78results about "Analogue secracy/subscription systems" patented technology

The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods and apparatuses. One example method includes obtaining a video signal, where the video signal includes a vertical synchronization signal, a horizontal synchronization signal, a pixel clock signal, a display enable signal, and a video data signal, obtaining active video data in the video data signal based on the pixel clock signal and the display enable signal, encapsulating a vertical blanking packet based on the vertical synchronization signal, encapsulating a horizontal blanking packet based on the horizontal synchronization signal, encapsulating an active video packet based on the active video data, and multiplexing the vertical blanking packet, the horizontal blanking packet, and the active video packet into a video stream for sending.

An example system and method may provide a media channel rewards application with live polling. An example system may measure a viewing period of the media stream, determine a quantity of digital points respective to a user profile and the media stream based on the measured viewing period, and store a digital record associated with the user profile and the media channel, which digital record indicates the quantity of digital points. In some instances, the system may generate a graphical overlay for a media stream of a media channel and provide a graphical interface in the overlay based on the quantity of digital points associated with the user profile and the media stream.

The invention discloses an electronic scale real-time tamper-proofing method and system based on cloud monitoring and data networking, and relates to the technical field of electronic scale tamper-proofing, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the real-time collection and networking synchronization of multi-source data, collecting commodity and operation data through a multispectral camera, and achieving the dynamic networking of more than or equal to three electronic scales within 10 meters through a LoRa module; multi-scale cooperative verification and abnormity determination are carried out; generating a holographic evidence packet, encrypting fragments, and separately storing a weight curve, an action video and a spectrum report in a private chain, an alliance chain and a judicial chain; real-time tamper-proof response is carried out, an abnormal scale is locked, and hardware self-destruction is triggered; the system comprises a terminal layer multispectral sensing unit, a cooperative verification unit, a tamper-proof unit, an edge layer dynamic weight engine, a cloud layer holographic block chain and an anti-coercion interface, solves the problems that distributed cheating is difficult to identify, and an evidence collection chain is incomplete, improves the safety of distributed cheating identification, and improves the safety of distributed cheating identification. Real-time tampering prevention and credible evidence storage of the electronic scale are realized.

A computer-implemented process of altering original data in a dataset, in which original data is anonymised and a digital watermark is included in the anonymised data. Anonymising the original data incurs information loss, and the process of including the digital watermark does not add significant further information loss. The original data can be a tabular file, a relational or a non-relational database, or the results of interactive database queries. Anonymising the data is achieved using one or more techniques that perturb the original data, such as tokenisation, generalisation; data blurring, synthetic record insertion, record removal or re-ordering.

An interactive communication apparatus, which connects to a computer, comprises an interactive communication device, having a tag, that is removably placed on or adjacent to an interactive communication device holder, having a sensor, wherein the tag communicates information to the sensor. The interactive communication system enables a user to transfer, store or retrieve information about and / or to a person that is identified with that interactive communication device. Once the interactive communication device is placed on or adjacent to the interactive communication device holder, certain communication applications, which include, photo slideshow, chat, e-mails, music, videos, and RSS feed, launch. The user can terminate the applications by removing the interactive communication device from the interactive communication device holder. The user can access content related to a new person by placing another interactive communication device, that corresponds to the new person, on or adjacent to the interactive communication device holder.

A method including: populating an encoding ladder with a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs, from a set of bitrate-resolution pairs, based on a distribution of audience bandwidths; receiving a first request for a first playback segment, at a first bitrate-resolution pair in a encoding ladder, in the video from a first device; in response to determining an absence of video segments, at the first bitrate-resolution pair and corresponding to the segment, in a first rendition cache: identifying a first set of mezzanine segments, in the video, corresponding to the first playback segment; assigning the first set of mezzanine segments to a set of workers for transcoding into a first set of video segments according to the first bitrate-resolution pair; storing the first set of video segments in the first rendition cache; and based on the first request, releasing the first set of video segments to the first device.

