Abstract:
A device for recording an information signal in a record carrier without loss of part of an information signal at the beginning of a recording, includes a processing circuit for processing an information signal and for supplying a recording information signal, an input device for supplying activation information and wait information, and an operating device for recording, after the activation information, a recording information signal in the record carrier and, after the wait information, for consecutively overwriting storage in a temporary store. An area of the record carrier is selected as the temporary store, and the operating device starts consecutively overwriting storage of a recording information signal in the selected temporary store after the wait information, and stops a consecutively overwriting storage after the activation information.
Abstract:
The system, apparatus and method, of the present application offers the viewer a set of typical virtual channel types based on some predefined or definable category, e.g., news channel, which includes predefined default settings and behavior. These typical virtual channel ‘templates’ make it very easy for a viewer to specify a virtual channel. For example, for a news channel, the default behavior is to only keep the most current coverage, for a series, the default behavior is to keep all until watched. Such a typical virtual channel can be selected explicitly or implicitly. In addition, a virtual channel wizard is provided by the system, apparatus, and method of the present invention that interactively guides a viewer through setting up own templates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for suggesting television programs to a user, the method comprising: maintaining a set of preferred features of television programs, suggesting those television programs to the user for which at least one preferred feature is applicable, updating of the set of preferred features by input of the user whenever the user makes a choice from the presented television programs, presenting the preferred features which are applicable for the chosen television program whenever a program is chosen, accepting at least one preferred feature selected by the user, and updating the set of features with the help of the feature selected by the user. By selecting the feature regarded as most relevant for the user, the system obtains more information from the user, so that the learning process can be executed within a shorter time so that the user may dispose over a usefully limited selection in an earlier stage. The invention also relates to an apparatus for executing the method according to the invention.
Abstract:
A recommender engine (107—1, 107—2, 107—3) recommends further content items for playout on a personalized content channel on the basis of a profile (109—1, 109—2, 109—3) associated with that personalized content channel. The profile (109—1, 109—2, 109—3) includes an indication of the user's “like” and “dislike” of content items played out on said personalized channel.
Abstract:
A method and a device for performing an automatic dubbing on a multimedia signal This invention relates to a method and a system for performing automatic dubbing on a multimedia signal, such as a TV or a DVD signal, where the multimedia signal comprises information relating to video and speech and further comprises textual information corresponding to the speech. Initially the multimedia signal is received by a receiver. The speech and the textual information are then, respectively, extracted which results in said speech and textual information. The speech is analyzed resulting in at least one voice characteristic parameter, and based on the at least one voice characteristic parameter the textual information is converted to a new speech.
Abstract:
In an address information provision device (10) which is provided to provide address information (Aji) for transmission of information to a receiver (Rj) to whom at least two address information records (Aji) are assigned, a memory stage (12) for the storage of at least two address information records (Aji) assigned to the receiver (Rj) is provided, wherein each address information (Aji) defines a transmission method for transmission of the information, and a selection stage (15) is also provided, to which representation information (RI) representing the transmission information to be transmitted may be supplied and which, depending on the representation information (RI) supplied, is designed to select and provide one or more address information records (Aji).
Abstract:
In a method for preventing unwanted use of encoded digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′), provision is made for authorization-to-use information (BBI1, BBI2; BBI1′, BBI2′) to be made available to a data-sink device (3), which authorization-to-use information (BBI1, BBI2; BBI1′, BBI2′) is made available separately from the digital data (D1, D2; D1′D2′), is intended for authorizing use of the digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′) by the data-sink device (3) and comprises at least the blocking information (BL1, BL2; BL1′, BL2) for blocking further availability of the digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′) plus decoding information (DC1, DC2; DC1′ DC2′), which decoding information (DC1, DC2; DC1′ DC2′) is associated with the digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′), is intended for decoding the digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′) and is available to the data-source device (4) before the authorization-to-use information (BBI1, BBI2; BBI1′, BBI2′) is made available to the data-sink device (3), and in which method a withdrawal of the availability of the decoding information (DC1, DC2; DC1′ DC2′) to the data-source device (4) also takes place.
Abstract translation:在防止编码数字数据(D 1,D 2; D 1'D 2')的不期望使用的方法中,提供授权使用信息(BBI 1,BBI 2; BBI 1',BBI 2' )被提供给数据宿设备(3),该授权使用信息(BBI 1,BBI 2; BBI 1',BBI 2')与数字数据(D 1,D 2; D 1'D 2')旨在授权数据接收设备(3)使用数字数据(D 1,D 2; D 1'D 2'),并且至少包括阻塞信息 用于阻止数字数据(D 1,D 2; D 1'D 2')的进一步可用性加解码信息(DC 1,DC 2; DC 1'DC 2)的BL 1,BL 2; BL 1',BL 2) '),将解码信息(DC 1,DC 2; DC 1'DC 2')与数字数据(D 1,D 2; D 1'D 2')相关联,用于解码数字数据 1,D 2; D 1'D 2'),并且在授权使用信息(BBI 1,BBI 2)之前可用于数据源设备(4) ; BBI 1',BBI 2')可用于数据宿设备(3),并且在哪种方法中将解码信息(DC 1,DC 2; DC 1'DC 2')的可用性撤回到 数据源设备(4)也发生。
Abstract:
A recording arrangement (2) includes a first receiving device (25) for receiving an analog video signal (AVS1) and a second receiving device (10) for receiving a digital video signal formed by an MPEG transport stream (TS1), at least one video packet of a received MPEG transport stream (TS1) containing video data encoded in accordance with an MPEG video encoding method (MPEG2 standard (video): ISO/IEC DIS 13.818-2), and further includes a video processor (11) for processing a received video signal (AVS1, TS1) and for supplying an MPEG transport stream (TS3), and also includes a recording device (16) for recording a digital recording data stream (ADS) containing an MPEG transport stream (TS3) supplied by the video processor (11), the video processor (11) further including a video encoder (30) adapted to encode a. digitized video signal (DVS), supplied by the first receiving device (25), in accordance with a further so-called wavelete video encoding method (Research Positions on wavelete image processing; Dec. 9, 1996) and to supply encoded video data, and the video processor (11) including an inserter (31) adapted to insert the encoded video data (VES1) supplied by the video encoder (30) into at least one data packet of an MPEG transport stream (TS2).