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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191098 | Multi-source bridge content distribution system and method A multi-source bridge content distribution system links multiple content owners with access network operators or content distribution providers leasing space on access networks so that multi-media content can be provided from multiple content owners to consumers thr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185927 | Video transmission system based on location data and methods for use therewith A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that receives location data from a remote device and that transmits a video signal to the remote device. A network module receives a video stream from a video source and that generates the video signal based ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8151310 | Video delivery of oilfield data A data delivering system comprises a video server receiving and processing oilfield data into a video delivery, and a network delivering the video delivery from the video server to at least one client device, where the video delivery including a plurality of section... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150235 | Method of home media server control New forms of entertainment can result from this method of selecting, identifying, and storing by a media producer of multi-media content as files to a storage medium within an editing platform. Generating, using an editing software program, a set of instructions and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146124 | Camera adapter for remote controlling a camera, control method thereof, and storage medium An adapter connected to a device and also connected to a client terminal via a network displays an operation window corresponding to the process mode of the device on the client terminal and remote-controls the operation of the device based on an operation signal fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132219 | Intelligent peer-to-peer system and method for collaborative suggestions and propagation of media In a network-based system for recommending media content items based on user preferences, clients contact a server on a periodic basis, independent of the user. In addition to client-server interaction, clients also interact with one another in peer-to-peer fashion.... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8079054 | Location for secondary content based on data differential Methods and apparatus provide for a Content Inserter to determine location(s) for secondary content in streaming video. The Content Inserter receives a set of video frames and analyzes data differential(s) occurring in the set of video frames to identify secondary c... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065709 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-viewpoint media content services A method, system, and computer program product for providing multi-viewpoint media content services is provided. The method includes receiving a feed of content from at least one communications device that is observing an event from a specified viewpoint and/or rela... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046812 | CATV system, management device, cable modem, set-top box and program A cable modem of a CATV system includes a proxy requesting unit. The proxy requesting unit requests a set top box to send relevant information about the set top box when the cable modem is requested to send the relevant information from at least one management devic... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042141 | CATV system, management device, cable modem and program A cable modem of a CATV system includes an address monitoring unit and a proxy requesting unit. The address monitoring unit monitors an address of at least one set top box connected to the cable modem based on a content of transmission sent to the cable modem from t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032915 | Digital television with subscriber conference overlay Digital television system overlays subscriber two-way communication during broadcast program delivery to create virtual audience community. Individual or group billing and advertisement is personalized per DTV receiver program viewing and/or conferencing activity. S... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024763 | Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015586 | Image display method, image display device, and image display program An image reproduction function for reproducing effectively reproducing image recorded in a storage device in diversified forms is provided. A moving picture obtained from one image pickup device is recorded in a plurality of systems at different frame rates. The rec... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010987 | System for transmitting information from a streamed program to external devices and media A method for selecting a section from a streamed broadcast program is disclosed. The method includes receiving a streamed broadcast program, rendering the received streamed broadcast program on a display, selecting a section from the received streamed broadcast prog... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006276 | Image taking apparatus and method with display and image storage communication with other image taking apparatus Disclosed herein is an image-taking apparatus for taking an image of a subject, which may include: image taking means for taking an image of the subject; communication means for communicating, via a network, with a mate of communication that is another image-taking ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992181 | Information presentation system, information presentation terminal and server An information presentation system includes an imaging unit, a peripheral information acquisition unit which acquires peripheral information, a storage unit which stores registered information, an analytic basic information construction unit which constructs analyti... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975284 | Image capturing system, image capturing apparatus, and image capturing method An image capturing apparatus is configured so that optimal one of usable position detecting sensors is selected. Specifically, among a plurality of position detecting sensors usable by the image capturing apparatus, e.g., a GPS, a direction sensor, an acceleration s... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962946 | Camera connectible to CCTV network A camera, connectible to a CCTV network, includes a camera lens and image sensor. as well as an analog video input connector that receives analog image signals corresponding to views from outside the camera. An image processing circuit outputs image signal data of t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962945 | Method for sending image data from camera to cctv network An integrated Internet camera includes, as embedded components contained within the camera body and controlled by a microcontroller, at least a network interface device for connecting to the Internet, a transport control device for packetizing according to Internet ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954129 | Wireless video surveillance system and method with remote viewing A surveillance system and method for remote viewing of inputs associated with at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) monitoring a target environment, and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, including the steps of providing bas... