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20080201745 | CONTROL CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING PROGRAM SEARCH FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE TO RECEIVE PROGRAM INFORMATION OF TV PROGRAMS AND SELECTING PROGRAMS - The present invention provides a control circuit of a program search display device and a method for controlling a display device to receive program information of TV programs and select programs. The method comprises: (a) receiving a TV signal; (b) processing the TV signal to generate program information; (c) storing the program information; (d) receiving an input data; (e) reading the program information and comparing the program information with the input data to generate a program comparison result; and (f) displaying the program comparison result. | 08-21-2008 |
20080307461 | Program Search Device - The present invention provides a program search device that searches for programs by a keyword search and handles the programs found by the search by classifying the programs into special programs and regular programs. The program search device is a program search device that searches for broadcast programs corresponding to a current time from an electronic program guide, comprising: a program guide storing unit that prestores an electronic program guide including one or more program display information sets each indicating a broadcast program; a keyword storing unit that prestores one or more extraction keywords and effective periods respectively corresponding thereto; a time obtaining unit operable to obtain a current time; a detecting unit operable to read an extraction keyword corresponding to an effective period including the obtained current time from the keyword storing unit, and detect, from the electronic program guide, one or more program display information sets including the read extraction keyword; and an extracting unit operable to extract, from among the detected one or more program display information sets, each of one or more program display information sets that indicates a regular program, as a regular program display information set, and each of one or more program display information sets that indicates an irregular program, as a special program display information set. | 12-11-2008 |
20080307462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND FOR DISPLAYING MEDIA CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for searching and for displaying media content on a display device, such as a television. A user may search for media content while viewing their display device. Further, a user may search multiple sources while viewing their display device to find media content to download, purchase, display, etc., on their display device. Search results are displayed on the display device, with various options available to the user. A user may then download, purchase, view and/or experience selected media content. Thus, users may then experience media content within a short period of time after deciding to acquire the media content. Further, users may view media content from a media server or media unit without preloading the media content on the media unit, and may experience a greater selection of media content. | 12-11-2008 |
20080307463 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND FOR DISPLAYING MEDIA CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for searching and for displaying media content on a display device, such as a television. A user may search for media content while viewing their display device. Further, a user may search multiple sources while viewing their display device to find media content to download, purchase, display, etc., on their display device. Search results are displayed on the display device, with various options available to the user. A user may then download, purchase, view and/or experience selected media content. Thus, users may then experience media content within a short period of time after deciding to acquire the media content. Further, users may view media content from a media server or media unit without preloading the media content on the media unit, and may experience a greater selection of media content. | 12-11-2008 |
20090049481 | Apparatus and Method of Searching for Desired Television Content - The present invention is an apparatus and method for allowing a user to search for specific content across many television channels in order to locate desirable television shows related to the searched content. Multiplexed cable signals flow thorough a logical unit which buffers text associated with the voice stream of each station via the pre-encoded closed-captioning signal or through the real-time voice translation within the logical unit. The user then enters search terms through one of a variety of different input devices. Upon entry of the search terms, the logical unit will compare the entered term with those available keywords stored in each buffer. Lexical parsing associates terms which may differ from plural to singular forms, or in tense. Additionally, synonym comparisons may be made. The logical unit will return a list of matches for the search criteria and allows the user the option of going directly to the television program. The logical unit also evaluates each returned item for its relevancy to the keywords. When not in use, the logical unit maintains a quiescent but monitoring state permitting continuous creation of lexical buffers. This permits the user who turns the television on to immediately have such search terms available. Alternatively, the logic is implemented at the cable provider and enabled through interactive links to the home. In that case, the home logical unit is unnecessary. | 02-19-2009 |
20090083799 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - If a keyword determining portion judges that the program name or program information of the selected program contains the keyword registered in a nonvolatile memory, a muting portion makes a video processing portion and an audio processing portion stop outputting a video signal and an audio signal, respectively. As a result of this muting processing, no video is displayed on the display device, and no sound is outputted from a loudspeaker. If the keyword determining portion judges that the program name or program information of the selected program does not contain the keyword registered in the nonvolatile memory, the video processing portion and the audio processing portion output the video signal and the audio signal, respectively, as usual. Consequently, video is displayed on the display device, and sound is outputted from the loudspeaker. | 03-26-2009 |
20090249403 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS IN INTERNET BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An Internet broadcasting system for supporting broadcast services by using Internet Protocol (IP), and more particularly an apparatus and method for providing a user's preferred contents in an Internet broadcasting system are provided. The method of providing contents in an Internet broadcasting system includes searching for contents in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) according to a user preference, constituting a user channel, based on the searched contents and providing a terminal with the searched contents according to the user channel. | 10-01-2009 |
20090293089 | Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Program Data - A system identifies a television program selected to be recorded. The identified television program has a scheduled start time and is associated with a program series. A program guide is searched to locate television programs associated with the same series as the identified television program. The program guide is searched for television programs that have a start time within a predetermined period of time of the scheduled start time of the television program selected to be recorded. | 11-26-2009 |
20090328108 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: transmission data acquisition section configured to acquire transmission data including program data and EPG data including program information for a predetermined period of time; EPG extraction section configured to extract the EPG data from the transmission data; program selection section configured to select a given program as a selected program; search word extraction section configured to extract a search word from the program information of the selected program; search word transmission section configured to transmit the search word to a program server; program information reception section configured to receive, from the program server, the program information including a program identification ID configured to identify a related program related to the selected program; program information storage section configured to store the program information; and processing section configured to identify the program by using the program identification ID, and perform a process targeted at the identified program. | 12-31-2009 |
20100005493 | IPTV SYSTEM, MEDIA SERVER, AND IPTV PROGRAM SEARCH AND LOCATION METHOD - An IPTV system, a media server, and methods of searching for and locating an IPTV program are disclosed. The method of searching for a program includes: searching for corresponding media information according to media content information sent from a user terminal device, and returning the found media information to the user terminal device for a user to make a selection. The method of locating a program includes: performing a search according to media content information sent from a user terminal device, and playing the media from the position of a found media content if the found media content matches the media content information. The advantageous technical effects of the present invention are to effectively satisfy the need by the user to search for or locate a program of interest from a program source and to avoid a long, inefficient program searching process. | 01-07-2010 |
20100043029 | BROADCASTING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A broadcasting processing apparatus and method which performs a search or reservation with regard to a future broadcasting program that is not yet stored in electronic program guide (EPG) data. The broadcasting processing apparatus includes a signal processor which processes a broadcasting signal including EPG data; and a controller which searches the EPG data to determine whether data corresponding to a broadcasting program is currently included in the EPG data, and performs a set reservation function with respect to the broadcasting program if it is determined that the data corresponding to the broadcasting program is currently included in the EPG data, and if the controller determines that the data corresponding a broadcasting program is not currently included in the EPG data, the controller repeatedly searches the EPG data at periodic intervals to determine whether the data corresponding the broadcasting program is included in the EPG data which is updated. | 02-18-2010 |
