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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100281505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND EDITING METHOD An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store one or a plurality of content playlists; a virtual playlist generating unit configured to generate a virtual playlist of the content and stored in the storage unit in a manner correlated with ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278504 | Tool for Grouping Media Clips for a Media Editing Application For a media-editing application that creates composite presentations, a novel grouping tool for grouping several media clips in the composite presentation by drawing a boundary about the media clips is described. The media editing application includes a composite displa... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100272411 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK METHOD A playback apparatus that divides the content into scenes;
| 10/28/2010 |
| 20100269131 | Method and System for Trick Mode Suppression Control The present application provides a method and system for the control of trick mode suppression schemes in media content such that trick mode support can be re-enabled for the received content. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for trick mode suppressi... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260466 | Low Complexity Event Detection For Video Programs A video processing method for detecting significant events from a video program includes computing short-time sub-band energies in the audio for plural audio sub-bands, detecting scene boundaries where a weighted sum of these short-time sub-band energies are less energy... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260467 | CAPTION REMOVAL METHOD FOR DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM A caption removal method for a digital video editing system includes the following steps. A video frame of a video sequence is inputted. A high level executing stage is provided. The high level executing stage includes the step of recovering the structural region of the... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260469 | Image processing apparatus, program, and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images An apparatus takes in a plurality of still image frames, to generate an interpolated image frame. Next, moving addition of the still image frame and an interpolated image frame is performed in time-axis direction, to generate a superimposed image frame. At this time, hi... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260468 | MULTI-USER REMOTE VIDEO EDITING Methods and systems for remote video editing include a source media file on a storage device and an input for receiving video editing commands, over a low-bandwidth network, pertaining to the source media file. A virtual representation of the source media file includes ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254671 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD, AND EDITING PROGRAM Herein disclosed is an editing apparatus and an editing method for editing a moving image. An editing apparatus, comprises: a means for playing back a moving image; a switching means for switching playback between a first moving image and a second moving image; and a me... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254672 | GROUP PORTRAITS COMPOSED USING VIDEO CHAT SYSTEMS Systems and methods for generating group portraits using video chat systems are provided. A communications system can generate a group portrait that includes an image of two or more users. For example, a communications system can generate a group portrait that includes ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100245652 | IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD An image playback apparatus has a recording section which records shot images, and a display section which displays the images. The apparatus includes a motion detection section which detects a motion applied to the image playback apparatus in a state where hold of the ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247061 | Collection and concurrent integration of supplemental information related to currently playing media Collection and concurrent integration of supplemental information related to currently playing media. Based on certain characteristics associated with the media, additional information related thereto is identified and output along with the media itself. This provides a... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247063 | MOVING IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING MOVING IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON In order to facilitate editing of moving images, MFP includes a reproduction portion to reproduce a moving image, an insertion location determination portion to determine, as an insertion location, a reproduction location of a first moving image that is being reproduced... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247062 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA PLAYER SYSTEM An interactive media player system and method is disclosed that permits a user to interact with audiovisual media (“videos”) during playback, by allowing the user to integrate audio or visual filters at certain temporal points and screen positions in the playback of... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100241845 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE CONFIDENTIAL RECORDING, MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEETINGS BY MEANS OF MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH REMOTE STORAGE A specific method is provided for recording, management and confidential distribution of meetings by means of multiple electronic devices, fitted with at least one microphone, mainly a mobile phone, an electronic agenda, or laptop. The method includes recording the meet... | 09/23/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100226619 | RECORDING EDITING APPARATUS To realize a recording/editing apparatus that does not need to read the management information every time a BD medium is mounted or recording/editing is performed, the present invention provides a recording/editing apparatus that controls recording of an AV stream and a... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220207 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM STORING IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM An image editing apparatus includes a selecting unit, an accepting unit, an extracting unit, and a calculating unit. The selecting unit selects any frame from a plurality of frames forming a moving image to be edited according to an instruction from a user. The acceptin... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220231 | TRACK FOR IMPROVED VIDEO COMPRESSION A computer readable medium for compressing video data with an edit track is provided. Generally, computer readable code for compressing video data is provided. The computer readable code for compressing comprises computer readable code for accessing the edit track to us... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100209069 | System and Method for Pre-Engineering Video Clips Methods and systems for pre-engineering video clips for use in an interactive entertainment system are provided. An engineer designates a video clip for pre-engineering and provides information regarding the video clip. The presence of a performer is detected in the vid... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100202750 | Personalizing a Video Processes and apparatus for personalizing video through partial image replacement are disclosed. Personalization may include partial or full replacement of the image of an actor, an object or both. Personalization may also include insertion or replacement of an object, ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202749 | CONTENTS PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD There is provided a contents processing apparatus including: a contents data acquisition unit that acquires data of contents; a section detection unit that detects from the acquired data of the contents a cross-fade section that includes a plurality of frames constituti... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202751 | UNIQUE PRODUCTION FORUM A method of producing an audio/video format recording in a venue includes correlating multiple unique viewing position in the venue to viewers. An event is then recorded the venue that viewers are attending. Multiple custom versions of recordings or productions are crea... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100195972 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PORTIONS OF A VIDEO STREAM BASED ON CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VIDEO STREAM The various embodiments described herein generally provide for the identification of locations in a presentation stream based on metadata associated with the presentation stream. Locations within an audio/video stream are identified by processing associated text data us... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195724 | VIDEO COMPRESSION ENCODING/DECOMPRESSION DEVICE, VIDEO COMPRESSION ENCODING/DECOMPRESSION PROGRAM AND VIDEO GENERATION/OUTPUT DEVICE When a periodic pattern is not included in image data 210, a prediction error encoding unit 204 outputs the variable-length code of a prediction error quantization value 214 generated by prediction encoding as compressed data 215. When the pe... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195913 | Method and System for Immersing Face Images into a Video Sequence The present invention is a system and method for immersing facial images of people captured automatically from an image or a sequence of images into a live video playback sequence. This method allows viewers to perceive a participation in the viewed “movie” segment.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195973 | Video data reproduction apparatus, method for operating same and non-transitory recording medium A video disk player includes (i) a disk reading section for reading out video data, a program, synchronization timing information from an optical disk; (ii) a clock for generating a clock signal; (iii) a decoder for converting, in accordance with the clock signal, the v... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189411 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus, method, and program and program storage medium that enable easy search for a desired part. A plurality of video data are created from video data and are displayed, each as a motion picture, at time intervals in a display order on a plurali... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100189409 | VIDEO IDENTIFICATION A method and apparatus for processing a first sequence of images and a second sequence of images to compare the first and second sequences is disclosed. Each of a plurality of the images in the first sequence and each of a plurality of the images in the second sequence ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100189408 | VIDEO DELIVERY DEVICE, VIDEO DELIVERY METHOD, VIDEO DELIVERY PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM A video distributing apparatus that distributes video data of a program to an external viewer includes an editing-data calculating unit that calculates, based on scenario data describing contents of the program and reservation data describing a reservation for a video s... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100189410 | Analysis of Video Footage Segments of interest within video footage are identified automatically. Such segments of interest include portions of the footage which were taken using a hand held camera and which show a static subject, portions which track the motion of a moving subject, and portions... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100183279 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIDEO WITH EMBEDDED MEDIA A system modifies video by embedding portions of media, such as subsets of image pixels, in video frames. When the video is played at normal speed, the media is not discernible. However, when the video is played at an accelerated rate in the forward or reverse direction... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100183278 | CAPTURING AND INSERTING CLOSED CAPTIONING DATA IN DIGITAL VIDEO Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for processing a high definition (“HD”) digital video that includes video data and closed captioning data. The method (i) imports an HD digital video in a computer system, (ii) extracts closed captioning data ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100178024 | Dynamic Real-Time Playback Systems and methods for previewing edited video. In general, in one implementation, a method includes generating a video sequence from a plurality of video segments, identifying an inability to output at least one video segment in the video sequence in substantially rea... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100172624 | VIDEO CAPTURE, PLAYBACK AND ANALYSIS TOOL An integrated system provides almost immediate feedback to a person performing an action of the performed action. In some embodiments, the system includes a camera or other image capturing device, a user interface such as a touch screen, a sunlight-readable display, tri... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166381 | VIDEO PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD According to one embodiment, a video apparatus comprises a program recorder configured to record programs divided into scenes, a program information recorder configured to record program information includes scene information of each scene of the recorded program, a mod... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158472 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING MOVING IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, MOVING IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS For lower load in image encoding, the present invention causes the CPU core to function as the following sections: an editing execution section for an editing process, including shifting process, of an unprocessed image which may undergo previous editing process, under ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158471 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention has been made to facilitate search or management of video data. The present invention acquires feature parameters representing the feature of video data or audio data or associated parameters linked to the video data or audio data together with the... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100153847 | USER DEFORMATION OF MOVIE CHARACTER IMAGES A method or apparatus permits a user to input anatomical feature deformations of character images of a video or movie for display during the video or movie. The user views a video and may select particular anatomical features of the video. In response to the input, the ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150519 | VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, A VIDEO SYSTEM, AND A REPRODUCTION SPEED CONVERTING METHOD OF VIDEO For smoothing motion of an video during time of a special reproduction, in a video reproducing apparatus, for outputting an input video signal while holding it temporarily therein, comprises a buffering portion (100), and a video speed converter portion (101 | 06/17/2010 |
