公开(公告)号：US09510062B1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-29

申请号：US14825691

申请日：2015-08-13

申请人： THIS TECHNOLOGY, INC.

发明人： John Raymond Mick, Jr.

IPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/8547 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/858

CPC分类号： H04N21/6379 ,  H04N21/23614 ,  H04N21/26208 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8455 ,  H04N21/8586

摘要： A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

摘要翻译： 服务器可以从内容信息服务接收与传输信号流中的特定内容相关联的元数据。 元数据可以标识传输信号流的时间点。 服务器可以指示编码器将标记插入与传输信号流的时间点相对应的传输信号流中。 标记可以指示在传输信号流的时间点之后由传送平台执行的特技模式的控制。 服务器可以将标记记录在与服务器相关联的数据存储器中。

公开(公告)号：US09414129B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-09

申请号：US14096394

申请日：2013-12-04

申请人： Vizio Inc.

发明人： Matthew Blake McRae

IPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04H60/66 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/8358

CPC分类号： H04N21/8352 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/375 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04H60/66 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/6581 ,  H04N21/8358

摘要： A tuner device, such as a television set, set top box, game console, personal computer with a dongle or device, creates digital fingerprints indicative of information received over a channel. The digital fingerprints are uploaded to a server along with metadata indicative of the specific tuner device that obtain them. The server maintains a tuner database based on that information, and can automatically request new fingerprints.

摘要翻译： 诸如电视机，机顶盒，游戏机，具有加密狗或设备的个人计算机之类的调谐器装置创建指示通过频道接收的信息的数字指纹。 将数字指纹与表示获得它们的特定调谐器装置的元数据一起上传到服务器。 服务器根据该信息维护调谐器数据库，并可以自动请求新的指纹。

公开(公告)号：US09277182B2

公开(公告)日：2016-03-01

申请号：US11852954

申请日：2007-09-10

申请人： Mitch C. Jacobs

发明人： Mitch C. Jacobs

IPC分类号： H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04H20/10 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/06 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04H20/74

CPC分类号： H04N7/165 ,  H04H20/103 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H20/74 ,  H04H60/06 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/26241 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： A system and method includes an automation system generating a modified content signal from a content signal by inserting insertion material into the content signal during a break and a monitoring system monitoring the content signal. The automation system controls the automation system to return to the content signal in response to monitoring the content signal when the break ends on the content signal before an end of the insertion material.

摘要翻译： 一种系统和方法包括一个自动化系统，该系统通过在中断期间将插入材料插入到内容信号中以及监视内容信号的监视系统，从内容信号生成修改的内容信号。 自动化系统控制自动化系统，以便在插入材料结束之前，当内容信号上的断点结束时，响应于监视内容信号而返回到内容信号。

公开(公告)号：US09106964B2

公开(公告)日：2015-08-11

申请号：US13763247

申请日：2013-02-08

申请人： Verance Corporation

发明人： Jian Zhao

IPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/4784 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/454 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/0249 ,  H04N21/23892 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/4542 ,  H04N21/4784

摘要： Methods, devices, and computer program products are provided to enhance viewing of an entertainment content in the presence of advertisements. At a compliant device, an indication is received that the entertainment content is associated with a content policy information relating to presentation of advertisements during, or prior to, presentation of the entertainment content. A further indication is received that the entertainment content is associated with an advertisement award program. An advertisement award program message provides that the advertisements may be presented in a modified form in exchange for a specific number of award points. Upon receiving an indication agreeing to such an exchange, advertisements are allowed to be presented in a modified form. The content policy information can be ascertained through extraction of watermarks embedded in the advertisements or the entertainment content and/or through computation and matching of fingerprints associated with the advertisements or the entertainment content.

摘要翻译： 提供方法，设备和计算机程序产品以增强在广告存在下观看娱乐内容。 在兼容设备处，接收娱乐内容与在娱乐内容的呈现期间或之前呈现广告相关的内容策略信息的指示。 接收到娱乐内容与广告奖励节目相关联的进一步指示。 广告奖励计划消息规定，广告可以以修改的形式呈现，以换取特定数量的奖励积分。 在接收到同意这种交换的指示时，允许以修改的形式呈现广告。 可以通过提取嵌入在广告或娱乐内容中的水印和/或通过与广告或娱乐内容相关联的指纹的计算和匹配来确定内容策略信息。

公开(公告)号：US08965547B2

公开(公告)日：2015-02-24

申请号：US13593016

申请日：2012-08-23

申请人： Stefan Wabnik ,  Joerg Pickel ,  Bert Greevenbosch ,  Bernhard Grill ,  Ernst Eberlein ,  Giovanni Del Galdo ,  Stefan Kraegeloh ,  Reinhard Zitzmann ,  Tobias Bliem ,  Marco Breiling ,  Juliane Borsum

