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20080201741 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TELEVISION SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus has: an input unit for inputting image data and program information data, the program information data indicating information on a program including the image data; a display unit for displaying an image corresponding to the image data input from the input unit; and a control unit responsive to a change in a program including images displayed by the display unit for controlling the display unit to display the changed program and the images on the same screen. | 08-21-2008 |
20080216119 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING GUIDES AND USING RECORDING INFORMATION IN DETERMINING PROGRAM TO COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL MAPPINGS - A user recovers and records multiple programs communicated simultaneously using a communications channel, e.g., QAM communications channel. The simultaneous communication may be by communicating, e.g., an MPEG-2 transport stream including data corresponding to multiple programs through a corresponding to QAM communications channel. Thus a user device, e.g., a set top box, is able to receive and record programs corresponding to multiple simultaneously broadcast programs using a single tuner. This allows a device to receive and record or display more programs at any given time, than the number of QAM tuners and/or receivers in the user device. Novel user interface features which facilitate a user's ability to identify and record multiple programs corresponding to a QAM channel are also described. Methods and apparatus for determining program to communication channel mappings based on user program recordation information are also described. | 09-04-2008 |
20080216120 | PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM FOR RECORDING TELEVISION PROGRAMS - An interactive program guide system is provided. The system facilitates recording of programs selected from the program guide. The system handles the recording and viewing of pay programs, parentally-controlled programs, consecutive programs on different television channels, and programs with and without copy protection. Programs may be recorded using combination television videocassette recorder (TV/VCR) units. | 09-04-2008 |
20080229357 | Video Content Identification Using Scene Lengths - Apparatus for identifying video content includes a scene detector to detect a plurality of consecutive scenes in the video content. The video content may include a video program and an advertisement contained within the video program. A timer determines a plurality of scene lengths for each of the plurality of consecutive scenes. A content identifier provides the plurality of scene lengths to a comparator that compares the plurality of scene lengths to a database having a plurality of video content items to identify the video program. The database includes an ordered plurality of previously determined scene lengths for each item of video content in the database. The content identifier receives an identification of the video content from the comparator. The content identifier may further receive information related to a position of the plurality of scene lengths within the ordered plurality of previously determined scene lengths for the identified video content. | 09-18-2008 |
20080229358 | Program selection assistant for IP TV - A method and a system are disclosed for providing program selection information to users of IP TV services. The program selection information provides users with real-time information about the viewing behavior of other users. The program selection information can be used by a user to select a particular television program, and can be used in addition to the information that is contained in an electronic program guide (EPG). | 09-18-2008 |
20080244652 | TELEVISION RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - A television receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a broadcasting program, a program information obtaining unit configured to obtain program information about the broadcasting program, a language setting unit configured to set a language used to display an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), a selection unit configured to select a program to be broadcasted in a language set by the language setting unit using the program information, and a program guide generating unit configured to generate the EPG using the program information, wherein the program guide generating unit is configured to generate the EPG that displays and identifies a program selected by the selection unit while not displaying a program that is not selected by the selection unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244653 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING AN INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE - A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays portions of a scroll program guide on the viewer's display screen. A tuner receives TV radio frequency or optical transmission signals in a plurality of cable channels and passes a viewer usable signal to a signal combiner. A computer receives control signals from the TV viewer remote control transmitter. It controls the tuner to pass the viewer usable signal in response to one of the control signals. Program information, such as TV program schedule information, may be displayed, and a user may select at least some of the displayed program information to be presented with additional program information related to the selected program information. | 10-02-2008 |
20080263596 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PERSONAL SCHEDULE AND BROADCASTING PROGRAM - An apparatus for effectively managing a personal schedule and broadcasting programs includes a schedule management unit for managing a personal schedule, a broadcasting program management unit for managing basic information of broadcasting programs, an interface unit which receives an input signal, and a control unit which finds a first broadcasting program which overlaps with the personal schedule, searches for basic information for the first broadcasting program, and provides a first list including a title of the first broadcasting program, the basic information, and a display component for performing a control operation in response to an input signal. | 10-23-2008 |
20080271078 | Momentary Electronic Program Guide - A computer-implemented method includes determining a time relative to a playing media program to insert a user notification, automatically generating a suggestion regarding a media program other than the playing media program to be presented to an audience member of the playing media program, providing, in a format for presentation on a user-related media player, the generated suggestion at the location in the playing media program, and causing the generation of a control that, when selected, performs an action related to the non-playing media program. | 10-30-2008 |
20080276277 | Method and system for presenting television program guide information based on viewer usage patterns - A method and system for presenting television program guide information is provided. A program guide is obtained, and program viewing patterns of a viewer are monitored. Information from the program guide is selectively presented to the viewer based on the viewing patterns. Selectively presenting information from the program guide includes displaying a listing of channels viewed more frequently on a guide screen in descending order of viewing frequency. | 11-06-2008 |
20080276278 | USER INTERFACE PRESENTING ENHANCED VIDEO CONTENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH VIDEO PROGRAMS - Providing interactive access to video programming and video content information in a multimedia system. A processing device of the multimedia system receives video content information associated with video programming that is to be broadcast. The video content information includes at least video identification information and video content information. The display device of the multimedia system presents a first interface image that presents the video content information for one of the video programs of the video programming. In response to viewer input, a second interface image is displayed on the display device presenting video content information for another one of the video programs of the video programming or for more detailed information associated with the video program. In this manner, the viewer can conveniently navigate through the video content information and identify information that is useful in selecting a program to watch. | 11-06-2008 |
20080282289 | Interactive Television User Interface - An interactive television user interface ( | 11-13-2008 |
20080288981 | RECEIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAMS - There is provided an information providing device that includes a program listing information transmission portion that transmits, to a receiving device, program listing information showing a plurality of programs currently available for viewing; a related information storage portion that links to a program and stores related information in which a plurality of information items pertaining to a program have been edited to be displayed in order; a program designation information receiving portion that receives, from the receiving device, program designation information designating a program currently available for viewing; a related information extraction portion that extracts from the related information storage portion the related information being applicable to the program designated by the program designation information; and a related information transmission portion that transmits the extracted related information to the receiving device. Thus the information pertaining to the programs currently available for viewing can be effectively provided through a simple operation. | 11-20-2008 |
20080301732 | Systems and methods for personalizing an interactive media guidance application - Systems and methods are provided for the personalization of an interactive media guidance application based on recording-related actions performed by at least one of a first user equipment device and a second user equipment device in a media network. For example, a central data system is used to receive information from the first user equipment device indicating a first action associated with recording a program. The central data system is also adapted to receive information from the second user equipment device indicating a second action associated with recording a program. Subsequently, the system generates a profile based on the received information from the first and second user equipment devices and personalizes an interactive media guidance application implemented on the first and second user equipment devices based on the generated profile. | 12-04-2008 |
20080313671 | MAINTAINING ACCURATE CHANNEL LINE-UP BY PERSISTENTLY MONITORING AVAILABILITY OF ACCESSIBLE CHANNELS - A channel updater. The channel updater maintains an accurate channel line-up by automatically testing accessible channels to determine if those channels are available for viewing. Available channels are added to the channel line-up, and unavailable channels are subtracted from the channel line-up. The updater persistently retests the channels so that changes in channel availability are reflected in the channel line-up. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313672 | Electronic program guide (EPG) search - Techniques are described to perform electronic program guide (EPG) search. In an implementation, electronic program guide (EPG) data is searched that describes television content and has a plurality of categories. Results of the search are output in an EPG and arranged according to one or more of the categories. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313673 | Continuous selection graphs - Continuous selection graphs are described. In embodiment(s), a continuous selection graph can be displayed that includes a similarity continuum to indicate media content that is progressively similar. The continuous selection graph can also include an axis of identifying criteria for the media content by which to associate the media content along the similarity continuum. Similar media content that is associated with the identifying criteria can be determined, and selectable indicators of the similar media content can be displayed to indicate a relationship between the identifying criteria and the similar media content along the similarity continuum. | 12-18-2008 |
20090007178 | Video-Based Networking System with a Video-Link Navigator - A video-based system is described, which provides video link navigation between the various videos uploaded to the system. The video link navigation tool can be a graphically displayed interface that links multiple video nodes to one another and allows users to navigate the videos represented by the nodes. In various embodiments, the video link is a system representation of similarities in content between multiple videos, videos belonging to a same story or sequence, video comments submitted and published in response to a particular video and other forms of video relationships. The video nodes can be displayed as graphical thumbnails on a visual interface and can have various sizes, positions and/or color-codings which indicate the types of relations and other information regarding the videos. | 01-01-2009 |
20090013353 | Method and system for presenting TV channels - A method and system for presenting TV channels to a viewer is provided. One or more channel lists are generated based on selection criteria. The channel shuffle scanning is performed by presenting per channel content to a viewer from a channel list, for user viewing within a pre-selected period of time until the viewer picks a channel. | 01-08-2009 |
20090019483 | SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE IN A MEDIA SYSTEM - A system for presenting an electronic programming guide in a media system is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media receiver having a controller element to transmit to a portal information associated with an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG). The portal processes the information to present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) window corresponding to a slideable canvas of the EPG in an Internet browser of a communication device requesting the EPG. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090019484 | MOBILE TERMINAL, AND BROADCAST CHANNEL AND BROADCAST INFORMATION INDICTATION METHOD THEREOF - A method for displaying broadcast channel information in a mobile terminal is presented. The method includes entering a broadcast reception mode, and displaying channel information indicating whether each channel available for reception is a general channel or an integrated channel, wherein a general channel comprises one broadcast channel mapped onto a single broadcast path, and an integrated channel comprises at least two virtual channels mapped onto a single broadcast path. | 01-15-2009 |
20090019485 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH NICHE HUBS - A system for providing interactive television program guide features and other features and information related to a specific user interest or programming category in niche hubs is provided. All of the television programming features provided by user television equipment that relate to a specific user interest or programming category may be accessed from the niche hub. For example, a movie lovers niche hub may provide programming features such as television program listings for movies, video-on-demand listings for movies, pay-per-view listings for movies, web site links related to movies, movie-related merchandise, movie news groups, movie chat groups, movie e-mail clubs, movie contests, movie trivia questions, movie actor interviews, movie reviews, movie channel package ordering, etc. The programming features of the niche hubs may be transmitted from a server, database, or other storage facility via a television distribution facility. User television equipment may be connected via two-way communications paths to transmit messages to each other. | 01-15-2009 |
20090031352 | Method and system to process television program summary - Provided is a method and system for displaying video streams, including receiving video data from a plurality of video stream by a frame controller in communication with a television display including a first picture and a second picture, and also receiving a television program summary list. The television program summary list includes television program data corresponding to the received video streams, and displaying the television program summary list in the second picture, and allowing the selection of a program from the television program summary list by a consumer, and displaying the selected video stream in the first picture. | 01-29-2009 |
20090031353 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION RECEIVING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information receiving terminal includes a designation information transmitting portion to transmit designation information designating a program and a related information receiving portion. The information providing apparatus includes a related information storage portion to store related information containing a plurality of information to which each provision period is settable in association with a program, a designation information receiving portion, a related information extracting portion to extract the related information appropriate for a designated program, and a related information transmitting portion to transmit the extracted related information. The information receiving terminal or the information providing apparatus includes an information selecting portion to select information to which a provision period corresponding to a provision time point of the related information is set from a plurality of information constituting the received/extracted related information as information constituting the related information. An information providing system effectively providing program-related information is provided. | 01-29-2009 |
20090044223 | BROADCAST/VOD RECEIVER AND VIEWING MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a broadcast/VOD receiver comprises a broadcast reception processing unit which selectively receives broadcast signals and reproduces content of broadcast programs, a VOD communication processing unit which communicates with a server providing VOD content to acquire the VOD content, an EPG information acquisition unit which acquires EPG information, a viewing reservation unit which makes reservations for viewing the VOD content to the server, a display data generation unit which creates a schedule table of the broadcast programs on the basis of the EPG information, adds list information columns displaying list information of the VOD content on the schedule table, and inserts viewing schedules corresponding to viewing reservations for the VOD content to the list information columns to generate display data, and a display processing unit which reproduces to output the display data and display the schedule table on a display screen of a display unit. | 02-12-2009 |
20090049473 | Providing a Video User Interface - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. First, a first input may be received and a currently displayed programming content may be shrunken. Next, the shrunken programming content may be displayed. Then, in response to the received first input and concurrent with the shrunken programming content, a media guide comprising at least three display elements may be displayed. Each one of the three display elements may respectively include a first content element, a second content element, and a third content element. The first content element may display a plurality of available on-demand programming groups. The second content element may display further information with respect to a selected any of the plurality of available on-demand programming groups. The third content element may display cover art corresponding to content available within the selected any of the plurality of available on-demand programming groups. | 02-19-2009 |
20090055868 | System for collating data from multiple sources to form a composite program guide for display - A video decoder system collates program guide information acquired from a variety of local and remote sources. Program guide information is received from a first source and a selectable program guide menu icon is displayed. A category of program guide information items from the first source is collated by a display attribute in response to selection of the menu icon and the collated program guide information items are displayed. The display attribute allocated to the category of program guide information items is common to both the category of items and to the menu icon. Codes identifying program categories may be converted to other codes using equivalence mapping information for classifying programs according to a master set of program categories. Composite program map information may be formed including new data identifiers allocated to program guide information items for use in retrieving the items from a second source. | 02-26-2009 |
20090064226 | USER INTERFACE OF INTERACTIVE PROGRAM GUIDE AND METHOD THEREOF - A user interface of an interactive program guide includes a two-dimensional EPG area and a selected program area. The two-dimensional EPG area includes a list of channels, programs corresponding to the channels and an indicator pointing to a selected program. The selected program area includes an analog clock indicating the current time and display period of the selected program and a status area with text indicating the status of the selected program. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070813 | Back up display system of a signal irregularity and a method of the same - A back up display system of a signal irregularity and a method of the same wherein the back up display system comprises of a transmission unit acquiring an image signal; a back up display unit having a back up image information; an irregularity detecting unit detecting image information and outputting a switching signal when it determines an image signal is in irregular state; a broadcasting unit acquiring and broadcasting the image signal of the transmission unit in regular state and discontinuing to broadcast the image signal of the transmission unit by broadcasting the back up image information of the back up display unit instead when the irregularity detecting unit outputs a switching signal. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070814 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION SERVICE - A method and a system for providing application service are disclosed. The method of providing application service in a digital data broadcasting system coupled to at least one broadcasting terminal through a network includes generating a preview contents by using first data combined with an application for data broadcasting service, wherein the preview contents has second data provided when a user requests the application service, and transmitting the generated preview contents to the broadcasting terminal. Here, the broadcasting terminal outputs the preview contents before data broadcasting standby time. Accordingly, useful information may be provided to the user before the application is executed. | 03-12-2009 |
20090089837 | Electronic Apparatus and Display Method - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device which stores section attribute information which specifies a start time point and an end time point of at least one predetermined attribute section of a plurality of attribute sections which are included in the video content data. A display process module displays, on a display screen, a section bar including a bar area which is indicative of a position of the predetermined attribute section in a sequence of the video content data, on the basis of the section attribute information. A playback process module executes, on the display screen, playback of moving picture data in the video content data which belongs to the predetermined attribute section, on the basis of the section attribute information, in a case where an event of requesting playback of the video content data of the predetermined attribute section is input. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089838 | Template Based System, Device and Method for Providing Interactive Content - A template based system, device and method of providing interactive content with broadcast programming is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a plurality of templates for presenting interactive content in a memory, receiving a request for interactive content channel from a viewer, receiving interactive content data associated with the requested interactive content channel, receiving information for selecting a template for displaying the interactive content data, retrieving a template from memory based on the information for selecting a template; populating the retrieved template with the interactive content data to provide an interactive content display; and presenting the interactive content display to the viewer concurrently with the broadcast program. Each broadcast program may have multiple associated interactive content channels and some interactive content channels may be available for display with multiple broadcast programs. | 04-02-2009 |
20090100466 | Electronic program guide (EPG) referencing past television content - Techniques are described that involve an electronic program guide referencing past television content. In an implementation, a reference to an episode of television content that has already been broadcast is output in an electronic program guide. An event is scheduled that relates to another episode of the television with the reference to the television content that has already been broadcast. | 04-16-2009 |
20090100467 | Apparatus and Method for Providing Program Guide With Channel Signal Strength - An apparatus provides an on-screen program guide that includes information indicating channel signal strength. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a memory operative to store data related to the program guide, and a processor operative to enable display of the program guide using the stored data. The program guide includes a plurality of program titles. The processor determines a program title pointed to by a pointer and determines a channel associated with the determined program title. Signal strength of the determined channel is displayed along with the program guide. | 04-16-2009 |
20090113477 | Digital Television Setting Information Storage Apparatus and Method for Accessing Digital Television Information - A digital television setting information storage apparatus and a method for accessing digital television information are provided. The apparatus includes a random access memory and a non-volatile memory. The method includes steps of: receiving a setting information change signal, storing setting information into the random access memory, clearing the non-volatile memory, and transferring the setting information from the random access memory to the non-volatile memory when the non-volatile memory is erased. The setting information includes channel information and on screen display setting information. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH A PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAYED ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for controlling the operation of a plurality of consumer electronic devices by displaying a plurality of broadcast channel identifiers each corresponding to a broadcast channel in a display of a controlling device adapted to command at least channel tuning operations of the plurality of consumer electronic devices. Input is accepted into the controlling device that functions to designate one of the plurality of broadcast channel identifiers and the controlling device uses the designation of the one of the plurality of broadcast channel identifiers to cause a transmission of a wireless signal from the controlling device to a one of the plurality of consumer electronic devices to thereby cause the one of the plurality of consumer electronic devices to tune to the broadcast channel corresponding to the designated one of the plurality of broadcast channel identifiers. A condition associated with at least one of the controlling device and the designated one of the plurality of broadcast channel identifiers functions to determine the one of the plurality of consumer electronic devices to which the wireless signal is transmitted. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119712 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT LIST AND SUB-LIST, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Methods for providing a multimedia content list and a sub-list and a broadcast receiving apparatus using the methods are provided. The method for providing a multimedia content list includes generating a broadcast program list using electronic program guide (EPG) information, extracting a video file list of video files stored in storage medium or an external device, and displaying a multimedia content list including the generated broadcast program list and the extracted video file list on a screen. | 05-07-2009 |
20090125941 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A control method of an image processing apparatus which communicates with a server, the control method including: receiving image content including additional information; processing and displaying the received image content; receiving a selection signal to select an information searching function; transmitting the additional information of the image content to the server; and receiving at least one search word related to the image content from the server and generating a list. | 05-14-2009 |
20090133063 | Preference Based Electronic Programming Guide - A set top box is provided that includes a receiver for receiving programming content over a broadband access network and an electronic program guide (EPG) unit for outputting to a display scheduling information associated with programs deliverable over the broadband access network. The EPG is further configured to present on the display a plurality of user-selectable program cells for selecting a program identified by each of the respective cells. The program cells have dimensions that are substantially equal to one another. A processor is operationally associated with the receiver and the EPG unit. A user interface device is provided for selecting among the user-selectable program cells. | 05-21-2009 |
20090133064 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION ACQUISITION TERMINAL, BROADCAST RECEIVING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An ECG server for providing ECG information about a program to broadcast receiving terminals and user terminals includes an ECG information storage unit for storing the ECG information including attribute information, an emotion information acquisition unit for acquiring emotion information representing emotions of viewers about content of the program displayed by the broadcast receiving terminals via at least one of the information acquisition terminals, an emotion information analysis unit for analyzing at least one piece of the acquired emotion information, and an ECG unit configuration unit for configuring an ECG unit by associating at least one piece of the ECG information with the program and associating at least one piece of the acquired emotion information with the program based on attribute information of the ECG information to suit analysis results of the emotion information. Accordingly, viewers can be lured to view the program by inviting viewers to view the program. | 05-21-2009 |
20090133065 | Information accumulation apparatus, information display method and computer program - There is provided an information accumulation apparatus that accumulates contents and has a power-on state and a standby state as a power state, which includes an information collection portion to collect information including content information related to a content and internal information related to the information accumulation apparatus during the power-on state, an information acquisition portion to acquire the information collected by the information collection portion during transition from the power-on state to the standby state, and a display portion to sequentially display the information acquired by the information acquisition portion during the standby state. | 05-21-2009 |
20090133066 | Apparatus and method for displaying broadcasting program guide information - Provided are an apparatus and a method for displaying a broadcasting program guide information. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138913 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method of the digital broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble, which is a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, using the extracted FIC signaling information, selectively detecting a first message descriptor mapped with time information or a second message descriptor not mapped with time information, using the acquired program table, performing a control operation to display a message defined in the detected message descriptor. | 05-28-2009 |
20090150933 | IPTV receiver and method of providing channel details information - An IPTV receiver and a method of providing channel details information are provided. A network interface transmits and receives an IP packet through a network. An IP network stack checks a destination of the received IP packet and classifies the IP packet according to a protocol. A Service Information (SI) decoder parses a channel map record included in the IP packet to read a channel map instance included in the channel map record, parses a channel details record included in the IP packet to read the channel details information included in the channel details record, wherein the channel map instance includes channel details reception information. an IPTV terminal function (ITF) operation controller controls the reception of the channel details record based on the channel details reception information. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150934 | Electronic Programming Guide - 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 | 06-11-2009 |
