摘要:
An interactive television program guide application on an interactive television system that determines approximated information using historical content is provided. The interactive television program guide application may retain and store interactive television program guide information. Using the available information, the interactive television program guide application may determine approximated information when information is not available or has not been received.
摘要:
The present invention relates to methods and systems for extracting digital content using an interactive television application. The interactive television application may allow the user to record programs on a set-top box. The interactive television application may also allow the user to extract the audio from one of the recorded programs and transfer the extracted audio to removable media (e.g., a CD-R). The interactive television application also be configured to perform a future transfer of digital content to removable media. The future transfer may occur without requiring any further user interaction.
摘要:
Apparatus and methods are disclosed which are most advantageously used with a digital computer for detecting the location of multiple cursors in a computer memory having parity bits. In one embodiment of the present invention, the normal parity checking scheme of the computer memory is modified, such that the parity bit is used to detect data locations containing cursor data. Writing new data to the frame buffer is implemented as a read-modified-write cycle. In another embodiment of the present invention, the parity checking of the computer memory is no longer used as such. Instead, the memory controller has a mode that forces the parity bit to one of two states, independent of the contents of the data location. Rather than writing to the frame buffer as a read-modify-write cycle, the memory controller detects the location of the cursor by reading the state of the parity bit while writing the contents of the data location associated with the parity bit. As a result of implementing the present invention, the CPU spends less time manipulating the cursors while maintaining a high frame buffer access bandwidth.