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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100272186 | TRANSPORT STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF A transport stream processing system capable of recording and playing back a transport stream carrying a plurality of transport stream packets is provided, and includes: a first memory unit storing a plurality of sets of control words; a packet identifier filter acquiri... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272419 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER RECORDING AND RENDERING PROGRAMS FORMED FROM SPLICED SEGMENTS A method and apparatus is provided for recording a program. The method includes storing, in response to a use request, at least one content file that includes first and second program segments that are spliced to form a single program. At least one index file is created... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272414 | PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER E-MAIL ALERTS AND STATUS A web-based service which provides a notification such an email to a user to facilitate managing the recording of broadcast content using a personal video recorder (PVR). The user can agree to participate in the service in exchange for emails which can provide informati... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100266264 | INTELLIGENT RESOURCE STATE MEMORY RECALL Intelligent resource state memory recall techniques, and associated apparatus and methods, are disclosed. States of one or more video switcher resources in a resource state memory may be recalled to the same or different resources, depending on resource availability at ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265390 | System for Facilitating the Search of Video Content A system for facilitating the search of video content, comprising a fingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract a fingerprint associated with a video content clip for specific time of video content; a fingerprint archive database from which database entries matchi... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100263004 | AUTOMATIC CONTACT INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM According to one aspect, a DVR sends a user's contact information over a network to an interested party. The DVR prompts the user to enter contact information. After the user has supplied the requested contact information to the DVR, the DVR stores the contact informati... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259373 | Storage device of car event data recorder A storage device of car event data recorders is revealed. The storage device of car event data recorders includes at least two sets of memory or at least one memory set with at least two memory areas. The first memory module (or area) is used to record real time audio/v... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING REPLAY DATA A method for use with a computer simulation includes generating metadata that corresponds to replay data, and storing the generated metadata in a searchable text file. The replay data is generated in response to an execution of the computer simulation, and the metadata ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254683 | PRIORITIZED CONTENT RECORDING AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT A storage management system selectively reduces a quality level of previously stored content. When storage in the system is becoming full, selected content is converted to a lower quality or lower storage size, based at least one of priority or age. Such conversion is p... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100247082 | Digital Video Recording and Playback of User Displays in a Process Control System A process control system user display provides a display image containing control system information. The system may include a digital recording module including an image capture module for making a real-time digital recording of at least a portion of the display image,... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247065 | PROGRAM VIEWING APPARATUS AND METHOD Improvements in program viewing apparatus and methods, some of which are now commonly referred to as personal video recorder (PVR) and program guide features in television sets, set top boxes and other video devices. The invention provides for a user display such as a f... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100239222 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER BROADCAST OVERLAYS Displaying a secondary media stream within a primary media stream. In response to receiving a first user selection of two media streams for simultaneous viewing on a display device, a second user selection of a primary media stream and a secondary media stream from the ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100232769 | BANDWIDTH CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM A bandwidth control method, a bandwidth control device, and a bandwidth control system are provided. In the method, complexity information about the current video sequence of a video signal in each channel is acquired. Then, the complexity information about the current ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUSHING VIDEO ON DEMAND CONTENT BASED UPON VIEWING HABITS A system and method for delivering video content over a network comprises providing a network server and a database, receiving a request for video content at the network server, querying the database to determine subscribers likely interested in the video content, and d... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100231785 | BROADCAST RECEIVER AND BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD A broadcast receiver includes: an image analyzer configured to perform an analysis on a series of images; a recorder configured to record a result of the analysis and the series of images; and an image processor configured to perform image processing on a target image i... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235860 | Headend modeling of data A data modeling method for modeling data for an electronic program guide (EPG) at a broadcast headend is described. The method includes grouping receiver types according to a first set of characteristics associated with a receiver type, thereby producing a plurality of ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY REPRODUCING MOVING PICTURE FILES A method and apparatus successively reproduce moving picture files stored in a digital image processing apparatus. The digital image processing apparatus includes a moving picture detector that detects one or more moving picture files from a storage unit which stores on... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100226625 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiving apparatus includes a receiving module configured to receive a broadcast signal; a storage configured to store audio files and video files; a reading module configured to determine whether the broadcast signal received i... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100215100 | Method and Apparatus for Decoding/Encoding a Video Signal The present invention provides a video signal decoding method including the steps of checking an encoding scheme of the video signal, reading attribute information for the video signal, and decoding an inter-view picture group existing on a same time zone using the attr... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215334 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD, INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, DATA STRUCTURE, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM The present invention relates to a playing apparatus and method that can easily edit or add meta-information, a program storage medium, and a program. A stream playing unit 16 plays a stream on the basis of a stream file, and additionally outputs playback informa... