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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160260 | Circuit and program for processing multichannel audio signals and apparatus for reproducing same A circuit for processing multichannel audio signals, comprises a frequency characteristics correction device and an output device. The frequency characteristics correction device corrects frequency characteristics of an audio signal of a channel including an audio s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8027567 | Apparatus for and method of recording information, apparatus for and method of reproducing information, recording medium, and information recording medium Provided is an information recording apparatus which, in a state where the content of moving picture image information, etc. can be prevented from being inadvertently recognized by the user due to inadvertent presentation to the user of a relevant representative pic... | 09/27/2011 |
| RE42146 | Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave DVD 1′ has recording information areas VOR, AOR in which recording information is recorded and reproducing procedure information recording areas VNA, ANA in which reproducing procedure information indicating reproducing procedures of the recording informati... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848215 | Optical recording medium, information recording apparatus and information reproduction apparatus An optical-recording medium is provided with at least a first recording layer for recording information optically; and a second recording layer for recording information optically by a light beam that passes through said first recording layer; wherein the track pitc... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848202 | Apparatus for manufacturing information record medium, information record medium, information recording apparatus and information recording method On an information record medium (10, 11), record information can be recorded one time or a plurality of times by a predetermined record format. An apparatus for manufacturing the information record medium by using a stamper (27, 28) is provided with an... | 12/07/2010 |
| RE42023 | Method and apparatus for setting recording parameter on non-used area of optical recordable disc When setting a recording power for use in recording optical information on a DVD-R, by using any one of sectors provided on the DVD-R as a PCA, whether a predetermined special detected signal is detected or not in the sectors is checked (Step S2), a non-used ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7788507 | Control apparatus, electronic device and signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus of an electronic device not only cuts off supply of power to a hardware unit from a power supply unit when a control signal associated with a power OFF command is supplied from an instruction input unit, but also turns OFF a switching c... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7714800 | Information display apparatus, information display method and information recording medium for information display apparatus An information display apparatus is provided with: a display screen; a movable panel member; and a control device which controls such that the functions of a control member and/or display member that are completely or partially hidden due to said movement of said mo... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702212 | Information recording apparatus with memory control structure An information recording apparatus includes: a transferring device that separately and simultaneously receives at least two information supplied through at least two channels, and separately and simultaneously transfers the at least two information to a storing devi... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7548503 | Recording medium, information recording apparatus, information recording method, information recording medium, and recording program In a DVD-R on which information is to be recorded by an information recording apparatus, prior to the recording of the information therein, there are recorded in advance at least identification information for identifying the information recording apparatus for reco... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7542660 | Information recording medium, information recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method, and program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave for controlling record or reproduction An information recording medium is provided with: an object data file for storing object data which constitutes a series of content information, such as picture information and audio information, and a play list information file for storing play list information whi... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7236182 | Image processing system and method, and computer-readable recording medium An image processing apparatus sequentially extracts regions from a static image, as first images, and forms a second image in which each of the first images is repeated in an array. In addition, the static image and the second image are output from a computer to be ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 6912193 | Record condition extraction system and method of dielectric recording medium, and information recording apparatus The record condition extraction system (1) of a dielectric recording medium is intended to obtain an applied voltage and an applied time length to be recorded when recording information in the dielectric recording medium. The record condition extraction syste... | 06/28/2005 |
| 7532550 | Apparatus for setting a recorded parameter on non-used area of an optical disc When setting a recording power for use in recording optical information on a DVD-R, by using any one of sectors provided on the DVD-R as a PCA, whether a predetermined special detected signal is detected or not in the sectors is checked (Step S2), a non-used ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526333 | Sound reproduction system and method based on physical and mental states of a drive One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an system which can detects degradation in a driving mental state of a driver, that is, sleepiness, fatigue, fret, and so on during driving of a vehicle and notifies the driver of the degradation to encourage... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526180 | Image processing apparatus, image data managing method, and information recording medium An image processing apparatus has a configuration in which contents-data received via a TV receiving unit is recorded in a main recording apparatus. When the proportion of use in all of storage capacity of the main recording apparatus exceeds a threshold, a system c... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519264 | Broadcast program contents menu creation apparatus and method It is determined whether the broadcast program of the stored video signal is a broadcast program of a predetermined genre. A predetermined feature image portion of each of frames in the video signal of the broadcast program of the predetermined genre is detected fro... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512049 | Optical pickup apparatus including emission device, light beam emission control method, and computer-readable recorded medium in which light beam emission control program is recorded An optical pickup apparatus comprises a semiconductor laser output controller for emitting laser beam, a photodetector for detecting the emitted laser beam, a sampling processor for performing a sampling process, a pulse current generator for generating erase curren... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508378 | Remote control system, remote control operating device, and remote control method The present invention is provided with an input device for inputting connection information between information processing equipment and information reproduction equipment connected to the information processing equipment, a storage device for storing the connection... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7496011 | Drive apparatus, drive method, information record medium having drive program, and information processing apparatus for drive A drive apparatus including: a superposition device which superposes a superposition signal on a drive signal for driving a light beam emission device that emits a light beam and which outputs the drive signal on which the superposition signal is superposed to the l... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7489288 | Drive control apparatus for display panel A drive control apparatus for a display panel formed by arranging a plurality of pixels having a plurality of cells emitting lights of different colors comprising: an obtaining device which obtains an image signal effecting a display on the display panel, and a driv... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7480849 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus, and information recording medium In an information recording, a first data processor divides input data into a plurality of frames so as to arrange the plurality of frames for each unit block. The unit block is a unit of error-correction with respect to the input data and the frames include first i... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7468942 | Optical pickup, optical element, and information reproducing apparatus configured for use with any of plural types of recording media An optical pickup has a light source for emitting a plurality of laser beams with different wavelengths; and an objective lens for focusing the laser beams emitted from the light source on recording surfaces of plural types of information recording media. A diffract... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7440680 | Information recording medium, information recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave for controlling record or reproduction, and data structure including control signal On an information recording medium, an entire stream including a plurality of portion streams, each of which is provided with picture information or audio information constituting a series of content, is multiplexed-and-recorded by a unit of packet. The information ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424204 | Video information summarizing apparatus and method for generating digest information, and video information summarizing program for generating digest information A summary reproducing apparatus, which is capable of reproducing a summary accurately for each type of video information and of reducing a burden in generating digest information, provided with an audio feature amount extraction unit for obtaining a sound feature am... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409067 | Method and apparatus for adjusting frequency characteristic of signal In a frequency characteristic adjustment apparatus incorporated in an audio system, a frequency characteristic of an audio signal is made to agree with a target frequency characteristic, thus providing an equalizing function. In the apparatus, by a frequency charact... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398003 | Index data generation apparatus, index data generation method, index data generation program and recording medium on which the program is recorded This invention provides a data-recording/reproduction apparatus that creates hierarchical-structured video data for partial contents data based on telops, and that is capable of easily and accurately reproducing a summary searching for an arbitrary scene in contents... | 07/08/2008 |
| RE38602 | Optical recording medium and method for setting power of laser beam An optical recording medium has a plurality of test areas on each of which test signals are written, and a plurality of power sitting information recording areas on each of which an optimum laser power obtained by reading the recorded test signal written in one of t... | 09/28/2004 |
