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Program Searching for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
3 Nov 22
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for providing content searching for people with visual impairments or blindness.
JESSE SOOKNE, KARINA LEVITIAN, CHRIS TEGETHOFF, ABHIJIT POL, ANTHONY WOOD
Filed: 21 Jul 22
Utility
Generating playback configurations based on aggregated crowd-sourced statistics
1 Nov 22
A processor and a memory connected to the processor store instructions executed by the processor to collect playback statistics including audio attributes or video attributes associated with playback of specified content from multiple devices, aggregate the playback statistics, and establish a playback configuration for the specified content based on the playback statistics.
Pat Brouillette, Frank Maker
Filed: 23 Dec 19
Utility
Content-modification system with local avail detection feature
1 Nov 22
An example method includes determining, over a particular time-period and at a periodic interval, a viewer count of content-presentation devices receiving content on a channel from a non-local content-distribution system and, based on the viewer count, identifying, within the particular time-period: (i) a first time-period having a threshold consistent viewer count for a first threshold duration, (ii) a second time-period where there is a drop in the viewer count by a threshold amount and the drop lasts for a second threshold duration, and (iii) a third time-period where the viewer count returns to an amount within a threshold range of the threshold consistent viewer count for a third threshold duration.
Rimi Sahu, Sandeep Badam, Krzysztof Mokszan, Raghavendra Sunku, Karthik Hireyemmiganur Rangappa, Virginie Marie Debelair, Subha Joshi, Marie Elizabeth Urmano
Filed: 28 Oct 21
Utility
Ambient light sensor based picture enhancement
1 Nov 22
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for adjusting an output of a media device to a display device based on measurement data from the ambient light source.
Sukhdeep S. Gosal
Filed: 22 Jul 21
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Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature
1 Nov 22
One high-level aspect of a content-modification system and related methods may involve facilitating content modification by a content-presentation device of received broadcast content in a controlled manner, while under circumstances in which some events that can impact timing may be unpredictable.
Shashank Merchant, Bruce William Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Jeffrey Holmquist
Filed: 19 Feb 21
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Non-television experience triggers
25 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing content outside the confides of a television so as to enhance user experience of the content.
Samir Tiongson Saxena
Filed: 19 Nov 18
Utility
Content-modification system with volume-level detection feature
18 Oct 22
Methods and systems for volume-level detection in content-modification system are disclosed.
Matthew George Grover
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Radio frequency remote control
18 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for remotely controlling a media device.
Greg Garner, Tito Thomas, Carl Sassenrath, Scott De Haas
Filed: 12 Nov 20
Utility
Ad-hoc lightweight mPOS remote control
18 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are a device, method, and system for dynamically activating a lightweight mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) within a remote control creating an ad-hoc payment system within a media system.
Neil Edward Johnson
Filed: 31 Oct 19
Utility
Real-time Assessment of Multimedia Service In a Particular Environment
13 Oct 22
Some embodiments include assessing multimedia service in a particular environment, determining in real-time whether an extender device would improve the multimedia service in the particular environment, and communicating a recommendation via a graphical user interface (GUI).
Amalavoyal Narasimha CHARI, JIm FUNK, Sujatha JAGANNATHAN, Liang-Jong HUANG, Jason SCHMIDLAPP, Tito THOMAS, Ilya ASNIS
Filed: 23 Jun 22
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High Precision Synchronization In a Shared Medium
13 Oct 22
Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for high precision device synchronization of electronic devices in a shared medium.
Jan Neerbek, Bjorn Reese, Brian Moller
Filed: 24 Jun 22
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Dynamic video overlays
11 Oct 22
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: 14 Jul 20
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Content-modification system with feature for detecting and responding to a content modification by a tuner device
11 Oct 22
In one aspect, a method is performed by a computing system that is in communication with a content-presentation device, where the content-presentation device is scheduled to perform, at a modification start-time, a content-modification operation that comprises modifying a modifiable content-segment that the content-presentation device is scheduled to receive.
Steven Michael Cormie, Brian Patrick Jentz, Stefanos Christakis Liassides
Filed: 29 Jan 21
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Content Modification System With Viewer Behavior-Based Content Delivery Selection Feature
6 Oct 22
A method includes determining, by a computing system, a probability of whether at least a threshold portion of a particular advertisement will be presented on a particular content presentation device, and a cost associated with presentation of the particular advertisement on the particular content presentation device.
Matthew Grover
Filed: 22 Jun 22
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Proving physical possession of internet-of-things (IoT) devices
4 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for determining physical possession of one or more IoT devices.
Gregory Mack Garner, David L. Stern, David A. Westerhoff
Filed: 13 Oct 21
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Use of primary and backup instances of supplemental content to facilitate dynamic content modification
4 Oct 22
A method and system to help facilitate dynamic content modification.
Matthew Grover
Filed: 3 Sep 21
Utility
Media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison
4 Oct 22
A computing system will compare various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system will determine that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints.
Chung Won Seo, Youngmoo Kwon, Jaehyung Lee
Filed: 21 Jan 21
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System of capture and sharing of media
4 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a system of capturing and sharing media.
Gregory M. Garner
Filed: 11 Mar 21
Utility
Dynamic Domain-adapted Automatic Speech Recognition System
29 Sep 22
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for adapting an automated speech recognition system to provide more accurate suggestions to voice queries involving media content including recently created or recently available content.
Atul KUMAR, Elizabeth BRATT, Minsuk HEO, Nidhi RAJSHREE, Praful Chandra MANGALATH
Filed: 26 Mar 21
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Content-Modification System With Feature For Prioritizing Channels Used In Channel Identification
29 Sep 22
In one aspect, a method includes identifying a group of content-presentation devices that are each tuned to a same first channel and identifying, from the group, (i) a first sub-group of content-presentation devices that each have a respective content-transmission delay that is lower than a threshold delay and (ii) a second sub-group of content-presentation devices that each have a respective content-transmission delay that is greater than or equal to the threshold delay.
Matthew Grover
Filed: 19 Jul 21