109 results about "Video overlay" patented technology

A programmable multimedia controller, including audio and video switches, controls audio video, telephony, data, security, motor-operated, relay-operated, and / or other types of devices. Modules of the controller receive and output audio and video in a number of analog and digital formats, allowing the system to be interconnected to a wide range of devices. Small form factor general purpose personal computers may be operatively connected to provide processing power for the system, and to execute application programs. Further, a personal DVD player, or another device capable of displaying data and generating an audio output in response to user selection, may be used to control the programmable multimedia controller as part of embedded control technique. Additionally, a video overlay feature which allows video images, still frames, graphics, and / or text to be overlaid at any desired location of a display screen, is provided in some embodiments.

Disclosed is a system for viewing video having segmented video objects, sharing selected ones of the video objects, and purchasing products associated with the video objects. The system includes a video server communicating with a consumer server over a distributed network. The video server includes at least one video file, an object inventory database, and relevant content in a database stored on or accessible to the video server. The object inventory database contains information describing a location of at least one video object within the at least one video file. A video overlay links the relevant content with a given video object and creating a selectable hyperlink whose position tracks a dynamic location of the video object in the video. The consumer server includes a software application for accessing and displaying the at least one video file stored in the video database, the software application including means for interacting with the video overlay to select an object displayed in the video file.

A gaming machine includes gaming electronics for projecting a game image onto a gaming machine display associated with the gaming machine. The gaming machine is coupled over a network to a host computer that keeps track of data corresponding to a casino patron such as loyalty bonus information, player ID, and so forth (“player tracking data”). The player tracking data is transmitted from the host computer to a gaming machine responsive to identification of the casino patron operating the machine via an electronic card reader. The player tracking data is received by a machine communication interface within the gaming machine and further processed for display by a video overlay device that combines the game image with the player account display information. Accordingly, both the game (e.g. slot machine) and the player account information can appear on the same display monitor.

A system and method for placing reference locators on a streaming video image taken from a camera mounted on a vehicle. Sensors monitoring the camera field of view and direction of the optical axis along with sensors monitoring the vehicle's position are used to generate a video overlay having various indicia. The calculated positions of the indicia may be compared to the position of landmarks taken from the video image to compensate for any inaccuracies in the calculated position taken from the various sensors.

Methods and systems for creating video overlay advertisements suitable for use with digital videos. In one embodiment, values specifying attributes of a desired video overlay advertisement are entered via a browser-based user interface functioning on a client device and communicated to a server. The server receives the values and in response provides to the client device a video overlay advertisement having the desired attributes, which the client displays within the browser-based user interface.

A telestration system comprises a telestration server configured to communicate with an arbitrary number of telestration clients over a network. The telestration server is further configured to receive telestration input signals from respective ones of the clients and to send telestration output signals to the respective clients, with the telestration output signal sent to a given one of the clients comprising telestration information derived from the telestration input signal received from at least one other one of the clients. Each of the clients with the support of the telestration server can generate a combined telestration overlay for presentation with associated visual content shared between the clients.

The present invention provides methods and systems for advertising in connection with a video segment. Methods are provided in which a time-spaced sequence of video overlay advertisements are displayed. Advertisements of the sequence may be user-interactive and may relate to subject matter of the video segment displayed during display of the advertisements. A later one or more advertisements of the sequence may relate to, or tie together, each of several of the preceding advertisements of the sequence, and may be provided as part of, or may help provide, a reward to the user for interaction with each of the several preceding advertisements.

The systems and methods of the present invention provided a web browser based content management application with an integrated user configurable content interface whereby a user can manage a wide variety of content, including multimedia content, using a single window. The user interface includes a “browser window in a browser window” that provides transparent access to a host of underlying applications that are configured to manage the user's interaction with a wide variety of content, including multimedia content delivered via the Internet. Additionally, the windowing functionality of the content management application can be set to automatically reconfigure based on the number and type of content being accessed. A continuously playing video player is configured to appear within a first web page when a user browses to the first web page and to render video overlayed on the first web page. The player is configured to play the same video stream continuously while a user browses from the first web page to a second web page.

A video server provides video content to a client via a network. At the instruction of the video server, a player at the client contacts an ad server and downloads one or more creatives and a controller file to the client. The controller file indicates how the creative manifests itself in play. The player displays the video content in a display area at the client. The controller file causes the creative to appear as an animated overlay over the video content. User interface elements indicate the point in the video when the creative appears, and allow the user to minimize and replay the creative. The player can also display other creatives, such as a static creative that is associated with the animated creative. A user can select the creative to view additional information about a product advertised by the creative.

A graphics system reduces fetching from memory of color-key pixels when video pixels from a video-overlay window are displayed. A frame buffer is divided into multi-line, multi-pixel blocks that are arranged in block-rows and block-columns. Each block-row has primary and secondary row indicator bits and each block-column has two column indicator bits. When the primary row indicator bit is cleared, all pixels in the block-row are fetched from a frame-buffer memory. When the primary row indicator is set, a secondary row indicator bit selects either first or second column indicator bits for reading. When the selected column indicator bit for a block-column is set, fetching of pixels from the frame buffer memory is skipped. Instead, dummy color-key pixels are generated and inserted into the pixel stream. These dummy pixels match the color key and cause video pixels to be sent to the display. Memory fetching is reduced.

