Patents
Patents for H04N 21 - Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television, vod [video on demand] (56,445)
10/2004
10/14/2004US20040205166 Scheduling storage accesses for rate-guaranteed and non-rate-guaranteed requests
10/14/2004US20040205155 User terminal for channel-based Internet network
10/14/2004US20040204914 Method and apparatus for monitoring the provision of a utility
10/14/2004US20040203712 Method for distributing video information to mobile phone based on push technology
10/14/2004US20040202443 Remote high resolution photography and video recording using a streaming video as a view-finder
10/14/2004US20040202321 Digital video content transmission ciphering and deciphering method and apparatus
10/14/2004US20040202248 Control strategy for dynamically encoding multiple streams of video data in parallel for multiplexing onto a constant bit rate channel
10/13/2004EP1467580A2 Method for distributing video information to mobile phone based on push technology
10/13/2004EP1467566A2 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with remote product ordering
10/13/2004EP1467563A1 Editing device and method
10/13/2004EP1466481A1 Methods and systems for managing and collecting impulse pay-per-view (ippv) data in smart card enabled television terminals
10/13/2004EP1466478A1 Time-adaptive control of television viewing functionality
10/13/2004EP1099341B1 Interactive television program guide with remote access
10/13/2004EP1040712B1 Device and method for controlling a data transmission operation between a first atm device and a second atm device
10/13/2004CN1537389A Method for implementing MPEG-21 IPMP
10/13/2004CN1537385A Recommender system using'fuzzy-now' for real time events
10/13/2004CN1536911A Method for sending video information into mobile telephone based on push technique
10/13/2004CN1171455C Broadcasting device and receiving device
10/13/2004CN1171231C Method of describing multiple level digest segment information scheme for multimedia contents and appartus for generating digest stream from described multiple level digest sement information scheme
10/13/2004CN1171158C Mobile method of active image in video program requesting system
10/12/2004USRE38621 Optical disk having a particular format to store user-selected data, such as compressed video data or computed files, including a dedicated toc region and an application toc to identify the video compression format
10/12/2004US6804828 Tap device of cable broadcasting system
10/12/2004US6804825 Video on demand methods and systems
10/12/2004US6804357 Method and system for providing secure subscriber content data
10/12/2004US6804295 Conversion of video and audio to a streaming slide show
10/12/2004US6804259 Digital broadcast receiver
10/12/2004US6803966 Digital TV receiver and method for receiving digital TV signal
10/07/2004WO2003073675A8 Boolean protocol filtering
10/07/2004US20040196974 Scrambler and scrambling method
10/07/2004US20040196973 Scrambler and scrambling method
10/07/2004US20040196907 Device and method for controlling image encoding, encoding system, transmission system and broadcast system
10/07/2004US20040196904 Digital broadcasting apparatus and method, video data encoding system and method, and broadcasting signal decoding system and method, which use variable bit rate
10/07/2004US20040196370 Image transmission system, image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus unit, key generating apparatus, and program
10/07/2004CA2775748A1 Method for representing animated menu buttons
10/07/2004CA2725179A1 Reproducing apparatus and method, and recording medium
10/07/2004CA2725177A1 Reproducing apparatus and method, and recording medium
10/06/2004EP1465417A2 Image recording and reproducing apparatus and method
10/06/2004EP1464180A2 Methods and systems for providing streaming media content in existing video delivery systems
10/06/2004EP1464179A1 Next generation television receiver
10/06/2004EP1464178A1 Method, apparatus, and program for evolving algorithms for detecting content in information streams
10/06/2004EP1464176A1 Transparent access of stb mhp digital tv middleware to ip video content
10/06/2004EP1464175A2 Passive cmts redundancy
10/06/2004EP1464173A1 Method and apparatus for access and display of content allowing users to combine multiple profiles
10/06/2004EP1464171A2 Method and apparatus for identifying a digital audio signal
10/06/2004EP1464169A1 Controlling buffer capacity for personal video recorder while displaying available disk space
10/06/2004EP1464168A1 Method of populating an explicit profile cross-reference to related applications
10/06/2004EP1464167A1 Sort slider with context intuitive sort keys
