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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2010
Applicants:

Peter Rae Shintani, San Diego, CA (US);

Brant L. Candelore, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peter Rae Shintani, San Diego, CA (US);

Brant L. Candelore, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignees:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

SONY ELECTRONICS INC., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01);
Abstract

A television demonstration method involves providing a television display and a camera; at a computer processor, receiving a video image from the camera, the computer processor capturing the video image from the camera to determine if the viewer makes a predetermined gesture; and retrieving and playing a specified video segment on the display associated with the gesture in response to determining that the viewer has made the predetermined gesture. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.


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