Abstract: Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a telephone or reminder for an appointment. A melody line may be extracted from the audio, or the audio may be used exactly as it is. Another aspect stores traders within the entertainment content such as in MP3. Those traders are used to trigger the system to retrieve other parts of the content to be displayed at the same time that that particular part of the MP3 is being play. The content may include video or text, or maybe links to other content such as broadband content four times sensitive content. Another aspect describes encryption which is keyed to the disk ID to prevent playing oven illegally copied disk. Another aspect reads a specified amount of information then spins down the disk to conserve battery power.
Abstract: A system for detecting random information in an electronic communication, and recognizing the electronic information as being undesired information, e.g. Spam, when such random information is detected. The random information can be random characters, random words, or the like. The random words can be detected by comparing the words with a dictionary, and selecting words as being random when they do not match the dictionary. A matching criteria less than 100% may be established to accommodate words which are not in the dictionary and typographical errors.
Abstract: A high definition television system. Each pixel of the resulting television picture is represented by three equations which describe that pixel state over a predetermined time. Only coefficients of those equations need to be transmitted. Only those pixels which have an equation which completely changes need to be transmitted. Hence, at any given time, only a very small percentage of information needs to be transmitted: the rest of it follows the pre-sent coefficients.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 8, 1993
Date of Patent:
August 2, 1994
Assignees:
Scott C. Harris, Dan Brasoveanu, M. Rauta