20100083319 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING CONTENT IN AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE - The various embodiments described herein facilitate the identification of television content related to a specific search descriptor and genre. A user provides input requesting to locate television content related to a particular search descriptor and genre. A search keyword is identified based on the search descriptor and a search of an electronic programming guide is performed based on the search keyword to generate intermediate search results of television events related to the search descriptor. A filtering operation is performed on the intermediate search results using one or more filters identified based on the programming genre to generate final search results. The final search results thus include content that both matches the search keyword and has characteristics of the programming genre of content requested by the user. | 04-01-2010 |
20100115559 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM WITH NEWSGROUPS - 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. | 05-06-2010 |
20100131985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION - A method for providing customized information to a plurality of portable communication devices. A customer premises equipment (CPE) synchronizes with at least one of the plurality of portable communication devices. The CPE extracts descriptive data of media content stored in the at least one portable communication device. The CPE searches for a descriptive data of content available at the CPE based on the descriptive data extracted from the at least one portable communication device. The CPE determines that the extracted descriptive data matches the descriptive data of content available at the CPE. The CPE makes the content available to the at least one portable communication device. | 05-27-2010 |
20100131986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED LOCAL CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - The invention provides systems and methods to identify local market media content utilizing a disturbed system and to determine what additional content is relevant in a self-aware, automatic way. A central location stores identification information and related content so in the future it is available if and when another user watches the same content. Therefore, the next time local market media content is played, it can be identified and additional related content can be quickly (e.g. in real time) made available. | 05-27-2010 |
20100154004 | TELEVISION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - In the specification and drawing a television is described and shown with a multimedia player for playing information, a grabber for producing a word from the information and a controller for controlling a computer to search for data related to the word. Moreover, a method for operating the television is also disclosed in the specification and drawing. | 06-17-2010 |
20100169929 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION AND SYSTEM THEREOF - An electronic program guide (EPG) information providing method and an EPG information providing system are provided. In the EPG information providing system, a first transport stream including first EPG information is received via a channel selected from a plurality of channels, and the first EPG information is extracted from the received transport stream. The reception channel selected from the plurality of channels is automatically changed in response to a predetermined channel selection signal. A second transport stream which is input via each changed channel and includes second EPG information is received, and the second EPG information is extracted from the second transport stream and stored. A keyword is generated on the basis of received EPG information, and additional information is generated by searching for the keyword using a predetermined search server and transmitted to a viewer. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169930 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR KEYWORD OF BROADCASTING RECEIVER - A method of searching a keyword includes extracting a keyword from subtitle data included in a broadcast signal, displaying an extracted keyword with an image according to the broadcast signal, searching for a keyword using an search engine through a communication network when an instruction to search a displayed keyword is received, and displaying a search result by the search engine. | 07-01-2010 |
20100180308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSUMING CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to search a portal in response to a user query for a plurality of related content items of disparate formats accessible across a plurality of platforms, present search results and a graphical user interface for the consumption of the plurality of related content items of disparate formats from the single portal in response to the searching, and select a set of the plurality of related content items of disparate formats from the single portal for provisioning on a first device with a first disparate format and at least a second device with a second disparate format. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 07-15-2010 |
20100199315 | Method, system and apparatus for hiding programs - The present invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for hiding programs. With the technology solution, which involves obtaining a sub-EPG identifier, receiving a total EPG, which contains sub-EPG identifiers and sub-EPGs each of which corresponds to one of the sub-EPG identifiers and which is transmitted by a central front end, searching the received total EPG for a sub-EPG corresponding to the obtained sub-EPG identifier and hiding programs based on the found sub-EPG. With technology solution, the program hiding is realized, and the regional program hiding and the programs hiding from particular subscribers may be realized. | 08-05-2010 |
20100211976 | MULTIMEDIA FILE SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention discloses a multimedia file sharing method and system used in a network. The system includes a first user device, a server and a second user device. The method includes the following steps. The first user device receives a multimedia data from a multimedia source, converts the multimedia data to the multimedia file and stores it. The first user device transmits information of the multimedia file including a characteristic of the multimedia file and an IP address of the first user device to the database of a server to be stored. When the second user device sends a file searching request and searches the database of the server, it obtains a file searching result including the information of the multimedia file and transmits the file searching result to the second user device. The second user device downloads the multimedia file from the first user device according to the information of the multimedia file. | 08-19-2010 |
20110010742 | ENHANCED NETWORK SEARCH - A set-top box (STB) suitable for use with a multimedia distribution network is also provided with a broadband network connection to a server operated by the multimedia provider. The server contains electronic programming guide (EPG) information, and provides a highly-functional search interface accessible by the STB. Under normal conditions, when a user attempts to search EPG data, the STB will access the search interface and provide results to the user. The STB also has the ability to detect the status of the broadband network connection. If the broadband network connection is in a disconnected state, the STB will provide a reduced-functionality localized EPG search. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016488 | 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. | 01-20-2011 |
20110061079 | Broadcast Receiver and Broadcast Receiving Method - A broadcast receiver including: a storage configured to store pieces of program information of digital broadcast programs; a user interface configured to receive input of characters relating to digital broadcast programs when a search relating to digital broadcast programs is to be performed using broadcast waves or the Internet; a selecting module configured to select a keyword that is stored in the storage and considered to match the input characters; and a search module configured to perform a program-related search using the selected keyword. | 03-10-2011 |
20110078742 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR BROADCAST PROGRAM IN A DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEIVER - A method and apparatus for searching for a broadcast program in a digital broadcasting receiver are provided, in which a program search option window including search options for a program search is displayed on a display by a screen generator, upon receipt of a program search request from a user, broadcast programs matching a search option selected from among the search options included in the program search option window by the user are searched for by the screen generator, and a program search result screen including a list of the detected broadcast programs is displayed on the display by the screen generator. | 03-31-2011 |
20110083151 | METHOD FOR RECORDING A MOVING PICTURE AND BROADCASTING RECEIVER ENABLING THE METHOD - The present invention relates to a broadcast receiver, and more particularly, to a method for automatically extracting specific sections ( | 04-07-2011 |
20110093899 | METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE AND BROADCASTING RECEIVER ENABLING OF THE METHOD - A method for outputting an EPG and a broadcasting receiver employing the method are disclosed. More particularly, a method for outputting an EPG and a broadcasting receiver employing the method are disclosed, in which the EPG output from the broadcasting receiver includes RSS information to allow a user to easily identify the RSS information from the EPG. | 04-21-2011 |
20110119715 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONTROL SIGNAL - A mobile device and method are provided. The mobile device includes an input unit that receives a user voice command, a keyword extracting unit that extracts at least one keyword from the user voice command, a search unit that searches Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data for broadcast information related to the at least one keyword, and a generating unit that generates a broadcast control signal corresponding to the broadcast information related to the at least one keyword. | 05-19-2011 |
