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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184209 | Smart slate Techniques used for movie, video, or television production, including: generating production information about recorded data of one of: (1) audio sequence; (2) video sequence; and (3) audio and video sequences; tagging the generated production information with timin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8166501 | Scheme for use with client device interface in system for providing dailies and edited video to users A method for use in providing video to a user includes establishing digital video data that includes images shot in relation to a making of content, uploading the digital video data to a server, and sending the digital video data from the server through a network to... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8122051 | Support applications for rich media publishing Identifying a source of user referral for a media publishing website includes: storing a referring URL in a cookie variable; retrieving the referring URL from the cookie variable during a registration process to enter the media publishing website; dynamically custom... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108493 | Remote access management A remote access management service for enabling remote access to an item of media content stored in a network device from a remote device, said network device including a remote access server application program and account information identifying said remote device... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107682 | Motion capture using primary and secondary markers Capturing the motion of a target. One method includes: coupling a plurality of primary markers to the target; coupling at least one secondary marker to the target; capturing a plurality of primary marker data points, wherein each primary marker data point correspond... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8054312 | Material for motion capture costumes and props Capturing motion using motion capture cameras comprises: coupling a plurality of markers to an actor; allowing a material to be positioned between the actor and the motion capture cameras, wherein the material is selected to allow the motion capture cameras to captu... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046688 | System for and method of adjusting tempo to match audio events to video events or other audio events in a recorded signal The system and method herein adjust tempo of an audio recording to match audio events to video events or other audio events in an audio-visual recording. The process of fitting an audio segment to a video or audio segment can include receiving a reference indicating... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032905 | Interactive broadcast system and method with different content displayed to different viewers In a system and method for providing a television broadcast that displays different content for different viewers, a pool of content items, or particular items from a pool of content items, is integrated with a signal for a television program. The combined signal is... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014565 | Labeling used in motion capture Labeling motion capture volume data includes: receiving a motion capture beat, the motion capture beat including unlabeled body points and unlabeled face points; labeling the unlabeled body points which have a valid fit to a predetermined body model template; verify... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011015 | Content access in a media network environment Methods and apparatus for managing devices and content in a network environment. In one implementation, a method of presenting content data includes: receiving at a client in a hub network a present request indicating locked content data; checking a license correspo... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010486 | Network media channels Capturing, storing, and publishing media files, including: capturing media data using a media capture device, wherein the media capture device is connected to a first server in a local network and includes local storage and a media editing component; storing the cap... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7978224 | Multicast control of motion capture sequences Capturing motion including: a clock configured to generate a time reference; a plurality of motion capture cameras substantially synchronized to the time reference; at least one device used in motion capture; a multicast module configured to receive the time referen... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970944 | System and method for platform and language-independent development and delivery of page-based content A system and method for platform and language-independent delivery of page-based content. Content defined in a relatively abstract format is rendered into multiple platform formats in client-side applications' user interfaces in multiple human languages. The relativ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961947 | FACS cleaning in motion capture A method of cleaning facial marker data, the method comprising: decimating frames of survey facial marker data into representative frames of key facial poses; generating a facial pose matrix using the representative frames of key facial poses; and cleaning incoming ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949791 | Device and method for replacing terms in documents with hyperlinks A computer-implemented method of controlling content includes receiving an input from the user and monitoring content in an application program or content exchanged between the application program and an operating system residing at the user's computer system. The m... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949229 | Discontinuous timeline in disc authoring Synchronizing media data used in authoring a Blu-ray disc (BD) comprising: receiving a discontinuous input timecode associated with at least one stream of the media data, said discontinuous input timecode having at least one discontinuity, said at least one disconti... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7934263 | License management in a media network environment Methods and apparatus for managing devices and content in a network environment. In one implementation, a method of acquiring a license in a hub network includes: sending a license request from a client to a server; sending a connection confirmation from said client... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925669 | Method and apparatus for audio/video attribute and relationship storage and retrieval for efficient composition The invention provides a method and software for use within audio and video authoring software applications wherein the relationships between the source media files are saved and used as part of a media manager. The software allows the artist to efficiently recall w... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7898504 | Personal theater display A system for combining an overlay image with externally-displayed visual content, the system including: a tracking module to receive alignment information; an image generator module to generate the overlay image, and to align the overlay image using the alignment in... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7892618 | Deterring theft of optical media An optical media disk is treated with a light-sensitive material that impedes the ability of a optical media player from reading data stored on the disk. This light-sensitive material is a material changes phase upon exposure to one or more wavelengths of light. Dur... