625 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.

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 system and method are disclosed for performing audience surveys of broadcast audio from radio and television. A small body-worn portable collection unit samples the audio environment of the survey member and stores highly compressed features of the audio programming. A central computer simultaneously collects the audio outputs from a number of radio and television receivers representing the possible selections that a survey member may choose. On a regular schedule the central computer interrogates the portable units used in the survey and transfers the captured audio feature samples. The central computer then applies a feature pattern recognition technique to identify which radio or television station the survey member was listening to at various times of day. This information is then used to estimate the popularity of the various broadcast stations.

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 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 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.

The invention belongs to the field of building materials and construction technologies and relates to nano foamed concrete, a reinforced insulation wallboard and a preparation method of the reinforced insulation wallboard. The nano foamed concrete disclosed by the invention is prepared from the following ingredients in parts by weight: 100 parts of cement, 0.1-5 parts of desulfurized oil coke ash residue, 0.012 part of waterproofing agent, 10-30 parts of fly ash, 0.1-6 parts of superplasticizer, 50-200 parts of water, 1-20 parts of foamer and 0.01-5 parts of nano wave absorbing agent. Thus, when a wallboard product, prepared by embedding steel wire meshes in the nano foamed concrete disclosed by the invention, is applied nearby airports, docks, navigation marks, television stations and receiving stations or applied to concrete-based retaining walls of electromagnetic wave interference preventing scientific research departments, precise instrument plants and information leakage prevention high-grade buildings of national confidential units and the like, the most basic physical, mechanical, heat preservation and heat insulation properties are guaranteed on one hand, and the wallboard product has the capabilities of lowering noise and insulating sound on the other hand.

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.

A display system for suspending visuals for exhibit, training or advertising made up of an assembly of commercially available items, and used to display a banner or sign in a manner that is particularly useful on the set of a local television station. One embodiment has elastic cords, slotted tubular members, floor anchors, cord hooks, cord locks and a ceiling interface. When a rigid sign is situated with its bottom edge positioned in the lower tubular member slot and its top edge in the upper tubular member slot, the sign is suspended for viewing. In another embodiment, horizontal rods are supported by two tubular members with portions of the rods extended beyond the ends the tubular members. Several banner clips are used to clip a banner to the portions of the rods extending beyond the ends of the tubular members to suspend the banner for viewing. Other embodiments incorporate more than one set of either slotted tubular members or rod-supporting tubular members, or a combination of slotted tubular members and rod-supporting tubular members.

A method and apparatus for enabling IP service subscribers to share media contents with other IP service subscribers or Internet users in either a secured or open fashion are disclosed. In one embodiment, the present invention enables the sharing of home movies, pictures, and other media contents, where media could be stored media or media created in real-time. Namely, the present method allows IP service subscribers to effectively create their own TV station, e.g., complete with stored or live content programming and content scheduling. In turn, the method allows a viewing subscriber to select and view a shared media program created by another subscriber.

Described are a method and apparatus for incorporating broadcast television into Web pages. Broadcast television can be embedded into Web pages using, for example, a “tv:” attribute in conjunction with common HTML tags. Within the “tv:” attribute, a Web-page author can reference a TV station by channel number, network, or broadcast call letters. HTML documents are parsed to recover both the conventional tags and tags that include TV attributes. The resulting Web pages display the identified broadcast TV in a frame specified by the TV attribute. One embodiment supports the presentation of television in the background of an HTML document. In that embodiment, HTML tags corresponding to overlying HTML content are provided with an attribute that defines a level of transparency from zero to one-hundred percent. The transparency attribute allows content providers to overlay any type of HTML information over a broadcast television show without completely obscuring the underlying show. This aspect of the invention employs a z attribute that can be used to specify the relative position of broadcast television and overlying HTML content.