20090165051 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PRESENTING AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Methods and devices for presenting an interactive media guidance application are provided. In some embodiments, methods for presenting an interactive media guidance application in a user equipment device are provided, the methods comprising: determining a location of the user equipment device; determining a destination of the user equipment device; identifying, as local guide listings, listings corresponding to media available at the location of the user equipment device; identifying, as unavailable guide listings, the local guide listings corresponding to media that will not be available at the destination; and presenting the unavailable guide listings on the user equipment device. | 06-25-2009 |
20090165052 | PROGRAM-BASED ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A program-based electronic program guide (EPG) system is provided, the EPG system including a search unit which searches for and finds programs broadcast within a predetermined time period around a predetermined time, a collection unit which collects program information of programs found by the search unit, a classification unit which classifies the program information collected by the collection unit based on program codes, and a display unit which displays program guide information, including the program information classified by the classification unit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090172736 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION WITH ACCESS TO MULTIPLE DATA PATHS - Systems and methods for an interactive media guidance application with access to multiple data sets are provided. One of the data sets may be selected to generate a media guidance application display screen. A data set may be selected based on the data source or data path from which the data set was received. A data set may also be selected based on a quality measure value associated with the data set. Portions of two or more data sets may also be merged to form a combined data set. | 07-02-2009 |
20090178078 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR INDICATORS IN AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM GUIDE - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing indicators in an interactive programming guide. Exemplary embodiments include a method for displaying an interactive program guide with program status indicators, the method including retrieving a set of program guide entries for the program guide, each of the program guide entries representing programs that have at least one indicator associated with, the program guide entry and illustrating the status of the programs, determining that a subset of the program guide entries represent programs include a particular status that includes a particular status indicator and displaying the status indicator adjacent each program guide entry of the subset of program, guide entries. | 07-09-2009 |
20090183201 | INTERACTIVE LEARNING - A method may include providing a live, interactive program or information associated with the live, interactive program on a video display device; and providing a live interactive content icon on the video display device when a current time is before an end time of the live, interactive program, the live interactive content icon indicating that live interactive content is available for the live, interactive program. | 07-16-2009 |
20090193463 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN USERS IN MEDIA REPRODUCING SYSTEM - A method and system for sharing information between users while reproducing media in a media reproducing system, the method including: reproducing the media in the media reproducing system; capturing a part of the media in the media reproducing system; and registering a media related question including the captured part of the media in an information sharing server through a return channel of the media reproducing system. Accordingly, the users can share information in real time by generating the media related question by directly capturing the media in the media reproducing system, registering the media related question in the information sharing server, and displaying on the media reproducing system of another user that such media related question is registered. Also, since a question can be directly registered while reproducing the media, information can be conveniently shared without interrupting the media reproduction. | 07-30-2009 |
20090204992 | Method, apparatus and system for personalized broadcast media reception - The present invention advantageously provides a method, apparatus and system for personalized broadcast media content including a user interface for enabling personalization, which provides efficient use of network bandwidth and minimizes receiver device battery usage. In one embodiment, a user profile is pre-defined on a receiving device to indicate the recording interests of the user. Individual clips to be broadcast are associated with flexible metadata tags, such that when content, particularly video programs, is broadcast, the receiver device selects individual programs to record based upon content tags matching the user interests indicated in the profile. The selection process can also consider viewing statistics. | 08-13-2009 |
20090210905 | Information providing apparatus, information acquisition terminal, broadcast reception terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program - An ECG server, which provides program contents-related ECG information to a television terminal and a user terminal, comprises a storage unit that stores the program contents-related ECG information, a configuring unit that configures an ECG module in correspondence to the program contents, made up with a plurality of sets of ECG information including tuning information to be used to allow the television terminal to select the program contents, a setting unit that sets timing information, which will allow the ECG module to be provided to the user terminal by linking with consignment of the program contents and a providing unit that provides, in conformance to the timing information, the ECG module to an user terminal capable of providing the tuning information to the television terminal. By utilizing the ECG server, the ratings of the program contents can be improved and the program contents can be more easily selected. | 08-20-2009 |
20090210906 | VIDEO TAPE INDEXING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video tape indexing system in which program broadcast identification information is entered into the system for use in recording the program. When the program is recorded, the system stores indexing information in an index memory. The system monitors a broadcast channel for electronic program guide information that includes titles and usually channel, date, time and length for the titles. The system matches the channel, date, time and length information from the broadcast channel with the identification information entered for the program to be recorded. The title in the broadcast channel associated with the channel, date, time and length information is then associated with the indexing information for the program. | 08-20-2009 |
20090222857 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A content recommendation apparatus that can recommend contents suitable to user's taste immediately even after introduction of the system even if a TV set is used by unspecified users. Among previously-determined recommendation ranks of contents, the content recommendation apparatus of the present invention lowers the recommendation rank of a VOD content that is similar to TV programs broadcast in other media at a prescribed time. As the prescribed time, can be employed a time designated by a user, a time on a prescribed cycle, or a time when a TV program on the air in another media is changed, for example. | 09-03-2009 |
20090241144 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM WITH ONE-TOUCH RECORDING AND CONFLICT DETECTION FEATURES - A full service television system and method are provided. The system comprises a cable headend, at least one fiber transport, at least one distribution hub, at least one hybrid fiber coax plant, and a plurality of set-top terminals. The system delivers television programs, advanced cable services, and online services. Programs and services are transmitted to the set-top terminals in both digital and analog formats to maintain downward compatibility with existing systems. The set-top terminal includes a central processing unit, a unified memory architecture, a memory management unit, communications circuitry, I/O control circuitry, and audio and video output circuitry. Through these components, the set-top terminal provides advanced cable services such as a comprehensive channel navigator, an interactive program guide, one-touch recording, recording conflict detection and resolution, and advanced configuration controls. The set-top terminal also provides online services such as World Wide Web browsing, Internet e-mail, and home shopping. | 09-24-2009 |
20090249397 | VIDEO EPISODE ORDER ADHERENCE - Viewing episodes of a video series in order allows for a good viewing experience and understanding of episode content of the individual episodes. Functionality can be implemented in a video recording device and/or at a content provider to collect data about viewing behavior to determine if a user(s) tends to view episodes of a series in order. The video recording device and/or content provider can also keep track of partially or fully viewed episodes and episodes that are ready for viewing to avoid acquiring already viewed episodes Being able to quickly catch up on missed episodes will allow for easier introduction to a video series and prevent viewers from abandoning programs. In addition, requests for particular episodes can be leveraged for dynamic episode scheduling and dynamic setting of advertisement rates. | 10-01-2009 |
20090265738 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING AUXILIARY DISPLAY DATA - A method for dynamically displaying an auxiliary display data on a screen includes the following steps: (a) receiving a message carrier, and storing at least a data transmitted via the message carrier into a storage device; (b) comparing a received data of the message carrier and a stored data in the storage device; and when the received data differs from the stored data, storing the received data into the storage device for updating the stored data, thereby generating an updated stored data stored in the storage device; and (c) determining whether to display the auxiliary display data corresponding to an altered portion or not, wherein when the auxiliary display data is displayed, an adjusting operation is performed according to the updated stored data to thereby display the auxiliary display data on the screen. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271824 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an image display apparatus that receives a broadcast program and displays video images relating to the broadcast program. The image display apparatus comprises, among other things, a communication interface for communicating with a rendering apparatus that is externally connected; an input unit that receives image data for displaying graphic images from the rendering apparatus, the graphic images being different from the video images relating to the broadcast program; and a control unit that gives an instruction to the rendering apparatus, via the communication interface, to generate the image data, and obtains, via the input unit, image data generated by the rendering apparatus according to the instruction. | 10-29-2009 |
20090276807 | Facilitating indication of metadata availbility within user accessible content - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for facilitating association of user accessible content and supplemental information that is at least one of audibly and visually outputted by a user terminal comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for maintaining a data structure that associates supplemental information relating to such user accessible content with timeframe information corresponding to the supplemental information. Prior to a location within said user accessible content where content corresponding to the supplemental information is contained being outputted via the user terminal, an operation is performed for receiving a timeframe information query corresponding to said user accessible content from the user terminal. An operation is performed for transmitting the timeframe information for reception by the user terminal in response to receiving the timeframe information query and prior to the location within said user accessible content where content corresponding to the supplemental information is contained being outputted by the user terminal. | 11-05-2009 |
20090282437 | System and Method for Controlling Media at a Plurality of Output Devices - A media managing system and method for controlling and distributing media output at a plurality of output devices includes at least one interface configured to provide to a user a visual graphical menu of a plurality of options to associate signals from media source(s) with the plurality of media output devices and effect signals to the media output devices. A computing device communicates with the interface(s) and the output devices and/or the media source to associate signals from the media source(s) with the plurality of output devices. The visual graphical menu provides a visual graphical display of the media source(s) and at least some of the output devices available for association to permit the user to select and associate the at least one media source with one or more of the plurality of media devices and distribute audio and/or video signals to user selected output devices. | 11-12-2009 |
20090300679 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a content information acquisition unit that acquires content related information related to content data managed by a content management server from the content management server managing the content data, a selection unit that selects content from a content list which is a list of the content based on the content related information, and an externally connected device control unit that notifies, when the selected content is executed by an externally connected device connected externally, the externally connected device of location information of content data corresponding to the selected content and acquires reproduction state information representing a reproduction state of content when the externally connected device reproduces the selected content from the externally connected device. | 12-03-2009 |
20090320070 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic device comprising: a content acquiring means capable of acquiring content acquired via a network or from inside of the electronic device, or generated inside of the electronic device; a first displaying means capable of displaying the acquired first content; a second displaying means arranged as a touch panel which is capable of accepting an input operation of a user, and capable of displaying the acquired second content; a display controlling means which, based on a predetermined condition, when the content acquiring means acquired third content in a state where the first and second content are displayed in the first and second displaying means, respectively, performs one of: (1) displaying in the second displaying means the third content clearing the second content, (2) presenting a split view by splitting the screen of the first display means into parts for the first and second content, and displaying in the second displaying means the third content, and (3) presenting a split view by splitting the screen of the second displaying means into parts for the second and third content. | 12-24-2009 |
20090328101 | USER INTERFACE FOR MOBILE TV INTERACTIVE SERVICES - A method includes providing an electronic program guide that presents content programming information for one or more program channels on a broadcast TV device; detecting a selection of a program block in the electronic program guide, the selected program block corresponding to a program scheduled on a program channel; and providing a program indicator block corresponding to the selected program block, the program indicator presenting detailed programming information related to the scheduled program including any program reminder or program recording state setting. | 12-31-2009 |
20100005490 | PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH BROWSING DISPLAY - An inter pap active television program guide system is provided in which a user may direct the program guide to display a browsing display screen. The browsing display screen includes a list of current programs including a movable highlight region, a video window containing a television program to which the system is currently tuned, and a detailed description of the highlighted program listing. The user may position the highlight region using remote control cursor keys. The user may then synchronize the content of the video window with the highlighted program listing by pressing a select key or a channel up or down key. If the user changes channels repeatedly using the channel up and down keys, the contents of the video window and the highlighted program listings remain in synchronization. | 01-07-2010 |
20100011394 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING WIDGETS AND TV USING THE SAME - A method for providing widgets and a TV using the same are disclosed. The method for providing widgets includes searching for widgets related to a certain keyword or a broadcast program among widgets provided by a plurality of content providers, and displaying the searched widgets on a widget search list classified according to content provider. A user can thereby search for and use the widgets provided from various content providers more easily. | 01-14-2010 |
20100011395 | Information processing unit - An information processing unit includes: a receiving unit which receives, via a communication network, first specifying information which is used by a content source to specify the content, from a display device which receives and displays broadcast content; a converting unit which, upon retrieval request from the display device for related information which is related to the content, converts the first specifying information into second specifying information, which is used by a source of the related information to specify the content; a retrieval controlling unit which transmits the second specifying information to a retrieval device, which retrieves the related information based on the second specifying information, via the communication network and controls retrieval of the related information; and a providing unit which provides the display device with the related information acquired from the retrieval device via the communication network upon retrieval request for the related information to the retrieval device. | 01-14-2010 |
20100017822 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus for displaying an electronic program guide in a television receiver provided with a PVR function enhance user convenience by providing information of a program recorded and stored in the television receiver as well as information of programs currently broadcast or scheduled to be broadcast. The method of controlling a receiver includes steps of extracting electronic program guide (EPG) information from a received broadcast signal, the EPG information indicating a broadcasting schedule for a plurality of broadcast programs; searching at least one broadcast program of the plurality of broadcast programs, the searched at least one broadcast program corresponding to a temporary storage of the received broadcast signal in a storage device enabling a time-shift function; and constructing an EPG in which the searched at least one broadcast program is visually distinguishable from other broadcast programs of the plurality of broadcast programs. | 01-21-2010 |
20100037261 | Display apparatus and display method - There is provided a display apparatus including display means for displaying images, electronic program guide display means for causing the display means to display an electronic program guide, selection means for draggably & droppably selecting the part of the electronic program guide displayed by the electronic program guide display means, icon display means for, when the part selected by the selection means is dragged, causing icons corresponding to the part to be displayed by being superimposed on the electronic program guide, and execution means for, when the part is dropped onto the icon caused by the icon display means to be displayed by being superimposed on the electronic program guide while the part displayed in the electronic program guide being dragged by the selection means, causing a function associated with the icon to be executed. | 02-11-2010 |
20100043025 | PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In order to provide a program guide display apparatus that improves the user convenience by performing identification display to a program guide according to a reception state of the broadcast, the program guide display apparatus of the present invention comprises a 1seg reception unit | 02-18-2010 |
20100043026 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BROADCASTING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN A SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING VIDEO PROGRAMS - There is provided a method of displaying additional content by a user terminal, comprising: receiving by the terminal digital content items of video broadcasting services, the digital content items comprising video programs, displaying by the terminal a content item selected from the received digital content items, receiving by the terminal additional content items associated with one of the video broadcasting services and with context data, and displaying by the terminal a content item selected from the received additional content items if a current context of the terminal corresponds to the context data of the content item. | 02-18-2010 |
20100043027 | Bi-directional remote control unit and method of using the same - A bi-directional communications link between a television set and a remote control unit assists a viewer in controlling the entertainment system. The television set can signal the remote control unit to confirm instruction signal received from the remote control unit. The television can also transmit electronic program guide information to the remote control unit which is displayed on a display device on the remote control unit. The television can send the remote control unit a listing of available sub-channels within a single digital channel. The listing is displayed on the remote's display device, and the viewer can then choose from among the sub-channels. | 02-18-2010 |
20100058388 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes a display module, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The display module displays a content list indicating contents of an identical type. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content from the content list. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and second contents of a plurality of types including the identical type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and pieces of the second display information around the first display information. The pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation is closer to the first display information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100071001 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING EPG - Provided are a method and apparatus for rapidly and exactly searching an electronic program guide (EPG) for a desired program. Even when only a program search command is input, program representative titles detected from an EPG are display in a sequential order based on a user command (e.g., in hangeul consonant order or alphabetical order). Therefore, a program search screen can be more easily recognized. | 03-18-2010 |
20100071002 | BROADCAST RECEIVER FOR DISPLAYING EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGY INCLUDED IN DIGITAL CAPTION AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL CAPTION USING THE SAME - A broadcast receiver and a method for processing a digital caption using the same. A broadcast receiver receives a broadcast signal containing digital caption information, searches for an explanation of terminology to be explained if terminology in the digital caption information is included in a list of terminology to be explained, and displays the explanation found for the terminology to be explained on a screen. | 03-18-2010 |
20100083315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL CONTROL OF USER INTERFACE FEATURES PROVIDED BY A TELEVISION RECEIVER - Systems and methods provide for changing the presentation of a current channel to another channel on a display in response to a viewer input received via a remote control. Viewer input from a remote control is received at a set-top box (STB) or similar television receiver. Imagery on the display initially corresponds to the current channel. At least a portion of the imagery is scrolled in response to the viewer input to thereby tune the other channel on the display. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088723 | BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR BROADCAST RECEIVER - The broadcast receiver includes a storage unit configured to store first broadcast information for specifying a broadcast channel and/or program viewable on the broadcast receiver, an acquisition unit configured to acquire second broadcast information from the other broadcast receiver for specifying a broadcast channel and/or program viewable on the other broadcast receiver, an extraction unit configured to extract a broadcast channel and/or program from the first and second broadcast information not viewable on the broadcast receiver and viewable on the other broadcast receiver, and a generation unit configured to generate an electronic program guide that a user can distinguish a broadcast channel and/or program extracted from a broadcast channel and/or program that is viewable on the broadcast receiver. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088724 | Broadcast program display apparatus and method - Received by a program display apparatus are: programs for each of which a receiving time has been determined; digest views corresponding to the programs; and receiving-time information for the programs. The received digest views and receiving-time information are stored in a memory. A moving picture is displayed on a main screen zone of a monitor screen, with the digest views that have been stored in the memory on a sub screen zone of the monitor screen, as being superposed on the moving picture, according to the user's operation. Each digest view is allowed to be displayed on the sub screen zone when a remaining time of the program corresponding the digest view, obtained based on the receiving-time information, is long than the reference time. The digest view is, however, inhibited from being displayed on the sub screen zone when the remaining time is equal to or shorter than the reference time. | 04-08-2010 |
20100095326 | PROGRAM CONTENT TAGGING SYSTEM - A program content tagging system for facilitating the development of an interactive social network during the viewing of a program comprising a base station, a database, an output device, and an input device. The base station serves as the conduit for bidirectional communication between the user and the output device. The database stores a library of program content and/or other program content identification to provide a means for identifying the program content transmitted to the user. The output device allows the user to view any additional information synchronized with the program content. The input device allows the user to request or send information to the base station for processing. The user may activate a tag mark displayed on the output device to view additional information. With this information users, vendors, and visitors can engage in commerce through the use of advertisements and sales of goods and services. | 04-15-2010 |
20100107194 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - A non-frame television program guide notification system is provided. The system allows a user at a system to order and receive notifications of non-frame television programs. The user can order notifications by selecting a program or supplying a program title directly. The user can specify when and how often the notifications will be generated and received. If desired, the user can view a list of all currently requested notifications. Entries can be added to the list or the user can cancel a previously ordered notification. | 04-29-2010 |
20100122293 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INCONSISTENT USER ACTIONS AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK - Systems and methods are provided for detecting inconsistent user actions and providing feedback about assets. A user may perform a first action restricting access to a first asset. The system may detect whether a second action performed relative to a second asset that has a similar attribute as the first asset is inconsistent with the first asset. The inconsistency may be detected when the second action removes or is an inaction that does not place access restrictions on the second asset. The system may alert the user about the inconsistency and the user may act on the alert by providing feedback about the inconsistency and/or the first/second asset, ignoring the inconsistency and/or placing an access restriction or other action consistent with the first action relative to the second asset. The user may also provide detailed feedback about an inconsistency or asset through a website accessed on another device. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131981 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A WIDGET AND A BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for displaying a widget and a broadcast receiving apparatus thereof are provided. The apparatus includes an information receiving unit which receives information for at least one widget, a broadcast receiving unit which receives a broadcast signal, a signal processing unit which processes the broadcast signal to obtain a video signal and an audio signal, a storage unit which stores the information for the at least one widget and category information of the at least one widget, a control unit which determines which is a current category and controls the display unit to display an icon of a widget in the current category, an on-screen display (OSD) generating unit which generates the icon of the widget in the current category, a display unit which displays an image corresponding to the video signal and the icon of the widget in the current category, and a speaker which output a sound corresponding to the audio signal. | 05-27-2010 |
20100146547 | Method of transmitting and receiving broadcast signal and apparatus for receiving broadcast signal - Disclosed are a method of transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and an apparatus for receiving the broadcast signal. In the present invention, first program table information describing a broadcasting stream, and second program table information including additional service identifier information of the multiplexed stream and third program table information describing the additional service data for the multiplexed stream are obtained. The additional service can be provided with the additional service data by using the third program table information. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146548 | BROADCASTING RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a broadcasting receiving apparatus and a control method thereof capable of receiving recommendation information, the control method of a broadcasting receiving apparatus receiving recommendation information about a broadcasting program; comparing a time of confirming the recommendation information and a broadcasting time of a recommended program included in the recommendation information; and supplying a function of the broadcasting receiving apparatus for using the recommendation information to correspond to a comparison result. Accordingly, a broadcasting receiving apparatus and a control method thereof capable of supplying a broadcasting service having an improved user convenience is provided. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146549 | Graphical Indicator within an Interactive Program Guide - A system is presented having a graphical indicator in an interface screen of an electronic program guide. The graphical indicator is configured to focus a user's attention on a selectable program instance field. The indicator has a length that depends on the duration of the selectable program instance, thereby conveying the start and stop times of the selectable instance. At least one indicator attribute is controllable by the user. For example, the user may control the indicator height, weight, width or brightness. | 06-10-2010 |
