Authoring system for IPTV network

• US 20080066131A1
• Filed: 09/12/2006
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sbc Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
• Inventors: Chang, Hisao M., Arellano, Javier
• Granted Patent: US 8,739,240 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/113
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/40 Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording

Abstract

In an embodiment, a system and method permit an IPTV subscriber to display on a channel of an IPTV network video data from a subscriber video database. The system may include, in addition to the IPTV network and the subscriber database, an IPTV server and an IPTV set top box. The IPTV set top box is configured to receive commands causing the IPTV set top box to retrieve video data from an IPTV subscriber database, display the video data on an IPTV display unit; and to transmit the video data over an IPTV network to an IPTV server. The IPTV server is configured to transmit the video data from the IPTV server over the IPTV network such that the video data is displayable on a channel of the IPTV network.

Claims

1. An Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) set top box (STB) comprising:

an editing tool residing on the IPTV STB;

a wireless audio receiver integrated with the IPTV STB;

an automatic speech recognition module residing on the IPTV STB; and

a subscriber video database accessible to the IPTV STB;

wherein the IPTV STB is to communicate over an IPTV network with an IPTV server, and video data within the subscriber video database is capable of being modified by the editing tool, and the audio receiver is to receive a narrative to associate with the video data located within the subscriber video database.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a remote control to control the IPTV STB.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote control comprises a second audio receiver for receiving voice commands for controlling the STB, and wherein the remote control further comprises means for receiving manual commands for controlling the STB.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the subscriber video database is for storage on the IPTV server and for display on an assigned channel of the IPTV network.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the STB is further configured to communicate with an automatic speech transcription engine on the IPTV server to transcribe audio data into text.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the STB is further configured to transmit the video data from the subscriber database over the IPTV network for storage on the IPTV server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the video data from the subscriber database stored on the IPTV server is assigned to an IPTV channel.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein -the editing tool is configured to receive editing commands that create a plurality of images from an image in the subscriber database, and further wherein the wireless audio receiver is configured to receive additional narratives to associate with each of the plurality of images.

9. A method comprising:

receiving commands at an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) set top box (STB) causing the IPTV STB to retrieve video data from an IPTV subscriber database;

communicating the video data to a display device;

receiving edit commands for editing the video data;

receiving a narrative to associate with the video data; and

transmitting the video data over an IPTV network to an IPTV server to associate the video data with an assigned channel of the IPTV network, wherein the IPTV network includes other channels associated with other IPTV programming.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving the editing commands further includes identifying the editing commands as at least one of a voice command, a point and click command, and a remote control unit command.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying a list of video files from the IPTV subscriber database on the display device.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising prompting an IPTV subscriber to provide the narrative to be associated with the video data from the IPTV subscriber database, and recording and associating the narrative with the video data.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving the editing commands to generate a plurality of images from a subscriber image, and further comprising receiving a plurality of narratives to associate with the plurality of images.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising converting the narrative into text in one or more predefined languages.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting the plurality of images and the associated narratives to the IPTV server for audibly outputting the narratives and displaying the narratives in text form over the assigned channel of the IPTV network.

16. A method comprising:

receiving subscriber video data from an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) set top box (STB) at an IPTV server, the video data including narratives associated with the video data by the subscriber;

associating the subscriber video data with an assigned channel of an IPTV network accessible to the IPTV server; and

transmitting the subscriber video data to a plurality of STBs associated with the IPTV network;

wherein the IPTV network includes other channels associated with other IPTV programming.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising converting the narratives into text in one or more predefined languages.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising audibly outputting the narratives and displaying the narratives in text form over the assigned channel of the IPTV network.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising storing the subscriber video data in a database accessible to the IPTV server.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising displaying the subscriber video data on the assigned channel of the IPTV network.