METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING DISPARATE MEDIA FORMATS IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SYSTEM

• US 20120131218A1
• Filed: 11/16/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Putterman, Daniel, Dietrich, Brad
• Application Number:
  US13/297,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20120131218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764

Abstract

A media system includes at least a source media device and a playback media device coupled through a network. The source media device presents media to the network. The media comprises at least one digital content file with a first format. A transcoder, also coupled to the network, converts the first file format of the digital content file to a second format. The playback device receives the digital content file, formatted in the second format, over the network, and processes the digital content file in the second format to generate processed signals. The processed signals drive the playback device to play the digital content file. In another embodiment, the transcoder operates in conjunction with one or more media servers. For this embodiment, media, stored on the media, stored on the media servers, is converted to one or more different file formats.

Claims

1. A method for integrating disparate media types in a networked media system, said method comprising:

presenting media to a network from a source media device, said media comprising at least one digital content file comprising a first format;

transmitting, over said network, said digital content file in said first format to a transcoder media device;

converting said first format of said media to a digital content file comprising a second format in said transcoder media device;

transmitting, over said network, said digital content file for said media in said second format from said transcoder media device to a playback device;

processing said digital content file in said second format at said playback media device, to generate processed signals; and

presenting said processed signals at said playback media device to play said digital content file.

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