Advertisements in broadcast television programming are digitally replaced with different ads prior to viewing. Replacement can occur in time and / or place shifted content, and can be used to promote a particular advertisement that the viewer has not yet seen, thereby improving the reach of the ad without oversaturation. Data reporting by the playback devices is collected in a database of viewed ads. The information in the database can be used to refresh previously-viewed ads, to increase saturation of particular ads, to replace previously-broadcast but no longer relevant ads, or for other purposes as desired.

A method features receiving a data stream (DS) having video and audio data; detecting a specific position within the DS classified by a predefined criterion (PC) and received by user's clients matching the PC; connecting the receiver not matching the PC with a client-server system matching the PC; receiving the DS by the client-server system and forwarding it to the receiver; extracting the video data and the audio data from the DS stream; creating a screenshot out of the video data and an associated timestamp; feeding the screenshot to an AI-system trained to detect whether it belongs to a predefined category; generating audio data corresponding with the screenshot and analyzing it for detecting whether it belongs to the predefined category; and if both the screenshot and the audio data generated / analyzed belong to the predefined category, then deciding that the associated timestamp for the screenshot defines the specific position.

A media generation system and method for user generated content for social media.

Systems and methods for generating a notification when activity exceeds an authorization level are provided. A determination is made as to whether content currently being presented to a first user exceeds an authorization level associated with the first user. In response to determining that the content exceeds the authorization level, the content being presented is monitored to determine whether the content meets a criterion. An amount of time the content being presented meets the criterion is measured. In response to determining that the amount of time exceeds a threshold, a communication is transmitted to a second user indicating that the content currently being presented to the first user exceeds the authorization level.

The present application provides a scrambling device and a scrambling method. The scrambling device includes a data acquisition module, a judging module, a first scrambling module, a second scrambling module and an output module. The judging module judges data signals and transmits different data signals to the corresponding scrambling modules, so as to scramble the data signals, and finally obtain required output signals, thereby effectively increasing a scrambling rate of the scrambling device.

A digital display device (Disp3a, Disp3b) comprising: - a digital screen (Ecr); - a first receiver (Rec1) able to receive a first piece of content via a first communication channel; - a second receiver (Rec2) able to receive a message via a second communication channel; - a first player (Lec1) able to play, on the digital screen, the first piece of content received via the first communication channel; a switch (Comm) configured to deactivate playing of the first piece of content by the first player, upon receipt of the message by the second receiver.

Systems, devices, and methods for tracking reward associated with content consumption are provided. An example method includes receiving streaming content of at least one content item from a content provider, outputting, via an application being executed on the streaming device, streaming content to a display for playback of the output content, periodically generating a plurality of heartbeat messages during execution of the application. Each heartbeat message is timestamped and includes a header containing information about the at least one content item, and one or more entries indicating a current playback state regarding the output of the streaming content when the heartbeat message is generated. The method further includes transmitting the plurality of heartbeat messages to a user engagement tracking device connected to the user device and receiving a notification indicating a total duration of content output to the display during execution of the application.

A media generation system and method that provides product placement.

This application relates to the field of audio / video processing technologies, and discloses a signal transmission method and apparatus, to reduce a transmission delay of a video signal, and reduce costs and power consumption of a video signal sending device and a video signal receiving device. The method includes: obtaining a video signal, where the video signal includes a vertical synchronization signal, a horizontal synchronization signal, a pixel clock signal, a display enable signal, and a video data signal; obtaining active video data in the video data signal based on the pixel clock signal and the display enable signal; encapsulating a vertical blanking packet based on the vertical synchronization signal, encapsulating a horizontal blanking packet based on the horizontal synchronization signal, and encapsulating an active video packet based on the active video data; and multiplexing the vertical blanking packet, the horizontal blanking packet, and the active video packet into a video stream for sending.

