Abstract: A mechanism to automate the aggregation of independent videos for integration includes a video networking platform comprising one or more user accounts that upload one or more recorded videos having metadata to a video networking platform. A playing module plays the one or more displayed recorded videos and synchronizes the one or more recorded videos based at least in part on the metadata of the recorded video.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing deblocking of reconstructed video data. According to an aspect of an invention, a maximum filter length is determined based on whether a P-block or a Q-block has an edge which is perpendicular to a deblocking boundary and whose size is greater than or equal to 32.

Abstract: A controlling device is provided with the ability to present personalized program guide information by using personal preferences provided to a home computing device. The personal preferences are used to filter program guide data received at the home computing device whereby the program guide data will include only programming information for user-specified sources of programming for each of plural, different user-specified periods of time. The filtered program guide data is then downloaded to the controlling device from the home computing device for use in connection with an application of the controlling device that functions to display program guide information within a display of the controlling device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for distributing content over a local area network (LAN) between a first device within the LAN and a second device within the LAN. A first device multicasts a LAN-specific content beacon over the LAN. The LAN-specific content beacon includes an identifier uniquely identifying the first device. A second device sends a response to the LAN-specific content beacon requesting secondary content to be integrated into a display of the second device. The first device generates the secondary content based on profile information associated with the second device and unicasts the secondary content to the second device for integration into primary content being generated for display at the second device.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating a program guide that simultaneously displays future content item identifiers and past content item identifiers. The future content items will be available from a content source in future time slots. The future content item identifiers are sized according to the lengths of corresponding future content items. The past content item that were available from the content source in past time slots. The past content item identifiers are not sized according to the lengths of corresponding past content items.

Abstract: A method of a transmission device in a multimedia system comprises the steps of: detecting a request for changing first-type data into second-type data while the first-type data is being played at a given point in time; and transmitting, before the second-type data is played, information necessary for replaying data, among the first-type data, played prior to the given point in time, and/or data, among the second-type data, played prior to the given point in time.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for distributing content over a local area network (LAN) between a first device within the LAN and a second device within the LAN. A first device multicasts a LAN-specific content beacon over the LAN. The LAN-specific content beacon includes an identifier uniquely identifying the first device. A second device sends a response to the LAN-specific content beacon requesting secondary generates the secondary content based on profile information associated with the second device and unicasts the secondary content to the second device for integration into primary content being generated for display at the second device.

Abstract: For transmitting a panorama video having a resolution higher than a decoder can decode, at a transmitter side, encoded data coding different (groups of) spatial segments of a video picture of a video stream are packetized into separate substreams, to obtain a group of separate substreams. At a receiver side, from the group of separate substreams a proper subset of the separate substreams is extracted and combined to a data stream containing encoded data coding respectively a proper subset of the spatial segments or groups of subsequent spatial segments of the video picture of the video stream. Thus, a decoder may decode only a subregion of the video picture of the video stream, the subregion being defined by the spatial segments or groups of spatial segments coded in the encoded data contained in the data stream.

Abstract: An aircraft includes a video display, first and second wireless pairing transmitters, and a media distribution processor. The video display is associated with an audio content stream and a seating location in the aircraft. The first wireless pairing transmitter is associated with the video display and has a first wireless coverage volume. The second wireless pairing transmitter has a second wireless coverage volume that overlaps the first wireless coverage volume. The media distribution processor is programmed and configured to: associate a wireless speaker device with the seating location; pair the first wireless pairing transmitter with the wireless speaker device in response to associating the wireless speaker device with the seating location; and direct the audio content stream through the first wireless pairing transmitter to the wireless speaker device in response to connecting the first wireless pairing transmitter with the wireless speaker device.

Abstract: A device, system and method are provided that may allot and manage bandwidth, such as bandwidth associated with broadcast and narrowcast distribution models for content item transmission, for example, in a content distribution network. The device, system and method may manage transmission based on the output information of the content items.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may encode a media content item based on metadata from previous encoding. The encoding may also generate encoding metadata, which may comprise a qualitative or quantitative characterization of the encoded media content item. A prediction engine may, based on this metadata, determine new encoding settings for the same or a different video resolution. The prediction engine may cause an encoded media content item to be stored and may cause encoding of the media content item using the new encoding settings.

