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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100247059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING COMPRESSED DATA USING DIGITAL DATA INTERFACE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING COMPRESSED DATA USING DIGITAL DATA INTERFACE A method of receiving media data capable of being transceived via a digital data interface is provided. In the method, media data is received and parsed, and ancillary data for raw data and compression-related information about compressed data for the raw data are extra... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100239233 | Video Processing and Optical Recording A combined digital TV decoding and optical recording system includes a transport stream demultiplexer to demultiplex at least one compressed multimedia stream from an MPEG transport stream having multiplexed compressed multimedia streams. A video encoder compresses a vi... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100178026 | Video Recording And Playback Device, Video Recording Device And Video Encoding Device A video recording and playback device that simultaneously executes a recording process that encodes video information and records to a recording medium, as well as a playback process that decodes the video information and reproduces the video information is disclosed. T... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100158123 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, and program A picture processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a memory; and a decoding circuit configured to decode encoded picture data; wherein the memory holds first and second fields of the decoded picture in different areas while holding field planes of a plurality o... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100092158 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM A recording apparatus for recording video data to a rewritable optical disc is disclosed, that comprises an encoding means for encoding video data corresponding to a compression-encoding process, a converting means for converting the data structure of the encoded video ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100046611 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE The image encoding device of the present invention is an image encoding device that encodes a still image and a moving image, the device including: a determination unit that determines a first upper limit and a second upper limit, the first upper limit indicating an upp... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100021135 | INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, WHEREIN INFORMATION IS STORED ON A DATA RECORDING PORTION AND A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION RECORDING PORTION With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproduci... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100021136 | INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, WHEREIN INFORMATION IS STORED ON A DATA RECORDING PORTION AND A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION RECORDING PORTION With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproduci... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090279871 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circui... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090274446 | STREAM DATA GENERATION METHOD AND PARTIAL ERASE PROCESSING METHOD Stream data has a recording data structure formed in units of stream blocks (or stream object units SOBU) which are segmented to have a predetermined data size. Data are recorded (or encoded) and partially erased (or temporarily erased) in units of the stream blocks (SO... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090252482 | Method for Encoding the Flag of the Image The present invention discloses a method for encoding a flag of an image while encoding an I Frame, firstly setting a start code of an I Frame picture to be coded, for marking a start of the I Frame; setting a flag for indicating whether to code an identification field;... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090225193 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS This invention provides an apparatus capable of optimal code amount control corresponding to an input source. The apparatus includes a first input unit which inputs the first moving image data, a second input unit which inputs the second moving image data, a selection u... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090202229 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program An apparatus and a method for performing a data recording process that permits seamless playing are provided. An information processing apparatus such as a video camera records data in a manner that permits contents having discontinued recording timings to be played in ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090136209 | Recording device, system, integrated circuit, program, and recording method To provide a system that can minimize a time delay caused by one device being unable to access a recording medium until access by another device ends, when transcoding is performed by distributed processing. A main device performs transcoding of each coded piece allocat... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090060463 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A recording/playback apparatus externally acquires an uncompressed digital video signal. The recording/playback apparatus includes a compression unit that compresses the uncompressed digital video signal frame-by-frame to generate compressed video data, and a record uni... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090046994 | DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCAST RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF The digital television broadcast recording and reproduction apparatus includes: a control unit which manages selection of either normal reproduction or digest reproduction; a decoding unit which, in the normal reproduction, generates decoded data of all pictures and the... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090041429 | Image recording apparatus and method, and program The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus and method, and a program for improving usability by removing operational constraints on combinations of an aspect ratio of a recorded moving image and a horizontal resolution from users while the compliance ... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090041430 | Recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, recording/playback apparatus and recording/playback method, and program The present invention relates to a recoding apparatus and a recording method, a playback apparatus and a playback method, a recording/playback apparatus and a recording/playback method, and a program, whereby processing relating to a file can be readily performed. With ... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080310824 | Method and device for encoding video levels into subfield code words The invention relates to a method and a device for encoding the video level of a pixel of a picture into a subfield code word in a display device. It can be applied to every display device using a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) technology and subfields for displaying vide... