Including Teletext Decoder Or Display Patents (Class 348/468)
  • Patent number: 9591283
    Abstract: A master encoder obtains in time series one of divided images obtained by dividing an original image into a plurality of sections, obtains identification time for identification of the divided image obtained in time series, and notifies the slave encoder of the identification time, encodes the obtained divided image and generate an encoded divided image, and generates encoding transmission information including in time series encoding information including the encoded divided image and the identification time, and transmits the encoding information. A slave encoder obtains in time series any other than the one of divided image, obtains the identification time set for identification of the divided image from the master encoder, encodes the obtained divided image and generate an encoded divided image, and generates encoding transmission information including in time series encoding information including the encoded divided image and the identification time, and transmit the encoding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Noriyuki Ihara
  • Patent number: 9576581
    Abstract: A method for the real-time metatagging and captioning of an event. The method for the real-time metatagging and captioning of an event may include embedding metatag information in a caption file provided by a captioner. The embedded metatag information may allow a user to access additional information via the text of the captioned event. The metatag information may be embedded using a captioning device that creates both the text code and embeds the metatag code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CAPTION COLORADO LLC
    Inventors: Richard T. Polumbus, Troy A. Greenwood
  • Patent number: 9565462
    Abstract: A method and concomitant computer software and system for buffering data and transmitting the buffered data after an event occurs comprising storing data into a continuous loop buffer and transmitting data from the loop buffer to an end location after an event trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SportXast, LLC
    Inventors: Molly Cernicek, Michael Ham
  • Patent number: 9529496
    Abstract: A display control device includes an operation-display unit and a controller. The operation-display unit hierarchically displays multiple functions using multiple screens and accepts an operation performed through an approach or touch of an object. The controller performs control so that, when the object approaches a function displayed on an original screen, a next screen associated with the function selected as a result of the approach of the object is temporarily displayed using a display mode corresponding to a relationship between the original screen and the next screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Sano
  • Patent number: 9497499
    Abstract: A method for remotely outputting audio in a display apparatus includes outputting Audio/Visual (AV) data, if a command to remotely output audio is input while the AV data is being output, stopping outputting audio of the AV data while outputting video of the AV data, and transmitting at least one of compressed audio data separated from the AV data and information regarding a time when transmission of the compressed audio data starts to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woo-yong Chang, Seung-dong Yu, Se-jun Park, Min-jeong Moon
  • Patent number: 9485535
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods provide an automatic capability for generating interactivity event applications for execution on receiver devices within a broadcast network based upon interactivity event application data, information and sequence logic. Interactivity event content providers may provide to a broadcast network interactivity event application data, event metadata information and sequence logic a broadcast network. Interactivity resources for interactivity sequences associated with one or more real-time channels are broadcast over the broadcast network such that the resources share a file data flow, or such that they can be carried on separate file data flows. File data flow identifiers and overhead flow identifiers are indicated in the Service SI. Interactivity signaling messages for interactivity sequences associated with one or more real times channels are broadcast on auxiliary flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Binita Gupta, Prasanna Kannan, Carlos M. D. Pazos, Eitan Pilipski, Suryanarayana C. Chittuluri
  • Patent number: 9460090
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method of recognizing a translation situation and performing a translation function, and an electronic device implementing the same. The electronic device recognizes a situation involving translation and automatically performs a translation function, thereby improving user convenience. An electronic device includes an audio module configured to receive and output audio signal, and a processor. A language translation program is executed in response to detecting that an audio signal received through the audio module includes at least a first language and a second language, a portion of the audio signal that is in the second language is translated into the first language, and the translated portion is outputted through the audio module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Lee, Chanwoo Park, Byungsoo Kim, Jiyeon Seo, Myunghwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9462345
    Abstract: A system and method in a television system for providing for user-selection of objects in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Nambirajan Seshadri
  • Patent number: 9445035
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9430115
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for generating one or more storylines of content. Tags descriptive of events in the content are generated. Based at least in part on the tags, a storyline is generated from the tags describing the related events throughout the content. Some storylines may comprise multiple tags. A user may select one or more storylines for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tiffany Yun
  • Patent number: 9426521
