141 results about "Multimedia storage" patented technology

A framework is provided for describing multimedia content and a system in which a plurality of multimedia storage devices employing the content description methods of the present invention can interoperate. In accordance with one form of the present invention, the content description framework is a description scheme (DS) for describing streams or aggregations of multimedia objects, which may comprise audio, images, video, text, time series, and various other modalities. This description scheme can accommodate an essentially limitless number of descriptors in terms of features, semantics or metadata, and facilitate content-based search, index, and retrieval, among other capabilities, for both streamed or aggregated multimedia objects.

A media storage and access system and methodology including a set-top box which receives and processes a plurality of signal sources and makes programming available locally through connected devices or via a data network such as a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. The system also integrates a multimedia storage system that allows programming content to be digitally stored. The system utilizes an integrated digital storage system and operating software to allow users to view a broadcast program (e.g., television, radio, etc.) with the option of instantly reviewing previous segments within the program. In addition, the system allows the user to store selected media programming while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing another program. The system also allows stored media assets to be accessed locally via a media device connected to the unit or remotely via the Internet.

A system and method for real-time transfer of multimedia material from a remote device to a centralized multi-media storage unit, wherein the multimedia material is combined with extrinsic material to generate a virtual record. A user selects specifications and instructions via a remote terminal for retrieving the extrinsic material from external databases and interleaving the retrieved extrinsic material to the multimedia material provided by the user. Iteration of the selecting of user specifications and instructions and the interleaving process is performed until a final virtual record is produced which is satisfactory to the user.

A media storage and access system and methodology including a set-top box which receives and processes a plurality of signal sources and makes programming available locally through connected devices or via a data network such as a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. The system also integrates a multimedia storage system that allows programming content to be digitally stored. The system utilizes an integrated digital storage system and operating software to allow users to view a broadcast program (e.g., television, radio, etc.) with the option of instantly reviewing previous segments within the program. In addition, the system allows the user to store selected media programming while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing another program. The system also allows stored media assets to be accessed locally via a media device connected to the unit or remotely via the Internet.

A method for protecting content including providing a host, a player, a communications link between host and player for communicating content therebetween, a recordable medium adapted to be played by and recorded to by the player, and an encrypted item of content, and producing a secure content license corresponding to the content, the license including a key for accessing the content, a permission list for determining whether the host or the player is allowed to access the content under pre-defined circumstances, the circumstances including a type of use of the encrypted content, an identification of the recordable medium, the recordable medium identification generated in accordance with a predefined recordable medium identification generation algorithm, and describing at least one physical characteristic of the recordable medium, and an identification of the content, the item identification describing at least one data characteristic of the content.

Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting multimedia contents in a communication network, wherein multimedia data stored in a subscriber's terminal can be automatically uploaded. The method comprises the steps of (a) transmitting a multimedia data transmission command from a terminal multimedia storage server to a terminal through a communication network; and (b) when the terminal receives the multimedia data transmission command, uploading the multimedia data stored in the terminal to the terminal multimedia storage server in response to the multimedia data transmission command.

Multimedia information retrieval is performed using meta-descriptors in addition to descriptors. A “descriptor” is a representation of a feature, a “feature” being a distinctive characteristic of multimedia information, while a “meta-descriptor” is information about the descriptor. Meta-descriptors are generated for multimedia information in a repository (10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24) by extracting the descriptors from the multimedia information (111), clustering the multimedia information based on the descriptors (112), assigning meta-descriptors to each cluster (113), and attaching the meta-descriptors to the multimedia information in the repository (114). The multimedia repository is queried by formulating a query using query-by-example (131), acquiring the descriptor / s and meta-descriptor / s for a repository multimedia item (132), generating a query descriptor / s if none of the same type has been previously generated (133, 134), comparing the descriptors of the repository multimedia item and the query multimedia item (135), and ranking and displaying the results (136, 137).