Infotainment system (100, 200, 300) for a motor vehicle, the system comprising: a navigation system (202); an entertainment system (110, 204); an audio output device (108, 206); and a control system (102) coupled to the navigation system (202), the entertainment system (110, 204), and the audio output device (108, 206), controlling access to the audio output device (108, 206) by the navigation system (202) and the entertainment system (110, 204), comprising a call detection device (212) that determines whether a call is being conducted, alters the operation of the audio output device (108, 206) if a call is being conducted, and alters the operation of the audio output device (108, 206) by delaying the playback of a navigation announcement on the audio output device (108, 206) during at least a portion of the call by delaying the navigation announcement for a portion of the call until a location-based limit is reached at which the motor vehicle has reached a specified minimum distance before a corresponding driver action should be taken,The navigation announcement is preceded by an introduction if the call is interrupted by the navigation announcement.

An exemplary system and method are disclosed that provide the private querying of a biometric scan, such as a person's photo, against a private database such that the client issuing the private query learns only the identity of the query if it is in the database while the server performing the processing learns nothing of the biometric scan. The exemplary system and method conduct privacy-preserving searches over fuzzy databases via a fuzzy labeled set intersection (FLPSI) protocol. FLPSI protocol computes an intersection of noisy input sets to assess for closeness / similarity metrics in an efficient and optimized search.

To smoothly complete a switching operation of switching video contents transmitted via broadcast waves to video contents distributed via a network, without causing inconveniences due to differences between the contents transmission and the distribution service of the contents for viewers.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a server system and a television receiver for switching a video content transmitted via broadcast waves to a video content distributed via a network when the video contents transmitted via broadcast waves become impossible to receive. The server system is denoted as a television gateway. Metadata provided by the television gateway provides a locally limited viewing function and measurement of the intensity of electric fields of the broadcast waves automates switching. Automatically transferring the reception contract from broadcasting to network distributions allows completion of a smooth switching operation without causing inconveniences for viewers.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A digital display device (Di sp3a, Di sp3b), comprising:-a digital screen (Ecr); -a first receiver (Rec1) capable of receiving the first content via the first communication channel; -a second receiver (Rec2) capable of receiving messages via a second communication channel; -a first player (Lec1) capable of playing the first content received through the first communication channel on a digital screen; and a switch (Comm) configured to stop playing of the first content by the first player when the message is received by the second receiver.

An image processing device (100) includes a camera (20) mounted on a vehicle to capture an image around the vehicle, a marker detector (112) to carry out an edge detection process on the image to detect corner markers (200) on one end of a parking frame (270), a provisional parking frame setting part (113) to set a provisional parking frame (260) based on the detected corner markers on the one end, and a parking frame identifying part (114) to identify the parking frame (270). The marker detector (112) detects corner markers (300) on the other end of the parking frame (270) in directions along sidelines (263, 264) of the provisional parking frame (260), and the parking frame identifying part (114) identifies the parking frame (270) based on the corner markers (200) on the one end and the corner markers (300) on the other end.

In an example, a device may include logic to receive a plurality of video frames from a video source, logic to process the plurality of video frames, logic to provide at least some of the plurality of video frames to a video sink, and logic to reduce a display latency of each of the video frames provided to the video sink by changing the frame rate of some or all of the frames.

A media generation system and method with dynamic content personalization.

A method of reproducing audio content between a main terminal including a first speaker and a plurality of subsidiary terminals including a second speaker. Device specific identification (ID) information of the subsidiary terminals and association information for transmitting one of the audio data of the audio content to one of the subsidiary terminals are stored. The association information defines that one of the audio data of the audio content is associated with one of the device specific ID information. The subsidiary terminals transmit / receive with the main terminal and the device specific ID information is transmitted from the subsidiary terminals to the main terminal when connecting to the main terminal. The encoded audio data of the audio content is transmitted to the subsidiary terminals based on the association information, then is decoded and the subsidiary terminals output the audio data to the second speaker.

