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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6275896 | Data transfer apparatus and method of the same and data input and output controlling apparatus and method of same A data transfer apparatus for transferring data between a first storage medium and a second storage medium capable of non-linear access, comprising a temporary storing means for temporarily storing at least one of data reproduced from the first storage me... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272085 | Data recording/reproducing method and device Tracks of respective discs of plural disc drives are divided into plural blocks and spare sectors are disposed (assigned) at predetermined intervals between blocks. Moreover, blocks including defect sector is replaced so that sectors are continuously disp... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6266371 | Motion vector detecting apparatus and method A motion vector is detected between a base block of a present frame and an inspection block of a reference frame, which is moved in a predetermined search range of the reference frame, on the basis of constant and transient components extracted from the b... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6259694 | Signal processing circuit A signal processing circuit which enables an error bit to be set simply without causing an increase in the size of the circuit even if the packet size is changed and which enables realization of stable operation without the system stopping even if the val... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6252163 | Connecting cable, communications device and communication method In a 6-pin cable according to an IEEE-1394 standard, power lines and two pairs of signal conductors are built and connected to a head part provided with six electric joints corresponding to six conductors (total six two power lines and total four signal c... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6240240 | Apparatus and method for controlling the recording of television programs An apparatus and a method for controlling the recording of television programs are disclosed. The apparatus displays electronic program guide information superposed on a television signal. The apparatus allows a plurality of desired programs to be reserve... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6233633 | Data transfer between a computer and a digital storage device using a computer sound card to convert the processed digital data to analog form Data is transferred from a computer to a recording/reproducing device using a sound (audio) card installed in the computer with audio output ports for two channels coupled to the input of the recording/reproducing device. Without any additional changes to... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6226672 | Method and system for allowing users to access and/or share media libraries, including multimedia collections of audio and video information via a wide area network Using a music oriented Web site, a "student" user requests a tutorial or tour of a musical artist or genre on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet. The "expert" user peruses the "student" personal music library and creates a playlist for that librar... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6226033 | Video signal format for post-production The gateway video signal is generated from inputted frames which represent a motion picture when reproduced at a real-time rate. The inputted frames are sped up to 1.2 or 1.25 times the real-time rate. The sped up frames are, then, converted to 60 field/s... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219588 | Robot apparatus A robot apparatus including a mechanical system having at least one mechanical portion arranged to be operated by a drive portion; a mechanical-system-command converter arranged to receive a command which is independent from a mechanical system and which ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6219092 | Image pickup apparatus for image film With one single apparatus, process of converting images recorded on a movie film into video signals in real time and process of converting images recorded on a movie film into video signals with high resolution can be implemented. A user selects a first o... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6215745 | Decoding key recorded at a recording site in order to decode information transmitted to that site is encoded with information specific to the recording site A data recording apparatus capable of preventing easily copying of information is disclosed with which, even if information is copied, the copied information cannot be reproduced, the data recording apparatus having a terminal to which encoder ID specific... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6201778 | Optical disk with a groove for defining serial data modulated into a signal using phase and frequency modulation In an optical disc manufacturing method and an optical disc device, when serial data are subjected to phase modulation and then subjected to frequency modulation to trace a groove, in modulated signals based on phase modulation corresponding to the first ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6195470 | Special effect system, image processing method, and symmetrical image generating method Specified image transformation is applied to a first source video signal to generate a main image and symmetric image transformation is applied to a second source video signal same as or different from the first source video signal in accordance with the ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192454 | Storage medium unit controlled by downloaded programs A storage medium unit is used as a part of a system for providing information-on-demanding service. The storage medium unit has a storage device for storing information data including video data and/or audio data to be retrieved therefrom and transmitted ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188806 | Apparatus for reading optical data from a motion picture film and a light source therefor A motion picture film having digital audio data recorded in at least one sound track thereof. Such digital audio data includes a plurality of bytes of data each having 8 bits of data. Each respective bit of each byte of audio data is recorded in a sound t... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6173013 | Method and apparatus for encoding enhancement and base layer image signals using a predicted image signal The invention provides an encoding apparatus capable of encoding an image signal in a scalable fashion and also provides a decoding apparatus corresponding to the encoding apparatus. In particular, the invention provides an image signal encoding apparatus... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6160844 | Processing digitally encoded signals An MPEG2 encoded signal comprising intra-encoded pictures I and inter-encoded pictures B is decoded (70-74) to baseband and re-encoded (76) to I-pictures. The quantisation levels Qv and the motion vectors Mv of the B pictures are ret... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6148115 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus and image processing method for performing a smoothing process to a decoded image signal. Edge information of a pixel is detected in response to a spatial change in the pixel value of the image signal and the smoothing proces... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6128009 | Program guide controller A program table guide control apparatus according to this invention generates program table picture including date and hour information, program title information and genre information to display only title of the program relating to broadcasting channel ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124884 | Apparatus for and method of measuring image qualities of color display unit An apparatus for measuring image qualities of a color display unit includes a color video camera for imaging a display screen of a first color display unit, a central processing unit for measuring image qualities of the display screen of the first color d... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6118473 | Camera system for receiving and selectively transmitting images from another camera connected by a cable The present invention intends to propose an image pickup apparatus in which a plurality of camera head units can be easily installed at places close to each other. This image pickup apparatus includes a television camera system 10, in which video result o... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115533 | Digital video copy protection system A formatting apparatus authenticates an information signal prior to mass duplication of the signal by analyzing the signal to detect the presence or absence of a security signal therein, inserting a security signal into the information signal, and recordi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6115531 | Method and apparatus for reproducing/recording at variable speeds dependent upon the bit rate of the MPEG encoded signal When a transport packet of the MPEG2 signal is recorded, a tape speed is reduced to 1/2 or 1/4 of that used to record standard data in accordance with the bit rate of the program. Two heads (A and B) having different azimuths are provided in close proximi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6100724 | Digital signal reproducing circuit A digital signal reproducing circuit which enables precise measurement of a phase difference and jitter components of reproduction signals while realizing miniaturization of the circuit is disclosed. The digital signal reproducing circuit has a phase comp... | 08/08/2000 |
