298 results about "Radio broadcasting" patented technology

A system is disclosed that can determine the speed of an object and report that speed in a format suitable for use on a television broadcast, a radio broadcast, the Internet or another medium. One example of a suitable use for the present invention includes determining the speed that a baseball player swings a bat. Another use of the present invention is to measure the speed of a moving ball. In one embodiment, the system includes a set of radars positioned behind and pointed toward the batter. Data from all of the radars is collected and sent to a computer which can determine the start of a pitch, when a ball was hit, the speed of the ball and the speed of the bat.

A digital sampling playback doorbell system has two or more doorbell buttons and a central unit with solid state memory storage for multiple digitally sampled sound files. User assignment means are provided for assigning a particular sound file to a particular doorbell button. The digital sampling playback doorbell has computer interface of RS-232, or USB, or infrared wireless connection type and relies on computer installed software to download digitally sampled sound files stored in the computer hard drive to the memory of the digital sampling playback doorbell system central unit. The digitally sampled sound files stored in the computer hard drive are obtained by accessing a web site through the Internet or capturing sound through an audio computer connection to a microphone, CD player, radio broadcast or mass music storage device using software resident in the computer. Alternatively, an IPOD can be used as a source for sounds that can be transferred or sent to play on the doorbell. Such sound transfer can take place via a blue tooth communication link, or by a docking station that resides on the doorbell. Taking advantage of the intelligence contained within the IPOD, one can then select sounds or files that have been previously converted by either the IPOD or the computer that the IPOD was previously attached to, and send them to the doorbell.

A free, wireless, network-based system and method for providing listeners with managed, personalized, valued radio broadcast content, in real time, from a broadcasting entity, by way of a mobile device, for offering a mobile marketing medium to advertisers in order to micro-target consumers with advertisement, for leveraging unmatched psychographics and demographics, and for eliminating a need to surf radio channels, the system and method involving a network, a flagging software being made available via the network in a website, and at least one mobile device for entering user information by at least one user and for receiving, playing, storing, and retransmitting, radio broadcast content, the at least one mobile device being capable of interfacing with the network.

The present invention relates to method and system for providing data services to mobile device (25) via a digital radio broadcast channel, wherein data is encrypted and forwarded to a digital radio broadcast domain based on a conditional access scheme. The additional access scheme is based on existing concepts of SIM/IMSI definition and algorithms. The invention enables initial message coverage for developing countries and extends rural message coverage for huge area countries, where little mobile coverage is provided.

A dual-port IBOC® antenna provides omnidirectional radiation of orthogonal, circularly polarized analog (FM) and digital (OFDM) signals using quadruple coplanar square loops driven from a hybrid having balanced outputs. The loops are arranged in a tiled square, with proximal sides functioning as further stripline hybrids to cancel cross coupling between the loops. Each loop quad is reflector-backed and emits a directional signal; multiple loop quads oriented radially form an omni bay. Vertical spacing between bays includes a minimum position for mutual coupling, while symmetry establishes uniform input impedance on the hybrid input ports. Tuning barbs on the loops fine tune frequency response. Bandwidth is wide, so that a single antenna can radiate multiple FM analog and hybrid IBOC® channels over the VHF FM radio broadcast band.

The invention belongs to the technical field of network video live broadcasting, and discloses an advertisement inter-cut method for video live broadcasting. The method comprises the steps that whether an advertisement inter-cut instruction is received is judged in the video live broadcasting process; if the advertisement inter-cut instruction is received, a video live broadcasting frame is continuously maintained; and an advertisement requiring inter-cutting is superposed in the video live broadcasting frame, wherein the advertisement requiring inter-cutting is pictures or videos which are manufactured in advance. With application of the advertisement inter-cut method for video live broadcasting, inter-cutting of the manufactured advertisement of the picture or video format can be performed in the video live broadcasting process under the condition of maintaining the original video live broadcasting frame so as to be easy and feasible with no requirement for more operation of an anchor, and the inter-cut advertisement is perfectly fused with the original video live broadcasting frame without influencing the watching experience of users watching live broadcasting; besides, the flow is simple and easy to be combined with the original video live broadcasting process so that development cost can be reduced. The invention also provides a corresponding advertisement inter-cut device for video live broadcasting.

The present invention comprises a system that allows the user to select, receive and listen to audio programs that are stored or made available at a location remote to the user. A receiver is provided that allows the user to start a program at a selected position in the program, move forward and backward within a program, and pause and resume a program. The receiver comprises a network interface, user controls, an audio decompresser, an audio output driver, a central processing unit (CPU), and a power supply. The receiver may also comprise a radio broadcast receiver and a media player.

To assess the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and channels, a portable user appliance is provided to each of a plurality of panel members. Each device includes a scanning module for scanning and storing a UPC code for each product purchased by a corresponding panel member, a processor, a memory, a user-interface, and a communication interface operative to transfer information stored in memory to a central facility. Each device further includes a microphone and is operative to monitor an audio portion of at least one of a radio broadcast and a television broadcast. UPC codes and information corresponding to purchases made by each respective panel member are received from the portable user appliances, as are transmissions from which the identities of advertisements included in monitored audio portions can be determined. This information, along with information collected from the personal computers used by the panel members to view web pages and make online purchases, is associated with the demographic profile and/or identity of each corresponding panelist.

