Patents by Inventor Frank Fritz Heider

Frank Fritz Heider has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8392946
    Abstract: A method of recommending local and remote content, comprising: receiving, at a television apparatus, a first set of content items and linking information linking each of the content items of the first set to a respective subset of the first set; providing a second set of further content items, the content items of the second set being locally available at the television apparatus; and determining for each content item in a unified set including the first and second sets further linking information linking the content item to a further subset from the unified set; wherein for a certain content item of the first set, the further subset is determined by adding content items of the second set to the respective subset of the certain content item, the content items added being determined by comparing meta data associated with the certain content item with meta data respectively associated with all content items of the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Ruediger Hnyk, Frank Fritz Heider, Tassilo Volker Raesig, Jose Alexandre Simoes Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20100293577
    Abstract: A method of content retrieval, comprising: providing a set of content items; determining, for each content item in the set, a subset from the set of content items, wherein the subset for a certain content item of the set is determined by comparing only meta data associated with the certain content item with meta data respectively associated with each of all other content items of the set; selecting, by a user of a television apparatus, a content item out of the set of content items as a seed item; executing a recursive or iterative process until one of the content items of the set is determined by the user as a content item for consuming, the process comprising: displaying the respective subset of the seed item at a display in connection with the television apparatus, each of the content items of the respective subset being represented by a respective image; and selecting, by the user, a further content item of the respective subset displayed as the seed item or as a content item for consuming; and displaying
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Ruediger HNYK, Frank Fritz Heider, Tassilo Volker Raesig, Jose Alexandre Simoes Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20100293576
    Abstract: A method of recommending local and remote content, comprising: receiving, at a television apparatus, a first set of content items and linking information linking each of the content items of the first set to a respective subset of the first set; providing a second set of further content items, the content items of the second set being locally available at the television apparatus; and determining for each content item in a unified set including the first and second sets further linking information linking the content item to a further subset from the unified set; wherein for a certain content item of the first set, the further subset is determined by adding content items of the second set to the respective subset of the certain content item, the content items added being determined by comparing meta data associated with the certain content item with meta data respectively associated with all content items of the second set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Ruediger HNYK, Frank Fritz Heider, Tassilo Volker Raesig, Jose Alexandre Simoes Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20100265400
    Abstract: A method of operating a receiver, comprising: determining a location of the receiver by analyzing a broadcast signal received by the receiver, determining information for a user, the information being dependent on the determined location, and presenting the information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LTD.
    Inventor: Frank Fritz HEIDER
  • Publication number: 20100251318
    Abstract: A method of providing information, comprising: capturing, at a first receiver receiving a television broadcast signal, a live image of a television channel of the television broadcast signal; transmitting the captured live image from the first receiver to a server, the server being remotely located from the first receiver; transmitting the captured live image from the server to a second receiver; and displaying the captured live image together with information associated with the television channel at the second receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
    Inventors: Jose Alexandre SIMOES RODRIGUES, Tassilo Volker Raesig, Frank Fritz Heider, Ruediger Hnyk