Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Group Corporation

Jason Clement

Steven Richman

Frederick J Zustak

Theodore R Booth

Kyoko Takeda

Graham Clift

Hyehoon Yi

James Amendolagine

Stephane Lejeune

Marvin DeMerchant

Max Wu

Sivaraman Varatharajan

Ted Booth

Kyoko Takeda Wieck

Brian James Moon

Leong Hu

A multi-window user interface (UI) is presented in various configurations and operational uses to leverage the relatively large display canvas afforded by large screen display devices such as 4K or 8K displays. Along with the various 'Multiview' aspects, content delivery techniques, content selection techniques, and level of service techniques also are presented.

Multiview as an application for physical digital media

Implementations generally relate to configuring settings of a television. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a signal at a television, where the signal is associated with a television program. The method further includes determining the television program. The method further includes determining a plurality of variations of television settings based on the television program. The method further includes displaying a plurality of windows on a display of the television. The method further includes displaying the television program in each window of the plurality of windows, where the television program is displayed in each window based on a different variation of the plurality of variations of the television settings.

Configuring settings of a television

Content surfing, preview and selection by sequentially connecting tiled content channels

Multiview TV template creation and display layout modification

A user who purchases content can temporarily transfer rights to play the content to another device, provided the device registered to have the rights in nearby.

Computer ecosystem with temporary digital rights management (DRM) transfer

Multiview TV custom display creation by aggregation of provider content elements

A bridge including an adapter is able to transcode or translate different graphics languages to permit a variety of networked, dissimilar devices, to communicate. The bridge translates an existing application device's graphics/images into a Remote User Interface (Remote UI or RUI) graphics protocol of a rendering device and transmits the translated RUI to the rendering device. The rendering device is then able to display the translated RUI.

Remote user interface media adapter in network bridge

A method of and system for transferring a remote user interface from one device to another device is described herein. A server stores state information and uses the information to transfer the RUI and/or other data from one device to the other device. This enables a user to transition from one device to another device seamlessly and without interruption of their user interface and/or programming.

Transferring RUI from one device to another

An audio indication of a message recipient is received from a user who desires that a message be sent to the message recipient. The audio indication is analyzed to determine the recipient and searching an electronic database for an account of the recipient. Information is retrieved from the electronic account. The retrieved information indicates at one or more modes of message delivery to the recipient. An audio guide for the user based is constructed upon the retrieved information. The audio guide includes one or more audio prompts that are entirely customizable and not based upon a predetermined pattern. The user is sequentially prompted with the audio prompts to select at least one of the modes of message delivery. The message is constructed and sent to the recipient according to the selected mode of message delivery.

Method and apparatus for voice interactive messaging

An audio indication of a recipient for a message is received, the message to be sent by a user to the recipient. An electronic database is searched for the recipient. When the recipient is found in the electronic database, information is determined from the electronic database concerning the recipient. An audio prompt is formed including at least some of the information concerning the recipient that was obtained from the electronic database.

One embodiment can be characterized as a method of data analysis for an audio player comprising analyzing at least a portion of audio data; selecting a sound profile based upon the analysis of the audio data; adjusting sound field settings according to the sound profile; and outputting at least a portion of the audio data according to the sound field settings. Another embodiment can be characterized as an audio player device comprising an audio analysis circuit adapted to determine a characteristic of audio data; a profile selection circuit adapted to select a sound profile corresponding to the characteristic of audio data; and a sound field circuit adapted to adjust sound field settings according to the sound profile.

Method and apparatus for audio data analysis in an audio player

A method comprising receiving a request to compose a message; outputting a first prompt requesting a recipient for the message; receiving a first audible response to the first prompt, the first audible response including a recipient of the message; outputting a second prompt requesting a body for the message; receiving a second audible response to the second prompt, the second audible response including a body of the message; and composing the message. An electronic device for voice messaging comprising an audible guide module for audibly prompting a user for recipient information and for audibly prompting a user for message information; a voice recognition module for interpreting received responses to the audible prompt for the recipient information and the audible prompt for the message information; and a message compiler module for creating a message from the responses to the audible prompt for the recipient information and the audible prompt for the message information.

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Jason Clement