    Abstract: A garbled closed captioning detector analyzes closed captioning data at predetermined intervals to determine whether a metric derived from the closed-captioning data exceeds a threshold. If the metric exceeds the predetermined threshold, the closed captioning data is presumed to be garbled. For example, the metric may be the percentage of words in the closed captioning data having a desired word length observed in a particular interval compared to all words in the closed captioning data observed in the interval. If the percentage of words having a desired word length exceeds a predetermined threshold, the closed captioning data is presumed to be garbled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Miner, Kevin S. Culwell
  • Patent number: 9426479
    Abstract: Methods of preserving captioning information in an input video stream through transcoding of the input video stream include extracting caption data from the input video stream, translating the caption data into at least one output caption format, packaging the translated caption data into data packets for insertion into a video stream, synchronizing the packaged caption data with a transcoded version of the input video stream, receiving a preliminary output video stream that is a transcoded version of the input video stream, and combining the packaged caption data with the preliminary output video stream to form an output video stream. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Gary Shaffer
  • Patent number: 9405741
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for recognizing inappropriate content in an output. The offensive content may be generated as a result of a speech processing error. A system may identify the inappropriate elements of a generated output and select among different appropriate alternatives. The system may be adjusted based on certain user characteristics. The system may be localized based on language and cultural features. The system may modify the generated output based on characteristics such as the tolerance threshold of known persons in the proximity of the system. The tolerance threshold may further be used to personalize and modify available content. Models used by the system may be further trained using input from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Schaaf, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Roger Alix-Gaudreau, Remus Razvan Mois, Rafal Kuklinski, Derek Christopher Murman
  • Patent number: 9402009
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a facsimile communication unit; a mail communication unit; an outputting unit; an external power source processing unit to operate the image processing apparatus using external power supplied from an external power source; a power-storing source processing unit to operate the image processing apparatus using stored power stored in a power-storing unit; a power source detection unit to detect whether the apparatus is operated with the external power or the stored power to output a detection result; and a facsimile data output control unit to transmit, when the facsimile communication unit receives facsimile data, the facsimile data to a destination address via e-mail with the mail communication unit based on the detection result indicating that the stored power is supplied, and to output the image of the facsimile data based on the detection result indicating that the external power is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9390079
    Abstract: A voice command system may enable a user to select, replace, delete, and/or modify items of textual content associated with, or following, headings and/or subheadings of a document by providing an input including a command (or identifier) and a heading/subheading identifier. The system may recognize, via voice recognition software and in combination with a rule set, the command and the identifier. For example, the system may include rules for determining a particular heading/subheading of the document being referenced by the identifier. The system may also include rules for identifying the textual content related to the identified heading/subheading. Once the textual content is identified, the system may automatically select or delete the identified textual content, and/or place a cursor (for example, a text input cursor) in a location where the deleted textual content was previously located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: D.R. Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Evan K. Fram
  • Patent number: 9386350
    Abstract: Systems and methods are discussed for providing guidance for Internet-delivered media. In some embodiments, information on available media on the Internet is gathered. The information is associated with existing media guidance data. The associations enable a media guidance application to identify relevant online media and to display listings in a user-friendly way. A user interface for an online media guidance application is also provided. The user interface allows a user to narrow down the large amount of Internet-delivered media in a systematic way according to criteria that interests a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirsten Rasanen, Jay S. Bryant
  • Patent number: 9363157
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a script executes code on a testing device to automatically control a control device. A media player on the control device interacts with a video streaming service. The testing device receives events from the control device based on the control device being controlled by the script to perform actions. The actions performed by the control device results in the events being asynchronously sent to the testing device. The events is then stored in the event buffer. The script initiates a wait for routine that waits for a target event to occur before execution of the script can continue and receives the events from the event buffer where the events are stored in the event buffer. The script then analyzes the events to determine if the target event occurred to allow the script to continue execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Sherman Carter, Myul Ryul Jang, Dallas Stephan Mahrt
  • Patent number: 9363575
    Abstract: A system includes a client device configured to detect an initial play request for a portion of a video stream and detect a subsequent play request for the portion of the video stream. A content server coupled to the client device is configured to transmit the portion of the video stream to the client device based upon the initial play request. A closed captioning information server coupled to the client device is configured to transmit the closed captioning information to the client device based on the initial play request. The client device is configured to display the portion of the video stream and the closed captioning information based upon the subsequent play request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Wood, Wim Michels, Patrick Ellis