Abstract: The present application discloses techniques of interacting with live videos. The techniques comprise obtaining a streaming video of a live streamer and images of a user captured in real time by a user terminal, and displaying the streaming video and the image of the user in a same video play box; obtaining and recognizing a first gesture of a user in the images of the user, and comparing the first gesture with a second gesture included in a preset table, wherein the preset table comprises information indicating corresponding relationships between gestures and special effects; obtaining a first special effect corresponding to the second gesture by querying the preset table when the first gesture matches with the second gesture; and displaying the first special effect in the video play box.

Abstract: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for packaging media. In some embodiments, the technology relates to a computer-implemented method of packaging media files. A list of one or more media asset IDs is received by a media packaging server. A packaging template is received by the media packaging server. One or more media files based on a media asset ID in the list of the one or more media asset IDs and the packaging template are retrieved, by the media packaging server. Metadata associated with the media asset ID based on the packaging template is retrieved by the media packaging server. The one or more media files and the metadata are packaged by the media packaging server into a delivery package in a packaging format indicated by the packaging template.

Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by comprising the steps of: acquiring image information including a Block-based Delta Pulse Code Modulation (BDPCM) available flag; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information, wherein the BDPCM available flag relates to whether BDPCM is available for chroma and luma blocks.

Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to access media data for a first three-dimensional (3D) immersive media experience including media tracks each including an associated series of samples of media data for a different component of the first 3D immersive media experience and derived immersive tracks, each comprising a set of derivation operations to perform to generate an associated series of samples of media data for a different component of a second 3D immersive media experience and perform, for each of the one or more derived immersive tracks, a derivation operation of the set of derivation operations by processing associated samples of the one or more media tracks as specified by the derivation operation to generate the associated series of samples of media data of the second 3D immersive media experience.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a computer-implemented method including receiving, by a user computing device, data that describes a destination for the media content item. Example destinations can include a location of a recipient of message including the media content item and a digital location (e.g., website, social networking page, etc.). The method can include selecting, by a computing system comprising the user computing device, one or more media content items based on the data that describes the destination for the media content item. Media content items that are more relevant and/or appropriate can be selected by considering the destination of the media content item. The selected media content item(s) can be provided for display by the user computing device in a dynamic keyboard interface.

Abstract: A method of decoding video data comprises updating a coefficient statistic value based on one or more transform coefficients of a transform block (TB), wherein updating the coefficient statistic value comprises, for each respective transform coefficient of the one or more transform coefficients of the TB: performing a derivation process to determine a temporary value, wherein the derivation process is determined based at least in part on which encoding procedure of a plurality of encoding procedures is used to encode the respective transform coefficient, the plurality of encoding procedures including a context-based procedure for encoding the respective transform coefficient and encoding the respective transform coefficient as an absolute value; and setting the coefficient statistic value as an average of the coefficient statistic value and the temporary value; determining a history value based on the coefficient statistic value; determining a Rice parameter for a specific transform coefficient of the TB.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for requesting media content playback. Media content item metadata relating to product endorsement in the media content item is accessed. An endorsement profile for the media content item is generated based on the media content item metadata. The endorsement profile comprises data relating to which segments of the media content item have product-related content. A manifest file comprising instructions re-questing playback of the media content item is generated based on the endorsement profile for the media content item.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a request for supplemental content for use by a content-presentation device that is scheduled to perform a content-modification operation at a start-time and, in response to the request: receiving, into a first buffer of the content-presentation device, first supplemental content having a first video quality that is higher than or equal to a predefined threshold, and receiving, into a second, different buffer of the content-presentation device, second supplemental content having a second video quality lower than the predefined threshold. The method also includes within a predefined time period before the start-time, determining whether an entirety of the first supplemental content has been received into the first buffer.

Abstract: A programming access device such as, for example, a cable or satellite set top box (STB), a digital video recorder (DVR), a personal computer, and/or a digital media receivers automatically optimizes an order of content choices presented in a content listing, such as a program guide display, favorite channel display, and/or a recording listing display based on the past viewing and/or recording history of a current user.