Interactive video distribution systems inventions 09/06

20060212893 - Method and system for allowing viewers to purchase program products: To allow viewers to easily purchase products shown in entertainment programs, the viewers call an operator terminal. The operator terminal is networked to a central controller, which is also networked to remote terminals. Remote terminal operators enter data about props used in programs, copies of which are to be offered...

20060212892 - Video distribution system: The invention relates to video distribution systems and, more particularly, to a system that blanket transmits video/audio content such as digital data (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based recording, storage and playback system. Customers preselect from a list of available digital data or other content in...

20060212894 - Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion: A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the package is provided...

20060212895 - Methods and apparatus to detect an operating state of a display: Methods and apparatus to detect an operating state of a display are disclosed. An example device to detect an operating state of a display includes an optical fiber, an optical-to-electrical converter, and a logic circuit. The optical fiber is optically coupled to a light source of the display. The light...

20060212896 - Content distribution systems and methods: Content distribution systems and methods. A content source comprises a service advertising channel and a content delivery channel. The content source provides service information on the service advertising channel, and provides content on the content delivery channel. At least one content sink couples to the content source to acquire the...

20060212899 - System and method for broadcast tagging: A system for directing play content for a media play is disclosed. The system for directing play content for a media play includes a hub that is at least partially remote from a media play point and that directs at least a portion of the play content for the media...

20060212898 - System and method for broadcast target advertising: A system for developing plays of media content is disclosed. The system for developing plays of media content includes a hub that is at least partially remote from a media content play point that at least partially controls the plays of the media content, at least one input associated with...

20060212897 - System and method for utilizing the content of audio/video files to select advertising content for display: Systems and methods for analyzing the content of audio/video files using speech recognition and data mining technologies are provided. As it can generally be assumed that a user's interest is highly correlated with an audio/video clip or television program the user may be watching, methods and systems for utilizing the...

20060212900 - Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming: A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various characteristics of each viewers, including television watching preferences and demographics. The set-top box is able to select among various...

20060212901 - Management console providing an interface for featured sets of digital automation systems: A management console located proximate to a hub for managing at least one radio broadcast is disclosed. The console includes a connection to a digital automation system, the digital automation system directing the at least one radio broadcast and a software suite suitable for providing an interface for feature sets...

20060212902 - Device and method for displaying broadcasting information in digital broadcasting receiver: Disclosed herein is a device and method for displaying channel information in a digital broadcasting receiver. A broadcasting receiver receives and demodulates a digital broadcasting signal of a selected channel. A data processor demultiplexes the demodulated broadcasting signal, separates Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data and broadcasting data, and decodes the...

20060212903 - Moving picture processing device, information processing device, and program thereof: To present a moving picture processing device having a user interface very easy to use when selecting part of moving pictures from multiple moving pictures. The moving picture processing device comprises a moving picture display unit for displaying whole or part of plural stored moving pictures sequentially, an input accepting...

20060212904 - System and method for personalized tv: A Personal TV System receives a plurality of video segments constituting a TV program and information describing each segment, and controls the display of the segments to a viewer in accordance with preferences of the viewer and with the description of each segment. Segments may be omitted or replaced with...

20060212905 - Broadcast receiving terminal and information processing apparatus: Upon reception of broadcast data which includes textual information or which is copyable, a broadcast receiving terminal presents the received data and a mark or a message by selecting which a user designates to paste/attach the received data into/to an e-mail. When the user selects the mark or the message,...

20060212906 - System and method for digital media navigation and recording: Describe are systems and methods for receiving, navigating, selecting and viewing data (including personalized content recommendations generated by the UGuide Recommendation Engine, television program listings and program descriptions) on handheld wireless communication devices and/or internet browsers. The invention also provides the ability to remotely control the scheduling of recordings on...

20060212907 - System and method of network-linked digital terrestrial television broadcasting: In a cellular phone terminal, a bit error rate measurement section measures a bit error rate of broadcast data received by a broadcast reception section for receiving a digital broadcast to output broadcast data while a transmission operation of a communication transmission section for wirelessly communicating with a broadcasting communication...

20060212908 - Video distribution system: The invention relates to video distribution systems and, more particularly, to a system that blanket transmits video/audio content such as movies (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based recording, storage and playback system. Customers preselect from a list of available movies or other content in advance using...

