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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050135782 | Information processing apparatus for editing data To realize an information processing apparatus for editing data which enables editing of data intuitively with a simple operation. A track segment is displayed at a position corresponding to a track number on a first coordinate axis in a track segment display area, with... | 06/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 20050123272 | Information edition device, information edition method, information edition program, information recording medium An information editing apparatus is provided which enables the user to clearly recognize the contents of recorded information which includes image information and is recorded on a recording medium. The information editing apparatus include... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050123269 | Information processing apparatus, information editing apparatus, information processing system, playback apparatus, playback system, method therefor, program therefor, and recording medium storing the program Content information in a recording medium or HD mounted on an information processing apparatus (400) is recorded in an external medium mounted on the apparatus (400). The external medium is mounted on a portable information editing apparatus (300), ... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050117878 | Data editing apparatus, data editing method and data recording/reproducing apparatus Provided are a data editing apparatus, a data editing method and a data recording/reproducing apparatus which can easily reedit edited data recorded on a nonlinear-accessible recording medium. When a start point (IN point) or an end point (OUT point) of partial data of ... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050117877 | Video copying apparatus When execution of copying of video and audio from a DVD from a videotape is instructed, a video copying apparatus 1 detects the remaining amount of the videotape set in a apparatus and reproduction time of video and audio copied to the videotape and based on thes... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050111824 | Digital video segmentation and dynamic segment labeling A method and system for segmenting video into an optimal set of video clusters that correspond loosely to one or more events, date ranges, time ranges, chapters or other logical segmentations of the digital video that is meaningful to the user. Video shots are selected ... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111825 | Method for transmitting and recording user preference information in optical disc device A method for transmitting and recording user preference information when recording an optical disc. The method records user preference information, prestored in the optical disc player, which is associated with a first recording medium, onto a second recording medium, w... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050105624 | Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium A history-information/parameter-reuse disable period is set, starting from a P picture temporally one picture before an editing point to the first I picture after the picture subsequent to the editing point for a predetermined number n (for example, n=8) of pictures. If... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050100316 | Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs and methods and systems for processing media content Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs that are capable of competing or contending for a particular or primary output are described. In one embodiment, the multiple inputs are managed through the use of a software-implemented matrix switch object, and an assoc... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050100315 | Method of and apparatus for copying AV stream, and method of copying AV contents An audio and/or video (AV) stream copy method, an AV stream copy apparatus, and an AV contents copy control method, in which AV content includes an AV stream, are disclosed. The apparatus for copying an AV stream includes an AV stream copy controller, which, when an inp... | 05/12/2005 |
| 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 |
| 20050094967 | Dynamic compression of a video stream A method for displaying data representative of a video stream by providing frames containing progressively-encoded frame data. These frames represent a portion of the video stream. A selected extent of the frame data contained in each frame is fetched, and a video strea... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050094968 | Data processing system and method An authoring method for creating an audiovisual product. The method has three main stages. The first stage defines components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content and transitions that represent movements between components. The second stage... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050078939 | Reproducer A reproduction apparatus reproduces view data including several tracks within a range of reproduction processing capacity. A reproduction apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium having several tracks each used for recording image data and one or more piec... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050078941 | Transport stream editing method and apparatus therefor An editing of a video signal and an audio signal time-shared multiplex compressed by an MPEG-2 transport method designates a dividing position of the video signal at a boundary of video TS packets constituting a GOP, constructing a stream in front of said designated div... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050078940 | Information editing device, information editing method, and computer product An information editing device includes an index generating unit that generates, in a plurality of different formats, a plurality of pieces of index information indicative of a list of the pieces of screen image information each for one scene; and a display controlling u... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050074226 | Index data generation apparatus, index data generation method, index data generation program and recording medium on which the program is recorded This invention provides a data-recording/reproduction apparatus that creates hierarchical-structured video data for partial contents data based on telops, and that is capable of easily and accurately reproducing a summary searching for an arbitrary scene in contents dat... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050069289 | Transport stream recording/editing device and recording/editing method Video ES and audio ES filters extract video and audio payloads from a transport stream. Video ES and audio ES recording units record the payloads as a PES (Packetized Elementary Stream) or an ES (Elementary Stream). An editing control unit edits the ES recorded by the r... