Electronic programming guide
    31.
    发明授权
    Electronic programming guide 有权
    电子节目指南

    公开(公告)号:US09081476B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-07-14

    申请号:US12368570

    申请日:2009-02-10

    摘要: An electronic programming guide (“EPG”) provides pictograms and/or logos, to indicate to a television viewer the programs being displayed on a television. The EPG information display format is thus easier to recognize than prior EPG formats. The EPG pictograms may have 3D characteristics. The EPG information can be displayed in a window within a television screen while a program is being shown on the remainder of the screen. The EPG comprises a set of geometric surfaces located in virtual 3D space. The pictograms and/or logos, along with alpha-numeric text data and video clips are applied to the geometric surfaces using a 3D graphics pipeline. The appearance of the pictograms, logos, alpha-numeric data and/or video clips can be modified in response to a user actuating a control element on a remote controller. In one embodiment, internet HTML pages are parsed and applied to geometric surfaces in 3D virtual space.

    摘要翻译: 电子节目指南(“EPG”)提供象形图和/或徽标,以向电视观众指示正在电视上显示的节目。 因此,EPG信息显示格式比以前的EPG格式更容易识别。 EPG象形图可能具有3D特征。 当屏幕的其余部分显示节目时,EPG信息可以显示在电视屏幕内的窗口中。 EPG包括位于虚拟3D空间中的一组几何表面。 象形图和/或徽标,以及字母数字文本数据和视频剪辑使用3D图形流水线应用到几何表面。 图标,标识,字母数字数据和/或视频剪辑的外观可以响应于用户致动遥控器上的控制元件而被修改。 在一个实施例中,互联网HTML页面被解析并应用于3D虚拟空间中的几何表面。

    Remote control of program scheduling
    33.
    发明授权
    Remote control of program scheduling 有权
    程序调度的远程控制

    公开(公告)号:US08789114B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-22

    申请号:US09875460

    申请日:2001-06-05

    申请人: Dan Kikinis

    发明人: Dan Kikinis

    IPC分类号: H04N7/16

    摘要: A method and an apparatus for receiving electronic programming guide (EPG) selections entered via a separate wireless remote, storing the EPG selections on a storage device, and transmitting the EPG selections to be displayed when requested. In one embodiment, the EPG selections are transmitted to one or more separate wireless remotes to be displayed on the wireless remotes when requested. In addition, in one embodiment, one or more programs are also transmitted to be separately displayed concurrently with displaying the EPG selections.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于接收通过单独的无线遥控器输入的电子节目指南(EPG)选择的方法和装置,将EPG选择存储在存储设备上,并且在请求时发送要显示的EPG选择。 在一个实施例中,EPG选择被发送到一个或多个单独的无线遥控器,以在请求时显示在无线遥控器上。 此外,在一个实施例中,一个或多个节目也被发送以与显示EPG选择同时显示。

    Method and system for advertising based on the content of selected channels or broadcasted programs
    34.
    发明授权
    Method and system for advertising based on the content of selected channels or broadcasted programs 有权
    基于所选频道或广播节目内容的广告方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08769566B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-01

    申请号:US10085886

    申请日:2002-02-27

    申请人: Dan Kikinis

    发明人: Dan Kikinis

    IPC分类号: H04N7/10 H04N7/025

    摘要: An advertisement is selected based on a demographic profile that is determined based on a second set of categories of broadcasted programs. The second set is a set to which a category from a first set of categories of broadcasted programs has been added in response to either a selecting of the category from the first set, or a broadcasted program viewing device being tuned, for a period of time at least equal to a first predetermined threshold, to at least one broadcasted program predetermined to be in the category from the first set. The advertisement may be displayed with an interactive programming guide.

    摘要翻译: 基于基于广播节目​​的第二组类别确定的人口统计特征来选择广告。 第二组是响应于从第一组中选择类别或正在调谐的广播节目观看设备而添加来自第一组广播节目类别的类别的集合,持续一段时间 至少等于第一预定阈值,至少预定为来自第一组的类别中的广播节目。 广告可以用交互式节目指南显示。

    Universal Programming System and Method for EPG with Localized Interactive Content
    39.
    发明申请
    Universal Programming System and Method for EPG with Localized Interactive Content 有权
    具有本地化互动内容的EPG的通用编程系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20120117602A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-10

    申请号:US13352479

    申请日:2012-01-18

    IPC分类号: H04N21/482

    摘要: An EPG to display programming information in a variety of ways including using 3-D images, alphanumeric text, and video data. In addition, non-EPG objects, such as interaction objects, may be conflated with the presentation of the world and with the program schedule information. A communication module in the EPG receives localized content containing multiple objects from one or more servers coupled to a network. Users may interact with the content (e.g., buy and sell goods and services from local franchises) through a user-interface coupled to the EPG.

    摘要翻译: EPG以各种方式显示节目信息,包括使用3-D图像,字母数字文本和视频数据。 此外,诸如交互对象之类的非EPG对象可能与世界的呈现以及节目安排信息相融合。 EPG中的通信模块接收包含耦合到网络的一个或多个服务器的多个对象的本地化内容。 用户可以通过耦合到EPG的用户界面与内容(例如,从本地特许经营商购买和销售商品和服务)进行交互。

    Navigating content
    40.
    发明授权
    Navigating content 有权
    浏览内容

    公开(公告)号:US08176439B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-08

    申请号:US12700628

    申请日:2010-02-04

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00 G06F17/30

    摘要: One embodiment of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which information obtained from a uniform resource locator is converted into at least one texture. The texture is mapped onto a surface of a three-dimensional object located in the virtual three-dimensional space thereby forming a three-dimensional navigation mechanism.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的一个实施例涉及一种计算机实现的方法,其中从均匀资源定位器获得的信息被转换成至少一个纹理。 将纹理映射到位于虚拟三维空间中的三维物体的表面,从而形成三维导航机构。