  • Patent number: 9324365
    Abstract: A data processor for processing a data stream having audio and video data has an input buffer for buffering the data stream; a data stream analyzer for analyzing the data stream for finding information on a plurality of language-specific content in different languages; a queuing buffer for queuing a plurality of parallel queues, each queue having only language-specific content in the same language; and a feeder for feeding a selected queue in accordance with a language selection signal to a subsequent processing stage, wherein a non-selected queue is not fed by the feeder. Also disclosed are a corresponding method for processing a data stream and a computer-readable digital storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NERO AG
    Inventor: Dieter Hametner
  • Patent number: 9313441
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9306882
    Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving an indication of an incoming communication, identifying, by a computing device, first and second portions of an image that are associated with respective first and second portions of a face of a human user, wherein the human user has been determined to be an originator of the incoming communication. The example method further includes outputting, by the computing device and for display, the first and second portions of the image that are associated with the respective first and second portions of the face of the human user, and outputting, by the computing device and for display, message content associated with the incoming communication, such that the message content as displayed at least partially overlays the second portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Faaborg, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff
  • Patent number: 9300636
    Abstract: Techniques utilizing common encryption approaches for data from multiple parties enable those parties to discover information that is held in common by the parties without disclosing to any party information that is not held in common by the parties. Encrypted information for each party can be compared to determine which encrypted values match, and those encrypted values can be returned to any of the parties such that a party can determine which corresponding data the parties have in common without having access to any other data of any other parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ACXIOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eugene William McKenna
  • Patent number: 9301006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing additional information on broadcast content, and particularly, to a method and a system for providing additional information corresponding to broadcast content displayed on a television to a separate viewer's terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: IPLATEIAKOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bong Cho, Do Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9286852
    Abstract: A method for managing wireless data communication links includes establishing first and second wireless data communication links between a host system and a wireless display adapter. The first wireless data communication link is associated with a high data rate of data traffic between the host system and the wireless display adapter, and the second wireless data communication link is associated with a low data rate of data traffic. The method further includes determining that information is to be transmitted between the host system and the wireless display adapter using the low data rate, turning off a first data radio associated with the first wireless data communication link, and transmitting the information over the second wireless data communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Andrew T. Sultenfuss, Bruce C. Montag
  • Patent number: 9282350
    Abstract: System and methods for finding and accessing desired audio content from audio content sources, including means and methods for extracting captions from a broadcast; aggregating the captions in a database; indexing the database content; searching the captions for a mention of at least one target; analyzing the results for desired content; indexing into the database to extract the desired content; thereby providing a method for quickly finding and accessing desired audio and video content from a large number of sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Inventor: Samir Abed
  • Patent number: 9268787
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors and memory detects a user input to play a media item, where the media item is associated with at least a portion of an audio track and one or more media files. The device requests the media item from a server in response to the user input and, in response to the request, receives, from the server, the one or more media files and information identifying at least the portion of the audio track. The device obtains at least the portion of the audio track based on the information identifying at least the portion of the audio track. The device also displays the one or more media files and, while displaying the one or more media files, plays back at least the portion of the audio track in synchronization with the one or more media files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: EYEGROOVE, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Snibbe, Graham McDermott, Justin Ponczec, Spencer Schoeben, Jesse Fulton
  • Patent number: 9264686
    Abstract: A method for displaying a webpage is described. The method involves receiving a broadcast stream including a program, playing the program in the broadcast stream to a viewer, displaying an icon to the viewer and receiving viewer input in response to display of the icon, pausing the playing of the program in response to receiving the viewer input, displaying a web page to the viewer in response to receiving the viewer input, and resuming the playing of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TiVo Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Barton, Kevin P. Smith, David Chamberlin, Howard D. Look
  • Patent number: 9251534
    Abstract: Inspection of over the top (OTT) content to facilitate offering non-OTT content or other content and/or services as an alternative to the OTT content is contemplated. The OTT content may be inspected at an access point configured to provide a broadband or other connection between a device consuming the OTT content and a device sourcing the content. Data packets or other signaling may be added to the OTT content at the access point in order to announce the offer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: David Hooley
