621 results about "Television station" patented technology

A multimedia production and distribution system collects or assembles a media production (such as, a news program, television programming, or radio broadcast) from a variety of sources, including television stations and other media hosting facilities. The media production is categorized and indexed for retrieval and distribution across a wired or wireless network, such as the Internet, to any client, such as a personal computer, television, or personal digital assistant. A user can operate the client to display and interact with the media production, or select various options to customize the transmission or request a standard program. Alternatively, the user can establish a template to generate the media production automatically based on personal preferences. The media production is displayed on the client with various media enhancements to add value to the media production. Such enhancements include graphics, extended play segments, opinion research, and URLs. The enhancements also include advertisements, such as commercials, active banners, and sponsorship buttons. An advertisement reporting system monitors the sale and distribution of advertisements within the network. The advertisements are priced according to factors that measure the likelihood of an advertisement actually being presented or viewed by users most likely to purchase the advertised item or service. The advertisement reporting system also collects metrics to invoice and apportion income derived from the advertisements among the network participants, including a portal host and/or producer of the content.

A Digital Home Communication Terminal (DHCT) including a plurality of tuners, each of which can select one of a plurality of transmission channels provided by a Digital Broadband Delivery System (DBDS). The multiple tuners enable the DHCT to tune to a plurality of downstream media and data transmissions, thereby allowing a subscriber to tune simultaneously to multiple channels and content transmitted in the downstream transmission via the DBDS, an advantage over conventional DHCTs. The present invention enables subscribers to receive and view multiple channels and associated content, including electronic program guide information, at will. Furthermore, using the multiple-tuner DHCT of the present invention, subscribers can view multiple television stations and program content simultaneously, without degradation to television signals or pictures.

Preferred systems and methods provide a personal channel for broadcasting personal content to televisions over a network, such as a fiber optic access network. A service provider assigns a personal channel identifier to a broadcaster. This identifier allows viewers to tune to the personal channel. The broadcaster sends personal content to the service provider together with a list of authorized viewers for that personal content. The service provider stores the personal content and makes it available as specified by the subscriber for viewing. When requested, the service provider sends the personal content to the specified set top boxes on the assigned personal channel identifier. By tuning the set top box to the broadcaster's channel, viewers may view the personal content on television as though it were broadcast from any network television station.

The invention records real-time radio and television listener data utilizing automated, interactive questions and radio and television broadcast audio segments recorded by telephone, including wireless cell phones. Telephone users are asked to hold their phone in the direction of any broadcast audio they are hearing or listening to. Streaming program audio directly from radio and television broadcasts is matched to the program audio recorded from telephone users using computer audio matching technology. When an audio match is made, recorded data will automatically populate an alpha/numeric database creating a record including fields for identifying the radio or TV station, time of recording, the phone user's 10 digit telephone number and demographic information on the listener. Demographics may be obtained prior to the call or by automated interactive questioning, during a call, with the phone user responding to questions verbally or by pushing appropriate keys on the telephone keypad.

The invention relates to a system and a controlling method for realizing remote control interaction in a virtual three-dimensional scene. An interactive control system solves how to carry out the interaction and control on a virtual studio scene, animation and an object in the scene by an operator. The system mainly comprises three modules: first, a three-dimensional producing and real-time rendering module; second, a playing and controlling module; third, an interactive module. The interactive module includes subsystems such as a wireless remote control subsystem, a voice recognizing subsystem, an image recognizing subsystem, a position tracking subsystem (an action recognizing subsystem), a touch screen subsystem (a visual multimedia playing and controlling interface and a multi-point touch controlling method are provided), and the like. A three-dimensional real-time rendering engine can be driven by the playing and controlling module by the operator through various interactive methods, thus realizing the selectively instant playing of the virtual scene and the controlling of the virtual object. The system can be applied to virtual studios of television stations and other virtual interactive demonstrating occasions.

