179 results about "Content production" patented technology

A license server and corresponding method are provided for managing the rights of content as it is propagates through a social network. A license server receives a distribution package from a content producer and establishes a plurality of level-licenses, one for each of n allowable levels as defined by the content producer. Level-licenses define level-rights, or access rules, based on alteration definitions and other distribution parameters provided by the content producer for each allowable level. Alteration definitions may identify degradation characteristics or augmentation files for association with the distributed digital content. Content recipients who receive encrypted copies of the distributed digital content may request a license from the license server. Upon authentication, a license and decryption key is sent to a valid content recipient to enable viewing of a form of the digital content in accordance with the level-rights predetermined by the content producer for that level of access.

An aspect of the present invention includes a method for providing electronic advertising within a retail outlet. The method includes leasing at least one electronic display to at least one retail outlet, providing a plurality of electronic advertisements to at least one processor via a network for display on the at least one electronic display, and obtaining revenue from at least one advertiser sponsoring the plurality of electronic advertisements. The advertising method can also include providing additional services including advertising sales support, advertising administrative services and advertising content production. Moreover, aspects of the electronic advertisements can be altered to increase effectiveness of the plurality of electronic advertisements that are displayed on the at least one electronic display.

The invention discloses an image identification and creation application system and method based on an intelligent mobile device platform. The system comprises an augmented reality application subsystem serving as an image content creation center of a user, virtual images are blended into a real environment by the aid of image capturing and processing capacity of a mobile device, and the images are recorded by the mobile device to generate unique creation works. AR (augmented reality) and 3D (three-dimensional) built-in images can be combined on the intelligent mobile device, novel multimedia contents are conveniently created by the user and alternately shared by the aid of a wireless internet, and the image identification and creation application system is applicable to popularize and use in the field of application of the intelligent mobile device.

An advantage of Ambisonics representation is that the reproduction of the sound field can be adapted individually to nearly any given loudspeaker position arrangement. The invention allows systematic adaptation of the playback of spatial sound field-oriented audio to its linked visible objects, by applying space warping processing as disclosed in EP 11305845.7. The reference size (or the viewing angle from a reference listening position) of the screen used in the content production is encoded and transmitted as metadata together with the content, or the decoder knows the actual size of the target screen with respect to a fixed reference screen size. The decoder warps the sound field in such a manner that all sound objects in the direction of the screen are compressed or stretched according to the ratio of the size of the target screen and the size of the reference screen.

Production of modified phenolic resin of high-boron content is carried out by reacting boric acid with carbolic acid to generate boric acid ester by two-step method, reacting boric acid ester with paraformaldehyde to obtain final product. It is simple, controllable and quantitative, has higher boron content, excellent thermal, mechanical, friction and anti-corrosive performances. It can be used for high-temperature brake friction material, anti-corrosive materials and special thermal-insulating material.

Systems and methods for automated management and compilation of advertising for a real world event depiction are provided. The system includes utilizing a presentation content production pipeline, where during the event presentation operation a set of rules for the determination of aspects of the available managed advertising is established. Additionally, the system includes the interpretation of those rules and the implementation of those interpretations establishes the managed advertising selected from the available managed advertising for inclusion in the event presentation and may also establish aspects of the implementation of the managed advertising in the event presentation. The method also establishes a set of rules for the determination of a corresponding set of analytic results during the event presentation operation. Each rule specifies at least how to form the analytic result from one or more analytic measurements. Each analytic measurement may be based on the representation of aspects within the presentation content of the advertisements measured by the analytic measurement.

Disclosed is a system configured to process content to enable tracing of at least one of a multitude of subsequent uses of content by at least one user. The system provides for: making markable content from content, iteratively marking the markable content with information such as use information; and later extracting at least one of the iteratively applied marks.

A content production apparatus and method provided for a user to produce a personal content using data collected while using a mobile terminal. The content production method includes displaying an theme selection screen listing subjects and templates associated with the subjects; displaying a content production screen including a content production window composed of a template associated with a subject selected on theme selection screen and items generated using user data; and producing content by arranging at least one of the items on the template.