10/06/2004EP1464012A2 Visualization of entertainment content
10/06/2004EP1464003A1 Physical layer recovery in a streaming data delivery system
10/06/2004EP1463983A2 Processing data
10/06/2004EP1323312B1 Regeneration of program clock reference data for mpeg transport streams
10/06/2004EP1155548B1 System for interactive distribution of selectable presentations
10/06/2004EP0781490B1 Method and apparatus for frame accurate access of digital audio-visual information
10/06/2004CN1535536A System for network data transmission
10/06/2004CN1535535A Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on prior queries
10/06/2004CN1535534A program-related information fetch system and method
10/06/2004CN1535013A Method of forming digital film content according to audience's tolerance standard
10/06/2004CN1170426C Image regulating method and device for video display apparatus
10/05/2004US6801917 Method and apparatus for partitioning a plurality of items into groups of similar items in a recommender of such items
10/05/2004US6801711 Method and apparatus for creating and recording management information for digital data streams
10/05/2004US6801709 Apparatus and method for synchronously decoding video data and sub-picture data in DVD player
10/05/2004US6801575 Audio/video system with auxiliary data
10/05/2004US6801262 Variable delay channel scan
09/2004
09/30/2004WO2004084553A1 Data processing device
09/30/2004US20040194128 Method for providing digital cinema content based upon audience metrics
09/30/2004US20040194123 Method for adapting digital cinema content to audience metrics
09/30/2004US20040193900 System, method and apparatus for controlling the dissemination of digital works
09/30/2004US20040193723 Method and system for streaming delivery and program and program recording medium thereof
09/30/2004US20040193493 Advertising system and method
09/30/2004US20040192253 Content delivery system
09/30/2004US20040190857 Method and apparatus for receiving a digital signal and apparatus for recording and reproducing the digital signal
09/30/2004US20040190721 Renewable conditional access system
09/30/2004US20040190513 Boolean protocol filtering
09/30/2004US20040189715 User friendly remote system interface
09/30/2004DE10354886A1 Mediensteuersystem und -Verfahren Media control system and method
09/29/2004EP1463334A2 Acquisition and error recovery of audio carried in a packetized data stream
09/29/2004EP1463322A2 Renewable conditional access system
09/29/2004EP1463321A2 Non-modal navigation of interactive multimedia content
09/29/2004EP1463318A1 Method for adapting digital cinema content to audience metrics
09/29/2004EP1463317A2 Method for providing digital cinema content based upon audience metrics
09/29/2004EP1463316A2 Method and apparatus for preparing and transmitting electronic program information and apparatus for producing electronic program guide from the electronic program information
09/29/2004EP1463308A2 Programme generation
09/29/2004EP1461951A2 Controlled-access method and system for transmitting scrambled digital data in a data exchange network
09/29/2004EP1461949A1 Hierarchical decision fusion of recommender scores
09/29/2004EP1461894A1 Encrypting received content
09/29/2004EP1461788A1 Video monitoring and surveillance systems capable of handling asynchronously multiplexed video
09/29/2004EP1273151B1 Resynchronizing media during streaming
09/29/2004EP1027680B1 Computational graceful degradation methods, apparatuses and a system using priority information in multiple objects case
09/29/2004CN1533671A Consering distribution bandwidth
09/29/2004CN1533670A Method and apparatus for providing user interface
09/29/2004CN1533657A Method and method for transmitting data from a first data network into a second data network
09/29/2004CN1533651A Access node for multi-protocol video and data service
09/29/2004CN1533537A Display facility supplementing experience of visitor
09/29/2004CN1533535A Information processing device and method, content distribution device and method and computer program
09/29/2004CN1533534A Data storage method and syste, data recording controller, data recording instructing device, data receiver and information processing terminal
09/29/2004CN1533531A Information image utilizing system, information image managing apparatus, informaton image managing method, contents information image, program and recording medium
09/29/2004CN1533519A Network control system for home appliances
09/29/2004CN1533175A Information transmission method and TV broadcast receiver
09/29/2004CN1169368C Terminal installation and regenerating method therefor
09/29/2004CN1169358C Multimedia time warping system