The invention discloses a uniform authentication realizing method, in particular to an Active Directory-based uniform authentication realizing method applied to a backbone network of a TV station. The prior uniform authentication method can not cross a domain and uniformly authenticates among a plurality of browsers simultaneously. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, user information is uniformly configured in an Active Directory server; when a user successfully logs in one application system for the first time, a conversation token is obtained and stored; when the user logs in the other application system by the conversation token, the application system authenticates the legality of the conversation token by the Active Directory server; and if the conversation token is qualified, login is successful. The system can realize the single login of all application systems in different domains in the TV station, and the application systems can be of a B/S or C/S structure.

The invention relates to a multi-media electronic reciprocal teaching system which belongs to the technical field of multi-media electronic reciprocal teaching and comprises a large-screen reciprocal touch display, a stereoscopic display, acoustic equipment, a control host computer, network equipment and courseware. Any one computer is connected with the large-screen reciprocal touch display through a USB interface and connected with the large-screen reciprocal touch display through a video cable, the audio output of the computer is connected with the acoustic equipment, the computer is connected to a campus network for calling the courseware; the control host computer is connected to the stereoscopic display through a video cable, the audio output of the control host computer is connected with the acoustic equipment; and the host computer is connected with the campus network for realizing calling the stereoscopic courseware. The invention can be widely applied to occasions of classrooms in schools, studios in television stations, meeting rooms in large companies, exhibition, scheduling and directing places and the like.

Described herein is technology, e.g., systems, devices, and/or software, for matching available advertisements to unused advertising space for television programming. In some implementations, advertisers post the commercials that they want to run, and stations post the time slots that have not yet been sold to advertisers. Asking prices for the stations' time slots are compared with the price offered by the advertiser for running the commercial, selection criteria of both the advertiser and the station are compared, and commercials that need to be run are matched with the unsold time slots. Data necessary to run the commercials that have been matched is routed between the advertisers and stations.

The utility model relates to a method and the device for interactive watching the television programs, belonging to the television field. When playing the television programs, the traditional television video output equipment can not realize the interaction between the television video output equipment and the users because the users only can watch passively and can not put forward suggestions while watching. The utility model is characterized in that a television station caption identification module is added on the base of the traditional television video output equipment and is connected with the server; the television station caption identification module confirms the television station and the specific programs watched by users, then sends the information to the server; the information is feedback to the television video output equipment as a reference to the users after counted by the server. The utility model enables the users to evaluate or vote the television programs or the comperes while watching the television programs, and realizes communication and interaction between the users and the television programs, and increases the entertainment experience of the users.

The biggest bottleneck in the Internet today is caused by the slow speed of routers, compared to the speeds that are achieved by optic fibers with DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing). Packet switching or something similar to it is needed not just for better utilization of the lines, but also because it is superior to circuit switching in many ways, such as better scalability as the Internet grows, better handling of traffic congestions, and better routing flexibility. But optical routers are currently unable to do packet switching except by translating the data to electronic data and then back, which is very inefficient. The present invention solves this problem by optically marking and detecting the packet headers or parts of them, translating at most only the headers or parts of them to electronics for making packet switching decisions, and keeping the rest of the packets in optical delay lines, and solving response-time problems in the router, so that the crude optical switches can execute the packet switching decisions at fast bit rates. This solution has very high scalability and becomes even more efficient when physical addresses are used. Another optimization described in this invention is improving routing efficiency and bandwidth utilization by grouping together identical data packets from the same source going to the same general area with a multiple list of targets connected to each copy of the data and sent together to the general target area. These grouped packets are then preferably broken down into smaller groups by the routers in the general target area and finally broken down to individual data packets for delivering to the final actual destinations. This optimization works best with Physical addresses, and can be very useful for example for optimizing the access to very popular sites such as for example Yahoo or CNN, and can be used also for example for more efficiently transferring streaming data, such as for example from Internet radio stations, or Internet TV stations which will probably exist in the next years. Another important optimization is a new architecture and principles for routing based on physical geographical IP addresses (such as for example based on GPS), in a way much more efficient than has been previously discussed in the literature that suggested using physical (geographical) addresses. This is preferably based on a hierarchy similar to a hierarchical road system, so that preferably the MAIN routers (and/or intermediary-level routers) are preferably also connected directly and preferably with high-bandwidth as peers between each other, without having to go through lower-level routers in order to reach their peers, so that once a higher-level router (and especially if it's one of the MAIN routers) decides to forward a packet (or a group of packets) to a higher-level peer, preferably the packets don't have to go through lower level routers. However, conversion from the current architecture to the new one can be done very easy, as shown in the description below.

