Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for remotely controlling a camera in an environment where there is a delay. A control device is provided for controlling a remotely located camera via a network. The control device comprises a monitor for viewing an image provided by the camera. A control signal is sent from the control device to the camera with a command for controlling at least one of a function, setting, or parameter of the camera. An image displayed on the monitor of the control device is modified in accordance with the command to provide an emulated image for display prior to execution of the command at the camera.
Methods, apparatus, and systems for automatically producing a video program in accordance with a script are provided. Various media assets are recorded and or stored in a content database, together with metadata relating to each of the media assets. Each media asset is tagged with a unique content ID, the unique content ID associating the metadata with the media asset. The media assets are then indexed. Text from a script is then analyzed using natural language processing to locate one or more relevant indexed media assets. The located one or more media assets are assembled into a video program in accordance with the script.
H04N 21/8545 - Content authoring for generating interactive applications
G06F 16/71 - Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/783 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content
G11B 27/031 - Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
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REMOTE CLOUD-BASED VIDEO PRODUCTION SYSTEM IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE IS NETWORK DELAY
A cloud-based video production system, methods, and apparatus are provided. Video sources are in communication with a cloud-based video production server and a remote user interface via a network. A control unit, which is located at or in communication with video production server, is in communication with the remote user interface. A buffer, corresponding to each of the video sources, is disposed between each of the video sources and the control unit to account for network delays. Commands for selecting and manipulating video content from the video sources are sent from the user interface to the control unit, each of the commands containing a command timestamp corresponding to the video timestamp of the video frame displayed on the user interface when the command is issued. The control unit executes each command at a time when the video timestamp at an output of the corresponding buffer corresponds to the command timestamp. The control unit outputs a video program in accordance with the commands.
H04N 21/433 - Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request or caching operations
H04N 21/472 - End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification or for manipulating displayed content
H04L 12/16 - Arrangements for providing special services to substations
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METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXCHANGE OF VIDEO CONTENT
Methods, apparatus, and systems for exchange of video content are provided. A media outlet device is provided with a media outlet application, and a user device of a user is provided with an interactive media application, the interactive media application enabling communications with the media outlet device via the media outlet application. Video content is recorded and encoded on the user device. An interactive map is displayed on a user interface of the media outlet device. The interactive map shows a current location of the user device. The purchase of the video content from the user is enabled via the user interface. The purchased video content is communicated from the user device to at least one of a central server and the media outlet device.
The present invention relates to broadcasting/multicasting of media content over a communication network using shared bandwidth available from peer-to-peer networking. The system of the present invention includes a plurality of broadcast devices, a plurality of receiving devices, a plurality of databases, and a control center. The control center is the central nerve of the network, and provides a number of services, including but not limited to channel control, ad insertion, conditional access, program guide services, and the like. The broadcast device converts media content, which can be television, radio, and other data, received from various content providers, into digital data packets, having a suitable format for transmission over the Internet. Each receiving device will request the relevant packets, decode the received packets, and display or present the media content contained in the packets via an associated device. Packets may be received directly from the broadcast devices or from peers (other receiving devices) on the network.
A method for delivering media content and advertising content in a peer-to- peer network. The method comprises delivering media content, comprising media data packets, provided by one or more servers over the network for one or more media content programs; controlling from a control center delivery of the media content over the network via the one or more servers; receiving the media content at a plurality of receiving devices, at least a portion of which are configured to share resources via the network, enabling a transfer of the media data packets from one receiving device to another; reconstructing the media content at the receiving devices with the media data packets received from at least one of: (a) one of the one or more servers; (b) one or more peer receiving devices on the network; and (c) local memory; providing corresponding advertising content, comprising advertising data packets, to each of the receiving devices; identifying an upcoming advertising slot in the media content program; providing insertion instructions to each of the receiving devices for insertion of the corresponding advertising content into the media content; inserting, at the corresponding receiving device, the corresponding advertising content into the advertising slot in the media content program.
H04N 21/432 - Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk
H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
H04N 21/438 - Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving MPEG packets from an IP network
H04N 21/458 - Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules
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METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
A system for delivering media content over a communications network. The system comprising one or more servers for delivering media content over the network for one or more media content programs where the media content comprises data packets, a control center for controlling delivery of the media content over the network via the one or more servers, and a plurality of receiving devices for receiving the media content. At least a portion of the receiving devices are configured to share resources via the network, enabling a transfer of the data packets from one receiving device to another. A first receiving device is receiving data packets for a first media content program and is enabled to switch to a second media content program by receiving data packets for the second media content program from at least one of: (a) one of said one or more servers; and (b) at least one other of the receiving devices currently receiving data packets for the second media content program.
H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
H04H 60/82 - Arrangements characterised by transmission systems other than for broadcast, e.g. the Internet characterised by the transmission system itself the transmission system being the Internet
H04N 21/647 - Control signaling between network components and server or clients; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients, e.g. controlling the quality of the video stream, by dropping packets, protecting content from unauthorised alteration within the network, monitoring of network load or bridging bet
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