20110154404 | Systems and Methods to Provide Data Services for Concurrent Display with Media Content Items - Systems and methods to provide data services for concurrent display with media content items are provided. The media content items may include an on-demand media content item or an over-the-air (OTA) television content item. A particular method includes receiving a program identifier associated with an OTA television content item from a set-top box device. The method includes identifying one or more supplemental content items associated with the OTA television content item based on the program identifier. The method also includes transmitting a notification to the set-top box device indicating an availability of the one or more supplemental content items. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154405 | VIDEO SEGMENT MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video and video fragment management and distribution system utilizes a server and a user interface. The server stores a series of videos in the form of video fragments. Each video fragment has associated therewith a host of video fragment data stored in a manner enabling an end user viewer to easily and efficiently perform a Boolean type search, based on desirable video fragment characteristics defined by the data, in order to return a desired set of video fragments. The system provides the viewer with a variety of search criteria options, each having a plurality of identifiers for locating a desirable video fragment. Each search criteria identifier can be set as inclusive or exclusive. The system includes a rating feature allowing the user to submit a rating and view an average of submitted ratings. The viewer creates a playlist or series of playlists for viewing a continuous, user defined series of video fragments. | 06-23-2011 |
20110179452 | Device and Method for Providing a Television Sequence - A device for providing a television sequence has a database interface, a search request receiver, a television sequence rendition module and an output interface. The database interface accesses at least one database, using a search request. The search request receiver is formed to control the database interface so as to acquire at least audio content and at least image content separate therefrom via the database interface for the search request. The television sequence rendition module combines the separate audio content and the image content to generate the television sequence based on the audio content and the image content. The output interface outputs the television sequence to a television sequence distributor. | 07-21-2011 |
20110185388 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING CONTENT RECEPTION IN A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER - Various embodiments described herein provide techniques for prioritizing content reception by a DVR. A DVR identifies a resource conflict between a use of a television receiving resource to receive programming currently being watched by a user and a use of the television receiving resource for receiving television programming for subsequent playback. The DVR evaluates various criteria regarding one or both uses of the television receiving resource and identifies a higher priority of one of the uses of the television receiving resource. The DVR then assigns a use of the television receiving resource according to the identified priority. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191808 | 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. | 08-04-2011 |
20110283324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DIGITAL BROADCASTING SERVICE USING AUTOMATIC KEYWORD GENERATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of providing a digital broadcasting service by using automatic keyword generation. A voice recognizing device converts a voice into text-format data for each channel and a server extracts a word-unit keyword from received data by a predetermined design, and stores the keyword for each channel. When there is a request from an IPTV terminal, the stored keyword for each channel is retrieved and transmitted. The IPTV terminal requests retrieval associated with the received keyword to a portal and receives a service retrieval result associated with the keyword from the portal. In addition, the IPTV terminal transmits and displays the service retrieval result to and on a TV. According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically generate and manage the keyword for each channel and easily retrieve and provide the service associated with the corresponding keyword, such that viewers can immediately resolve questions about characters or situations of a presently viewed channel to thereby acquire improved satisfaction. | 11-17-2011 |
20120005710 | Program Search Apparatus and Program Search Method - According to one embodiment, a program search apparatus includes a communication module, a search module, and an output controller. The communication module is configured to communicate with an external apparatus via a network. The search module is configured to search for a corresponding program corresponding to a designated program designated from a program table via the network. The output controller is configured to execute control to output a search result. | 01-05-2012 |
20120030713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY AUTHORING INTERACTIVE TELEVISION CONTENT - A system and method is provided to automatically generate content for ITV products and services by processing primary media sources. In one embodiment of the invention, keywords are automatically extracted from the primary media sources using one or more of a variety of techniques directed to video, audio and/or textual content of the multimodal source. In some embodiments, keywords are then processed according to one or more disclosed algorithms to narrow the quantity of downstream processing that is necessary to associate secondary sources (reference items) with the primary video source. Embodiments of the invention also provide automatic searching methods for the identification of reference items based on the processed keywords in order to maximize the value added by the association of reference items to the video source. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036538 | Method for sharing data and synchronizing broadcast data with additional information - A method for sharing data and synchronizing broadcast data with additional information, the broadcast data and the additional information being provided by at least two distinct sources to a multimedia device. The method comprises steps of:
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20120042343 | Television Remote Control Data Transfer - A computer-implemented method for information sharing between a portable computing device and a television system includes receiving a spoken input from a user of the portable computing device, by the portable computing device, submitting a digital recording of the spoken query from the portable computing device to a remote server system, receiving from the remote server system a textual representation of the spoken query, and automatically transmitting the textual representation from the portable computing device to the television system. The television system is programmed to submit the textual representation as a search query and to present to the user media-related results that are determined to be responsive to the spoken query. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047534 | MATRIX SEARCH OF VIDEO USING CLOSED CAPTION INFORMATION - Closed caption data for video programs, such as television programs, may be used to implement a video search. In one implementation, a device may perform a search to obtain video programs that are relevant to the search. The search may be performed using an index generated from closed caption data of video programs. The device may additionally present the video programs that are relevant to the search as a matrix of reduced-in-size images sampled from the video programs that are relevant to the search query. The images may be sampled from the video programs near a position in the video programs corresponding to the positions at which the search query is relevant to the video program. | 02-23-2012 |
20120084819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE SEARCH - Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing service search. The system for providing service search includes an index formation unit, a container configuration unit, a guide configuration unit, and a transmission and reception unit. The index formation unit forms an index structure including an index list area, an index area, and a sub-index area. The container configuration unit configures an integrated container by integrating service information, schedules, and program information for each of service identifiers (IDs) included in the sub-index area. The guide configuration unit configures an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) including the index structure. The transmission and reception unit provides the EPG using a service ID corresponding to information desired by the terminal, together with the index structure. | 04-05-2012 |
20120110623 | SEARCH QUERY COLUMN FOR INTERNET-CONNECTED TV'S - A TV display presents a grid of thumbnails representing content available for display from the Internet and next to the grid, a column of thumbnails representing content that conforms to a user-entered query. The conforming content is located by searching the Internet, from an EPG, from local TV storage, and from the TV's home network. Search result thumbnails are prioritized according to user navigation history. | 05-03-2012 |
20120137329 | ENHANCED INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICE FOR VIEWED PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF INTERNET TV DEVICE USING MOBILE DEVICE - The user of an Internet TV device can control the Internet TV device using a mobile device such as a smart phone. The smart phone also obtains program information from the Internet TV device and sends the information to a server as a search term, presenting supplemental program information received from the server on the display of the mobile device so that a person can browse the supplemental information without disturbing viewers of the Internet TV device. The mobile device can also grab a link related to the program from the Internet TV device and use that link as a recommendation to friends on social networking sites. | 05-31-2012 |
20120144428 | CONTENT SEARCHING - An apparatus, such as a personal video recorder PVR, comprises an input module for receiving information defining a selected programme. The programme may be selected for viewing or recording. The apparatus also comprises a processing module which searches information relating to programmes available from a broadcast stream and another source, such as the Internet or a local storage unit, to find programmes corresponding to the selected programme. The selected programme is associated with an identifier, and corresponding programmes are those which are associated with the same identifier as the selected programme. One of the corresponding programmes may then be chosen as an alternative to the selected programme. | 06-07-2012 |
