| 6851090 |
Method and apparatus for displaying program recommendations with indication of strength of contribution of significant attributes |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for displaying available television programs with an indication of the strength of the contribution of one or more program attributes or features to the overall recommendation... |
| 6820238 |
Rotary control for quick playlist navigation in a vehicular multimedia player |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A multimedia player having a limited user interface achieves quick and easy navigation within a large playlist of stored digital audio files by employing the rotary volume control knob in a separate mode... |
| 6801957 |
Information-outputting apparatus and connection-relation management method |
| Oct-5-2004 |
An IEEE 1394 I/F circuit detects, through a digital I/O terminal, pieces of information each peculiar to one of electronic apparatuses connected to an information-outputting apparatus by using a digital... |
| 6781610 |
Motor vehicle multimedia system having animated display |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Disclosed is a motor vehicle multimedia system comprising: a display apparatus; a control unit for actuating the display apparatus; and a selection apparatus for a first plurality of selection areas display... |
| 6774918 |
Video overlay processor with reduced memory and bus performance requirements |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method of video overlay processing and a system thereof. On-screen display (OSD) data for generating an image on a display device are downloaded to an OSD unit on an integrated circuit. The OSD data... |
| 6774917 |
Methods and apparatuses for interactive similarity searching, retrieval, and browsing of video |
| Aug-10-2004 |
Method for interactive selecting video consisting of training images from a video for a video similarity search and for displaying the results of the similarity search are disclosed. The user selects a... |
| 6772335 |
Multimedia coordination system |
| Aug-3-2004 |
In a network, a media coordination system provides secure multimedia communication channels in a collaborative network environment. The media coordination system provides automatic encryption, dynamic... |
| 6772110 |
Method and system for converting and plugging user interface terms |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method and system for dynamically changing user interface terms in the help feature to the user interface language chosen by the user as opposed to the help feature language, and for converting and plugging... |
| 6765590 |
AV device control apparatus |
| Jul-20-2004 |
An AV device controller for controlling networked devices with a graphical user interface (GUI). An interface section obtains GUI information from a controlled device. A GUI storage section stores the... |
| 6762773 |
System and method for providing a context-sensitive instructional user interface icon in an interactive television system |
| Jul-13-2004 |
Icons representing a plurality of interactive options periodically available within an interactive television system are stored in an icon repository. Each interactive option corresponds to a button on... |
| 6760042 |
System and method of processing MPEG streams for storyboard and rights metadata insertion |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for storyboard thumbnail and video rights metadata insertion is provided for preventing unauthorized use of restricted video frames of a previously encoded... |
| 6757866 |
Hyper video: information retrieval using text from multimedia |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 6756997 |
Systems and methods for displaying and recording control interface with television programs, video, advertising information and program scheduling information |
| Jun-29-2004 |
The present invention is an improvement over previous Electronic Programming Guides ("EPG") in that it provides, among other things: Improved viewer interaction capabilities with the EPG; improved viewer... |
| 6753883 |
Printed medium activated interactive communication of multimedia information, including advertising |
| Jun-22-2004 |
The present invention describes a revolutionary new device bridging the gap between the virtual multimedia-based Internet world and the real world, best exemplified by print media. More particularly, the... |
| 6748421 |
Method and system for conveying video messages |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and system (100) for conveying a video message is disclosed. Video data comprising at least image data and associated audio data is captured and a video message structure (401) is created. A link... |
| 6747673 |
Method, software product and system for reproducing video/audio data |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A memory in a video/audio-processing unit retains data of video and audio received from a video mail system and data of new input video and audio. According to user operations, a video/audio-processing... |
| 6747672 |
Virtual patient hot spots |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method of simulating an encounter with a virtual patient includes displaying an image of the virtual patient, receiving user selection of an area of the image of the virtual patient, and transmitting... |
| 6745252 |
Network control system, controller, and device |
| Jun-1-2004 |
When a plurality of display parts, or icons, such as "play" or "stop" are displayed on a screen, information about the positional relationship in which these icons will be laid out on the screen is first... |
| 5956482 |
Multimedia information service access |
| Sep-21-1999 |
Real time delivery of multimedia information accessed either through the Internet, or otherwise, simultaneously, or sequentially time delayed to one more users, is enabled by delivering the multimedia... |
| 5956025 |
Remote with 3D organized GUI for a home entertainment system |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A remote control device for a home entertainment system has a GUI with touch screen functionality. The visible part of the GUI is hierarchically organized in several control levels. All levels have consistent... |
