480 patents
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Utility
Method and system for detecting and responding to changing of media channel
12 Oct 20
A computing system receives from a media presentation device a query fingerprint stream representing media content being presented by the media presentation device, where the query fingerprint stream has been determined to represent a first channel.
Jaehyung Lee, Dewey Ho Lee
Filed: 4 Dec 19
Utility
Method and Device for Generating and Detecting a Fingerprint Functioning as a Trigger Marker in a Multimedia Signal
7 Oct 20
A device is configured to perform a method that detects a trigger marker for an action corresponding to a segment of a multimedia signal.
Job Cornelis Oostveen, Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate, Adrianus Johannes Maria Denissen, David K. Roberts
Filed: 10 Mar 20
Utility
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5 Oct 20
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization based on variant selection.
Robert Coover, Joseph Renner, Cameron A. Summers
Filed: 25 Nov 19
Utility
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28 Sep 20
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) providing, by a playback device, replacement media content for display; (ii) determining, by the playback device, that a remote control transmitted to the playback device an instruction configured to cause a modification to operation of the playback device while the playback device displays the replacement media content; (iii) determining, by the playback device based on the instruction, an overlay that the playback device is configured to provide for display in conjunction with the modification; (iv) determining, by the playback device, a region within a display of the playback device corresponding to the overlay; and (v) modifying, by the playback device, a transparency of the region such that the overlay is visible through the replacement media content when the playback device provides the overlay for display.
Kurt R. Thielen, Shashank Merchant, Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Steven D. Scherf
Filed: 5 Nov 18
Utility
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23 Sep 20
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a broadcast profiling system.
Markus K. Cremer, Rishabh Sharma, Michael Yeehua Chien, Suresh Jeyachandran, Paul Emmanuel Quinn
Filed: 3 Jun 20
Utility
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21 Sep 20
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed.
Michael Jeffrey, Markus K. Cremer, Dong-In Lee
Filed: 14 Nov 18
Utility
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21 Sep 20
A client device accesses a video input stream from an intermediate device for display.
Markus K. Cremer, Peter Dunker, Steven D. Scherf, David Henry Pearce, Sherman Ling Fung Li, Wilson Harron, Konstantinos Antonios Dimitriou, Dewey Ho Lee
Filed: 15 Dec 16
Utility
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16 Sep 20
An embodiment may involve a server device obtaining an audio file containing a story.
Rishabh Sharma, Markus Cremer
Filed: 2 Jun 20
Utility
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16 Sep 20
A media client ascertains a plurality of matching points between (i) query fingerprints representing a media stream being received by the client and (ii) reference fingerprints, each identified matching point defining a respective match between a query fingerprint that is timestamped with client time defined according to a clock of the client and a reference fingerprint that is timestamped with true time defined according to a timeline within a known media stream.
Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Shashank C. Merchant, Kurt R. Thielen
Filed: 1 Jun 20
Utility
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14 Sep 20
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for volume adjustment are disclosed herein.
Robert Coover, Jeffrey Scott, Markus K Cremer, Aneesh Vartakavi
Filed: 6 Jan 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
Example methods and systems for inserting information into playing content are described.
Vadim Brenner, Markus K. Cremer
Filed: 19 May 19
Utility
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19 Aug 20
The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described.
Prashant Ramanathan, Jose Pio Pereira, Shashank Merchant, Mihailo M. Stojancic
Filed: 6 May 20
Utility
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19 Aug 20
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels.
Jaehyung Lee, Chung Won Seo, Youngmoo Kwon
Filed: 9 Jan 20
Utility
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12 Aug 20
In an example implementation, a method is described.
Dale T. Roberts, Randall E. Cook, Markus K. Cremer
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Utility
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10 Aug 20
An embodiment may involve a server device transmitting, over a wide area network, a first playlist with a first duration to a client device.
Rishabh Sharma, Markus Cremer
Filed: 14 Jan 20
Utility
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5 Aug 20
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content.
Donald F. Gordon
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
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3 Aug 20
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content.
Donald F. Gordon
Filed: 2 May 19
Utility
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3 Aug 20
Methods of processing video are presented to generate signatures for motion segmented regions over two or more frames.
Jose Pio Pereira, Mihailo M. Stojancic
Filed: 24 Sep 18
Utility
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3 Aug 20
Example methods and systems for modifying the playback of content using pre-processed profile information are described.
Vadim Brenner, Markus K. Cremer, Michael Becker
Filed: 19 Jun 16
Utility
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29 Jul 20
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) presenting, by a playback device, first media content from a first source; (ii) encountering, by the playback device, a trigger to switch from presenting the first media content from the first source to presenting second media content from a second source; (iii) determining, by the playback device, that the playback device is presenting the first media content from the first source in a muted state; and (iv) responsive to encountering the trigger, and based on the determining that the playback device is presenting the first media content from the first source in a muted state, presenting, by the playback device, the second media content from the second source in the muted state.
Markus K. Cremer, Shashank Merchant
Filed: 12 Apr 20