F-Term-List

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USE OR AREA

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. Manner of use

. . Two-way interactive or subscriber televisions

. . . Two-way CATVs or cable televisions

. . . Satellites terrestrial wave televisions teletext broadcasting or data broadcasting

. . . Internet televisions

. . accessing video servers

. . Network cameras or remote supervision

. . distributing moving pictures to portable or mobile terminals

. . Video telephones

. . Video conferences including cooperative work thereof

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. . Cooperation between broadcast systems and communication systems

. . Other multimedia systems or terminals

. limiting service areas

. . in hotels hospitals or the like or outdoor public areas

. . in vehicles e.g. passenger aircrafts buses or trains

. . at homes or inside houses

. Applied technologies or application services

. . Movie distributions

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. . Quizzes or questionnaires

. . Games

. . Emergency broadcast or information distribution e.g. disaster information or breaking news

. . News or local stock or weather information

. . Sales promotion or advertisements

. . Educating learning or consulting

. . Electronic commerce or television shopping

. . Medical treatments or nursing cares

. . Services e.g. for producing editing or printing programmes

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PROBLEM OF SYSTEM

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. Construction of distribution systems

. . Compatibility interconnections interfaces or standardisation

. . promoting efficiency in transmission systems

. . Harmony or cooperation with other media systems

. improving operability or man-machine interfaces *

. . Labour saving automation or promotion of efficiency *

. enhancing presence

. matching lines of sights

. enhancing performance modularising or decreasing cost of circuits

. . Power saving in devices or modules

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KIND OF CONTENT DATA

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. Multimedia contents

. . Moving-pictures or pictures

. . . CG pictures or animations

. . Still pictures or graphical objects

. . Advertisements or banners

. . Data e.g. information electronic programme guides emergency-use or subtitles

. . Sounds or music

. . Software operating systems tools control codes or the like

. . Facsimile electronic mail or the like sent independently from contents

MB00
PROCESSING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR CONTENT

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. Additional information or pointers

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. Metadata

. . Keywords for retrieval

. . Metadata for processing of contents

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. embedding data

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. Processing for protecting contents

. . Content IDs e.g. UMID

. . Copy protection generation control or tampering protection

. . Intellectual Property Management and Protection or IPMP or signatures

. . Electronic watermarks

. . Version information

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. structuring contents

. . Hierarchisations

. . Objects

. . having divided time units e.g. scenes

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PROCESSING FOR PRODUCING CONTENT

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. Content production or authoring

. . Multi-scenarios or interactive

. . creating digests or previews

. . composing plural input images special effects or characters

. . arranging spaces of objects

. . creating time stamps or synchronisation between contents

. . Description languages e.g. MHEG XML or BML

. . generating scripts or interactive applications

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. Link information uniform resource locator or URL hot spots or the like

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SHARED PROCESSING BETWEEN SERVER AND CLIENT

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. Scramble processing

. . Kinds or ranges of signals to be processed

. . . Analogue signals e.g. amplitude or frequency ranges

. . . Digital signals

. . . . Frequency ranges

. . . . Space areas

. . . . Code areas or coding tables

. . . of synchronisation signals

. . . of additional information

. . Methods of scrambling

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. . . using pseudo random numbers

. . . replacing orders

. . . processing partially or limiting the amount of effects

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. Processing for keys

. . creating keys based on user information

. . creating keys based on information of contents

. . Encoded keys

. . Hierarchised keys

. . Kinds of keys

. . . Public-keys

. . . Private keys

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. Converting picture signals

. . of time resolutions or number of frames

. . of space resolution

. . of gradation luminance or chrominance

. . in coding range e.g. bit numbers or motion vectors

. . of coding systems

. . of aspect ratios

. . only of partial streams

. . of media e.g. from natural pictures to computer graphics

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. Processing or converting sound signals

