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Merrick, GB
Barry Merrick, Cambridgeshire GB
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20090220207 | Systems and Methods for Playing Video - The invention generally relates to the field of digital playback and especially to operation of “trickplay” features such as fast-forward and rewind, more particularly to the invention relates to playback of an auxiliary video stream during trickplay of a standard digital video stream. Embodiments of the invention are useful in digital video players and recorders. A system for playing stored video data, the system having a rapid play or rewind mode, the system comprising: means for detecting operation of said rapid play or rewind mode; and means for outputting supplementary program material during said operation of said rapid play or rewind mode. Preferably the system selects a video stream which is configured so that it plays at a substantially normal rate in a forward direction when output by a video player operating in a rapid play or rewind mode. | 09-03-2009 |
Barry Merrick, Sawston GB
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| 20090109185 | Electronic Document Reader - We describe a display device for displaying an electronic document page comprising a central rewritable portion, a non-rewritable border with external lateral physical dimensions defined by the display edges, wherein said border is coloured to substantially match a background colour of said central rewritable portion such that when a foreground part of said document page is displayed on said central rewritable portion the appearance of margins of said document page is provided by said background coloured border whereby in use said displayed electronic document page appears to extend up to said display edges, and wherein the surface of the display is substantially flat over the lateral physical dimensions from the central rewritable portion across the border to the display edges. | 04-30-2009 |
Barry Merrick, Swaston GB
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| 20090113291 | Electronic Document Reader - We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background colour and at least one margin having said background colour, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display. | 04-30-2009 |
Iain Merrick, London GB
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20080250447 | Log Processing - Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to identify channel tunes and channel tune times. The channel tunes and channel tune times of the log data can be compared to expected air times of television advertisements on channels, and an impression values, e.g., projected viewers, can be generated for each television advertisement. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250448 | Log Processing - Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to compensate for broadcast latency and generate normalized log data, e.g., log data that are indexed to a relative time. Channel tunes and the channel tune times of the normalized log data can be compared to expected air times of television advertisements on channels, and an impression values, e.g., projected viewers, can be generated for each television advertisement. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250453 | Log Processing - Reporting data related to content processing devices, e.g., television devices, are processed to identify channel tunes and corresponding tune times of the content processing devices. Automatically generated channel tunes based on the corresponding tune times are identified. Content items that are aired during a time period defined by the corresponding tune times can be adjusted. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090150198 | ESTIMATING TV AD IMPRESSIONS - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving cluster information comprising categories and total numbers of media receivers (e.g. television (TV) viewers) associated with the categories and receiving sample data comprising numbers of advertisements (ads) displayed to sampled receivers (e.g., TV viewers) that are classified within the categories. The method also includes calculating probabilities for numbers of ads displayed to the total numbers of receivers associated with the categories, wherein the calculation is based on the cluster information and the sample data, merging the calculated probabilities associated with two or more of the categories, and outputting an estimated number of ads displayed based on the merged probabilities. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100235219 | RECONCILING FORECAST DATA WITH MEASURED DATA - Systems and methods can be used to adjust an advertising budget associated with an advertising item based on forecast performance of a media item associated with the advertising item. The advertising budget can be reconciled based upon measured impressions associated with the advertising item. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100262496 | Log Processing - Reporting data related to content processing devices, e.g., television devices, are processed to identify channel tunes and corresponding tune times of the content processing devices. Automatically generated channel tunes based on the corresponding tune times are identified. Content items that are aired during a time period defined by the corresponding tune times can be adjusted. | 10-14-2010 |
Roland A. Merrick, Harvington GB
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| 20080201646 | Tab Order Mapping of User Interfaces - An approach is provided to display a common display page on a variety of display devices using the item's tab order property to determine the display order. Controls that are displayed on a display device typically have a tab order. When a window that has controls is displayed, the cursor is typically placed at the control with the lowest (i.e., first) tab order. When the user presses the tab key, the cursor moves to the control corresponding to the next lowest tab order. This allows the designer to design a single window (or panel) that is displayed differently on constrained devices. However, even though the window is displayed differently, using tab order mapping maintains a consistent visible proximity between controls despite the type of display device being used by the user. | 08-21-2008 |