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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176425 | Animated screen object for annotation and selection of video sequences A simple display of items from a list, which changes in synchrony with the corresponding video display, and permits simple navigation under user control. The display includes three control objects positioned below a video frame window on a display screen. A middle d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8051055 | Tracking table and index partition usage in a database Apparatus, methods and computer-readable medium for displaying information related to performance of a given database statement which accesses a plurality of multi-partition objects during a time interval. In some embodiments, the method comprises: a) determining, f... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8015492 | Icon label placement in a graphical user interface To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the user with an indication of where the user is within that resource. The s... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7975225 | Iteratively locating a position corresponding to a desired seek time Techniques enable locating a position within a file that corresponds to a desired seek time without having access to an index specifying the desired seek time's position. An iterative process may be used to estimate the position that corresponds to the desired seek ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971141 | Method and system for populating a form based on an existing format A method of populating at least one form involving selecting a current completion option based on a previous completion option, obtaining a first completion process based on the current completion option, and populating the at least one form using the first completi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7925970 | Information processing system that manages stored content using playlists A system allows a user to integrally manage content regardless whether the content is owned or not owned by the user. In a reproduction terminal, one piece of sort-out information is generated from one play list. Sort-out information is obtained by classifying the m... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7865832 | Extended elements and mechanisms for displaying a rich graphical user interface in panel subunit Methods for realizing advanced graphical user interface (GUI) in panel subunit. The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a button GUI element descriptor that defines a bitmap to be displayed when a button is out of focus and another bitmap to be displayed ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7757172 | Electronic equipment and method for displaying images An electronic equipment includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of facial images extracted from video data and time stamp information indicating time points when the plurality of facial images appear in the video data; and a processor that operates, based o... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752547 | Information processor and information processing system An information processing device comprises a device controller which controls a plurality of visual-audio reproducing units from the server via the device communication interfaces; content information unification recording section which controls content information ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747629 | System and method for positional representation of content for efficient indexing, search, retrieval, and compression A method of generating a positional representation of a document, including identifying each unique term in a document and positions in the document at which the unique term appears, and for the each unique term, storing positional information derived from the posit... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739597 | Interactive media frame display The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates remote browsing, viewing, and manipulating any suitable number of media items from a host location. In particular, the invention involves pulling desired media items from one or more host loc... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725827 | Method and system for displaying one or more recorded media content instances A method and system for displaying one or more recorded media content instances. After a first recorded media content instance is displayed, one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) configured to allow a user to choose to delete or retain the first media content... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716584 | Recording medium, reproduction device, recording method, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactiv... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716194 | File management system employing time line based representation of data The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates management and navigation of various data objects by making use of a unique time-line based navigation tool. In particular, objects can organized into a plurality of bands based on their resp... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7694224 | Location predicative restoration of compressed images stored on a hard disk drive with soft and hard errors Method, apparatus and signal bearing medium for processing multimedia data which improve server performance in rendering multimedia data. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing multimedia data without requiring utilization of the hard disk drive's data r... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685520 | Electronic programming guide with selectable categories An electronic content guide may organize content such as television programs into categories and subcategories. The categories and subcategories may be topical as well as time-based. As a result, the user can select a given time-based criteria and within that time-b... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7665022 | Media management interfacing with refined data structures Method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for displaying visible representations of project objects associated with a media project, the project objects having characteristics; and in response to a user action that identifie... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7647555 | System and method for video access from notes or summaries Recorded video is accessed from printed notes or summaries derived from the video. Summaries may be created automatically by analyzing the recorded video, and annotations are made by a user on a device for note-taking with digital ink and video. The notes and/or sum... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7627824 | Personalized video entertainment system One or more content sequences are created from a store of video content, which could simply be broadcast content which has been captured and stored at a server within a network. The content sequences are generated according to the viewer's specified, or demonstrated... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7509581 | Video browser based on character relation A video data structure and a video browser for video browsing based on content is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention allows users to easily understand relationships between characters and changes in relationships between characters in a movie or drama... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7437682 | Icon label placement in a graphical user interface To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the user with an indication of where the user is within that resource. The s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7412654 | Apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display An apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display comprises a window manager in an operating system that is called by application programs to create special windows. The window manager embeds static key signals including encoded special window inform... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7383507 | Display apparatus and remote control apparatus A remote control apparatus is disclosed, in which a first remote control device and a second remote control device can be separated or combined. A configuration is also disclosed in which a remote control apparatus including a first remote control device and a secon... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373651 | Metadata structure for providing access to EPG features from within broadcast advertisements A data structure stored on computer readable media is presented comprising one or more data tags, each data tag used to provide information regarding a broadcast advertisement. Also provided are one or more electronic program guide action tags, each electronic progr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369749 | System and method for recording and reproducing broadcasting programs There is provided a system for recording and/or reproduction of broadcasting programs permits the facilitation of selection and management of recorded videos in the manner of following the operations of general AV equipment such as televisions and video decks, in wh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366403 | Recording apparatus, data managing apparatus and data managing method A recording apparatus which records a plurality of information data pieces in a built-in recording medium is provided with a display which displays a selection screen for selecting additional information pieces for managing a plurality of information data pieces rec... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363644 | System for using a channel and event overlay for invoking channel and event related functions A convergence system suitable for accepting inputs from several television or personal computing sources is disclosed. The sources can be output on a display. The convergence system is controlled by a multi-function controller suitable for providing a set of functio... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363591 | Electronic programming guide system and method The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in customizing, organizing and presenting digital information for selection and interaction by end users. The present invention conveys multiple pieces of information to a user in a multi-dimensional m... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359757 | Remote control method and apparatus, remote controller, and apparatus and system based on such remote control When a user gives a parameter storage instruction via a remote controller, current settings of parameters in an input switching circuit, surround circuit, graphic equalizer and electronic volume are stored into a non-volatile RAM. Then, once the user gives a reprodu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358974 | Method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video image... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343207 | Method for the operation of an electronic device A method is provided for operating an electronic device with control software controlled by means of an operating surface. An interface is disposed between the operating surface and the control software to decouple the operating surface from the control software and... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340761 | System and method for delivering radio programs and related schedule information An Internet-enabled television system provides an electronic program guide for the radio (radio EPG) depicting radio programs available via the Internet. The radio EPG displays the programming available for a plurality of radio stations and time slots. The radio EPG... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340762 | Method and apparatus for broadcasting, viewing, reserving and/or delayed viewing of digital television programs Methods and apparatus are provided for a digital television service where a Preview Program is transmitted along with associated Broadcast Scheduling Information (BSI) so that a viewer can easily reserve an associated Main Program for later viewing and/or recording.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336789 | System for providing encrypted data, system for decrypting encrypted data and method for providing a communication interface in such a decrypting system A system and method for providing encrypted data for use in a content player are described. The system comprises an encryption device for encrypting data using an encryption algorithm, and a protection device for providing security device data and for providing info... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337458 | Content recommendation device with user feedback A content recommendation device is provided, including a selection engine selects content items from a content item pool and generates a selection list including the selected content items, wherein said selection engine selects the content items from a content item ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333497 | Moving picture server and method of controlling same E-mail to which difference moving picture data is attached is transmitted from a mobile telephone for displaying difference moving pictures to a mail server. The mail server separates the difference moving picture data from the e-mail and transmits it to a moving pi... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334191 | Segmentation and detection of representative frames in video sequences A method for organizing a sequence of video frames includes selecting one of the frames in the sequence as an initial frame in a first portion of a segment of the sequence and adding further frames in the sequence, subsequent the initial frame, to the first portion,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324986 | Automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services Systems for an automatically facilitated support for complex electronic services include a plurality of databases having customer records and problem solving information to assist a user with problem resolution and a cycler module configured to access the databases.... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319810 | Program recording apparatus and program recording medium A program recording apparatus has a program information input unit inputting program information concerning programs; a program recording setting unit setting of the recording of programs; a recording unit writing in, and erasing, data containing the contents of the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320137 | Method and system for distributing personalized editions of media programs using bookmarks An editing device accesses a media program and a user of the editing device designates points of interest within the media program. Bookmarks are generated for the designated points of interest. The bookmarks are transmitted via a network from the editing device to ... | 01/15/2008 |