. . Mutes

. . of speech recognition or detection

. . . between voices and texts

. . . between voices and pictures e.g. sign languages

. . Speech syntheses including sound image localisation

SA00
HARDWARE ON SERVER SIDE

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. Locations or identification numbers of servers

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. Intermediate or relaying video servers broadcast servers or communication servers

. . Local VOD servers

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. Forms of video sources or servers

. . Distributed servers having their own sources

. . Mirror servers having the same source groups

. . Cache servers accessed frequently

. . Live cameras excluding video telephones or conferences

. . . Multi-viewpoint cameras

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. Constituents in servers

. . Encoders

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. Studio apparatus

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. Non-video servers

. . for accounting

. . for authentication or copyright management

. . for client management

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SIGNAL PROCESSING IN SERVER

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. processing picture signals

. . converting picture signals @PA31

. . Scramble processing @PA01

. processing sounds @PA41

. processing additional information including software

. . for digital broadcasting

. . for distribution systems

. of synchronisation

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. creating or multiplexing transport stream

. . multiplexing of videos and audio streams

. . multiplexing of plural video streams

. . processing of synchronisation information or serial digital interface (SDI)

. . processing regarding system information

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. of down-signals including buffering

. . Channels or band assignment

. . Transmission line coding e.g. modulation or error correction

. . Adaptation to particular networks

. . Processing of TS e.g. packeting or encrypting

. . transmitting divided data by time unit

. . Special reproduction fast-forward rewind skip or pose

. of up-signals including requests from terminals

. . determining authentication

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. of retrieval processing

. of recording or reproducing @SA21

. . arranging data on a plurality of discs in servers

. . . storing divided video sequences into different discs

. . . arranging overlapping data in a plurality of discs

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. Supervision check processing or grasping conditions @YA

. of countermeasures against errors

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. Processing of OS e.g. memory management or multi-tasking

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. Signal processing in non-video servers

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MANAGING PROGRAMME OR SYSTEM ON SERVER SIDE

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. of management or arrangements of programmes

. . Conditional accesses or processing of keys @PA01 or PA21

. . controlling hierarchies or picture qualities

. . arranging data from different sources

. . according to the requests from clients

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. Management or supervision of client information or terminal equipment @YA

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. Timing controls or scheduling

. . controlling load distribution including distribution servers

. . determining timing of insertion e.g. of advertisements or child programmes

. . improving waiting time of clients

. . transmitting programmes based on band control or charging

. . changing schedule processing time delay or updating of programmes to be distributed

. . Carousel transmission

. . transmitting schedule information e.g. EPGs or play lists

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. of non-video servers

. . of accounting or discounting of charges or the like

. . . of accounting by third parties

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APPLICATION

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. Directory services or retrieval support services

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. Data storage services

. . distributing video data

. . Proxy video recording e.g. NW recorders

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. for operations or use of studio apparatus

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TRANSMISSION MEDIA OR NETWORK FORM

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. Transmission media or network forms @TA11

. . Wired transmission e.g. optical cables or coaxial cables

. . . Telephone lines or ISDN

. . Terrestrial digital broadcasting

. . Satellite channels

. . Wireless transmission for portable phones or mobiles

. . Short range radio including infra-red rays

. . of network forms e.g. Internet

. . . LANs

. . . Loop forms frequently used for video conferences

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. Up or downlink transmission paths

. . characterised by uplinks

. . characterised by downlinks

. . having multiple transmission paths or channels

. . . having different routes between up-signals and down-signals

. . Distribution via non-networks e.g. via recording media

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. Intermediate equipment

. . Exchanges repeaters or repeater amplifiers

. . Routers branching units distributors or protective devices

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CONTROL SIGNAL TO BE TRANSMITTED OR SIGNAL PROCESSING

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. Addressing or specifying communication counterpart

. . Allocation processing

. . Multicasting

. . Unicast including VOD or NVOD

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. Protocols or protocol conversions

