摘要:
A television and camcorder combination include an acoustic echo canceller and a videoconference protocol stack in order to provide videoconferencing capabilities using only a television in combination with an attached camcorder. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
摘要:
A television and camcorder combination include an acoustic echo canceller and a videoconference protocol stack in order to provide videoconferencing capabilities using only a television in combination with an attached camcorder. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
摘要:
The decode rate of an MPEG decoder of streaming video is set to a relatively slow value at the start of a stream to permit playing, albeit at relatively low speeds, of the video until an appropriate number of packets are in a receive buffer, at which time the decode rate is speeded up to normal.
摘要:
When a person uses a first portable music player to wirelessly transmit a tune to a person with a second player in a social networking transaction for playing by the second player for a limited time, if the second person subsequently purchases an unrestricted version of the tune, the first person is compensated.
摘要:
In a TV displaying thumbnails of videos grouped by genre, genre labels are shown so that a user can conveniently move genre to genre with a single click on a remote control device.
摘要:
An arrangement for storing data has a plurality of N storage devices S1 . . . SN, wherein at least one of the storage devices has a storage capacity that not equal to a storage capacity of others of the storage devices. A storage device SMAX has a largest capacity of the plurality of storage devices S1 . . . SN. A fountain encoder encodes the data into F fountain codewords, wherein F = ∑ K = 1 N F K with K being a counting integer; and the fountain encoder distributes the fountain codewords among the N storage devices S1 . . . SN in approximate proportion to the storage capacity CK of each of the N storage devices S1 . . . SN subject to the constraint that enough fountain codewords are stored in each of the N storage devices, to assure that all of the data in all of the N storage devices can be recovered if any one of the N storage devices SP is lost using the fountain codewords stored in the remaining storage devices S1 . . . SN excluding SP. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
摘要:
A system and method for renewing the ability of a component to play digital content. A timer is established, and before the elapse of the timer the component is engaged with a battery charging cradle. By virtue of the component being engaged with the cradle, the timer is reset.
摘要:
A private video telephony system or individual telephone set in which a predetermined video program is transmitted over the telephonic connection to another telephone set to which the first telephone set is connected over the telephone lines when the first telephone set is placed in hold mode.
摘要:
A mobile telephone docking station that makes use of a TV as a display and that allows use of a standard keyboard and mouse to have a faster, more comfortable means to control the phone. Access to all of the cell phone's functions is allowed through the docking station/TV.
摘要:
A swivel mechanism comprising a first swivel portion having a first coupling portion and a second swivel portion having a second coupling portion, the second swivel portion dimensioned for mechanically engaging with the first swivel portion to provide at least a first mechanical coupling position and at least a first data communication channel, wherein the first data communication channel is provided through a hollow cavity formed when the first swivel portion and the second swivel portion are in the first mechanical coupling position and wherein the first data communication channel is configured to convey 60 GHz data signals when the first swivel portion and the second swivel portion are in the first mechanical coupling position.