20100162310 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, there is a method of displaying digital broadcasting using a digital device, the method comprising: storing, in the digital device, a plurality of television program listings, each of the television program listing including a title, telecast time information and channel information; displaying the plurality of television program listings on a screen of the digital device; and if a program from the displayed television program listings is selected, displaying detailed information of the selected program on the screen, wherein the selected program has a plurality of data broadcasting programs related to the selected program, and wherein the detailed information includes information of the selected program and/or information of at least one of the data broadcasting programs related to the selected program. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169925 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiver is configured to receive a broadcast signal and output the broadcast signal to an external device. The broadcast receiver includes a program information obtaining module, a storage module, and a channel selection detector. The program information obtaining module obtains program information from the broadcast signal. The storage module stores the program information obtained by the program information obtaining module. The channel selection detector detects an operation of selecting a channel. When the channel selection detector detects that a channel is selected, the broadcast receiver controls the external device to mute audio output. The channel selection detector also reads program information corresponding to the selected channel from the storage module and output the program information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169926 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING APPROXIMATED INFORMATION IN AN INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE - An interactive television program guide application on an interactive television system that determines approximated information using historical content is provided. The interactive television program guide application may retain and store interactive television program guide information. Using the available information, the interactive television program guide application may determine approximated information when information is not available or has not been received. | 07-01-2010 |
20100175088 | Apparatus and Method for Processing Audio and/or Video Data - An apparatus and a method are provided for processing audio and/or video data comprising a module for displaying an element comprising at least one absolute time or at least one time indicator, wherein a sector or portion associated with the element indicates a duration or a length of the audio and/or video data, wherein time marks are displayed that are set automatically or by user interaction. | 07-08-2010 |
20100180300 | FEATURES FOR USE WITH ADVANCED SET-TOP APPLICATIONS ON INTERACTIVE TELEVISON SYSTEMS - Advanced features for interactive television applications are described, including a back feature, a forward feature, a history feature, a go to feature, an extras feature, a reminder feature, a favorites feature, a parental control feature, and a search feature. Features may be inter-resource. Support for multiple data paths, Internet access, interactive services, and user profiles are also described. | 07-15-2010 |
20100186034 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE DEVICES - When selecting a television program for recording, a user may configure the delivery of the selected television program and associated data and interactive applications to different user equipment devices in a home network, which may have different capabilities. Because the user equipment devices in the home network may have different capabilities, the user may wish to deliver different types and amount of content, different amounts of data, and different versions of interactive applications to the user equipment devices in the home network. | 07-22-2010 |
20100186035 | METHOD OF PROCESSING NON-REAL TIME SERVICE AND BROADCAST RECEIVER - A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non-real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, storing contents being downloaded through a FLUTE or an internet in a storage medium, based upon the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content, and displaying a list of recordings including the contents stored in the storage medium, wherein a list of recordings screen displaying the list of recordings includes at least one of a content name, a channel name, a date of recording, and a content size. | 07-22-2010 |
20100186036 | METHOD OF PROCESSING NON-REAL TIME SERVICE AND BROADCAST RECEIVER - A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non-real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring and storing the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, when a non-real time specific service guide is requested from a real-time specific service guide screen, configuring the non-real time specific service guide based upon the stored additional information and content identifier of the stored contents, thereby displaying a non-real time specific service guide screen, and performing a playback or download scheduling function on the content selected from the non-real time specific service guide screen. | 07-22-2010 |
20100186037 | TELEVISION CONTROL INTERFACE WITH ELECTRONIC GUIDE - An on-screen menu method and system for controlling the functions of integrated electronic devices and a television schedule system and method for displaying television schedule information on a television screen includes a program guide having a schedule information area that depicts the programs that are being presented on each channel at each time during the day and an interconnected series of menus to control the features of the integrated electronic devices. An input device allows the viewer to move a pointer over different interactive areas of the guide and the function performed when the area is activated is displayed in a contextual help window. Various control glyphs provide for recursive interaction with the guide. | 07-22-2010 |
20100192179 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH NICHE HUBS - A system for providing interactive television program guide features and other features and information related to a specific user interest or programming category in niche hubs is provided. All of the television programming features provided by user television equipment that relate to a specific user interest or programming category may be accessed from the niche hub. For example, a movie lovers niche hub may provide programming features such as television program listings for movies, video-on-demand listings for movies, pay-per-view listings for movies, web site links related to movies, movie-related merchandise, movie news groups, movie chat groups, movie e-mail clubs, movie contests, movie trivia questions, movie actor interviews, movie reviews, movie channel package ordering, etc. The programming features of the niche hubs may be transmitted from a server, database, or other storage facility via a television distribution facility. User television equipment may be connected via two-way communications paths to transmit messages to each other. | 07-29-2010 |
20100199308 | Channel Change Insert - Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to displaying supplemental content during a time period that occurs when a receiver switches from a first broadcast channel to a second broadcast channel. The supplemental content may include still or motion graphics, logos, animation, advertisements and/or modified frames of one or more of the first and second display channels. In connection with displaying supplemental content during a channel change, a receiver may use electronic program guide information to obtain graphics or scheduling information. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205634 | Interactive program guide system and method - An interactive television program guide system and method is provided. Time separators are displayed within lists of program listings to allow users to more easily view the program listings. On-screen arrows have their display characteristics changed according to user actions. Similar program listings are displayed only once when using search program listings. Users are provided with an opportunity to view channel information before setting channels as favorites. Information from local information services is provided in program guide display screens that are configurable by a main facility. Users are provided with an opportunity to centrally lock and unlock programs, and to bypass locks when desired. | 08-12-2010 |
20100211975 | INTERNET TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM - An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access information related to television programs over an Internet communications link. The user can view television program guide listings and related video stills and video clips. The user can perform database searches on the program guide listings (e.g., to search for a particular type of television program). If desired, the user can select an option that directs the multimedia system to tune directly to a television channel for a selected program or to a related television program guide or movie guide service on a television channel. The user can order pay-per-view events using the system. | 08-19-2010 |
20100218213 | CONTROL USER INTERFACE DELIVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS IN DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for delivering a Control User Interface (CUI) using an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is provided for a broadcast system. A transmission apparatus for a digital broadcast system includes a provider that provides one or more of services and content. The apparatus also includes an information generator that generates EPG information including CUI information. The apparatus further includes a transmitter that transmits the EPG information and the one or more of the services and content. The CUI information is provided per service and per content. | 08-26-2010 |
20100229197 | DIGITAL BROADCAST WIDGET SYSTEM - Provided is a digital broadcast (digital TV) widget system. The digital broadcast widget system includes: a transmitter for providing widget information for generating a widget and for providing one or more of broadcast information (A/V stream), EPG information, VOD information and Internet information for digital broadcast; a receiver for displaying the widget on a TV screen by processing the broadcast information (A/V stream), the EPG information, the VOD information, the Internet information and the widget information; and a user input unit for enabling a user to input to the receiver information responding to the widget. The receiver includes an application platform which having a browser for processing information provided from the transmitter or the user input unit and for generating the widget corresponding to the widget information, based on the broadcast information (A/V stream), the EPG information, the VOD information, the Internet information, and device information of the receiver. | 09-09-2010 |
20100235861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING TELEVISION VIEWERS WITH ADVERTISERS AND BROADCASTERS - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule 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 information can be displayed on a variety of viewer interfaces, such as televisions screens, computer monitors, PCTV screens and the like. The television schedule information may be stored on the viewer's computer, television, PCTV, or a remote server (e.g., a website), or the television schedule information may be downloaded from a remote database to the viewer's computer, television or PCTV. | 09-16-2010 |
20100262995 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING A MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION WITH MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVE VIEWS - Systems and methods are provided for navigating a media guidance application with multiple perspective views. A first of a plurality of media guidance objects may be displayed in a first perspective view that appears flat on the screen. A second media guidance object may be displayed in a second perspective view that appears to be going into the screen creating the appearance of a fold between the first and second media guidance application objects at a location where the first perspective view changes into the second perspective view. The second media guidance object in the second perspective view may be caused to slide through the fold into the first perspective view. The second media guidance object displayed in the first perspective view may be selected. An action may be performed for a media asset corresponding to the selected media guidance object. | 10-14-2010 |
20100281503 | System and Method for Recording a Multi-Part Performance on an Internet Protocol Television Network - An Internet protocol television (IPTV) system includes a server operable to send a performance guide and a time code over the IPTV system to two or more clients. The server receives a performance from each of the clients over the IPTV system, combines the performances into an overall performance, and sends the overall performance over the IPTV system to the clients. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281504 | AUTO-ZAPPING PROGRAMME FOR A DECODER FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A SELECTED TV EVENT USING DVB TECHNOLOGY AND MPEG ENCODING - The invention is of use to all television viewers who would like to watch a TV event in the near future, who fear missing said event due to forgetfulness or distraction when zapping through other programmes. By automatically zapping, the decoder places said TV event in the field of view of the viewer who has to do nothing. The aim of the invention is to provide a new DVB table with a supplementary service to those already on offer. This table is to inform the decoder of the beginning of each TV event on each channel which may be viewed using the same, whilst remaining tuned to one channel, such as to be able to compare the identity thereof with the event selected by the viewer at a previous moment with the goal of watching the same. At the start of a TV event, if the identity thereof is not recognised by the decoder the event is ignored. On the other hand where the event is recognised using the above comparison, the decoder starts the zapping to the channel broadcasting the event in an automatic manner. The viewer thus has no longer to fear missing the TV events he likes to watch, the task being left to the decoder such as a secretary manages the appointments of the boss. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH PERSONALIZED SELECTION OF BROADCAST CONTENT USING AFFINITIES DATA AND USER PREFERENCES - An apparatus and method are provided to inform a user of a broadcast stream, which has multiple, concurrently received channels of program content, about recommendations of a subset of the content currently playing across the available channels or to be played within a selected future time period. The subset of content is selected based on user preferences and system data (e.g., program topic and channel affinities among the broadcast content and channels) to recommend a more diverse subset of content than would be discovered if only user preferences were employed to make the selection of recommended content. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293575 | LIVE INDEXING AND PROGRAM GUIDE - The system provides a program guide that uses advance or contemporaneous indexing to provide richer content descriptions than in the prior art. For example, if a program is in progress, the present system will present a program guide with a general description and additional description of what is currently being presented along with what has previously happened in the program. For example, if the program is a live sporting event, the system will let you know the score, the time, which players are playing, and the outcomes of prior plays. If it is a reality competition, the guide will let the user know which contestant is currently featured and the status of the other contestants, as well as what the current activity may be. | 11-18-2010 |
20100306799 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THE SAME - In a broadcasting receiver according to one implementation of this document, a method for providing information comprises displaying items to be included in a menu by arranging the items based on preference information managed by the broadcasting receiver; and, if a predetermined item is selected from the displayed menu, displaying sub-items to be included in a menu associated with the selected item by arranging the items based on the preference information or displaying a program list associated with the selected item. The preference information can comprise information categorized into multiple steps, information at each step can comprise more than one item, and each item of information at each step can store the number of reproduction of the program related to the corresponding item in an associated manner. Based on the number of reproduction, display order of items to be included in the corresponding menu can be changed. | 12-02-2010 |
20100313221 | CLIENT-SERVER BASED INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH REMOTE SERVER RECORDING - An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide provides users with VCR-like control over programs that are played back from the media servers and over real-time cached copies of the programs. The program guide also provides users with an opportunity to designate gift recipients for whom programs may be recorded. | 12-09-2010 |
20100319025 | METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA ON EPG IN RECEIVER CONNECTED TO NETWORK AND THE RECEIVER - A digital broadcast receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes a network interface configured to receive provisioning information from a service provider during SP (Service Provider) attachment, wherein the provisioning information has both first metadata on EPG provider information giving locations where EPG data from an EPG data provider can be accessed and second metadata on EPG data locator giving a location where EPG data can be accessed in a pull mode or a push mode, the first metadata having both a target service ID element giving the identifier of a service, which is covered by each of the EPG data provider's EPG data sources, and a type of target services element giving a type of service, which is covered by each of the EPG data provider's EPG data sources, and a controller configured to perform a services discovery procedure using service discovery metadata including at least two components supplied by the service provider. | 12-16-2010 |
20100319026 | CLIENT SERVER BASED INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH REMOTE SERVER RECORDING - An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide provides users with VCR-like control over programs that are played back from the media servers and over real-time cached copies of the programs. The program guide also provides users with an opportunity to designate gift recipients for whom programs may be recorded. | 12-16-2010 |
20110004904 | ON-DEMAND SYSTEM INTERFACES AND FEATURES - Broadband system interfaces and features are described. An example includes a user interface for use with a content delivery system including an on-demand service comprising at least one channel dedicated to an on-demand content provider, wherein the channel is accessible in a same manner as a broadcast channel of the content delivery system; and at least one homepage to be presented when a user navigates to the at least one channel, wherein the homepage includes a template of sections to provide a single-level user interface by altering the contents of at least one section in response to an input. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010740 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING - A device and method for receiving digital multimedia broadcasting include a method for receiving a digital broadcasting signals, creating a playlist containing plural program items scheduled to be broadcasted through at least one broadcast channel, each program item having delimiters and program information; monitoring an advent of one of the delimiters; and performing, if a delimiter is detected, an operation corresponding to the delimiter. The device and method for receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting allow the user to create and edit a playlist, which contains at least one program items obtained from EPG data and information on the program items, and automates channel switching and playbacks of the program item, resulting in improved user convenience. | 01-13-2011 |
20110030006 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT RATING INFORMATION - Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying content rating information for a plurality of programs including receiving the content rating information for each program of the plurality of programs; displaying a currently selected program on a display screen; determining a program rating for each program of the plurality of programs, wherein each program rating is determined from among a plurality of predetermined ratings based on the received content rating information for each program; and displaying an indicator for each program of the plurality of programs, wherein each indicator visually indicates the determined program rating for each respective program in the plurality of programs, wherein at least a portion of the currently selected program is displayed on the display screen simultaneously with the displayed indicators. | 02-03-2011 |
20110030007 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a displaying method of a broadcast receiving apparatus using Internet, the method including: receiving and storing user's interesting information through the Internet; inspecting booting screen setting for displaying the user's interesting information if receiving a power-on command from a user; and displaying the stored user's interesting information according to inspecting results during a booting time needed for displaying a normal screen. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035774 | PREVIOUSLY VIEWED CHANNEL QUICK BAR - Methods are provided for storing and retrieving recently viewed programming channel information in a last-in-first-out (LIFO) memory register. The programming channel information comprises previously viewed channel information and subsequently viewed channel information where the previously viewed channel information is stored prior to the subsequently viewed channel information in the order of viewing. The methods also include, receiving a viewer instruction to render the imagery on the display device and reading the programming channel information from the LIFO register. The previously viewed channel information is read from the LIFO memory register after the subsequently viewed programming channel information is read in the reverse order of viewing. The method further includes the functions of modifying an imagery file associated with the imagery being rendered with the programming channel information and rendering the modified imagery to the user on the display device. | 02-10-2011 |
20110047570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUICK NAVIGATION BETWEEN RECOMMENDATION SETS IN A TV CONTENT DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A method for quick navigation between recommendation sets in a TV content discovery system includes mapping of several physical buttons on a remote controller to a single virtual representation button on a TV screen. The virtual representation button provides a one click function of selecting and changing recommendation domains and/or recommendation sets within the recommendation domains. The virtual representation button may also be changed with the single click to indicate the status of the selected content | 02-24-2011 |
20110047571 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING BOOKMARK SERVICE AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BOOKMARK SERVICE - A method and system for processing a bookmark service and an apparatus for providing a bookmark service are provided. The method for processing a bookmark service includes: receiving a bookmark association trigger message; acquiring a bookmark list associated with a program content according to the bookmark association trigger message; sending the bookmark list to display a bookmark operation interface associated with the program content and perform an operation on a bookmark When the program content is played normally by a user, the method and system for processing a bookmark service and the apparatus for providing a bookmark service indicates the bookmark associated with the program content to the user, so as to help the user to perform operations such as bookmark jumping. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055866 | UPDATING ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDES WITH BLACKOUT DATA - Blackout event data is received that includes location codes for geographic areas affected by a blackout event. User location codes are received and compared to location codes for the geographic areas affected by the blackout event. A determination is made whether the user is subject to the blackout event based on the user location code. When the user is subject to the blackout event, an updated electronic programming guide is provided to the user. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING AND DOWNLOADING RELATED CONTENTS BY TERMINAL THROUGH BROADCAST SERVICE - A method and apparatus for receiving information regarding content related to particular content interested by a user and downloading the related contents in a terminal are disclosed. The method for receiving content related to a particular content, includes: transmitting a content request message including a content identifier of a particular content to a server; receiving a content response message including information regarding content related to the content identifier from the server, wherein if there are at least one or more contents related to a global content identifier, the global state code has a value indicating success; checking whether there exists second information in guide information referred to by the first information on the related contents; receiving the second information if there is not the second information; and initiating a service request procedure by using the referred reception information. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055868 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A DIGITAL TELEVISION CONVEYANCE STREAM, AND CORRESPONDING DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE - The reception method including:
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20110055869 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROGRAM INFORMATION AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for providing program information and a display apparatus using the same are provided. A method for providing program information includes extracting program information based on a finish time of a program, and generating and displaying a program information screen based on the extracted program information. Accordingly, since program information which the user actually needs is selectively provided, the user may view a program information screen with greater view stability. | 03-03-2011 |
20110067061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A TELEVISION SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FOR USER-SELECTION OF AN OBJECT IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - A system and method in a television system for providing for user-selection of objects in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
20110067062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF SELECTABLE OBJECTS IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - A system and method for providing information of selectable objects in a television program as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
20110067063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A TELEVISION SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A USER-SELECTED OBJECT IN A TELEVISON PROGRAM - A system and method in a television system for presenting information associated with a user-selected object in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
20110067064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A TELEVISION SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A USER-SELECTED OBJECT IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - A system and method in a television system for presenting information associated with a user-selected object in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
20110067065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A TELEVISION SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A USER-SELECTED INFORMATION ELELMENT IN A TELEVISION PROGRAM - A system and method in a television system for providing information associated with a user-selected information element in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072461 | NOTIFICATION FOR INTERACTIVE CONTENT - A system may provide a video program or information associated with the video program on a video display device, and provide an interactive content icon on the video display device. The interactive content icon may indicate that interactive content is available for the video program. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078735 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RICH MEDIA ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDES - Electronic program guide (EPG) systems and methods are operable to incorporate image information into an EPG generated at a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives an image associated with a program, processes the received image into a rich media EPG image, receives program presentation schedule information that specifies a presentation schedule of a plurality of programs, wherein the program is one of the plurality of programs scheduled for presentation, associates an identifier with the rich media EPG image and the program, and generates a rich media EPG schedule based upon the received program presentation schedule information and the identifier. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078736 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AN OPEN AND COLLABORATIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Systems and methods for an open and collaborative media guidance application are provided. Users may join a distribution list to receive and/or provide modifications to media asset description information. A user may provide a modification to the media asset description information provided that he/she has sufficient authorization. The modification may be transmitted to a central server. The central server may filter the modification for improper information. The central server may update the media asset description information based on the received modification. The central server may transmit the modification or the updated media asset description information to media equipment devices associated with a distribution list. The media equipment devices may receive the modifications and process the modification based on local settings to update the locally stored media asset description information. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078737 | RECEIVER APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - For executing a graphic display without generating the sense of incompatibility in a view, within a receiver apparatus enabling 3D display, and also for an improvement of usability thereof, a receiver apparatus or a reproducing apparatus for obtaining digital information including information of whether a cubic display can be made or not, together with video information, comprises a controller portion for producing graphic data for use of display added with a parallax thereto, wherein the graphic data without generating a sense of incompatibility to a user by changing all or a part of the graphic data for use of display into data for use of cubic display, when producing the data fitting to a condition of a cubic display of an output video. In particular, when producing data of electronic program table, the cubic display is executed, partially, fitting to an object, and thereby increasing usability for a user. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078738 | EPG aligning events by time on cylinder - An apparatus | 03-31-2011 |
20110078739 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN EPG - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for producing an EPG from program information in an EPG database for a plurality of channels. The EPG displays items relating to the programs available on a plurality of channels at a specified time. When the specified time is changed, the EPG updates the items corresponding to channels on which the available program is not the same at the newly specified time as at the previously specified time. | 03-31-2011 |
