31 results about "Sequential media" patented technology

Techniques and systems for intelligent navigation of sequential media content are disclosed. The intelligent navigation is well suited to enable users to better control media playback with regards to a media playback application operating on a computing device.

A method and apparatus are disclosed that are suitable for automatically identifying appropriate advertisements and locations for composting an advertisement with a media file for user consumption.

A system and method for generating collections of media are provided. A media collage is constructed such that all its contained media, such as digital images, are selected and organized according to an associated characteristic. Sequential media collages can be generated by the same selection and organization approach.

A random access read/write media format that enables segments of media to be read, written, accessed, and streamed in a non-sequential order. A media file is divided into a series of timeblocks TB₀ to TB_n-1 wherein each timeblock consists of media packets of a short non-overlapping time span. Each media packet in the media file is also divided into data units identifiable by data unit ID. A timeblock index table, with an entry for each timeblock in the series, and a media packet index field with a data unit ID entry for each data unit in the media packet (located in each timeblock header), are used to quickly locate portions of desired data. This two-level index hierarchy, the timeblock index table and the media packet index table, eases the locating, reading and writing of non-sequential media packets. The timeblock index allows data to be quickly found in terms of time, while the media packet index allows data to be quickly found by data unit ID.

An apparatus for providing voice titles for recorded programs includes a recorder (11,19) for recording on a sequential recording medium, which has an audio recording portion (242) and a control recording portion (246). A control input (222) is provided for indicating a start of a voice title and the start indicator (252) is recorded on the control recording portion of the sequential medium. A microphone (264) or other device is provided for entering a voice title and for recording the entered voice title onto the audio recording portion of the sequential medium sequentially following the recorded indication of the start of the voice title in the control recording portion. A control input (222) is provided for indicating an end of the voice title and the end indicator (254) is recorded onto the control recording portion of the sequential medium sequentially following the recorded voice title in the audio recording portion. The apparatus includes an analog to digital converter (270) for digitizing the entered voice title and a memory (33) for storing the digitized voice title. Another embodiment of the apparatus includes a voice synthesizer (260) for synthesizing a voice from the stored digitized voice title.

In a method and a device for reading and a method and a device for recording files on a sequential medium as well as the sequential medium itself, in order to enable the use of sequential write-once mediums, the file system descriptor pointing to a current version of a management information area, is recorded on a reserved track being located at the beginning of the volume. Thereby, the management information area is recorded at a location behind files being recorded onto the volume.

A streaming file is constructed with a file header section that includes a file header object, a media data file descriptor, and an index descriptor. A hinting index section includes a first level hinting index with a linear organization corresponding to timing tick key values. A second level hinting index has a non-sequential organization corresponding to such timing tick key values. A special mark in the second level hinting index indicates that the first level hinting index must be consulted for a next timing tick key value. Such mark is positioned in the last of a sequential run of timing tick key values associated with its entries. A data section that can be put in a separate file, and it accepts media data blocks associated in sequential runs of timing tick key values as its entries. Thus hinting is provided for a non-sequential media data file.

A system and method for providing network services to a user of a computer capable of displaying Internet based media, such as sequential media, played by a media player in a display. The method includes the steps of providing a media object, wherein the media object contains sequential media and network services information encapsulated within the media object. Encapsulating the sequential media and network services information within the media object prevents rogue users from simply stripping away the sequential media from the network services information.

A method for controlling transfer of black color toned images during simplex printing. The method comprises identifying a first image of a print job is a black-only image, determining whether or not the print job includes at least one color image, upon determining that the print job includes at least one color image, rotating only the black photoconductive (PC) drum and transferring a black-only toned first image thereon onto a rotating intermediate transfer member (ITM) belt and subsequently onto a surface of the media sheet at the image transfer roll, and moving color transfer rolls into engagement the color PC drums and pausing their rotation, and, upon determining that the print job does not include at least one color image, moving the color transfer rolls to disengage the ITM belt from the color PC drums and rotating only the black PC drum to sequentially transfer each remaining black-only toned image onto the ITM belt for printing on a surface of a corresponding next sequential media sheet at the image transfer roll.

A mechanism is provided for generating enumerated information in which a plurality of files is enumerated except entirely-invalidated files on a sequential medium. Management information for managing locations where the plurality of files on the sequential medium are recorded is acquired from the sequential medium. The enumerated information in which the plurality of files are enumerated is generated in an order according to the locations where the plurality of files are recorded on the basis of the acquired management information.

A converter is utilized with at least one implicit addressing sequential media device to simulate explicit addressing sequential media device performance from the perspective of host applications. Responsive to receiving explicit addressing read/write commands from the host application, the converter converts the explicit addressing read/write commands into implicit addressing read/write commands and passes the implicit addressing read/write commands through to the device. Optionally, responsive to device capability queries from a host application, the converter reports that the device utilizes explicit addressing. As another option, responsive to receiving commands other than explicit addressing read/write commands from the application host, the converter examines the commands to monitor sequential media address, and relays the commands to the device substantially free of any modification.

The present invention relates to the field of storage management of sequential media and more particular it relates to autonomous reclamation processing of virtualized sequential media such as virtual tapes in a virtual tape library. In order to provide an improved method and system for managing virtual tapes in a virtual tape library system, the inventional system comprises a storage management application managing virtual tapes in a virtual tape library system (VTL-system) which is capable to identify all block addresses of active data for a given source virtual tape; said storage management application is connected via a network to said virtual tape library system and is capable to send a command instructing said VTL-system to perform autonomous reclamation. The VTL-system is characterized by an inventional reclamation logic which uniquely maps each host block written by the storage management application to a block on the disk system of said VTL-system. In conjunction with the storage management application it performs a method to perform autonomous reclamation.