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20100310227 | PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an interactive television system for recording television programming. The interactive television system may include components for providing personal video recorder (PVR) functionality, such as an interactive television program guide (IPG), PVR extensions, PVR application programming interfaces (APIs), a PVR device, any suitable hardware or software, or a combination thereof. These components may be implemented in, for example, an arrangement having an integrated PVR-compliant device with a PVR device, or in an arrangement having a PVR-compliant device (e.g., a set-top box) coupled to PVR equipment (e.g., a remote PVR server or a PVR sidecar) with a PVR device. The PVR-compliant device may include software and hardware configured to implement the IPG. The PVR APIs may be a library of intelligent vendor-specific and vendor-independent APIs able to determine the type of PVR device being used. The PVR extensions and PVR APIs may be configured to provide a seamless integration of functionality associated with the PVR-compliant device and the PVR device. A full port of the IPG may be implemented in both the PVR-compliant device and the PVR device. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310228 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention displays subtitles in a language desired by a user in a desired format. A text data decoder | 12-09-2010 |
20100322588 | SAVING AND RESTORING CONTROL SETTINGS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT RECEIVERS - A settings controller for a multimedia content receiver is responsive to a control settings command. The settings controller saves a first set of control settings and loads a second set of control settings associated with the control settings command after saving the first set of control settings. It then reloads the first set of control settings when the control settings command is no longer valid. This allows for viewer settings to be automatically restored after an interruption. | 12-23-2010 |
20110091182 | TELEVISION VIEWER INTERFACE SYSTEM - A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item. | 04-21-2011 |
20110135270 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a search information notification section which notifies a search device of search information via a communication section, a search result acquisition section which acquires a plurality of search result pages retrieved from a plurality of search pages, respectively, in accordance with the search information, from the search device via the communication section, and a display control section which causes a display section to display one of the plurality of search result pages acquired by the search result acquisition section from the search device, and which causes the display section to display another one of the plurality of search result pages based on the operation information an input of which is accepted by an input section. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE TRANSFER AND PLAYBACK OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC. | 06-09-2011 |
20110182560 | Binding for Audio/Video Streaming in a Topology of Devices - Resources may be managed in a topology for audio/video streaming. The topology includes audio/video sources and sinks and intervening branch devices. Messages between these sources, sinks, and branch devices may be used for resource management. | 07-28-2011 |
20110206342 | RECORDING SYSTEM - The invention relates to an apparatus and method for recording transmitted data items, and particularly television and radio programmes. The data items are received at one or more inputs along with ID data identifying the transmitted data items and the programme series to which the data item belongs. An input interface receives input indicating whether one or more received transmitted data items have been viewed or recorded by a user and a processor generates values for ranking the series to which each of the received data items belong based upon the received input. Subsequently received transmitted data items are stored in a storage device based on the generated values, the stored data items belonging to a series for which a value has been generated. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222832 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing method includes sensing a sound or a frame, in an interested information sensing step, which constitutes a moving image. The sound or frame includes a feature quantity matched with an interested feature quantity. The interested feature quantity is extracted from interested information indicating an item in which a user is interested. The method includes specifying a slot, in an interested scene specifying step, including a reference time point as the interested scene on a reproducing time axis of the moving image. The reference time point is a time of the sound or frame. The sound or frame is sensed in the interested information sensing step. The method includes degrading image quality of a slot, in a low-image quality moving image producing step, except the interested scene specified in the interested scene specifying step in the moving image and producing a low-image-quality moving image of the moving image. | 09-15-2011 |
