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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100266265 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING SUBTITLE DATA FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGES USING TEXT DATA AND DOWNLOADABLE FONTS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR An information storage medium on which video data are recorded, includes: a plurality of clips that are recording units in which the video data are stored; and text data for subtitles which are recorded separately from the plurality of clips and overlappable with an ima... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260489 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, PROGRAM, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD Recorded on the recording medium (BD-ROM) is an AV stream that is obtained by multiplexing a video stream and one or more audio streams. MOVIE objects are scenarios showing playback procedures of video data described using playback device-oriented commands. In addition ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260480 | TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A terminal device, upon each receiving of an operation regarding a viewing of a content from a user, stores history information indicating the history thereof. Then upon receiving an instruction for writing a content onto an external recording medium, the terminal devic... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260488 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SERVER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING THE OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD An optical disc device is provided with an optical head (1) including a light source (21), a condensing optical system including an objective lens (28) for receiving a light beam emitted from the light source and forming a microspot on a multilayer ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254447 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM A circuit includes a setting unit that sets Clip type information that is information indicating a Clip of Base view video to a Clip information file describing information about a Clip that is a playback zone of a stream of the Base view video generated by encoding a p... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254684 | DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OF CONTENTS Disclosed is a distribution system of contents, comprising a distribution server 4 stored with a content having a management file and a plurality of stream files with different data amounts and a player apparatus 1 for downloading the content via a communi... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100247079 | Visual Information Storage Methods and Systems A method for storing visual information on a storage medium is disclosed, whereby the method includes receiving a first visual information corresponding to a left eye and a second visual information corresponding to a right eye. The method further includes storing the f... | 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 |
| 20100232770 | System and method for interactive environments presented by video playback devices There is provided a video playback device for providing an interactive environment on a display in response to a user input. The video playback device comprises (1) a memory to store a plurality of images forming a plurality of viewpoints of the interactive environment;... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232771 | TIME-SENSITIVE REMOTE CONTROL OF A VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE One or more media players are remotely controlled via a data network in a manner that synchronizes the playback state of each media player with the playback state of a master device.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100220979 | VIDEO INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD AND VIDEO INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS The amount of data stored in a video buffer (3) that temporarily stores multi-angle streams (A, B) is controlled from information giving the distance between the angle blocks (A—1, B—1, A—2, B— 09/02/2010 | |
| 20100220981 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAYBACK SYSTEM There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and contr... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100209079 | RECORD REPRODUCING APPARATUS In a DVD+VR recording method, when a VCPS (Video Content Protection System) title (204) recorded under protection of its copyright is recorded in a VCPS-incapable apparatus, a dummy title (203) having a protection attribute is provided immediately before t... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100202764 | PLAYBACK OF DAMAGED VIDEO MEDIA USING DOWNLOADED CONTENT A method, system and computer program provide a mechanism for playing damaged digital video media and optionally notifying a service agency of the damage. When a defect is located on media, the DVD player reads the media to determine damaged portions of the video progra... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100183284 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE An optical disk device includes a reproduction component, an output component and a control component. The reproduction component directs a laser beam at an optical disk that is loaded in the optical disk device with the optical disk storing a plurality of audio data st... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100178040 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a digital broad... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100178037 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREOF A video generation apparatus for processing a video source to generate a video stream supplied to a display apparatus comprises: a buffer and a scaler. The buffer is capable of storing scaling reference lines retrieved from the video source. The scaler is used for gener... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100165083 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT On a recording medium according to the present invention, extents for a base-view and a dependent-view are arranged alternately. The lower limit of the size of the base-view extents is the larger of a first lower limit value and a second lower limit value. The lower lim... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166391 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD An apparatus includes a playback engine which acquires video/audio contents from a disc, an ENAV engine+Internet connection unit which acquire ENAV contents from the disc or acquire another ENAV contents from a server via a communication line, and a buffer manager. This... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100157050 | PROCESS OF SEQUENTIALLY DUBBING A CAMERA FOR INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW A system for and a method of creating a coherent video data stream of an object moving between a plurality of areas covered by a plurality of data collecting devices is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of data collecting devices from the plurality of ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158403 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a detection module configured to detect a specific color area included in image data, an image processing control module configured to generate an image processing control signal for controlling an imag... