Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Arris Enterprises LLC

Arris Technology, Inc.

Other

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Hastings Fiber Glass Products, Inc.

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Kevin Lynn Baum

Vijay Nangia

Brian Keith Classon

Timothy A Thomas

Robert T Love

Frederick W Vook

Faisal Ishtiaq

Philippe J Sartori

Kenneth Anderson Stewart

Bruce D Mueller

Xiangyang Zhuang

Hiroshi Hayashi

Mark Conrad Cudak

Michael L Needham

Renxiang Li

Amitava Ghosh

Phillip D Rasky

David E Borth

Benedito J Fonseca, Jr

Eugene Visotsky

Stephen P Emeott

Hyejung Jung

Weimin Xiao

Rapeepat Ratasuk

Stephen Leigh Kuffner

Bishwarup Mondal

Bhavan Gandhi

William Paul Alberth, Jr

George Calcev

Jeffrey D Bonta

Dean E Thorson

James C Baker

Henry L Kazecki

Steven H Goode

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Michael D Kotzin

Thomas Casey Hill

Amitabha Ghosh

Anthony J Braskich

Gerald P Labedz

Fan Wang

Jay J Williams

Anup K Talukdar

Masaya Fukuta

Hidenori Akita

Nikhil Shashank Nadgauda

David Paul Gurney

Thomas Peter Krauss

James Robert Kelton

Isselmou Ould Dellahy

Karthik Ramasubramanian

Philippe Jean-Marc Sartori

Gregory M Chiasson

Donald W Dennis

Eric H Winter

Alfonso Martinez Smith

Yakun Sun

Leo George Dehner

Roger L Peterson

Hua Xu

Stavros Tzavidas

Arvind Krishnamoorthy

Theresa Ann Fry

Lewis A Shaw

Vinayak Tripathi

Shivajit Mohapatra

Robert Tristan Love

Margot Karam

Massaya Fukuta

Sandeep Mukthavaram

Benedito J Fonseca

Thomas P Krauss

David Edward Borth

Bruce Dale Mueller

Gregory Mark Chiasson

Phillip David Rasky

Leo G Dehner

Philippe Jean-Mar Sartori

Thomas Krauss

Roger Laurin Peterson

Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.

Identifying media on a mobile device

A temperature sensing system including a head unit comprising a thermal sensor for acquiring thermal data from a surface, a wireless transmitter wirelessly transmitting the thermal data, and a mounting interface; and a non-conductive pole connected to the mounting interface of the head unit.

Temperature measuring head unit for a hot stick

Systems and methods for generating alerts and enhanced viewing experience features using on-screen data are disclosed. Textual data corresponding to on-screen text is determined from the visual content of video data. The textual data is associated with corresponding regions and frames of the video data in which the corresponding on-screen text was detected. Users can select regions in the frames of the visual content to monitor for a particular triggering item (e.g., a triggering word, name, or phrase). During play back of the video data, the textual data associated with the selected regions in the frames can be monitored for the triggering item. When the triggering item is detected in the textual data, an alert can be generated. Alternatively, the textual data for the selected region can be extracted to compile supplemental information that can be rendered over the playback of the video data or over other video data.

Generating alerts based upon detector outputs

A method and apparatus for distributing live video to multiple client devices is provided herein. In particular, a router is provided that acts on behalf of all client devices in its network. The router serves multiple groups of client devices with each group being formed by client devices having similar bandwidth requirements. The router then requests and receives video chunks from a network. The router then redistributes the video chunks to the multiple client devices using a multicast transmission. In particular, to minimize the demands on the core network, the router sets up a separate multicast to each group. Live video, of the appropriate quality is then multicast to each group.

Method and apparatus for distributing video

A communication device performs a method for coordinating communications between a plurality of communication devices of a user. The method includes detecting an active communication session on a primary communication device having user engagement, and determining a set of secondary communication devices in proximity to the user. The method further includes detecting an interruption event, at the primary communication device, during the active communication session. Additionally, the method includes determining that a first secondary communication device, in the set of secondary communication devices, has capability to process the interruption event, and transferring the interruption event to the first secondary communication device.

Methods for coordinating communications between a plurality of communication devices of a user

A method receives video content and metadata associated with video content. The method then extracts features of the video content based on the metadata. Portions of the visual, audio, and textual features are fused into composite features that include multiple features from the visual, audio, and textual features. A set of video segments of the video content is identified based on the composite features of the video content. Also, the segments may be identified based on a user query.

Content based video content segmentation

A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements interleaved in time and frequency. The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load by providing predetermined time domain symmetry for common sequence elements in OFDMA symbol periods for OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length.

Method and apparatus for interleaving sequence elements of an OFDMA synchronization channel

A method implemented in a computer system for controlling the delivery of data and audio/video content. The method delivers primary content to the subscriber device for viewing by a subscriber. The method also delivers secondary content to the companion device for viewing by the subscriber in parallel with the subscriber viewing the primary content, where the secondary content relates to the primary content. The method extracts attention estimation features from the primary content, and monitors the companion device to determine an interaction measurement for the subscriber viewing the secondary content on the companion device. The method calculates an attention measurement for the subscriber viewing the primary content based on the attention estimation features, and the interaction measurement, and controls the delivery of the secondary content to the companion device based on the attention measurement.

Attention estimation to control the delivery of data and audio/video content

A video processing system detects an overlay image, such as a logo, in a picture of a video stream, the overlay for example being a broadcaster's logo. The detection is based on evaluation of blending characteristics of a picture frame. The method of detection of an overlay defines first and second areas within the image, the first and second areas being non-overlapping. Next an alpha-blended value is calculated for the mean color value of the second area with an overlay color value. Then, if the mean color value of the first area is closer to the alpha-blended value than it is to the mean color value of the second area, the overlay can be indicated as detected and defined within the picture. Detection of the overlay can be used to identify an owner of the video, or detect when a scene change such as a commercial occurs.

Logo presence detection based on blending characteristics

In one embodiment, a method includes launching an application on a first device. The application allows the first device to trigger a service based on a program being played on a second device. The first device captures a visual code being displayed in association with the program being played on the second device. The visual code includes encoded information for program ID information associated with the program being played on the second device and timing information associated with the program being played on the second device. The method determines the program ID information and the timing information from the encoded information included in the visual code and then triggers the service for the application using the timing information and the program ID information.

Companion device services based on the generation and display of visual codes on a display device

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