Robert Hardacker
Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories
89 Papers
2.5K Citations
Robert Hardacker is an academic researcher from Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Remote control & Display device. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 89 publications.
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Papers
Patent
Coax core insulator waveguide
Robert Allan Unger,Robert Hardacker,Christopher Jensen Read +2 more
- 03 Mar 2009
TL;DR: In this article, a dielectric waveguide is used as a waveguide for transmission of signals along the length of the coaxial cable, and the center conductor is further used to communicate an electrical signal between the first and second ends.
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Patent
Content image search
Brant L. Candelore,Robert Hardacker +1 more
- 16 Mar 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, a region of interest (ROI) containing an image in a scene of a displayed content is captured, and the ROI is analyzed locally or remotely to search for related content associated with the image.
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Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters
Edgar Allan Tu,David Boyden,Takashi Hironaka,Thomas Patrick Dawson,George Williams,Ludovic Douillet,Rajesh Rao,Peter Shintani,Djung Nguyen,Milton Frazier,Ian Charles Matthews,Behram Dacosta,Robert Hardacker,Nicholas Colsey,Mark A Hanson,Jason R. Meerbergen,Leo M. Pedlow,Rolf Toft +17 more
- 17 Aug 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, a TV-set is equipped with HDMI and USB connections that allow it to display and run audio-video content from a variety of conventional consumer devices, and a remote commander is expanded to control all the attached devices through interactions with the user interface.
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User managed internet links from TV
Robert Hardacker,Brant L. Candelore +1 more
- 13 Oct 2009
TL;DR: In this article, a method of obtaining metadata associated with an element of television programming involves instructing an access device to generate and communicate a signal to a control device suitable for driving a display, wherein the signal contains metadata suitable for rendering on a display device in a visual representation.
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Metadata from image recognition
Robert Hardacker,Brant L. Candelore +1 more
- 16 Apr 2007
TL;DR: In this article, a method of acquiring data associated with a television program consistent with certain embodiments involves acquiring information that identifies a currently playing television program; receiving a command from a user interface that selects an image forming a portion of a video displayed on the television, wherein said frame of video is a part of the television program.
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