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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 |
| 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 |
| 8115765 | Rule-based procedural terrain generation Disclosed are systems and methods for rule-based procedural generation of terrain in real time for a virtual world. Using the terrain editor tool, the terrain system allows defining and modifying the terrain height, color, shaders, textures, flora, and environment, ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8106911 | Mobile motion capture cameras Capturing motion, including: coupling at least one body marker on at least one body point of at least one actor; coupling at least one facial marker on at least one facial point of the at least one actor; arranging a plurality of motion capture cameras around a peri... | 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 |
| 8050924 | System for generating and selecting names Methods and apparatus for implementing the generation of names. In one implementation, a system for generating a name includes: a user interface that receives user input including values for corresponding characteristics and name lengths; a rule dictionary that indi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7921078 | System for negotiated differential compression A system and methods for distributing a new file from a server connected through a network to a client. Rather than downloading an entirely new file from the server, the system makes use of reference files already resident on the client. A new delta file correspondi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7805488 | Determining social activity profile of a participant in a communication network Determining the extent of a personal network and/or social activity of a participant in a communication network. On method includes: representing contacts between the participant and communication partners of the participant as a time sequence order; determining an ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7711544 | System and method for generating markup language text templates A method of generating a markup language text template comprises identifying a variable text element in a source language text string and assigning a first predefined symbol to the variable text element, identifying a grammatical rule for the variable text element a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702654 | Asset management in media production An asset management system for managing media assets in media production. The system includes a database and a database interface. The database stores a plurality of records, each record storing information for a media asset. Each record includes work performance in... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701487 | Multicast control of motion capture sequences Capturing motion comprising: generating a time reference; substantially synchronizing a plurality of motion capture cameras to the time reference; transmitting a multicast signal including information derived from the time reference to enable at least one device use... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694543 | Folding system A system for folding a ribbon stock, the system including: a transferring unit; a guide member having a passage for guiding the ribbon stock, the passage defining a longitudinal axis; a folding means supported to revolve and move in a direction substantially transve... | 04/13/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7577561 | System and method for generating a target language markup language text template A system and method of generating a target language markup language (ML) text template comprise translating one or more words in a source language ML text template to one or more words in the target language so as to generate a target language ML text template, and ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7516215 | Device, method, and network system for replacing content 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... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7509340 | Dynamic graphical index of website content A dynamically updateable graphical index for rapidly scanning through content available on a website. The index comprises user-selectable levels within branches of a hierarchical tree structure representing various categories and sub-categories of content available ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7499052 | Z-jittering of particles in image rendering A method of rendering an image having a plurality of objects. The method comprises: generating an adjusted z-position by randomly adjusting the original z-position of an object over a series of samples; sorting the plurality of objects in a sample based on the adjus... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7490167 | 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... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7427991 | System and process for digital generation, placement, animation and display of feathers and other surface-attached geometry for computer generated imagery A system and process for digitally representing a plurality of surface-attached geometric objects on a model. The system and process comprises generating a plurality of particles and placing the plurality of particles on a surface of the model. A first plurality of ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7349923 | Support applications for rich media publishing A repository system for media publishing, comprising: a plurality of storage devices configured to store a plurality of media items, each storage device configured to store a different type of media item than that of other storage devices in the plurality of storage... | 03/25/2008 |