The present invention provides for a compact media player capable of playing a variety of audio and visual data embedded in a variety of media data formats, including but not limited to CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and SD memory card. The player can also be used to receive TV broadcast signals and AM, FM and/or XM radio broadcast signals. In one embodiment, the compact media player can also perform computing functions. Also, the player of the present invention can be used as a means to transmit and receive media data to other media devices through A/V, USB and/or wireless interfaces. The player can also record incoming media data sources through those interfaces.

An IBOC broadcasting receiver that uses two different bit error rates as threshold values in receiving hybrid broadcasting in a simultaneous broadcasting format, and switches between digital broadcasting reception and analog broadcasting reception based on the two threshold values. The IBOC broadcasting receiver counts the number of occurrences of switching between digital broadcasting reception and analog broadcasting reception in a specified period of time, and increases a hysteresis width between the two threshold values when the number of occurrences of switching counted exceeds a specified number. Further, the counter of the IBOC broadcasting receiver counts the number of occurrences of switching of broadcasting receptions in a specified period of time by using another set of threshold values changed as a result of the increased hysteresis width, and reduces the hysteresis width between the another set of threshold values when the number of occurrences of switching counted is less than the specified number.

The invention discloses a method for reducing live broadcasting time delay and standstill. An anchor end and a client are provided; and the method comprises the steps of actively discarding partial or all data packets to enable the data packets not to enter a transmitting queue by the anchor end when the number of data packets of the transmitting queue is abnormal; when the client receives a lacked frame and the imperfect frame is B-lacked frame or a P-lacked frame, completing based on front and back frames; and if the lacked frame is I-lacked frame, copying a former group of the normal picture for playing. An existing rtmp live broadcasting protocol may bring in a time delay when aiming at network jitter, and an anchor-end frame discarding mechanism is added to discard a portion of image data reasonably when the playing at the audience end is not affected by the packaged data, so that a tcp retransmission mechanism is not triggered, the time delay in such type can be reduced efficiently, and real-time interactivity of the anchor and the audiences is added. A player completes the discarded frame, and the completion scheme is tolerance calculation of adjacent images. A person cannot have any feeling of incoherence.

The invention relates to a digitalized teaching method for intelligent tracking shooting, recording and live broadcasting. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: intercepting the operation of a teacher or a student by a teaching strategy processing module for user activity analysis; receiving a scene switching message and analyzing the scene to be switched according to the current shooting environment by a recorded broadcasting processing module to search for a suitable shooting strategy; and locating an object to be shot according to a locator or a preset position and then shooting by the recorded broadcasting processing module if finding a suitable strategy. Compared with the prior art, the recorded broadcasting processing module provided by the invention can locate and shoot objects, such as teaches, students, computer desktops, and the like according to the locator to achieve the intelligent tracking shooting effect. A live broadcasting module receives and live broadcasts streaming media data on the Internet, and users outside the classroom can participate in the teaching activities through the Internet so that the digital teaching can be globally networked.

A broadcasting device includes a broadcasting unit configured to broadcast positional information indicating an indoor position of the broadcasting device to a predetermined area, wherein the broadcasting unit broadcasts range information indicating the size of the predetermined area together with the positional information.

The invention provides a method and a system for sharing audio-video of mobile multi-media broadcasting. The method comprises the following steps that: sharing settings of an upload terminal are carried out, and the sharing settings include the settings of an address of a video server and the information of sharing user terminals; the upload terminal is a mobile terminal supporting the wireless Internet access and having a mobile multi-media broadcasting function; the upload terminal uploads the audio-video data of the mobile multi-media broadcasting, which need to be shared, to an audio-video server, and simultaneously informs the sharing user terminals of the address of the audio-video server; after acquiring the address of the audio-video server, the sharing user terminals share the sharing audio-video data of the mobile multi-media broadcasting, which are uploaded by the upload terminal, by connecting to the audio-video server. The method provides a function of sharing the multi-media broadcasting with other people, and shares the audio-video by the on-line video server, so that people can watch TV or listen to radio broadcast by the mobile terminals or computers without the mobile multi-media broadcasting function.

The vehicle-mounted acoustic apparatus of the present invention can be connected to a mobile phone 50; can receive hands-free conversations from the mobile phone 50 and radio broadcasts; and provides a microphone 3 for collecting the sounds of a user, and a speaker 2 for producing the sounds of a radio broadcast or a conversing party. When operating a plurality of preset keys 9a-f that are used for selecting the frequency of radio broadcasts to be received, it is possible to select a phone number that has been stored in the mobile phone 50 or the vehicle-mounted acoustic apparatus, or input the numerals or symbols that constitute the phone number.

The present disclosure relates to methods, techniques and systems for dynamically synchronizing complementary broadcasting content for supplementing audio broadcasting with audio context sensitively synchronized complementary broadcasting content items. An audio broadcasting content, e.g. a radio broadcast by a radio station is supplemented by complementary broadcasting content, e.g. still or moving images such that the transmission and playback of the complementary broadcasting content (e.g. a video) is synchronized with a current audio broadcasting (e.g. a piece of music) by dynamically taking into account the audio context of a user listening to the current audio broadcasting.