20110093895 | METHOD OF PROCESSING APPLICATION IN DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER CONNECTED WITH INTERACTIVE NETWORK AND THE DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - A digital broadcast receiver is disclosed. A method of processing an application in a digital broadcast receiver connected with an interactive network comprises receiving, from a broadcast network, a broadcast audio/video (A/V) content and an application information table (AIT) data, receiving, from an interactive network, at least one of applications, collecting applications included in the same group among the at least one of applications, wherein the same group corresponds to applications intended to be used together, and displaying a list indicating the collected applications. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TELEVISION PROGRAM REMINDERS - There is provided a system and method for providing television program reminders. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving television program selection data, comparing the television program selection data with descriptive data for a plurality of television programs, and presenting an alert message when the descriptive data for at least one of the plurality of television programs matches at least a portion of the television program selection data. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099578 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a method for processing data in the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital television (DTV) located in one independent space among a plurality of independent spaces physically separated from one another is disclosed. The method includes receiving display type information from a compact wireless device, wherein the display type information is type information of data capable of being processed by the compact wireless device, transmitting the received display type information to a management server, receiving general additional information and additional information dependent on the display type information from the management server, and controlling the general additional information to be displayed on the DTV and transmitting the additional information dependent on the display type information to the compact wireless device. | 04-28-2011 |
20110107373 | System and Method to Facilitate Selection of Episodes of Serial Programs From a Media Service - Systems and methods to facilitate selection of episodes of serial programs from a media service are provided. A particular computer-implemented method includes retrieving a media service favorites list of programs associated with at least one user at a computing device. The media service favorites list includes at least one first serial program selected by at least one user and at least one second serial program selected by a recommendation engine. The method also includes sending from the computing device a display of the media service favorites list to a display device associated with the computing device. The display includes an entry for each of the programs in the media service favorites list and a first selectable indicator associated with each of the serial programs determined to have a new, unviewed episode. | 05-05-2011 |
20110126233 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving a selection from a media device corresponding to a first media content, generating a play list at a server where the play list includes second media content that is associated with the first media content by at least one of genre, artist and being published in temporal proximity, and providing play list content comprising at least a portion of the first and second media content to the media device, where at least one of the generation of the play list and the providing of the play list content is based on metadata pointers associated with the first and second media content. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131606 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Automated Control of Devices - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for automated control of devices. A tag is received with Electronic Programming Guide data, and the tag includes control data. The tag is stripped from the Electronic Programming Guide data and communicated to a device. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELOCATING MEDIA - A system and method may be provided that allows users to store, retrieve, and manipulate on-demand media content and data stored on a remote server network in an on-demand media delivery system. More particularly, the system may allow a user to access his or her on-demand media account from user equipment in different locations as long as the current user equipment can communicate with a remote server that stores user-specific information. The system upon user selection may freeze the delivery of on-demand media at a particular point and allow the user to resume the media at a later time from some other network location in system. Users may upload personal images or files to an on-demand delivery server for later retrieval and display. Users may be permitted to assign access rights to the uploaded files. | 06-02-2011 |
20110138417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CONTENT WITH A MEDIA ASSET ON A MEDIA EQUIPMENT DEVICE - Systems and methods for providing interactive content during writing and production of a media asset are provided. A script of a media asset that includes natural language textual annotations that define uniquely interactive content and timing contingencies during which to display the interactive content may be received. After the media asset corresponding to the script is produced, computer language instructions may be generated based on the natural language annotations. The computer language instructions and the media asset may be stored on a master storage medium. The media asset and computer language instructions may be transmitted to a media equipment device. Playback time codes may be transmitted with the media asset. When a playback time code corresponds to an event that identifies interactive content, the media equipment device may display the interactive content represented by the computer language instructions during a time interval defined by the computer language instructions. | 06-09-2011 |
20110138418 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PROGRAM SUMMARY INFORMATION REGARDING BROADCASTING CONTENT, METHOD OF PROVIDING PROGRAM SUMMARY INFORMATION REGARDING BROADCASTING CONTENT, AND BROADCASTING RECEIVER - An apparatus and method of receiving broadcasting content and generating program summary information corresponding to received broadcasting content, and an apparatus and method of providing the generated program summary information are provided. Real-time broadcasting content may be received through a tuner of a program summary information generating apparatus. The program summary information is extracted from the received real-time broadcasting content, and may be stored and provided to a user via a display unit. In view of the program summary information, a user may understand, for example, the flow of the broadcasting content, even if the user missed a part of the broadcasting content. | 06-09-2011 |
20110154396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING IPTV SERVICE USING MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided is a method for providing an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service using a mobile terminal. A mobile terminal of an IPTV service control system may include a viewpoint recognition unit to obtain information about a viewpoint where a user is viewing, a viewpoint processing unit to compute position coordinates corresponding to the viewpoint by comparing a screen displayed on the mobile terminal with the information about the viewpoint, and a set-top control client to display the same screen as a screen of a TV on the to mobile terminal, and to enable the set-top box to display a selection icon on the same position as a position indicated by the position coordinates of the TV. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154397 | PREMIUM CHANNEL PROMOTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is directed to a television schedule guide which includes a detector for determining whether a previously scrambled program is unscrambled. If a previously scrambled program is momentarily unscrambled due to promotional efforts by the program provider, the system will visually distinguish the program on the guide, and a viewer may tune to or record the program from the guide. The view may also subscribe to the program provider through the guide during the promotional period. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154398 | PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The portable terminal includes a receiving unit for selecting a channel and receiving a program, an obtaining unit for obtaining the program guide for each channel received by the receiving unit, a display unit for displaying the program guide obtained by the obtaining unit, a memory for storing setting information set up to view the program received by the receiving unit, a remaining battery capacity detecting unit for detecting the remaining capacity of the battery, and a control unit for determining the possible viewing time according to the operation mode stored in the memory and the remaining capacity of the battery detected by the remaining battery capacity detecting unit and controlling the display unit so as to identifiably display the possible viewing segment corresponding to the possible viewing time in the program guide. | 06-23-2011 |
20110162008 | DYNAMIC PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION - A set-top box may receive program guide information from a server. The program guide information may identify a group of programs and specify, for each program, an indicator of set-top boxes tuned to the each program or providing the each program. The set-top box may further provide, to a display and using the received program guide information, a program guide, where the program guide represents each program, in the group of programs, as a shape, and where a size of each shape corresponds to the indicator of set-top boxes tuned to the represented program or providing the represented program. The set-top box may also receive updated program guide information from the server and dynamically increase or decrease at least one shape in the program guide, based on the updated program guide information. | 06-30-2011 |
20110162009 | UNIFIED RECORDING LISTING ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - A method may include requesting aggregated index information relating to media content stored on a least two digital video recorder (DVR) devices. The aggregated index information is received in response to the request. The aggregated index information includes a number of content entries, each entry including location information identifying a DVR device on which the associated media content is stored. A listing of the media content is displayed based on the aggregated index information. | 06-30-2011 |
20110162010 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE WITH ON-DEMAND DATA SUPPLEMENTATION - An interactive television program guide system is provided in which data that must be available quickly to the user is stored locally in a receiver whereas data that is not readily needed but available on-demand is stored remotely where mass storage is available. Locally-stored data may include frequently-requested information that the user needs quick access to. Supplemental information stored remotely may include information for which a slight delay following a request for a particular item of information by the user is acceptable. The program guide may display locally-stored information either continuously as the user is browsing the guide or as soon as the user requests it. The program guide may request supplemental information that is stored remotely when the user requests it or as soon as it is clear the user may want to view it. Accordingly, the program guide may anticipate which information the user will need and may store it locally in advance of the user actually requesting it, thereby reducing any delays in viewing the information. | 06-30-2011 |
20110162011 | PROGRAM GUIDE WITH A DIGITAL STORAGE DEVICE - An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage and maintain a user media library to do the same. Non-time-sensitive data associated with recorded programs may be stored in a way that allows the user to interact with the data on playback as if the program were being originally aired. The program guide also allows the user to define “super-programs” for playback of a sequence of stored programs or program segments. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167447 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A CHANNEL SURFING APPLICATION ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A wireless communications device provides users with opportunities to access interactive media guidance or other applications and to control user equipment and interactive media guidance applications. In an exemplary embodiment, users can access a surfing guide application which allows browsing of screenshots of programs playing on broadcast channels on the wireless communications device. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167448 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISING, VIDEO, AND PROGRAM SCHEDULE LISTING - A television schedule system and method for displaying television schedule information on a television screen includes a program guide having a schedule information area that depicts the programs that are being presented on each channel at each time during the day. An input device allows the viewer to browse through the schedule information area and/or obtain more information about programs of particular interest. In one aspect, the viewer may watch a program on the currently-tuned channel, while browsing through the other channels on a portion of the television screen. In another aspect, the viewer may watch programs currently being shown on the television, while he or she browses through the program guide. In yet another aspect, the system includes a database, a processor and associated software for automatically customizing the television schedule guide to an individual viewer or a group of viewers, e.g., a family, to facilitate use of the television schedule. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED ENTERTAINMENT DATA ON A SET TOP BOX - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for distributing media content to a plurality of display devices. For instance, in one embodiment, a computer implemented method for distributing media content to a display device is disclosed. The method comprises configuring a middleware device to provide media content to the display device and to a set of display devices. In response to the middleware device receiving a request for media content from the display device, the method determines whether the there is sufficient bandwidth to provide a requested media content to the display device. In one embodiment, if the method determines that there is insufficient bandwidth to provide the requested media content to the display device, the method provides the requested media content to the display device based on a set of preconfigured user preferences. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173660 | 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. | 07-14-2011 |
20110185385 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING EPG INFORMATION INCLUDING BUDDY INFORMATION AND RECEIVER APPLYING THE SAME - A method for displaying Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information and a receiving apparatus where the receiving apparatus displays buddy information on an EPG screen, for displaying EPG information, allowing a user to easily identify which programs his or her friends registered in a buddy list, are watching. | 07-28-2011 |
20110197230 | METHOD FOR WATCHING MISSED TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND USER TERMINAL - A method for watching a missed television (TV) program and a user terminal are provided. The method includes the following steps. Electronic program guide (EPG) information distributed by a headend is received, and a local table of missed programs and current time are obtained. It is determined that a missed program exits when the user terminal is in a non-working status according to the local table of missed programs and the current time. Information of the missed program in the local table of missed programs is updated according to the EPG information. It is detected whether the missed program is played currently, and if yes, a service of watching a missed program is implemented. By using the method for making up for watching the missed TV program and the user terminal, when the missed program of the user is played in a system, the user is reminded in time of watching the missed program, and a trouble that the user searches the missed program through the EPG is avoided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202959 | NAVIGATING PROGRAMMING CONTENT VIA MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURFACES - A method to separately assign and modify multiple attributes of information and structure to an individual block or to a larger unitary whole comprised of multiple blocks is disclosed. A number of block instances of a block is determined. Each block instance is associated with one or more structure attributes. A number of data elements is determined. Each data element is associated with one or more information attributes. The data elements are mapped to the block instances. The mapped block instances are displayed contiguously. | 08-18-2011 |
20110209178 | Specialized Media Presentation Via an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) - An electronic program guide (EPG) may include entries that enable access to one or more images. In some implementations, when an image-related entry is selected by a user, a device presents the one or more images that are associated with the selected entry. In some implementations, portions of the EPG are presented as links. Selection of a link effectuates a search and may be followed by the visual presentation of one or more images resulting from the search. Additionally, in some implementations, an image can be communicated with an electronic communication. In response to the electronic communication, an image entry may be added to the channel lineup of the EPG. Selection of the image entry in the EPG may cause the device to visually present the image. | 08-25-2011 |
20110225612 | USER-INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS INCLUDING VIDEO-ON-DEMAND AVAILABILITY REMINDERS - The present invention teaches a method of creating and presenting a user interface comprising a Dynamic Mosaic Extended Electronic Programming Guide (DMXEPG) using video, audio, special applications, and service dynamic metadata. The system enables television or digital radio service subscribers to select and display of various programs including video, interactive TV applications, or any combination of audio or visual components grouped and presented in accordance with the dynamic program/show metadata, business rules and objectives of service providers, broadcasters, and/or personal subscriber choices, collectively referred to as mosaic element presentation criteria. | 09-15-2011 |
20110239251 | Electronic Program Guide Generation - An electronic program guide may be provided. A plurality of encoded content streams may be received along with associated program guide information. The content streams may be re-modulated and associated with new channel assignments. Program guide entries for the content streams may be created and/or updated to reflect the new channel assignments. The re-modulated content streams and program guide entries may then be distributed to a plurality of display devices. | 09-29-2011 |
20110247036 | PREFERENTIAL PROGRAM GUIDE - A method may include selecting a plurality programs to recommend to a user based on preferences of the user. The method may include displaying a program guide including a timeline, wherein the program guide indicates times that the plurality of recommended programs are scheduled to play. The program guide may also include a gap between the displayed recommended programs, the gap indicating a time during which one or more programs not selected to recommend to the user is scheduled to play. In one embodiment, the method may include displaying a video on demand (VOD) program or a personal video recorder (PVR) program in the gap between the displayed recommended programs | 10-06-2011 |
20110252445 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND RELATED CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD USING BROADCAST SERVICE GUIDE INFORMATION THEREOF - A related content providing method using broadcast service guide information of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method includes playing broadcast content stored in the mobile terminal, searching for real-time broadcast content related to the played broadcast content while displaying the played broadcast content, and displaying information associated with the searched real-time broadcast content. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252446 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A method for operating an image display apparatus is discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes displaying a plurality of card objects on a display, displaying an application menu including at least one application item on the display, and displaying a broadcast image or broadcast image-associated information on the display. Accordingly, it is possible to increase user convenience. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258662 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO VIEWER-ORDERABLE TELEVISION EVENTS - A method of providing access to an orderable television event is presented. An orderable television event may be, for example, a pay-per-view television event or a video-on-demand television event. In the method, preview video content for the orderable television event is received and stored. The event is associated with one of a plurality of channel identifiers not associated with a television broadcast channel. A channel selection of the channel identifier associated with the orderable television event is received. In response to receiving the channel selection, the preview video content for the orderable television event is output for presentation to the user as a full-screen display. | 10-20-2011 |
20110271303 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, CONTENT DISPLAY TERMINAL, PORTABLE TERMINAL, SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing information to a user is provided. The method includes providing, on an output device, program content, generating, by a processor, descriptive data including identification information corresponding to the program content, and providing a notification to a user based on the descriptive data, the notification corresponding to the program content. | 11-03-2011 |
20110283320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A PROGRAM USING INFORMATION FROM A THIRD-PARTY DATA SOURCE - Information corresponding to a user may be received from a third-party data source. A program may be identified using the information received from the third-party data source. Then, it may be determined whether the identified program is scheduled to be broadcast by a first media content source within a pre-determined time period. If the identified program is scheduled to be broadcast by the first media content source within the pre-determined time period, an opportunity may be provided to perform an action on the program. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283321 | REMOTE CONTROL WITH TV LISTING DISPLAY - A device includes a keypad that further includes first keys related to selecting television channels associated with a set top box and a second key related to requesting a television listing. The device further includes an infra-red transceiver that transmits a request for television listing information to a set top box based on user selection of the second key, and receives television listing data, from the set top box, that includes program information related to a plurality of channels over a period of time. The device also includes a color display unit that displays the television listing data. | 11-17-2011 |
20110296462 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES ONTO A SCREEN - The disclosure relates to an apparatus, a system and a method for displaying images onto a screen. The apparatus can be used to display images onto the screen for displaying programmes and/or messages and/or additional images which temporarily replace and/or are combined with programmes and/or messages and/or main images which are generally reproduced onto the screen that is to say received by any signal transmission device and selected by the television set by a television tuner. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302609 | ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION - An entertainment system comprises a receiver operable to receive broadcast programmes and electronic programme guide data, a display generator operable to generate an image for display, a user interface generator operable to use received electronic programme guide data to generate an electronic programme guide indicating one or more programmes on a broadcast schedule, for display as some or all of the image, a user input operable to receive an input indicating a programme selected by a user from the electronic programme guide, and a network communicator operable to communicate with one or more remote entertainment systems over a network. The entertainment system is arranged to obtain information based upon the electronic programme guide data corresponding to the user's selected programme, and the communicator is arranged to transmit a message comprising the obtained information to one or more remote entertainment systems, thereby indicating to each remote system the user's selected programme. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307922 | MAKING AVAILABLE PREVIOUSLY BROADCAST PROGRAMMING - An electronic program guide indicates the time of presentation and the channel or source of various programs. By use of a remote control device, a user is able to navigate the electronic program guide to highlight and then select a particular program which is being broadcast at the present time. The electronic program guide is displayed by a receiver which is networked with other receivers. The electronic program guide is also enabled to present details of various programs which were broadcast at a time earlier than the present time. Some of those earlier programs have been stored and that is also indicated. A user, by use of the remote control device can navigate backwards in time in the electronic program guide to an earlier stored program. This earlier program can then be highlighted and selected. It is then either downloaded to the user's receiver or streamed in real time to the user's receiver. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307923 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a genre information retrieval section retrieving genre information about a program, an image quality control signal generation section generating an image quality control signal for controlling image quality of an image in the program on the basis of the genre information retrieved by the genre information retrieval section, and an image quality control section controlling the image quality of the image in the program on the basis of the image quality control signal generated by the image quality control signal generation section. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314499 | TELEVISION CONTROL INTERFACE WITH ELECTRONIC GUIDE - An on-screen menu method and system for controlling the functions of integrated electronic devices and a television schedule system and method for displaying television schedule information on a television screen includes a program guide having a schedule information area that depicts the programs that are being presented on each channel at each time during the day and an interconnected series of menus to control the features of the integrated electronic devices. An input device allows the viewer to move a pointer over different interactive areas of the guide and the function performed when the area is activated is displayed in a contextual help window. Various control glyphs provide for recursive interaction with the guide. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314500 | Method and System for Providing a Program Guide and Multiple Video Streams Using Slice-Based Encoding - Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the program guide includes encoding a first set of slices for each of a plurality of graphics pages; and encoding a second set of slices for each of a plurality of video streams. | 12-22-2011 |
20110321093 | SELECTING ATTACHED CONTENT THROUGH AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - A system includes one or more devices connected to a television. The television has software that displays both program information and information about the devices in an electronic program guide. Upon selecting of a program information entry in the electronic program guide, the software changes a current channel of the television to the channel associated with the program entry information. Upon selecting of one of the device entries in the electronic program guide, the software displays an exploration menu for the viewer to select content from the device for viewing (or listening to) at the television. The software performs scrolling operations on the electronic program guide responsive to directional inputs from a remote control device. | 12-29-2011 |
20110321094 | IPTV EPG LINKING BROADCAST CHANNELS TO INTERNET SOURCES OF SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING - An EPG presented on an IPTV lists broadcast TV programming but when an entry on the EPG is selected, an Internet server, and not the TV broadcast source, is accessed and streams the listed programming to the IPTV. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005706 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A CONTEXTUAL CHANNEL IDENTIFIER - Methods and systems are described for processing a contextual channel identifier. A channel identifier is detected. A context setting is detected identifying a first channel binding for the channel identifier. The first channel binding identifies a frequency channel accessible via a frequency tuner for presenting, via an output device, data from the first frequency channel. A detection is made that the context setting identifies a second channel context. The first channel identifier identifies a second channel binding based on the second channel context. In response to detecting that the context setting identifies the second channel context, a second data source identified by the second channel binding is accessed to present data from the second data source via an output device. | 01-05-2012 |
20120030709 | Customized Interface Based on Viewed Programming - In one embodiment, a system generates a customized interface based on displayed programming. The system stores a program that a user displayed through a media device; searches through a network for information related to the displayed program; and extracts data associated with the information related to the displayed program. A custom interface is generated based substantially on the data associated with the information related to the displayed program. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036533 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE WITH REMOTE ACCESS - An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access to program guide functions. An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. Program guide setting include features related to setting program reminders, profiles, program recording features, messaging features, favorites features, parental control features, program guide set up features (e.g., audio and video and language settings), etc. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036534 | SYSTEM, METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING PUSH-TO-TALK CHAT IN INTERACTIVE MOBILE TV - An apparatus for providing an interactive service during a broadcast service includes a transmitting element and a processing element. The transmitting element is capable of communicating broadcast content of the broadcast service to a plurality of receiving terminals. The processing element is configured to at least partially control the transmitting element. The processing element is configured to communicate with a network device in order to request a program specific group for communication of the interactive service to a receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group. The interactive service is communicated to the receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group with reception of the broadcast service. The content associated with the interactive service originates from the receiving terminals. | 02-09-2012 |
20120060186 | INFORMATION RECEPTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION RECEPTION, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS - An information reception apparatus which allows a user to easily understand, from an electronic program guide, the information announced in a broadcast program, and which contributes to increasing viewer ratings of the broadcast program. The information reception apparatus (broadcast reception apparatus) is provided with: an electronic program information acquisition unit (tuner, control unit) for acquiring electronic program information; an announcement information acquisition unit (control unit, DEMUX unit) for acquiring information announced in the broadcast program from information included in the electronic program information acquired by the electronic program information acquisition unit or from information transmitted together with the electronic program information; and an announcement information output unit (control unit, AV output unit) for outputting the electronic program information and for outputting information indicating the presence or absence of the announcement information, based on the information acquired by the announcement information acquisition unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072952 | VIDEO STREAM ZOOM CONTROL BASED UPON DYNAMIC VIDEO MOSAIC ELEMENT SELECTION - The present invention teaches a method of creating and presenting a user interface comprising a Dynamic Mosaic Extended Electronic Programming Guide (DMXEPG) using video, audio, special applications, and service dynamic metadata. The system enables television or digital radio service subscribers to select and display of various programs including video, interactive TV applications, or any combination of audio or visual components grouped and presented in accordance with the dynamic program/show metadata, business rules and objectives of service providers, broadcasters, and/or personal subscriber choices, collectively referred to as mosaic element presentation criteria. | 03-22-2012 |
