61 results about "Full motion video" patented technology

Ads are placed in a movie using a graphical interface that enables selecting of the ads from a set of ads, selecting frames of the movie for the ad, and selecting locations in the frames for the ads. Each of the ad and the movie can be a still image, a full motion video, an audio, a graphic or a combination thereof. An executable command may also be a part of the ad that is inserted, the command being selected for execution by a viewer of the ad when the movie is played to the viewer.

Systems and methods for improving or suggesting alternatives to content surfing are provided. When it is detected that a user wishes to surf, a pipeline tuning sequence is implemented where by storing one or more frames of a first content selection to the user equipment and acquiring a subsequent content selection while concurrently displaying the previously stored one or more frames. Content suggestions, program listing grids, media guidance application and tuning hints, advertisements, digital audio, and live video may also be presented to user while content surfing. In some embodiments, content surf landing channels may be anticipated based on user history, user profiles, or any other suitable information. In some embodiments, thumbnails of the user's recently tuned, or paused on, content are displayed to the user while content surfing. In multiple tuner systems, more than one thumbnail may be displayed in full motion video.

A digital display system includes a transparent outer protective panel, a transparent inner protective panel, and a translucent digital video display located between the outer and inner protective panels. An integrated media player is operably connected to the translucent digital video display so that full-motion videos displayed on the translucent digital video display are viewed through the outer protective panel and items can be viewed through the translucent digital video display. The digital display system can be incorporated into any environment where a product is located behind a glass enclosure such as freezers, coolers, security glass, jewelry cases, liquor cases, cosmetic cases, and the like. In retail environments, the digital display systems can also be incorporated into entry doors, windows, drive-thru windows, teller windows, and any other location where there is traditionally glass and you want to focus consumer attention obstructing the customer's line of site.

The subject of the present invention is the network video camera capable of delivering high-resolution digital images, comprising over a million of pixels per image, at full motion video frame rate. The camera disclosed in the present invention comprises high resolution image sensor capable of operating at video frame rate, computer network interface for transmission off camera of image data streams originated by said image sensor, and also comprising multi stage pipelined digital image processor operating under control of low cost microprocessor capable of processing and compression of image data at the output rate of said image sensor, wherein said image processor comprises image processing pipeline formed by multiple distinct stages, wherein most of said stages perform distinctly different image processing operations and wherein each said stage has an output latch or buffer and accepts its input data from the output latch or buffer of one or more of other said stages, wherein image data propagates from stage to stage and wherein each of said stages performs its operations on image data concurrently and synchronously with most of other said stages performing their respective operations.

A method and system of providing multimedia content. There includes: capturing audio data; capturing full motion video data; collecting the data in a single file; chroma-keying and masking the full motion video data; including the mask in the single file; storing the single file; providing a calling module that calls playback of the single file; providing the single file over the network; and playing the single file in a browser layer. Playing the single file includes displaying the full motion video data over a functional webpage. Displaying the full motion video data includes a first mode, obscuring a functional portion of a webpage, and a second mode, not obscuring a functional portion of a webpage. The triggering event includes a browser executing the webpage program module, and a user action selected from the group: closing a browser window, moving an indicator over a display, and actuating a display.

A media processing system is provided including a DRAM that includes a plurality of storage locations for storing digital data being processed by said media processing system, said digital data including video data that is compressed in a standardized format, a system for processing said digital data that includes said standardized format compressed video data to produce compressed video images and image data, a system for decoding said standardized format compressed video images to generate full motion video pixel data, a system for sharing said DRAM between said processing means and said decoding means, and a system for producing a full motion video signal from said full motion video pixel data. The media processing system may also have a system for multiplying or combining a first pixel by a second pixel in a single clock cycle. The media processing system may have a plurality of processing elements connected together in parallel, a system for controlling said processing elements with instruction words that have a predetermined number of instructions, and a system for distributing data simultaneously to each of said processing elements.

An interactive television system, for providing interactive television service. The interactive television system has an information source available at a remote location for supplying a plurality of information services and an information network in communication with the remote location for delivering the information services to subscriber televisions. The interactive television system includes a plurality of home interface controllers. One of the home interface controllers is associated with a subscriber television. The home interface controller includes a data transceiver that is in communication with the remote location, and a selection input for receiving signals from a subscriber selection device. The home interface controller also has an interactive mode. The interactive television system also includes a node that is disposed at the remote location and provides information signals for transmission via the information network, so that when a given one of the home interface controllers is in the interactive mode signals at the selection input of the given home interface controller resulting from subscriber input via a subscriber selection device generate control data. The node receives the control data over the information network from the data transceiver of the given home interface controller. The node transmits a selected information signal that is capable of full motion video on a television information signal on the information network to the subscriber television with which the given controller is associated so that the given information signal is made available to the subscriber television. The content of the information signal is modified in response to control data resulting from subscriber input via the subscriber selection device.

