Patents by Inventor Jiska Margriet De Wit

Jiska Margriet De Wit 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).

  • Method and apparatus for providing a user interface
    Patent number: 8850486
    Abstract: When the user views the information available on a program (in a Personal Video Recorder), the keywords that determine whether a program will be recorded are accentuated. This can be done by using the size of the text or by using colors or any other kind of varying accentuation i.e. encircled or blinking text. This makes it easy for the user to identify the keywords used in their personalized profile. Additionally the user can navigate between keywords and change the accentuation of the keywords, to indicate a rating (in multiple levels) of the keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Jiska Margriet De Wit, Jeroen Ronald Johannes Van Der Putten, Wee Keng Koh, Gerhardus Engbertus Mekenkamp, Alexis Stephen Richard Ashley
  • System for sharing human perceptual signals between electronic devices
    Patent number: 7590385
    Abstract: A consumer electronics device makes content available and include a control unit and a transmitter. The control unit is able to create a representation of a human perceptual signal and instruct the transmitter to broadcast the representation. The device is able to access new content via a receiver. The control unit uses the receiver to receive representations of multiple further human perceptual signals and generate a human perceptual signal from these multiple representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Jiska Margriet De Wit, Kyriakos Mama, Jeremy John Wright
  • Method and apparatus for providing a user interface
    Publication number: 20040172388
    Abstract: When the user views the information available on a program (in a Personal Video Recorder), the keywords that determine whether a program will be recorded are accentuated. This can be done by using the size of the text or by using colors or any other kind of varying accentuation i.e. encircled or blinking text. This makes it easy for the user to identify the keywords used in their personalized profile. Additionally the user can navigate between keywords and change the accentuation of the keywords, to indicate a rating (in multiple levels) of the keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Jiska Margriet De Wit, Jeroen Ronald Johannes Van Der Putten, Wee Keng Koh, Gerhardus Engbertus Mekenkamp, Alexis Stephen Richard Ashley
  • System with improved user interface
    Publication number: 20030041327
    Abstract: A system with an improved user interface for managing a collection (201) of content items such as television programs. The system manages three types of content: recorded content items (501), content items scheduled for recording (601), and content items (701) that have not been recorded and are not scheduled for recording either. These three types are managed using separate user interface layers: a browse layer (500), a discovery layer (600), and a wish layer (700) respectively. Additionally, a watch layer (400) is provided as an entry to the system. This layer (400) allows managing of content using the concept of a personal channel (401).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Philip Steven Newton, Wilhelmus Henrica Gerarda Maria Van Den Boomen, Andrew James Hickman, Johannes Antonius Jansen, Wee Keng Koh, Jeroen Ronald Johannes Van Der Putten, Jiska Margriet De Wit, Gerhardus Engbertus Mekenkamp