The invention discloses a video recording method and a video recording device, belonging to the field of video recording. The method comprises the following steps: when a joint recording instruction for a target video is detected, determining a target joint recording mode according to video combination path quantity of the target video, wherein the joint recording mode comprises newly added jointrecording and substitution joint recording for a specified video in the target video; according to the target joint recording mode, determining at least one path of video, participating in the joint recording, in the target video; when a triggering operation of a recording instruction is detected at a video capturing page, recording local captured pictures, and obtaining a local recorded video; and according to the local recorded video and the at least one path of video, generating a joint recording video. According to the method and the device provided by the invention, by performing joint recording for multiple paths of video, the same and different users can obtain the joint recording video through performing joint recording for the local recorded video and the other videos, such videorecording mode is more flexible, richness and flexibility of content recording and content production are improved, and meanwhile, cost of content production is reduced.

An efficient, highly automated system and method of producing audio visual content which depicts a solely simulated 3D environment, or combined simulated and real 3D environment with advantages over conventional content production paradigms. The present invention produces content with the following significant advantages over conventional means of content production: vastly longer continuous durations of generated output; far lower resource costs per hour of production; far more reliable generation of content; and a far broader range of content styles due to the combination of these advantages.

The invention discloses a system for collectively processing multimedia data. The system comprises a resource database, a service support module, a service module and a service application module, wherein the resource database comprises a video / audio database, an extensive makeup language (XML) object database and a text-to-speech association module; the service support module is used for generating a functional engine for processing the resource database; the functional engine comprises a search engine for searching for matched text information in the XML object database according to search keywords submitted by a user and extracting corresponding video / audio information according to a speech characteristic quantity and a time code which are associated with a text; the service module is used for interacting with the resource database according to a programming requirement and configuring an execution task for a corresponding functional engine; and the service application module is used for showing a final service for the user. The problem of seamless joint of content storage management and rapid content production in a new media content production process can be solved effectively.

The present invention includes a method for providing different images by referring to angles of a terminal. The method includes the steps of: (a) if the angle falls under an angular range which includes 0 degree with respect to the horizontal plane, setting a content provided through the terminal to be map information, if the angle falls under an angular range which includes 90 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane, setting a content provided through the terminal to be preview image, and if the angle falls under an angular range which includes 180 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane, setting a content provided through the terminal to be weather; (b) acquiring information on the angle by using a sensor; (c) creating information on an image based on the set content; and (d) providing a user with the created information.

An integrated content production environment includes a connected services framework providing connectivity to a set of applications that produce content for the media industry. Users in their roles use the integrated environment to perform setting up, ingesting, logging, selecting, editing, reviewing, playout, distributing, and archiving activities. Notifications are dynamically triggered to users when their action is requested. The notifications may be instant messages, e-mails, voice mails, etc. Throughout the production of content, actions by both users the applications are tracked and stored in a log file for processing. The action data in the log file may include payload data from messages. When one or more applications or when one or more users of the environment have excess capacity, that capacity can be leveraged. External users can purchase or bid on the excess capacity and can then access the environment through available web services.

The current invention provides methods for 3D content capturing, 3D content coding and packaging at content production side, and 3D content consuming and rendering at display or terminal side, in order to ensure healthy and effective 3D viewing all the time. According to the current invention Maximum disparity and 3D budget which are scene dependent, are calculated, utilized for coding and embedded in the coded streams or media file, and checked against the allowable values during the content rendering, so to determine if the same 3D content can be shown to the user according to the viewing condition which the user has. In case it cannot meet healthy 3D viewing guideline, it is suggested to adjust the 3D content for its new maximum disparity and 3D budget to be within the allowable range, to achieve healthy and effective 3D viewing for that user with his / her viewing condition.

A method for content production (30) involves the steps of creating (32) a sequence of individual frames (19) from source material of step-frame / frame-advance content (181). The step-frame / frame-advance content (34) is intended to be received (35), recorded (35), and played back (36) as a sequence of individual frames (19) in step-frame / frame-advance mode, so that the content (18) is viewed (37) one individual frame (19) at a time. A content production and delivery system (10) includes a production device (11), a delivery medium (12), a recording device (14) that receives, records, and that plays back the individual frames (19) in a step-frame / frame-advance mode, and a viewing device (13). The method (30) and system (10) of the present invention enable a viewer (17) to record (35) and watch (37) step-frame / frame-advance content (181) one frame (19) at a time in the same way the viewer (17) would save, read, and re-read printed materials, including advertisement materials.

