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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2001
Applicants:
Hawley K. Rising, Iii, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali Tabatabai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventors:
Hawley K. Rising, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali Tabatabai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing descriptions of audiovisual content are described. According to one embodiment, a description of audiovisual content is created, and information pertaining to reuse of the description of audiovisual content is defined. Further, the description of audiovisual content and the reuse information are stored in a repository of descriptive data to enable subsequent reuse of this description.