A method and apparatus for retrieving information relevant to tracked objects appearing in a display of a video signal is disclosed. The method is performed by a viewing computer having stored thereon an augmented display tool. In response to a user requesting the video signal, a content directory storing content information relevant to the tracked objects is acquired from a video-overlay server. The augmented display tool causes the viewing computer to acquire and display the video signal and record a time measurement and spatial coordinates of each point selected by a viewer using a pointing device. The augmented display tool uses the content directory to find an object identifier corresponding to each selected point and extracts relevant information from a global object directory maintained at the video-overlay server.

A system and method of guided video creation is described. In an exemplary method, the system guides a user to create a video production based on a set of pre-defined activities. In one embodiment, the system detects a selection of an item in a shotlist. In response to the item selection, the system stores structured metadata about the selection, opens the video camera and displays a dynamic video overlay relevant to the item selection. In addition, the system detects contact with an overlay button in the dynamic video overlay configured to toggle visibility of the dynamic video overlay. The system further receives a command to save a recorded clip of video content, stores additional metadata for the recorded clip of the video content, and updates the respective item in the shotlist.

Raman interference (also known as Raman scattering) during an idle frame transmission state in a passive optical network (PON) having radio frequency video overlay is reduced by generating and transmitting data packets having both random data and random length. Randomly varying both the packet data content and the packet length can achieve significant improvement in Raman interference reduction. The random packet data and length in effect spreads the interference across a spectrum wide enough that there is no interference effect perceptible to a television viewer.

A method and system for superimposing a ruler on a visual representation of a surgical procedure is presented. The design includes providing a reference object while recording the visual representation of the surgical procedure, scaling the ruler to correspond to the reference object within the visual representation of the surgical procedure, and superimposing the ruler from the scaling on the visual representation for subsequent viewing.

Methods, apparatuses, systems and software for focusing a camera are disclosed. The camera focusing system includes a distance measuring device, a video receiver that receives video / images, a graphics overlay unit, and a monitor. The distance measuring device includes an emitter that emits a radiation beam, a detector that detects reflected radiation, and logic that determines and processes distance information for subject(s) or object(s) in detection zones from the reflections. The graphics overlay unit receives video / image information from the video receiver and the distance information from the distance measuring device, and includes a video overlay and data processing unit that generates graphics indicating a field of detection and position for each detection zone and a direction and / or magnitude of a change in focus setting(s) to bring subjects or objects within each detection zone into focus. The monitor displays the video / image and the graphics overlaid thereon.

The present disclosure relates to an augmented reality contents generation and play system. The augmented reality contents generation and play system includes an image acquisition unit configured to include a preview mode in which an image which is input through a lens is displayed on a screen and a shooting mode in which, if an image to be shot is displayed in the preview mode, the image is captured by operating a shooting button and the captured image is converted into an image file; a storage unit configured to store an image which is obtained from the image acquisition unit when the shooting button is pressed and video information which is automatically obtained for a predetermined time based on a shooting point of time; a mapping unit configured to map the image which is stored in the storage unit onto a video which is stored in the storage unit; an augmented reality processing unit configured to recognize an image corresponding to a marker from the image which is obtained by the image acquisition unit, configured to call the video mapped onto the image, and configured to overlay the video on a position of the marker on a screen in the preview mode; and a control unit configured to control a process of generating and playing contents by using an augmented reality contents.

An interactive game system includes a specially prepared DVD game disk with video images such as of a game show, and game data and instructions encoded within the VBI data on the disk. A game control unit receives all of the video signals recorded on from the DVD including both video images and the VBI data, extracts the VBI data, and uses the VBI data in conjunction with a plurality of handheld player inputs to allow users to select and answer game questions. The game control unit keeps track of whether the player inputs were correct or incorrect, the players' cumulative scores in accordance with their answers, and displays the players cumulative scores as video overlay on top of the recorded video images to be sent to a video display such as a standard television set. The game control unit controls chapter selection on the user's particular DVD player model via a programmable wireless transmitter, and performs other logic, video, and audio generating and processing functions to allow a highly interactive game playing experience for multiple players.

A video overlay switching apparatus and method utilizes a common video scaler that receives input video data. A programmable switching mechanism, such as a register-controlled multiplexer, receives video information from the video scaler, either scaled video or unscaled video, and selectively routes the video data to any one of a plurality of video overlay generators to facilitate selective display of overlay data on a specified display device. The programmable switching mechanism also facilitates programming of frame buffer space for each display engine, based on which video overlay generator has been selected to receive input video.

