Patents Examined by Dominic D Saltarelli
  • Patent number: 11711590
    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 receiver 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Arling, Patrick H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 11706478
    Abstract: A method of enrichment of at least one source multimedia content for rendering on a device is disclosed. A rendering zone has a width/height ratio different from the width/height ratio of the source multimedia content. In one aspect, the method comprises identifying, from the source multimedia content, of at least one enrichment content intended to be rendered in a region of the rendering zone distinct from a region for rendering the source multimedia content. And these enriching the source multimedia content, taking into account of the at least one identified enrichment content and delivering at least one enriched multimedia content comprising at least one piece of enrichment data representative of a rendering of the enrichment content in a region of the rendering zone distinct from a region for rendering the source multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Cédric Floury, Aurore Catteau
  • Patent number: 11700368
    Abstract: A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion of a block of a video picture in a video and a bitstream representation of the video, gradients of a subset of samples in a region for a classification operation in a filtering process. The region has a dimension of M×N and the block has a dimension of K×L, M, N, K, L being positive integers. The block is located within the region. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11695991
    Abstract: Power aware adaptation for a power aware video streaming system may be based on the complexity information conveyed in different ways. A complexity level of a data stream, such as a video data stream, may be selected as a function of a remaining battery power of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and on a state set of a plurality of state sets that may be stored and/or managed by the WTRU. These state sets may correspond to, for example, different content sources and/or different complexity estimation algorithms and may be used to select the complexity level of the data stream. The data stream may then be received at the selected complexity level. The complexity level and/or a bitrate of the data stream may be adapted to accommodate, for example, the remaining battery power and/or other circumstances. The adaptation may be customized according to the objectives of use cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuwen He, Markus Kunstner, Yan Ye, Ralph Neff
  • Patent number: 11695981
    Abstract: An electronic program guide, EPG, comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a list of channels and, for each channel in the list, a list of scheduled audiovisual content. The second portion comprises a selection area or section and a first graphical element representing a time line. The selection section may be used to select scheduled audiovisual content according to a selection criterion. Second graphical elements that represent scheduled audio visual content resulting from the selection are then placed on the first graphical element. The relative position of the second graphical elements on the first graphical element is determined by chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Sebastien Fraleu, Thomas Morin, Goulven Querre, Sebastien Bergot
  • Patent number: 11683550
    Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a video encoder configured to encode video data into a parallel plurality of encoded video streams, the parallel plurality of encoded video streams including the video data encoded according to a respective plurality of different video bitrates; a selector configured to select, based on one or more parameters corresponding to a condition of a wireless communication link, a selected encoded video stream from the parallel plurality of encoded video streams; and a radio to transmit the selected encoded video stream over the wireless communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yaniv Frishman, Ran Mor, Sharon Talmor-Marcovici
  • Patent number: 11683554
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for processing user interface content. For example, a server computer can receive a user interface event corresponding to a user interface of a device (e.g., a client device, another server computer, or other device). An application associated with the user interface event can be determined, and an interface model 5 can be generated using the application associated with the user interface event. The interface model defines state information for one or more graphic objects of the user interface. The state information results from the user interface event. The server computer can send the interface model to the device, which enables the device to render the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.
    Inventors: Hongliang Li, Alain Delpuch
  • Patent number: 11678006
    Abstract: The description relates to cooperatively controlling devices based upon their location and pose. One example can receive first sensor data associated with a first device and second sensor data associated with a second device. This example can analyze the first sensor data and the second sensor data to determine relative locations and poses of the first device relative to the second device and can supply the locations and poses to enable content to be collectively presented across the devices based upon the relative locations and poses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Nathalie Maryline Riche, William Arthur Stewart Buxton, Nicolai Marquardt
  • Patent number: 11678029
    Abstract: This application provides a video labeling method performed by a server, and the method includes: receiving a video extraction instruction transmitted by a terminal, and obtaining a to-be-extracted video according to the video extraction instruction; extracting event information from video frames of the to-be-extracted video; forming at least one event information flow by using the event information; capturing, based on the at least one event information flow, at least one first clip that meets a plot trigger condition from the to-be-extracted video and obtaining a plot labeling tag of the at least one first clip; and transmitting the at least one first clip and the corresponding plot labeling tag to the terminal, wherein the terminal displays the at least one first clip and the corresponding plot labeling tag in a preset display region of a display interface in which the to-be-extracted video is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chengwei Zhu, Zixun Sun, Xiao Chen, Wentao Yao, Tingtian Li, Zirui Tu, Shuang Zhao, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11669227
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to perform a user interface operation at a client device while the client device is playing a media content item in a buffered content presentation mode. In some implementations, the method includes identifying a first image that represents a current playback position of the media content item at the client device. In some implementations, the method includes identifying a second image that represents a user interface element associated with the user interface operation. In some implementations, the method includes generating a first video frame that corresponds to the user interface operation by blending the first image with the second image. In some implementations, the method includes triggering the client device to present the first video frame in a real-time content presentation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Synamedia Limited
    Inventors: Zorach Reuven Wachtfogel, Anthony Leigh
  • Patent number: 11671661