Provided is a method and program for authenticating a contents file producer, which offers a predetermined service at a mobile device side only for the contents file produced with the use of a genuine contents production tool, in a service providing a multimedia contents file for the mobile device (for example, a mobile phone). At a contents production side, encryption processing (3) is executed on contents, for example, a music source (1) using a certain hardware key (2) or secret information, to obtain a contents file (4). At the mobile device side, the contents file (4) is downloaded and is temporarily held in a file storage part (11). An inspection part (12) inspects whether the downloaded contents file has been produced with the use of the proper production tool. If it is authenticated, the contents file (4) is registered in a registration part (13), and is provided to users.

Provided are a data transmission device, a data reception device, a method for transmitting data, a method for receiving data, and a method for controlling audio-visual environment that carry out the control of peripheral devices in consistence with contents producer's intention, thereby realizing the listening / viewing of the contents with a realistic sensation. The data transmission device is comprised of a video coding unit (101), an audio coding unit (102), an audio-visual environment control data coding unit (103), an audio-visual environment control data input unit (104), a data multiplexing unit (105) and a transmission unit (106). A control designation value for the peripheral devices and producer's preference information indicative of an acceptable error range for the control designation value are inputted from the audio-visual environment control data input unit (104), as audio-visual environment control data for one or more peripheral devices in an audio-visual environmental space where video data and / or audio data are reproduced, and the control designation value and the preference information are transmitted together with the video data and / or the audio data.

The invention discloses an integrated manuscript editing system and a manuscript editing method. The system includes a task center module, a manuscript editing module and a content management servicemodule; the task center module is used for managing manuscript tasks in a unified way; the manuscript editing module is used for newly creating manuscripts according to the manuscript tasks and performing integrated editing, checking and publishing on the manuscripts; the content management service module is used for managing media contents in a unified way and providing the media contents for themanuscript editing module. The method achieves integrated manuscript editing, systematizes content production of WeChat, Micro-blog, websites and APP, and edits the manuscripts of WeChat public address, Micro-blog, websites and APP in an integrated way.

The invention discloses a system and method that are used for processing interactive information of a digital TV, which pertains to the technical field of electrical communication. An interactive digital TV content editing system that is connected with a central platform by a network is arranged at the front end of the central platform for TV content production; the production central platform provides software support for the interactive digital TV content editing system that produces an original interactive digital TV content; the editing system transmits the original interactive digital TV content to the production central platform; the production central platform carries out test, debugging and content classification to the original interactive digital TV content transmitted, and then the content of a program to be broadcasted is obtained; the production central platform transmits the content of the program to broadcasted to a television station; a television signal transmitting system in the television station transmits the content of the program to be broadcasted to a digital television signal receiving / broadcasting system of a final client end. The system and the method simplify and popularize the production of the interactive digital TV content and are beneficial to promoting the development of digital television industry.

The invention discloses a video play system of rich media content and a method thereof. The system comprises a rich media content production system used for combining a plurality of rich media elements as the rich media content comprising a control channel and a data channel, a rich media content coding system used for coding the rich media content, generating a rich media flow, and transmitting the rich media flow through a rich media content transmission network, a rich media content decoding system used for decoding the received rich media flow and restoring the rich media flow as rich media content of the data channel, and a rich media content presenting system used for receiving and parsing the rich media content of the data channel and the control channel, and playing and presenting the rich media content of the data channel and the control channel. According to the system and the method provided by the invention, a form of expression of rich media is utilized better, and a rich media application scope is expanded.

The invention discloses an all-intelligent multimedia advertisement release system, which comprises a master control management end, a central server end, an intelligent interaction client and a network connected between the ends above. The master control management end is in both-way electric connection with the central server end through the network; and the central server end is in both-way electric connection with the intelligent interaction client through the network. The all-intelligent multimedia advertisement release system, taking user experience as a target, realizes middle interaction pause, brief advertisement insertion and user interaction recovery, such that through a user-experience medium advertisement mode, advertisement revenue effect can be improved to the largest degree; the system has the advantages of improving customer experience, changing science and technology environment space and optimizing space concise combination; and the system integrates multimedia advertisement content production, advertisement release terminal interaction state control, computer network remote advertisement content distribution and multimedia intelligent interaction client terminal background auto-update, and realizes unified remote management and monitoring.