20120079537 | CREATING AND USING A VIRTUAL VIDEO ASSET IN A VIDEO PROVISIONING SYSTEM - A system may receive, from a content provider, metadata associated with a video asset, where the metadata includes information associated with the video asset and identifies a future time when the video asset will be available for distribution. The system may further process the metadata to create a virtual asset associated with the video asset, where the processed metadata include at least an indication that the metadata is associated with the virtual asset; publish the virtual asset to a store front that allows the user device to select the virtual asset to obtain the virtual asset; and transmit a notification or the video asset, to the user device and at the future time, based on the selection of the virtual asset by the user device, where the notification indicates that the video asset is available to be downloaded. | 03-29-2012 |
20120096496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE MENU THROUGH STREAMING VIDEO - A method of providing a menu for video content is disclosed and may include delivering a looping video clip over a first video channel. The looping video clip may be configured to be displayed on a video plane. The method may also include delivering side channel data over a second video channel. The side channel data may include two or more navigable menu elements that may be configured to be displayed on a graphics overlay plane. | 04-19-2012 |
20120117598 | MERGED PROGRAM GUIDE - A merged program guide which includes program metadata from a plurality of different media controllers. A first media controller receives program metadata that identifies a first plurality of programs. The first plurality of programs corresponds to a first content package provided by a content provider. A first program record identifying a first program of the first plurality of programs is generated. The first program record includes first program metadata associated with the first program. The first program metadata is transmitted onto a network to make the first program metadata available to a second media controller. The first media controller receives second program metadata associated with a second program of a second plurality of programs which correspond to a second content package associated with the second media controller. The first program metadata and the second program metadata are stored in a program guide on the first media controller. | 05-10-2012 |
20120131614 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF - This invention relates to an electronic program guide (EPG) for viewing on a display screen comprising a table or grid containing a plurality of cells. Each cell is individually selectable by a user to allow navigation of the table or grid. One or more of the cells contain information relating to one or more programs. At least one of said cells is capable of containing information relating to more than one program. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131615 | CONTENT VIEWING/LISTENING DEVICE AND CONTENT DISPLAY DEVICE - A content viewing/listening device for viewing and listening to contents has a content information obtaining section that obtains content information, and a content information display control section that performs control to display a content list on a content display section with respect to each of content categories based on the content information obtained in the content information obtaining section. When receiving an instruction to display the content list, the content information display control section produces, on a content presently being viewed and listened to, a presently-viewed/listened-to-content display in such a form as to be visually recognizable and to indicate that the content is presently being viewed and listened to, and displays the content list so that the content list is divided into portions on a plurality of pages if the content list cannot be displayed on one page. | 05-24-2012 |
20120144424 | ON-DEMAND USER-INTERFACE - Embodiments described herein provide a method and system for creating and displaying a media presentation. Data is received corresponding to a video program from a content delivery network. The video program is displayed on a display device. A plurality of display features are generated and displayed on the display device concurrently with the video program. The display features are selectable, and in response to a user selecting a display feature, content from a specific site associated with the selected display feature is retrieved. The retrieved content is concurrently displayed with the video program. | 06-07-2012 |
20120144425 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes a display module, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The display module displays a content list indicating contents of an identical type. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content from the content list. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and second contents of a plurality of types including the identical type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and pieces of the second display information around the first display information. The pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation is closer to the first display information. | 06-07-2012 |
20120151527 | Rule-Based Selection of Content - A method includes, at a customer premise equipment (CPE) device, accessing data descriptive of content available via a network coupled to a network interface of the CPE device. A plurality of rules are analyzed using a forward-inferencing rules engine to determine whether one or more of the rules are satisfied based on the data. The rules include at least one user defined rule and at least one automatically generated rule, where the at least one automatically generated rule is automatically generated based on user history information. The method includes selecting particular content of the content available via the network for presentation via a display device. | 06-14-2012 |
20120159546 | Smart Phone as Remote Control Device - A communication device such as a smart phone is enabled for remotely controlling set-top boxes (STBs) over Internet protocol networks using an applet running on the communication device. Authentication from within a multimedia content distribution network may be achieved by verifying that a network identifier associated with the communication device is associated with an account that has granted access to the smart phone and that is associated with the controlled STB. A viewing pane on the communication device permits a user to remotely view content received on or available to the controlled STB. | 06-21-2012 |
20120167141 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE (EPG) AFFINITY CLUSTERS - Techniques are described in which electronic program guide (EPG) affinity clusters may be formed based upon an assumption that programs scheduled in corresponding timeslots are targeted to the same or similar audiences. In at least some embodiments, data for an EPG is examined to identify programs that are scheduled in timeslots designated as corresponding. Metadata related to the identified programs is collected. The metadata may include titles as well as cast/crew data related to the programs. One or more affinity clusters may be formed using the collected metadata to establish relationships between actors, directors, titles and other items of the metadata. The affinity clusters may be used to provide recommendations including recommendation to view, record, or set a reminder for programs according to the relationships established by the affinity clusters. | 06-28-2012 |
20120174155 | ENTERTAINMENT COMPANION CONTENT APPLICATION FOR INTERACTING WITH TELEVISION CONTENT - Methods and system for providing companion content at a secondary device for a content being rendered on a main device includes establishing a connection between the secondary device and a device that interfaces with the main device so as to enable the secondary device to access and control the content being rendered on the main device. The method further includes detecting data associated with the content being rendered on the main device through the connection, wherein the data includes metadata associated with the content rendered on the main device. The metadata is communicated to a remote application over the internet. The remote application is configured to analyze the metadata to produce communication content that relates to the content rendered on the main device. Companion content for the content being rendered on the main device is obtained from the remote application and rendered on the secondary device while the content is rendering on the main device. The analysis of the metadata detects changes in the content being rendered on the main device which results changes in the obtained companion content that is rendered on the secondary device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120174156 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CONTACT FOR VIDEO CALLING - A method for presenting information associated with a contact for video calling is disclosed. The method comprises storing a list of favorite contacts of a user. In an electronic program guide (EPG) user interface, a plurality of contact identifiers corresponding to the list of favorite contacts is displayed together with program information. An input from the user is received to highlight a selected one of the contact identifiers. In the EPG user interface, a status video associated with a contact associated with the selected one of the contact identifiers is displayed. | 07-05-2012 |
20120174157 | SOCIAL TELEVISION - A system may include a media content processing subsystem configured to provide media content to a display device. The system may further include an adjunct computing device in communication with the media content processing subsystem and configured to receive interactive program guide data, receive social information associated with an account on a social network, and display the interactive program guide data augmented with the social information. | 07-05-2012 |
20120174158 | Entertainment Content Rendering Application - Methods and system for generating companion content for rendering on a secondary device during presentation of content on a main device include detecting execution of a local application on the secondary device by a server application. The local application establishes a wireless connection through an application programming interface (API) with the secondary device and a device that interfaces with the main device and accesses metadata defining content being rendered on the main device. The local application transmits the metadata received from the device to the server application. Historical data is generated based on the metadata received from the secondary device. The metadata within the historical data is analyzed to identify surfing paths of one or more users over time. Companion content is generated based on the surfing paths of the one or more users and forwarded to the secondary device for rendering while the secondary device is connected to the device that interfaces with the main device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120198495 | Recommendation Comparison Display - A method for consolidating and comparing recommendations in selecting TV content for viewing by compiling and displaying recommendation and rating values for the same TV content from Sony and a number of other recommendation and ratings providers. Presenting all recommendation values on a single visual display and providing the preferred Sony recommendation in the most prominent display position and font, and allowing the viewer to select the Sony recommendation value to select that content for viewing. | 08-02-2012 |
20120198496 | Video Related Tag Generating Apparatus, Video Related Tag Generating Method, Video Interacting Method, Video Interacting System and Video Interacting Apparatus - A video related tag generating apparatus, a video related tag generating method, a video interacting method, a video interacting system and a video interacting apparatus are provided. The video interacting method includes the following steps. A video broadcast program is received via a video signal receiver, and a video related tag is received via a network interface. The video related tag relates to a target object, and the video broadcast program includes a video frame having the target object. A synchronous information, an object position and object information are generated according to the video related tag. A triggering region is generated according to the object position. The triggering region is synchronously overlapped on the video frame according to the synchronous information. A key-press signal is received to select the triggering region, such that the object information is overlapped on the video frame. | 08-02-2012 |
20120198497 | LIVE MEDIA CONTENT DISCOVERY AND MANAGEMENT - Mechanisms are provided for allowing a user to linearly or non-linearly discover and navigate media content including live events. A smart timeline includes panels of event information, previews, images, etc. Moving ahead allows discovery of future live media content and events and uncovers mechanisms for setting notifications and reminders. Moving back in time allows discovery of past events and mechanisms for replaying past video and audio content. Event navigation mechanisms can be integrated with calendaring applications to post and select events discovered using event navigation mechanisms. | 08-02-2012 |
20120210358 | SOURCE-INDEPENDENT CONTENT RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A source-independent content rating system and method are provided. The system includes an electronic program guide extractor for extracting program guide information relating to at least one of, programs and channels, from multiple content subscription services. A filter generates identifying information that identifies at least one of a content and a category of the content based on the received program guide information. A subscription manager receives user specified ratings and the identifying information, and manages user interface information displayed to a user. The user interface information includes at least one of the content and the category identified by the identifying information and further includes a user specified rating there for. The subscription manager migrates any user specified ratings provided with respect to a particular one of the multiple content subscription services to all other relevant ones of the multiple content subscription services. | 08-16-2012 |
20120222073 | System and Method to Send Information Identifying Recommended Media Content Items - A method includes receiving information identifying at least one recommended media content item at a computing device. The information is received from a sender device. The at least one recommended media content item is selected from an electronic program guide and an address associated with the computing device is selected via a graphical user interface at the sender device. The method includes receiving a user selection of at least one item of media content from the at least one recommended media content item. The method includes automatically scheduling recording of the at least one item of media content at a media recorder device when the at least one item of media content is a scheduled program. The method also includes automatically placing the at least one item of media content in an on demand queue when the at least one item of media content includes on demand media content. | 08-30-2012 |
20120227071 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA FOR A CAROUSEL - An apparatus and method of providing data for a carousel from which iTV pages may be obtained including defining a plurality of information templates, each information template specifying content for an iTV page, defining a plurality of presentation templates, each presentation template specifying the presentational appearance for an iTV page, assigning a presentation template to an information template, and modifying the information template as required for presentation by the presentation template and outputting, for a carousel, data representing the presentation template and the modified information template, an iTV page being obtained from the carousel by displaying the content specified by the modified information template with the presentational appearance specified by the presentation template. | 09-06-2012 |
20120254917 | System and method for real-time processing, storage, indexing, and delivery of segmented video - Disclosed embodiment providing for the capture of video content. The video content is segmented in real-time into clips by topic, and those clips are delivered as customized queues of video items relevant to the consumer according to their interests as aggregated from their social graph data and manual entry. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254918 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CONTENT PLAYBACK TERMINAL, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - In a content distribution system in which a content distribution device distributes video content to a content playback terminal, the content distribution device multicasts video content added with cash control information to the content playback terminal and other content playback devices, before a user plays back video content selected from a distribution menu. The distribution playback terminal writes the video content in a temporal storage unit included in the distribution playback terminal. If the video content selected by the user is stored in the temporal storage unit, the video content is played back. On the other hand, if the video content selected is not stored in the temporal storage unit, a distribution request for the video content selected is made to the content distribution device. | 10-04-2012 |
20120266192 | PROGRAM SELECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROGRAM SELECTING APPARATUS - An assistance method for selecting a program using a display device ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120272271 | Information Processing Apparatus, Tuner, And Information Processing Method - An information processing apparatus includes: a program guide displaying unit configured to display a program guide on a predetermined display, the program guide being such that program information is arranged in an area having a time axis and a channel axis; an indicator acquisition unit configured to acquire an indicator indicative of the number of viewers viewing each of a plurality of programs listed in the program guide in a similar time zone; and a popularity determination unit configured to determine the popularity of the program in accordance with the indicator. The program guide displaying unit displays at least some of the plurality of programs in a mode indicating the popularity of the program. | 10-25-2012 |
20120272272 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY OBTAINING AND SYNCHRONIZING CONTEXTUAL CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems to present data to a viewer, where the data is specific to the viewer and his viewing experience and is stored locally. This data may be, for example, supplemental content or an application, such as a widget. In an embodiment, supplemental content, such as advertising, may be presented to the viewer where this content is aimed at the particular viewer in light of his or her viewer profile. In an alternative embodiment, a widget or other application may be presented to the viewer where the widget is specific to the current programming and thus tailored to the viewer's current viewing experience. In both situations, the data is stored locally and made available with minimal delay. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278836 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a generator configured to generate key information items associated with the information integration screen information items, a selection module configured to select one information integration screen information item from information integration screen information items based on in-device information and key information items the in-device information includes the electronic program table data acquired from the electronic device, and the key information items associated with the respective information integration screen information items, and a display data generator configured to generate display data to display, on a display screen, an information integration screen includes one or more Web page and/or the specified area of Web page, the information integration screen corresponding to the one information integration screen information selected by the selection module. | 11-01-2012 |
20120291070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MICRO-BLOGS WITH MEDIA PROGRAMS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may operate, for example, according to a method for identifying subsets of blogs from a collection of blogs according to a relevance of each subset of blogs to one of a plurality of media programs deliverable to a plurality of subscriber devices, determining for each subset of blogs one or more trends, detecting a subscriber device from the plurality of subscriber devices, selecting a media program from the plurality of media programs, selecting one of the subsets of blogs that is relevant to the media program, and supplying the subscriber device the selected subset of blogs with the one or more trends determined for the select subset of blogs. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120297420 | EXPANDED PROGRAMMING GUIDE - Systems, methods and computer program products utilize a content receiver to generate a dynamically modifiable expanded programming guide with a grid containing a plurality of regions. Each region is associated with a plurality of channels over a timeframe. The content receiver transmits the expanded programming guide to a content display. The grid may be utilized to navigate through regions and therefore across a large amount of programming information associated with a wide range of channels and timeframes. The content receiver may transmit a magnified view of the expanded programming guide and may display content-related information associated with a subset of regions for the associated channels and timeframes. | 11-22-2012 |
20120304228 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE FOR INDICATING AVAILABILITY OF PAST PROGRAMS IN THE FUTURE - A system and method for providing an electronic program guide for television or radio programs includes presenting listings of present or future programs on-screen, presenting listings of past programs on-screen and indicating whether the past program is available again at a future time. Also, a system and method for handling information controllable from an electronic program guide for television or radio programs comprises receiving information in a user's system, storing the received information in the user's system, displaying access to the stored information by means of a user interface and enabling the user to select one of a plurality of management options for controlling the operation of the stored information through the user interface. | 11-29-2012 |
20120311632 | VIDEO SEARCHING USING TV AND USER INTERFACES THEREFOR - Using a TV, a viewer watching broadcast TV or Internet video content on a display can select a “Video Search” application indicating viewer desire to obtain information about a currently playing video program. The application is invoked to send a name of the currently playing video program to a server on the Internet and associated with a database to cause the server to execute a search only of the database associated with the Internet server and not to execute a search of the Internet. The server returns metadata related to the currently playing vided program, which is presented on the display along with the currently playing video program. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311633 | AUTOMATIC CLIP GENERATION ON SET TOP BOX - A system and method of identifying and providing content to a user is described. The method is performed by a controller with an internet interface. A controller receives electronic program guide data, the electronic program guide data being selectively displayed on a primary display device. An attribute processor parses the received electronic program guide data to identify at least one program description attribute for a currently tuned program. A content processor searches the received electronic program guide and detects at least one further program having the identified at least one program description attribute. The content processor identifies the at least one further program as recommended content in step and a user interface generator generates, a user interface display including the recommended content user interface including a user selectable data item representing the recommended content for display on a secondary display device different from the primary display device. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317600 | STORING CONTENT CORRESPONDING TO PROGRAMS - A broadcast receiving apparatus, a broadcast receiving method and a display apparatus are provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus connectable to a display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives a broadcast stream, a processing unit which processes a signal so as to obtain a program usable in the broadest stream, a plurality of content items respectively corresponding to the program and content item information regarding each of the plurality of content items, a storage unit which stores the plurality of content items which are signal processed and the content item information, and the content item information includes a program identifier and at least one group identifier related to the content items. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317601 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNAL - Disclosed are a method of transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and an apparatus for receiving the broadcast signal. In the present invention, first program table information describing a broadcasting stream, and second program table information including additional service identifier information of the multiplexed stream and third program table information describing the additional service data for the multiplexed stream are obtained. The additional service can be provided with the additional service data by using the third program table information. | 12-13-2012 |
20130007805 | Communication Signaling Engine - A verbal request for an action to be performed in connection with a user's set-top box may be received by a Program Content Manager (PCM) from a voice-enabled input/output device such as a VoIP-enabled device or a mobile communication device. Alternatively, the user may request an action via email, text message, and the like. The PCM receiving the action request may execute, or schedule the request for later execution, depending on whether the request is for a real-time or future action. The user may also request to send an alert or a program recording request to others. Recipients may be able to request further alerts or confirm a program recording invitation if certain criteria are met. | 01-03-2013 |
20130019265 | LAUNCHING AN APPLICATION FROM A BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - An apparatus for receiving a broadcast stream, and a method for use of the apparatus, are disclosed. The apparatus includes an application portal for launching a predefined application. The apparatus receives application information including identification ID information which identifies an application and protocol information which indicates a protocol to be used to launch the identified application, and launches the predefined application from the application portal in response to the ID information identifying the predefined application and the protocol information indicating the application portal. The apparatus may be arranged to only launch the identified application from the portal in response to the predefined application has at least the minimum version number. The application information can be received as an Application Information Table (AIT), and the ID information can be provided as organisation_id and application_id fields in the AIT. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024894 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS FOR TRIGGER COMPACTION - A method, computer program, and reception apparatus, and information providing apparatus. The method includes receiving a trigger parameters table (TPT). The TPT is associated with a triggered declarative object (TDO) and includes at least one parameter associated with a trigger event. The TPT is stored in a first memory of the reception apparatus. The TDO is executed by a processor of the reception apparatus and is stored in a second memory of the reception apparatus. The reception apparatus receives a trigger associated with the trigger event. At least one parameter associated with the trigger event is retrieved from the TPT based on information included in the trigger. Further, a function is performed based on the retrieved at least one parameter. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031583 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER EXECUTABLE CONTROL PROGRAM OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: an output instructing module which instructs a server, stored therein electronic program table information, to output the electronic program table information; a receiver which receives the electronic program table information and program related information output from the server; and an electronic program table output module which uses the received electronic program table information and program related information to output an electronic program table being attached with the program related information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031584 | Programming Contextual Interactive User Interface for Television - A user interface for interactive television services is represented as a visual overlay that provides a viewer with knowledge of a library of available content relating to a currently tuned to television channel and navigation options for selecting desired portions of the available content from the library, the available content being designated according to business rules specified by a provider of the interactive television services. The visual overlay may be displayed over full-screen or embedded television programming, which may be broadcast television programming or on-demand television programming. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036439 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT MANAGEMENT LIST INCLUDING ASSOCIATED MEDIA CONTENT AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - There are disclosed a method of providing a content management list which enables various contents to integrally used and managed and an apparatus for performing the same. A method of providing a content management list including associated media is performed by a content management list providing apparatus capable of accessing one or more local contents over a network and includes searching for information of an associated local content associated with a channel program included in Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information of a broadcasting program and displaying the searched information of the associated local content in such a way as to have an association with air time of the channel program of the content management list. Accordingly, a user can plan to use various contents more efficiently without the need to search for all available contents in order to directly check associated content and use the associated content. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036440 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ALERT SERVICE - A reception apparatus, method, computer program, and information providing apparatus for providing one or more alert services. The reception apparatus includes a receiver, a display interface, an input unit, and a processor. The receiver receives a notification of an alert service. The display interface presents the notification of the alert service on a display. Further, the input unit receives a request from a user of the reception apparatus to subscribe to the alert service. In response to receiving the subscription request, the processor registers a location of new content information associated with the alert service in a memory. Further, the processor determines whether new content corresponding to the alert service is available based on the new content information. When the new content is determined to be available, the processor downloads the new content and causes the display interface to present a pop-up alert based on the new content. | 02-07-2013 |