  • Patent number: 9236961
    Abstract: Provided are a broadcast switching device, method and terminal for switching between broadcast modes of a terminal, and the broadcast switching device includes: a second signal broadcasting unit; a first signal broadcasting unit; a signal reception module, connected respectively to the first signal broadcasting unit and the second signal broadcasting unit, configured to receive a first signal and a second signal and receive preferentially the first signal; a parsing module configured to parse the first signal to acquire signal strength of the first signal; a determination module configured to compare the signal strength of the first signal with a preset broadcasting strength and obtain a comparison result; and a switching module configured to control the signal reception module to receive the second signal when comparison result is that the signal strength of the first signal cannot meet the preset broadcasting strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Zhu, Lei Che, Chao Wan, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 9223864
    Abstract: A composite variable duration soundtrack for a user to play while reading a text source, the soundtrack duration being defined by a soundtrack timeline. The soundtrack comprises multiple sound layers configured to play concurrently through the soundtrack timeline, each sound layer having an arrangement of one or more audio features that are configured to play at preset start times in the soundtrack timeline. At least one sound layer is adapted for modifying the preset start and stop times of its audio features to match the reading speed of a user based on a reading speed input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Booktrack Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Mark Steven Cameron, Paul Charles Cameron
  • Patent number: 9195428
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a notebook including a main display, a main graphics subsystem, and an auxiliary display subsystem, but typically not an auxiliary display, wherein the notebook is configured to display on the main display one or both of data from the auxiliary display subsystem (or a scaled or otherwise processed version of such data), and data from the main graphics subsystem. Preferably, the notebook is configured to display a scaled version of data from the auxiliary display subsystem on part of the main display's screen. Other embodiments are timing controllers and other circuitry for use in such a notebook and methods for displaying data from such a notebook's auxiliary display subsystem on all or part of the main display's screen. The notebook can include a timing control subsystem for asserting to the main display one or both of display data from the auxiliary display subsystem (or a processed version thereof) and display data from the main graphics subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Arman Toorians
  • Patent number: 9191639
    Abstract: Provided in some embodiments is a computer implemented method that includes receiving time-aligned script data including dialogue words of a script and timecodes corresponding to the dialogue words, identifying gaps between dialogue words for the insertion of video description content, wherein the gaps are identified based on the duration of pauses between timecodes of adjacent dialogue words, aligning segments of video description content with corresponding gaps in dialogue, wherein the video description content for the segments is derived from corresponding script elements of the script; and generating a script document including the aligned segments of video description content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: David A. Kuspa
  • Patent number: 9154816
    Abstract: A garbled closed captioning detector analyzes closed captioning data at predetermined intervals to determine whether a metric derived from the closed-captioning data exceeds a threshold. If the metric exceeds the predetermined threshold, the closed captioning data is presumed to be garbled. For example, the metric may be the percentage of words in the closed captioning data having a desired word length observed in a particular interval compared to all words in the closed captioning data observed in the interval. If the percentage of words having a desired word length exceeds a predetermined threshold, the closed captioning data is presumed to be garbled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Miner, Kevin S. Culwell
  • Patent number: 9137484
    Abstract: There is described a device for providing a media content item to a user, the device comprising: a media content item receiver operable to receive the media content item as a data stream, the data stream comprising identifying data which identifies the media content item; a memory operable to store user profile information associated with the user of the device; a supplementary information requester operable to transmit the identifying data which identifies the media content item, the user profile information, and a request for supplementary information related to the media content item to a server over a network; a supplementary information receiver operable to receive supplementary information related to the media content item from the server over the network, the supplementary information being determined by the server on the basis of the transmitted identifying data which identifies the media content item and the transmitted user profile information; and a supplementary information transmitter operable to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Renaud DiFrancesco, Kishor Patel, Huw Hopkins
  • Patent number: 9064270
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor, verify, and rate the performance of airings of commercials are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing received advertisement detection information associated with the advertisement, the advertisement detection information detected from a presentation of the advertisement; identifying a buy order corresponding to the presentation of the advertisement based on the advertisement detection information; determining a purchased ratings value from the buy order; comparing the purchased ratings value of the buy order to received ratings information corresponding to the presentation of the advertisement to determine whether the advertisement was presented as indicated in the buy order; and generating a performance monitoring report using the buy order and the advertisement detection information to indicate whether the ratings information is less than the purchased ratings value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: James Milton Rathburn, Laurence Blair Miller, Thomas J. Whymark, Huaiyeu Huey Yu, Hui-Tung Yang, Stephen Shindle, Jonathan Chazen, Joseph Kaminski