20110229104 | System And Method For Recording and Playback Of Multimedia Content - A system and method employing an array of economical disk drives, each containing identical copies of the same multimedia content, for on-demand delivery to newsroom clients assigned to groups over respective communication channels. A Greeter Process parcels the multimedia content into data blocks having a size that is equal to the data field size of the drive's sectors. The Greeter Process then writes the parceled data block at least contemporaneously if not simultaneously to each of the disk drives, thereby optimizing the writing of the parceled content into the sectors of the disk drive and the subsequent reading of the parceled content from its sectors. Alternatively, the Greeter Process may parcel the multimedia content based upon inherent natural breaks such as anticipated periods of intensive computation. Upon demand, each newsroom client may read the desired multimedia content from its respective disk drive over its respective communication channel. Inasmuch as the multimedia content is identical on each disk drive, when any of the newsroom clients desires a particular multimedia file of, for example, a news event, each client receives an identical copy of that file of that news event over their respective communication channel from their respective disk drive. | 09-22-2011 |
20110229105 | DECENTRALIZED SYMMETRIC NETWORK OF AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS AND ITS METHOD OF USE - The present invention describes a decentralized symmetric configuration of digital video recorders (DVCRs) for monitoring, controlling, analyzing, recording, playback and streaming of audio/visual (A/V) media over a network. Each DVCR is an autonomous device able to operate in its local environment as well as access and operate another DVCR available on the network to facilitate the overall working of the disclosed system. Each DVCR also exhibits storage fail-safe feature whereby it recovers data automatically if storage media gets corrupted such as due to sudden power failure. A DVCR can be configured to scan the network for other DVCR units. A list of discovered DVCRs is displayed. Each DVCR can access, after authentication, any of the listed DVCR for configuration, monitoring, controlling, recording, playback and other available functionality over the network. The same controls used for operating a local DVCR, including use of buttons, can be employed to operate the remote DVCR, giving a virtual presence at the remote location. The functionality exhibited by each of the DVCR, can be identical. A plurality of the DVCR can thus form a decentralized, symmetric network in which there is no master or central controller. | 09-22-2011 |
20110249951 | INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TELEVISION SCHEDULE INFORMATION - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule and/or listing information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select and interact with information in a remote database, e.g., a database on the internet. The television schedule and/or listing information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and the like. The television schedule and/or listing information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule and/or listing information may be downloaded from a remote database to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV. | 10-13-2011 |
20110268418 | Record and Playback in a Conference - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for recording and playing back an online conference. One such method comprises: a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants accessing the conferencing system via a communication network; the conferencing system presenting the audio conference and a conference interface displaying a participant object identifying each of the participants in the audio conference; synchronously recording the audio conference with content presented in the conference interface; storing the synchronized audio conference and content; and playing back the synchronized audio conference and content. | 11-03-2011 |
20110317977 | Locking of Programs Against Fast Forwarding - Speed of commercial playing is detected and used for determining whether program information can be played. | 12-29-2011 |
20120099829 | Recording level adjustment using a distance to a sound source - An apparatus including a recording system for recording at least sound, the recording system including a microphone; a distance input adapted to have an initial distance between a source of the sound and the apparatus entered into the apparatus; and a controller connected to the microphone. The controller is configured to determine a suggested distance for a better sound recording by the recording system based, at least partially, on the initial distance input into the distance input. | 04-26-2012 |
20120224825 | SELECTIVELY USING LOCAL NON-VOLATILE STORAGE IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRANSMISSION OF CONTENT - Content is created at a first location using a video camera or other device. At least a subset of the created content is stored in non-volatile storage at the first location. At least a portion of the content stored in the non-volatile storage is transmitted to a remote entity via a network in response to a trigger. If the network becomes unavailable, the camera will store the video in a local flash memory and when the network becomes available, the camera can transmit the video from the flash memory to the server or other client. Alternatively, the camera may transmit low resolution video to the server while storing a high resolution version of the video in the local flash memory. If a trigger event occurs, the camera will then send the appropriate high resolution video the local flash memory to the server. | 09-06-2012 |
20120275755 | ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - An entertainment device for generating augmented reality environments comprises an input for a captured video signal, an image analyser to detect a predetermined marker object location within the captured video signal, a graphics generator to generate a graphics object for integration with the video signal at a selected position to generate an augmented reality image, a controller to positionally couple the graphics object to the detected marker object location within the captured video signal, and a detection failure logic to signal when the image analyser cannot adequately detect the marker object's location within the captured signal. If the logic signals the image analyser cannot detect the location of the marker object within the captured video signal, then the controller positionally decouples the graphics object from the last detected location of the marker object within the video signal, and instructs the graphics generator to modify a characteristic of the graphics object. | 11-01-2012 |
