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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2005
Method and system for enhancing the quality of video prompts in an interactive media response system
Applicants:
Michele Covell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sumit Roy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John Ankcorn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michele Covell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sumit Roy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John Ankcorn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/30 (2011.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); G09G 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/30 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06T 11/203 (2013.01); G09G 5/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention recite a method for enhancing the quality of visual prompts in and interactive media response system. In one embodiment, a video coder/decoder (codec) used by a thin device is determined. A visual prompt to be displayed on the thin device is accessed and the display parameters of the visual prompt are modified such that at least one character of the visual prompt is aligned with a blocking artifact generated by the video codec.