公开(公告)号：US20040268416A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10610938

申请日：2003-06-30

发明人： James Harold Gray ,  Thomas Jefferson Brothers ,  William Randolpoh Matz

IPC分类号： H04N007/173 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/475 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： According to various aspects of the present invention, methods and systems are provided for informing users of an interactive television service of available content during an advertisement or via an electronic program guide. A hot key signal is inserted into a content signal transmitted to the one or more users from an interactive television service provider via a network with which the one or more users and the interactive television service provider are connected. If the hot key signal is relevant to the user, an indication that the hot key signal has been received is displayed on the screen. If the user accepts the hot key, the user is redirected to the alternate content or is provided additional information regarding the available content.

公开(公告)号：US20040268399A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10876067

申请日：2004-06-24

申请人： INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

发明人： Yasuo Asakawa

IPC分类号： H04N007/173 ,  H04N005/91 ,  H04N005/445 ,  H04N007/00 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/4325 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/11 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/2516 ,  G11B2220/455 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/26258 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4828 ,  H04N21/6581 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/8405 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： A system for implementing a detailed and flexible searching function for programs to a data recording/playing device that records broadcast programs such as those delivered on TV. The system includes a search server 20 and a data recording/playing device 10 connected with each other over a network 30. The data recording/playing device 10 stores a data file of a given broadcast program and sends a search request specifying a program and a search condition to the search server 20. The search server 20 holds information on a given program, and at the same time, creates index information to be used for playing the program on the basis of information on the program, and sends the index information back to the data recording/playing device 10 in response to a search request from the data recording/playing device 10.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向数据记录/播放装置执行程序的详细和灵活的搜索功能的系统，其记录诸如在电视上传送的广播节目的广播节目。 该系统包括通过网络30彼此连接的搜索服务器20和数据记录/播放装置10.数据记录/播放装置10存储给定广播节目的数据文件，并发送指定节目的搜索请求和 搜索条件到搜索服务器20.搜索服务器20保存关于给定节目的信息，并且同时根据关于节目的信息创建要用于播放节目的索引信息，并将索引信息发回 响应于来自数据记录/播放装置10的搜索请求到数据记录/播放装置10。

公开(公告)号：US20040268385A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10610776

申请日：2003-06-30

发明人： James Harold Gray ,  Thomas Jefferson Brothers ,  William Randolph Matz

IPC分类号： H04N007/025 ,  H04N007/10 ,  H04N007/173 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/4882 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/6581 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/8586

摘要： According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of originating a hot key signal from a terminal device of a user of an interactive television service, the method comprises determining a destination for the hot key signal and determining a location of the available content. The hot key signal including the destination for the hot key signal and the location of the available content is then generated and transmitted from the user's terminal device over a network connected with the user's terminal device.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的一个方面，一种从交互式电视服务的用户的终端设备发起热键信号的方法，所述方法包括确定热键信号的目的地并确定可用内容的位置。 包括热键信号的目的地的热键信号和可用内容的位置然后通过与用户的终端设备连接的网络从用户的终端设备产生并发送。

公开(公告)号：US20040268383A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10894998

申请日：2004-07-19

发明人： Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan ,  Patrus Van Beek ,  Yoshiaki Tomioka ,  Tadahide Shibao ,  Kohei Yoshikawa

IPC分类号： H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2805 ,  H04L12/2812 ,  H04L2012/2849 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/4751 ,  H04N21/4826 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system, may include, at least one of audio, image, and a video comprising a plurality of frames. A usage preferences description, describing preferences of a user with respect to the use of at least one of the audio, image, and video, where the description normally includes multiple preferences. In one aspect, a protection attribute with respect to at least one of the preferences indicates whether one of the preferences is considered public or private. Other aspects of the user preferences description include other attributes, alone or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US20040268382A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10892195

申请日：2004-07-16

发明人： Jin Pil Kim

IPC分类号： H04J004/00 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/462 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/455 ,  H04N5/50 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/2353 ,  H04N21/2362 ,  H04N21/26283 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/4312 ,  H04N21/4318 ,  H04N21/434 ,  H04N21/4345 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4382 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/4384 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4586 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/4823 ,  H04N21/4828 ,  H04N21/6112 ,  H04N21/6118 ,  H04N21/6162 ,  H04N21/6168 ,  H04N21/83 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.