发明人： Stefan Wabnik ,  Joerg Pickel ,  Bert Greevenbosch ,  Bernhard Grill ,  Ernst Eberlein ,  Giovanni Del Galdo ,  Stefan Kraegeloh ,  Reinhard Zitzmann ,  Tobias Bliem ,  Marco Breiling ,  Juliane Borsum

IPC分类号： G06F17/00 ,  H04K1/02 ,  H04R29/00 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04H60/33

CPC分类号： G10L19/018 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04H60/33

摘要： A watermark signal provider provides a watermark signal suitable for being hidden in an audio signal when the watermark signal is added to the audio signal, such that the watermark signal represents watermark data. The watermark signal provider includes a psychoacoustical processor for determining a masking threshold of the audio signal; and a modulator for generating the watermark signal from a superposition of sample-shaping functions spaced apart from each other at a sample time interval of a time-discrete representation of the watermark data, each sample-shaping function being amplitude-weighted with a respective sample of the time-discrete representation, multiplied by a respective amplitude weight depending on the masking threshold, the modulator being configured such that the sample time interval is shorter than a time extension of the sample-shaping functions; and the respective amplitude weight also depends on samples of the time-discrete representation neighboring the respective sample in time.

摘要翻译： 当水印信号被添加到音频信号时，水印信号提供器提供适于隐藏在音频信号中的水印信号，使得水印信号表示水印数据。 水印信号提供器包括用于确定音频信号的掩蔽阈值的心理声学处理器; 以及调制器，用于在水印数据的时间离散表示的采样时间间隔处从彼此间隔开的采样整形功能的叠加产生水印信号，每个采样整形功能用相应样本进行幅度加权 所述时间离散表示根据掩蔽阈值乘以相应的幅度权重，所述调制器被配置为使得所述采样时间间隔短于所述采样整形功能的时间延长; 并且相应的振幅权重也取决于相应样本在时间上相邻的时间离散表示的样本。

公开(公告)号：US08943530B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-27

申请号：US13540084

申请日：2012-07-02

申请人： Marc A. Todd

发明人： Marc A. Todd

IPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  H04N17/00 ,  H04N21/647

CPC分类号： H04N21/23418 ,  H04N17/004 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/266 ,  H04N21/437 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/44213 ,  H04N21/64723 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： The present disclosure relates to a system and method for monitoring audio-video (AV) streams transported over a network. The system may include an AV probe deployed between an AV tuner and AV destination customer premise equipment. The AV probe may receive an incoming AV stream. The AV probe may generate a thumbnail stream by capturing thumbnails of the incoming AV stream. The AV probe may transmit, substantially in real-time, the thumbnail stream to a monitoring engine and the incoming AV stream to the AV destination customer premise equipment.

摘要翻译： 本公开涉及用于监视通过网络传输的音频 - 视频（AV）流的系统和方法。 该系统可以包括部署在AV调谐器和AV目的地客户端设备之间的AV探测器。 AV探测器可以接收输入的AV流。 AV探测器可以通过捕获进入的AV流的缩略图来生成缩略图流。 AV探测器可以基本实时地将缩略图流传输到监视引擎和传入AV流到AV目的地客户端设备。

公开(公告)号：US08850467B1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-30

申请号：US13837576

申请日：2013-03-15

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation ,  University College Dublin

发明人： John Fitzpatrick ,  Paul B. French ,  James P. Galvin ,  Patrick W. McDonagh ,  Patrick J. O'Sullivan

IPC分类号： H04H60/33 ,  H04H60/45 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H60/32 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29

CPC分类号： H04N17/04 ,  G06K9/00744 ,  G06K9/00758 ,  H04N17/004

摘要： A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more transmitted frame identifiers that are mathematical representations of one or more transmitted video frames included within a multi-frame video. One or more video frames included within the multi-frame video are received, thus defining one or more received video frames. A mathematical representation of each of the one or more received video frames is generated, thus defining one or more received frame identifiers. The one or more received frame identifiers are compared to the one or more transmitted frame identifiers to determine a level of similarity between the one or more received video frames and the one or more transmitted video frames.