20060212910 - Remote antenna and local receiver subsystems for receiving data signals carried over analog television: Methods and apparatus for remote antenna subsystems that are physically isolated from receiver subsystems are disclosed. The communication between the two subsystems uses remote communication links. The remote communication links are either wireless, in which case they are designed for indoor low power communications, or are wired, using existing infrastructure...

20060212909 - System and method for receiving broadcast content on a mobile platform during international travel: A vehicle information system for passenger vehicles, such as automobiles and aircraft, and methods for manufacturing and using same. The vehicle information system includes a universal antenna system and a universal receiver system for receiving viewing content provided by diverse content sources during travel, including international travel. The universal antenna...

20060212911 - System, method and apparatus for wireless delivery of analog media from a media source to a media sink: A system, method and apparatus for the wireless delivery of analog media from a media sink to a media source. The system, method and apparatus receives analog video and/or analog audio from the media source in respective native formats. The system, method and apparatus converts the received analog video and/or...

20060212914 - Audio and video transmission and receiving system: A system of distributing video and/or audio information employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression. The compressed and encoded audio and/or video information is sent over standard telephone, cable or satellite broadcast channels to a receiver specified by a subscriber of the service, preferably in less...

20060212912 - Method and device for distributing video information: Method and device for distribution of video information over single or multiple distribution networks, in particular TV-networks, where secondary programs of commercial character are sent parallel to, or in between, a series of main programs, where each program is supplied with a program code (PID-code) at a central location, which...

20060212913 - Remote control system, controllable device, and remote control method: In a remote control system to control remotely a controlled device through a network from a terminal at a remote place, the controlled device stores a channel table associating broadcast station numbers recognized by a remote control device and allocated to each broadcast station with channel numbers recognized by the...

20060212915 - Method and apparatus for storing an interactive television program: A method and device for storing an interactive television program for playback at a later point in time, wherein said interactive television program comprises at least one interactive television application. The applications are transmitted inside modules (11, 12) through a data carousel (2) within a transport stream (20). The method...

20060212916 - System and method for broadcast target advertising: A system for developing plays of media content is disclosed. The system for developing plays of media content includes a hub that is at least partially remote from a media content play point that at least partially controls the plays of the media content, at least one input associated with...

20060212917 - Upstream bandwidth management methods and apparatus: A system and method for managing bandwidth of an upstream communications channel in a communications system....

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20060212919 - Ip address discovery for cable modem in set-top box: A Set-Top Box configured with a modem and a Main Circuit Board consistent with certain embodiments learns the modem's IP address by establishing a predetermined relationship between a hardware address of the modem and a hardware address of the Main Circuit Board; at the Main Circuit Board: ascertaining the hardware...

20060212920 - Broadcast reception terminal and broadcast device: The broadcast receiving terminal (100) includes: a display unit (120) for displaying TV program content; a state administration unit (112) which judges whether or not to display the TV program content, based on the user's operation; and a first processing unit (110), which receives a digital broadcast wave and operates...

20060212921 - Communicating ancillary information associated with a plurality of audio/video programs: A system includes a receiver and a communication interface. The receiver is adapted to tune to an audio/video portion over a transport medium. The communication interface is adapted to receive announcement data associated with the tuned audio/video content directed to a first addressable location and to receive a special announcement...

20060212923 - Method for the fully automatic and/or semi-automatic interactive configuration, set up, adjustment, calibration, and control of a video system for improving image quality and ease of use: The present invention involves inserting a sequence of computer-like commands into a video signal stream (230) and which contain data processing instructions (401; 457; 500) and video test patterns (407; 452) in order to automate the integration, configuration, set up, adjustment, calibration and control of the components (131; 132; 133)...

20060212922 - System and method for storage device emulation in a multimedia processing system: A device and method for storage device emulation in a multimedia processing system are provided. The device includes a processing module to process multimedia data, a first mass storage device interface operably coupled to the processing module, the first mast storage interface operable to couple to a mass storage device...

20060206911 - Security camera employing privacy protection method: A security camera employing a privacy protection method is disclosed. The security camera comprises a lens unit, a pan/tilt/zoom drive for operating the lens unit, an image processor for generating an original image captured by the lens unit, a privacy area processor for reducing resolution of a privacy area when...

20060206912 - System and method for personalized tv: A Personal TV System receives a plurality of video segments constituting a TV program and information describing each segment, and controls the display of the segments to a viewer in accordance with preferences of the viewer and with the description of each segment. Segments may be omitted or replaced with...