Internet streaming from broadcast radio or television stations is described wherein triggers for dynamic content from internal or external systems cause an encoder system to generate command messages, and to synchronize those command messages with any delays associated with the triggering events. Command messages are delivered through a streaming media distribution system to client media players which obtain or present the dynamic content, in association with any desired configuration changes to the appearance of the media player or the method or manner in which the dynamic content is presented.

The invention is applicable to the field of multimedia application, and provides a station caption identifying method and device. The station caption identifying method comprises steps of: intercepting an image in a predetermined area of the current screen, isolating the image of a station caption after multi-frame images in the predetermined area of the current channel are accumulated; obtaining the category of the station caption by a pre-trained station caption categorizer; and matching the station caption with each pre-stored station caption template image belonging to the category, so as to determine the current channel. According to the station caption identifying method and device, after being isolated, the station caption is matched with station captions which are pre-stored and are effectively categorized by using the effective template matching method, the identifying method based on the category and the identifying method based on the template matching are effectively combined, so that not only can the false positive rate be effectively reduced, but also the high-efficient identifying speed and the high rate of identification are provided.

A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to all the television stations regardless of their geographic location and other user specific information, and need not re-transmit the advertisement even if there is a change in the show's program description. When the advertisement is displayed, the correct updated information is retrieved from the EPG database and inserted into the advertisement.

In one aspect, the present invention describes a method for modifying an advertisement in an EPG comprising the steps of: storing television schedule information in a first database; storing advertisement information in a second database; incorporating a portion of the television schedule information into a portion of the advertisement information to form a modified advertisement; and displaying the modified advertisement on a screen.

A remote controller for use with cable or satellite provided TV program signals in which an original "over the air" TV station's real channel assignment (such as channel 38) may be instead translated to a virtual channel (such as channel 14) by the cable or satellite service provider. The viewer may enter the TV station's real channel value and the remote controller automatically converts it to the virtual channel value prior to sending it as command to the controlled device, such as a TV-set, cable box or satellite receiver. Similarly, "over the air" TV station channel numbers which have not been intermediately translated (such as 4, 5, 12, etc.) may be entered by the viewer and directly sent to the controlled device. Additionally, single digit entries may be automatically prefixed with a leading ø to reduce likelihood for an entry error by the user.

The invention relates to a broadcasting PGM (Probabilistic Graphical Model) master-slave output one-click emergency system and a broadcasting PGM master-slave output one-click emergency method. The system is of a structure that master and slave program signal links are respectively formed by master and slave broadcast control workstations, master and slave inverters, master and slave video servers, a plurality of video-audio distributors and master and slave switching equipment; and the master and slave program signal links are respectively connected with two input ends of a 2*1 switch arranged on a control panel at the output end of the master switching equipment. According to the invention, a control signal link and the program signal links are adopted; a last-level signal inversion control mode adopted by a conventional broadcasting system is changed; once the abnormal condition of a current link broadcast signal is monitored, the 2*1 switch can be directly inverted to a backup link by the universal control panel; the complex fault judgment process is saved; the working pressure of a broadcasting operator on duty in a television station is reduced; the fault judgment process is simplified; the timely observation and the rapid processing on a fault are implemented; and a broadcasting accident is effectively avoided.

The invention discloses a method and system for live broadcasting of network TV stations based on video conferencing. The right to share the real-time signal of the video conference to the public Internet in the form of broadcast; Internet users can access through various devices and in various forms, and arbitrarily choose to watch the online live broadcast of the designated conference room or network TV studio; and use The technical advantages of webcast effectively extend the limitations of video conferencing, so that more users are no longer restricted by many factors such as region, time, and traditional live program receiving mode, and can watch online real-time live broadcast through the Internet .