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for causing transmission of Web contents from a Web site to a home client computer in synchronization with the broadcasting of a TV program. Two systems for implementing said synchronization are provided including, (1) Server-Side Synchronization in which said synchronization is performed at the server sides: the TV broadcasting system is provided with a synchronization system for sending synchronization signals to the TV station's Web site; in response thereto, said Web site will send the Web contents or data associated with the TV program to the clients; and (2) Client Remote-Control Synchronization in which said computer is provided with application system for receiving and responding to signals transmitted from a conventional TV / VCR remote control device such that, when the TV channel is switched by said remote control device, the Web site accessed by the home computer will also be switched.

CW lock is conducted with less manual operation. A first input 22 receives a black burst (BB) signal from a key TV station. A second input 30 receives a continuous wave (CW) signal having an accurate, known frequency. A phase adjust signal generator 24 generates a reset signal having a known phase relationship with regard to the key TV station BB signal. The reset signal is used as a phase adjust signal. A PLL 32 receives the CW signal to provide clock. A counter 34 receives the clock and provides a frame pulse signal for synchronizing the key and local TV signals at a local TV station wherein the BB signal of the local station may be derived from the frame pulse signal. The counter 34 uses the reset signal to adjust the phase relationship between the key TV station BB signal and the frame pulse to a desired phase relationship based upon the key TV station BB signal.

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 discloses a method for obtaining television program information, which comprises the following steps: a mobile application shoots a television video program picture through a camera of a mobile terminal, displays a box on the shot picture, and embraces the television station sign in the video program picture with the box; the mobile application obtains the television station sign part in the picture, and analyzes the sign to fix the television station playing the video program; the mobile application obtains the specific video program information that the television station is playing according to EPG (electronic program guide) information and current time; and the mobile application presents the obtained specific video program information through a display screen of the mobile terminal. Meanwhile, the embodiment of the invention also provides a mobile terminal. Through the embodiment of the invention, the interesting television program information can be obtained and shared without manual input.

A real-time music information retrieval system and methods for providing desired music information via text message to radio or television stations listeners through wireless communication devices. Listeners could retrieve information for the song that is currently being played at the radio and television station, or the songs that have previously been played. A system and method is provided to automatically send an alert message the radio and television station listeners of upcoming music broadcasting events.

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.

One of the most frustrating things when recording for example songs from the radio is that many times by the time the user decides that he / she would like to record for example some song, the beginning of the song is already lost. Or the user might zap between radio stations and tune into the station after the song has already started or for example after the beginning of an interesting conversation or message or News item and is frustrated that he missed the beginning of it. Similarly, for example while zapping through cable TV stations, a user might find for example a fascinating scientific program or a fascinating report and regret that he / she had not seen or recorded it from the start for later reference. The idea of retroactive recording and / or replay has existed already since 1990 and there are a number of patents about it, but they do not deal with the problem of enabling retroactive recording and / or replay also when the user is zapping between channels for example on Radio or on TV. The present invention describes an improved system and method for automatic time-shifted retroactive recording or replay, that applies retroactive recording and / or replay also to a situation of switching between channels. Additional improvements and possible implementations are also shown, including for example improved zapping speed which can be used also without retroactive replay / recording.

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.

A system and method for generating weather reports and the like which are precisely computed automatically for a particular individual user's geographic location and which are provided automatically to the individual user. A user establishes an individualized user profile in which the user defines a particular location of interest, a contact address, and optionally, a personalized activity weather condition profile, establishing a preferred weather condition profile for activities of interest. A detailed and accurate weather forecasting model is run to provide high geographical and temporal resolution forecast data. The resulting modeled forecast data may be constrained by an operator using a constrainer module. The high resolution forecast data is compared to the individual user profile and personalized weather report for the particular location, times, and conditions of interest are provided automatically to the individual, e.g., via e-mail and / or at a personalized internet web page. A detailed weather forecast report may be provided in an easily readable tabular form, with notable weather conditions, e.g., daily high and low temperatures, highlighted. The high resolution forecast data may be generated locally for a limited region, e.g., at a television station for the station's viewing area, using initialization conditions provided from a central location, and / or for a wider region, e.g., the entire country, using a less high resolution weather forecast module.

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 .