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080193104 | PREVENTION OF TRICK MODES DURING DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER (DVR) AND NETWORK DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER (NDVR) CONTENT Trick modes are substantially prevented during DVR and NDVR content by obtaining an audiovisual asset that is digitally compressed in accordance with a compression technique employing at least a plurality of substantially complete frames and a plurality of substantially... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080131087 | Method, medium, and system visually compressing image data A method, medium, and system compressing and/or reconstructing image data. The data compression method includes compressing current data according to a plurality of modes for compressing current data, determining whether the current data compressed according to the plur... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080118227 | Personal content distribution network Techniques for making content available to a DVR are described. Content encoded in any encoding format may be automatically transcoded, on a computer, into an encoding format that a DVR is configured to decode. The transcoded content is automatically sent over a LAN fro... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080107401 | Performing Trick Play Functions in a Digital Video Recorder with Efficient Use of Resources Techniques for selecting a picture of a video program for display in accordance with a selected trick play mode of a DVR are described herein. Sometimes, when desired playback speed is faster than normal, a DVR is forced to select some pictures to play and some pictures... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080095519 | IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS PROVIDING SMART SEARCH FOR MOTION AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME An image playback apparatus for playing an input image data from at lest one camera includes: an input image encoding unit encoding the input image data and extracting a plurality of motion vectors corresponding to a plurality of frames of the encoded input image data; ... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080075435 | Data recording method, data editing method, data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor A system records an AV stream composed of a plurality of record units (RUs) containing independently reproducible video units (VUs) of at least video or audio and program information (Movie atom) managing the AV stream, onto a recording medium. The program information c... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080063377 | VIDEO SIGNAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video signal; a writing ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080063376 | VIDEO SIGNAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video signal; a writing ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080056682 | Method and apparatus for receiving, storing, and presenting multimedia programming without indexing prior to storage A method and apparatus for improved digital recording and presentation of broadcast information is disclosed. Received broadcast data, which may include video, audio, private, or other data, relating to one or more particular content programs, is presented from an input... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080037956 | Systems and Methods of Generating Encapsulated MPEG Program Streams Systems and method for encapsulating an MPEG program stream in an MPEG transport stream are disclosed. In one embodimen comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of elementary streams, each of the elementary streams divided into access units; and generating an MPEG ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070297769 | Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing information An information processing apparatus includes an encoding and decoding unit for performing a data conversion process by decoding encoded still image data acquired from an information recording medium and generating moving image encoded data based on the decoded still ima... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070286583 | Method and system for altering the presentation of broadcast content Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for altering a presentation of broadcast content. More specifically, embodiments provide an accurate and efficient mechanism for suppressing advertisements by using downloaded templates to identify... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070286582 | Digital Video Recording System With Extended Program Content Recording Systems, methods and media for managing extended program content for a digital video recorder (DVR) are disclosed. Embodiments of a method may include determining an amount of extended program content to record in addition to the program to be recorded, where the extend... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070274688 | Moving image playback apparatus, moving image playback method, and moving image recording medium According to one embodiment, a moving image playback apparatus has a structure wherein a decoder is initialized when a CPU first detects an SPS-equipped I-picture in playback of a video stream of an HD DVD, and the decoder decodes the video stream.... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070248331 | Recording and Reproducing Apparatus, Sending Apparatus and Transmission System A video signal recording and reproducing apparatus is provided that is capable of reducing the encoding amount required for video recording thereby to record a longer video signal while suppressing deterioration of image quality when the video is displayed. An apparatus... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070230920 | Conversion of video data to playable format The present invention provides for a method for converting a video data file into a format usable by a portable video player that comprises, in a single selection on the video data file, ripping and deCSS the video data file if necessary 8, converting the video d... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070223887 | Image processing method, image recording method, image processing device and image file format A recording process records low-resolution video data while obtaining a high-resolution image in a window region being a portion of an entire image. Then, the process learns, as a resolution conversion rule, a resolution increasing parameter by using the high-resolution... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070217763 | Robust surveillance system with partitioned media A surveillance system having a plurality of MPEG compressed data streams each originating from a separate video/audio source. The data is stored on hard disk and streamed to tape in real time. The data is partitioned on the tape into about ten partitions, each partition... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070206920 | Information Process Apparatus and Method, Program, and Record Medium To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070201838 | Recording and reproducing apparatus In the recording and reproducing apparatus, managing information and recovering data for a TS packet is inserted in the TS packet of a recording-target transport stream, and the TS packet is recorded on a recording medium. At the time of reproducing action performed aft... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070189732 | System and method for reconstructing MPEG-2 start codes from AVC data Presented herein are systems and methods for reconstructing MPEG-2 compatible start codes from AVC data. MPEG-4 AVC stream formats are complex, and embedded in NAL units often requiring several VLD (variable length decodes) to determine the beginning of the picture. An ... | 08/16/2007 |