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158488 | MULTIPLE STEP IDENTIFICATION OF RECORDINGS Multiple information is extracted from an unknown recording and information associated therewith. Associated information includes the filename, if the recording is a computer file in, e.g., MP3 format, or table of contents (TOC) data, if the recording is on a removable ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158487 | AUTHORING DEVICE AND AUTHORING METHOD According to one embodiment, an authoring apparatus configured to generate writing data to be stored in an optical disc from a video content data, includes an indexing processor configured to generate face image indexing information includes face images extracted from t... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100149959 | RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD, PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS, FOR SAME In a recording medium (1), read information is calculated with additional information as a coefficient and superior in quality to basic information. Namely, the read information contains a larger amount of information than the basic information. So, even if it is... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150533 | RECORDING/PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, AND RECORDING/PLAYBACK METHOD A recording/playback device includes an information conversion unit converting video or audio information, received from an external source, to video or audio data for recording on a rewritable optical disk, a recording unit recording the video or audio data on said opt... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100142340 | Optical Disc Apparatus An optical disc apparatus that reproduces images from an optical disc by reading image data from the optical disc and displaying images based on the image data read from the optical disc. When the optical disc apparatus reproduces images from an optical disc, the appara... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142930 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION-SYNCHRONIZED PLAYBACK A playback apparatus for playing a digital stream in conjunction with an application includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100135641 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING VIBRO-KINETIC DATA ONTO AN LPCM AUDIO STREAM OVER AN HDMI LINK There is described a method and device for encoding a vibro-kinetic signal (e.g., motion codes) directly onto a video player media (e.g., a DVD player) and for streaming the vibro-kinetic signal to a dedicated motion decoder in synchrony to the audio and video, while th... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100135592 | De-ringing operation for image processing De-ringing operation for image processing. A selective image processing means is presented herein by which high frequency content is preserved while also eliminating ringing within digital images, and this is achieved without introducing aliasing. Based on the analysis ... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100129061 | Method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data A method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data is disclosed. An interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces A/V data recorded on an interactive recording medium such as an interac... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129067 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD AND PROGRAM [Object] To download, even when a recording medium having content recorded thereon is not inserted in an electronic apparatus, subcontent related to the content. [Solving Means] With a BD-ROM inserted in a recording/reproducing apparatus | |
| 20100129066 | DATA RECORDING DEVICE, DATA RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Provided is a recording medium initialization method for recording data according to the AVCHD standard. Under control of a route directory of a partition, ICB and FIDs concerning each directory contained in the directory structure defined by the AVCHD standard are reco... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100119217 | INFORMATION RECORDING/PLAY-BACKING APPARATUS Portable information recording/play-back arrangements, wherein a controller judges whether a mode, controlling a first recording/play-back module and second recording/play-back module, is an imaging mode or a dubbing mode, and wherein when the controller judges that the... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119218 | Method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data A method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data is disclosed. An interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces A/V data recorded on an interactive recording medium such as an interac... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119203 | PROCESS FOR EDITING AND PRODUCING VIDEOS A process for creating an edited video media, utilising a computer software system, which comprises the steps of, (a) obtaining some raw video footage, and uploading the footage into the computer software system, if necessary converting the raw video into digital form; ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119213 | OPTICAL DISK FOR HIGH RESOLUTION AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO RECORDING, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING APPARATUS The present invention has an objective of providing an optical disk having a high resolution picture and a system for reproducing data on the optical disk, which are compatible with a conventional system for reproducing an ordinary resolution picture. A high resolution ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111505 | DISPLAY ELEMENT AND FIELD-EFFECT TYPE TRANSISTOR A field-effect type transistor has: a source electrode; a drain electrode being a metal electrode; a semiconductor layer provided to be in contact with both of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode provided to face at least a part of the sem... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100111506 | METHOD FOR CREATING, UPDATING, AND RECORDING SEAMLESS PRESENTATION INFORMATION OF MOVING PICTURE DATA IN A REWRITABLE RECORDING MEDIUM This invention provides a method for creating, updating, and recording information for seamless presentation of moving picture data in a rewritable recording medium. When recording moving picture data on a rewritable recording medium, seamless presentation information, ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104269 | PLAYBACK OF EPISODIC CONTENT A content item having sequential portions, such as episodes, is played back on a packaged media player in a manner that facilitates viewing the sequential portions in sequence. The point at which the user terminated a playback session is marked by storing an indication ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103317 | Recording Medium Containing Supplementary Service Information For Audio/Video Contents, and Method and Apparatus of Providing Supplementary Service Information of the Recording Medium The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital ... | 04/29/2010 |