20120210365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING OVER A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for performing global searching using second display devices. In an IPTV system, a second display application is typically a more complex application. There are typically many features, which increase complexity when a user attempts to find an asset, a service, a utility, a shortcut, or other information and/or content of the second display application. The use of a global search tool enhances the usage of the second display application, especially when a utility is buried in the second display application, making that utility more difficult to access. | 08-16-2012 |
20120227072 | PVR Channel and PVR IPG Information - A system that maps media content information to an interactive program guide displayed on a screen includes, among other things, a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to display at least one personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide. The processor is further preferably configured with the logic to display media content instance listings in the personal video recording display channel for corresponding media content instance recordings. | 09-06-2012 |
20120254920 | DISTRIBUTED, INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE; SYSTEM AND METHOD - In an interactive network-based personal video recording system, a user interface is provided that allows viewers to search a database of program guide information according to program title, indexed program attributes such as actor and director, and key word. Viewer interaction is by way of a remote control unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20120266195 | Similar Content Search Device And Computer-Readable Storage Medium - According to one embodiment, a phrase similarity is reduced when a common genre characteristic word Is included in a program of interest interested by a user and a similar phrase program including the same phrase. A genre similarity is increased when a common genre characteristic word is included in the program of interest and a similar genre program including the same genre as the program of interest. The similar phrase program is presented based on the phrase similarity, and the similar genre program is presented based on the genre similarity. | 10-18-2012 |
20120278839 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a setup module, a data input module, a search module, and a program guide display module. The setup module is configured to set a channel, a program guide of which is not displayed. The data input module is configured to input program guide data of a plurality of channels. The search module is configured to search a viewable program from the program guide data corresponding to the channel. The program guide display module is configured to display a program guide based on the program guide data includes the viewable program. | 11-01-2012 |
20120291072 | System and Method for Enhancing User Search Results by Determining a Television Program Currently Being Displayed in Proximity to an Electronic Device - A computer implemented method for using search queries related to television programs. A server receives a user's search query from an electronic device. The server then determines, in accordance with the search query and television program related information for television programs available at a location associated with the electronic device during a specific time window, a television program currently being displayed in proximity to the electronic device, wherein the television program related information includes program descriptions for a plurality of television programs being broadcast for the associated location. | 11-15-2012 |
20120304231 | ENHANCED CONTENT SEARCH - A method and system including a controller with an internet interface of providing enhanced content is provided. The controller receives an electronic program guide data and retrieves at least one characteristic identifying a program currently being displayed on a primary display device within the electronic program guide. At least one external content source is searched using the internet interface for information related to the program based on the at least one characteristic and the information related to the program obtained during the search is stored into a memory. The information stored in the memory and related to the first program is displayed by a user interface display processor on a second display. | 11-29-2012 |
20120311639 | VIDEO SEARCHING USING TV AND USER INTERFACES THEREFOR - A viewer watching a video program on a display of an audio-video device can select a “Video Search” application indicating viewer desire to obtain information about a currently playing video program. The application is invoked to send name of the currently playing video program to a server associated with a database to cause the server to execute a search of the database. The server returns metadata related to the currently playing video program, which is presented on the display along with the currently playing video program. The metadata includes links to additional information, such as cast members associated with the video program. The links are selectable to cause the server to execute a search of the database for metadata relating to the additional information, which is returned to the AV device and presented on the display along with the currently playing video program. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311640 | SMART CATCH-UP FOR MEDIA CONTENT VIEWING - A method and system of providing access to related content includes a primary display that is tuned to a desired program. Information that identifies the desired program is retrieved from an electronic program guide using a content processor. A plurality of locations on a communication network are automatically searched for additional episodes of the desired program using the retrieved information via an interne interface. Links for accessing the additional episodes of the tune program are provided via a user interface display processor on a secondary display. | 12-06-2012 |
20120324511 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING AND BROADCASTING MEDIA, AUTOMATIC CHANNEL SCHEDULING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a system for scheduling and broadcasting media, and an automatic channel scheduling method. In particular, the disclosure is applied to establishing a scheduling and broadcasting system for digital content over a data network, such as to an enterprise. An automatic channel scheduling method is disclosed. A step in the method is to generate a content broadcasting request. Then the step is to acquire information related to the content from a resource, and to store the content. The system is to configure the broadcasting channel, object to be distributed, type to broadcast, and the broadcasting time in accordance with the request and attribute of the content. Consequently, the content is broadcasted to the one or more chosen terminal display devices. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324512 | ENHANCED ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - A method for a system that provides an enhanced content guide includes a controller that receives electronic program guide data and parses the received electronic program guide data to identify a program listed in the electronic program guide and data corresponding to at least one program description attribute for the identified program. At least one external source of content information is searched using the Internet interface for information related to the identified program using the at least one program description attribute. A user interface generator generates an enhanced content guide user interface including the information related to the identified program for display on a display device in response to selection of the identified program in the electronic program guide. | 12-20-2012 |
20130007810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE ARCHIVAL OF MEDIA CONTENT - Described herein are techniques for selective archival of media content. A first entertainment device stores a plurality of media content files on a first storage medium. The first entertainment devices selects a portion of the media content files for backup based on characteristics of the media content files and transmits the portion of the media content files to a second entertainment device through a communication network. The second entertainment device stores the portion of the media content files on a second storage medium associated therewith. | 01-03-2013 |
20130042273 | TELEVISION BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE OF GENERATINGINFORMATION FOR OBTAINING WEBPAGE INFORMATION, METHOD OFGENERATING ACQUISITION OBJECTIVE INFORMATION, PROGRAM,APPARATUS OF GENERATING ACQUISITION OBJECTIVE INFORMATION, AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A television broadcast receiving device includes a program selecting unit that accepts the selection of one of programs in a program list; an extracting unit that extracts a keyword related to the accepted program from the program information; a site information obtaining unit that obtains names and address information of web sites and a rule for generating acquisition objective information for obtaining information of a webpage related to a keyword extracted from one of one or plural web sites; a site name display controller that displays the obtained names of one or plural web sites on a display device; a site name selecting unit that accepts the selection of a name of one web site among the displayed names of the one or plural web sites; and a generating unit that generates acquisition objective information in accordance with the rule. | 02-14-2013 |
20130086614 | AUTOMATIC SEARCH - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for searching program metadata using a media device, such as a set-top-box, to search for other programs related to a particular program. Program metadata is received at the media device, the program metadata comprising a plurality of data fields populated with accompanying data for each of a plurality of television programs. The media device is controlled by an input device, such as a remote control, and an input, such as a button, of the input device is associated with a data field. It is determined when an input, associated with a data field, is activated and in response the accompanying data within the associated data field, for a first program, is compared with the corresponding accompanying data of a plurality of other television programs. Data is then presented to the user, relating to those television programs having substantially equivalent data in the selected data field to the selected program. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. | 04-04-2013 |
20130111526 | COMPUTING SIMILARITY BETWEEN MEDIA PROGRAMS | 05-02-2013 |