Method and system for a single-chip camera where an image sensor is a single-chip digital color imaging device that incorporates a sensor array that captures still or full-motion video and converts the images to digital data. Moreover, the image sensor employs a built-in correlated double sampler, an internal analog-to-digital converter, and a timing circuitry. Output from the sensor is an 8-bit or more raw data, horizontal sync signals, and vertical sync signals. The output raw data may then be fed into a compression circuit that generates packets of compressed output data. The compressed data is transmitted with a USB transceiver using isochronous packets. The packets are then received, decompressed, and color processed by a host PC.

A method and apparatus for controlling a video surveillance display comprising receiving an MPEG video stream comprising video data in I-frames and P-frames, storing the MPEG video stream in an input buffer, displaying the stored MPEG video stream in full-motion video, monitoring the amount of video data stored in the input buffer; and displaying only the I-frames of the stored MPEG video stream when the amount of video data stored in the input buffer is greater than a predetermined amount.

Method, system and computer program product are provided for adaptively encoding in hardware, software or a combination thereof a series of still or partially still pictures using motion video encoding. A pre-encode statistics measurement unit is employed to derive statistics on each frame of the sequence of video frames to be encoded. The statistics are determinative of whether the frame comprises a still frame. If so, at least one controllable parameter to be used to encode the still frame is modified, and an encoding engine employs the at least one controllable parameter to encode the still frame so that pulsation artifacts are prevented between still frames of the series of still frames. Partial still picture encoding to prevent pulsation artifacts on a macroblock level is also addressed.

Frame tearing in an arbitrarily large number of incoming motion video signals incorporated into a single composite display is prevented using as few as three frame buffers. Independently and concurrently for each incoming motion video signal, one of the frame buffers is reserved for writing captured pixel data, another is identified as storing the most recently completely captured frame, and one is identified as currently being read in forming a frame of the outgoing composite display. Frames of the outgoing composite display are collected from the multiple frame buffers accordingly to designations of the motion video signals of the read frame buffer for each.

A method is disclosed for recording steps performed in a computer environment to produce an electronic demonstration movie. The method includes recording at least one screen shot corresponding to at least one of the steps using a still motion recorder. The method also monitors the steps for the presence of detail criteria. In response to the detection of detail criteria in the steps, the still motion recorded is paused and a video recorder is initiated for recording full motion video clips of a detailed process. In response to the end of the detail criteria, the video recorder is paused and the still motion recorder is re-instated in response to the pausing of the video recorder. The recorded screen shots and recorded full motion video are then compiled into an electronic demonstration movie.

Methods apparatus and computer programs products for creating a multimedia presentation having video frames and video segments with synchronized audio are disclosed. Audio-video data is separated into an audio stream and the video sequence. The video sequence is divided into video segments, with each video segment comprising a group of frames. For each video segment an audio significance measure is calculated using the audio stream. Using the audio significance measure, the video segment is selected in its entirety or, alternatively, one or more slide frames are extracted from the corresponding group of frames. The selection of video segments or slide frames can also be performed on the basis of an additional video significance measure. The audio stream and selected video segment and slide frames are synchronized, then synchronously reproduced as the multimedia presentation.

In an image processor, images are rendered into a plurality of frame buffers and corresponding Z-buffers by depth and the plurality of frame buffers are later combined to form the rendered image. The rendering can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination, for real-time or near real-time rendering of images. The plurality of frame buffers can be processed in parallel using a plurality of frame processors. The rendering can be performed on a stream of polygons received in an arbitrary order so that presorting the polygons is not required. Complex data structures and processing are not required, allowing a rendering process to proceed quickly, which is needed where the rendering must be done in real-time or near real-time for full- or nearly full-motion video. The image processor is provided with an indication of the number of frame buffers in the plurality of frame buffers. With this indication, the image processor can make the program memory allocations if needed and will process the image data with the required fidelity. The number of frame buffers used might vary as needed for different fidelities and images.

The present invention is a device, system and method for providing a more secure full motion video with metadata streaming product. More specifically, the invention is capable of ensuring a more secure video transfer from a less secure input data network to a more secure data receiving network through the use of a firewall on the less secure input network interface, which is used for separating video and discarding other unwanted data, and an Air Gap that physically separates the input and output networks. This physical separation ensures a secure transfer of the “cleaned” input data from the less secure input source to the more secure data receiving network.

Full-motion video data with a sub-picture and sound is recorded in a DVD-ROM drive. The DVD-ROM drive is connected to an ATAPI interface. Using a data buffer of the ATAPI interface, an MPEG stream is transferred to an MPEG2 decoder on the system board at a variable rate, and video data, audio data, and a sub-picture included in the MPEG stream are decoded by the MPEG2 decoder incorporated in the system. The decoded sub-picture is drawn in a VRAM as in normal VGA graphics. The sub-picture image drawn in the VRAM is synthesized with the video from the MPEG2 decoder by a multimedia display controller and displayed on a screen.

An apparatus for and method of storing video data comprising receiving an MPEG video stream comprising I-frames and P-frames, separating the I-frames from the P-frames, storing the I-frames and the P-frames separately, and providing information so that the I-frames and the P-frames can be combined to produce a full-motion video.