20120301099 | DATA PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA ENCODING DEVICE - Disclosed in a technique for performing data transmission between units efficiently in an imaging device, in which a camera unit and the other units (particularly a display unit) are separated and connected wirelessly, to improve convenience. According to this technique, video content data imaged by an imaging section is encoded, by means of hierarchical coding, into checking content coded data of a core layer and saving content coded data of an enhancement layer. The checking content coded data is sent immediately from a checking content transmission section | 11-29-2012 |
20120308191 | VIDEO RECORDING FAILOVER - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for performing video recorder failover. In a particular embodiment, a system includes a first Network Video Recorder (NVR) configured to receive a video stream and record the video stream to a first long-term storage. The system further includes a second NVR configured to receive the video stream and temporarily stores an amount of the video stream in temporary storage. In response to a detection of a failure of the first NVR, the second NVR is configured to record the video stream to the second long-term storage and transfer at least a portion of the video stream stored in the temporary storage corresponding to the amount of time between detection of the failure and when the second NVR began recording the video stream to the second long-term storage. | 12-06-2012 |
20130011111 | MODIFYING AUDIO IN AN INTERACTIVE VIDEO USING RFID TAGS - Video and audio of a capture area is recorded. The capture area includes a sound-producing element that is to appear within a video. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag is attached to the sound-producing element. The RFID tag is scanned to automatically track the sound producing element relative to a position in the capture area. Configurable audio associated with the sound-producing element is embedded within the video. | 01-10-2013 |
20130039631 | METHOD FOR REAL-TIME CORRELATION OF STREAMING VIDEO TO GEOLOCATION - A real time streaming geolocation method includes recording data and linking it to specific coordinates. The data is selectively stored to a database using a specialized data filtering method, and a streaming video can be created from the stored data. The streaming video can be created in real time, creating a current video simulation of a specific environment. The method also allows for interactive addition, modification and deletion of data, such as points of interest, in the video stream. | 02-14-2013 |
20130170813 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE - Systems and methods are provided for presenting a supplemental content asset on a secondary device that is relevant to a primary content asset that is being presented on a primary user device, to enhance the user experience of the primary content asset. A relevant supplemental content asset may be selected based on characteristics of the primary content asset and/or user profile information. Presentation of the supplemental content asset and primary content asset may be coordinated and synchronized by exchange of messages between the primary user device and secondary device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130216198 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TIME-SHIFTING FOR A CONTENT RECORDER - A content player includes a pausable mass storage device player that can be used to record and play content. The pausable mass storage device can become paused in response to an assertion of a pause signal. Once paused, the content player remains paused until the pause signal is deasserted. The content player also includes an event detector that is coupled to the pausable mass storage device player. The content player detects a non-viewer initiated event, (e.g., an automatic event such as the receipt of an email with embedded enhanced content), and to assert the pause signal in response thereto. The content player receives content, detects an event, and in response to detecting the event, pauses the content to a presentation device and spools the content onto the mass storage device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130230292 | Apparatus, Method and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Media Processing and Delivery - An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least perform a number of operations. The apparatus of this aspect may be caused to communicate content between a server and media recorder or viewer. The server may include a controller that is part of a messaging layer of a multi-channel interface engine having at least a first channel and a second channel each of which functions as a first-in-first-out pipeline. The communication may include the apparatus being caused to communicate system information and media content below a threshold size over the first channel. And the apparatus may be caused to push media content above the threshold size for communication over the second channel. | 09-05-2013 |
20130251328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING GROUP ACTIVITIES - Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and/or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and/or visual cues related to the activities and collect data indicative of the user's performance. Based on the collected data, the system can dynamically adapt the user's goals and/or activities the user is performing or will perform. In some embodiments of the present invention, the lifestyle companion system of the present invention can be applied to fitness, nutrition, and/or medical modules. The system also can be used to facilitate synchronous group activities. | 09-26-2013 |
