Audiovisual management system

• US 20030121040A1
• Filed: 05/22/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Beek, Petrus J.L. van, Ferman, A. Mufit
• Application Number:
  US10/155,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20030121040A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4182 for identification purposes, e.g. storing user identification data, preferences, personal settings or data restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code in combination with an additional device, e.g. dongle or smart card G06F21/123
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• 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 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A user preferences description scheme that includes recurrence information.

Claims

1. A user preferences description scheme relating to at least one of audio and video comprising:

(a) said user preferences description scheme includes attribute information;

(b) said attribute information includes a time and a place; and

(c) said time includes associated information corresponding to recurrences of said time.

2. The scheme of claim 1 wherein said recurrences information includes the number of said recurrences.

3. The scheme of claim 1 wherein said recurrences information includes a recurrence time period.

4. The scheme of claim 3 wherein said time period includes none, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually.

5. The scheme of claim 2 wherein said number is a positive integer.

6. A user preferences description scheme relating to at least one of audio and video comprising:

(a) said user preferences description scheme includes attribute information; and

(b) said attribute information comprising;

<

complexType name=“

PreferenceConditionType”

>

<

complexContent>

<

extension base=“

mpeg7;

DType”

>

<

sequence>

<

element name=“

Place”

type=“

mpeg7;

PlaceType”

minOccurs=“

0”

/>

<

element name=“

Time”

minOccurs=“

0”

maxOccurs=“

unbounded”

>

<

complexType>

<

complexContent>

<

extension base=“

mpeg7;

TimeType”

>

<

attribute name=“

recurrence”

type=“

mpeg7;

recurrenceValueType”

use=“

default”

value=“

none”

/>

<

attribute name=“

numOfRecurrences”

type=“

positiveInteger”

use=“

optional”

/>

<

/extension>

<

/complexContent>

<

/complexType>

<

/element>

<

/sequence>

<

/extension>

<

/complexContent>

<

/complexType>

<

simpleType name=“

recurrenceValueType”

>

<

restriction base=“

string”

>

<

enumeration value=“

none”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

daily”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

weekly”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

monthly”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

annually”

/>

<

/restriction>

<

/simpleType>

.

7. A user preferences description scheme relating to at least one of audio and video comprising:

(a) said user preferences description scheme includes attribute information;

(b) said attribute information includes a time;

(c) said time includes associated information corresponding to recurrences of said time;

(d) said recurrences includes the number of said recurrences; and

(e) said number of said recurrences is a positive integer.

8. The scheme of claim 7 wherein said positive integer is optional.

9. A user preferences description scheme relating to at least one of audio and video comprising:

(a) said user preferences description scheme includes attribute information; and

(b) said attribute information comprising;

<

complexType name=“

PreferenceConditionType”

>

<

complexContent>

<

extension base=“

mpeg7;

DType”

>

<

sequence>

<

element name=“

Place”

type=“

mpeg7;

PlaceType”

minOccurs=“

0”

/>

<

element name=“

Time”

minOccurs=“

0”

maxOccurs=“

unbounded”

>

<

complexType>

<

complexContent>

<

extension base=“

mpeg7;

TimeType”

>

<

attribute name=“

recurrence”

use=“

optional”

default=“

none”

>

<

simpleType>

<

union>

<

simpleType>

<

restriction base=“

NMTOKEN”

>

<

enumeration value=“

none”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

daily”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

weekly”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

monthly”

/>

<

enumeration value=“

annually”

/>

<

/restriction>

<

/simpleType>

<

simpleType>

<

restriction base=“

mpeg7;

termReferenceType”

/>

<

/simpleType>

<

/union>

<

/simpleType>

<

/attribute>

<

attribute name=“

numOfRecurrences”

type=“

positiveInteger”

use=“

optional”

/>

<

/extension>

<

/complexContent>

<

/complexType>

<

/element>

<

/sequence>

<

/extension>

<

/complexContent>

<

/complexType>