS
Various implementations provide one or more recommendations for content, for example, to a user, based on one or more context categories. In one particular implementation, an ordered set of... |
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US20140223478 |
ON-BOARD VESSEL ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
An improved user experience is provided for passengers on a vessel such as an airplane, train or ship. Passengers can customize their travel experience ahead of time by accessing a web-based... |
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US20120137325 |
On-Board Vessel Entertainment System
An improved user experience is provided for passengers on a vessel such as an airplane, train or ship. Passengers can customize their travel experience ahead of time by accessing a web-based... |
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US20120030706 |
Virtual Set Top Box
Methods and apparatus are described for providing digital content to televisions or other devices having media playback capabilities over a network infrastructure using virtual set top boxes (VSTBs). |
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US20100325650 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS
Systems and methods for automatically generating a playlist of series assets and systems and methods for grouping assets of a playlist in clusters are provided. In one embodiment, series assets... |
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US20130014159 |
Viewer Interface for a Content Delivery System
A viewer interface for a content delivery system is described. In one embodiment, a method for displaying programming content described. This method, occurring in a receiver controller, includes... |
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US20150229998 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE VIDEO-BASED SEARCH RESULTS
Method and system to provide video-based search results are described. A search results video may be present to a user details from listings that match certain search criteria. When a select... |
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US20110191803 |
Trick Mode Support for VOD with Long Intra-Frame Intervals
A video-on-demand system encodes multiple video streams from media content, such that the video streams have staggered intra-frame intervals. When a client device requests a video stream, the... |
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US20050114885 |
Program selecting method
A program selecting method includes the steps of: storing still pictures or motion pictures of specific scenes of a plurality of viewed programs selected in a predetermined period; presenting the... |
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US20120291068 |
HOME DEVICE CONTROL ON TELEVISION
A set-top box may present video content on a television and receive a user request to present an interactive home controls application on the television. Based on the user request, the set-top box... |
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US20110298980 |
RESIZING TV GRAPHIC ELEMENTS AND REORIENTING GRAPHICS PLANE FOR USER POSITION
The size of UI elements on a TV display are enlarged responsive to a determination from sensors that a viewer is beyond a nominal distance from the TV. As well, the graphics plane in which the UI... |
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US20110289530 |
Television Related Searching
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes identifying metadata related to television programming being... |
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US20130174198 |
SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING MEDIA PROGRAMS
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may use, for example, a method for sending a set-top box an identification of the media player, receiving operational instructions from the... |
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US20120030708 |
Portable Media Device and Method for Presenting Viewing Content During Travel
A portable media device for use in cooperation with passenger entertainment systems installed in vehicles, such as automobiles and aircraft, and methods for manufacturing and using same. The... |
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US20130332958 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING USER SELECTABLE PICTURE
Provided is a method and system for displaying a user selectable picture that enables a user to select a predetermined object from a picture of a camera relayed in real time, and to actively... |
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US20140289778 |
GESTURE AND VOICE RECOGNITION FOR CONTROL OF A DEVICE
A user interface allows one or more gestures to be devised by a user and mapped or associated with one or more commands or operations of a TV or other device. The user can select the... |
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US20110197227 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ROAMING VIDEO WANTED LIST AND ROAMING VIDEO PREFERENCES
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for providing a roaming video wanted list and roaming video preferences. In particular embodiments, the systems and... |
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US20120192225 |
Administration of Content Creation and Distribution System
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving and distributing user-generated video content. In one aspect, a method includes... |
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US20110047568 |
TV USER INTERFACE WITH RECOMMENDED CONTENT ENTRY IN FAVORITES MENU
A “recommendation” genus entry is added to the list of other genre in a TV “favorites” menu. Entries in the recommendation genus entry are depicted in a stack and sorted by recommendation strength... |
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US20150264427 |
VIRTUALIZING USER INTERFACE AND SET TOP BOX FUNCTIONALITY WHILE PROVIDING MEDIA OVER NETWORK
Methods and apparatus are described for providing digital content to televisions or other devices having media playback capabilities over a network infrastructure using virtual set top boxes (VSTBs). |
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US20140089973 |
NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK SERVICE THEREOF