公开(公告)号：US20040268380A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-30

申请号：US10610467

申请日：2003-06-30

发明人： Ajay Divakaran ,  Ziyou Xiong ,  Regunathan Radhakrishnan ,  Kadir A. Peker ,  Koji Miyahara

IPC分类号： H04N007/16 ,  G06K009/00 ,  H04H009/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/4394 ,  G06K9/00711 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04N21/44008

摘要： A method detects short term, unusual events in a video. First, features are extracted features from the audio and the video portions of the video. Segments of the video are labeled according to the features. A global sliding window is applied to the labeled segments to determine global characteristics over time, while a local sliding window is applied only to the labeled segments of the global sliding window to determine local characteristic over time. The local window is substantially shorter in time than the global window. A distance between the global and local characteristic is measured to determine occurrences of the unusual short time events.

摘要翻译： 一种方法可以检测视频中的短期，异常事件。 首先，功能是从视频的音频和视频部分中提取的特征。 视频的片段根据功能进行标注。 将全局滑动窗口应用于标记的段以确定随时间的全局特性，而局部滑动窗口仅应用于全局滑动窗口的标记段以确定随时间的局部特性。 本地窗口在时间上比全局窗口短得多。 测量全局和局部特性之间的距离，以确定异常短时间事件的发生。

公开(公告)号：US20040261134A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-23

申请号：US10893516

申请日：2004-07-16

申请人： MICROSOFT CORPORATION

发明人： Stephen G. Perlman

IPC分类号： H04N007/173 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04N21/4345 ,  H04B1/205 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N21/4104 ,  H04N21/4131 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4348 ,  H04N21/43632 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N2005/4423

摘要： Systems and methods for recording a signal received by a home entertainment system that includes multiple consumer electronics devices interconnected to a central electronics device in a hub and spoke configuration. The configuration allows all signals in the home entertainment system to be accessible by the central electronics device. Accordingly, the central electronics device can process, route, or otherwise respond to any signal. By way of example, any signal can be routed to a recording system, where it can be recorded. The signal is coupled with information from an electronic programming guide that details specific programming. An automatic determination is made as to whether or not there exists enough free space on a recording medium to record a specific program. Upon recording the program on the recording medium, an index is updated on the recording medium from the electronic programming guide information and from the location of the program on the recording medium. By selecting the program from the index, the recorded program can be automatically located on the recording medium.

摘要翻译： 用于记录由家庭娱乐系统接收的信号的系统和方法，所述家庭娱乐系统包括以集线器和辐条配置互连到中央电子设备的多个消费电子设备。 该配置允许家庭娱乐系统中的所有信号可由中央电子设备访问。 因此，中央电子设备可以处理，路由或以其他方式响应任何信号。 作为示例，任何信号都可以路由到记录系统，在那里可以记录。 该信号与来自详细描述编程的电子节目指南的信息相结合。 自动确定在记录介质上是否存在足够的可用空间以记录特定程序。 一旦在记录介质上记录该程序，就从电子节目指南信息和记录介质上的节目位置在记录介质上更新索引。 通过从索引中选择程序，记录的程序可以自动地位于记录介质上。

公开(公告)号：US20040261096A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-23

申请号：US10176939

申请日：2002-06-20

申请人： BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation

发明人： William R. Matz

IPC分类号： H04N007/16 ,  H04N007/10 ,  H04N007/025

CPC分类号： H04N21/26603 ,  H04N7/163 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4542 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A method for monitoring termination of blocked content. After unwanted content is blocked using substitution, user channel selection, or otherwise, a number of methods are available for monitoring blocked content and choosing content for presentation after the blocked content ends. Default content may be automatically presented. Default content includes content that was being presented prior to blocking, or any user selected default content. The user may opt to continue viewing substitute content. A termination notification may be generated, whereby the user the notified that blocked content is terminated, or will terminate imminently. One type of termination notification includes a prompt enabling the user to select among possible content to switch to.