20060206913 - Video on demand system with with dynamic enablement of random-access functionality: The present invention provides a method for an interactive media services system to provide media to a user through an interactive media services client device. The client device is coupled to a programmable media services server device. The method includes the step of implementing an interactive media guide. Additionally, the...

20060206914 - Wireless television system and video display method thereof: A wireless television system and a video display method thereof are disclosed. Data stored in a portable memory can be directly read through the use of a memory reader additionally provided in a data transmission unit of the wireless television system, and then transmitted wirelessly to a video display unit...

20060206915 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention propose an broadcast reception system, wherein a program reception control apparatus is connected to Internet via a network interface to which a terminal apparatus carrying by a user. The broadcast received at an antenna is selected by a tuner, A/D converted, compressed at a compression unit, and...

20060206916 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention propose an broadcast reception system, wherein a program reception control apparatus is connected to Internet via a network interface to which a terminal apparatus carrying by a user. The broadcast received at antenna is selected by a tuner, A/D converted, compressed at a compression unit, and encrypted...

20060206917 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention propose an broadcast reception system, wherein a program reception control apparatus is connected to Internet via a network interface to which a terminal apparatus carrying by a user. The broadcast received at an antenna is selected by a tuner, A/D converted, compressed at a compression unit, and...

20060200841 - Detecting a composition of an audience: Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. One disclosed method captures images (18) of the audience, determines (20) a number of people within the images and prompts (24) the audience to identify its members if a change (22) in the...

20060200842 - Picture-in-picture (pip) alerts: Strategies are described for detecting events that match pre-established criteria based on a consumer profile, formulating picture-in-picture (PIP) alerts based on the matching events, and providing the PIP alerts to the consumer's output device. The output device can present plural PIP alerts, either by presenting multiple PIP alerts at the...

20060200843 - Encoding and compression of a location beacon database: A method of delta-encoding and compressing a table containing 6-byte MAC addresses is provided. The MAC addresses are sorted, a first MAC address is stored, and only the binary differences between succeeding MAC addresses are stored. A method of reading a delta-encoded and compressed MAC address table is provided. A...

20060200845 - Wireless integrated security controller: A system and method are disclosed for improved video transmission, particularly in security settings. An improved security controller combines the interfaces and functionality for high quality video delivery over often less-than-perfect wireless networks, multi-camera analog/digital video controllers and encoders, multi-frequency wireless camera support, connectivity for serial controllers, network switching, and...

20060200844 - Wireless video transmission system: A wireless video receiving apparatus is provided with a first voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively high frequency and a second voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively low frequency. A digital video signal compressed...

20060200847 - Control apparatus and control method: A control apparatus for controlling an event in accordance with the playback of playback data includes a playback processor performing playback processing on the playback data, an acquisition unit acquiring playback section information associated with the playback data to specify a target playback section of the playback data, an end...

20060200846 - Method and system for pvr software buffer management to support software passage: Methods and systems for a personal video recorder (PVR) software buffer management to support the software passage are disclosed. A first plurality of receive buffer descriptors may be allocated for recording at least one received packet in at least a portion of a shared memory. The received packet may be...

20060200848 - Method of transmitting layered video-coded information: Video-coded information is transmitted over a network at a priority level that is determined based on feedback from the network. In an embodiment, the feedback comprises a response to a request for information on whether the network currently has the available capacity to transmit additional high priority traffic. In an...

20060200850 - Image processing apparatus, network system, and method of communication: A plurality of image processing apparatuses and a management server are connected to an IP network. Upon receiving the IP address of an image processing apparatus, the management server assigns identification information corresponding to its IP address, for a predetermined limited period. If a user inputs identification information of a...

20060200849 - Systems and methods for providing client-side accelerated access to remote applications via tcp pooling: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying and executing acceleration functionality on a client to improve the performance and delivery of remotely accessed applications. In one embodiment, the client-side acceleration functionality is provided by an acceleration program that performs a transport layer connection pooling technique...

20060200851 - Error detection/correction system for cable mode: A error detection/correction system includes a plurality of cable modems for error detection/correction, a CMTS connected with the cable modems for access of MAC addresses of the cable modems and for controlling allocation of data flow of the cable modems, and a sample comparison system having a database of comparable...