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954130 | Network camera system and network camera control program A network camera system that transmits video captured by a camera to a client via a network include a recording device directly connected thereto or built therein, wherein the client switches between a normal mode in which the camera transmits continuous video image... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945938 | Network camera system and control method therefore A network camera system is provided that detects an occurrence of a condition change at a periphery of an image pickup apparatus, obtains a direction of the detected condition change, and notifies a user of the occurrence of the condition change and a direction of t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945937 | Programmable display device A programmable display device selects and displays one screen data item from one of screen data groups each constituted of a plurality of screen data items indicative of control conditions. Further, the programmable display device includes a selection information fo... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7921134 | Method and apparatus for creating data carousels A method and apparatus for creating data carousels including representing an object carousel in XML according to a predefined XML schema, analyzing the XML representation of the object carousel with regard to technical standards for data carousels and broadcast syst... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917935 | Mechanical pan, tilt and zoom in a webcam A system and method for mechanically panning, tilting, and/or zooming a webcam to track a user's face. In one embodiment, such movement is controlled by kernel software in a host to which the webcam sends video data. In this way, a driver in the host kernel handles ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908629 | Location-based image sharing A method and system for image sharing based upon faces in an image is disclosed. The method for image sharing based upon faces in an image comprises defining a sharing rule defining with which one or more recipients images are shared based on face identifying inform... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908244 | Localized media content management An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to localize content management of media content assets. A local content is received at a regional media center. The local content corresponds to an event localized within a locality. The local content is prepared... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908630 | Method and apparatus for internet co-browsing over cable television and controlled through computer telephony A novel mechanism is disclosed by which a sender can direct information such as an audiovisual signal to a particular recipient's audiovisual display device, such as a cable television set and, thereby, share information between the sender and the recipient. In one ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908631 | Deploying two-way interactive service over a one-way network Systems and methods for deploying two-way data communication over a one-way infrastructure are disclosed. An end user enters a control command into an input device that is capable of sending data containing the control command over a network to a content service pro... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7886326 | Web cam for indicating the expression of a remote end user A web cam system has a local end computer coupled to a local end web cam, and a remote end computer coupled to a remote end web cam, with the computers coupled to a network and communicating with each other via a messaging application. A facial expression of a local... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7886327 | Media content sharing A media content sharing concept wherein users are able to share highlights or other portions of content with friends. The concept may be used in any number of environments where electronic media, such as but not limited to audio, video, and multi-media, is transfera... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882532 | System and method for multiplexing media information over a network with reduced communications resources using prior knowledge/experience of a called or calling party A system and method for managing communication in an integrated services network ensures that media information is displayed on at least one of two terminals during a call without using any transmission bandwidth. This is achieved by having at least one of the termi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877777 | Network camera apparatus and distributing method of video frames When a request for a transmitting method of video frames of the client apparatus is received in a communicating unit to communicate with said client apparatus, whether the received request for the transmitting method of the video frames is a request for the transmit... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7840986 | Intelligent system and methods of recommending media content items based on user preferences A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating syst... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836476 | Contents reproducing method and device for reproducing contents on recording medium A disc drive, camera and a server are in communication with one another via a communication network. The disc drive plays back a disc in order to reproduce a recorded picture, whereby the picture and a real-time world view supplied from the camera are combined based... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836477 | Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus by which image data can be downloaded simply. A video camera 11 receives thumbnail images corresponding to one or more images included in an album from a video camera image station 41... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7784080 | Wireless video surveillance system and method with single click-select actions A surveillance system and method performing actions and interacting with a base system including at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, and, optionally a remote server computer (RSC), in... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7765574 | Automated segmentation and information extraction of broadcast news via finite state presentation model A technique for automated analysis of multimedia, such as, for example, a news broadcast. A Broadcast News Editor and Broadcast News Navigator system analyze, select, condense, and then present news summaries. The system enables not only viewing a hierarchical table... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7748021 | Positional camera and GPS data interchange device A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7748022 | Real-time data characterization with token generation for fast data retrieval A method and apparatus provides for real-time video data characterization and fast image retrieval. According to one aspect, a token is generated based on blocks or portions of data in a data stream. A mathematical algorithm that operates in real-time during a captu... | 06/29/2010 |