20130042270 | KIOSK SET-TOP-BOX - A device may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to receive user input via a user interface and provide an appearance of selecting a channel, via a content presentation device connected to the device, without actually selecting the channel when the user input requests a particular program channel. The one or more processors may also be configured to display interactive program guide data at the content presentation device when the user input requests an interactive program guide and when the device is disconnected from a network from which the device received the interactive program guide data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130047184 | Utility Usage Presentation with Program Listings - A system to present program schedule information and utility usage information. An apparatus to generate display signals directing a display to present a program schedule that includes program schedule information and utility usage information. A method of presenting program schedule information with utility usage information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130055310 | Backwards Guide - A receiver determines to transmit an EPG that includes schedule information regarding content available from a provider, determines that content is stored and is not currently available from the provider, incorporates information regarding the stored content in the EPG, and includes indicators indicating that the stored content is stored rather than available from the provider. The stored content may be recorded as part of recording a plurality of content received via a broadcast that are all included in the same frequency band and encoded with the same code word. The EPG may be divided into portions that include information regarding available content and portions that include information regarding previously available content and may include indications of which are stored. The EPG may be configured in a calendar arrangement based at least on the information regarding the available and information regarding when stored content were previously available from the provider. | 02-28-2013 |
20130061265 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL TIME DELIVERY TO AT LEAST ONE USER ADDITIONAL CONTENT/SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH TELEVISION/RADIO PROGRAMS - Methods and systems are provided for real time delivery to at least one user additional content/services associated with programs broadcast by television/radio and intended to be received/used by the user through a standard television/radio receiving device, said additional content/services being suitable for being accessed by the user through a client device equipped with a graphical display interface distinct from the standard television/radio receiving device. | 03-07-2013 |
20130074125 | PROGRAM HANDOFF BETWEEN DEVICES AND PROGRAM NETWORK OFFLOADING - Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide a program handoff between user devices. The program handoff permits a user to select a user device with which to resume a playing of the program. The program handoff also permits a user to set a reminder for playing the program. Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide for an application layer-based network offloading of programs. A program is buffered based on a network offloading time and the program is played from a buffer during an execution of a network offload. Network offload prediction is used to minimize network offload time and buffering. | 03-21-2013 |
20130081083 | METHOD OF MANAGING CONTENTS AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided are a method of managing the contents and an image display device using the same. The method includes: obtaining contents information on each of a plurality of contents sources; displaying the obtained contents information on one screen as a plurality of lists that are differently configured according a plurality of classified items; and receiving meta information on at least one content in the contents lists and displaying the received meta information in correspondence to the content. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086612 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT LIST AND SUB-LIST, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A broadcast receiving apparatus and method of providing a sub-list thereof are provided. A method of providing a sub-list of the present broadcast receiving apparatus displays a video contents list which contains a plurality of video contents and a sub-list on one screen, selects at least one video content of the plurality of video contents contained in the video content list, and adds the selected at least one video content to the sub-list and displays it. | 04-04-2013 |
20130104170 | Method for Processing Electronic Television Program - A method for processing an electronic television program that arranges a viewing schedule for a user is provided, in which the method receives an electronic television program list that includes electronic television program information, and records the electronic television program selected by the user from the electronic television program list, and receives a calendar information including at least one schedule event, and compares and determines whether a time period of the electronic television program selected by the user conflicts with a time period of the scheduled event, and generates a reminder message reminding the user of recording the electronic television program in advance or to alter the scheduled event when the time periods are in conflict. | 04-25-2013 |
20130111524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BROADCAST FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL | 05-02-2013 |
20130117786 | SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT DRIVEN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - The present disclosure introduces a Social Network Content Driven Electronic Program Guide (EPG). In one embodiment, the computer program language when executed by a processor performs operations that allow a user to specify whether media content information presented by an EPG is presented within a context of multiple contexts of one or more social network(s) and corresponding social circle(s) associated with the user. Responsive to the user indicating that the EPG present media content within a particular one context of the multiple contexts, the EPG edits any context intersecting media content information with associated information from the social network to personalize the media content information. The edited content is then highlighted and presented by the EPG. All other media content information is presented without highlights. Other embodiments are also described. | 05-09-2013 |
20130133003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A VERSION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - A method and apparatus for selecting a version of an entertainment program based on user preference includes receiving entertainment programming input, identifying multiple available versions of an entertainment program, identifying, for each of the multiple versions, a set of descriptive information regarding the respective version, accessing user preferences, and selecting one of the multiple versions for display based on a comparison of the descriptive information to the user preferences. | 05-23-2013 |
20130139199 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, AND BROADCAST RECEPTION DEVICE USING SAID METHOD - Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals. The disclosed reception method comprises a step for extracting second programme table information which indicates the association properties between a plurality of programmes, the programmes being obtained by using a broadcast stream which comprises at least one programme, programme table information which indicates the broadcast stream, and at least one broadcast service, from a received broadcast signal. The method further comprises a step for parsing the broadcast stream by using the extracted programme table information; and a step for acquiring information about the groups to which the plurality of programmes belong by using the extracted second programme table information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130145395 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus, a server, and methods for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes displaying a broadcast program list listing a plurality of broadcast programs, receiving, upon selection of one of the plurality of broadcast programs, a broadcast signal of the selected broadcast program, and displaying the received broadcast program. The broadcast program list includes real-time viewer rating information, a thumbnail image, and a name for each of the plurality of broadcast programs. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145396 | DIGITAL TV AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Disclosed are a digital TV and a method for controlling same. The method for controlling a digital TV according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying a user interface (UI) capable of selecting the standby mode for a power-off operation; and disconnecting the power source for a display panel so as to enter the standby mode when the standby mode is set through the UI in the power-off operation, and a power-off command is received. The standby mode includes a lower standby mode based on the operation of the digital TV and a network function, and the digital TV in the standby mode stops AV channel communication and performs SI channel communication. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145397 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SYNCHRONIZATION INFORMATION, CLIENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WITH BROADCAST PROGRAM - A synchronization information providing server to synchronize a broadcast program with additional information related to the broadcast program, a synchronization information providing method of synchronizing a broadcast program with additional information related to the broadcast program, a client apparatus to process synchronization information received from the synchronization information processing server and a method of processing synchronization information received from the synchronization information processing server are provided. The synchronization information providing server manages metadata of a broadcast frame constituting a broadcast program and additional information related to the metadata. The metadata includes time information and image feature information of the broadcast frame. Upon receiving synchronization request information, which includes time information and image feature information about at least one broadcast frame of a predetermined broadcast program, synchronization information to synchronize the predetermined broadcast program with additional information related to the predetermined broadcast program is provided to the client apparatus. | 06-06-2013 |
20130167175 | ELECTRIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic device and a method of controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes: a communication unit including a broadcasting receiver and an Internet module; and a controller for performing, when at least one broadcasting related information related to broadcasting data that can be acquired through the broadcasting receiver is included in data acquired from another electronic device through the Internet module while generating a display signal of broadcasting data acquired through the broadcasting receiver, a function according to broadcasting related information selected from the at least one broadcasting related information. Therefore, by enabling to perform a function according to specific broadcasting related information selected from broadcasting related information acquired from another electronic device, while viewing broadcasting, necessary information can be acquired and the acquired information can be easily executed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167176 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING TV PROGRAM PROGRESS TIME AND DEVICE THEREOF - A method of displaying program progress time in a TV receiver which receives and processes program guide information containing a program schedule, includes storing the program guide information, and displaying time information about a relevant program on the picture tube when the user issues a command requesting the displaying of a program progress time with respect to a currently viewed program. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167177 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING TV PROGRAM PROGRESS TIME AND DEVICE THEREOF - A method of displaying program progress time in a TV receiver which receives and processes program guide information containing a program schedule, includes storing the program guide information, and displaying time information about a relevant program on the picture tube when the user issues a command requesting the displaying of a program progress time with respect to a currently viewed program. | 06-27-2013 |
20130174199 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEANS FOR PRESENTING MENU OPTIONS IN A MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Methods, systems, and means for presenting menu options in a media guidance application are provided. In particular, a user selection of a primary menu option is received in the media guidance application. A plurality of sub-menu options that correspond to the primary option selected is determined. Subsequently, for each of the plurality of sub-menu options, it is determined whether the sub-menu option has guidance data and/or content associated with the primary menu option selected. This guidance data and/or content can be either data and/or media in accordance with some embodiments of the invention. For each of the plurality of sub-menu options that does not have guidance data and/or content associated with the primary menu option selected, the sub-menu option is prevented from being presented to a user. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174200 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING MULTIPLE ASSETS IN AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Systems and methods for presenting multiple assets in an interactive media guidance application are provided. A guidance display containing media guidance application listings is provided, where non-linear media assets are extracted from the media guidance application listings and the guidance display is divided into different portions to present media guidance application listings of non-on-demand media assets and non-linear media assets. One portion of the guidance display may include media guidance application listings of non-on-demand assets and may indicate the non-linear media assets extracted from the portion of the guidance display. Another portion may include media guidance application listings of non-linear media assets that were extracted from the media guidance application listings. This portion may also include additional non-linear assets that are available for retrieval and playback. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Systems and methods for presenting an interactive media guidance application are provided. One or more three-dimensional objects are presented in a guidance display, where each three-dimensional object represents a media asset. In response to receiving an indication from the user of one of the three-dimensional objects, the selected three-dimensional object or a region containing the selected three-dimensional object may be animated. The animation of the selected three-dimensional object or the region containing the selected three-dimensional object in the guidance display may be made relative to the remainder of three-dimensional objects that have not been selected by the user. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179922 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a touchpanel display and a program information display module. The program information display module is configured to display, while a first screen is displayed, a second screen if a first touch operation is recognized. The first screen presents an electronic program guide. The second screen presents first information on a television broadcast program. The program information display module is further configured to display, while the first screen is displayed, a third screen if a second touch operation is performed. The third screen presents second information on the television broadcast program. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179923 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING TV PROGRAM - A TV program searching apparatus includes: an image receiving unit that receives an image having additional information from an external device; an additional information reading unit that reads the additional information from the image received from the image receiving unit; and a TV program searching unit that searches for a TV program related to the additional information using the additional information read by the additional information reading unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130191868 | Method for Displaying Information Associated with Television Program, Electronic Program Guide, and Processing Apparatus - The present invention relates to a method for displaying information associated with television program, which includes: acquiring at least one sequentially arranged program listings and corresponding program notes; generating an electronic program guide according to the program listings and corresponding program notes; and displaying the electronic program guide on a display screen. The electronic program guide includes a background area, at least one program listing, and a program note corresponding to one of the program listing. The background area is opaque and covers most of the display area. The present invention further provides an electronic program guide and a processing apparatus for generating the electronic program guide. The electronic program guide doesn't completely affect the normal television viewing. | 07-25-2013 |
20130239144 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an acquiring module, a first output module, a second output module and a third output module. The acquiring module is configured to acquire program information via a computer network upon receipt of an instruction to acquire program information. The first outputting module is configured to create a program guide using program information acquired via a computer network. The second outputting module is configured to receive a broadcast of a program designated in the program guide. The third outputting module is configured to acquire program information of the designated program from the received broadcast of the designated program. | 09-12-2013 |
20130247101 | Video Output Device and Video Output Method - According to one embodiment, a video output device includes a receiver, a program guide obtaining module, an output signal processor, a user identification module, a view history storage module, and a program advice module. The receiver receives a broadcast signal of a program. The program guide obtaining module obtains program guide data. The output signal processor outputs a video signal of the broadcast signal to an output module. The user identification module identifies a user who is viewing the program. The view history storage module stores the program as view history in association with the user. The program advice module searches the program guide data for a recommended program similar to programs viewed by the user in the past using a keyword based on the view history and creates a program advice message suggesting the recommended program. The output signal processor outputs the program advice message to the output module. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254807 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RICH MEDIA ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDES - Electronic program guide (EPG) systems and methods are operable to incorporate image information into an EPG generated at a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives an image associated with a program, processes the received image into a rich media EPG image, receives program presentation schedule information that specifies a presentation schedule of a plurality of programs, wherein the program is one of the plurality of programs scheduled for presentation, associates an identifier with the rich media EPG image and the program, and generates a rich media EPG schedule based upon the received program presentation schedule information and the identifier. | 09-26-2013 |
20130268967 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SHORTCUT AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF - A multifunctional display device displays a menu including shortcut objects. A processor assigns each object to one of a broadcast channel, network address, or an application. The objects may be an alphabetical character, number, symbol, or icon. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268968 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING BROADCAST USING THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method for scheduling a broadcast using the same. The broadcast scheduling method includes generating a program information table, in which broadcast information is arranged, if a broadcast program selected by a user in the program information table is moved into an area adjacent to an icon, displaying the broadcast program being added to an item folder, and scheduling the broadcast program. | 10-10-2013 |
20130276030 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - Provided are a video display device and a video display method, by which a user can easily select a program to be watched even if a numerical keypad is not provided in a remote control device. A display portion displays a video of a program. While the video of the program is displayed on the full screen of the display portion, an operation detection portion detects a rotational operation of a dial provided in a remote control device. When the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion, a control portion functions so that while the video of the program is displayed on the display portion, a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs is displayed on the display portion. | 10-17-2013 |
20130283316 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAYING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a display controller configured to display an program guide based, the program guide includes a program table in which information of programs that are broadcasted in a time period from a first time of a first date to a time which is first minutes after the first time of the first date is displayed, and a date display area includes sections corresponding to of dates, to display, in the program table, information of programs which are broadcasted in a time period from the first time of a second date corresponding to a second section in the date display area to a time which is the first minutes after the first time of the second date, based on the program table data, when it is detected that a tapping operation is performed on the second section. | 10-24-2013 |
20130298160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME AUDIO AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION - A method for near real time data communication is disclosed. The method includes determining available data from a first discovered device, and inserting a listing for the first discovered device into an electronic program guide (EPG). A system is disclosed for near real time data communication is also disclosed. | 11-07-2013 |
20130326556 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT MANAGEMENT LIST AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME - Disclosed are a method for providing a content management list which enables integrated management for the use of various contents and an apparatus for performing the same. The method for providing the content management list in a content management list provision apparatus which can be connected to a plurality of contents through a network includes the steps of: displaying the content management list including electronic program guide information of a broadcasting program; and displaying information of reserved playback contents corresponding to the reservation time of a time axis which is additionally displayed in the content management list according to an event signal for indicating a content playback reservation. Accordingly, the method enables a user to easily determine the reserved states of all available contents, and enables the user to efficiently make plans to use the various contents therethrough. | 12-05-2013 |
20130340007 | EXTENSIONS TO TRIGGER PARAMETERS TABLE FOR INTERACTIVE TELEVISION - A method, computer program, and reception apparatus, and information providing apparatus. The method includes receiving content from a content source, and displaying the received content on a display. The reception apparatus | 12-19-2013 |
20130340008 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL TABLE FOR A BROADCAST PROTOCOL AND METHOD OF BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - 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. | 12-19-2013 |
20130340009 | DYNAMIC ITEM HIGHLIGHTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for highlighting a program listing in a set of program listings based on selection criteria. The selection criteria may indicate that the a broadcaster has agreed to pay a service provider in return for the service provider ensuring that a program listing, corresponding to the program of the broadcaster, is highlighted in a program page that displays a set of program listings, such as television program listings. If there are multiple program listings, listed in a program page, that are to be highlighted, then details of the respective contracts may be used to determine which program listing to highlight. Such details may include the total contract value, a ratio of contract value-to-page view, and/or the time of contract formation. | 12-19-2013 |
20130347038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING FOR MEDIA BASED ON DERIVED ATTRIBUTES - Systems and methods described herein provide for generating disruptive recommendations based on a seed input. The viewer may receive recommendations having varying affinity between a media asset being currently viewed and the seed input. In some embodiments, the viewer interacts with a slider interface having the currently viewed media asset at one end and the seed input at the other, and an affinity indicator proximate to either end. The viewer may select a location of the affinity indicator on the slider for determining recommendations. The viewer may receive recommendations based on the currently viewed media asset and the seed input as the affinity indicator slides from one end of the slider interface to the other. | 12-26-2013 |
20140013356 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for providing channel information is illustrated. The method includes: receiving a command for switching channels when a first channel content is displayed on a display unit; determining whether the command indicates a continuous switching mode or a discrete switching mode; displaying the first channel content and descriptive information of a plurality of channels being switched until a second channel among the channels being switched is selected at the continuous switching mode; displaying preview information of the second channel to replace the first channel content and loading the second channel content when the second channel is selected at the continuous switching mode or when the second channel is switched according to the command at the discrete switching mode; displaying the second channel content when loading completed. The data quantity of the preview information is larger than that of the description information. | 01-09-2014 |
20140013357 | TRANSMISSION OF VIDEO SIGNALS - An apparatus, method, and system are described for transmitting a television program signal. A portion of a local frequency spectrum may be determined to be free, or relatively unused. A user selection of a television program or broadcast programming channel may be received from a program lineup in an electronic programming guide. The selected program may be selected from a gateway, translated, and transmitted over the portion of the frequency spectrum determined to be free. The translation may include converting a signal from the gateway into a National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) signal or a mobile TV signal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140013358 | Video Searching Using TV and User Interfaces Therefor - Using a TV, a viewer watching broadcast TV or Internet video content on a display can select a “Video Search” application indicating viewer desire to obtain information about a currently playing video program. The application is invoked to send a name of the currently playing video program to a server on the Internet and associated with a database to cause the server to execute a search only of the database associated with the Internet server and not to execute a search of the Internet. The server returns metadata related to the currently playing video program, which is presented on the display along with the currently playing video program. | 01-09-2014 |
20140020023 | SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING MEDIA PROGRAMMING GUIDES - A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media receiver having a controller element to generate a Media Program Guide (MPG) that groups media programs according to a redundancy of media programs and a viewing history of a subscriber of the media receiver. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140040955 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - A non-frame television program guide notification system is provided. The system allows a user at a system to order and receive notifications of non-frame television programs. The user can order notifications by selecting a program or supplying a program title directly. The user can specify when and how often the notifications will be generated and received. If desired, the user can view a list of all currently requested notifications. Entries can be added to the list or the user can cancel a previously ordered notification. | 02-06-2014 |
20140047475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL SERVICE SIGNALS - An apparatus of processing a digital service signals and a method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes a receiving module configured to receive the digital service signals having contents and receive URL information for additional data related to the contents, an extracting module configured to extract logo data for indicating contents provider from each of the video frames of the contents, wherein the logo data is located in a specific area in the each of the video frames, a comparing module configured to compare the extracted logo data with stored logo data to obtain channel information of the contents, an obtaining module configured to obtain the channel information of the contents from metadata related to the logo data and obtain the additional data related to the contents and a generating module configured to generate a request for obtaining the URL information using the obtained channel information, wherein the receiving module receives the URL information using the generated request, wherein the obtaining module obtains the additional data over an IP (Internet Protocol network) according to the URL information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047476 | MEDIA SYSTEM WITH INTERNET CONTENT - An interactive television system is provided that supports newsgroup features. An interactive television application, such as an interactive television program guide, may be used to allow a user to view and post newsgroup messages to one or more newsgroup servers. The newsgroup servers may be located at a television distribution facility. The newsgroup servers may be Usenet servers accessed via the Internet. The user may use the newsgroup feature while watching television programming or while otherwise viewing other content provided by the interactive television application. Cross-referencing may be used to allow the user to access content related to a particular subject matter. Parental control features may be used to limit access to certain newsgroups. Newsgroup messages may contain links to other content made available through the interactive television application. | 02-13-2014 |
20140053195 | CHANNEL CHANGER FOR INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - A system, method, and computer instructions is provided to render an on screen channel changer on a television. A request is received from a user to activate the on screen channel changer. An on screen channel changer for an Intelligent TV may include a display of a number bar, miniature (mini) electronic program guide (EPG), a dynamic EPG, and a program preview. The EPG information comes from EPG information sources including EPG information embedded in a content feed from a cable provider and EPG information from an internet source. The EPG information displayed can include a schedule of past, current, and upcoming TV programs. The on screen channel changer may be displayed on top of a TV program currently being viewed. The user changes the channel by making a channel number selection using the on screen channel changer. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059609 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059611 | INTERACTIVE LEARNING - A method may include providing a live, interactive program or information associated with the live, interactive program on a video display device; and providing a live interactive content icon on the video display device when a current time is before an end time of the live, interactive program, the live interactive content icon indicating that live interactive content is available for the live, interactive program. | 02-27-2014 |
