104 results about "Digital entertainment" patented technology

Priority-based content retrieval mechanisms for digital entertainment devices are provided. In various embodiments, the download prioritizations may be interrupt-based, sequence-based, or a combination of the two. In interrupt-based prioritizations, a higher priority download request will interrupt a lower-priority download that is already in progress. In sequence-based prioritizations, a plurality of file download requests may be ordered in a download queue depending on the priority of the request, with higher priority requests being positioned towards the top of the queue and lower priority requests being positioned towards the bottom of the queue.

Audio playback is used to enhance the control of Personal Digital Entertainment devices. Embodiments of the present invention provide audio message files associated with the activation of a control or provide other device status messaging Audio messages are also provided in file sets that are user selectable to give the user a choice of ‘themes’.

A system and device is disclosed that employs a global interactive program guide to receive, access, manage, and view digital entertainment services such as live television, television on demand, and pre-recorded video and audio programming from one on more content sources, via an internet-enabled device, anywhere in the world. As disclosed, the global interactive program guide provides a user with metadata that describes available content and enables the user to access desired content on an a la carte basis and arrange the presentation of that content in any way or order desired. The system of the instant invention can alternatively be practiced with any mobile communications device that is accessible via the internet, cell phone communications or other communications mode. Changes made to content availability are instantly synchronized through the entire system and content redundancy is obtained when available.

A cellular telephone includes an internally integrated digital entertainment module. The telephone includes a transceiver unit and a headset which is connected to the transceiver unit by wired or wireless link. The entertainment module includes an interchangeable ROM and/or expansion RAM for storing music or other audio signals for playback through the telephone's headset. Music or other audio signals in digitized form is stored in the interchangeable ROM or is loaded into the expansion RAM from a CD player, computer, or other source of digitized audio signals. Under control of the cellular telephone's microprocessor, the digitally stored audio signal is played back through the telephone's headset. The entertainment module may be located in the transceiver unit, a removable battery pack, or in a separate adapter.

The present invention is directed to an open business platform that provides an end-to-end solution for managing, distributing, and/or retailing digital media assets from various content suppliers. In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides an integrated system that permits media content suppliers to deposit their media assets with the system where they are prepared by a content management system for distribution to consumers via a secure distribution system. The media content suppliers may then track and-control the use of their media assets through a subscriber management system for managing consumer accounts, a licensing server for issuing licenses restricting the use of media content, and a royalty reporter for determining and reporting royalties to the various content suppliers.

A method for playing music, the method includes providing a plurality of devices on a wireless local area network, bringing a new device into a range of the wireless local area network, and receiving a list of devices that are on the local area network at the new device from a server not on the local area network.

This document describes tools capable of managing advertising in the field of digital entertainment content. The tools may enable advertisers to know which advertisements are more effective or are more likely to be effective with all users, users having similar demographic profiles, or a particular user. The tools may do so by building and maintaining profiles for users. These profiles may include many users' interactions with various advertisements, demographic information for the users usable to compare users, explicitly selected preferences of users, users' implicit preferences based on what entertainment content they watch, and other information.

The invention relates to a cooperative construction method for enhancing a realistic table-tennis system based on real rackets. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting and tracking a real table-tennis racket by utilizing the color characteristics according to a video image acquired by the system; designing and realizing the virtual-real three-dimensional registration of a virtual scene and a real scene, mapping the virtual scene to a video image coordinate system of the real rackets, participator users and real environment; designing and realizing the collision detection between a virtual table-tennis ball and objects, such as the real rackets, a virtual table-tennis table, a virtual table-tennis net, and the like according to the motion information of the real rackets and confirming and representing the motion trajectory of the virtual table-tennis ball after collision; and providing a finite state machine and a message-processing mechanism, controlling the conversion of various states of the table-tennis system in the operation process and ensuring a plurality of users to have the same table-tennis motion experience. The cooperative construction method can be widely applied to the fields, such as interactive digital entertainment, sports research, training simulation, remote education and training, and the like.

