Abstract: A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. The set-top box receives trajectory data from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device, which represents motion-based commands provided by a user. The set-top box evaluates the trajectory data and sends a command signal to the television.

Abstract: A commercial television-interfacing dongle and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, memory, a control interface, and a universal serial bus (USB) interface. The control interface and the USB interface connect to the commercial television. The commercial television interfacing dongle may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display and receive and process virtual remote control functionality input instructions from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device. Following receipt and processing of the virtual remote control functionality input instructions, the commercial television-interfacing dongle sends a command to the commercial television via a commercial television control protocol.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting an interactive content item matching a user-selected category to a user for a desired duration. A user selects a category and selects a first interactive content item on a media system. The system calculates a total duration of a storyline from the selected interactive content item that matches the selected category (e.g., a genre “comedy”) and compares the calculated duration to a desired predetermined duration for which the user wishes to watch the selected show. If the system determines, for instance, that the total duration of the selected storyline is less than the predetermined duration, the system identifies scenes from another show and interleaves them with scenes from the first interactive content item to generate a combined interactive content item that satisfies the user viewing preferences.

Abstract: Provided is a device including: a controller configured to obtain illumination information about illumination around the device, determine, based on the illumination information, a thickness of an outline of an object included in content reproduced by the device, and perform image processing on the content such that the outline of the object is represented as having the determined thickness; and a display displaying the content on which the image processing is performed.

Abstract: An example system is configured to (i) cause a client station to operate in a first mode in which the client station is configured for playback of a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system associated with a cloud-based media service, (ii) cause a zone player to take over playback responsibility for the remote playback queue, (iii) cause the zone player to (a) communicate with the cloud-based computing system to obtain data identifying a next one or more media items in the remote playback queue, (b) use the obtained data to retrieve at least one media item in the remote playback queue from the cloud-based media service, and (c) play back the retrieved at least one media item, and (iv) cause the client station to transition from the first mode to a second mode in which the client station is configured to control the zone player's playback of the remote playback queue.

Abstract: A method and mobile terminal for processing data are disclosed. The method can include displaying a live streaming page, the live streaming page including a file sharing interface for guiding an anchor to select a file for sharing during live streaming; displaying a file list in the case that the file sharing interface is triggered; acquiring a target file selected from the file list; generating second live streaming data based on the target file, and displaying first live streaming data and the second live streaming data on the live streaming page; and synchronizing the first live streaming data and the second live streaming data to a second mobile terminal, wherein the first live streaming data is acquired by a camera of the first mobile terminal, and the second mobile terminal is an audience terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to media systems configured to receive and play live media content. In particular, methods and systems are provided for a multi-screen content playback experience for time shifted live stream content. Systems and methods are provided herein for generating for display a catch-up video (e.g., a segment of a live stream stored as URLs on a local device during the time the live stream was interrupted) in a picture-in-picture (PIP) window, and generating the PIP catch-up window and the live window for simultaneous display.

Abstract: Systems and methods for rewinding a video to a point before the video was first viewed. Video transmitted by a media source is cached by a remote server. Upon a trick-play request for the video, the server generates a rewind stream that includes the video that was transmitted by the media source before the user started to view the video. Upon receiving the rewind stream, the user's equipment may cache the rewind stream in a rewind buffer and rewind or play from the rewind buffer. The server may also generate and transmit a forward stream of the video that the media source has not yet transmitted. The user's equipment may cache the forward stream in a forward buffer. To perform trick-play operations with the video, the user's equipment may migrate the playback of the video to the rewind and forward buffers and rewind or fast-forward the video from the buffers.

Abstract: Techniques for efficiently detecting similarity among electronic content items are provided. A vector is generated for each of multiple content items and is used to assign its corresponding content item to a group among multiple groups. A set of content items that is assigned to a particular group of the plurality of groups is identified. For each pair of content items in the set, a similarity score is generated and used to determine whether to classify the pair as similar to each other. Similarity data is updated if to identify the pair if it is determined to classify the pair of content items as similar to each other. The similarity data associates a first content item with a second content item. The second content item is prevented from being presented to a particular user for a period of time after the first content item is presented to the particular user.

Abstract: An optical apparatus comprises an illumination module (100) comprising a carrier (110), which has at least one light-transmissive region (112), for example. The illumination module (100) comprises a plurality of light sources (111), which are arranged on the carrier (110).

