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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:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2007
Applicants:

Brant Candelore, Escondido, CA (US);

Robert Hardacker, Escondido, CA (US);

Christopher Jensen Read, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brant Candelore, Escondido, CA (US);

Robert Hardacker, Escondido, CA (US);

Christopher Jensen Read, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/233 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 9/804 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30758 (2013.01); G06F 17/30743 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/233 (2013.01); H04N 21/23106 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/4398 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04N 5/4401 (2013.01); H04N 9/8042 (2013.01);
Abstract

Herein, a display device, system and method are described for identifying digital content through comparison of one or more audio thumbnails when the digital content is provided without metadata. According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display, audio conversion logic and a transceiver. The audio conversion logic is adapted to produce one or more audio thumbnails, which are compact representations of a snippet of audio from that incoming digital content without the metadata. The transceiver is adapted to transmit the one or more audio thumbnails in order to (i) retrieve metadata associated with the digital content from an external source separate from a source of the digital content and (ii) display information provided by the metadata on the display.


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