A portable entertainment apparatus capable of communicating with a digital entertainment server is provided. The digital entertainment server is operable to store video content, and the portable entertainment apparatus is operable to store at least part of the video content stored in the digital entertainment server. The portable entertainment apparatus may include (i) a communications interface for downloading video content from the digital entertainment server in digital format, (ii) a storage module for storing the downloaded video content; and (iii) a controller coupled to and operable to control the operations of the communications interface and the storage module. The controller is operable to control the communication interface so as to download to the portable entertainment apparatus at least part of the video content stored in the digital entertainment server responsive to the portable entertainment apparatus establishing a communication with the digital entertainment server.

System and method for on board digital entertainment, communication and information system for mass transportation medium (static or mobile) is presented. The system consists of server, software algorithm and client devices. Client devices are connected wirelessly to the server and the server is connected to other servers and external medium wirelessly thereby providing seamless connectivity to the client devices to the server and to outside world. A server design is presented with multiple redundancies to provide un-interrupted services. A client design is presented that enables connectivity to a known server and can be manufactured with low cost. A software algorithm is presented that can prioritize among multiple tasks.

The invention relates to a football video highlight automatic synthesis method based on an event model. The method comprises the following steps: to a football match video highlight, defining whether a football video highlight clip can be separated into a football video event composed of a plurality of motions; constructing a core-surrounding event model to express a football highlight clip; utilizing football match video and corresponding text narration to construct a training set, selecting goals and red and yellow cards as two types of football highlights, and training the event model; inputting a segment of football match video without narration, identifying an appearance position of a football highlight clip in the input video, and giving a matching mark; according to a user requirement, automatically synthesizing a football highlight clip with a highest mark to be a football video highlight. According to a method of generating the football video highlight in the invention, restriction of factors such as a lens distance of the input video, and the method can be widely applied and popularized to fields of personal digital entertainment, physical education movie and television production and the like.

The invention provides an individualized realistic virtual character modeling method based on images. Four human body images on the facade, lateral surfaces and back quickly generate an individualized three-dimensional human body model with realistic appearance. The method comprises the following steps: using a human body model based on a swept surface as a human body template model; extracting human body characteristic information from the images, establishing a corresponding relation between the human body template model and the human body images, and deforming the human body template model to generate an individualized human body geometric model; and on the two-dimensional parameterized results of the human body model, generating vivid human body textures by the human body images, and seamlessly mapping the human body textures to the three-dimensional individualized human body model to obtain the individualized human body model with realistic visual effect. The human body images are from a camera, a video camera and the like. The method provides a new low-cost and efficient human body modeling path for the field of virtual reality and digital entertainment.

The invention discloses a region-segmentation-based portrait illumination transfer method. An illumination effect on a reference portrait is transferred to a target portrait, so that the target portrait has an illumination effect similar to that of the reference portrait. An illumination effect material database is established, and most of illumination effects in the nature can be approximately fitted. An illumination material which is the most similar to the illumination attribute of the reference portrait and the material attribute of the target portrait is searched from the illumination effect material database for illumination transfer. An edge preserving filter-based transfer method is used for hair and face regions, and a quotient image method is used for shoulder regions. The consistency of the illumination effect is ensured by using global illumination constraints. The method can be widely popularized and applied to application scenarios such as portrait art illumination effect synthesis, interactive digital entertainment and image virtual scene synthesis.

The invention relates to a binocular image and object contour-based virtual and actual sheltering treatment method, which comprises the following steps of: accurately calculating the regional contour of a real object by an interactive image segmentation algorithm, and taking the regional contour as the geometrical information of the real object; and according to the negatively-correlated relation between parallax and depth, estimating the parallax of a virtual object under a current visual angle, determining the relative depth information between the virtual object and the real object in a current scene, and hierarchically dividing the scene. The front-and-back sheltering relation between the virtual object and the real object is estimated and determined by using the relative depth information, the depth information is not required to be calculated in a pixel-by-pixel manner; and the virtual and actual sheltering treatment is achieved in a two-dimensional image space, whether the sheltering between the virtual object and the real object exists or not is judged, and corresponding treatment is carried out, so that the binocular image and object contour-based virtual and actual sheltering treatment method can be applicable to most sheltering circumstances and a better virtual and actual sheltering treatment effect is achieved. The binocular image and object contour-based virtual and actual sheltering treatment method can be widely applied to the spatial sheltering treatment of virtual reality systems, such as interactive digital entertainment, sports research and training simulation, distance education and training and the like.