. . Communication protocols

. . . of real time reproduction e.g. RTP

. . . of recording e.g. DSM-CC

. . . of setup

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. Control signals sent from servers

. . for clients

. . . Authorisation or enabling signals e.g. key transmission @PA21

. . . of decoders

. . of networks

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. Control signals from client side

. . of networks

. . Rate controlling

. . requesting retransmission

. . of servers

. . . of encoders

. . . Requests for keys @PA21

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. Signal processing or systems in networks

. . for optical transmission*

. . Signal processing or systems for transmitting or receiving satellite broadcast *

. . Supervision or maintenance of networks @YA

. . Signal processing adjustment or test of intermediate equipment

. . . removing noise: countermeasures against noise

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CONTROL IN PROGRAMME OR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT LAYER

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. on server-sides

. . on client sides

. . . transmitting parameters

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. Programme control or management information from clients

. . acknowledging of and responding to operations

. . by sending parameters

. . transmitting stored or reference data

. . on the side of other clients

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HARDWARE ON CLIENT SIDE

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. Device forms

. . Personal computers

. . Set-top boxes or built-in recorders

. . Mobiles or portable terminals excluding video telephones or conferences

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. Cards or security modules @YA

. . storing information e.g. of authentication keys or permission @YA

. . storing personal or apparatus information @YA

. . Accounting information prepaid cards or the like

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. characterised by receiving circuits

. . Storage devices including home servers

. . Tuners e.g. multi-tuners

. . Decoders

. . Encoders

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. characterised by picture displays or voice outputs

. . Warning alarming attention calling or the like

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. characterised by inputs

. . Cameras including document cameras

. . Keyboards mouses touch panels or remote controllers

. . Remote controls manoeuvred from a remote places e.g. for outdoors use

. . Sensors e.g. biological information or door information

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. Peripheral equipments

. . hand-held e.g. re-reception from STB in PDA

. . Video recorders e.g. VTR or DVD

. . Printers or facsimiles

. . Home video game machines

. . Customer premises equipment e.g. for home electric appliances e.g. for water supplies or gases other than AV equipments.

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SIGNAL PROCESSING ON CLIENT SIDE

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. Processing picture signals

. . converting picture signals @PA31

. . Descrambling @PA01

. . Real-time reproduction or synchronisation of contents

. . . Countermeasures against staggering between pictures and sounds; Synchronisation thereof

. . Rescramblings @PA01

. Processing or converting sound signals @PA41

. Processing extracting or converting additional information including software

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. Demultiplexing by TS units @SB11

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. Processing down-signals

. . choosing channels based on information from servers

. . Decoding or demodulations

. . of TS e.g. depacketisation

. Processing up-signals

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. of data retrievals

. of recording or reproducing

. . for storage

. . for temporal storage for later use

. . Delete processing e.g. management of data to be deleted with precedence

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. Supervision checking or status deciding @YA

. . Countermeasures against errors or noises @YA

. . controlling switching-on e.g. in emergency broadcast or receiving EMM @YA

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. by OS

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. for authentication @UD32

. . Passive authentication e.g. by faces finger prints or voiceprints

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. Interface processing with peripheral equipments

. . for communication or authentication

. . for securities @PA01 or PA21

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. Display processing

. . Data conversion for display @PA31

. . Layout controls

. . . Grid display e.g. EPG

. . . Picture-in-picture

. . . Multiwindows

. . Partial display or masks including blurring or spaces

. . Composite display e.g. with human images and other or marks

. . . from a plurality of terminals

. . . using avatars or replacing human images with CG

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. . displaying advertisements

. . through graphical user interfaces

. . of display priority

. . Controlling co-operating with sounds

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MANAGING PROGRAMME OR SYSTEM ON CLIENT SIDE

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. of agents or user supports

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. Filtering or block processing

. . of filtering conditions @YA

. . Units for filtering

. . . Programmes

. . . Scenes objects hierarchies or the like

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. Programme management processing or input-output processing of programmes

