Mark A Simpson

US Patent:

20050028194, Feb 3, 2005

Filed:

Sep 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/932460

Inventors:

Jan Elenbaas - New York NY, US
Nevenka Dimitrova - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Thomas McGee - Garrison NY, US
Mark Simpson - White Plains NY, US
Jacquelyn Martino - Irvington NY, US
Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb - Ossining NY, US
Marjorie Garrett - Ossining NY, US
Carolyn Ramsey - Ossining NY, US
Ranjit Desai - Cambridge MA, US

International Classification:

H04N007/173
H04N007/10
H04N007/025
G06F017/30
G06F007/00
H04N005/445

US Classification:

725032000, 725132000, 715723000, 715704000, 348563000

Abstract:

A video retrieval system is presented that allows a user to quickly and easily select and receive stories of interest from a video stream. The video retrieval system classifies stories and delivers samples of selected stories that match each user's current preference. The user's preferences may include particular broadcast networks, persons, story topics, keywords, and the like. Key frames of each selected story are sequentially displayed; when the user views a frame of interest, the user selects the story that is associated with the key frame for more detailed viewing. This invention is particularly well suited for targeted news retrieval. In a preferred embodiment, news stories are stored, and the selection of a news story for detailed viewing based on the associated key frames effects a playback of the selected news story. The principles of this invention also allows a user to effect a directed search of other types of broadcasts as well. For example, the user may initiate an automated scan that presents samples of broadcasts that conform to the user's current preferences, akin to directed channel-surfing.

US Patent:

20110115977, May 19, 2011

Filed:

Nov 13, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/617832

Inventors:

Mark Simpson - Princeton Jct NJ, US
Richard Chernock - Lawrenceville NJ, US

Assignee:

Triveni Digital - Princeton Jct NJ

International Classification:

H04N 5/445
G06K 9/00
H04N 7/173
H04N 7/16
G10L 21/00

US Classification:

348564, 382100, 725110, 725 62, 704273, 348731, 348E05101, 704E21001

Abstract:

Provided is an enhanced television system and method including a television receiver in communication with a broadcast reception tuner. The television receiver is configured to receive and display video data from a video stream and enhancement data from the reception tuner. The video stream includes embedded base programming identification metadata, and the television receiver is further configured to extract a base identification tag from the embedded base programming identification metadata, and combine enhancement data received from the reception tuner associated with the base identification tag with the video stream. The video stream may then be displayed.

US Patent:

55048439, Apr 2, 1996

Filed:

Jun 6, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/470653

Inventors:

David A. Catapano - Rochester NY
Paul E. Reilly - Santa Clara CA
Thomas B. Zell - Victor NY
Eric W. Baxter - Rochester NY
Mark F. Simpson - Mountain View CA

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06K 1500

US Classification:

395115

Abstract:

A printing system for producing prints from a job represented by a stream of image data written in a page description language and having a token expressed as a plurality of bits. The stream of image data is generated by and transmitted from an image data source. The printing system comprises an input section, communicating with the image data source, for receiving the stream of image data. The input section includes an arrangement for reading a block of image data to determine the presence of the token in the block of image data. An area, communicating with the input section, is adapted to store the stream of image data. An arrangement, responsive to the reading means determining the presence of the token, is adapted to initiate a selected operation in the printing system after the input section receives a potion of the stream of image data. A parser, communicating with the storage area, is adapted to parse the stream of image data to separate the stream into a plurality of image-related components.

US Patent:

20150289012, Oct 8, 2015

Filed:

Jun 22, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/746256

Inventors:

Mark Simpson - Princeton Junction NJ, US
Richard Chernock - Lawrenceville NJ, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/44
H04N 21/439
H04N 21/435
H04N 21/61
H04N 21/8358

Abstract:

Provided is an enhanced television system and method including a television display in communication with a broadcast enhancement pathway via a first communication interface of the television display and with a video connection via a second communication interface of the television display. The television display receives and displays uncompressed video data from a digital video stream carried over the video connection from a video source and enhancement data from the broadcast enhancement pathway. The digital video stream includes embedded base programming identification metadata. The television display receives the enhancement data from the broadcast enhancement pathway without the enhancement data passing through the video source; and extracts a base identification tag from the embedded base programming identification metadata. The enhancement data received from the broadcast enhancement pathway associated with the base identification tag is combined with the digital video stream. The enhancement data includes instructions for receiving additional enhancement information.