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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190995 | Information processing apparatus and information selecting method An information processing apparatus and an information selecting method are disclosed which can easily restore an original state after checking the result of executing predetermined processing based on different information. If an operator of an operation unit is pr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8156436 | Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program An information processing apparatus includes a broadcast reception unit that receives broadcast content. A communication unit transmits request information to an external device and receives, in response to the request information, content related information relate... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140974 | Presenting secondary media objects to a user Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for presenting secondary media objects are provided. A primary media presenting module presents primary media. Upon detecting an indication to initiate the presentation of a secondary media obj... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127231 | System and method for audio equalization The present disclosure relates to audio equalization devices and methods. A system is provided that permits frequency equalization or balancing of frequency response for stereo or multiple surround sound channels through the use of visual representation of audio sig... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8099666 | Method and apparatus for providing user interface for multistreaming audio control Provided is a method and apparatus for providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control. The method includes determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095527 | Reproducing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program The present invention is intended to automatically construct a database of contents data which are distributed over plural reproducing apparatuses and search this database on the basis of user's fragmentary memory. A contents sharing management system practiced as o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091027 | Content playback apparatus, content playback method and storage medium A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content as... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8051376 | Customizable music visualizer with user emplaced video effects icons activated by a musically driven sweep arm A method for creating a customized music visualization display for a music input involves presenting a user with a plurality of effects icons and a visualizer canvas as a portion of the user interface display. A user places one or more of the visual effects icons on... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046689 | Media presentation with supplementary media Improved techniques for providing supplementary media for media items are disclosed. The media items are typically fixed media items. The supplementary media is one or more of audio, video, image, or text that is provided by a user to supplement (e.g., personalize, ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042034 | Database with linked audio file An audio file is linked to a record in a database. The record is accessed and the audio file related to the record is obtained. Once the audio file is obtained, it is recorded on a recording media. The audio file is then linked to the record. In one embodiment of th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020102 | System and method of adjusting audiovisual content to improve hearing A system for adjusting audiovisual content having a server including a receiver for receiving a first content from a media source, a first circuitry configured to generate a second content based on the first content, the second content having multiple audio channels... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7966551 | Associating image files with media content Requesting and receiving image files associated with media content. The received image files are stored such that an identifier value associated with the media content is stored in the filenames of the received image files. The invention determines which of the imag... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7925682 | System and method utilizing virtual folders A system and method utilizing virtual folders. The virtual folders expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. The virtual folders contain collectio... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899830 | Music reproducing apparatus and computer-readable music reproducing program for the apparatus A music reproducing apparatus stores, in a storage device, playlist data that defines an order in which a plurality of music data sets are reproduced, displays the playlist data on a display unit, and reproduces music items in the order defined by the playlist data.... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7788586 | Content output queue generation An automated method and system configured to pseudo-shuffle a pool of electronic content items in accordance with various criteria so that playback of all or a subset of the items in the user's collection occur in a pseudo-random order. The shuffled content items ma... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7779357 | Audio user interface for computing devices An audio user interface that generates audio prompts that help a user interact with a user interface of a computing device is disclosed. The audio prompts can provide audio indicators that allow a user to focus his or her visual attention upon other tasks such as dr... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774707 | Method and apparatus for enabling a user to amend an audio file There is a provided a method and apparatus for enabling a user to amend an audio file, via a user interface for controlling a driver for re-authoring the audio file. The method comprises the following steps: a) associating an icon on said user interface with one or ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770118 | Navigation tool with audible feedback on a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard System and method that provides audible feedback through a speaker of a handheld electronic device having a full alphabetic keyboard upon actuation of a navigation tool. The audible feedback produced by the speaker is capable of being modified based upon the locatio... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7757173 | Voice menu system A voice menu system is disclosed. The present invention generally allows for updateable audio menus. Although a device might have some pre-packaged menu components, other menu components can be received from a server. Each menu component, regardless of whether it is... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757174 | Program list reproduction method and display method A reproduction list is produced, in which audio data and still image data coexist and a reproduction order thereof is specified. Items of the audio data and the still image data are grouped so as to be associated with each other based on the point of transition betw... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7735012 | Audio user interface for computing devices An audio user interface that generates audio prompts that help a user interact with a user interface of a device is disclosed. One aspect of the present invention pertains to techniques for providing the audio user interface by efficiently leveraging the computing r... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725821 | Managing electronic documents utilizing a digital seal A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a user selectable representation for the digital seal. At least one metada... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7650570 | Methods and apparatus for visualizing a music library Visualizing and exploring a music library using metadata, such as genre, sub-genre, artist, and year, is provided. Geometric shapes, such as disks or rectangles, may be divided into sectors representing genre and each sector may be further divided into sub-sectors r... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7610553 | Method and apparatus for reducing data events that represent a user's interaction with a control interface A method for reducing data events representing a parameter of a signal as adjusted by a user through a control interface during a time period. The method includes receiving a series of data events where each data event has a parameter value of the signal and a time-... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7581186 | Media manager with integrated browsers Methods and systems that improve the way media is played, sorted, modified, stored and cataloged are disclosed. One aspect relates to a browse window that allows a user to navigate through and select images that are related to media items. Another aspect relates to ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7568158 | Graphical user interface having sound effects for operating control elements and dragging objects Systems and methods for providing an enhanced auditory behavior to a graphical user interface are described. Control elements portrayed by the graphical user interface on a display are associated with at least two states. When transitioning between states, a sound e... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7562301 | Techniques for generating and using playlist identifiers for media objects Techniques for creating a playlist for media objects are provided. The techniques include receiving a selection of a set of IDs. Each ID is generated based on content of a media objects. A playlist ID is then generated based on the set of IDs and a fixed representat... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7562300 | System for automated comprehensive remote servicing for media information Automated facilities are provided for uploading media program information through a network connection to an automated encoding system. An encoding request is received from a client which requests that the media program information be encoded in one or more encoding... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7552389 | Computer program and methods for automatically initializing an audio controller A computer program of the type commonly known as a “wizard” is disclosed that initializes user interface software for controlling an audio conferencing device. The wizard allows the desired audio inputs (e.g., microphone, telephones, etc.) and audio outputs (spe... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549123 | Mixing input channel signals to generate output channel signals Techniques for mixing multiple input channel signals into multiple output channel signals are provided. A graphical user interface (GUI), which includes multiple indicators, is displayed. The input channel signals are mixed to produce multiple output channel signals... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7500192 | Process for selecting a recording on a digital audiovisual reproduction system, and system for implementing the process A process of selecting a recording on an audiovisual reproduction system consists of displaying a number of windows on a touch screen as an interface with a user. Items of information are stored in a bulk memory and are representative of an image of the album cover ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7500193 | Method and apparatus for annotating a line-based document To facilitate the use of audio files for annotation purposes, an audio file format, which includes audio data for playback purposes, is augmented with a parallel data channel of line identifiers, or with a map associating time codes for the audio data with line numb... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493559 | System and method for direct multi-modal annotation of objects The system includes an image display system, a direct annotation creation module, an annotation display module, a vocabulary comparison module and a dynamic updating module. These modules are coupled together by a bus and provide for the direct multi-modal annotatio... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7480865 | Auxiliary operation interface of digital recording and reproducing apparatus An auxiliary operation interface of a digital recording/reproducing apparatus includes a targeting item, a switching button set and an audio prompt generator. The targeting item is optionally triggered to have the digital recording/reproducing apparatus execute a se... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7461344 | Mixed initiative interface control A control system for a modular, mixed initiative, human-machine interface. The control system comprises moves, the moves defining units of interaction about a topic of information. The moves comprise at least one system move and at least one user move. Each system m... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7451399 | Methods and systems for creating skins Methods and systems for creating and rendering skins are described. In one described embodiment, a skin is defined using at least one skin definition that defines the skin in a hierarchical tag-based language. ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441192 | Programming, selecting, and playing multimedia files Systems and methods for providing a user-definable multimedia or digital library are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and methods for selecting and playing multimedia or digital files from within the library. The selection and playback systems and methods invol... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437296 | Speech recognition dictionary creation apparatus and information search apparatus A program guidance apparatus includes a recognition word storage unit (105) operable to store a past recognition word that is recognized by speech recognition in the past, a viewing history word storage unit (106) operable to store viewing history word... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434178 | Multi-view vehicular navigation apparatus with communication device A communication device for communicating with an external is connectable to a navigation apparatus. The navigation apparatus includes a display portion, an input portion for inputting memo information, an outgoing/incoming call determination portion, and a display c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414634 | Audio signal processing system In a mixer system including a mixer engine wherein contents of signal processing can be programmed and a PC that edits the configuration of signal processing, the PC is provided with a display controller that graphically displays the edited configuration of signal p... | 08/19/2008 |