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to categorize audience members by age. An example apparatus includes memory including instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to split audience member records from an initial node into child nodes based on comparisons of attribute-value pairs of the audience member records to a first value threshold, the attribute-value pairs representative of database subscriber activity data of audience members subscribed to a database proprietor, designate a first child node of the child nodes as a terminal node when a quantity of the audience member records of the first child node of the child nodes does not satisfy a minimum leaf size, generate an age-correction model based on the terminal node, and correct, based on the age-correction model, the age characteristic associated with the media impression, the media impression indicative of a person exposed to media presented by a media presentation device.

Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes analyzing, by a hardware processor, one or more images to determine cognitive characteristics related to the one or more images and to a user. The method further includes forming, by the hardware processor, a composable template relating to the cognitive characteristics. The method also includes performing, by the hardware processor or another hardware processor, an amelioration action with respect to a displaying on a display device of at least one image from the one or more images, based on the composable template. The amelioration action is selected from a set of amelioration actions that include transmitting the at least one image to the disturbing image repository.

Abstract: Techniques for modifying training data for video response quality optimization are provided. In one technique, training data is identified that is generated based on video presentation data that indicates multiple video items were presented to multiple entities. The training data comprises multiple training instances, each indicating a presentation of at least a portion of a video item to an entity. For each training instance in a subset of the training instances, a quality metric of the presentation of the video item indicated in said each training instance is computed and that training instance is modified based on the quality metric. After modifying one or more of the training instances, the model is trained using one or more machine learning techniques. In response to a content request, the model is used to determine whether to transmit a particular video item over a network to a computing device of a particular entity.

Abstract: Graphical descriptor data associated with a particular video asset may include data for one or more graphical descriptor images and graphical descriptor metadata related to each graphical descriptor image. The graphical descriptor images can be simultaneously presented on a display screen with the video asset content and used to navigate to different content in that video asset. The graphical descriptors can also be used to navigate to content of one or more different assets.

Abstract: An eye tracking device and an eye tracking method applied to video glasses, and video glasses are provided. The eye tracking device includes a light source component, a reflection component, an image sensor component and a main control component. The light source component is configured to emit invisible light to an eyeball, the reflection component is configured to reflect the invisible light reflected by the eyeball, the image sensor component is configured to generate an image of the eyeball based on the invisible light reflected by the reflection component, and the main control component is coupled to the image sensor component and is configured to acquire a gaze direction based on the image of the eyeball.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for displaying content associated with a video element of a video are provided. For example, a video may comprise video elements (e.g., pixels of frames of the video depicting an entity such as a car, an actor, a monument, etc.) that are tagged with content tags (e.g., a textual string such as a search query used to obtain content from content providers). When a user interacts with the video element (e.g., a touch gesture, such as a pressure sensitive gesture, on a video element depicting the actor), content associated with a content tag used to tag the video element may be retrieved (e.g., an image, a social network profile, search results, and/or other content associated with the actor). In this way, the content may be provided to the user for further action or learning about the entity depicted by the video element.

Abstract: Visual information defining visual content may be accessed. The visual content may include one or more views of one or more scenes. The scene(s) may include one or more human subjects. Gaze directions of the human subject(s) may be determined. The gaze directions may indicate one or more viewing directions in which the human subject(s) are looking. One or more directions of view for the visual content may be determined based on the gaze directions of the human subject(s). The direction(s) of view may include one or more of the viewing directions looked at by the human subject(s). The visual content may be presented on a display based on the direction(s) of view for the visual content.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for using one or more stereoscopic devices for gesture control and tracking in a head mounted display (HMD). Each of the one or more stereoscopic devices may include a pair of dynamic vision sensors (DVS) arranged to have complementary fields of view (FOV) to detect one or more of a leading and a trailing edge of an object moving in a range or area to be detected. The DVS sensors determine how the object is moving based on a change in light intensity of pixels without having to detect, transfer, or process all of the pixels. The system and method may thereby provide motion tracking and gesture control functions at very low latency and processing bandwidth.

Abstract: A television and system and method for providing a remote control device are disclosed. In one embodiment of the television, the television includes a processor, a memory, a tuner, a panel, and an audio driver therein in an interconnected architecture. The television may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device, such as a proximate wireless-enabled interactive handheld device having a touch screen display, whereby formatted parallel audiovisual experience instructions, including virtual buttons, may be transmitted to the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device for display on the touch screen display to create an experience parallel to the experience on the television. The television receives and processes virtual remote control functionality input instructions from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device to control amenities associated with the television.

Abstract: A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Content, such music, for example, may be imported from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device and provided to the television. While the music is playing, the set-top box may generate and provide to the television a control signal that includes instructions to adjust the brightness of the television by dimming the television.