Disclosed are methods and systems for multimedia scripting, including evaluating a script at runtime and invoking a process for editing multimedia in dependence upon the script. Multimedia may include a still image and video images. Multimedia scripting may also include accepting text entered into a text-input graphical user interface as a script for runtime evaluation, accepting from a non-text-based graphical user interface a designation of scripts for runtime evaluation, and effecting a disposition of the edited multimedia in dependence upon a script, such as storing the multimedia as a file, presenting the multimedia, or encoding the edited multimedia as an email attachment.

The present invention discloses a portable wireless smart hard-disk drive (pwsHDD). It comprises a wireless communication means for directly and seamlessly communicating with at least one multimedia device. Preferably, this wireless means has a short range and fast speed. The pwsHDD will become a universal multimedia storage platform and significantly lower the storage cost for multimedia devices. Combined with a cellular phone, a pwsHDD-phone would be a personal communication, computation and storage hub.

An improved jewelry box having electronic display apparatus includes a top section pivotally connected to a bottom section by a hinge. By opening the box, an LCD or other devices display video, audio or photographic data intended for the recipient of the jewelry. A switch is provided which activates the display of the data once the box is opened by the recipient and to turn the display off upon closing the box. The jewelry box includes a light source controlled by the switch so that the light source is illuminated after the box is opened to further enhance the perceived value of the jewelry. A multimedia memory card slot or a USB port is provided for exchanging data between an external memory source, such as MMC / SD cards, and the internal memory of the jewelry box to change, add to or modify the video, audio or photographic data to be displayed. The jewelry box includes a rechargeable battery to provide a power source for the LCD and other devices.

A solid state disk system is disclosed. The system comprises a user token and at least one level secure virtual storage controller, coupled to the host system. The system includes a plurality of virtual storage devices coupled to at least one secure virtual storage controller. A system and method in accordance with the present invention could be utilized in flash based storage, disk storage systems, portable storage devices, corporate storage systems, PCs, servers, wireless storage, and multimedia storage systems.

A multimedia I / O interface device for cars is provided, including a player data bus, a player I / O interface, a microprocessor, a memory unit, a USB OTG controller, a buffer, and an MHE. The player data bus and player I / O interface are connected to a multimedia player for airplane seats. The multimedia player for airplane seats is an audiovisual player. The microprocessor controls the data input / output and the storage of the multimedia player. The USB OTG controller, the buffer, and the MHE form a USB connection and transmission interface. The multimedia I / O interface device of the present invention is a connected to a USB connector and a card reader interface through the USB OTG controller and the MHE, respectively. Therefore, the multimedia device can be connected to a multimedia storage device with a USB interface or a flash memory for bi-direction data transmission.

The invention discloses a multimedia playing method. The method comprises the following steps: S1, obtaining multimedia file information and dub configuration determined by a user, wherein the file information comprises a multimedia video, a background audio and storage information of a dub text, and the dub configuration comprises vocal print features of roles; S2, obtaining the multimedia video, the background audio and the dub text according to the file information; S3, generating dub audio according to the dub text and the dub configuration, wherein the vocal print features of roles in the dub audio are consistent with the vocal print features of roles in the dub configuration; S4, synthesizing the dub audio and the background audio into the multimedia audio; and S5, synchronously playing the multimedia video and the multimedia audio. The invention further discloses a multimedia playing apparatus and a multimedia storage method. By adoption of the multimedia playing method, the storage resources occupied by the multimedia can be greatly reduced on one hand, and on the other hand, the role dub can be adjusted according to the user demands, thereby satisfying the individual appreciation demands of the users.

Annotations for a multimedia repository facilitate an efficient indexing, searching, and retrieval of the content from the multimedia repository. These annotations are an effective description of the content and it is very useful to have systems that automatically analyze the content to generate the annotations. A multimedia content, comprising video, audio, and textual data, is organized at shot level, scene level, segment level, multi-segment level, and full-length level. The multimedia content annotation is a providing of computer processable description of the multimedia content. Due to the multilevel organization of a multimedia content, it is required to provide annotations at various levels as well. A system and method for annotation aggregation uses the annotation at a lower level to arrive at an annotation at the next higher level. Such multilevel annotations are very useful in applications such as targeted content delivery.