摘要翻译： 一种计算机实现的方法，计算机程序产品和用于接收作为多帧视频中包括的一个或多个被发送的视频帧的数学表示的一个或多个传输帧标识符的计算系统。 包含在多帧视频内的一个或多个视频帧被接收，从而定义一个或多个接收到的视频帧。 生成一个或多个接收的视频帧中的每一个的数学表示，从而定义一个或多个接收到的帧标识符。 将一个或多个接收到的帧标识符与一个或多个发送的帧标识符进行比较，以确定一个或多个接收的视频帧与一个或多个发送的视频帧之间的相似度级别。

公开(公告)号：US08789084B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-22

申请号：US13096977

申请日：2011-04-28

申请人： Hans M. Glitsch ,  Ajay Shah

发明人： Hans M. Glitsch ,  Ajay Shah

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04H20/14

CPC分类号： H04N21/2407 ,  G06F17/30026 ,  G06F17/30056 ,  H04N21/4394

摘要： An audio channel of a time-based media presentation provides a basis for synchronizing to the presentation across a variety of platforms independent of when and where the presentation is being viewed. By pre-processing the media into a series of non-unique hashes, and similarly processing an audio stream of the media captured at a client device, a comparison can be made that yields an accurate time offset within the presentation. The comparison may usefully be performed over a data network using a server that hosts data from the pre-processed media, and a variety of applications may be deployed on the client device based on the resulting synchronization.

摘要翻译： 基于时间的媒体呈现的音频频道提供了在各种平台上同步到演示的基础，而与观看时间和地点无关。 通过将媒体预处理成一系列非唯一的散列，并且类似地处理在客户端设备处捕获的媒体的音频流，可以进行比较，从而在呈现内产生准确的时间偏移。 该比较可以有效地通过使用承载来自预处理媒体的数据的服务器在数据网络上执行，并且可以基于所得到的同步在客户端设备上部署各种应用。

公开(公告)号：US08781298B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-15

申请号：US13253913

申请日：2011-10-05

申请人： James M. Barton ,  Kevin P. Smith ,  David Chamberlin ,  Howard Look

发明人： James M. Barton ,  Kevin P. Smith ,  David Chamberlin ,  Howard Look

IPC分类号： H04N9/80 ,  H04N5/92 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/29 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/025 ,  G06F3/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04N5/445

CPC分类号： H04N9/79 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/28 ,  G11B27/322 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N7/088 ,  H04N7/165 ,  H04N9/7921 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N9/8063 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N9/8233 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4305 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4884 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8455 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： A closed caption tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver receives the broadcast stream and detects and processes the tags within the broadcast stream which is stored on a storage device that resides on the receiver. Program material from the broadcast stream is played back to the viewer from the storage device. Tags indicate the start and end points of a program segment. Program segments such as commercials are automatically replaced by the receiver with new program segments that are selected based on various criteria.

摘要翻译： 闭路字幕标签系统提供了在传输之前或传输时将标签插入到音频或视频电视广播流中的机制。 标签包含接收器翻译和操作的命令和控制信息。 接收机接收广播流，并检测并处理存储在位于接收机上的存储设备上的广播流内的标签。 来自广播流的节目素材从存储装置播放给观众。 标签表示程序段的起点和终点。 节目片段（如广告片段）将被接收者自动替换，并根据各种标准选择新节目片段。

公开(公告)号：US20130339992A1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-19

申请号：US14002208

申请日：2011-03-18

申请人： Masao Oki

发明人： Masao Oki

IPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/81

CPC分类号： H04H20/14 ,  G06Q30/0241 ,  G06Q30/0242 ,  G06Q30/0272 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G09G3/3611 ,  G09G2330/12 ,  G09G2360/145 ,  G09G2360/16 ,  G09G2380/06 ,  H04N21/2146 ,  H04N21/4122 ,  H04N21/41422 ,  H04N21/42202 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： The present invention is an in-train information display apparatus that displays advertisement content to a passenger. The in-train information display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display the advertisement content, a display monitoring unit configured to photograph a video screen which is displayed on the display unit and actually seen from the passenger, and a display-result determining unit configured to calculate color-related information, which is information concerning a color of the video screen, based on an image photographed by the display monitoring unit and determine, based on the calculated color-related information and reference information for display result determination, which is information concerning a color of the advertisement content normally displayed on the display unit, whether the display of the advertisement content has been normally performed.

摘要翻译： 本发明是向乘客显示广告内容的列车内信息显示装置。 列车内信息显示装置包括：显示单元，被配置为显示广告内容;显示监视单元，被配置为拍摄显示在显示单元上并从乘客实际观看的视频屏幕;以及显示结果确定单元， 基于由显示监视单元拍摄的图像来计算与视频屏幕的颜色有关的信息的颜色相关信息，并且基于所计算的颜色相关信息和用于显示结果确定的参考信息来确定哪个信息是信息 关于通常显示在显示单元上的广告内容的颜色，是否正常地执行广告内容的显示。