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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190605 | Presenting addressable media stream with geographic context based on obtaining geographic metadata In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying, by a device, an addressable video stream selected for viewing by a user of the device; obtaining, by the device, geographic metadata for the addressable video stream in response to the device identifying the address... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181212 | Method of providing a frame-based object redirection overlay for a video stream A method of providing a frame-based object redirection overlay for a video stream provided by a third-party content provider and hosted by a host provider that may or may not be the same as the third-party content provider. One or more objects depicted within a fram... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8122480 | Method and apparatus for facilitating interactions with an object in a digital video feed to access associated content A system that facilitates interactions with a digital video feed. During operation, the system receives the digital video feed, which includes a corresponding content feed, wherein the corresponding content feed is synchronized with the digital video feed, and where... | 02/21/2012 |
| RE43102 | Apparatus and method for displaying additional information An apparatus and method for displaying additional information on a TV program is disclosed. In the present invention, both a detail information included in the additional information transmitted by a broadcasting station or detail information obtained from an extern... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8079055 | User managed internet links from TV A method of obtaining metadata associated with an element of television programming involves instructing an access device to generate and communicate a signal to a control device suitable for driving a display, wherein the signal contains metadata suitable for rende... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8051455 | Systems and methods for providing a token registry and encoder Systems and methods for using tokens to link the television and the Internet platforms. The tokens are tightly encoded into the content and a registry controls the linking of the television content to specific Internet-based content. The registry also polices the va... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046813 | Method of enhancing media content and a media enhancement system A media enhancement system and method, the system including a media player structured to deliver a media selection to a user and an enhancement registry associated with the media selection and including time data and/or other data associated with the media selection... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8020188 | Frame specifying method To provide a technology of properly specifying a process target frame in a dynamic image in accordance with a user's instruction. A frame specifying device plays a dynamic image, receives, when a user performs an operation of instructing execution of a process about... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8001577 | Interactive entertainment and information system using television set-top box An interactive entertainment and information system using a television set-top box, wherein pages of information are periodically provided to the set-top box for user interaction therewith. The pages include associated meta-data defining active locations on each pag... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7958535 | URI pointer system and method for the carriage of MPEG-4 data in an MPEG-2 transport stream A uniform resource indicator (URI) pointer system and method are provided for retrieving MPEG-4 data pointers in an MPEG-2 TS. The method comprises: receiving an MPEG-2 TS; locating a URI in the TS; in response to the URI, accessing an address; in response to access... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7861276 | Video program broadcasting apparatus, method, and program which steganographically embeds use information A video program broadcasting apparatus includes a program table storage unit and a program-URL matching table storage unit. The URL of a video program which is being broadcasted at the present is acquired by a URL generation unit with respect to a plurality of video... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7814524 | Capture of configuration and service provider data via OCR In one embodiment, a method of obtaining information associated with a television access device used in a television reception system, wherein the method is carried out in a control device that does not have direct access to the configuration information of the acce... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7577978 | System for converting TV content to interactive TV game program operated with a standard remote control and TV set-top box A system for converting TV content to an interactive TV game program uses viewer input pointing to “hot spot” objects in TV programs to enter answers in the game program. Viewers can point to hot spot objects whose locations are mapped in the image display frame... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7536706 | Information enhanced audio video encoding system A system includes additional information together with a video stream, where the additional information is related to at least one of the frames. Preferably the additional information is related to an object within the frame. A receiver receives the video and additi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7503059 | Method of enhancing media content and a media enhancement system A media enhancement system and method, the system including a media player structured to deliver a media selection to a user and an enhancement registry associated with the media selection and including time data and/or other data associated with the media selection... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7392312 | Method for utilizing visual cue in conjunction with web access The use of a visual indicia or cue facilitates computer based access of a network by a consumer witnessing a presentation. A visual indicia or cue is provided during the presentation indicative of a relationship between the visual indicia or cue in the presence of a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386875 | Freezing live video frames with interactive links An embodiment of the present invention allows a user to maintain the display of a video frame containing one or more interactive links while also maintaining access to the links. Thus allowing the user to select and examine any desired links at his own pace. For one... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7360149 | Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346920 | System, method and article of manufacture for a common cross platform framework for development of DVD-Video content integrated with ROM content A method for providing enhanced content for play across multiple play platforms employs steps of delivering media content to a client device; delivering HTML content to a client device, the HTML content being accessible and usable by a plurality of client device pla... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346918 | Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution net... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343617 | Method and apparatus for interaction with hyperlinks in a television broadcast A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast in which an interactive content icon is used. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a re... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337457 | Apparatus and method for providing and obtaining product information through a broadcast signal The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing and obtaining product information through a broadcast signal. In this present invention, information identifying a product item, which is in a scene to be presented from a broadcast signal, and a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320135 | System for serving information in relation to video information broadcasted on electric wave An information serving system includes a broadcasting station module (TV), user module (RV), and advertising agency module (AD). The broadcasting station module (TV) broadcasts pieces of broadcast information including at least video information. The user module (RV... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320134 | System and method for cable operator control over enhanced programming A system and method are described for allowing cable operators to actively block, pass through, modify, append, filter, or replace triggers corresponding to various forms of enhanced content being transmitted across a cable system. Accordingly, cable operators may o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308701 | Web site load management A system for broadcasting enhanced television content may provide for early notification of web hosting facilities when uniform resource locators may be broadcast with television content. When uniform resource locators are broadcast with television content, a large ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305357 | Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a conventional computing device may be used to order content and to control... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296282 | Interactive optical cards and other hand-held devices with increased connectivity A system for deriving benefits from the reception and processing of composite video signals by a hand-held device, such as a smart card. Video signals are modulated with auxiliary data creating composite video signals. The composite video signals are then transmitte... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296287 | Image down-loading apparatus and system, and image down-loading method A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a request for the image sensed by the camera. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7271780 | Display device and system A display device, system, and method are provided. The display device has a communication interface adapted to communicate with an archival storage device, a content source adapted to acquire content in an acquisition form, a presentation system for presenting conte... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271846 | Receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus includes a reception unit which receives moving image data transmitted from a source node, an acquisition unit which requests the source node to send information including a vendor name of the source node so as to acquire the vendor name of the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7251048 | Recording images together with link information Apparatus for providing composite electronic image of a scene including at least one link to other information comprises a camera for providing an image signal, a link generator responsive to the scene or the immediate environment for generating a link signal, and a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243135 | Method for finding an Internet or E-mail address The invention is based on a method for finding an Internet or E-mail address. Internet or E-mail addresses are noted in the content of many teletext pages regardless of whether they contain advertising or information. The addresses are currently transmitted w... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240092 | Displaying complementary content sources A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first URL address corresponding to a first web page, accessing content and serving the first web page based on the first URL address, receiving specification of a second URL address corresponding to a second web pag... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228493 | Serving content to a client A method includes scanning content of a web page in which a web component is to be inserted, inferring a profile from the scanned content and serving the web component in the web page according to the profile. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225456 | Gateway screen for interactive television A gateway screen for interactive television includes a television content panel and an internet content panel. The gateway screen is displayed by an interactive television (ITV), e.g., when the ITV is turned on. The gateway screen allows a user to quickly and easily... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219173 | System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal interrupts and schedule commands are transmitted at precise time A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of predetermined events and corresponding time-tags into memory and broadcasts sche... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213255 | Set-top preview program Disclosed is a system for generating a graphics window that is capable of emulating enhanced video from a combined video and interactive content stream. The set-top emulator can randomly access the combined video and interactive content stream to provide an easy man... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206754 | System for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices An improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer to select discount or promotional coupons while viewing a television commercial. Coupon information relating to the commercial is sent to a central station which also contains up-to-date point-of-... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206303 | Time ordered indexing of an information stream Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered indication is assigned with each of the identified attributes. Each o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7207053 | Method and apparatus for locally targeting virtual objects within a terminal A method and an apparatus are used to target virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs. The virtual objects available for targeting are categorized and the ... | 04/17/2007 |
