12 results about "Media content" patented technology

Computing devices capable of internetworking and receiving, storing and viewing programmed (scheduled) television and multimedia content provide a platform for access to a combination of Internet and Television content and services. On this platform, a mix of pre-scripted and live interactive dialog (chat with offered responses) are broadcast by a connected server or servers to provide supplemental entertainment, information regarding programmed content, enhancements to scheduled television advertising, a community experience, and an interface to Internet applications and services. The dialog provides a “Social Interface” allowing fictional and non-fictional characters to interact with viewers. The fictional and non-fictional characters are each emblematic of a specific affinity group categorization, which a user personally identifies with and is drawn to. Selection of an affinity character also provides a filter for selecting internet and broadcast content associated with that character. Second level content is also associated with and mediated by each character. This provides e-commerce opportunities whereby sponsors can direct advertising content based upon factors such as the relative popularity of each character or the demographic group associated with each character.

A method and system for the control, aggregation, and management of television programming and Internet content (both traditional and video sources) and more specifically to the customization of media choices and content based in part on the dynamic editing of content according to user preferences. Affiliate Groups can be used to mark, recommend or provide selective editing of video and other media that can be received by users. Users may join Affiliate Groups and selectively view or have content automatically filtered from the data received in their premises such that the display of the media is less than all of the media received at the premises based on Affiliate Group recommendations. Menus and displays may be created that show preferred media content, additional content generated by the Affiliate Groups. Channel schedules may be pre-filtered or provide customized warnings about objectionable material.

A method of playing multimedia content comprising reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and utilizing a control structure stored on the separate storage medium to alter the playback of the local multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium. A method of providing multimedia content comprising the steps of reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and downloading a control structure to control the display of the local multimedia content.

Apparatus and methods for collaboratively presenting content that is distributed among a plurality of communication devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a control service at a player device to enable communicatively coupled controller devices to control playback of media on the player device, and creating a single play queue at the player device that includes identifiers of media content selected by the controller devices. A stream of particular media content from one of the multiple source devices is received when the particular media content is identified at a top of the single play queue, the particular media content is rendered at the player device, and the rendered media content is presented to users associated with the controller devices.

A multi-media content playback method comprising: detecting a user request to play-back stored multi-media content for a selected program; determining whether a loss of signal (LOS) condition is associated with the stored multi-media content; and if a LOS condition is determined to be associated, alerting the user, prior to play-back of the stored multi-media content, that at least a portion of the multi-media content for the selected program is missing.

The invention discloses a method and a system for media content transmission based on a CDN (Content Distribution Network) and P2P (Peer to Peer) converged infrastructure, belonging to the field of multimedia communication. The method comprises the steps: a source server uploads stored media contents to all CDN network nodes at first; all CDN network nodes segment received media contents and respectively sign and store the media content segments; the CDN network nodes extract the media content segments from the specific CDN network nodes according a content request of a user terminal and transmit the media content segments after the media content segments are fragmented; and the user terminal splices the received content fragments into a content segment and carries out signature verification on the CDN network nodes and the spliced media content segment through a CA (Certificate Authority) certificate chain. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of guaranteeing the content privacy in a transmission process and data completeness and preventing the contents from artificial manipulation and damage, and meanwhile, a segmented signature manner is favorable for reducing the quantity of fragments to be retransmitted when transmission errors occur, so that flow waste is reduced.

In a desktop virtualization environment, a server-side agent can be employed on the server to function as a cast device. Applications executing on a remote desktop will therefore see the agent as a cast device and can direct cast requests to the agent. When the agent receives a cast request, it can forward the cast request to a client-side proxy. The proxy can then transmit the cast request to an actual cast device that is part of the same subnet as the client. In this way, an application executing on the server will be able to seamlessly cast content to a cast device that is not part of the same subnet.

The invention discloses an advertisement charging pile. The advertisement charging pile is characterized in that the advertisement charging pile comprises a charging pile body fixed on the ground; theinterior of the charging pile body is equipped with a PCB mainboard power management module; the upper end of the charging pile body is provided with an oblique plane, on which an advertisement module is arranged; the advertisement module is a liquid crystal display screen; the liquid crystal display screen is connected with the power management module through a data management module; the liquidcrystal display screen is used for touch-control operation and serves as a play carrier for advertisement media content; the power management module is connected with a switch power module; the switch power module is composed of a driving circuit and an AC-DC switching circuit; current of a power supply connected with the power management module is converted from 110V-220V alternating current todirect current; the power management module is connected with a network module composed of a WIFI module, a GPS location module and a 3G module, a storage hard disk and a local area network; the localarea network is connected with a background server; and then, advertisements are pushed through the background server; and a two-dimensional code payment interface of Wechat or Alipay is displayed through the liquid crystal display screen.

A system for detecting how many users are watching a given media device, including audio/visual output means such as a television or computer monitor, a monitoring device such as a television or computer monitor, a video capturing device, server means, and a programmable database that registers the users watching a given media content during a predetermined time in a given space. Monitoring means continuously scans the given space for new, unregistered users to charge them for viewing the media content. Once users have registered and paid for the media content, the content is released from the system's servers or a third party's servers and displayed on the audio/visual output means.

The invention discloses a multimedia implementation method and device based on AR and a two-dimensional code, and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of multimedia, and the technicalscheme comprises the steps: obtaining a first picture which is an initial picture collected by image collection equipment, constructing a three-dimensional model adaptive to the first picture, fusingthe first picture and the three-dimensional model to generate a second picture, acquiring audio information, encoding the second picture and the audio information through a two-dimensional code generation rule to generate a two-dimensional code, and generating a presentation identifier, wherein the presentation identifier comprises the two-dimensional code and the second picture. Compared with theprior art, the method at least has the following beneficial effects that the multimedia content can be displayed in multiple ways by comprehensively applying the AR technology and the two-dimensionalcode technology, the requirement of AR display on the terminal is reduced, and meanwhile, the display content is richer.

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect a set of images locally stored on a computing system. The computing system can be associated with a first user. One or more facial recognition processes can be applied to the set of images. It can be determined, based on the one or more facial recognition processes, that a subset of images, out of the set of images, is associated with a second user. One or more options for the first user to share the subset of images with the second user can be provided.