    Abstract: A television program ratings method and system includes transferring information associated with households from a cable provider to a ratings provider such that the ratings provider has access to information associated with sampled households and lacks access to information associated with non-sampled households. To this end, identity information and usage information associated with the households are respectively anonymized and encrypted. Knowledge of the identities of the sampled households enables the anonymized identity information and the encrypted usage information for the sampled households to be respectively de-anonymized and decrypted. The ratings provider knows which households are sampled households. As such, the ratings provider de-anonymizes and decrypts the information associated with the sampled households and then uses the de-anonymized and decrypted information to determine television program ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael A. Chen
  • Patent number: 11664019
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for optimizing the presentation of content through obtaining viewership metrics, generating multiple renditions of presentations of content, and selecting optimized renditions of content. One aspect includes associating a request for viewership metrics with a presentation of content, publishing the presentation of content, and receiving information of the viewership metrics associated with the presentation. Another aspect includes copying a presentation of a content item, creating a second presentation of the content item for publishing over one or more channels, and linking the presentation of the content item to the second presentation of the content item, such that a change to one propagates to the other of the presentation of the content item or the second presentation of the content item. In yet another aspect, a content rendition may be selected for presentation based on performance of the rendition out of multiple renditions in an auction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Patent number: 11659173
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and chip for vertically filtering an image, including: caching and reading image data; calling a filter to vertically filter the image data to obtain first filtered data; updating the image data according to the first filtered data, and judging whether a to-be-read row is the last row of the image data; if not, updating the to-be-read row to the next row of the to-be-read row, and returning to execute the step of caching the image data; and if so, determining the vertically filtered image data. In the present application, point-by-point feedback is changed to row-by-row feedback according to an algorithm principle of a digital recursive filter and the characteristics of an image chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongliang Wang, Deshan Zhang, Qi Mou
  • Patent number: 11647250
    Abstract: An illustrative user interface (UI) remote streaming system obtains a UI dataset defining a user-customized UI that provides a client device access to multi-access edge computing (MEC) resources associated with data migration operations to be performed on tagged data resource of a plurality of data resources. Based on the UI dataset, the system streams data to and from the client device to direct the client device to present the user-customized UI to a user. When the system detects that a previously untagged data resource of the plurality of data resources becomes tagged by the user as data is streaming to and from the client device, the system changes a set of UI elements included within the user-customized UI to add an additional UI element for the newly tagged data resource. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Carl L. Keifer, III
  • Patent number: 11647232
    Abstract: According to an image coding method according to embodiments of the present document, information related to in-loop filtering may be efficiently signaled, and repetitive procedures for signaling subpicture-related information may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11647162
    Abstract: An entry device includes an entry port, a filter connected to the entry port, a plurality of first output ports, and a plurality of second output ports. A first path extends from the entry port, through the filter, to the first output ports. The first path is configured to pass cable television (CATV) signals therethrough and to prevent at least a portion of multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) signals from passing therethrough. A second path extends from the entry port, through the filter, to the second output ports. The second path is configured to prevent at least a portion of the CATV signals and at least a portion of the MoCA signals from passing therethrough. A third path extends from the first output ports, through the filter, to the second output ports. The third path is configured to pass the MoCA signals therethrough and to prevent at least a portion of the CATV signals from passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Bailey, Yan Li, Chad Wells
  • Patent number: 11647238
    Abstract: According to examples, a system for generating and delivering enhanced content utilizing remote rendering and data streaming is described. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to transmit a selected engagement content item for transmission to a user device and receive an indication of interest relating to the selected engagement content item. The processor, when executing the instructions, may then select, based on the received indication of interest, an enhanced content item, process the enhanced to content item to generate a stream of content data associated with the enhanced content item and transmit the stream of content data associated with the enhanced content item to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
    Inventors: Rakesh Ravuru, Brian Fox, Keenan Christopher Pridmore, Miguel Angel Perez, Xin Zhou, Adetunji Toritseju Olojede, Kyle Scot Shank, Robert Thomas Moakler, Nikhil Girish Nawathe, Lara Jessamine Andrews, Tatiana Borrell Peck, Rotem Druker, Siqi Huang, Siyi Wang, Hoang Viet Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11641507
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for determining channel information are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: associating with a local area network; detecting at least one media device on the local area network; determining device information associated with the at least one media device on the local area network; determining, without user intervention, television provider information based on the device information; determining location information of the at least one media device; determining channel information based on the determined television provider information and the determined location information; and causing media guidance information to be presented that includes at least a portion of the determined channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich
  • Patent number: 11638066
    Abstract: A method and device for encapsulating media data into a media file and parsing a media file. The method comprising according to one of its aspects: including, in the media file, a first track comprising media samples, each media sample contains a set of one or more NAL units; including, in the media file, a second track comprising an extractor, the extractor is a structure referencing a data entity in a media sample contained in the first track; and including, in the extractor, a copy mode attribute that identifies, in the media sample, the referenced data entity relatively to one or more NAL units contained in the media sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Franck Denoual, Naël Ouedraogo, Frédéric Maze, Jean Le Feuvre
  • Patent number: 11627010
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support switching of virtual cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Santhana Chari, Mircea Orban, David E. Virag