61 results about "Tv viewing" patented technology

Digital technology based consumer media devices have many desirable features, including the ability to easily find and watch television shows, and / or automatically record programs of interest. Disclosed is a system and method for allowing a group of television viewers to share program viewing information. This information, exchanged through various on-line community modalities (including Internet chat rooms, email, Internet Web Logs, and the like), can be used within a consumer media device, such as a Digital video Recorder to influence the decision process concerning which programs to record, buffer or view.

This invention permits the upstream transmission of short packets of information in a cable TV system, and blocking upstream noise at all other times, and does so without interfering with image quality of normal TV viewing. A remotely operable ingress noise blocking filter is placed at the terminating junction between a subscriber's coaxial drop cable and a corresponding feeder tap in a cable TV system. The ingress noise blocking filter contains a high pass filter to pass the normal TV band. This high pass filter is bypassed by a section containing low pass filters and a switch operated when receiving a control signal from a cable modem during those short durations the cable modem is authorized to transmit an upstream signal. Low pass filters isolate the switching elements so that switching transients cannot occur in the downstream TV band. The level of the amplitude of the downstream signal is unaffected whether the switching elements are open or closed. Further, the switching arrangement provides a relatively constant impedance, both when the switching element is on and off to provide a high return loss and avoid signal reflections and maintain signal quality. In a diagnostic mode, the location of each noise source is determined by correlating the energy measured at each a set of frequencies across the band at the headend during those periods when the cable modem is allowed to transmit versus the energy received during those periods when the same cable modem is not authorized to transmit.

A mobile telephone device (30) includes the TV viewing function as an additional function. A battery (7) supplies power to each circuit of the mobile telephone device (30). The battery (7) can cut off power supply to a tuner (4) by control of a base band chip (3). A battery remaining capacity monitoring device (11) outputs data indicating the battery remaining capacity. The base band chip (3) reads the data outputted from the battery remaining capacity monitoring device (11) so as to acquire the remaining capacity of the battery (7). When the remaining capacity of the battery (7) is found to be lower than a predetermined value, execution of the TV viewing function is disabled (power supply to the tuner (4) is cut off) and a menu and icons are displayed differently on a display device (6).

The invention discloses a live channel sorting method and device. The method comprises the following steps: A, acquiring the raw data related to live channels, wherein the raw data includes the TV viewing data related to the viewing situation of the live channels and the sales data related to the purchase situation of the live channels; B, generating the corresponding evaluation data according to the raw data; C, calculating to obtain the scores of the live channels according to the evaluation data; D, sorting the live channels according to the scores of the live channels; and E, outputting the sorted live channels to the TV live-broadcasting platform. According to the live channel sorting method and device disclosed by the invention, the real-time changes of the current users or the live channels can be well reflected through the raw data so as to ensure that the final sorting result can be well consistent with the actual situation, and better revenues and recommended results can be obtained.

A game distribution system and method identifies a television program a user is watching and provides the user with games related to the TV program. A client game-play enabled device obtains TV viewing information from a set-top box, smartTV, computer with IPTV, or other device capable of providing TV programming to a video display. The client game-play enabled device sends the TV viewing information to a game distribution server with a request for recommended games. The game distribution server identifies the TV program the user is watching and determines if there are any games related to the TV program. In response to determining that there are games related to the TV program, the server provides one or more of such games to the client device, and the client device presents TV-related games to the user in accordance with any time constraints associated with the games.

There is provided a method of allowing members of a television viewing household to create individual user profiles using a plurality of input devices, the method comprising: determining the context of a user enrollment session; using the context to adapt a user enrollment to minimize operations required to complete an enrollment of the user; and generating a user hierarchy based on relationships between a plurality of user profiles according to a relationship with a television distributor and relationships between the plurality of user profiles. There is also provided a method of allowing television (TV) distributor administrators to manage user profiles and user settings, the method comprising: enabling creation of at least one administrative user; enabling the at least one administrative user to perform at least one of managing, creating, and viewing user profiles created for TV viewing households according to an administrative level assigned to the at least one administrative user; and enabling the at least one administrative user to configure settings related to an enrollment of a user.

The invention discloses a method for monitoring the watching state of a smart television, and the method for monitoring the watching state of a smart television comprises the steps: carrying out the screen capturing operation of a display screen of the smart television according to a preset screen capturing condition after the smart television is turned on, and obtaining screen capturing information which comprises screen capturing time and a screen capturing image; and sending the screenshot information to a cloud or a remote terminal remotely associated with the smart television. The invention also discloses a smart television and a computer readable storage medium. According to the invention, the remote terminal can directly receive or download the screenshot information from the cloud,so that the watching state of the smart television at home can be known in real time, and the watching program content and watching time of children can be mastered conveniently.

A device for controlling TV viewing, capable of bi-directional video calling, may: connect a TV and a smartphone via a communication network; transmit an image captured by an embedded camera to the smartphone; establish bi-directional TV video calling between the embedded camera, TV, and smartphone by displaying an image signal of the smartphone via the TV; control TV viewing by linking to the smartphone via the wireless communication network; and support video calling between the TV and smartphone via a simple button operation when the elderly, infirm, and children, young and old, who have difficulty using a separate communication means are in an emergency situation.

A method and system for customer management is disclosed. The method and system enhance a television service provider's ability to sell television channels and channel packages to users. The system and method disclosed herein enables a user to receive recommendations for one or more television channels and / or channel packages based on one or more television viewing activities of the user, social media activity of the user, and social media activity of other users.

The invention relates to a method for controlling close-range TV view, which comprises the steps of: monitoring the relative position information of a viewer; judging whether the view distance is smaller than a preset distance according to the relative position information, if so, generating a timing signal; beginning to time according to the timing signal, checking whether the timing signal exists after counting for a preset period, if so, generating a counting signal and beginning the next timing procedure; counting the timing period according to the counting signal; beginning to alarm if the timing period reaches to a preset period number within a preset statistic duration; if not, zero clearing the statistic time. The method of the invention has the advantages of performing continuous monitor and statistic for multiple timing periods with one timing period as a unit and judging the close-range view by the timing period statistic within the preset statistic duration, thereby guaranteeing a more accurate judging result, reducing the wrong judgment rate and guaranteeing the working stability of the TV. The invention also relates to a device for controlling close-range TV view.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a television menu system, a playing method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium. The system comprises an eyesight protection menu module, a hearing protection menu module and a use permission menu module, wherein the eyesight protection menu module is used for setting eyesight protection parameters by a user so as to control the playing ofa television program based on the set eyesight protection parameters; the hearing protection menu module is used for setting hearing protection parameters by the user so as to control the playing volume of the television program based on the set hearing protection parameters; and the use permission menu module is used for setting permission parameters by the user so as to control the playing of the television program based on the set permission parameters. According to the technical scheme, the television menu system suitable for children is provided, children can be assisted in developing good television watching habits through the system, and physical and mental development of children is facilitated.

The invention discloses a method and system for achieving viewing seamless integration of a mobile terminal and a smart television. The method comprises the steps that a structured file associated with a broadcast program of the smart television is preliminarily defined, an instruction corresponding to each timestamp in the structured file is executed through a script engine, and therefore viewing seamless integration of the mobile terminal and the smart television is achieved, and viewing expansibility of the television is enhanced. In the method and system, the mobile terminal is equivalent to a second television screen which is expanded, a user mainly enjoys television programs on a smart television screen in a single-way mode, by means of the second television screen in hands, more operation associated with the current television program can be conducted, interaction between the user and the smart television is really achieved, and the experience effect of the television user is enriched.