公开(公告)号：US11656840B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17318462

申请日：2021-05-12

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： John C. Calef, III

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G06F40/117 ,  G10L13/10

CPC classification number: G06F3/165 ,  G06F40/117 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L13/10

Abstract: Methods and devices produce an audio representation of aggregated content by selecting preferred content from a number of sources. The sources are emotion-tagged. The emotion-tagged preferred content sources are converted into audio files. A set of audio files corresponding to the converted preferred content is generated. The preferred content is individually converted into the audio files. The generated set comprises non-aggregated content.

公开(公告)号：US20230145059A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-11

申请号：US18095977

申请日：2023-01-11

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Henry Gregg Martch ,  Luke VanDuyn

IPC: H04N21/422 ,  G08B6/00 ,  G08C17/02 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/41

CPC classification number: H04N21/42206 ,  G08B6/00 ,  H04N21/42218 ,  G08C17/02 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/42213 ,  H04N21/42224 ,  H04N21/42228 ,  H04N21/41265 ,  G08C2201/30 ,  G08C23/04

Abstract: A remote control system and related method for controlling a video device are presented. The remote control system contains a plurality of buttons arranged in a grid pattern that correspond to user selectable options displayed on a display screen arranged in the same grid pattern. The user selects options on the screen by pressing the corresponding button on the remote control.

公开(公告)号：US11509947B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US16402590

申请日：2019-05-03

Applicant: Dish Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Christopher Day ,  Rima Shah

IPC: H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/6332 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/6547 ,  H04N21/61

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a system and methods for generating geographical models, determining geographical locations of set-top boxes using the geographical models, and modifying behavior of the set-top boxes based on their geographical locations. The set-top boxes determine their own geographical locations, regardless of whether the set-top boxes are capable of transmitting data to a content provider or include specialized equipment, such as a global positioning system, for determining geographical location.

公开(公告)号：US11496794B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US17148493

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Gregory Greene

IPC: H04N21/40 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/434 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/438

Abstract: Media content presentation systems and methods are operable to present media content received by a media device, wherein the media device comprises a plurality of tuner systems. An exemplary embodiment tunes the plurality of tuners to receive different broadcasting media content streams each comprising a streaming media content event; communicates the streaming media content events from the receiving tuner to a corresponding tuner buffer of the tuner system; and stores a portion of the streaming media content events into the corresponding tuner buffers. When a user selection is received for presentation of one of the streaming media content events, the selected one of the streaming media content events are presented to a user of the media device.

公开(公告)号：US20220353377A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17865740

申请日：2022-07-15

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Nick Newell ,  Swapnil Tilaye

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04N21/4728 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4722 ,  B29C64/386 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  G06T7/579 ,  H04M1/00 ,  H04N5/00 ,  B24D7/16

Abstract: Three dimension (3D) model generation systems and methods are operable to generate 3D model data corresponding to images of a physical object of interest that are viewed in a presenting media content event. An exemplary embodiment receives a user request that is associated with an interest by the user to obtain a 3D model of a physical object of interest that is being shown in a scene of a currently presenting media content event. A plurality of video image frames are selected from the scene. Then, 3D model data of the physical object of interest is generated based on at least the selected video image frames of the scene.

公开(公告)号：US20220327177A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：US17847458

申请日：2022-06-23

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Jason Anguiano

IPC: G06F16/9537

Abstract: An exemplary geographic playlist system includes a plurality of mobile devices with global positioning systems that provide geographic location information of the mobile device to a geographic location playlist device. The geographic location playlist device has a database of geographic playlist information that includes at least a unique identifier for each one of a plurality of media content events and at least one associated geographic location for each of the plurality of media content events. The geographic location playlist device determines a current geographic location of the mobile device, compares the geographic location of the mobile device with the geographic locations residing in the database, and generates user geographic playlist information that includes the identifier of media content events that has an associated geographic location that matches with the determined geographic location of the mobile device. A geographic playlist is then presented to the user of the mobile device.

公开(公告)号：US11470138B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US16876579

申请日：2020-05-18

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： David F. Brueck ,  Mark B. Hurst ,  R. Drew Major

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L65/70 ,  H04L47/80 ,  H04L47/12 ,  G06F16/71 ,  G06F16/182 ,  H04N7/24 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04L65/61 ,  H04L65/65 ,  H04L65/1101 ,  H04L67/60 ,  H04L67/568 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L65/1069 ,  H04N21/2662

Abstract: An apparatus for multi-bitrate content streaming includes a receiving module configured to capture media content, a streamlet module configured to segment the media content and generate a plurality of streamlets, and an encoding module configured to generate a set of streamlets. The system includes the apparatus, wherein the set of streamlets comprises a plurality of streamlets having identical time indices and durations, and each streamlet of the set of streamlets having a unique bitrate, and wherein the encoding module comprises a master module configured to assign an encoding job to one of a plurality of host computing modules in response to an encoding job completion bid. A method includes receiving media content, segmenting the media content and generating a plurality of streamlets, and generating a set of streamlets.

公开(公告)号：US11463785B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US15393548

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Christopher Boyd Tirpak ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/44

Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.

公开(公告)号：US20220248076A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17725450

申请日：2022-04-20

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Kerry Philip Miller

IPC: H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: An embodiment for recording a channel that is communicating a program of interest identifies a selected program for recording as a program of interest based upon a characteristic of the selected program, the characteristic of the selected program corresponding to at least one characteristic associated with the program of interest; records an advance period corresponding to a period before a beginning of the program of interest, and records a following period corresponding to a period after a conclusion of the program of interest.

公开(公告)号：US11405692B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-02

申请号：US16874406

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Jay P. Carlson ,  Danny J. Minnick

IPC: H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/442 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/2457 ,  H04N21/658

Abstract: Various embodiments of systems, apparatus, and/or methods are described for presenting relevant programming information. A viewing action of an audiovisual event is detected on a receiving device. Data associated with the viewed audiovisual event is then retrieved. The retrieved data includes at least receiving device information and audiovisual event information. The retrieved data is then stored in a historical viewing database, and at least one scoring table is generated from the data in the historical viewing database. Programming information for a plurality of candidate audiovisual events that are available to be viewed is then organized based at least in part on the at least one scoring table and a selected time, and the organized programming information is output to a presentation device.