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VIDEO STORAGE ON A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM A system and method for managing video storage on a video surveillance system is disclosed. The system calculates an importance score for a video segment based on a weighted average of multiple scores corresponding to the video event. The multiple scores include an even... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100202763 | VIDEO RECORDING AND PLAYING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD A video recording and playing apparatus for recording and playing a broadcast program, according to the present invention, the apparatus comprises a recording unit to record broadcast programs on a storage unit, and a deletion unit to automatically delete a broadcast pr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202762 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an encoding module, a decoding module, and a controller which controls operations of the encoding module and the decoding module. The encoding module includes a first arithmetic module which subje... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202761 | GROUP CONTROL AND MESSAGING FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PLAYBACK SESSIONS Group management of video device playback provides a mechanism for shared playback of recorded video content. Digital video playback devices are linked to a central management system through network connections which manages the shared playback, or a peer-to-peer networ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100198822 | METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE SEARCH A method and apparatus for an adaptive search user interface is provided. An interface is provided that returns search results upon receiving each alphanumeric character of a search query term. Correlations of prefixes of alphanumeric characters and search results selec... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195989 | IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD An image reproducing apparatus includes: a memory which stores a plurality of motion picture files; an image reproducing controller which performs an analyzing operation to analyze the motion picture file; a first buffer which stores a result of analysis about the motio... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195988 | Method and Configuration for Storing and Playing Back TV Programs A method and configuration allows storing and playing back TV programs, in particular an improved method and configuration for operating a network PVR. The novel configuration for storing and playing back TV programs includes a PVR server capable of receiving several di... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195990 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING ONE OR MORE FILTER FILES WITH A PARTICULAR MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195977 | Constructing Video Frames And Synchronizing Audio Data In A Media Player From Data Received Via A Plurality Of Diverse Protocol Stack Paths Video frames from a sequence of video frames and corresponding audio are received and processed by a media player. A first portion of the sequence depends on fewer reference frames then a second portion of the sequence. The number of reference frames per frame is limite... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189424 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND READING A FILE HAVING A MEDIA DATA CONTAINER AND A METADATA CONTAINER An apparatus for processing stored data packets in a media data container and stored associated meta information in a metadata container, the associated meta information having transport timing information and location information indicating a storage location of the st... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100186035 | METHOD OF PROCESSING NON-REAL TIME SERVICE AND BROADCAST RECEIVER A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver in... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100172635 | Frame correlating content determination Identifying and determining content in media, correlating among frames to find that content in other frames, and making a list of that content; and also describes a player which can play the media to include or exclude the content.... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100175093 | Method of Sharing Personal Media Using a Digital Recorder A method and apparatus for sharing personal media using a digital recorder allows a plurality of multimedia devices to view content stored on a DVR across a local network. The DVR records video content from broadcast signals and records video content downloaded via the ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100171831 | Stored vision for automobiles A method for the driver of an automotive vehicle to avoid distraction from the task of driving, but yet to preserve and later recover legal evidence of events, objects, or conditions that may be encountered during the driving of the vehicle, by utilizing a perimeter opt... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166393 | OPERATING METHOD OF BROADCASTING RECEIVER STORING BROADCASTING PROGRAM AND BROADCASTING RECEIVER ENABLING OF THE METHOD The present embodiment relates to an operating method of a broadcasting receiver storing a broadcasting program and a broadcasting receiving enabling of the method, in particularly to an operating method of a broadcasting receiver when a channel is switched during the s... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166394 | MERCHANDISE PURCHASING SYSTEM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM The system is capable of obtaining merchandise information from an image on a television screen. The user selects an article or a service of interest and presses a button on a remote control. The information is transmitted to a server, which returns merchandise data rel... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN A FIRST DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND A SECOND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM VIA AN AT LEAST PARTLY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK Communication system for exchanging data, via a communication network at least partly accessible to the public, between a first data processing system and a second data processing system, includes a first data processing system adapted to communicate according to a comm... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169939 | Method of Sharing Personal Media Using a Digital Recorder A method and apparatus for sharing personal media using a digital recorder allows multimedia devices to view content stored on a DVR across a network. The DVR records video content from broadcast signals and records video content downloaded via the Internet.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158486 | Storage device and controller to selectively activate a storage media In a particular embodiment, a system includes a controller adapted to determine a data transfer rate associated with at least one data stream to be written to a storage media and to selectively activate at least one of a first memory and a second memory based on the dat... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100150532 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM An electronic device system includes a plurality of electronic devices each having at least an audiovisual playback device capable of reading one of stored audiovisual content data and received audiovisual content data, and an audiovisual output device capable of output... | 06/17/2010 |