20130302005 | RECORDING AND PUBLISHING CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recording and publishing content on social networking websites and other websites include providing an imbedded link on a social networking webpage to media recorder software stored on an external server system, invoking the media recorder software within a displayed instance of the social networking webpage through an application programming interface for the social networking webpage, receiving a video stream defining video captured using the media recorder software at the external video management server system, generating and storing a video file using the received video stream at the external server system, selecting the stored video file for distribution via one or more communication networks, and providing the stored video file for display within displayed instances of webpages hosted on external web server systems. | 11-14-2013 |
20140003786 | Mobile Personal Video Recorder | 01-02-2014 |
20140023335 | VIDEO APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COMMISSIONING DEVICES - An apparatus for concurrently identifying and commissioning a plurality of devices is provided. The apparatus includes a video recording device and a gateway device. The video recording device is configured to record and process a plurality of video images of the plurality of devices, and is configured to determine identification information corresponding to each of the plurality of devices, where the plurality of video images comprises unique encoded luminous transmissions simultaneously transmitted from the each of the plurality of devices. The gateway device is coupled to the video recording device and the plurality of devices, and is configured to receive the identification information, and is configured to commission the each of the plurality of devices onto a network. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023336 | CONCURRENT COMMISSIONING AND GEOLOCATION SYSTEM - An apparatus including a geolocation device, a video recording device, and a gateway device. The geolocation device provides a positional datum indicating a position of the geolocation device. The video recording device coupled to the geolocation device, and is configured receive the positional datum, and is configured to record and process a plurality of video images of the plurality of devices, and is configured to determine identification and location information corresponding to each of the plurality of devices, wherein the location information is determined based upon the positional datum, and wherein the plurality of video images comprises unique encoded luminous transmissions simultaneously transmitted from the each of the plurality of devices. The gateway device is coupled to the video recording device and the plurality of devices, and is configured to receive the identification information, and is configured to commission the each of the plurality of devices onto a network. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023337 | MEDIA RENDERING DEVICE PROVIDING UNINTERRUPTED PLAYBACK OF CONTENT - A method of providing uninterrupted playback of content being rendered by a media rendering device ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140044403 | System and Method For Adaptive Scalable Dynamic Conversion, Quality and Processing Optimization, Enhancement, Correction, Mastering, And Other Advantageous Processing of Three Dimensional Media Content - In at least one embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are directed to providing and configuring a novel platform-independent 3D content media container operable to: (1) support and store a 3D content media file with at least one 3D content modification/improvement technique applied to only specific predetermined portions thereof, and (2) selectively enabling particular optimal 3D content-related parameter settings for future application of at least one additional 3D content modification/improvement technique, to likewise be associated with one or more specific corresponding 3D content media file portion(s), and to also be stored in association therewith in the inventive 3D content media container. In at least one additional embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are capable of determining and implementing various storage, transmittal, and application(s) of 3D content media processing/settings/parameter/profile configuration(s) prior to, or during, display of corresponding 3D content media | 02-13-2014 |
20140050453 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR PLAYING VIDEOS - A method for playing videos, applied to an electronic system, is provided. A video is played through a player application program, and a playing status stored in an embedded control random access memory of a keyboard controller of the electronic system is set to a first status when the video is played. Then, all light signals of the electronic system are turned off by the keyboard controller according to the first status. | 02-20-2014 |
