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20090304357 | Providing Content Interruptions - Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user's receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting content. The content which the user wishes to receive may be software, audio, video, graphics or other material and the interrupting content in one embodiment of the prevent invention may be advertisements. In this way, the user's receiver may be utilized to determine when it is appropriate to interrupt the interruptible content with the interrupting content. This may provide a convenient mechanism for reduced price or free distribution of a wide variety of media currently provided only in physical form or only for free without any compensation to the content provider. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304358 | Providing Content Interruptions - Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user's receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting content. The content which the user wishes to receive may be software, audio, video, graphics or other material and the interrupting content in one embodiment of the prevent invention may be advertisements. In this way, the user's receiver may be utilized to determine when it is appropriate to interrupt the interruptible content with the interrupting content. This may provide a convenient mechanism for reduced price or free distribution of a wide variety of media currently provided only in physical form or only for free without any compensation to the content provider. | 12-10-2009 |
20100138790 | Electronic Programming Guide With Selectable Categories - An electronic content guide may organize content such as television programs into categories and subcategories. The categories and subcategories may be topical as well as time-based. As a result, the user can select a given time-based criteria and within that time-based criteria select topical subcategories. As a result, the number of programs that may be displayed in any given graphical user interface may be reduced to a manageable level. This may be done without requiring a great deal of scrolling to view selected categories, subcategories and particular programs. | 06-03-2010 |
20110265125 | Automatically Preparing Streaming Video Programming Guides - A programming guide for streaming video files may be automatically compiled in response to a user request. The user may provide keywords for categories of streaming video files that are of interest. A graphical user interface is automatically developed which splits responsive streaming video files into categories requested by the user. Each streaming video file may be represented in a user selected fashion. For example, the streaming videos may be represented by a representative frame, title or other information. The user can then click on any of the streaming video files, broken down into the appropriate categories, to begin viewing a streaming video file of interest. | 10-27-2011 |
20120284612 | ENABLING HYPERTEXT ELEMENTS TO WORK WITH SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - Variables incorporated into a hypertext markup language document enable location of hypertext elements. Once the variable is located, the information contained within the identified hypertext element may be used in other applications. The information may be received, as a recognized input, by the application. | 11-08-2012 |
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20090046479 | Thin Backlight Using Low Profile Side Emitting LED - Low profile, side-emitting LEDs are described. The LEDs are used in very thin backlights for backlighting an LCD. In one embodiment, the backlight comprises a solid transparent waveguide with at least one opening in the waveguide containing an LED proximate to one edge. To smooth out a clover-shaped or batwing brightness profile inherently generated by a rectangular side-emitting LED within a smooth-sided rectangular opening in the waveguide, depending on the orientation of the LED, the sidewalls of the opening are made to have varying angles along the length of each sidewall to vary the refraction angle of light along the sidewall. Additionally, if a plurality of LEDs are used in the backlight, the orientations of the openings alternate to create a more uniform brightness profile in the waveguide. | 02-19-2009 |
20100277950 | REMOTE WAVELENGTH CONVERTING MATERIAL CONFIGURATION FOR LIGHTING - A device includes a reflector and a wavelength converting material disposed on the reflector. A backlight is disposed between the reflector and a surface to be illuminated, such as a liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes a light source and a waveguide. The waveguide is configured to direct a majority of light from the light source toward the reflector. At least a portion of the light is converted by the wavelength converted material, reflected by the reflector, and incident on the surface to be illuminated. | 11-04-2010 |
20110018016 | REDUCED COLOR OVER ANGLE VARIATION LEDS - A light emitting diode (LED) package includes an LED die includes a stack of semiconductor layers including an active region, and a wavelength converting element over the LED die. The wavelength converting element includes two or more non-flat surfaces that produce a desired angular color distribution pattern. | 01-27-2011 |
20110062472 | WAVELENGTH-CONVERTED SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting diode includes a semiconductor structure comprising a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region, and n- and p-contacts disposed on the n- and p-type regions. The light emitting layer is configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength. A wavelength converting material is positioned in a path of light emitted by the light emitting layer. The wavelength converting material is configured to absorb light of the first peak wavelength and emit light of a second peak wavelength. The light emitting diode is configured such that a light emission pattern from the light emitting diode complements a light emission pattern from the wavelength converting material. | 03-17-2011 |
20110272720 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE GROWN ON WAVELENGTH CONVERTING SUBSTRATE - In some embodiments of the invention, a device includes a substrate and a semiconductor structure. The substrate includes a wavelength converting element comprising a wavelength converting material disposed in a transparent material, a seed layer comprising a material on which III-nitride material will nucleate, and a bonding layer disposed between the wavelength converting element and the seed layer. The semiconductor structure includes a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region, and is grown on the seed layer. | 11-10-2011 |