20130133007 | System and Method of Recording Television Content - A method of recording television content is disclosed and includes receiving one or more television program search criteria from a set-top box device at a recurrent searching system. The method also includes storing the one or more search criteria at the recurrent searching system. Further, the method includes performing a first search of electronic program guide (EPG) data accessible to the recurrent searching system based on the television program search criteria and performing at least one additional search of EPG data accessible to the recurrent searching system based on the television program search criteria after the first search. | 05-23-2013 |
20130139203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A multimedia content 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; a multimedia content searching unit that recommends a multimedia content to a user by searching for the multimedia content which is related to the additional information using the additional information read by the additional information reading unit; and an information comparing unit that compares the additional information read by the additional information reading unit with multimedia content information provided from a content provider, and the multimedia content searching unit searches for the multimedia content related to the additional information based on the result of the comparison by the information comparing unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130145400 | Systems and Methods to Facilitate a Voice Search of Available Media Content - A particular method includes determining estimated popularity scores for programs identified in an electronic program guide for a time interval. The programs identified in the electronic program guide for the time interval include programs being aired. One or more estimated popularity scores are based on viewing trends of the programs being aired. The method also includes determining a voice search vocabulary based on the estimated popularity scores. The voice search vocabulary includes one or more keywords usable for a keyword search of the electronic program guide during the time interval based on a received voice search request. | 06-06-2013 |
20130198783 | System and Method for Organizing Multimedia Content - In one embodiment, a method of organizing multimedia content includes obtaining, by a server, a first video program. Also, the method includes selecting a first video, where the first video is a first subset of the first video program, and where the first video forms a first branch of the first video program and selecting a second video, where the second video is a second subset of the first video program. Additionally, the method includes selecting a first partial video, where the first partial video is a first subset of the first video and selecting a second partial video, where the second partial video is a second subset of the first video. The method also includes establishing a multi-dimensional index tree including a first video program level, a first video level, a first partial video level. | 08-01-2013 |
20130268975 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONAL CHANNEL - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130291019 | Self-learning methods, entity relations, remote control, and other features for real-time processing, storage, indexing, and delivery of segmented video - Self-learning systems process data in real-time and output the processed data to client applications in an effective manner. They comprise a capture platform that captures data and generates a stream of text, a text decoding server that extracts individual words from the stream of text, an entity extractor that identifies entities, a trending engine that outputs trending results, and a live queue broker that filters the trending results. The self-learning systems provide more efficient realization of Boxfish technologies, and provide or work in conjunction with real-time processing, storage, indexing, and delivery of segmented video. Furthermore, the self-learning systems efficiently perform entity relationing by creating entity network graphs, and are operable to identify advertisements from the data. | 10-31-2013 |
20130298166 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH RELATED-PROGRAM SEARCH FEATURE - A system for searching for programs is provided. The system. may allow the user to indicate an interest in a given program and to request that the system locate programs related to the given program. The system may locate program listings related to the given program. (e.g., based on attributes of the given program), display a list of located listings and allow the user to select listings from the list. For a program selected from the list, the system may tune to the program, may display an information display screen for the program, etc. The system may allow the user to configure and save search parameters, sort related program listings based on the attributes of the given program. For a saved search, the system may allow the user to retrieve the search to locate currently available program listings, receive automatic notifications of programs matching the search, modify the search, etc. | 11-07-2013 |
20130332964 | EXPOSING SORTED DATA USING AN EXPANDED CONTENT HIERARCHY - A method and apparatus for sorting data include sub-categorizing sorted data using defined sub-categories of a digital live network alliance hierarchy and enabling a search of the sub-categorized sorted data using the defined sub-categories of the digital live network alliance hierarchy. The sorting of the present invention enables a search to be performed which requires reduced filtering processes to be performed by a requesting client to achieve a desired search result and reduced bandwidth for communicating a result of a search to a requesting client as compared with non sub-categorized sorted data. In one instance, universal plug and play attributes are used to search the sub-categorized sorted data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130347040 | CHANNEL SEARCHING BY CONTENT TYPE - Systems and method for receiving user channel search criteria, searching for channels based on representative content information, and presenting the channel results to the user. The interactive media guidance application prompts the user to enter channel search criteria by selecting categories or inputting keywords. The interactive media guidance application gathers information about channels in the form of channel attribute data. The channel attributed data identifies attributes of the typical programs provided by the channel over time. The application compares the channel attribute data for each channel with the user-entered channel search criteria. Matches or lack thereof are then displayed to the user by the interactive media guidance application. | 12-26-2013 |
20140047481 | LOCALLY STORED CONTENT PREVIEWS: REPRESENTATIVE OF PROGRAMMING CONTENT IN AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE THROUGH A GRAPHIC IMAGE ACCESSED FROM THE HARD DRIVE OF A SET TOP BOX - An integrated DSS/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS programs, Internet web sites, and local broadcast channels in a seamless fashion. The DSS/WebTV receiver downloads graphic images, corresponding to DSS programs, from a DSS communication medium or the Internet into a local memory. The graphic images are periodically updated by the DSS service provider or Internet service provider. The DSS/WebTV receiver generates a graphical user interface (GUI), displayed on a television screen, for facilitating a user's navigation through the DSS, Internet, and local broadcast data. The GUI includes a selectable DSS program listing that displays DSS programs that are currently being broadcast or that will be broadcasted in the future. If a user selects a currently broadcasted program, the DSS/WebTV receiver displays the selected program on the television. If the user selects a program that is broadcasted in the future, the DSS/WebTV receiver displays a downloaded graphic image, corresponding to the selected program, on the television. The graphic image may be the selected program's name or logo, still shots from the selected program, short video clips related to the selected program, or advertisements related to the selected program. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047482 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method, in which an EPG is configured as a 3D form to facilitate a search for broadcasting program information included in the EPG. The EPG providing apparatus includes an EPG screen configuring unit and a control unit. The EPG screen configuring unit configures an EPG screen such that broadcasting program information is displayed on at least three faces of a 3D polyhedron. The control unit controls the EPG screen configuring unit to configure the EPG screen such that broadcasting program information corresponding to another broadcasting time zone or another broadcasting channel is displayed on the EPG screen based on a user input signal requesting a search for the broadcasting program information corresponding to another broadcasting time zone or another broadcasting channel. | 02-13-2014 |
20140053209 | USER INTERFACE FOR ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for providing a search interface for an electronic device including a tuner configured to tune the electronic device to receive scheduled programming content. A search query is received and one or more data sources including information about media content are searched based, at least in part, on the search query. The results of the search are presented on a user interface using a time-based axis and a time-independent axis. | 02-20-2014 |
20140053210 | USER INTERFACE FOR ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for providing a search interface for an electronic device including a tuner configured to tune the electronic device to receive scheduled programming content. A search query is received and one or more data sources including information about media content are searched based, at least in part, on the search query. The results of the search are presented on a user interface using a time-based axis and a time-independent axis. | 02-20-2014 |
20140053211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA IN AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An intelligent television can store and retrieve data about various functions of the television or associated with user behavior. The stored data streamlines the processes of providing electronic programming guide information, providing search results, providing statistics about content, providing channel information, etc. The unique set of data services in the intelligent television receive, store, manage, and retrieve the data for various of the applications or components. | 02-20-2014 |