A method and apparatus is disclosed that receives an input narrative in a particular media format, and produces therefrom a multimedia enriched version of the input narrative. In one embodiment, a method is provided for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, wherein the method includes the step of selectively segmenting the input narrative to form queries pertaining to different portions or elements of the input narrative. The method further comprises retrieving multimedia artifacts from one or more multimedia repositories, wherein each retrieved multimedia artifact is associated with one of the queries, and selecting a subset of the retrieved multimedia artifacts, wherein the subset includes artifacts comprising different types of multimedia content. The input narrative is then combined with respective multimedia artifacts of the subset, in order to provide an enriched and enhanced narrative.

The invention relates to multimedia storage method, system and device. The multimedia storage method comprises the following steps: acquiring a user recording program list and recording document information of the recorded multimedia contents; judging whether to accept or reject the recorded multimedia contents according to the user recording program list and the recording document information, saving necessary recording documents in the recorded multimedia contents according to the result of the judgment, and deleting unnecessary recording documents in the recorded multimedia contents. The user recording program list is used for providing time shifting service or / and review service. The technical scheme can share one recording document in a time shifting and review mode, reduce the IO resources by writing and storing with one media server, double the recording performance of the media server and also reduce the storage space waste of the recorded contents of the time shifting programs.

A system and method for monitoring events from a media stream and triggering an action in response to detected events. The action is preferably based on information relating to the event received by the system. The system can generate a paper document that reflects some aspects of the detected event such as a summary describing the event. The system can also generate a network message (e.g., email or paging call) in response to the detected event. In other embodiments, the system stores multimedia in memory in response to the detected event. The system can also generate an audio on a speaker or a video on a video display system attached to the printer based on the detected event.

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for a method and system of queued management of multimedia storage. In some examples, a queue management module receives a message to queue location information for multimedia content. The queue management module stores the location information in a queue corresponding to a subscriber. The queue management module receives a message for location information from a video distribution module. The queue management module transmits a message for retrieval of multimedia content to the video distribution module. In other examples, a queue agent module transmits a message for location information for multimedia content to a queue management module. The queue agent module receives a message for retrieval of content from the queue management module. The queue agent module retrieves the multimedia content from the remote content server using the location information received in the message for retrieval of content. A data storage module identifies available storage in limited storage provided for the subscriber and stores the retrieved multimedia content in the limited storage for the subscriber.

The present invention provides a method for a local area network router, that allows communication between a number of remotely located users, and a plurality of peripheral devices connected to the local area network router. Users may access the local area network using wireless devices or the Internet. The peripheral devices, which may include a wide variety of multi-media storage, playback, printing, or other functions, are connected to the router via local interfaces, which communicate with the peripheral devices via established protocols. Each of the peripheral devices is provided with an IP address, which facilitates direct communication of the users with the peripheral devices and permits direct communication with the devices over the Internet. Data packets destined for the IP address of a peripheral device are router through the local interface, which converts the data utilizing compatible communication protocols for the target peripheral device.

A multi-stack storage module board assembly includes a host board having an electric connector, multiple brackets mounted on the host board and fastened to one another in a stack, multiple multimedia storage devices respectively mounted in the brackets, and adapter modules mounted on support arms in the brackets to electrically connect the multimedia storage devices to the connector of the host board. Each adapter module has a first connector, which receives one multimedia storage device, a second connector connectable to the connector of the host board, and a third connector for receiving the second connector of another adapter module.

A multimedia transfer apparatus is described comprising: a plurality of media readers; one or more encoder modules, configured to encode data read by the media readers in a specified encoding format; and a data communication interface configured to copy the encoded data to a media storage and playback apparatus.Also described is a computer-implemented method for transferring multimedia content comprising: reading first multimedia data from a first CD / DVD; encoding the first multimedia data to produce first encoded data in parallel with reading multimedia data from a second CD / DVD; encoding the second multimedia data to produce second encoded data; and transmitting the first and second encoded data to a multimedia storage and playback apparatus.

