Troy Frank Burkman

US Patent:

20070088862, Apr 19, 2007

Filed:

Oct 13, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/249936

Inventors:

Troy Burkman - Cedar Park TX, US
Yen-Fu Chen - Austin TX, US
Francis Kinstler - Cedar Park TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/00

US Classification:

710016000

Abstract:

The invention comprises a computer implemented process for optimizing a media environment having a media player and a data stream, the process comprising: configuring a performance criterion; receiving the data stream; collecting performance data from the data stream; analyzing the performance data to determine if the performance data satisfies the performance criterion; and if the performance data does not satisfy the performance criterion, identifying an alternate media environment that provides improved performance data, and changing to the alternate media environment for improved performance.

US Patent:

20090307267, Dec 10, 2009

Filed:

Jun 10, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/136594

Inventors:

Danny Yen-Fu Chen - Austin TX, US
Troy Frank Burkman - Cedar Park TX, US
Jesse Tijnagel - Namur, BE
David Charles Howard-Jones - Ittre, BE
Brian R. Heasman - Oostduinkerke, BE

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

7071041, 707E17009

Abstract:

A dynamic and synchronized real-time captioning system and method for streaming media. A streaming encoder module can provide a code injection to marry textual data and audio/video (AV) data in order to form a text and/or audio stream. A streaming control module can allow an end-user to specify font format utilized to embed into an AV stream. A delay enhancement tool can be adapted to adjust speed of the text and/or audio stream, which allows the end-user to receive the text and/or audio stream at a proper speed. A customized graphical user interface (CGUI) can be adapted to assist with streaming administration to provide an encoding option, caption source location, delay control and slide control. Therefore, the captioning system can be able to synchronize and deliver the textual data and the AV data for live media streaming at an end-user's system.