Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
386243000 | Having table of contents user interface | 13 |
20110052146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING UTILIZATION OF RECORDED MEDIA CONTENT PROGRAMS - Exemplary systems and methods for enhancing utilization of recorded media content programs are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a media content processing system maintaining data representative of a recorded media content program in a data storage facility, accessing program highlights data for the recorded media content program, the program highlights data specifying a set of one or more select segments of the recorded media content program, and utilizing the program highlights data to access and play back the set of one or more select segments of the recorded media content program for experiencing by a user. In some examples, the end user has control of selection and playback of the set of one or more select segments of the recorded media content program. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058788 | RECORDING/PLAYBACK DEVICE - A recording/playback device enables the user to grasp at a glance the overview of titles of recorded television programs and immediately select and playback a desired scene without being required to set chapters in advance. When a display device displays a recorded television program, the recording/playback device splits the recorded television program of one title into equal time segments, creates time-sequentially thumbnails positioned approximately at the split points, and arranges them in a list to display them on the screen. I-picture frame data temporally closest to the split points is used to create thumbnails in order to speed up the playback. Time information is displayed together with each thumbnail. When the user selects any thumbnail, the television program is played back starting from that segment. In such a way of displaying, the user can see at a glance what scenes are recorded in the television program without being required to give chapters. | 03-10-2011 |
20110081128 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MOVING-IMAGE DATA THAT INCLUDES MODE INFORMATION, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of reproducing moving-image information recorded on a storage medium, including: reading mode information from the storage medium including an object of a first type for reproducing the moving-image information, an object of a second type for providing additional functions related to the moving-image information, and system data for controlling the reproduction of the object of the first and second types, including: information indicating an object to be automatically reproduced when the storage medium is loaded, menu information for displaying a menu, and title information for each object of the first type and the object of the second type, the title information including identification information of the corresponding object, the mode information indicating the type of the corresponding object, determining the type of an object to be reproduced based on the read mode information, and reproducing the object based on the result of the determination. | 04-07-2011 |
20120128326 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Programming Guides - Methods, systems, and products generate a programming guide. An association is stored between programming events and a package of programming. The programming guide is generated as a programming grid of cells that displays a wrapper surrounding all cells in the programming grid of cells that are associated with the programming events in the package of programming. | 05-24-2012 |
20130136419 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED RECORDING - According to one aspect of this disclosure, information is received indicating a set of content items that a first user intends to record. The set of content items are automatically added to a recording schedule of a second user, where the recording schedule indicates content items that are scheduled to be recorded. An indication that an additional content item has been added or removed to the set of content items may be received, and, the additional content item is automatically added or removed to the recording schedule of the second user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130294748 | Storage media pre-programmed for enhanced search and retrieval of multimedia content - A non-transitory storage medium readable by a non-versatile interpretation device (e.g., navigation engine of DVD player) and executable on a player device (e.g., a DVD player), the non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions executable even on the non-versatile interpretation device to enable a method of enhanced search and retrieval of one or more relevant media entities (e.g., a combination of an audio stream and a video stream corresponding to a video) from a comprehensive dataset of media entities stored on the non-transitory storage medium. The non-versatile interpretation device comprises a navigation engine built on a limited set of virtual commands embedded on to a chipset to provide interaction with the media entities. The non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of keywords that are in-built. Each of the keywords are pre-linked to at least one of the media entities on the non-transitory storage medium. | 11-07-2013 |
20140079373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140126884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A recording information acquisition unit | 05-08-2014 |
20140178044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING BACK A MOVING PICTURE - A method of playing back a moving picture in a portable terminal includes recognizing at least one playback list including moving picture files having file names that are more similar than a determined degree from among all moving picture files, identifying at least one overlap playback section formed of identical frames by analyzing frames of moving picture files included in the generated playback list, and upon playing one of the moving picture files included in the generated playback list, determining whether an auto-skipping function is activated, and playing the requested one of moving picture files based on the determination. | 06-26-2014 |
20150016801 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a display control unit that controls display of a display screen containing a content display area and a subtitles display area, and an operation recognition unit that, when a first operation on the subtitles display area is detected, recognizes that an operation to perform second processing is performed, the second processing being different from first processing performed when the first operation on the content display area is detected. | 01-15-2015 |
20150063782 | Electronic Apparatus, Control Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and a display controller. The processor is configured to acquire keywords from program information of a program being displayed on a screen. The display controller is configured to display the keywords arranged to be selectable on the screen and to display, if a first keyword is selected from the keywords, a first scene information regarding a first scene, a caption of the first scene including the first keyword. | 03-05-2015 |
20150104152 | WIRELESSLY TRIGGERED SMART MEDIA GUIDES - The invention is directed to wireless systems comprising one or more beacons that each emits a triggering data packet, and one or more smart media guides which upon receipt of a triggering packet, access the indicated track of digital content that has been preloaded into memory, and play that track through a user output interface. In some embodiments, each smart media guide transmits an SMG Identifier signal that can be received, stored and analyzed for purposes of understanding user behavior. In some embodiments, a transmitted content packet is transmitted by an exognenous source (such as a beacon or server-driven transceiver), received by a smart media guide, and stored for subsequent play. Beacon-based systems can be further used to trigger such things as alarms, lights, and various mechanisms. The invention has applications in such fields as tourism, marketing, demographic analysis, health care, pet care, safety and security. | 04-16-2015 |
20160019933 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING AUDIO AND VIDEO - Audio/video recorders are presented for recording audio and video of various types of proceedings, including court proceedings. In some examples, audio/video recorders may obtain case information associated with a case identifier from a case management database, and associate at least some of the case information with one or more audio channel inputs of the audio interface. In some examples, audio/video recorders may associate a speaker with an audio channel input of the audio interface, determine that an amplitude of an audio signal received at the audio channel input is above a threshold, determine a time when the amplitude of the audio signal at the audio channel was determined to be above the threshold, and generate metadata as a timeline indicating that the first speaker began speaking at the first time. | 01-21-2016 |