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A method of telling stories in multiple streams simultaneously. Imagine, for example, channel 20 and channel 21 (of whatever delivery system or, alternatively, 2 internet streams) each showing a portion of the same story, e.g., one stream or channel showing the point of view of one character and the...

This invention describes a 3D color video camera to record and reproduce stereoscopic colored video images with three dimensional effect in real time. In this invention, images are recorded together with the depth information of the filmed objects measured by a sonar system. With this information, i...

Like many people across the country, after a long day of work, you want to relax. So you come home to relax to grab your favorite drink and head to your favorite chair to watch your favorite show. Unfortunately, once again you can't find the remote! Whether it was due to the children watching cartoo...

This puzzle is available as an App i-Phones of Apple, Android, Blackberry and i-Pads of Apple. The Search words are "Clean Slate for Sudoku". This by far gives one the best slate for solving a Sudoku puzzle of any level. One can start solving, and always go back to correct errors without ever ge...

An Interactive Web-feed/television broadcast dual display system that enables a user to access any information currently available on the Internet without disrupting a television broadcast he/she may be currently watching. Web-based content is selected at the will of the viewer and is displayed on a...

A device for use with a frame generating portion that is arranged to receive picture data corresponding to a plurality of pictures and to generate encoded video data for transmission across a transmission channel having an available bandwidth. The frame generating portion can generate a frame for ea...

Disclosed is an image encoder that divides a digital image into a set of "macroblocks." If appropriate, a macroblock is "downsampled" to a lower resolution. The lower-resolution macroblock is then encoded by applying spatial (and possibly temporal) prediction. The "residual" of the macroblock is cal...

An interactive display device of a preferred embodiment includes a display surface and a touch interface associated with the display surface. A first LCD layer generates a dynamic parallax barrier and a second LCD layer generates stereoscopic images in cooperation with the first LCD layer. A light s...

A system is disclosed for executing depth image-based rendering of a 3D image by a computer having a processor and that is coupled with one or more color cameras and at least one depth camera. The color cameras and the depth camera are positionable at different arbitrary locations relative to a scen...

Methods and systems for obtaining an alpha matte for an image are disclosed. First and second known portions of an image are determined. The alpha matte for the image is estimated based on an initial fuzzy connectedness (FC) determination between the entire image and the first and second known porti...

A peer-to-peer (P2P) video-on-demand (VoD) system or method use a plurality of LP-enabled VoD set-top box (STB) peers in a pool for providing video content data to a requesting client peer in the pool. One other peer in the pool can be designated as a parent peer for downloading high priority playba...

Non-destructive imaging of an object. An imaging head supported on a rotatable arm samples an electric field scattered by the object at a plurality of locations as the arm rotates about a central axis, with the locations corresponding to a defined spatial domain located remotely from the object. One...

Systems and methods for panoramic imaging are disclosed herein. An exemplary system of the disclosed subject matter for panoramic imaging includes a fisheye lens, a mirror optically coupled to the fisheye lens, and a detector for capturing light incident on the fisheye lens and reflected from the mi...

A system for obtaining a relatively high dynamic range image of a scene is disclosed, using a relatively low dynamic range image sensor. An array of image sensors each has a preset sensitivity level in accordance with a predetermined sensitivity pattern for the array, and a respective response funct...

The invention presents catadioptric (single-camera) sensors using one or more mirrors to produce rectified stereoscopic images. By combining multiple views (using the mirrors) to form a composite stereo image that is already rectified (i.e., has scan-line correspondence), the invention aids provisio...

Systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional (3D) images are described. In particular, the systems can include a display block made from a transparent material with optical elements three-dimensionally disposed therein. Each optical element becomes luminous when illuminated by a light ray. T...

Standard video compression techniques apply motion-compensated prediction combined with transform coding of the prediction error. In the context of prediction with fractional-pel motion vector resolution it was shown, that aliasing components contained in an image signal are limiting the prediction ...

A video surveillance system includes a plurality of video sources, at least one processing server in communication with the video sources, and at least one monitoring station viewing video from the video sources. The video sources are distributed over a target area to be monitored by the surveillanc...

An apparatus comprising a sensor assisted video encoder (SaVE) configured to estimate global motion in a video sequence using sensor data, at least one sensor coupled to the SaVE and configured to generate the sensor data, and a camera equipped device coupled to the SaVE and the sensor and configure...

Disclosed is a system for a 3-dimensional display that includes at least one eyepiece having first and second eyepiece sockets, having a first display contained in said first eyepiece socket associated with a first eye, two eye cameras mounted such that a first eye camera tracks eye reference points...

A system and methodology that can optimize practical performance by reducing broadcast latency and collisions in a multihop wireless network is provided. The system includes an optimization component that determines a schedule for transmitting and/or receiving messages at nodes in the network during...

The method of the invention can be used for taking shots using a plurality of optoelectronic sensors (Oi to O'i) in order to create a final sequence of combined images that can be displayed on screens adapted to this image combination. It comprises the physical or virtual distribution of the optoele...

A method for starting a service of the network Television is disclosed, which comprises: sending a joining request message which carrying multicast program channel information based on the Internet Group Management Protocol, via the connection of a physical link, before an Internet Protocol network...

A method for reserving and playing digital television (DTV) programs, a set top box, and a DTV playing system are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method comprises: displaying a prompt indicating multiple DTV programs to be played at the same time to the subscriber when or b...

A method for starting an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service is provided, which includes the following steps. Before the terminal accesses an IP network, an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)-based join request message carrying multicast program channel information is sent via a physi...

The present invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for hiding programs. With the technology solution, which involves obtaining a sub-EPG identifier, receiving a total EPG, which contains sub-EPG identifiers and sub-EPGs each of which corresponds to one of the sub-EPG identifiers and...

A video encoding decoding method and device and a video codec are provided. The video encoding method includes the following steps. A first view picture is basic-layer encoded as a reference view picture, prediction information is extracted in combination with a second view picture, and the second v...

At the time content is to be utilized, position information regarding personal information is prevented from being revealed to other people. An image capturing unit 250 generates a captured image. A position information obtaining unit 220 obtains position information at the time the captured image i...

A frame rate is determined in accordance with the smoothness in movement of a video. An amount of change detection section extracts an amount of change based on a plurality of frame pictures included in an input video signal input as a moving picture signal from the outside and outputs an amount of ...

A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at the substrate and configured to display an image according to an image signal, a displacement sensor provided to a front surface or a back surface of the substrate and configur...

The arrangement has a control unit controlling actuators of a media-device according to control commands derived from user inputs, and an user inputs receiving unit. The receiving unit is automatically designed as a component of a wireless remote control and/or as a component of the media-device. An...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rear projector and a multi-display system capable of precisely adjusting a screen. ; SOLUTION: The rear projector performs: detecting leakage light of white (W)light transmitting a transparent filter 12c with a first photosensor 18 by being synchronized with the tr...

There are provided a sensation presenting system and a sensation presenting device which allow a user to perceive a desired tactual stimulation based on a virtual bodily pseudo image recognized through a visual sensation. When a tactual sensing unit 5 gives a tactual stimulation to a back hand 3 of ...

Granted as Distinct Patent IP area: “Remote” Automatic Volume Control” IP with integrated Ambient sound monitoring Technology Description Brief: The US patent 5778077 revolves around the concept of a “remote (wireless) electronic device” which is able to control the volume of a second ...