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| 8006278 | Management method of option for caption display Provided is a method of an option for caption display, including: displaying a detail item for the option for the caption display, the detail item being comprised of a ‘Style’ item having ‘Set By Program’, ‘Custom’ and ‘manufacture’, and a plurality ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992183 | Enabling users to create, to edit and/or to rate online video captions over the web This invention relates to systems and methods for enabling users to create, to edit and to rate online video timed text over the web. A system embodiment of this invention includes a permission requester that enables a first user to send a permission request. The pe... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7849493 | Signal processing apparatus and methods A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7571458 | Method and apparatus for selecting and displaying multi-media messages Apparatus and method for remote viewing of selected messages at a subscriber remote receiving location, the apparatus including at least one messaging server (such as, but not limited to, a unified messaging system, voice-mail system, fax server system, or any other... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7415718 | Receiving and processing vertical blanking interval data A system and method for receiving, processing, and storing electronic data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The system provides a flexible mechanism for reading electronic data from video signals including those in National Television... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7370026 | Method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming A method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming is provided. In one embodiment, the invention can include searching text for a keyword, the text associated with primary programming to be provided to an element of an entertainment system, a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370343 | Electronic program guide with blackout features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366671 | Speech displaying system and method A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech file is loaded via a loading module, a sentence unit determining mod... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7367040 | View restriction method, view restriction setting method, receiver, and device and programs for setting view restriction A view restriction method surely blocks a program voluntarily designated by a viewer from view. When a restricted program is designated by the viewer (step S1), receiver identification information for identifying a receiver of a viewer is associated with the ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7337462 | System and method for providing timing data for programming events A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for individual programming events that make up the program. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7305698 | Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, and data receiving apparatus A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit stores a plurality of frames of image data. The second storage unit s... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281220 | Streaming video programming guide system selecting video files from multiple web sites and automatically generating selectable thumbnail frames and selectable keyword icons A programming guide for streaming video files may be automatically compiled in response to a user request. The user may provide keywords for categories of streaming video files that are of interest. A graphical user interface is automatically developed which splits ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268823 | Method and system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption text originating from multiple geographic locations, and resulting databases produced thereby There is provided a system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption texts originating from multiple geographic locations, comprising: (1) at least one remote capture client means having a tuner to receive one or more television signals, a deco... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7228349 | System and method for interacting with users over a communications network A system and method for efficiently and quickly handling content and transaction requests from various users at respective end terminals. According to embodiments of the invention, plural servers are provided at the web site to randomly receive requests from users o... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7206822 | Active stream format for holding multiple media streams An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport m... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206031 | Receiver In a receiver, when a channel is registered on the channel map 15, the receiver 1 registers the channel by the unit of a physical channel, and when a channel is deleted from the channel map 15, the receiver 1 deletes the channel by the un... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7165264 | Client-side tool for splitting or truncating text strings for interactive television A tool usable in an interactive television environment comprises a module having code to analyze a dynamic text string and to determine where to split or truncate the text string, at spaces, for each row and/or into substrings for each page. The module takes onto ac... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158676 | Interactive system An interactive system provides a video program signal and generates interactive content data to be associated with at least one object within a frame of the video program. The interactive content data is embedded with the object and the object is tracked through a s... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7124365 | Method and device for detecting an event in a program of a video and/or audio signal and for providing the program to a display upon detection of the event A device for automatically providing program information to a television display upon detection of an event in the program. The event being a user definable event. The device also provides automatic PIP display of the program having the event and a delay of the even... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117523 | Book on-demand system A book on-demand system having reading data for reading book contents and printing and bookbinding data for printing and bookbinding on the server thereof and also having a function to transmit the reading data to a reading device via a network at a user's request a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7089575 | Method of using transcript information to identify and learn commercial portions of a program Advertisers want to deliver their message in a relatively short period of time. This leads to the product name, company name and other identifying features being repeated frequently during a commercial broadcast. Transcript information can be used to detect commerci... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7050110 | Method and system for generating annotations video A method and system for processing video signals is disclosed. The system receives a video signal, a first audio signal containing an annotation and a second audio signal containing environmental sounds corresponding to the video signal. In one embodiment the system... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051360 | Interactive television program guide with selectable languages An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and displaying program guide text. Television program audio in the desired lang... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042473 | Method and system for displaying markup language based pages on handheld devices A method and system for displaying an markup language based Web page on a handheld device having a relatively small display is disclosed. The method includes loading a Web page designed for viewing in, for example, SVGA resolution. The page is stored in a virtual me... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7010795 | Process for sending a notification in a data processing network with distributed applications In a data processing network with distributed applications a notification is sent from a sender to a receiver via a notification service with which the receiver is registered in order to receive notifications satisfying a predetermined test criterion. The predetermi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009657 | Method and system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption text originating from multiple geographic locations There is provided a system for the automatic collection and conditioning of closed caption texts originating from multiple geographic locations, comprising: (1) at least one remote capture client means having a tuner to receive one or more television signals, a deco... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6971008 | Authorization of services in a conditional access system A cable television system provides conditional access to services. The cable television system includes a headend from which service “instances”, or programs, are broadcast and a plurality of set top units for receiving the instances and selectively decrypting t... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6934966 | System for capturing resources in broadcast and data communication in unification mode A system is provided that can easily capture the same broadcast stream from an arbitrary application. An interface between application and a reception route selection mechanism describes in a unified mode a broadcast resource capture specification method and a commu... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907185 | Method and apparatus for reserve-recording a viewing broadcast program A viewing broadcast program reserve-recording method and apparatus carries out reserve-recording of a broadcast program while maintaining a currently viewed broadcast picture without interruption. The reserve-recording apparatus pre-stores program identification inf... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903779 | Method and system for displaying related components of a media stream that has been transmitted over a computer network A system and method for displaying related components of a media stream that has been transmitted over a computer network includes at least one storage device that communicates with a television decoder and with the video display. Information from one or more compon... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6867816 | Method and device to display an index of teletext pages A teletext program includes several teletext pages, with each teletext page being broadcast in the form of a set of data packets. A method for displaying a teletext program index on a television receiver screen includes receiving a teletext page which includes the s... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6833874 | Ticker tape picture-in-picture system A ticker tape PiP system that provides for viewing the ticker tape image portion from one image signal (e.g., a ticker tape image portion of a television image signal), while viewing at least a portion of an image from a different image signal (i.e., a standard tele... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6829656 | Tuner FCM for HAVi architecture A tuner component module within a home network based on the HAVI standard, i.e. a tuner FCM, according to the present invention includes the funtionality to provide the capability of the tuner and/or to introduce the DVB/DTV concepts of components and events to the ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6775842 | Method and arrangement for transmitting and receiving encoded images TeleWeb services are currently being developed, in which HTML-encoded images are transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a conventional analog television signal. For special applications, such as subtitling and targeted advertising, the relevant TeleWeb ima... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6710812 | Geographically diverse closed captioned news text database A news search resultant database containing a plurality of decoded closed captioned common news story texts from geographically diverse television stations, which texts have format consistency regardless of the origin of the respective texts. The database is readily... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6694518 | Method and apparatus for carrying data across high definition analog component video interfaces A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for generating a video signal having an auxiliary data payload complying with a data payload protocol selectable from at least two available data payload protocols is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the me... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6687908 | Interactive television An interactive television system for selectively retrieving video images or teletext pages from a remote transmitter (1). User requests are communicated to the transmitter through the telephone network (5). The selected images (e.g. teletext pages) are pr... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6634028 | Television system communicating individually addressed information A CATV system including a CATV network, a multiplicity of subscriber units, apparatus for transmitting over said CATV network encrypted information individually addressed to a subscriber unit and apparatus associated with each of said multiplicity of subs... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6580437 | System for organizing videos based on closed-caption information A system for organizing digital videos to archive and access them at different levels of abstraction uses data available from a closed-caption text along with off-the-shelf natural language processing tools to segment the video into self-contained story s... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6493877 | Digital data distribution system having a reduced end station memory requirement A digital data distribution system that comprises a broadcasting station and an end station. The broadcasting station broadcasts a broadcast signal repetitively modulated with a digital information signal. The digital information signal includes a file gr... | 12/10/2002 |