20140075483 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACES IN AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An intelligent television can provide various interfaces for navigating processes associated with providing content. The user interfaces include unique visual representations and organizations that allow the user to utilize the intelligent television more easily and more effectively. Particularly, the user interfaces pertain to the display of media content, electronic programming guide information, television content, and other content. Further, the user interfaces provide unique process of transitioning between the content. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089984 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a control device, a control method, a recording device, a recording method, and a program, which enable recording of all episodes of a series program. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089985 | TERMINAL COOPERATION SYSTEM, RECEIVER, AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver includes: a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcast signal; a keyword acquisition unit configured to acquire a search keyword based on metadata included in the broadcast signal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the search keyword acquired by the keyword acquisition unit to a terminal device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140101703 | VIDEO RECORDING/PLAYING DEVICE AND PROGRAM SEARCHING METHOD - A video recording/playing device includes a trending word acquiring portion that acquires, from the Internet, a trending word for which a search frequency is rising, and a program information searching portion that searches a program information database for program information that includes the trending word. | 04-10-2014 |
20140115635 | PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION PROGRAM - The program recommendation device includes a search term receiver that receives at least one search term designated by a user, a partial match searcher that searches an electronic program list for programs having program information with words and phrases partially matching the search term designated by the user and outputs a partial match search result set, a language analyzer that performs a language analyzing process on the program information of each of the programs contained in the partial match search result set and outputs an analyzed search result set, an exact match searcher that searches the analyzed program information contained in the analyzed search result set for programs with words and phrases exactly matching the search term designated by the user and outputs an exact match search result set. A recommended program display displays programs contained in the exact match search result set as recommended programs. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115636 | VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE FOR USE WITH A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A digital video recorder (DVR) has a memory manager to determine a particular date and a particular video program in a download schedule for which the DVR will reach a low memory condition based on the download schedule and an amount of unoccupied memory space in the DVR. The DVR outputs a display signal to indicate the particular date and the particular video program. | 04-24-2014 |
20140130102 | DETAILED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention provides a detailed information management system configured so that detailed information linked to the viewed scene is displayed in real-time on a display of a terminal device such as a remote controller at hand, in a simple operation. The detailed information management system ( | 05-08-2014 |
20140150028 | Method and System for Content Recording and Indexing - The present invention relates to a method for a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a method for a device of initiating actions on said device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control point both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device based on action requests received from a control point along with control point identification. | 05-29-2014 |
20140181873 | WIDGET INTERFACE MANAGEMENT - In one example embodiment, a system includes a server configured to: receive, from a first device, a request to generate a widget interface and a search parameter for video content, generate a list of video content corresponding to the search parameter for the video content, generate the widget interface associated with the generated list of video content, and transmit the generated widget interface; and a second device configured to: receive the transmitted widget interface, receive an input to select the transmitted widget interface from among a plurality of widget interfaces, and display the list of the video content associated with the selected widget interface. | 06-26-2014 |
20140189748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING CONTENTS - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording a content. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for recording a content that includes: determining a recording state of a first content through a first path; searching a second content corresponding to the first content through a second path according to the recording state of the first content through the first path; and recording or downloading the second content found by the search through the second path or providing a link by which to obtain the second content. | 07-03-2014 |
20140196091 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SERVER - A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number. | 07-10-2014 |
20140196092 | DIALOG-TYPE INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A dialog type interface apparatus providing contents corresponding to a voice signal received from the display apparatus is disclosed. The dialog type interface apparatus includes a communicator which receives a voice signal corresponding to a user's voice collected in the display apparatus; and a controller which determines the user's utterance intentions using the voice signal, and which controls to generate a query for searching contents corresponding to the determined utterance intentions, divide metadata on the contents, and transmit the divided metadata to an external server, wherein the controller extracts an utterance element for determining the utterance intentions from the voice signal, and converts the extracted utterance element to correspond to contents dividing criteria of each item to generate the query. | 07-10-2014 |
20140208363 | SEARCHING METHOD AND DIGITAL STREAM SYSTEM - A searching method for a digital stream system, includes acquiring a plurality of selecting keywords related to a broadcast program from a network service terminal of the digital stream system according to a program consultation of the broadcast program; selecting at least one of the plurality of selecting keywords for assembling a searching keyword string; and acquiring a plurality of on-demand information from at least one on-demand resource service terminal according to the searching keyword string. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215526 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, SERVER, AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video display apparatus including, a registering module, a sending module, a receiving module, and a controller. The registering module configured to register a keyword. The sending module configured to send the keyword to a server. The receiving module configured to receive control information based on the keyword from the server. The controller controls a turning on power or switching channels or turning off power on the basis of the control information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215527 | TV INTERFACE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTOMATIC SEARCH - An automatic search system and method is disclosed which automatically displays a search menu on a TV in response to opening a remote control having an internal concealed keyboard. Since a text entry keyboard is known to be in use a streamlined search menu may be displayed without an on screen keyboard. A separate on screen keyboard search menu may be activated in a different mode by using the remote in a closed configuration. | 07-31-2014 |
20140223488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS - A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list. | 08-07-2014 |
20140259075 | METHOD FOR VIRTUAL CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, NETWORK-BASED MULTIMEDIA REPRODUCTION SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL CHANNEL, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Method for virtual channel management, in an embodiment, includes the following steps. A command including a keyword is detected. Searching local program data for any program satisfying a first search criterion which includes the keyword is made to obtain a local search result, and searching for any external network video content satisfying the first search criterion is made to obtain an external search result. A program list is generated with a combination of the local and external search results. The program list is presented. If a selection indicating virtual channel addition is detected during the presenting of the program list, the program list is set to be a virtual channel associated with a channel identity code, and program content of the virtual channel is played. While the network-based multimedia reproduction system operates, if the channel identity code is detected to be selected, the program content thereof is played. | 09-11-2014 |
20140289779 | KEY WORD BASED MEDIA CONTENT SEARCHING - A method may include receiving, from a user device, a search query associated with identifying media content items available from a service provider. A database of key words associated with a plurality of media content items is searched to identify a set of media content items having key words associated therewith that match the search query. It is determined, for each media content item in the set of media content items, whether the matching key word is a global key word representative of the media content item in its entirety, or a local key word representative of one or more portions of the media content item. The set of media content items based on the determining. The ranked set of media content items is transmitted to the user device for display to a user. | 09-25-2014 |