Systems and methods are provided for a multimedia storage and transfer. The system includes a first data storage device in a first vehicle, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a second data storage device in a second vehicle, and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver and first data storage device. The first data storage device has an embedded database configured to store multimedia files. The embedded database has a list of multimedia file content. The controller is configured to remove the list of multimedia file content from the first data storage device and transfer the list of multimedia file content to the second data storage device via the wireless transceiver.

A printer with an embedded multimedia server is described that includes a processor primarily allocated for print control and another processor for executing a multimedia server for interfacing with hardware and / or software interfaces for various forms of media. Examples of such interfaces include, a network interface, a VGA port, transcoding hardware, wireless interfaces and a (USB) port. Examples of types of media processed include video, audio and text. The multimedia server performs multimedia content processing, particularly for time-based data, examples of which include editing, formatting, scheduling capture of content, searching, recognition, and event detection. Additionally, the printer can provide a multimedia storage database. The printer provides a user interface on its chassis that can provide a web browser, so that a user can interact directly with the printer for indicating preferences for multimedia content processing and / or selection for printing onto a desired output medium.

A method and apparatus is disclosed that receives an input narrative in a particular media format, and produces therefrom a multimedia enriched version of the input narrative. In one embodiment, a method is provided for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, wherein the method includes the step of selectively segmenting the input narrative to form queries pertaining to different portions or elements of the input narrative. The method further comprises retrieving multimedia artifacts from one or more multimedia repositories, wherein each retrieved multimedia artifact is associated with one of the queries, and selecting a subset of the retrieved multimedia artifacts, wherein the subset includes artifacts comprising different types of multimedia content. The input narrative is then combined with respective multimedia artifacts of the subset, in order to provide an enriched and enhanced narrative.

The present invention is related to an interface design for multimedia data transmitting, which can provide a working interface in a data storing device or a communication device, using the working interface can provide the connecting facility between a multimedia device and computer system and improve the traditional high speed differential signals to portable digital data processing device. The present invention also provides a multimedia storage device, being inserted into a connector of a computer device or a portable device so that the computer device can transmit data to or receive from the portable device, wherein, the multimedia storage device comprises: printed circuit board, for conveying the following elements, having at least one terminal been formed on one end of the printed circuit board and exposed outwardly, wherein one end of the printed circuit board can be inserted into the connector; controller, positioned on the printed circuit board and coupled to the terminal, a working interface of the controller having a parallel data transmission with synchronous clock mode and a differential signal transmission mode, for controlling adaptive data transmission rate and power consumption; and storage unit, for storing data.

The invention relates a method for audio-video encoding and an apparatus for multimedia storage. First, a video chunk and an audio chunk are read from a audio-video file. Then the video chunk is divided into a plurality of video blocks, wherein size of each video block at least equals to the size of one unit frame. The audio chunk is divided into a plurality of audio blocks. Finally, according to a playing sequence, at least one audio block is employed between each two video blocks.

The present invention is related to an interface design for multimedia data transmitting, which can provide a working interface in a data storing device or a communication device, using the working interface can provide the connecting facility between a multimedia device and computer system and improve the traditional high speed differential signals to portable digital data processing device. The present invention also provides a multimedia storage device, being inserted into a connector of a computer device or a portable device so that the computer device can transmit data to or receive from the portable device, wherein, the multimedia storage device comprises: printed circuit board, for conveying the following elements, having at least one terminal been formed on one end of the printed circuit board and exposed outwardly, wherein one end of the printed circuit board can be inserted into the connector; controller, positioned on the printed circuit board and coupled to the terminal, a working interface of the controller having a parallel data transmission with synchronous clock mode and a differential signal transmission mode, for controlling adaptive data transmission rate and power consumption; and storage unit, for storing data.

A universal multimedia bluetooth car handsfree device, aims to transmit signals stored in various types of multimedia storage devices to a car stereo for broadcasting. It includes a bluetooth wireless transmission unit, a handsfree speakerphone unit, a stereo switch unit, a cable signal input unit, a control unit, and a stereo output unit. It is connected to a car stereo and allows the common car stereo to have additional handsfree bluetooth speakerphone function and the ability to connect in wired or wireless fashion to various types of handheld media storage devices to play music.