Rovi Guides, Inc.

United Video Properties, Inc.

Jason William Conness

Todd Mariani

Thomas Steven Woods

Walter Richard Klappert

Brian Craig Peterson

David John Wheatley

Phil Golyshko

Minah Oh

Melvin Grefalda

Brian Robert Peterson

Richard Bullwinkle

William Korbecki

Royce Matsusei Hamano

Gevorg Gevorgyan

Amanda Mallardo

Christopher Bauder

Mark F Dawson

Vanessa Wickenkamp

China Arai

Andrew Fundament

Gaurav Sinha

Melissa Bradley

Shrirang Nilkanth Jambhekar

Richard Bullwinke

Mark Frederick Dawson

Methods and systems are described for improved techniques for consuming and interacting with media content. Specifically, a media guidance application may present a holographic structure using a holographic interface. Moreover, the media guidance application may monitor the user and/or area about the holographic interface for user interactions that may cause the media guidance application to alter the holographic structure based on a user interaction. The media guidance application may also after altering the holographic structure, generate for display a media asset associated with the holographic structure.

Systems and methods for displaying media assets associated with holographic structures

Methods and systems are described herein for improved techniques for consuming and interacting with media content. Specifically, the media guidance application may generate holographic animations that move from a holographic structure from which a user has selected a media asset and direct the user to a display device capable of presenting the media asset. For example, in response to a user selecting a baseball movie from a holographic bookcase, the media guidance application may generate for display a holographic baseball that is 'thrown' from the bookcase to a television that will present the baseball movie.

Methods and systems for generating holographic animations

Methods and systems described herein provide for visualizing content across different time segments of a media asset. Information about content within a particular time segment of a media asset is retrieved. This content information is generated by processing user-generated messages corresponding to the particular time segment. Content descriptors are generated based on the received content information corresponding to the particular time segment. A timeline is generated, independently of presenting a media asset, wherein the timeline visually associates content descriptors with their corresponding time segments of the media asset. When these content descriptors are selected by a user, the user-generated messages corresponding to the content descriptor at the corresponding time segment are displayed to the user.

Systems and methods for temporal visualization of media asset content

Methods and systems are described for providing customized user experiences with media assets created using plenoptic content capture technology. The ability to increase the focus on different objects while the media asset is progressing may allow a user to more easily track the object. Conversely, the ability to decrease the focus on different objects while the media asset is progressing may block, or cloud the display of, the object from being seen by a user.

Methods and systems for customizing a plenoptic media asset

Methods and systems are disclosed herein for supplementing media assets in order to compensate for a particular disability of a user. Specifically, a media guidance application determines whether or not a user can comprehend a media asset based on the particular disability of the user. Upon determining that the user cannot comprehend the media asset, the media guidance application supplements the media asset with supplemental data, which compensates for the particular disability of the user.

Methods and systems for compensating for disabilities when presenting a media asset

Systems and methods for navigating program listings in a media guidance application are provided. A program listing may be displayed that corresponds to a first time period. A user request to change the first time period may be received. In response to the request to change the time period, a hopscotch display may be provided that gives the user access to a plurality of consecutive time periods from which the user can select to have corresponding program listings displayed. A user selection of one of the displayed time periods may be received and a second program listing corresponding to the selected time period may be displayed.

Systems and methods for navigating program listings simultaneously displayed with a program in a media guidance application

The present invention allows users to interact with people, who have interacted with other people, and obtain media files and recommendations from those having common interests, thereby creating interactive media communities and spawning electronic social networks based on media and other types of electronic entertainment.

Maintaining a user profile based on dynamic data

Growing community of inventors

Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Jason William Conness