20140344865 | SCHEDULER APPARATUS EMPLOYING A GOPHER AGENT FOR USE IN A TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344866 | BROADCAST PROGRAM INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A content program information search system and method is described. The system comprises a digital signal receiver for detecting and displaying a content signal and/or detailed content information for one or more search terms from a digital signal transmitted from a transmitter; and a server having a database for storing search terms inputted from external devices, the inputted search terms being stored by order of priority based for example on search frequency, such that the server extracts and transmits to the transmitter search terms from the first database, and the digital signal receiver displays according to the order of priority at least one search term transmitted from the transmitter. The viewer thus has search terms of high search frequency to enable the viewer to rapidly and easily search for information on a desired content program. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344867 | SMART CHANNEL ENTRY SYSTEM - An interactive system is provided in which information is displayed in response to the entry of the digits of a channel number. The interactive system may be implemented on a television, a computer, or a radio system. The displayed information may be program listings information such as the channel designator or the program currently airing on the channel. The displayed information may also be a list of channels. The list of channels may be associated with the entered digits, may be component channels, or channels of the same type and may be sorted by various techniques such as numerically, by favorite channels, by type, etc. The interactive system may allow a user to specify a source identifier to channels from different sources and display the channels with the source identifier when they are entered. | 11-20-2014 |
20140373073 | USER INTERFACE FOR ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for providing a search interface for an electronic device including a tuner configured to tune the electronic device to receive scheduled programming content. A search query is received and one or more data sources including information about media content are searched based, at least in part, on the search query. The results of the search are presented on a user interface using a time-based axis and a time-independent axis. | 12-18-2014 |
20150052564 | COMPUTING SIMILARITY BETWEEN MEDIA PROGRAMS - System and method are provided to associate or compare media programs. A method includes: obtaining, using at least one processing circuit, first metadata for a first media program and second metadata for a second media program, wherein the first metadata are organized into a plurality of first fields, and the second metadata are organized into a plurality of second fields; extracting, using at least one processing circuit, a plurality of first tokens from one of the plurality of the first fields and a plurality of second tokens from one of the plurality of second fields; assigning a weight factor to each of the first and second tokens; cross-correlating the first and second tokens between the plurality of first fields and the plurality of second fields; and calculating a similarity score between the first and second media programs based on the cross-correlating. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058894 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE FOR INDICATING AVAILABILITY OF PAST PROGRAMS - 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. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067737 | Extra Rich Content MetaData Generator - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving content metadata related to content items provided by a content provider; retrieving additional metadata from one or more external sources, the additional metadata including language variations of the content metadata; storing the content metadata with the additional metadata in a storage device, wherein the content metadata is stored in association with the additional metadata; receiving a search request from a user, the search request including one or more search terms expressed in a first language variation; identifying, among the content metadata or the additional metadata, relevant metadata matching the one or more search terms; identifying additional relevant metadata stored in association with the relevant metadata, the additional relevant metadata including language variations of the relevant metadata; and adding one or more additional search terms to the search request, the one or more additional search terms corresponding to the additional relevant metadata. | 03-05-2015 |
20150082356 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION, SEARCH METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a television including first to fourth keyword candidate acquiring sections for acquiring a plurality of keyword candidates according to algorisms different from each other; a keyword determining section for causing a display section to display thereon a keyword list including the plurality of keyword candidates thus obtained by the keyword candidate acquiring means, and for determining that a search keyword is to be a keyword candidate selected from the keyword list by an input instruction; and a search scope determining section for causing the display section to display a search scope list of a plurality of search scopes different from each other, and for determining that a search scope to be used for search process with the search keyword is to be a search scope selected from the search scope list by an input instruction. | 03-19-2015 |
20150095953 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A display apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a first display configured to display content, a second display configured to display an image at an outer area of the first display, and a controller configured to, in response to input of a user command while content is displayed on the first display, display a User Interface (UI) to control the display apparatus on the second display, and control content of the display by using the UI to control the display apparatus. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100987 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY-AWARE VIDEO RECOMMENDATION - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing content recommendation by obtaining metadata associated with a media object, extracting from the metadata a plurality of terms associated with the media object, and mapping at least a portion of the plurality of terms to buckets. A query vector having attributes corresponding to the buckets is used to perform a query on a database storing media object documents having attributes corresponding to the buckets. | 04-09-2015 |
20150128190 | Video Program Recommendation Method and Server Thereof - Disclosed is a method and server for generating a video program recommendation for a particular video program. The method may include the following steps of: extracting key information from an electronic program guide of a particular video program and the particular video program; searching for contents related with the key information on a public social media by using the key information, and obtaining search results; extracting an abstract from the search results as an inquiry request; searching for video programs in a broadcasting video library and an Internet video library based on the inquiry request, and using obtained search results as a video program recommendation for the particular video program; and storing the video program recommendation in association with the particular video program. By using the solutions of the above embodiments, video program recommendations may be generated collectively for video programs at the side of the server. | 05-07-2015 |
20150135229 | DIGITAL TELEVISION TERMINAL, VIDEO FILE PLAYING METHOD AND VIDEO FILE PLAYING SYSTEM - Provided are a digital television terminal, a video file playing method and a video file playing system. The terminal comprises: a video file retrieval unit for receiving a retrieval request input by a user, sending the retrieval request to an offline task management server in an offline download system, and receiving a retrieval result returned by the offline task management server; a data download unit for, when a play request for the user to select and play one video file in the retrieval result is received, downloading the selected video file from a cloud storage server which is associated with a preset video file list in the offline download system; a data cache unit for caching the video file downloaded by the data download unit; and a video playing unit for playing the video file acquired from the data cache unit. The embodiments of the present invention realize video file. | 05-14-2015 |
20150150054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - An apparatus and a method for generating electronic program guide (EPG) are provided. The EPG generating apparatus comprises a receiving interface and a processor. The receiving interface receives an inputting keyword group. The processor generates a program name keyword group according to the program name corresponding to a program description. The processor constructs a semantic similarity degree matrix according to the inputting keyword group and the program name keyword group, and constructs an undirected graph according to the semantic similarity degree matrix. The processor finds a maximum clique set of the undirected graph, and generates a match score according to the program description and the maximum clique set. The processor determines a recommendation sequence of the program name in the EPG according to the match score. | 05-28-2015 |
20150304728 | VIDEO SERVICES RECEIVER THAT PROVIDES A SERVICE-SPECIFIC LISTING OF RECORDED CONTENT, AND RELATED OPERATING METHODS - A method of operating a video services receiver is provided. The video services receiver can record program content and present recorded program content to a user. The method provides first program content to a presentation device, and obtains a request for program content recorded from the particular programming service (channel) that is providing the first program content. In response to the request, the method searches for recorded program content associated with the particular programming service, and then controls a display of search results obtained from the searching. The display is rendered as an interactive channel-specific listing of recorded content. | 10-22-2015 |