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050069279 | Control device and method A control device and control method are suitable for copying digital data between electronic devices connected to one another via a digital data bus. A digital broadcast receiver receives and decodes a digital broadcast signal, and outputs the resulting video signal to ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050063668 | Data editing and recording apparatus, method of editing and recording data, data editing and recording program, and recording medium having the same thereon An editing system is provided with a video-recording control unit for recording an inputted content data in a HD and an edited image control unit for generating an operation screen necessary for editing when the content data is edited, and when the content data is edite... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050058430 | Editing system and control method thereof This invention proposes to an editing system and a control method thereof capable of significantly improving efficiency of editing work. The editing system is provided with: a server for storing and keeping the video data of edit material; a memory for storing and keepi... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050053357 | Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs and methods and systems for processing media content Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs that are capable of competing or contending for a particular or primary output are described. In one embodiment, the multiple inputs are managed through the use of a software-implemented matrix switch object, and an assoc... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050053356 | Method of intelligently applying real-time effects to video content that is being recorded A mechanism is presented for editing a video stream as the stream is received, allowing real-time displaying and storing of the edited video stream without requiring the received video stream to first be recorded. The mechanism allows the selection of editing options pr... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050041953 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE FOR EDITING IMAGES CAPTURED BY A PHONE CAMERA An image editing device for editing image data captured by a phone camera. The image editing device is connected to the phone camera and a mobile phone. The phone camera comprises a connecting port, and the mobile phone comprises a connecting port. The image editing dev... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050041159 | Editing device and editing method An editing method for producing edited images by connecting a first material image and a second material image in response to an external operation is adapted to conducting a transition effect producing process of passing from the first material image to the second mate... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050031300 | Information editing apparatus and information reproducing apparatus An information editing apparatus for editing a reproduction manner of record information which is recorded on an information storage medium and includes at least one picture information, includes: a selecting unit for selecting a partial record information from the reco... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050031299 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AUDIOVISUAL SIGNALS A method for processing AV signals includes (a) receiving a first AV signal by a receiving module, (b) transmitting the first AV signal to a coder and decoder (CODEC) by a control unit to convert the first AV signal into a second AV signal, (c) storing the second AV sig... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050025454 | Editing system and control method thereof This invention realizes an editing system and control method thereof capable of significantly improving working efficiency of editing work. A proxy editing terminal device creates an EDL with low-resolution video/audio data, resulting in reducing time to create the EDL.... | 02/03/2005 |
| 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 |
| 20050025455 | Editing apparatus, bit rate control method, and bit rate control program An editing apparatus, and a bit rate control method and program are capable of converting a material bit rate of video material to a desired output bit rate without picture quality deterioration in a short time and simply. According to this invention, a bit rate determi... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050019003 | Editing apparatus , information reproduction/recording apparatus, editing method, editing program and information recording medium An editing apparatus which edits the processes of at least a reproduction/recording process that re-records information that is reproduced from a recording medium to that recording medium itself, or a reproduction/recording process that re-records said reproduced inform... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050008328 | Information creating apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus, and method and program An information creating apparatus for creating information proposed to a reproducing apparatus to reproduce a predetermined data is disclosed, in which an information creating apparatus for creating reproduction control information proposed to a reproducing apparatus to... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008330 | Moving image editing apparatus and its control method In response to a request for deletion of intermediate portion of moving picture data stored on a random-accessible storage medium, data corresponding to the request is substantially deleted, and the portion corresponding to the deletion request is excluded from the subj... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008329 | Disc apparatus, controlling method thereof, and controlling program thereof Main AV data having a high resolution and sub AV data are recorded on a disc. The sub AV data has been compression-encoded in accordance with the main AV data at a higher compression rate than the main AV data. When it has been determined that since a buffer underflow t... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050008327 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program therefor An optical disk contains main video data obtained by compressing pictures captured by a video camera at a relatively low compression ratio, low resolution proxy video data obtained by performing compression at a compression ratio higher than that for the main video data... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050002643 | Audio/video editing apparatus The present invention relates to a portable instrument for editing audio/video clips in real time. The instrument includes a processor for processing audio/video clips by applying a special effect to the clip. The instrument also includes a memory for storing the audio/... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050002644 | Apparatus and method for video processing, and storage medium and program therefor In a video recording apparatus, a video processing apparatus has a capability of continuously presenting a main program to a user without a break while presenting a commercial. A main program buffer records a main program of a video signal in accordance with a temporal ... | 01/06/2005 |