20140068670 | ENHANCING VIDEO CONTENT WITH EXTRINSIC DATA - Disclosed are various embodiments for enhancing video content with extrinsic data. A video content feature is rendered on a display. A user interface is rendered on top of the video content feature on the display. The user interface presents cast member images, each of which corresponds to a cast member in the video content feature. A selection of a cast member image is obtained through the user interface. The user interface is updated to present additional information regarding the respective cast member corresponding to the selected image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068671 | ON-LINE SCHEDULE SYSTEM WITH PERSONALIZATION FEATURES - An on-line scheduling application allows users to personalize how television-related, entertainment-related, and social event related information is provided. Users may select one or more sources from which the information is obtained. Users may set up a date book that is also uses as a source. Users may select one or more delivery schemes that the application used to provide the information. One or more of the personalization features of the scheduling application stay be incorporated into an on-line television programming guide. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM DATA UPON SELECTION OF A VIDEO DATA DISPLAY - A graphical user interface (GUI) includes a first window that displays video data of a first entertainment selection. A first area of the first window displays entertainment system data that corresponds to the first entertainment selection. The GUI includes a second window that displays video data of a second entertainment selection. A second area of the second window, displays entertainment system data that corresponds to the second entertainment selection. Upon selection by a user of the respective window, entertainment system data regarding the entertainment selection corresponding to the respective window is displayed. | 03-06-2014 |
20140082668 | TELEVISION MESSAGE SYSTEM - A television message system is provided that allows users at user television equipment devices that are connected to a television distribution facility to transmit messages to each other relating to a television program or other suitable subject. The television message system permits users to participate in evaluations, contests, promotions, and surveys related to a television program while watching that television program. The television message system also permits users to compose and send a message to a television program entity. The television message system also allows a user to purchase a gift related to television programming for a recipient. The gift may be an electronic gift certificate for pay-per-view programming. The television message system may be based on an interactive television program guide or a set-top box application implemented on a set-top box. | 03-20-2014 |
20140101698 | TELEVISION SCHEDULE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION FOR MULTIPLE PROGRAM OCCURRENCES - An improved television guide system. According to one embodiment of the invention, television guide information is provided that includes multiple occurrences of a single show. The guide system of the present invention allows the user to identify a show and, thereafter, identify when the identified show will be played again. Accordingly, the user may more easily select shows for viewing or recordation. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101699 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT LIST, AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME - A method of displaying a list is provided. The method includes receiving a user command to display a list of multimedia content, determining at least one multimedia content which matches a pre-stored keyword from among a plurality of multimedia content included in the list, in response to the user command, and displaying the list including the plurality of multimedia content based on the result of the determination, wherein the displayed list displays the pre-stored keyword as overlapping the least one multimedia content matching the pre-stored keyword from among the plurality of multimedia content. | 04-10-2014 |
20140109139 | RECOMMENDING MEDIA PROGRAMS BASED ON MEDIA PROGRAM POPULARITY - A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115630 | INFORMATION RECEPTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION RECEPTION, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS - An information reception apparatus which allows a user to easily understand, from an electronic program guide, the information announced in a broadcast program, and which contributes to increasing viewer ratings of the broadcast program. The information reception apparatus (broadcast reception apparatus) is provided with: an electronic program information acquisition unit (tuner, control unit) for acquiring electronic program information; an announcement information acquisition unit (control unit, DEMUX unit) for acquiring information announced in the broadcast program from information included in the electronic program information acquired by the electronic program information acquisition unit or from information transmitted together with the electronic program information; and an announcement information output unit (control unit, AV output unit) for outputting the electronic program information and for outputting information indicating the presence or absence of the announcement information, based on the information acquired by the announcement information acquisition unit. | 04-24-2014 |
20140123189 | Data Structure and Methods for Providing an Interactive Program Guide - A program guide in which a video layer includes a plurality of video objects including title objects, each title object having associated with it a channel and at least one time slot, the video layer being formed in response to a received video stream; and a graphics layer comprising a plurality of graphics objects including title overlay objects, each of the title overlay objects selectively imparting at least a visual de-emphasis to a respective title object in the video layer, the visual de-emphasis being imparted to title objects not being associated with a desired time slot. | 05-01-2014 |
20140123190 | CONTENT BASED USER INTERFACE - In one example embodiment, a mobile device includes a data receiving unit configured to receive metadata regarding television content that is played by a television device; an icon displaying unit configured to: display a plurality of icons that are associated with the television content based at least in part on the metadata, and receive a touch input via at least one icon from among the plurality of icons; and a signal generating unit configured to generate a control signal regarding an operation of the television device based at least in part on the received touch input. | 05-01-2014 |
20140130092 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH DISPLAY OF ALTERNATIVE-SOURCE MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM OPTIONS AND ESTIMATED AVAILABILITY PARAMETERS - An electronic program guide (“EPG”) coordinates the display of availability metadata representing the availability of listed multimedia programs from one or more alternative content sources. The EPG presents multimedia programs available from a primary content source. A system identifies alternative content sources for one or more multimedia programs listed in the EPG, estimates availability parameters from these alternative content sources, and supplements the EPG with availability metadata that represent the determined availability parameters of the versions of the multimedia programs from one or more alternative content sources. The system estimates missing availability parameters based on application of one or more availability rule sets, which can reflect, for example, a contractual agreement or arrangement, a data analysis performed on historical availability data for the multimedia program or the content provider, and the like. | 05-08-2014 |
20140130093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VIEWING NOTIFICATIONS FOR A SET-TOP BOX - The disclosed embodiments include a method for providing viewing notifications for a set-top box that includes the steps of: storing usage information associated with a media content received by the set-top box, the usage information containing a length of time that the media content was displayed; determining, using a processor, whether a viewing notification is to be sent to a particular user based on user preferences and the usage information; responsive to a determination that the viewing notification is to be sent to the particular user, retrieving a notification identifier associated with the particular user and sending the viewing notification regarding the usage information; receiving a response to the viewing notification from the particular user, wherein the response includes a partial command that is interpreted based on the viewing notification as a requested command to be performed by the set-top box; and performing, using the processor, the requested command. | 05-08-2014 |
20140150024 | Programming Contextual Interactive User Interface for Television - A user interface for interactive television services is represented as a visual overlay that provides a viewer with knowledge of a library of available content relating to a currently tuned to television channel and navigation options for selecting desired portions of the available content from the library, the available content being designated according to business rules specified by a provider of the interactive television services. The visual overlay may be displayed over full-screen or embedded television programming, which may be broadcast television programming or on-demand television programming. | 05-29-2014 |
20140157314 | MEDIA CONTENT DISCOVERY IN AN INTEGRATED MEDIA SERVICE THAT DISTRIBUTES MEDIA CONTENT BY WAY OF A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT MEDIA DISTRIBUTION MODELS - An exemplary method includes a media service provider system 1) providing an end user of an integrated media service with access to a media program by way of a plurality of different media distribution models, 2) maintaining a catalogue that includes comprehensive information about the media program, the comprehensive information being an aggregate of non-redundant information about the media program obtained from a plurality of independent source catalogues corresponding to the plurality of different media distribution models, and 3) providing, based on the comprehensive information included in the catalogue, a media service user interface that supports discovery of the comprehensive information about the media program regardless of a user interface context from which a user request for information about the media program is received. Corresponding systems and methods are also described. | 06-05-2014 |
20140165104 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD USING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus may include a display unit; an image receiver which receives an image signal; an image processor which processes an image to be displayed on the display unit; a user input unit which receives a user's input; and a controller which displays on the display unit a channel list comprising an image corresponding to a plurality of channels and is used to select the plurality of channels, and upon receiving a channel selection command from a user through the channel list, displays on the display unit additional information code corresponding to the selected channel together with the image corresponding to the selected channel. | 06-12-2014 |
20140173657 | System and Method for Auxiliary Television Programming Information - An Auxiliary Electronic Program Guide (AEPG) television system is provided with a receiver having a network interface to accept broadcast channel information, including programs with visual content and Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information describing the programs. The receiver converts selected programs into display data supplied at a display interface. A display has an input to accept the display data and a screen to present images for the selected channels. An auxiliary module converts the EPG information into a code signal representing the EPG information. A user interface (e.g., the display screen) supplies the code signal to a remote device. For example, the auxiliary module converts the EPG information into code signal enabled as a compact code image, and the display screen presents the compact code as an image. In one aspect, the compact code image is a 2D barcode. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173658 | PROGRAM-SCHEDULE-GENERATING DEVICE, PROGRAM-DATA-SHARING SYSTEM, METHOD OF GENERATING PROGRAM SCHEDULE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - To share program data between a plurality of information providers, between which providers there exists a predetermined association, whereby a program schedule for each of the information providers can be acquired. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173659 | E-COMMERCE SYSTEM USING CONTENT PLATFORM INDEPENDENT PRODUCT BROADCASTING - The following description relates to an e-commerce system using content platform independent product broadcasting which combines a channel map for pay TV broadcasts provided over a broadcasting network with a channel map for product broadcasts provided over the Internet to thereby generate an integrated channel map. Using the integrated channel map, a user is able to easily connect to or change a product broadcast provided over the Internet with simple manipulation so as to perform an e-commerce transaction using content platform independent product broadcasting. | 06-19-2014 |
20140189739 | USING IDLE RESOURCES TO REDUCE CHANNEL CHANGE TIMES - Arrangements for preparing a television channel for presentation are presented. A tuner of a television receiver may tune to a first television channel and the first television channel may be output for presentation. One or more idle tuners of the television receiver may be identified. One or more television channels other than the first television channel may be selected for preparation. The one or more television channels may be selected prior to receiving user input selecting a television channel of the one or more television channels for presentation. Each of the one or more television channels may be prepared for presentation by tuning, by each tuner of the one or more idle tuners, to the one or more television channels prior to receiving the user input selecting the television channel of the one or more television channels for presentation. | 07-03-2014 |
20140201791 | ON-SCREEN PROGRAM GUIDE WITH INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING RECOMMENDATIONS - A subscriber to a video service generally has available to them an on-screen program guide. The program guide lists programming (e.g., TV shows) that are available to the subscriber for a certain upcoming time period. The programming guide may sort the listings by channel and time, areas of interest, age appropriateness and/or MPAA or TV rating, free or additional cost, etc. In an embodiment, the programming guide includes an ability to make a selection to see which TV shows are recommended by reviewers. Such reviewers may be individuals or panels or institutions to which some credibility may be attached—a trusted source. After selecting a reviewer, the subscriber is made aware of the programs recommended by the selected reviewer. | 07-17-2014 |
20140208353 | Multiple Resolution Audio and Video Systems, Methods of Production, Delivery and Uses Thereof - A multiple-resolution audio and video system is disclosed that includes: at least one shared network infrastructure; at least one audio file, video file or a combination thereof, wherein each of the at least one audio file, video file or combination thereof has at least one resolution format and wherein one of the at least one resolution format is a studio quality resolution; at least one executable user interface application; and at least one device that accesses the at least one executable user interface application. Methods of using a multiple-resolution audio and video system include: providing at least one shared network infrastructure; providing at least one audio file, video file or a combination thereof, wherein each of the at least one audio file, video file or combination thereof has at least one resolution format and wherein one of the at least one resolution format is a studio quality resolution; providing at least one executable user interface application; and utilizing at least one device to access the at least one executable user interface application. Devices and related software applications are also contemplated herein. | 07-24-2014 |
20140208354 | Method and system for TV interface for coordinating media exchange with a media peripheral - Aspects of the invention may be found in a method and system for communicating media and may comprise controlling communication of media from a television without consuming the media by the television. Under control of the television, the media may be transferred from a first location to at least one media peripheral located at a second location. A command initiated from or through the television may also cause media to be transfer from the first location to the second location. At least one command may be received that may effectuate the transfer of media from the first location to the second location. Accordingly, at least one request may be received by the television and utilized to facilitate or control transfer of the media. The television may redirect media from a first location to a second location with the media being received and/or consumed by the television. | 07-24-2014 |
20140208355 | SYNCHRONIZING VIDEO CONTENT WITH EXTRINSIC DATA - Disclosed are various embodiments for associating and synchronizing extrinsic data with video content at particular points of time in the video content. A user interface is rendered that facilitates a selection from extrinsic data items that are associated with a video content feature that is currently being presented to a user. A user selection of a particular extrinsic data item is received through the user interface, and a time in the video content feature is determined corresponding to the user selection. An association is then generated between the particular extrinsic data item and the time in the video content feature. | 07-24-2014 |
20140223480 | Ranking User Search and Recommendation Results for Multimedia Assets Using Metadata Analysis - Methods and system for presenting a user with multimedia digital content available to and having a high correlation of potential viewing interest to the user, comprises determining which multimedia assets are available to the user; ranking the available multimedia assets as a correlation between the user's interests and demographic information and metadata associated with each multimedia asset. Higher ranking and relevance of each respective multimedia asset is indicative of a higher likelihood of viewing interest to the user. The ranked and available multimedia assets are presented to the user on an interactive display screen, where the higher ranked multimedia assets are featured more prominently to the user on the interactive display screen. The user is then able to take further action with respect to each presented multimedia asset. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING A SEARCH REQUEST - Systems and methods for updating the search requests in interactive grid displays are presented. User equipment may receive a request to search a database of media asset information to find a media asset related to a received search string and the time window of the displayed interactive grid. After the search is complete, the search results may be presented to a user on the display. The user equipment may then receive a request to update the time window of the interactive grid display. In response to the update, the user equipment will search the database of media asset information for media assets related to the search string and the updated time window. The new search results may then be presented to the user. In some embodiments, the search results may be based on the search string and the displayed set of media asset sources on the interactive grid display. | 08-07-2014 |
20140245352 | Time-Sensitive Content Update - In one embodiment, a method includes determining available media content from one or more content sources and providing at least a portion of the available media content for display in a programming guide on a display device of a user. The programming guide includes a plurality of entries each associated with one of the available media content. The method further includes determining that an update action button should be displayed on the display device, providing the update action button for display on the display device when it is determined that the update action button should be displayed, and updating the programming guide in response to a user selection of the update action button. The update action button is operable to cause the social-networking system to update the programming guide. | 08-28-2014 |
20140282729 | MULTI-OPTION SOURCING OF CONTENT - A content manager initiates play back of corresponding content on a display screen. The corresponding content is received on a primary broadcast channel selected amongst multiple available channels. During play back of the corresponding content, the content manager receives selection of over-the-top content available over a secondary channel with respect to the primary broadcast channel. The over-the-top content includes supplemental content associated with the corresponding content. In response to receiving the selection of over-the-top content, the content manager: i) retrieves the over-the-top content, and ii) initiates play back of the over-the-top content on the display screen. Accordingly, the user can selectively retrieve and play back supplemental content associated with a primary broadcast channel. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289771 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING AND DOWNLOADING RELATED CONTENTS BY TERMINAL THROUGH BROADCAST SERVICE - A method for receiving a service guide and a terminal for receiving content related to particular content. The method includes storing, upon reception, at least one or more fragments of the service guide; transmitting a request message including an identifier of an interested content to a server; receiving a response message including first information regarding to at least one or more related contents with respect to the interested content; and if the stored at least one or more fragments of the service guide do not include a fragment identified by the first information, trying to receive the fragment identified by the first information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140304739 | INFORMATION SYSTEM - A system and method for displaying an electronic program schedule guide is provided. The system has areas for displaying program schedule information. In addition, the system also has areas that may be used for advertising programs, products or services. In another embodiment, the system has areas for displaying messages to the user. | 10-09-2014 |
20140325563 | DYNAMIC ITEM HIGHLIGHTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for highlighting a program listing in a set of program listings based on selection criteria. The selection criteria may indicate that the a broadcaster has agreed to pay a service provider in return for the service provider ensuring that a program listing, corresponding to the program of the broadcaster, is highlighted in a program page that displays a set of program listings, such as television program listings. If there are multiple program listings, listed in a program page, that are to be highlighted, then details of the respective contracts may be used to determine which program listing to highlight. Such details may include the total contract value, a ratio of contract value-to-page view, and/or the time of contract formation. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331260 | MISSED CONTENT ACCESS GUIDE - Arrangements for providing available playback options for missed portions of broadcast content may be presented. A request to present an electronic programming guide that comprises indications of a plurality of television programs currently being broadcast may be received. A missed portion of each television program of the plurality of television programs may have already been broadcast. For each television program of the plurality of television programs, a plurality of content resources from which the missed portion of each television program of the plurality of television programs may be retrievable may be analyzed. A first source from the plurality of content resources from which the missed portion of a television program is retrievable may be identified. The electronic programming guide may be configured and output to comprise an indication of availability of the missed portion of the television program. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337890 | DISPLAY APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE (SNS) MESSAGE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A display method and apparatus are disclosed. The display method includes selecting a broadcasting channel to display a broadcast program, accessing an outside server to receive a SNS (Social Network Service) message corresponding to at least one of the broadcasting channel and the broadcast program among SNS messages registered with the outside server, and displaying the received SNS message on a picture displaying the broadcast program. The display apparatus includes a receiving unit for selecting a broadcasting channel to receive a broadcast program; a signal processing unit for processing the received broadcast program for display, a communication unit for accessing an outside server for receiving a SNS (Social Network Service) message registered with the outside server; said SNS message corresponding to at least one of the broadcasting channel and the broadcast program among SNS messages registered with the outside server; and a control unit to control the signal processing unit to display the received SNS message on the picture displaying the broadcast program. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344858 | Recording of Multiple Television Channels - In various embodiments, a selection of a television program to record may be received by a television receiver. The television program may be broadcast on a first television channel and as part of a first transponder stream. A plurality of television channels that are transmitted as part of the first transponder stream may be determined. A user interface may be presented that permits a user to select from the plurality of television channels transmitted on the first transponder stream. A selection of a second television channel from the plurality of television channels may be received. In response to the selection of the first television program to record and the selection of the second television channel from the plurality of television channels, record the first television channel and the second television channel via a single tuner. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344859 | CAPTURING AND SHARING MEDIA CONTENT - A media device allows users to watch and capture portions from a media stream. Users may then share the captured media content with other users. In one embodiment, the media device receives a media stream, plays the media stream, and caches a portion of the media stream as it is being played. A user can define a media clip by selecting its boundaries in the cached portion of the media stream. The media device creates the media clip based on the user's input and enables the user to transmit the media clip to another system, such as a community website for sharing it with other users. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351857 | Method, Electronic Program Menu and Processing Device for Displaying Television Program Related Information - The present invention relates to a method for displaying information associated with television program, which includes: fetching a plurality of sequentially arranged program listings and corresponding program notes; generating an electronic program guide according to the program listings and corresponding program notes; and displaying the electronic program guide. The electronic program guide includes a program listing, a program note associated with the program listing, and at least one icon indicating that the user would select to display the previous or the next program listing in the electronic program guide. The present invention further provides an electronic program guide and a processing apparatus for generating the electronic program guide. The electronic program guide can display information associated with TV program in a more intuitive manner. | 11-27-2014 |
20140359668 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, method includes: acquiring information on programs corresponding to channels scheduled to be broadcasted for time slots, the time slots including first time slot, second time slot after the first time slot, and third time slot after the second time slot; selecting, for the time slots, at least one of programs in accordance with condition of program selection, wherein first program is selected for the first time slot, no program is selected for the second time slot, and second program is selected for the third time slot; and outputting information for displaying a program table comprising a field displaying information of the first program, a field displaying information regarding a viewable program according to a time length of the second period, and a field displaying information of the second program, wherein the viewable program is selected from programs recorded in a storage or receivable from a server. | 12-04-2014 |
20140366061 | METHOD FOR OPERATING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method for operating an image display apparatus includes displaying a timeline indicating past, current and future time regions based on a current time, displaying first information about a past broadcast program in the past time region, displaying second information about a current broadcast program in the current time region, displaying third information about a future broadcast program in the future time region. Items included in the first information may be displayed in a list type format and items included in the second information and the third information may be displayed in a thumbnail type format. Therefore, since visually differentiated content is displayed along the timeline, it is possible to support various functions and to increase user convenience. | 12-11-2014 |
20140366062 | System And Method In A Television System For Providing Information Associated With A User-Selected Person In A Television Program - A system and method in a television system for providing information associated with a user-selected person in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 12-11-2014 |
20140373061 | Method, Device, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, a program listing display method includes: obtaining data of a first program and data of a second program through a communication network; obtaining, though the communication network, first reservation information of the first program and second reservation information of the second program in an electronic device; and outputting data of a program listing containing the data of the first program, the data of the second program, the first reservation information, and the second reservation information. In the data of the program listing, in accordance with newness of the first reservation information or the second reservation information, a display mode of the data of the first program differs from a display mode of the data of the second program, or a display mode of the first reservation information differs from a display mode of the second reservation information. | 12-18-2014 |
20150020100 | Video Browser - In an embodiment, a computing device may display a video browser screen on an output device. The video browser screen may include a list of video programs arranged as a carousel. The carousel may have a plurality of entries, where an entry may represent a video program that may be provided by a service provider. A video program represented by an entry may be, for example, a live video program, a video program available on demand, or a video program that may have been recorded by a device that may be provided by the service provider. The computing device may acquire an indication to navigate to an entry in the carousel. The computing device may navigate to the entry and acquire an indication to select the entry. The computing device may select the entry and display the video program associated with the selected entry on the output device. | 01-15-2015 |