. . for conditional accesses or keys @PA01 or PA21

. . Accountings

. . . for applying discounts or privileges

. . . acknowledging viewing histories of pay programmes or viewing fees

. . Processing relating to rights of programmes

. . Multiple input sources scalable output or the like

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. Scheduling of programmes or updating therefor

. . Virtual channel or personal programming

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. Controlling timing of up-signal transmission

. . Responses to polling

. . with timers on client side

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APPLICATION

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. processing for setting environments e.g. pictures languages or sounds

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. Displaying information or data services

. . of scripts e.g. dialogues or telops

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. Responses or replies to displayed screens e.g. quizzes or interest levels

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. using profiles @YA

. . Active authentication e.g. using passwords @YA

. . Users' preferences viewing restriction or qualification for use @YA

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. Accepting users' requests

. . for additional or relating information

. . . having links designating specific areas on screens

. . for desired areas scenes or frames

. . of VOD or NVOD

. . Timer recording purchasing or video recording of programmes

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. Selections or retrievals of programmes

. . Programme guides or EPGs

. . Recommendation of programmes

. . Playlists

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. Other applications e.g. electronic commerce

. . Electronic mails

. . Peer-to-peer (P2P) communications or communications between terminals

. . of bonus points or coupons

. . using television terminals as browsers of WWW

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DEVICE OR PROCESSING SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VIDEO TELEPHONE OR CONFERENCE

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. Compositions or signal processing

. . Client terminals

. . . portable or mobile

. . . having picture input members e.g. of cameras

. . . . characterised by location installing picture pick-up devices

. . . Other information input members e.g. microphones

. . . Display outputs @UB81 or PA31

. . . . for switching to speakers

. . . Sound outputs @PA41

. . . Functions for registering counterparts of communication

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. . . switching operation modes

. . Apparatuses for presentation

. . Multipoint control units or MCUs

. Processing in connecting or cutting

. . Contents of negotiation

. . Processing of calling parties

. . Processing of called parties

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. Transmission processing of images

. . transmitting plural multiplexed pictures

. . replacing pictures to be sent

. . Transmission to terminals having different functions

. . . including terminals without picture display functions

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. Controlling picture pick-up devices or processing pictures

. . controlling or switching cameras

. . . Zooming turning or automatic tracking

. . . controlling cameras in other stations

. . Picture processing

. . . Composition processing of multiple pictures

. . . concealing backgrounds

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. Processing for authorisation

. . for entries connections or delivery

. . for writing or updating

. . Other authorities

. . by central stations

. . by specific terminals

. . . Leader terminals

. . Authentication of user registration

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. Specifying speakers or speakers' terminals

. . of certain speakers out of multiple persons using one terminal

. . Information for specifying speakers

. . . Movements of mouths

. . . Volumes

. . . Other speech information e.g. direction

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INFORMATION USED FOR CONTROLLING OR SUPERVISING, OR USE INFORMATION

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. Objects to be supervised

. . on servers

. . Transmission systems between S-C or intermediate equipment inbetween

. . Client terminals

. . . Local networks or peripheral equipments

. Information about human-beings

. . Viewer information e.g. IDs ages or sex

. . Viewers' preferences or viewing restriction information

. . Viewing time or history

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. . Viewer's input selection information purchase conditions or the like

. . Users' presence information lines of sights biological information or the like

. Information relating to equipments or transmission paths

. . Terminal information or ID or attributes thereof

. . Rights for using equipment e.g. authorised operations

. . Connection information between equipments

. . Processing capability versions or models of hardware

. . . for display

. . Processing capability or versions of software

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. . Operation information including loads of machines

. . . for ensuring correct reception or video recording

. . Information concerning power supplies

. . Capacity condition speeds or bands of lines

. . States of troubles faults errors or the like

. Location information

. . Areas countries or postal codes

. . Telephone numbers

. . Information of present locations e.g. of mobiles or portables terminals

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