CA2355793C - Television apparatus having a rating limit setting feature - Google Patents

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CA2355793C
CA2355793C CA2355793A CA2355793A CA2355793C CA 2355793 C CA2355793 C CA 2355793C CA 2355793 A CA2355793 A CA 2355793A CA 2355793 A CA2355793 A CA 2355793A CA 2355793 C CA2355793 C CA 2355793C
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Bret David Hawkins
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/454—Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/434—Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream
    • H04N21/4348—Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/458—Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations
    • H04N21/4586—Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/475—End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data
    • H04N21/4756—End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Human Computer Interaction (AREA)
  • Two-Way Televisions, Distribution Of Moving Picture Or The Like (AREA)
  • Circuits Of Receivers In General (AREA)
CA2355793A 2000-08-25 2001-08-16 Television apparatus having a rating limit setting feature Expired - Fee Related CA2355793C (en)

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CN (1) CN1223183C (zh)
CA (1) CA2355793C (zh)
MX (1) MXPA01008631A (zh)
MY (1) MY129836A (zh)

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KR100672406B1 (ko) * 2002-07-22 2007-01-23 엘지전자 주식회사 특정 프로그램에 대한 시청허가 장치 및 그 방법
CN100384233C (zh) * 2005-07-15 2008-04-23 瑞轩科技股份有限公司 具过滤节目影像功能的显示装置及其过滤节目影像的方法
KR101507790B1 (ko) * 2008-04-21 2015-04-03 엘지전자 주식회사 단말기 및 이것의 방송 제어 방법

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KR0179830B1 (ko) * 1995-07-21 1999-05-01 문정환 티브이 시스템의 특정 채널 선국 방지 장치
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CN1223183C (zh) 2005-10-12
MXPA01008631A (es) 2002-11-07
CN1345160A (zh) 2002-04-17
KR20020016558A (ko) 2002-03-04
KR100839548B1 (ko) 2008-06-19
MY129836A (en) 2007-05-31
CA2355793A1 (en) 2002-02-25

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