  • Patent number: 9060154
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9060204
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9046921
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an image receiving unit which receives a content; a display unit which displays the received content; an image pickup unit which captures images of a user; a storage unit which stores the content and at least one of the captured images of the user; and a control unit which displays a portion of the content with the at least one captured image from among the captured images of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-jin Han, Yoo-tai Kim, Jung-geun Kim, Seung-dong Yu, Jung-Ah Choi
  • Patent number: 9049476
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9036083
    Abstract: Techniques of detecting text in video are disclosed. In some embodiments, a portion of video content can be identified as having text. Text within the identified portion of the video content can be identified. A category for the identified text can be determined. In some embodiments, a determination is made as to whether the video content satisfies at least one predetermined condition, and the portion of video content is identified as having text in response to a determination that the video content satisfies the predetermined condition(s). In some embodiments, the predetermined condition(s) comprises at least one of a minimum level of clarity, a minimum level of contrast, and a minimum level of content stability across multiple frames. In some embodiments, additional information corresponding to the video content is determined based on the identified text and the determined category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Irene Zhu, Wilson Harron, Markus K. Cremer
  • Publication number: 20150131002
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jin PARK
  • Publication number: 20150131003
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Jin PARK
  • Patent number: 9030608
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9031380
    Abstract: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information used to convert the script text into a bitmap format through rendering. With this structure, the amount of data required for a subtitle and the amount of data that should be processed when a subtitle is output may be greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Man-Seok Kang, Seong-jin Moon, Kil-soo Jung, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung
  • Patent number: 9026072
    Abstract: A receiver can extract digital data from wireless radio frequency signal. The digital data contains at least two sets of compressed digital audio data each associated with a different set of audio program. One set of compressed digital audio data is delivered in a first frequency band and the other set in a second frequency band. One of the sets is stored in a memory system and the remaining set is not stored in the memory system. A user can select one of the sets of compressed digital audio data for decompression and then conversion to analog audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: Hark C Chan
  • Patent number: 9021536
    Abstract: A system and process is provided in which original video or dialog content is securely received from the content owner. Subtitle language data is derived, translated, stored and served on a separate database for synchronous playback with the content in video streaming, downloading or online TV following the activation of an option by the end user through a media player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Stream Translations, Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard E. Greenberg, Bente Cecilie Ottersen, Randi Næs
  • Patent number: 9013631
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing and displaying caption information associated with a video program are provided. The caption information is extracted from a video signal and different captions are rendered in sequence for different segments of the video program. A plurality of the different captions is blended in a form for simultaneous display superimposed on video images during one of the different segments of the video program. The different captions may be the latest caption corresponding to the current segment of video and a previous caption corresponding to a previous video segment. These different captions can be displayed such that they overlie each other and such that their opacity is different. In this manner, a viewer is able to have a prolonged period of time to read captions and can readily distinguish the current caption from the previous caption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Denis Sergeyevich Suvorov, Anton S. Korchazhinskiy, Irina Spirina
  • Publication number: 20150098018
    Abstract: Techniques for live-writing and editing closed captions are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for generating captions for a live broadcast comprising the steps of receiving audio data, the audio data corresponding to words spoken as part of the live broadcast; analyzing the audio data with speech recognition software in order to generate unedited captions; and generating edited captions from the unedited captions, wherein the edited captions reflect edits made by a user. All of these steps may be performed during the live broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
    Inventors: Michael Irving STARLING, Samuel GOLDMAN, Ellyn SHEFFIELD, Richard RAREY
  • Patent number: 9001273
    Abstract: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Park
  • Patent number: RE46159
    Abstract: Provided are a method of displaying messages in a digital home appliance and a display control method therefore. The method includes storing user setting information regarding output of messages and displaying a message based on the stored user setting information, where the user setting information is received from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hue-yin Kim, Woo-hyoung Lee