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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100067863 | VIDEO EDITING METHODS AND SYSTEMS Video editing methods and systems, including methods and systems to identify video clips having similar visual characteristics. Video clips may correspond to first and second videos, which may include a professional music video and a personal video, respectively. Identi... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100027958 | Previewing Effects Applicable to Digital Media Content Systems and apparatus are described to perform methods including receiving input to apply attributes that represent modifications to appearance of content of the video segment, to a video segment. Multiple modified video segments are generated, each modified video segme... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100003005 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM INCLUDING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN An editing device selects, among the video of the video data, a scene such as a backlit scene and a camera shake scene which has a characteristic different from a necessary scene, as an unnecessary scene, and reproduces the selected unnecessary scene on a display unit. ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20080304805 | PREPARING AND PRESENTING A PREVIEW OF VIDEO PLACEMENT ADVERTISEMENTS A method and system for preparing a video advertising insertion clip that utilizes an existing video presentation that currently features and/or will feature virtual product placement. The advertising insertion clip is obtained with minimal additional production resourc... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20070297751 | Assistant editing display method for media clips A clip editing method using double time axis and an assistant display mode includes: generating a first trim-bar interface with a first time axis, specifying a first media clip through the first trim-bar interface by using a three-point control method, generating a seco... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070230895 | Processing of scalable compressed video data formats for nonlinear video editing systems If motion video data is stored in a scalable format, such as motion JPEG 2000, in computer files on disk drives, then access to only the lower bandwidth data requires skipping around within a data file to locate only the desired data for a specified progression dimensio... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070230893 | System and Method for Displaying an Image Stream A system and method may display an image stream (200), where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously in each time slot (210A-... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070098348 | Degradation/preservation management of captured data In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for designation of a first portion of a data stream for retention at a first resolution, wherein the data stream represents video and/or audio information; and accepting in... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070019924 | Automatic generation of a photo album A method for producing a digital photo album includes selecting a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format, providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image areas configured to receive digital images.... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20060280425 | Image combining apparatus, image combining method, image combining program, and storage medium An image combining method for an image combining apparatus which stores a plurality of template images and combines a shooting-date-and-time-attached shot image with the template images, the image combining method includes assigning a time attribute representing a perio... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060067654 | Graphical user interface adaptable to multiple display devices There is provided herein a system and method for automatic adaptation of the graphical user interface of computer program to accommodate a wide variety of display devices, thereby ensuring that the user of the software is supplied with a graphical user interface that is... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060031912 | Integrated resource management and A/V telecommunication device An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated resource management organizer communicably connected t... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050271352 | Apparatus and program for image classification Image data sets can be classified more freely according to accompanying information added thereto. A user sends the image data sets to an image storage server. Tag information reading means of image organizing means reads tag information added to the image data sets. In... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050259945 | Method and system for automatic management of digital photography processing This invention describes a system and method for automatically managing digital photography processing. Users of digital cameras and other digital imaging devices must follow many manual steps to process the images. The manual processing steps include copying images fro... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050220439 | Interactive multimedia system and method A method of authoring a DVD with indexed promotional and informational content; a system for delivering indexed promotional and informational content for video scenes streamed from a DVD disc or a PVR; and a system for accessing this promotional and informational conten... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050180730 | Method, medium, and apparatus for summarizing a plurality of frames A method, medium, and apparatus for summarizing a plurality of data. The method includes receiving a video stream and extracting a keyframe for each shot, selecting a predetermined number of representative frames from the keyframes corresponding to the shots, and output... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050163463 | Method and apparatus for the display of still images from image files An apparatus for displaying digital image files on a standard display device such as a television set is provided in the form of a set-top box. The box includes an integrated circuit and memory buffer for computing an image from a file, a second memory buffer for storin... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050163462 | Motion picture asset archive having reduced physical volume and method An archive of motion picture assets having reduced physical volume and method of manufacture are disclosed. All B-negative, trims and outs, sound rolls, mag, dailies, work prints, scripts, and reports are manually consolidated and indexed by a computer database retain a... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050158015 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium for electronic equipment including an electronic camera A personal computer to which electronic equipment, such as, an electronic camera is connected reads recording units that are recorded in the electronic camera and displays a table consisting of recording information. In recording information such as a main image, a sub ... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050158013 | Integrated multimedia microcomputer device An integrated multimedia microcomputer device comprises a system-on-a-chip including a general purpose processor, a audio processor and an video processor. The general purpose processor is used to process an operation system and a plurality of application programs. The ... