Systems and methods are described herein for generating a watch schedule and compressed series for a user for a series that is expected to become unavailable. Availability data indicating when a content series will become unavailable is received and compared to user progression habits. If the content series will become unavailable before the user will complete it, a watch schedule may be offered to the user. If the user subsequently falls behind on this watch schedule, a compressed version of the content series may be offered to the user.

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for switching the output of an overriding multimedia device from a first input to a second input or a combination of the first input and the second input. An example embodiment operates by receiving sensor data detected by a sensing device and relating to a multimedia switching event. The example embodiment further operates by determining that sensor data detected by a sensing device corresponds to a multimedia switching action. In response, the example embodiment operates by generating a multimedia switching actuation signal that instructs an overriding multimedia device to switch its output from the first multimedia signal to the second multimedia signal. Subsequently, the example embodiment operates by transmitting the multimedia switching actuation signal to the overriding multimedia device.

A display device includes a display and a controller. The controller may obtain whether at least two or more thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images are identical, and control to display the plurality of photo images on the display by executing the slide show in a deterioration prevention mode from among a normal mode and the deterioration prevention mode when the at least two or more thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images are identical.

A method of configuring a display device interface (DDI) detects a trigger signal, generated by a display device. If the trigger signal is associated with a power on event, a full configuration of the DDI is performed, including loading display device capability information provided by the display device into DDI configuration registers and setting one or more DDI configuration parameters accordingly. If the trigger signal is associated with resume event, rather than a power on event, a modified fast link resume operation may be performed to route the trigger signal to a controller configured to explicitly write display device capability information to the appropriate DDI configuration registers before setting the corresponding DDI configuration parameter accordingly. The DDI may include a re-timer, between the DDI source and sink, configured to snoop the explicit write transaction such that the re-timer configuration is also updated.

A display apparatus includes presence detection circuitry for detecting an individual in proximity to the display apparatus; a display for displaying video content and a user interface; a processor in communication with the user input circuitry, the display, and the search history database; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executed by the processor and causes the processor to: a) determine, from the presence detection circuitry, a user in proximity of the display apparatus; b) determine one or more program types associated with the user; c) determine available programs that match the predicted one or more programs; and d) update the user interface to depict a listing of one or more of the available programs that match the predicted one or more programs.

The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and its execution method and a computer-readable medium. An electronic device, comprising: a memory, in which instructions are stored; and a processor, configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the electronic device to execute the following operations: receiving a request for entering a sleep mode; obtaining expected time to fall asleep; obtaining current volume value and/or current brightness value of a playback device; selecting a decay type; and determining a required amount of change per unit time of the brightness value and/or volume value of the playback device according to the decay type, expected time to fall asleep, and the current volume value and/or current brightness value.

A control method according to one aspect of the technology is for use where a power supply of an apparatus having a first application and a second application is turned off during display of a screen of the second application and remains off, the first application being used to view a program, the second application being different from the first application. The control method includes: in a case where a power button is pressed, turning on the power supply of the apparatus to start simultaneously the second application and to display the screen thereof; and in a case where a channel selection button is pressed, turning on the power supply of the apparatus to start simultaneously the first application and to display an image of the program distributed on a selected channel.

Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for sharing encoder output of video streams. In a particular embodiment, a method provides determining video profiles for each of a plurality of devices. The method further provides determining if two or more of the video profiles are similar by determining if parameters associated with each video profile differ by less than a threshold value. The method further provides transmitting a video stream encoded in a single format to the devices if they have similar profiles and transmitting video streams encoded in different formats to the devices if they do not have similar profiles.

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for transferring streaming media playback between streaming media devices. In an example embodiment, a user may be streaming content using a first media device. The user may then send a command to the first media device to transfer the streaming content to a second media device. The first media device may identify the second media device as being on a common network and transmit a wake command to the second media device as well as media playback state information indicating a playback position to resume playback. In some embodiments, the first media device may download the media playback state information onto a mobile device. The mobile device may then provide the media playback state information to the second media device to resume playback at the first media device's playback position.

The present application discloses a method for display control and a display device, including: detecting program information acquiring information of a currently displayed program; determining a children's program: identifying the children's program based on the program information; and controlling the displaying: if the program is not a children's program, displaying the program normally on a television, and if the program is a children's program, starting a preset protection mechanism.