摘要翻译： 一种监控被阻止内容终止的方法。 在使用替换，用户频道选择或其他方式阻止不需要的内容之后，许多方法可用于监视被阻止的内容并在阻止的内容结束之后选择要呈现的内容。 默认内容可能会自动显示。 默认内容包括在阻止之前呈现的内容，或任何用户选择的默认内容。 用户可以选择继续查看替代内容。 可以生成终止通知，由此被通知的用户被阻止的内容被终止或将立即终止。 一种类型的终止通知包括提示使用户能够在可切换的内容之间进行选择。

公开(公告)号：US20040255331A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-16

申请号：US10494376

申请日：2004-04-30

发明人： Akino Inoue ,  Sachiko Takeshita ,  Masaki Sato ,  Toshio Oka ,  Daisaku Komiya ,  Satoshi Senga

IPC分类号： H04N007/173 ,  H04N007/16

CPC分类号： H04L65/4092 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04L29/06027 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L67/04 ,  H04L67/14 ,  H04L67/2895 ,  H04L67/42 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/43637 ,  H04W28/14 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W40/00

摘要： Provided is a server apparatus and terminal unit for realizing a video transmission system that, even in case the video image is suspended by a handover, reproduction can be resumed at a video image of upon suspension. In a video transmission system having a video server for sending video data to a terminal unit through an access point and a terminal unit for receiving and displaying the video data sent from the access point and for establishing an association and releasing of a wireless channel to the access point, the terminal unit releases the access point and wireless channel and requests the video server to suspend the transmission and store video data. In case an association is established with a new access point, the terminal unit requests the video server to re-send the video data, etc. stored in the duration of from the release to an association establishment.

摘要翻译： 提供一种用于实现视频传输系统的服务器装置和终端单元，即使在通过切换挂起视频图像的情况下，可以在暂停时的视频图像上恢复再现。 在具有用于通过接入点向终端单元发送视频数据的视频服务器的视频传输系统和用于接收和显示从接入点发送的视频数据并用于建立无线信道的关联和释放的终端单元 接入点，终端单元释放接入点和无线信道，并要求视频服务器挂起传输并存储视频数据。 在与新的接入点建立关联的情况下，终端单元请求视频服务器将从释放期间存储的视频数据等重新发送到关联机构。

公开(公告)号：US20040255329A1

公开(公告)日：2004-12-16

申请号：US10813457

申请日：2004-03-30

发明人： Matthew Compton ,  Jian-Rong Chen ,  Daniel Wilson

IPC分类号： H04N007/173 ,  H04N011/04 ,  H04N011/02 ,  H04N007/12 ,  H04N007/16 ,  H04N011/20 ,  H04N007/01

CPC分类号： H04N21/4347 ,  H04N21/234327 ,  H04N21/234363 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/2381 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/64322

摘要： A network interface device connectable to a network, the device being arranged to receive a digital video data stream of a first resolution and, substantially in real time, to launch data packets representing the digital video data stream onto the network, comprises: a video generator to produce from the video data stream of the first resolution a video data stream of a second, lower resolution; and a packetiser operable: to format the video data stream of the second resolution into data packets to be launched onto the network; and to format at least that part of the video data stream of the first resolution which is not represented by the video data stream of the second resolution into data packets to be launched onto the network.

摘要翻译： 一种可连接到网络的网络接口设备，该设备被布置为接收第一分辨率的数字视频数据流，并且基本上实时地将表示数字视频数据流的数据分组发射到网络上，包括：视频发生器 从第一分辨率的视频数据流产生第二较低分辨率的视频数据流; 以及打包器，其可操作：将所述第二分辨率的视频数据流格式化成要发送到所述网络上的数据分组; 并且将不被第二分辨率的视频数据流表示的第一分辨率的视频数据流的至少一部分格式化成要发送到网络上的数据分组。