- Number
- 12167051
- Published
- 2024-12-10
- Filed
- 2019-08-09
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Strein; Michael et al.
- CPC
- H04N21/23424; G06F16/70; H04N21/2187; H04N21/235; H04N21/64322; H04N21/814; H04N21/8146
- Verdict
- Set aside broadcast content control, plumbing
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
There is provided a recall and triggering system and method for the control of on-air graphics at remote locations. The system including a television network and an affiliated station, the television network configured to insert a command into a video and transmit the video including the command to the affiliated station, and the affiliated station configured to receive the video including the command from the television network, store the video in the memory, detect the command from the video stored in the memory, retrieve the data from a database based on the command, modify the video using the data to generate a modified video, and transmit the modified video to a display device. The database may be stored in the memory of the affiliated station or on a separate server. The data may include graphics, content, databases, spreadsheets, tables, websites, news, or other graphical content.
Background
BACKGROUND (1) In broadcasting television channels, a television network provides the scheduled programming to at least one affiliated station so that the affiliated station can broadcast the programming to the houses of consumers. When providing the scheduled programming to the affiliated stations, a television network follows many standard protocols. As such, it would be helpful to the television network if the television network were able to use the standard protocols to add content and graphics to the programming after the programming has been provided to the affiliated stations. For example, it would be helpful if a television network were able to call and insert local content and graphics into a video using the standard protocol systems for video signals after the video has been provided to the affiliated stations. SUMMARY (2) The present disclosure is directed to a recall and triggering system for the control of on-air content at remote locations, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims
1. An affiliated entity for communication with a content providing network, the affiliated entity comprising: a memory storing a command detection program and a local content element insertion program; and a processor configured to: receive an Internet-protocol-based (IP-based) stream carrying a video from the content providing network, the video including: (1) video content, (2) a plurality of commands inserted into the video by the content providing network for use by the affiliated entity, the plurality of commands including a first command to change a layering precedence, and (3) network content inserted by the content providing network into the video; detect the plurality of commands in the video being carried by the IP-based stream; load, based on a second command of the plurality of commands, a database into the local content element insertion program; retrieve, based on the second command, local content from the database loaded into the local content element insertion program; modify, based on the first command, the video using the local content to generate a modified video, wherein the first command changes the layering precedence of the local content, the network content, and the video content with respect to one another during the modifying according to three-dimensional information carried by the local content and at least one of the network content or the video content, wherein the three-dimensional information is used to change the layering precedence of the local content; and transmit the modified video to a display. ||
11. A method for use by an affiliated entity in communication with a content providing network, the affiliated entity including a memory storing a command detection program and a local content element insertion program, the method comprising: receiving an Internet-protocol-based (IP-based) stream carrying a video from the content providing network, the video including: (1) video content, (2) a plurality of commands inserted into the video by the content providing network for use by the affiliated entity, the plurality of commands including a first command to change a layering precedence, and (3) network content inserted by the content providing network into the video; detecting the plurality of commands in the video being carried by the IP-based stream; loading, based on a second command of the plurality of commands, a database into the local content element insertion program; retrieving, based on the second command, local content from the database loaded into the local content element insertion program; modifying, based on the first command, the video using the local content to generate a modified video, wherein the first command changes the layering precedence of the local content, the network content, and the video content with respect to one another during the modifying according to three-dimensional information carried by the local content and at least one of the network content or the video content, wherein the three-dimensional information is used to change the layering precedence of the local content; and transmitting the modified video to a display.