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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100109926 | System and Method to Modify a Metadata Parameter A method includes receiving first encoded digital audio data including a metadata parameter having a first value. The first encoded digital audio data has a first dynamic range. The method includes receiving second encoded digital audio data including the metadata param... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100092157 | Moving image recording method and information processing device A video information item obtained by photographing and an audio information item obtained by recording are digitized to obtain a digitized video data item and a digitized audio data item each accompanied by a time information item, respectively. The digitized video data... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100092156 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM A plurality of video streams and STN_table are recorded in the local storage 200. Each of the plurality of video streams is a secondary video stream to be played together with a primary video stream, and includes picture data representing a child image to be disp... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100080537 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZING DIGITAL SOUND WITH IMAGES ON CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILM Device and method for synchronizing digital sound with images on cinematographic film. The sound is represented by sound data and the images are represented by image data. The device comprises a sampling device for sampling a stream of sound data, a memory device for st... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20090279869 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND PLAYBACK DEVICE A recording medium having recorded thereon one or more pieces of playlist information each of which includes a stream table including multiple stream entries. Each audio stream has been encoded in one of a mandatory format that is an encoding format decodable by a playb... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090269037 | AUDIOVISUAL (AV) DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF According to one embodiment, video image and voice signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and a voice reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video imag... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090202226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING ELECTRONIC TEXT TO A DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA ELECTRONIC BOOK A system and method for converting an existing digital source document into a speech-enabled output document and synchronized highlighting of spoken text with the minimum of interaction from a publisher. A mark-up application is provided to correct reading errors that m... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090103897 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONZING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA IN AVI FILE A method for synchronizing audio and video data in an Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file, the AVI file containing a plurality of audio and video chunks, includes: determining a frame rate error of a group of consecutive main access units (GMAU) according to a video clock... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090087165 | RECORDING AND PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM A recording and playback apparatus and method, a program storage medium and a program by which AV signals of a program being recorded can be converted into AV signals of another format are disclosed. First, it is discriminated whether or not a recording process is start... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090041428 | RECORDING AUDIO METADATA FOR CAPTURED IMAGES A method of recording audio metadata during image capture: includes providing an image capture device for capturing still or video digitized images of a scene and for recording audio signals; recording the audio signals continuously in a buffer while the device is in po... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080310818 | Apparatus and method for generating/playing multimedia data and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions recored with time-series data structure A multimedia data generating apparatus according to the present invention comprises an encoding unit for encoding first and second data of different types; a chunk data generating unit for generating a first chunk data and a second chunk data, the first chunk data inclu... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080285952 | Internet-Based Digital Content Recording System and Method An Internet-based digital content recording system and method which obviates the need to utilize an analog system or to address the logistical demands of physically preparing a recording medium and ensuring that it is adequate to the task and set to commence recording a... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080131075 | TRICK PLAY DVR WITH AUDIO PITCH CORRECTION Systems for providing substantially correct pitch audio associated with video played back at a rate other than originally recorded. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a record/playback device, wherein the record/playback device records audio pro... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080069538 | Digital information recording/reproducing apparatus An apparatus for receiving digital information including at least one of digital video information and digital audio information The apparatus includes a receiver which receives the digital information that has digital video information bit-compressed, digital audio inf... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20070297768 | Interface for recording and editing high definition audio/visual material The invention relates to a compact and mobile recording and editing interface for image and sound material in preferably uncompressed form with a suitable camera with a resolution standard 3K/800 Mb/s; 50 p/fps or 4:4:4, in which the necessary components of the interfac... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070086742 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086746 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at lea... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086744 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at lea... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070086741 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management... | 04/19/2007 |