20060200852 - Apparatus, systems and methods for producing coherent symbols in a single frequency network: A system, method, apparatus and computer code are provided for producing coherent symbols from digital RF transmitters. A multiplexer receives a digital signal containing content data to be broadcast from the digital RF transmitters and inserts a first initialization packet into the digital signal, where the initialization packets implicit position...

20060200853 - Apparatus, systems and methods for providing enhancements to atsc networks using synchronous vestigial sideband (vsb) frame slicing: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for signaling to a receiver an availability of a service and a deterministic mapping of a service content corresponding to the service. A modulator receives a digital signal and generates a data frame from the digital signal, where the data frame...

20060200841 - Detecting a composition of an audience: Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. One disclosed method captures images (18) of the audience, determines (20) a number of people within the images and prompts (24) the audience to identify its members if a change (22) in the...

20060200842 - Picture-in-picture (pip) alerts: Strategies are described for detecting events that match pre-established criteria based on a consumer profile, formulating picture-in-picture (PIP) alerts based on the matching events, and providing the PIP alerts to the consumer's output device. The output device can present plural PIP alerts, either by presenting multiple PIP alerts at the...

20060200843 - Encoding and compression of a location beacon database: A method of delta-encoding and compressing a table containing 6-byte MAC addresses is provided. The MAC addresses are sorted, a first MAC address is stored, and only the binary differences between succeeding MAC addresses are stored. A method of reading a delta-encoded and compressed MAC address table is provided. A...

20060200845 - Wireless integrated security controller: A system and method are disclosed for improved video transmission, particularly in security settings. An improved security controller combines the interfaces and functionality for high quality video delivery over often less-than-perfect wireless networks, multi-camera analog/digital video controllers and encoders, multi-frequency wireless camera support, connectivity for serial controllers, network switching, and...

20060200844 - Wireless video transmission system: A wireless video receiving apparatus is provided with a first voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively high frequency and a second voltage-controlled clock generation portion that can generate a video dot clock having a relatively low frequency. A digital video signal compressed...

20060200847 - Control apparatus and control method: A control apparatus for controlling an event in accordance with the playback of playback data includes a playback processor performing playback processing on the playback data, an acquisition unit acquiring playback section information associated with the playback data to specify a target playback section of the playback data, an end...

20060200846 - Method and system for pvr software buffer management to support software passage: Methods and systems for a personal video recorder (PVR) software buffer management to support the software passage are disclosed. A first plurality of receive buffer descriptors may be allocated for recording at least one received packet in at least a portion of a shared memory. The received packet may be...

20060200848 - Method of transmitting layered video-coded information: Video-coded information is transmitted over a network at a priority level that is determined based on feedback from the network. In an embodiment, the feedback comprises a response to a request for information on whether the network currently has the available capacity to transmit additional high priority traffic. In an...

20060200850 - Image processing apparatus, network system, and method of communication: A plurality of image processing apparatuses and a management server are connected to an IP network. Upon receiving the IP address of an image processing apparatus, the management server assigns identification information corresponding to its IP address, for a predetermined limited period. If a user inputs identification information of a...

20060200849 - Systems and methods for providing client-side accelerated access to remote applications via tcp pooling: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying and executing acceleration functionality on a client to improve the performance and delivery of remotely accessed applications. In one embodiment, the client-side acceleration functionality is provided by an acceleration program that performs a transport layer connection pooling technique...

20060200851 - Error detection/correction system for cable mode: A error detection/correction system includes a plurality of cable modems for error detection/correction, a CMTS connected with the cable modems for access of MAC addresses of the cable modems and for controlling allocation of data flow of the cable modems, and a sample comparison system having a database of comparable...

20060200852 - Apparatus, systems and methods for producing coherent symbols in a single frequency network: A system, method, apparatus and computer code are provided for producing coherent symbols from digital RF transmitters. A multiplexer receives a digital signal containing content data to be broadcast from the digital RF transmitters and inserts a first initialization packet into the digital signal, where the initialization packets implicit position...

20060200853 - Apparatus, systems and methods for providing enhancements to atsc networks using synchronous vestigial sideband (vsb) frame slicing: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for signaling to a receiver an availability of a service and a deterministic mapping of a service content corresponding to the service. A modulator receives a digital signal and generates a data frame from the digital signal, where the data frame...