摘要:
The invention relates to a method of forcing a user to view a first announcement, when a user prevents a second announcement, embedded in a stream of audiovisual information, to be shown on a display, where the first announcement and the second announcement are equivalent to each other. The announcement may be a commercial. This prevention can be achieved either by skipping the announcement or by zapping to a different channel. The invention further relates to an apparatus capable of detecting whether a user has viewed an announcement or whether he has skipped it. The apparatus is also capable of displaying a second announcement which is equivalent to the skipped announcement.
摘要:
A motion estimation apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium capable of detecting scrolling text or graphic data, which can provide information of whether text or graphic data scrolling in a horizontal direction on a screen exists and information related thereto.
摘要:
A portal for a communications system that includes a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center. The portal includes a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying an arrangement of cells, each cell including a visual object and an underlying application. A user input device enables user inputs to select one of the cells. The portal provides simple and intuitive access to the wide variety of services currently offered, and to be offered in the future, in communications systems.
摘要:
An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access information related to television programs over an Internet communications link. The user can view television program guide listings and related video stills and video clips. The user can perform database searches on the program guide listings (e.g., to search for a particular type of television program). If desired, the user can select an option that directs the multimedia system to tune directly to a television channel for a selected program or to a related television program guide or movie guide service on a television channel. The user can order pay-per-view events using the system.
标题翻译:VERFAHREN ZUM ABLIEFERN VON INFORMATIONEN,DIE DAS ZUSAMMENLAUFEN DER PROGRAMMIERUNG MIT DER BENUTZUNG DES INTERNETS UND ANDERER MEDIEN ERLEICHTERN
摘要:
A method is disclosed for displaying a commercial to a television viewer. The method has a first step of: (a) transmitting a television signal such that a first area of a television monitor screen (30) displays a commercial, and such that a visually distinct stripe runs horizontally across the bottom of the television screen (30). The stripe displays information that is descriptive at least of an Internet (18) address of a site that is related to goods or services depicted in the commercial. The method has a second step of: (b) either during the commercial or after the commercial, operating a device that provides Internet (18) access to reach the site using the displayed information. In the preferred embodiment the television monitor screen (30) has a total height, and the stripe has a height that comprises about 12 % of the total height.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the display of advertising material on a personal versatile recorder (PVR) 10 during trick play modes. Television or other program material 20 is stored on a PVR. Advertising material is also stored on the PVR. One or more memory devices (e.g., program file 20 and ad file 30) may be provided for storing the program material and advertising material on the PVR. A display engine 40 is provided which is associated with the one or more memory devices for providing display output 50. A motion control engine 70 is used to direct the display engine 40 to merge the advertising material 30 with the program material 20 during PVR trick play modes such that the advertising material 30 is displayed, e.g., on a display device 100. The trick play modes may include pause, scan forward, scan backward, jump, still frame display, and the like. An ad selection engine 60 may be provided for controlling the advertising material to be displayed.
摘要:
An integrated DSS/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS programs, Internet web sites, and local broadcast channels in a seamless fashion. The DSS/WebTV receiver generates a graphical user interface (GUI), displayed on a television screen, for facilitating a user's navigation through the DSS, Internet, and local broadcast data. The GUI includes user-selectable icons for filtering and/or selecting the received data, a scrolling ticker region for displaying information about upcoming DSS events and providing access to related Internet web sites, and a decimated video region for displaying, in reduced form, DSS programs that are currently being broadcast.
摘要:
An electronic program guide that assists a user to navigate through a variety of digital and analog feeds made available by digital television technology is provided. Features such as allowing the user to purchase items, allowing the user to choose the content of the display screen, enabling more efficient use of black areas, among others are provided. Default settings based on prior user settings is provided to allow for an automatically customized environment. This automatic customization may entail, for example, the automatic resizing of windows based on the user's prior preferences. Also provided is a feature that allows for the automatic activation of a local or remote application through the user's set-top box based on the content currently being viewed.
摘要:
In one aspect, a method involves (i) accessing data representing a traffic schedule for a television broadcast; (ii) selecting a record from the traffic schedule, wherein the record identifies a video source; (iii) determining a type of the identified video source; (iv) using the determined type of the identified video source as a basis to select a DVE; and (v) causing a computing device to run the selected DVE, wherein running the selected DVE causes the computing device to generate a modified version of an input video stream received from the identified video source.