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050158014 | Method and apparatus for recording video data, and method and apparatus for reproducing video data Provided are a video data recording method and apparatus having a portion hiding function and a video data reproducing method and apparatus thereby. The video data recording method comprises: displaying a video by decoding the bitstream and simultaneously storing the bi... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050158016 | Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, and recording medium therefor Audio signals and video signals are recorded as follows. Three video PES packets, each being formed of one video frame, are combined to form a video editing unit. Then, the video editing unit and the associated audio editing unit are alternately disposed on a magnetic t... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050152666 | Apparatus and method for automated video editing A system and method for automated editing of content is disclosed. The system includes a biasable editing engine. A user is provided with content. The user rates the content according to user preferences. The system receives the ratings implements the editor engine, whi... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050152668 | Method for editing a media clip in a mobile terminal device, a terminal device utilizing the method and program means for implementing the method The invention relates to a method for editing a media record in a terminal device of a cellular network, which editing means removing at least one portion of the original contents of the media record. The state of the editing is shown on the display of the terminal devi... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050152667 | Method for establishing recording quality in digital recording device The present invention relates to a method for establishing a recording quality in a digital recording device. In the present invention, still images associated with a plurality of recording qualities having different levels are displayed on a recording-quality selection... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050152665 | Video content edition support system and video content edition support method A video content edition support system is provided which includes an imaging device (2) to record captured video content data to a recording medium (14), an editor's terminal unit (4) to display video content data transmitted from the imaging device... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050147375 | Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus (1) includes: a map creation unit (113) for creating variable speed reproduction information Map that is information necessary for variable speed reproduction according to a picture type Ptype; a variable length coding uni... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050147376 | Video encoding apparatus having audio selection function and method thereof Disclosed is a video encoding apparatus having an audio selection function and a method thereof which enables input of diverse audio signals and improves the quality of video/audio data in a camcorder phone by selectively applying a plurality of audio input units to a v... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050141849 | Apparatus, method, and program for editing images When a photo album is generated of an event such as wedding, images to be inserted in image insertion areas in a template can be selected easily. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom on the day of wedding, and obtains image data sets. An editing s... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050129386 | Information processing apparatus, information editing apparatus, information processing system, playback apparatus, playback system, method therefor, program therefor, and recording medium storing the program Management information in a recording medium or a HD mounted on an information processing apparatus (400) is recorded in an external medium mounted on the information processing apparatus (400). The external medium is mounted on a portable information edit... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050117870 | Method and system for processing background and item data for photographic files A system and methods for quickly entering information non-invasively for photographs stored in computer, for retrieving, displaying such information and photographs on computers and for distributing such information and photographs on digital media or through the Intern... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050100308 | Image editing apparatus and image editing method An image editing apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a title including image information onto a recording medium; a dividing unit configured to divide the title into a plurality of chapters by setting information showing boundaries at arbitrary pos... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050094965 | Methods and apparatus to improve the rate control during splice transitions The present invention provides improvements of the rate control method during the transitions at the splice point. In one embodiment, black frames and/or mute audio frames are inserted at the splice point. ... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050089301 | Image reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing image An image reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing unit for reproducing a plurality of reduced images recorded in a memory medium and a selecting unit for selecting one of a first image display mode in which M (M is an integer of 2 or more) reduced images are display... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050084232 | System and method for improved video editing There is provided herein an invention that utilizes a themed template which is designed to assist novice video editors quickly compose a complete video work which memorializes a particular familiar occasion such as, for example, a birthday, a wedding, a trips to a theme... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050069278 | Specific scene image selecting apparatus, computer program and computer readable medium on which the computer program is recorded An image selecting apparatus includes a designation receiving portion which receives designation of a desired specific scene, an input receiving portion which receives input of image data representing an object image, a characteristic value deriving portion which derive... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050058426 | Apparatus, system and method of authoring digitized audio/video recordings A system and method of authoring digitized audio/video recordings are provided. The system and method include previewing a digitized audio/video recording to identify scenes to be included in at least one version of the recording. A scene is a group of contiguous video ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050031296 | Method and apparatus for reviewing video One embodiment is a method for reviewing videos, comprising: deriving at least two video segments from unedited video footage based upon a previously determined unique saliency, each saliency associated with a corresponding one of the video segments; and displaying a di... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050028103 | Editing device An editing device is capable of significantly simplifying editing work of sequence data. When a user operates an operating device to join existing sequence data SD1 being stored in the hard disk drive 4 and material data MD3, the CPU 2 create... | 02/03/2005 |