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7880744 | Geometric instance techniques for use in a hair/fur pipeline A hair pipeline may be used to generate a user-selected geometry based upon a hair location for at least one hair with respect to a surface. A surface definition module may be used to define the surface. A display module may be used to: process a user-selected geome... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848621 | File format translation Providing data for a stream multiplexer without generating any additional elementary stream file, including: receiving elementary stream data; generating pointer information for the elementary stream data; and generating a modification script using the pointer infor... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7812842 | Mobile motion capture cameras A system for capturing motion comprises: a motion capture volume configured to include at least one moving object having markers defining a plurality of points on the at least one moving object; at least one mobile motion capture camera, the at least one mobile moti... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7784100 | System and method for home network content protection and copy management A private home entertainment system including plural playback devices can receive discrete content that can be played by any appropriate publicly available devices. The home system can convert the discrete content to content that is bound to the private network usin... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775352 | Spindle packaging A spindle packaging tray for holding a plurality of discs, the tray including: a depression designed to hold the plurality of discs, the depression including an inner wall that is at least partially ridged to provide stability for the plurality of discs to stay snug... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773864 | Slicing interactive graphic data in disc authoring Authoring a Blu-ray Disc including defining interactive regions within a composition with buttons and associating a command with the button; and automatically defining non-interactive regions within the composition with buttons, wherein the non-interactive regions a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7767967 | Capturing motion using quantum nanodot sensors A quantum nanodot camera, including: a quantum nanodot camera sensor including: at least one visible pixel sensor configured to capture scenes including actors and/or objects in a visible band; and at least one IR pixel sensor configured to capture motions of at lea... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764283 | Eye movement data replacement in motion capture Replacing eye movement data in motion capture, comprising: capturing eye movement data from a first actor subsequent to a motion capture session where motion data for a second actor was captured, wherein the first actor performs to generate only the eye movement dat... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7733346 | FACS solving in motion capture A method, comprising: generating facial muscle activations from facial marker data; animating a computer graphics facial model using the facial muscle activations; generating a skin layer overlaying the computer graphics facial model; and animating the skin layer us... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725910 | Interactive broadcast system and method with different content displayed to different viewers In a system and method for providing a television broadcast that displays different content for different viewers, a pool of content items, or particular items from a pool of content items is/are integrated with a signal for a television program. The combined signal... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720259 | Motion capture using primary and secondary markers Capturing the motion of a target. One method includes: coupling a plurality of primary markers to the target; coupling at least one secondary marker to the target; capturing a plurality of primary marker data points, wherein each primary marker data point correspond... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7629994 | Using quantum nanodots in motion pictures or video games A quantum nanodot processing system, comprising: at least one image capture camera configured to capture scenes including actors and/or objects in a visible band; and at least one marker capture camera configured to capture motions of the actors and/or objects appli... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7606392 | Capturing and processing facial motion data Capturing and processing facial motion data includes: coupling a plurality of sensors to target points on a facial surface of an actor; capturing frame by frame images of the plurality of sensors disposed on the facial surface of the actor using at least one motion ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603384 | Individualizing and encrypting on-demand media content in retail kiosks A system for selecting and recording data, comprising: a local storage unit for storing a subset of media content items and other content; a content selection unit to display a catalog of the media content items and other content, to allow a customer to browse, sear... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7584491 | System and method for managing interactive programming and advertisements in interactive broadcast systems A system and method for managing interactive program and commercial content includes an interactive enabling device which is coupled for receiving a broadcast stream containing interactive program triggers and interactive commercial triggers for retrieving the inter... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7573480 | System and method for capturing facial and body motion A system and method for capturing motion comprises a motion capture volume adapted to contain at least one actor having body markers defining plural body points and facial markers defining plural facial points. A plurality of motion cameras are arranged around a per... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7555163 | Systems and methods for representing signed distance functions A system and method for implicitly computing signed distance values in a graphics application. In one embodiment, rather than storing numerous distance values along a given raster scan line, only two values are stored for each interval defining the intersection of t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554549 | System and method for tracking facial muscle and eye motion for computer graphics animation A motion tracking system enables faithful capture of subtle facial and eye motion using a surface electromyography (EMG) detection method to detect muscle movements and an electrooculogram (EOG) detection method to detect eye movements. An embodiment of the motion t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7546492 | Remotely repairing files by hierarchical and segmented cyclic redundancy checks A method, comprising: recursively generating a sequence of sections of check codes of a local corrupted file to produce a local repair file; selectively retrieving at least one part of a remote repair file and at least one part of a remote original file, based on di... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7518608 | Z-depth matting of particles in image rendering A method of rendering a first image having a plurality of particles. The method comprises: receiving a z-depth image that provides a z-value for each pixel in the first image; generating a single pixel particle of an opaque transparency for each pixel in the z-depth... | 04/14/2009 |