The invention discloses a hypermedia electronic book content manufacturing system. The system comprises a file importing module, a file new-creating module, a basic filing module, an action event adding module, an animation editing module, a script adding module, a file synthesis module and an electronic book preview saving module; a user imports a layout file through the file importing module, and then newly creates a file to perform the editing through the file new-creating module, performs editing and layout on the characters through the basic filing module, and then adds an event action and performs the animation editing through the action event adding module and the animation editing module, and can add a script file through the script adding module, and finally synthesizes the editedfiles into the electronic book which is saved after being previewed. The hypermedia electronic book content manufacturing system disclosed by the invention can completely manufacture the electronic book through a visual operation region for the manufacturing of the electronic book content, the coding realization is unnecessary, the system is time-saving and labor-saving, and the application rangeis large.

The invention discloses a method for extracting a wonderful shot through a shot playback feature. The method comprises the steps of collecting a video, inputting a video signal and analyzing the video signal; determining a playback shot, carrying out frame comparison on the video starting from a first frame, determining the playback shot and determining start and termination of the playback shot; and clipping the video and clipping the video between the start and termination of the playback shot as a wonderful video; and releasing the video and releasing the clipped wonderful video segment to Internet media. According to the method, through full utilization of the feature that the wonderful shot in the video usually is expressed in a slow shot playback mode, the wonderful shot is automatically extracted through a method of obtaining the start frame and termination frame of the slow shot and is released to the Internet media, abundant content is provided for the Internet media, and the content production efficiency is improved.

A multimedia content production method using a portable device. The multimedia content production method according to the present invention retrieves at least one picture file from a storage, produces at least one sound file corresponding to a retrieved picture file, creates a combination file by combining the picture and sound files, and integrates at least one combination file into a multimedia file. Since the multimedia content production method according to the present invention may create a multimedia file by combining a plurality of picture and sound files belonging to an identical theme and arranging the multimedia files in a sequential order, it is possible to improve the utilization of the portable device equipped with a camera (for capturing pictures) and obtaining an information transfer efficiency comparable to that of a motion picture transfer efficiency using a minimal amount of data.

The invention discloses a content production system based on machine learning and big data processing, the system includes a user management module, a system function requirements module, a data management module, a machine learning system, a feature collection system, an analysis and processing system and a Hadoop big data bottom system, wherein the user management module is composed of user management and user authentication, wherein the system function requirement module is composed of template library, results management and recycling bin, wherein the data management is composed of data source and system bottom data. The system breaks through the traditional content production mode, and realizes the content self-production through the machine learning model algorithm operation based onthe massive data processing ability. At the same time, the continuous iteration and self-adaptation of machine learning will make the content results more accurate. The production of this system willrelease the traditional labor force greatly, and any content of some solidification mode can realize intelligent automatic production, and greatly improve the social and economic production efficiency.

A multimedia content production method using a portable device. The multimedia content production method according to the present invention retrieves at least one picture file from a storage, produces at least one sound file corresponding to the retrieved picture file, creates a combination file by combining the picture file and the sound file, and integrates at least one combination file into a multimedia file. Since the multimedia content production method according to the present invention may create a multimedia file by combining a plurality of picture and sound files belonged to an identical theme and arranging the multimedia files in a sequential order, it is possible to improve the utilization of the portable device equipped with a camera (for capturing pictures) and obtaining an information transfer efficiency comparable to that of a motion picture transfer efficiency using a minimal amount of data.

The invention discloses a method and a system for reducing first starting time of an android television. The method includes using contents of a data partition and a system partition of a first android television where application programs are well installed to produce a first burn mirror image document; using the first burn mirror image document to produce first television burn software; and burning the first television burn software into a second ex-factory android television. When the android television is started up for the first time, the application programs which are well installed exist in the system data partition and the system partition, so that re-installation is not required, time for starting up the television for the first time is reduced, and efficiencies of production lines of the television are improved.

Some embodiments include a production content server system with a computing device processing operations include causing a content reader server to couple to a content source with content using a wired or wireless link, and downloading at least one content file associated with content retrieved from the content source, where content file includes audio and / or a video. The operations include transcoding at least a portion of the at least one content file with a dynamic range compression to a specified dynamic range, equalization and duration, and processing at least one content audio file from the at least one content file. The operations further include storing the at least one content audio file to a production content database. Some embodiments include processing a production break audio file including blending the at least one production break audio file with at least one other content file.