20150020101 | NAVIGATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for navigating multimedia content are disclosed. A first plurality of selectable icons is displayed. A selection of a particular selectable icon of the first plurality of selectable icons is received. The particular selectable icon represents multimedia content associated with a particular user. In response to receiving the selection of the particular selectable icon, a display of a second plurality of selectable icons is initiated. At least one of the second plurality of selectable icons represents a particular multimedia program that is associated with the particular user. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026724 | Broadcasting Receiver, Method of Controlling Broadcasting Receiver, Method of Controlling Information Providing Apparatus, and Computer-readable Recording Medium - A broadcasting receiver is arranged to provide linear services broadcasting linear events related to a predetermined time and non-linear services broadcasting static events regardless of time. The broadcasting receiver includes a receiver to receive a plurality of linear services each including a plurality of linear events broadcast at the predetermined times, a discovery information receiver to receive event discovery information including event type information for identifying a type of static event related to discovery information defining a plurality of static events, a processor to control a display unit to display a channel guide including the linear services and the non-linear services, and a user input receiver to receive user input selecting one of the static events from the channel guide, where the processor is performs one of a plurality of predetermined actions corresponding to the type of static event selected by the user input. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026725 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an input controller to designate a plurality of first programs that a user wants to view among a plurality of programs; a processor to execute an application for displaying information on a first program to be broadcast in a first period among the plurality of the first programs, the first period being determined according to a current time; and a display processor to display number of first programs to be broadcast in the first period on a screen for activating the application. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026726 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE PROVIDING METHOD AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives user interface (UI) information data regarding a UI screen corresponding to at least one application displayed on an external apparatus in communication with the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores a UI information conversion format, an information conversion unit which converts the received UI information data using the UI information conversion format, a display unit which displays a UI screen, and a control unit which controls the information conversion unit to convert the UI information data received by the communication interface unit using the UI information conversion format and display on the display unit the UI screen corresponding to the converted UI information data. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026727 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CAPTION THEREOF - A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal. | 01-22-2015 |
20150033260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT BROADCASTING PROGRAM AND MEDIUM THEREOF - A method of providing information about a broadcasting program includes collecting data about at least one broadcasting program from social media, obtaining viewer response information about the at least one broadcasting program from the collected data, and displaying the obtained viewer response information as additional information about the at least one broadcasting program. | 01-29-2015 |
20150033261 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING DATA IN MEDIA-ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods may be provided for retrieving non-on-demand media data and on-demand media data that is provided by separate data sources. On demand media data may be cached to reduce system latencies and the burden on the distribution network. | 01-29-2015 |
20150040159 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING SCHEDULED EVENTS IN A MEDIA GUIDANCE DISPLAY - Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that provides media guidance data in which media providers are filtered according to whether or not a media listing associated with the media provider corresponds to a scheduled event. For example, in response to a user request to view scheduled recordings, the media guidance application generates a media guidance display featuring only media providers associated with scheduled recordings. For those media providers, the media guidance application provides both media listings scheduled to be recorded and media listings not currently scheduled to be recorded. | 02-05-2015 |
20150040160 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING IMPROPERLY FORMATTED METADATA - Systems and methods are provided for modifying metadata associated with content that is improperly formatted. In one configuration a metadata pre-processor receives metadata from a remote source, determines whether the received metadata is properly formatted, and, if it is not, modifies the metadata based on information received from a second remote source. In one configuration the modified metadata is then used to identify information associated with the content. | 02-05-2015 |
20150052558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION ICONS ON AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that receives, from a particular user, identification of selected users from which recommendations are sought. Those users that have made recommendations are determined, and a recommendation graphical user interface is provided to equipment of the particular user. The graphical user interface item is associated with a recommending user and a television program. A selection of the recommendation graphical user interface item is received, and information is provided for presentation, responsive to a determination that viewing of the information has been authorized. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-19-2015 |
20150067733 | Interactive Ticker - Methods, apparatuses, graphical user interfaces and computer readable mediums are described for a ticker. The present invention describes, among other things, various ways of processing and displaying data in the ticker, interacting with the ticker, altering characteristics of the ticker and preparing and transmitting data to the ticker. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074718 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE WITH REAL-TIME AUDIO VIDEO CONTENT INFORMATION UPDATES - An audio video device (AVD) includes a processor configured for controlling a display, as well as a at least one computer readable storage medium that is not a carrier wave and that is accessible to the processor. The computer readable storage medium bears instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to present, on the display, at least an user interface (UI) of available audio video (AV) content (programming). The UI includes information for at least one available AV content including a first AV content. Further, the information for the first AV content includes the current number of other AVDs presenting the first AV content, the current rating of the first AV content, the current number of likes or dislikes of the first AV content, the current number of comments regarding the first AV content, and/or an indication of whether the first AV content is currently trending. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074719 | AUTOMATIC CONTACT INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - According to one aspect, a DVR sends a user's contact information over a network to a third party. Upon determining that a television program or advertisement contains a special tag that is associated with a third party, the DVR displays, to the user, a prompt that invites the DVR user to allow the DVR to send the user's contact information to the third party. If the user gives permission for the DVR to send the contact information to the third party, then the DVR sends the contact information to the third party (e.g., over the Internet). | 03-12-2015 |
20150082348 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VOD SERVICE THEREOF - A display device includes a memory, a display module, a network interface configured to access a Video On Demand (VOD) server, and a controller configured to register a program for a rerun notification service, display a VOD program guide by receiving an additional information on a plurality of VOD program from a VOD server via the network interface, detect whether the additional information on the registered program exists in the VOD program guide, and output a message indicating that the program is uploaded in the VOD program guide via the rerun notification service if the additional information on the registered program exists in the VOD program guide. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082349 | Content Based Video Content Segmentation - A method receives video content and metadata associated with video content. The method then extracts features of the video content based on the metadata. Portions of the visual, audio, and textual features are fused into composite features that include multiple features from the visual, audio, and textual features. A set of video segments of the video content is identified based on the composite features of the video content. Also, the segments may be identified based on a user query. | 03-19-2015 |
20150100985 | MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a user interface including an electronic program guide and scrollable visual directories. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106848 | Application Gadgets and Electronic Program Guides - Application gadget techniques are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to initiate one or more control functions related to control of a display of content by a client. The one or more modules also provide an environment to execute one or more application gadgets such that an output of the one or more application gadgets is displayable on the display device. | 04-16-2015 |
20150121426 | CONCEPTS FOR PROVIDING AN ENHANCED MEDIA PRESENTATION - Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment. | 04-30-2015 |
20150135218 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method of controlling a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a content and a controller configured to control the display to display the content by adding content-related information, that is generated based on at least one of user preference information and a user viewing trend, to the content. In addition, the content-related information may be generated based on at least one of user preference information and a user viewing trend. | 05-14-2015 |
20150135219 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING BROADCAST USING THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method for scheduling a broadcast using the same. The broadcast scheduling method includes generating a program information table, in which broadcast information is arranged, if a broadcast program selected by a user in the program information table is moved into an area adjacent to an icon, displaying the broadcast program being added to an item folder, and scheduling the broadcast program. | 05-14-2015 |
20150143423 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE BASED ON USER INTERFACE THAT REFLECTS USER'S INTENTION - Disclosed are a device control apparatus, method, and system based on a user interface that reflects a user's intention. The apparatus may includes a user interface processing unit for displaying a user interface, including a content selection unit for selecting content and first and second control icons, on the touch screen of a first device, generating a selection icon indicating that the content has been selected when a signal to select the content selection unit is received from the touch screen, and displaying the selection icon on the touch screen and a transmission unit for sending a message, requesting that the content be displayed on a screen of a second device either in full screen mode or PIP mode, to the second device when at least part of the selection icon enters the first control icon or the second control icon is detected by the touch screen. | 05-21-2015 |
20150150050 | DISPLAY APPARATUS CONNECTED TO PLURAL SOURCE DEVICES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A television controlled by a remote controller and including includes an infrared (IR) module to receive an IR signal from the remote controller; a radio frequency (RF) module to receive an RF signal from the remote controller; a network interface to receive metadata corresponding to a content to be displayed on a screen, the metadata including thumbnail image information, title information, actor information, genre information and synopsis information corresponding to the content; and a controller configured to change a power-off state of the television into a power-on state of the television based on the received IR signal and control a display to display a thumbnail image corresponding to the content based on the received metadata on the screen. Further, the controller is further configured to control the display to move a pointer on the screen based on the received RF signal containing information regarding movement of the remote controller, control the RF module to receive an RF signal corresponding to a designated key of the remote controller for selecting a thumbnail image corresponding to a specific content when the pointer is on the thumbnail image corresponding to the specific content, from the remote controller, control the display to display title information, actor information, genre information and synopsis information corresponding to the specific content according to the received RF signal corresponding to the designated key of the remote controller, and control the display to display related content information, the related content information relates to another content corresponding to the specific content based on the received metadata. In addition, when the related content information is selected by the pointer, the controller further controls the display to display a thumbnail image corresponding to the another content, a first item to identify a first source providing the another content and the second item to identify a second source providing the another content, the second source is different from the first source. | 05-28-2015 |
20150296249 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH DIGITAL STORAGE - An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage and maintain a user media library to do the same. Non-time-sensitive data associated with recorded programs may be stored in a way that allows the user to interact with the data on playback as if the program were being originally aired. The program guide also allows the user to define “super-programs” for playback of a sequence of stored programs or program segments. | 10-15-2015 |
20150304727 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - Various aspects of a method and a system for displaying information are disclosed herein. The method includes detecting one or more viewers, associated with an electronic device. The method further includes receiving metadata associated with a current channel being viewed on the electronic device by the detected one or more viewers. The received metadata is dynamically translated from a first language to one or more other languages based on the detected one or more viewers. | 10-22-2015 |
20150319466 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus and method for providing information in conjunction with media content, including a receiver, wherein the receiver receives at least one of a transmission of media content and a broadcast of media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of broadcast media content and entertainment media content, and further wherein the receiver receives information regarding the media content, a processor for processing at least one of the received media content and the received information regarding the media content, a display device for visually displaying the information regarding the media content, and/or a speaker device for audibly announcing the information regarding the media content. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319477 | System and Method for Enhanced Video Selection Using an On-Screen Remote - A system and method for presenting video asset information to a viewer to assist the view in selecting a video asset for viewing is described. The video assets can be available from a plurality of different video asset sources, such as VOD (video on demand), PVR (personal video recorders) and broadcast (including over the air, cable, and satellite). Images from the video assets are displayed in a uniform manner, along with information about the video assets. The information includes data in a metadata category. The view can select one of the video assets for viewing, but also can navigate using metadata categories such as genre, actors, director etc. Moreover, the system and method includes an on-screen remote control that can be utilized in conjunction with a physical input device for navigation and viewing one or more video assets. This allows a much easier and natural navigating and selection process for viewers. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326937 | Electronic Programming Guide With Selectable Categories - An electronic content guide may organize content such as television programs into categories and subcategories. The categories and subcategories may be topical as well as time-based. As a result, the user can select a given time-based criteria and within that time-based criteria select topical subcategories. As a result, the number of programs that may be displayed in any given graphical user interface may be reduced to a manageable level. This may be done without requiring a great deal of scrolling to view selected categories, subcategories and particular programs. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326950 | INFORMATION DESCRIPTOR AND EXTENDED INFORMATION DESCRIPTOR DATA STRUCTURES FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNALS - According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor; a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories. | 11-12-2015 |
20150341702 | Electronic Programming Guide With Selectable Categories - An electronic content guide may organize content such as television programs into categories and subcategories. The categories and subcategories may be topical as well as time-based. As a result, the user can select a given time-based criteria and within that time-based criteria select topical subcategories. As a result, the number of programs that may be displayed in any given graphical user interface may be reduced to a manageable level. This may be done without requiring a great deal of scrolling to view selected categories, subcategories and particular programs. | 11-26-2015 |
20150382053 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a method includes: accessing program information identifying a broadcast start time and a broadcast time period of each of a plurality of broadcast programs; displaying a first bar of a first length and a first mark on a display based on the program information, the first length corresponding to a first broadcast time period of a first broadcast program; displaying a second bar of a second length and a second mark on the display based on the program information, the second length corresponding to a second broadcast time period of a second broadcast program; and displaying, when the first broadcast time period and the second broadcast time period are different from each other, the first bar and the second bar on the display such that the first length and the second length are different from each other. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382068 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING OBJECTS THAT DESCRIBE MEDIA ASSETS - Methods and systems are described herein for providing objects describing media content. For example, in response to detecting that a particular media listing is not associated with an graphic and/or text content (e.g., box art) describing the particular media listing, a media guidance application may generate a custom graphic and/or text content (e.g., custom box art) for the media listing based on graphic and/or text content of a media listing for a media asset associated with the particular media asset. | 12-31-2015 |
20160014174 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT | 01-14-2016 |
20160014446 | TOUCH-SCREEN REMOTE CONTROLLER AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | 01-14-2016 |
20160029067 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING VIEWERSHIP AND/OR MESSAGE DATA - Methods and systems for enhancing program-viewing experience with viewership, message, and supplemental data include receiving a program identifier for a media program to be viewed; receiving one or more of viewership, message, and/or supplemental data relating to the media program; compiling the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data with the program identifier; storing the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data in a memory in association with the program identifier; and providing display data representing the viewership, message, and/or supplemental data and the program identifier. | 01-28-2016 |
20160037205 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE PROVIDING METHOD AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives user interface (UI) information data regarding a UI screen corresponding to at least one application displayed on an external apparatus in communication with the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores a UI information conversion format, an information conversion unit which converts the received UI information data using the UI information conversion format, a display unit which displays a UI screen, and a control unit which controls the information conversion unit to convert the UI information data received by the communication interface unit using the UI information conversion format and display on the display unit the UI screen corresponding to the converted UI information data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044381 | METHOD OF RECOMMENDING BROADCASTING CONTENTS AND RECOMMENDING APPARATUS THEREFOR IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE - Provided are a method and apparatus for recommending broadcasting contents by using a multimedia contents reproducing device, the method including the operations of generating a user list about one or more second users related to a first user; displaying the user list on a screen of the multimedia contents reproducing device; selecting at least a third user from among the one or more second users in the user list; and transmitting a recommendation message to the third user, wherein the recommendation message is related to recommending a first broadcasting content currently being watched by the first user, or a second broadcasting content selected from an Electronic Program Guide (EPG). | 02-11-2016 |
20160065997 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RICH MEDIA ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDES - Electronic program guide (EPG) systems and methods are operable to incorporate image information into an EPG generated at a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives an image associated with a program, processes the received image into a rich media EPG image, receives program presentation schedule information that specifies a presentation schedule of a plurality of programs, wherein the program is one of the plurality of programs scheduled for presentation, associates an identifier with the rich media EPG image and the program, and generates a rich media EPG schedule based upon the received program presentation schedule information and the identifier. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066045 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a method includes: receiving first information and second information by an electronic device, the first information relating to first scenes in a first program and comprising information of one or more goods or services introduced in at least one of the first scenes, the second information relating to second scenes in a second program and comprising information of one or more goods or services introduced in at least one of the second scenes; receiving a first operation to specify a first good or a first service; and displaying information relating to one or more third scenes searched from the first scenes and the second scenes on a display in response to the first operation, the one or more third scenes introducing the specified first good or first service. | 03-03-2016 |
20160080796 | ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO SCHEDULED CONTENT - A method is provided for a reception apparatus to access content. The method includes outputting a distribution schedule for a plurality of content and receiving a selection of one of the plurality of content for which distribution started before or starts after a current time. At least one processor of the reception apparatus determines whether on-demand access is requested for the selected content. When on-demand access is determined to be requested for the selected content, a request for the selected content is sent over a first communication medium and the selected content is received via a second communication medium. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088359 | MOBILE NOTIFICATION OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS - A set-top box (STB) causes a display device to present a notification during a time period. The notification identifies digital contents, such as television show, available for access via the STB. If no response to notification is received during the time period or the display device or STB is inactive, a notification message is sent to an associated user device. The notification message may be generated based on metadata extracted from electronic programming guide (EPG) data, and the notification message may include an indication that the digital contents are available for access via the STB. The notification message may also identify an available action related to the digital contents. For example, the action may relate to recording the digital contents or requesting another notification or notification message related to another broadcast of the digital contents. Response data requesting execution of the action may be received from the user device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160119685 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display method and a display device are provided. The display method includes: displaying first content in a first view mode on a screen of the display device; detecting a change from the first view mode to a second view mode by a detector; and providing, by the controller, recommended content in the second view mode based on a result of analyzing the first content in response to the change to the second view mode being detected. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127789 | Methods and Systems for Providing Source-Agnostic Access to Media Programs - An exemplary computer-implemented media service system detects user input representative of a request by a user to flag a set of related media programs, monitors an availability of the media programs from a plurality of different presentation sources, determines when the user is likely to access each media program included in the set of related media programs, dynamically selects, based on the monitored availability of the media programs from the different presentation sources and on when the user is likely to access each media program included in the set of related media programs, a presentation source from the plurality of different presentation sources for each media program included in the set of related media programs, and provides the user with access to each media program included in the set of related media programs by way of a single user interface. Corresponding systems and methods are also described. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127792 | ONLINE VIDEO PLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online video playing method is executed by at least one processor of a server. The server includes a storage device. The storage device stores videos and a database which stores information of the videos. The information corresponding to at least one video is retrieved. A video is added into a playlist according to the corresponding information. At least one video listed in the playlist is played. | 05-05-2016 |
20160134941 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING THROUGH MEDIA CONTENT - A method for navigating through media content is described. The method ( | 05-12-2016 |
20160165308 | MULTI-OPTION SOURCING OF CONTENT - A content manager initiates play back of corresponding content on a display screen. The corresponding content is received on a primary broadcast channel selected amongst multiple available channels. During play back of the corresponding content, the content manager receives selection of over-the-top content available over a secondary channel with respect to the primary broadcast channel. The over-the-top content includes supplemental content associated with the corresponding content. In response to receiving the selection of over-the-top content, the content manager: i) retrieves the over-the-top content, and ii) initiates play back of the over-the-top content on the display screen. Accordingly, the user can selectively retrieve and play back supplemental content associated with a primary broadcast channel. | 06-09-2016 |
20160173930 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160182962 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ABOUT MULTIPLE MEDIA ASSETS | 06-23-2016 |
20160191980 | Digital device and data processing method in digital device - A disclosure is disclosed a multimedia device and a method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display, an interface capable of receiving a first signal through a third signal, and a controller capable of controlling to: display a first application being executed on a display screen of the digital television, display a menu, overlaid on the displayed first application, including a plurality of menu items in response to the first signal requesting the menu, display a menu icon for a multi-view screen after receiving the second signal selecting a menu item among the plurality of menu items from the displayed menu, and display a second application corresponding to the selected menu item with the first application in response to the third signal, overlaid on the display screen after receiving a third signal selecting the displayed menu icon, wherein the multi-view screen is capable of displaying a plurality of applications together on the display screen. | 06-30-2016 |
20160192002 | INTERNET TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED REAL-TIME DATA - An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access television program listings containing embedded real-time data over an Internet communications link. The television program listing may be for a sporting event that is currently being broadcast and the real-time data may be the current score of the event, the current weather where the event is taking place, or any other suitable real-time information on the event. The real-time data may be presented in the form of video stills, video clips, textual information, audio clips, or suitable combinations of such media. The user can perform database searches on the program guide listings to search for a desired program. If desired, the user can obtain additional information on a selected program by accessing an associated web page. | 06-30-2016 |
20160192018 | PREVIEWING CONTENT AVAILABLE AT LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES - Examples are disclosed herein that relate to previewing media content available for streaming. One example provides a media consumption device comprising a communications subsystem configured to connect to one or more media sources, a logic device configured to execute instructions, and a storage device having instructions executable by the logic device to, for each of the one or more media sources, send a request for information on a media content item currently being received by the media source and in response, receive a reduced fidelity representation of the media content item being received by the media source, output the reduced fidelity representation of each media content item currently being received by each media source for presentation, receive a user input selecting a selected media content item for viewing, and output the higher fidelity representation of the selected media content item for presentation. | 06-30-2016 |
20160205434 | CHANNEL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | 07-14-2016 |
20160255402 | SYNCHRONIZING VIDEO CONTENT WITH EXTRINSIC DATA | 09-01-2016 |
20160255409 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING A CHANNEL TO DATA IN A DATA STREAM | 09-01-2016 |
20160255418 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING SMART TV PROGRAM CHANNELS WITH APPLICATIONS | 09-01-2016 |
20160381424 | ENABLING COMMUNICATION CONNECTIONS RELATED TO RECEIVED CONTENT - A content receiver determines that a communication connection recipient identifier is associated with content received from a content provider. An associated communication device is identified by the content receiver. The content receiver then signals the communication device to initiate a communication connections utilizing the communication identifier. In some implementations, the content receiver may provide a user with a notification and may signal the communication device after receiving a responses to the notification. In one or more implementations, the communication connection recipient identifiers may be telephone numbers, the communication devices may be telecommunication devices, and the communication connections may be telephone connections. The content receiver may determine that a communication connection recipient identifier is associated with content based on analysis of metadata that accompanies or that otherwise corresponds to the received content or by audio and/or image recognition performed on the content. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381429 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH PERSONALIZED SELECTION OF BROADCAST CONTENT USING AFFINITIES DATA AND USER PREFERENCES - Apparatuses and methods are provided to inform a user of a broadcast stream, which has multiple, concurrently received channels of program content, about recommendations of a subset of the content currently playing across the available channels or to be played within a selected future time period. The subset of content is selected based on user preferences and system data (e.g., program topic and channel affinities among the broadcast content and channels) to recommend a more diverse subset of content than would be discovered if only user preferences were employed to make the selection of recommended content. | 12-29-2016 |
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