20140099065 | APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for reproducing a recording medium is disclosed. The apparatus may include a driver configured to load a recording medium containing first data, a communicator configured to receive second data by performing network adaptive communication with a server apparatus, a data storage configured to store the second data, a memory configured to store a manifest file for data binding, a controller configured to update a data package of the first data to a virtual data package, using the manifest file, a processor configured to connect the first data and second data and reproduce the connected first data and second data using the virtual data package, and an interface configured to output the reproduced first and second data to an external apparatus. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105561 | Secure handoff among devices during media playback - Secure handoff among devices during media playback. Playback of media, from one or more sources, on two or more respective devices is performed in an automated or simplified manner based upon a near field communications (NFC) or like security pairing transaction between those devices. The security pairing may provide direction for any of a number of operational parameters by which the media is to undergo playback on the different respective devices (e.g., source of the media, quality of the media, digital rights management (DRM), an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) protocol, etc.). Certain implementations allow for user interaction to augment or override automatic or seamless operation between the respective devices for continuous playback of media thereon. Successive security pairings may be performed within any of a number of respective devices (e.g., from a first device to a second device, from a second device to a third device, etc.). | 04-17-2014 |
20140126877 | Controlling Audio Visual Content Based on Biofeedback - Biofeedback, including cognitive feedback, may be used to provide real time information about a viewer's reaction to an ongoing playback of audio visual content. Cognitive feedback provides electronic feedback related to brain activity. Biofeedback involves using sensed human characteristics to judge a user's reaction to audio visual content. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126878 | SELF-CONFIGURING MEDIA DEVICES AND METHODS - Systems and methods for self-configuring portable electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, the portable device includes carrier circuitry that receives compressed data streams of information and application circuitry that decompresses the received data stream in accordance with a specific CODEC. The device includes the capability for the carrier circuitry to provide the specific CODEC required to decompress the data stream to the application circuitry. The transfer of the specific CODEC can be done as a default action or it can be done based on a queue received from the application circuitry. | 05-08-2014 |
20140140674 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA TO AN AUDIO/VISUAL OUTPUT DEVICE - A media player device, such as a PC, portable audio/MP3 player or such like, plays music through a home audio system (stereo system). This can be provided through a wireless link in which the system comprises a transceiver for establishing a short range wireless connection with the media player device, and an output which allows the device to be connected, to an audio/visual output device, e.g., a speaker/screen. A media receiver can maintain two simultaneous short range wireless radio connections with two remote media players and whilst maintaining said connections and whilst receiving a first audio visual signal from one of the two media players, receive a second audio/visual signal from the other of the two media players and route that second audio/visual signal to the audio/visual output device in preference to the first audio/visual signal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169751 | MEDIA DEVICE POWER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - Techniques and architecture are disclosed for managing power use during operation of an electronic device capable of processing and/or playback of audio and/or video (AV) content. In some instances, the disclosed techniques/architecture can be used, for example: (1) to stop decoding and/or rendering of AV content upon detecting that a user wishes to stop or is otherwise unable to consume (e.g., hear/listen to or otherwise utilize) such AV content; and/or (2) to continue/re-enable decoding and/or rendering of AV content upon detecting that a user wishes or is otherwise able to continue/resume consumption thereof. In some cases, use of the disclosed techniques/architecture may reduce central processing unit (CPU) cycles, audio digital signal processing (DSP), rendering hardware usage, etc., and/or otherwise make more efficient use of battery charge, and thus may realize an improvement in battery life, for example, for a mobile/battery-operated device capable of AV processing and/or playback. | 06-19-2014 |
20140186000 | Methods and Systems for Facilitating Migration of a User Account from a First Digital Video Recording ("DVR") System to a Second DVR System - An exemplary method includes a digital video recording (“DVR”) data migration management system 1) receiving a request for a user account to migrate from being associated with a first DVR system to being associated with a second DVR system, 2) accessing a first DVR data set associated with the first DVR system and separate from data representative of a library of one or more media content assets stored by the first DVR system, 3) generating a second DVR data set based on the first DVR data set and in accordance with one or more attributes of the second DVR system, and 4) associating the second DVR data set with the second DVR system. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 07-03-2014 |
20140186001 | Media Content Asset Recovery Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a media content asset recovery system 1) detecting a migration of a user account from being associated with a first DVR system to being associated with a second DVR system, 2) identifying, in response to the detecting, a media content asset included within a library of one or more media content assets stored by the first DVR system at a time associated with the migration, 3) selecting, in accordance with a source selection heuristic, a media content source other than the first DVR system and that is configured to distribute the media content asset, and 4) directing the second DVR system to acquire the media content asset from the selected media content source for storage by the second DVR system. | 07-03-2014 |
