The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, medium and electronic device for configuring a gift list in a live broadcast room, comprising: receiving a gift list request sent by a client terminal, the gift list request including a room number of a live broadcast room where a user logging into the client terminal is located; determining a region where a host in the live broadcast room is located when broadcasting according to the room number of the live broadcast room; determining targeting gift list information corresponding to the region; and sending the targeting gift list information to the client terminal in response to the gift list request.

Provided are display apparatuses. A display apparatus includes: a display, and a controller connected to the display, the controller is configured to: display a first interface on the display; in response to no operation for the first interface reaching a first time threshold, create a screensaver display interface by a screensaver application in the display apparatus, where the screensaver display interface is transparent with respect to the first interface; present the screensaver display interface on the display without blocking the first interface presented on the display; create a screensaver view comprising a plurality of screensaver interfaces by the screensaver application; and present the first screensaver interface in the screensaver view on the screensaver display interface to block the first interface, where the first access entry and the first presentation material are visible for a user and the first access entry is available for selection by the user.

A method performed by a controller device is provided. The method includes (a) connecting to a plurality of remote robotic vehicles over a wireless connection; (b) selectively controlling one of the plurality of remote robotic vehicles over the wireless connection; and (c) displaying, on a video screen of the controller device, a video stream received from the one remote robotic vehicle over the wireless connection. A corresponding method is provided to be performed by a robotic vehicle. Apparatuses, computer program products, and a system for performing the method(s) are also provided.

The present disclosure is intended to provide a smart television and a method for displaying a graphical user interface of a television screen shot. The method includes while a display device is displaying currently-played content, in response to receiving an input instruction for capturing a screen shot, acquiring a screen shot image comprising at least one object; and while the display device continues playing, displaying a screen shot content display layer on the display device. The screen shot content display layer is configured to present the screen shot image. The method further includes in response to receiving an input for selecting an object or a keyword matched with the object, displaying recommended content related to the object; in response to receiving a selection for a different object on the screen shot image by moving a focus frame, updating presentation of recommended content based on the selected different object.

An encoder for use with video data, first supplemental data, second supplemental data, and a display device. The encoder includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the encoder to: generate modified video data based on an incorporation of the first supplemental data into the video data such that the supplemental video will be displayed at a predetermined location when the modified video is displayed on the display device; generate metadata associated with the predetermined location; generate an encoded transport stream including the modified video data, the metadata and the second supplemental data; and transmit the encoded transport stream to the display device so as to enable the display device to decode the encoded transport stream and display the modified video and the second supplemental video such that the second supplemental video is not displayed at the predetermined location.

A set-top box with self-monitoring and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, a housing secures a television input, a television output, a processor, memory, and storage therein, which are communicatively interconnected by a busing architecture. The memory is accessible to the processor, and the memory includes processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to detect when the television is not being utilized. Responsive thereto, the instructions cause the processor to scan channels received from the television input and generate a composite TV screen image data that may be resolved to a single TV screen image made from an assemblage of TV screen image captures corresponding to the scanned channels.

A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC.

According to one embodiment, a plurality of spatial publishing objects (SPOs) is provided in a multidimensional space in a user interface. Each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects is associated with digital media data from at least one digital media source. The user interface has a field for the digital media data. A user is provided via the user interface with a user presence that is optionally capable of being represented in the user interface relative to the plurality of spatial publishing objects. The digital media data associated with the at least one spatial publishing object are combined to generate a media output corresponding to the combined digital media data.

Systems and methods are provided herein for scheduling a season recording. A series is provided to a user device, the series having a plurality of sequential seasons, and each season having a plurality of episodes. A request for recording the series is received from the user. In response, a last episode of the series watched by the user is identified. A relevant season of the plurality of seasons is then determined, such that the relevant season precedes another season of the plurality of seasons and includes the last episode watched by the user. Then, episodes of the relevant season that follow the last episode watched by the user are scheduled for recording, such that episodes of a season that precedes the relevant season are not scheduled for recording.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to store and signal pre-derivation properties in an image container file (24, 26). Relative to the construction of image package comprising an image container file, the method, apparatus and computer program product assign a pre-derivation property identifier data structure identifying one or more pre-derivation properties of one or more pre-derived images (22). With respect to the processing of an image container file, the method, apparatus and computer program product permit an image container file and a pre-derivation property identifier data structure identifying one or more pre-derivation properties of one or more pre-derived images in the image be processed to cause one or more pre-derived image items from the image container file to be rendered or edited and regenerated in accordance with the pre-derivation properties.