The invention discloses a self-adaptation virtual and actual three-dimensional registration method based on multiple natural characteristics. The self-adaptation virtual and actual three-dimensional registration method comprises steps including that various natural characteristics are generated by means of analyzing video sequences of an actual scene, aggregations of the various natural characteristics are also generated, the states of the various natural characteristics are comprehensively analyzed, priority for virtual and actual three-dimensional registration of the various natural characteristics is obtained, a type of natural characteristics for virtual and actual three-dimensional registration is interactively selected according to the priority or by a user, then the various natural characteristics in the selected type of the natural characteristic aggregation are detected in the video sequences of the actual scene, the natural characteristics with high stability and/or distinctiveness is selected and used as natural characteristics for final registration, and finally, three-dimensional registration of a virtual object in the actual scene is carried out by the aid of the natural characteristics for final registration. The self-adaptation virtual and actual three-dimensional registration method can be widely applied to virtual and actual three-dimensional registration and fusion in virtual reality systems for interactive type digital entertainment, sports researches and training simulation, distance education and training and the like.

The invention relates to a method for drawing a three-dimensionally assisted two-dimensional graphic, which relates to a drawing method applying a three-dimensional model to a two-dimensional animation and belongs to the field of digital entertainment. The method aims at solving the problem that the prior software cannot automatically determine which parts of a role will be covered under a condition that the visual angle is changed. The method comprises the following steps: 1, reading in the three-dimensional model, and acquiring a vertex normal vector, a vertex principal curvature, a vertex Gaussian curvature and the direction of the vertex principal curvature of the three-dimensional model; 2, placing the three-dimensional model in a three-dimensional space; 3, drawing an edge contour line of the three-dimensional model; 4, acquiring a characteristic line related to a viewpoint; and 5, drawing the characteristic line related to the viewpoint in the step 4. Through the combination of the two-dimensional animation and a three-dimensional animation, the visual effect is enriched, and the source of animation raw data is expanded.

The invention discloses a display system and a display method applied to an embedded digital entertainment on-demand system. The method includes the steps: dividing image data about to be displayed in display equipment into a background layer and a text layer by means of layering technology, and dividing a text layer area into at least two blocks including a text display area and a text preparation area outside the display area respectively, wherein each of the background layer and the text layer is in a memory compatible DC (dual channel) form; stacking the text display area of the text layer with the background layer of a display area of the display equipment, storing the stacked text display area and the background layer into a frame, and outputting the frame to the display equipment for display; and moving the text layer relative to a background layer area, generating data after the text layer is moved every time to be stacked with the background layer and outputting the data to the display equipment for display. The display system and the display method are capable of improving efficiency of scroll captions in the embedded digital entertainment on-demand system.

The invention relates to an object illumination moving method based on gradient operation, and provides a new technical scheme for the generation of a virtual scene illumination effect based on stock footage. The invention is characterized in that the total process of building an object illumination moving method based on the gradient operation comprises the following steps: generating an illumination moving result through the steps of image aligning, image layering, weighing of least squares filtering, gradient operation, Poisson integral and image combination; improving a least squares filter; self-adaptively calculating the least squares filtering parameter according to the unsmooth content of the image, so as to carry out filtering in higher level in the unsmooth area and save more detail information in a detail layer; and adding gray level constraints in the gradient operation, so as to enable the whole gray level of the result of the illumination moving to be more close to the reference object. The method provided by the invention can be widely used and promoted to the fields such as interactive digital entertainment, movie and television programming, artistic designing and creation and the like.

Digital media recognition without substantial user interaction, using information from personal digital libraries, or about users. Digital media recognition ambiguities resolved using that information, including:

• • a preponderance of entries in the user's personal library, including specific songs, authors, or genres;
  • a similarity relationship between the user's personal library and the corpus of a collective library;
  • demographic or specific information about the user;
  • equality to a song already present;
  • earlier results in resolving ambiguities;
  • location of a mobile system in a designated region;
  • location in a designated place within a house;
  • existence of any parental controls;
  • whether the imported digital entertainment information is being imported in bulk as part of a collection;
  • whether, according to a selected similarity metric for digital entertainment information, the imported digital entertainment information would be “closer” to one or more elements of the user's personal library.