20150312618 | Systems and Methods for Generating a Full-Motion Video Mosaic Interface for Content Discovery with User-Configurable Filters - A method for generating an interactive graphical user interface is performed at a server system remote from a client device. The server system receives, from the client device, user input selecting a first filter, and filters available video programming using one or more search conditions corresponding to the first filter, to identify a first plurality of videos that satisfy the one or more search conditions. The one or more search conditions include a criterion relating to a popularity metric for a social network. The server system generates a user interface that includes a first mosaic of selectable video tiles corresponding to the first plurality of videos. Respective videos of the first plurality of videos are played in respective video tiles of the first mosaic. The server system encodes the user interface as a video stream and transmits the video stream containing the user interface toward the client device for display. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319503 | SMART INTERACTIVE MEDIA CONTENT GUIDE - Television content is provided upon request. A search request for television content is received from a user on a user device. Listings for television content that meet the search request are determined based on the search request. Text describing the listings is converted to corresponding speech describing the listings. Speech describing the listings is provided audibly. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319509 | MODIFIED SEARCH AND ADVERTISEMENTS FOR SECOND SCREEN DEVICES - A method, performed by a computer device, may include receiving a search query from a second screen device and determining that a video asset is being streamed to a first screen device associated with the second screen device. The may further include modifying the search query based on one or more keywords associated with the video asset, based on determining that the video asset is being streamed to the first screen device; obtaining search results based on the modified search query; and providing the obtained search results to the second screen device. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326891 | PROVISIONING COMMERCIAL-FREE MEDIA CONTENT - Provisioning commercial-free or break-free media content. Example types of media or media content may include advertising media, broadcast media, social media, news media, and etc. In a satellite broadcast television implementation, subscribers may be provided the ability to search for and optionally access commercial-free programming. | 11-12-2015 |
20150334443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING SMART REMOTE CONTROL - A speech recognition broadcasting apparatus that uses a smart remote control and a controlling method thereof, the method including receiving a runtime resource for speech recognition from a speech recognition server; receiving a speech signal from the smart remote control; recognizing the speech signal based on the received runtime resource for speech recognition; transmitting a result of recognition of the speech signal to the smart remote control; receiving at least one of EPG (Electronic Program Guide) search information or control information of the speech recognition broadcasting apparatus that are based on the result of recognition from the smart remote control; and outputting a search screen or controlling the speech recognition broadcasting apparatus based on the EPG search information or control information of the speech recognition broadcasting apparatus. | 11-19-2015 |
20150373404 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including: a content selection unit configured to select content including at least one name specified by a user; a face group acquisition unit configured to acquire face groups by grouping, per person, face images occurring in content selected by the content selection unit; and a face group determination unit configured to determine a face group to associate with the name from face groups acquired by the face group acquisition unit. | 12-24-2015 |
20160037227 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA CONTENT SEARCHING - Media device systems and methods are operable to identify media content events. An exemplary embodiment receives a user defined keyword tag, associates an identifier of a media content event with the user defined keyword tag, stores the user defined keyword tag and the associated identifier in a database, receives a user specification of the user defined keyword tag, conducts a search of the user defined keyword tags in the database for instances where the user defined keyword tag of the second user specification matches with the stored user defined keyword tag of the first user specification, and generates a return message that indicates the associated identifier of the media content event for each instance where the user defined keyword tag matches with the stored user defined keyword tag. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042065 | Browsing and Retrieval of Full Broadcast-Quality Video - A method includes steps of indexing a media collection, searching an indexed library and browsing a set of candidate program segments. The step of indexing a media collection creates the indexed library based on a content of the media collection. The step of searching the indexed library identifies the set of candidate program segments based on a search criteria. The step of browsing the set of candidate program segments selects a segment for viewing. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044380 | PERSONAL HELPER BOT SYSTEM - MyBOTS.Tv—the personal helper BOT system utilizes a customizable personal assistant in the form of an avatar to engage its owner in a conversational manner with natural language commands to coordinate activity of a team of autonomous helper BOTs. Among a variety of other tasks, BOTs, which are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet, collaborate to create the owner's schedule, maintain his/her to-do list, obtain personally interesting information, provide personalized services and searches, perform web site transactions, use all types of web apps, complete tasks and/or synthesize useful products for their owners. | 02-11-2016 |
20160057503 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES FOR TELEVISION CONTENT USING REDUCED TEXT INPUT - A method and system are provided for identifying a television content item desired by a television viewer from a set of television content items. Each of the television content items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the television viewer a reduced text search entry directed at identifying the desired television content item. The search entry is a prefix substring of one or more words relating to the desired television content item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more television content items from the set of television content items having one or more descriptors matching the search entry as the television viewer enters each character of the search entry. The system then transmits the names of the one or more television content items of the identified group to he displayed on a device operated by the television viewer. | 02-25-2016 |
20160073172 | BROADCAST EVENT NOTIFICATIONS - Systems and methods for alerting a mobile device about a broadcast television event include pairing a mobile device with a television receiver to establish a local wireless connection between the mobile device and the television receiver. An event selection is received at the television receiver. The event selection is indicative of a program title related to a broadcast program to be alerted to the mobile device. After the television receiver determines that threshold time prior to the broadcast time of the event selection has been reached, the television receiver alerts the mobile device through the local wireless connection. | 03-10-2016 |
20160094889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO MERGE SEARCH QUERIES BASED ON CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - The systems and methods discloses herein determine whether to merge search queries used to identify a media asset among a plurality of media assets. A first identifier may be assigned to a first search query from a user. The systems and methods may further determine a plurality of identifiers based on a mapping that associates the first identifier with the plurality of identifiers, wherein each of the plurality of identifiers corresponds to a search query that has previously been merged by the user with the first search query to perform a search. A second identifier may then be assigned to a second search query, and it may be determined whether to merge the first search query and the second search query based on whether the second identifier is among the plurality of identifiers. A search of the plurality of media assets may then be performed based on the determination. | 03-31-2016 |
20160100203 | VIDEO CAPTURE SYSTEM AND VIDEO CAPTURE METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure illustrates a video capture system. The video capture system comprises a smart device and a first server. The smart device is configured to detect a user specific action. When the smart device detects the user specific actions, the smart device records a time stamp of the user specific action, and generate an audio fingerprint data based on a audio data of a specific television program showed on a display. The first server receives the time stamp and the audio fingerprint data, and finds the specific television program corresponding to the audio fingerprint data according to the audio fingerprint data and electronic program guide information. Then, the first server obtains a start tag based onbased on the time stamp. The start tag is a starting time of a video fragment. | 04-07-2016 |
20160127795 | ANNOTATING AND INDEXING BROADCAST VIDEO FOR SEARCHABILITY - A method providing searchable streaming video broadcasts via an interactive media server, the interactive media server generates a live broadcast video stream for each of a plurality of interactive media sessions and a video provider server providing a connection to the live broadcast video stream for viewing, the method comprising receiving an interactive media events stream for each interactive media session from the interactive media server, generating statistics data for each interactive media session based upon the events stream, and generating a searchable index of a directory of the live broadcast video streams, the searchable index including a plurality of entries, each entry including (a) a link to the live broadcast video stream for a corresponding interactive media session provided by the video provider server, and (b) metadata associated with the corresponding interactive media session, the metadata generated based upon the statistics data for the corresponding interactive media session. | 05-05-2016 |
20160142787 | Apparatus and Method for Context-based Storage and Retrieval of Multimedia Content - Disclosed is a solution that tags and stores video, audio, pictures, text, and other content, along with their associated metadata to allow for contextual retrieval and customized playback of stored content. | 05-19-2016 |
20160192022 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display device, a setting device, and a hardware processor. The display device displays content. The setting device sets a search condition. The hardware processor determines a type of content according to a state of the display device and searches content based on the search condition and the type of content. | 06-30-2016 |
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