A method of reproducing audio content between a main terminal including a first speaker and a plurality of subsidiary terminals including a second speaker. Device specific identification (ID) information of the subsidiary terminals and association information for transmitting one of the audio data of the audio content to one of the subsidiary terminals are stored. The association information defines that one of the audio data of the audio content is associated with one of the device specific ID information. The subsidiary terminals transmit / receive with the main terminal and the device specific ID information is transmitted from the subsidiary terminals to the main terminal when connecting to the main terminal. The encoded audio data of the audio content is transmitted to the subsidiary terminals based on the association information, then is decoded and the subsidiary terminals output the audio data to the second speaker.

The invention discloses an integrated intelligent monitoring device and method. The device comprises a functional assembly, a box body and a height-adjustable frame structure arranged on the box body, the functional assembly at least comprises a sensor assembly, an image acquisition assembly, a display assembly and a battery assembly; a plurality of first connecting assemblies matched with various types of sensor assemblies are uniformly distributed on the frame structure; the frame structure is also provided with a second connecting assembly matched with the image acquisition assembly; the frame structure is further provided with a third connecting assembly matched with the display assembly. A plurality of assembly containing grooves are formed in the box body, and a detachable battery assembly is arranged at the position, below the gravity center, in the box body. And an angle-adjustable solar photovoltaic panel is embedded in the surface of the box body. According to the integrated intelligent monitoring device provided by the embodiment of the invention, each functional assembly and two power generation modes are integrated on one portable box body, so that the monitoring effect on the construction operation environment is comprehensively improved.

To smoothly switch a video content transmitted by a broadcast wave to a video content distributed by a network without inconveniencing a user viewer caused by a difference between the transmission of the content and the distribution service.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a server system and a television receiver that switch to a video content distributed over a network when a video content transmitted by broadcast waves cannot be received. The server system according to the present invention is called a television gateway, and provides a region-limited viewing function by metadata provided by the television gateway, and furthermore, by measuring the electric field strength of the broadcast wave, the switching is automated. In addition, by automatically inheriting the reception contract for broadcasting to the distribution by the network, the disconnection operation is completed smoothly without causing any inconvenience to viewers.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Example methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for generating media presentation information includes a comparator to periodically output a value indicative of whether media selected via a set-top box is presented at a media presentation location by comparing a first audio signal associated with the media to ambient audio received in the media presentation location via an audio system associated with a media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a privacy protector to facilitate operation of the comparator by periodically preventing the comparator from receiving of the ambient audio. The example apparatus also includes a metering module to record presentation of the media based on the output.

A computing system receives at least one first image of a first device affixed to a structure above ground. The computing system determines that the at least one first image depicts a CATV tap comprising a plurality of coaxial connectors. The computing system determines, based in part on the at least one first image and a set of coaxial cables, each coaxial cable connected to a coaxial connector of the plurality of coaxial connectors, that a use status of the CATV tap is an authorized use status or an unauthorized use status. The computing system performs an action based on the use status.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes storing, in a data structure, data specifying a future live event. An opportunity to provide the specified content to a user at a user device is identified. It is determined that (i) a time of the opportunity is between a start time and an end time for the live event, (ii) that a user device is located in a same geographic region as the live event based on geographical data provided by the user device, and (iii) the user is interested in the live event based on attributes of the user matching attributes of other users that were identified as interested in the live event (e.g., based on evaluation of online search data). The content is provided for display at the user device.

A piece of equipment having a specialized Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). While there is external power supplied to the piece of equipment, a main power supply continuously supplies the entirety of the piece of equipment with a particular amount of power. The internal UPS supplies power to either the entirety of equipment or a proper subset of subcomponents within the piece of equipment when the piece of equipment is not supplied external power. The energy storage element of the internal UPS supplies power for a duration no longer than one minute and consists of one or more capacitors and not a battery. The amount of power supplied to subcomponents not in the proper subset of subcomponents is reduced while maintaining to supply the proper subset of subcomponents with the particular amount of power to conserve an amount of power remaining in the energy storage element.