20140186002 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit. | 07-03-2014 |
20140248030 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING PROGRAM - A recording device for recording a program is provided. The recording device has a local storing unit and communicates with a network storage device. The recording unit transmits the recorded program to the network storage device, to allow users access to the network storage device to watch or download the recorded program. When the recording device is disconnected from the network storage device, the recording device stores the recorded program in the local storing unit temporarily, and then transmits the record program in the local storing unit to the network storage device when the recording device reconnects with the network storage device, to avoid the loss of the recorded program. A method for recording a program is also provided. | 09-04-2014 |
20140355946 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DEVELOPMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DEVELOPMENT METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND RAW MOVING IMAGE FORMAT - An image processing device includes: a parameter generating unit configured to receive supply of raw moving image data which is moving image data in an undeveloped state, and generate a development parameter as to a target frame of the raw moving image data; and a recording control unit configured to perform control so as to record the supplied raw moving image data, and the development parameter generated by the parameter generating unit in a predetermined recording medium in a correlated manner with each other. Thus, raw moving image data which is moving image data before development processing can be suitably employed. | 12-04-2014 |
20150030304 | Systems and Methods for Recording Information on a Mobile Computing Device - A computer-readable medium storing computer executable instructions for: (1) receiving video footage taken by a handheld device; (2) identifying one or more indicia associated with a point of interest within the video footage; (3) using the one or more indicia to retrieve information associated with the point of interest; (4) displaying the information on a display screen associated with the handheld device as the video footage is being displayed on the display screen; and (5) recording a screen capture of the display screen as the display screen is displaying the video footage and information. | 01-29-2015 |
20150071599 | STORAGE SPACE SAVINGS VIA PARTIAL DIGITAL STREAM DELETION - A method, computer system, and/or computer program product enables a reuse of media storage space via partial file deletion. Multiple friends in a same social circle, which together have control of multiple media storage devices that are storing all segments of a media file, are identified. A last friend from the multiple friends, who has control of a last media storage device to have a last copy of a particular segment of the media file, is identified. The last media storage device is the only media storage device, from the multiple storage devices, to have a copy of the particular segment of the media file. The last media storage device is prevented from deleting the particular segment of the media file until another of the multiple storage devices stores a copy of the particular segment of the media file. | 03-12-2015 |
20150117830 | Light tracks for media content - Systems and techniques are disclosed for generating a light calibration profile based on one or more light emitters. A light track associated with a media track may be mapped onto the one or more light emitters based on the light calibration profile and the one or more light emitters may be activated based on the mapping. The media track that the light track is associated with may be a video track, audio track, or text track and the light track may correspond to aspects of the media track. The light track may contain light activation indications based on timestamps or other metadata. | 04-30-2015 |
20150296171 | PORTABLE MEDIA ENHANCEMENT DEVICE - A portable media enhancement device for use with a mobile device for processing one or more media files is provided. The mobile device is located separately from the portable media enhancement device. The portable media enhancement device comprises a docking connection input used to communicate with the mobile device and at least one control module. The control module is configured to establish a connection with the mobile device via the docking connection input and to receive one or more media files from the mobile device. The control module is further configured to decode the one or more media files and post process the one or more media files. The control module is further configured to transmit the decoded and processed media files to the mobile device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150371678 | PROCESSING AND TRANSMISSION OF AUDIO, VIDEO AND METADATA - A method and apparatus are described including receiving video data and video metadata, receiving audio data and audio metadata, receiving any other captured data and any other captured metadata, receiving any manually entered data, determining if any of the received data may be combined, combining any received data that is able to be combined and transmitting any combined data and any data that was not able to be combined to a studio apparatus. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving data from a movie set, parsing received video metadata, parsing received audio metadata, validating said received data, said parsed video metadata and said parsed audio metadata and transmitting processed data back to said movie set. | 12-24-2015 |
20160037120 | Camcorder/MP3 Plug-in DVR/TiVo - Patent for Engineering DVR or TiVo Box to Have Cable Receptacle for Camcorder or MP3 Player for Storing and Playing of Video or Sound. | 02-04-2016 |
20160155414 | CONTENT PLAYER WITH TRANSFERENCE READER | 06-02-2016 |