A method for providing a network service is provided, which is adapted to a network service system including a first network terminal, at least one second network terminal and a network server.... |
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US20120159546 |
Smart Phone as Remote Control Device
A communication device such as a smart phone is enabled for remotely controlling set-top boxes (STBs) over Internet protocol networks using an applet running on the communication device.... |
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US20090282435 |
Video Program Sequenced Output
A method is disclosed and includes receiving a selection of a first video program, receiving a selection of a linking command to link the first video program to a second video program, receiving a... |
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US20110271301 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VIEWER-RELATED INFORMATION ON A DISPLAY BASED UPON WIRELESS IDENTIFICATION OF A PARTICULAR VIEWER
Systems and methods are described for presenting viewer-related programming to a particular viewer. In at least one embodiment, a wireless reader is configured to receive at least one identifier... |
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US20070113245 |
Font library for interactive television recording and playback on a storage medium
A method (49, 55) of handling fonts in a recorder or a playback-recorder for interactive television. Fonts are stored on a recordable storage medium (220), wherein the fonts are part of a... |
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US20060064719 |
Simultaneous video input display and selection system and method
A method of selecting video content to be displayed from among a plurality of video inputs includes initiating a video input selection mode of operation, simultaneously displaying video content... |
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US20080097970 |
Intelligent Video Summaries in Information Access
In a method for displaying video data within result presentations in information access or search systems, compressed thumbnails are computed for videos in a result page and applied to the result... |
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US20100064313 |
PORTAL FOR FUTURE EPISODE INFORMATION
A device receives, from a set-top box (STB) and/or a user device, usage information associated with video content, and determines a content portal for a particular video content based on the... |
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US20070101364 |
Multimedia reproducing apparatus and reproducing method
Disclosed is a multimedia reproducing apparatus for selecting and reproducing favorite contents from many contents recorded on media of plural different types. A media icon array (70), made up by... |
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US20110219395 |
Pointing Capability and Associated User Interface Elements for Television User Interfaces
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a user interface for television control functionality. |
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US20130287370 |
MULTIMEDIA IMPORTING APPLICATION
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for importing multimedia files on a computing device. A graphical user interface (GUI) can present multimedia files as the... |
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US20130247098 |
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND MEDIUM
According to one embodiment, distribution system includes live distributor and time-shifted distributor. Live distributor distributes live content by streaming. Time-shifted distributor... |
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US20150033258 |
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS CONFIGURED TO MONITOR BRAIN ACTIVITY
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that may monitor the brain activity of a user and determine a first brain state of the user based on the brain activity,... |
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US20110167452 |
INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM WITH TEMPLATES FOR MANAGING VENDOR-SPECIFIC VIDEO-ON-DEMAND CONTENT
An interactive television system is provided in which a user can use an interactive television application to access and request media-on-demand programming from one or more specific vendors. The... |
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US20140059607 |
COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO A COMMUNICATION DEVICE ACCORDING TO A USER PREFERENCE
A wireless communication device receives a menu selection from a user indicating a user preference to receive video with captions instead of audio. The wireless communication device transfers a... |
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US20080307455 |
System for Providing and Handling Still Video Pictures
An interactive television method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via a broadcast carousel, a photo feed comprising a plurality of still video pictures, sequentially displaying the... |
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US20070234385 |
Cross-layer video quality manager
An embodiment is a cross-layer video quality manager that coordinates a plurality of video processing and network processing techniques to improve the quality of experience of, for example, a... |
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US20080276274 |
Media Services Devices and Methods
A media services device including a display device configured to present user-selectable options corresponding to video-on-demand services, and a video-on-demand application server component... |
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US20120090003 |
Thought Control of Set Top Box
Disclosure is directed to commanding a content receiver by interpreting brainwave patterns that are captured from a user of the content receiver. The user's brainwave patterns may be captured by... |
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US20090254940 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECTING CUSTOMERS TOWARD HELPFUL INFORMATION
Systems and methods direct a customer using an appliance coupled to a display toward received information. An input is received from the customer at the appliance, and a period of relative non-use... |