Methods, apparatuses, systems and software for focusing a camera are disclosed. The camera focusing system includes a distance measuring device, a video receiver that receives video / images, a graphics overlay unit, and a monitor. The distance measuring device includes an emitter that emits a radiation beam, a detector that detects reflected radiation, and logic that determines and processes distance information for subject(s) or object(s) in detection zones from the reflections. The graphics overlay unit receives video / image information from the video receiver and the distance information from the distance measuring device, and includes a video overlay and data processing unit that generates graphics indicating a field of detection and position for each detection zone and a direction and / or magnitude of a change in focus setting(s) to bring subjects or objects within each detection zone into focus. The monitor displays the video / image and the graphics overlaid thereon.

A method for aerial refueling situational awareness is described. The method includes providing, to a display, a video image of the refueling environment, and providing at least one video overlay onto the video image, the at least one video overlay indicative of a positional relationship between an aircraft to be refueled and a tanker aircraft, the at least one video overlay including at least one guidance cue to assist in the alignment and coupling of the aerial refueling boom with the receiving aircraft receptacle.

The invention discloses an interactive digital TV display mode. The interactive digital TV display mode is characterized in that a system used by the interactive digital TV display mode comprises a television (101), a set top box (102), a related network (103), a service system (104), a memory system (105), video information source (106) and interactive information (107), wherein the video information source (106) and the interactive information (107) are stored in the memory system (105), managed by the service system (104), sent to the set top box (102) by the related network (103), and displayed by the television (101) after being analyzed by the set top box (102), in the content displayed, the video information source is taken as a background, the interactive information is taken as a foreground, and the interactive information is floated on the video information source by using a technology of video overlay. According to the interactive digital TV display mode, the advantage of the digital TV set top box can be fully played, an interactive characteristic can be embodied, and the visual experience and the operational experience of users can be improved.

The invention discloses a video objective generating device, including a main control module, performing information interaction with a host computer through a serial communication interface, initializing a video signal generating module through a data bus, and appointing an operating status for the target information overlaying module; a video signal generating module, outputting video signal components in different formats, and then taking the video signal components as the input of the target information overlaying module, after a driver circuit amplifying the video signal components and increasing its drive capability; a target information overlaying module, composed of a field-programmable logic gate array and a video overlaying module. The field-programmable logic gate array takes the line field blanking signal or a synchronizing signal as the time sequence base, and generates target information and transmits to the video overlaying module; the video overlaying module receives the composite synchronizing signal, and then generates a target; the generated target video information is taken as the video input of the device to be detected. The use of this system is conducive to the development, with a lower cost; and the invention can be used as a general-purpose module which is widely used in a variety of video systems required to generate simulated targets.

The invention discloses a technology for realizing real-time subtitle overlay during a video call and applications of the technology. The technology comprises subtitle software, and comprises the following steps: S1, a voice recognition algorithm, namely, through a machine learning algorithm, capturing audio data in a video in real time, and converting the audio data into language data with practical meaning; S2, a character converting algorithm, namely, carrying out algorithm processing on the acquired voice data so that character information is obtained through converting in real time; S3, asubtitle display algorithm, namely, carrying out real-time character-by-character or word-by-word display on the character information; S4, an automatic sentence punctuating algorithm, namely, analyzing an audio file, so that the starting and pausing points of one sentence are acquired; and S5, a character and audio / video overlay method, namely, directly displaying characters to a video interfacein an overlay manner, so that video captions are formed, wherein the video interface does not assign the display positions of the character subtitles. Through the technology for realizing real-time subtitle overlay during a video call and the applications of the technology, after the complete sentence is acquired, all the displayed characters can be updated according to the meaning of the complete sentence.

A method and system for remote monitoring of an earthmoving machine provide machine video with overlaid graphical indicators via a video display at an operator center. In an embodiment, video data and machine data encompassing machine operational parameters are captured at the machine. The video data and the machine data are transmitted to the operator center and graphical indicators are generated at the operator center, with each graphical indicator corresponding to a separate machine operational parameter. The machine video data is then displayed on a display screen at the operator center with the graphical indicators overlaid on the displayed video in multiple separate region of the display screen.

A sales administration system that manages online sales via overlays on a video stream. Customers can comment on or respond to the video stream, and may order products using simple phrases such as “Sold”. The system can stream video with overlays to multiple clients simultaneously, including websites and mobile apps. Comments from all clients are received, aggregated, processed for orders, and displayed to the sales administrator. The system is coupled to a merchant's operational data, providing immediate visibility to changes in inventory and orders. Video overlays may be updated automatically by the system as this operational data changes, for example highlighting products with low stock. The system may analyze customer comments and orders both during the video stream and after the sales session is complete, and may generate recommendations to improve sales effectiveness. For backorders, customers may preauthorize charges to be at the front of the queue for shipment.

A device for overlay of text or graphics onto video to trigger video recording on a motion sensitive video recorder for non-motion events.

An interactive television application is provided in which advertisements may be targeted based on current media. Targeted advertisements may be displayed in displays such as program guide information screens and video overlays. Advertisements are targeted and selected for display or excluded from display based on identifying which advertisements are associated with a current media or recently watched media. Media groupings are provided to associate media with groups of advertisements. Selection of advertisements for each media grouping can be based on programs, channels, network affilitation, sponsorship, genre or other suitable criteria.