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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20100142914 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DESCRIBING AND CAPTURING VIDEO OBJECT A method and a device for describing and capturing video objects are provided in the embodiments of the present application, including: capturing video images to generate video sequences, generating a video object tracking sequence (OTS) according to the video sequences... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100141834 | METHOD AND PROCESS FOR TEXT-BASED ASSISTIVE PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS FOR TELEVISION In a system and method of producing time-synchronous textual descriptions of stage directions in live or pre-recorded productions to provide assistive program descriptions to visually-impaired consumers, a processor may parse stage directions from a production script an... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142913 | VIDEO-AUDIO RECORDING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO-AUDIO RECORDING METHOD Provided is a video-audio recording apparatus capable of executing a transition effect processing simply simultaneously with an image pickup. In this apparatus, a setting unit (121) of a transition effect unit (106) registers a transition effect in accorda... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100135635 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR In viewing a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus, contents of that moving image are easily understood. A feature quantity extraction block 150 extracts a feature quantity associated with a taken image. A conversion information correction block 160<... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100129047 | TELEVISION BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE Even when a communication state between a tuner device and a display device is deteriorated, a television broadcast receiving device enables a user to view broadcast. The television broadcast receiving device of the present invention has a tuner section that receives a ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128145 | System of and Method for Video Refocusing Certain systems and methods are directed to acquiring, generating, manipulating and/or editing (for example, focusing or refocusing) refocusable video data, information, images and/or frames. The refocusable video data, information, images and/or frames may be light fie... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129046 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND PLAYBACK PROCESSES A system for receiving information for recording may receive sensor information in an apparatus, and control data may be determined based on the sensor information. One or more instances of control data may be integrated with the corresponding instance of recorded infor... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129048 | System and Method for Acquiring, Editing, Generating and Outputting Video Data Certain systems and methods are directed to acquiring, generating, manipulating and/or editing (for example, focusing or refocusing) refocusable video data/frames. The refocusable video frames may be light field video frames that may be focused and/or refocused after ac... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129049 | EDITING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE EDITING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS When an external device approaches a communication unit while image data to be edited is edited, the communication unit establishes a connection with the external device by close proximity wireless communication. In response to the establishment of the connection by the... | 05/27/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100122168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING DIGITAL VIDEO EFFECTS (DVE) A method and apparatus for enhancing digital video effects (DVE) operates to embed DVE functionality within a graphics modeling system and provides the user with an interface configured to present model elements to a user as controllable parameters. In order to embed DV... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119205 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE An image processing device capable of easily editing image files accumulated in a recording medium is provided. The image processing device of this invention is characterized by comprising playback means configured to play back in a predete... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100118974 | PROCESSING OF A VIDEO PROGRAM HAVING PLURAL PROCESSED REPRESENTATIONS OF A SINGLE VIDEO SIGNAL FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND OUTPUT In one embodiment, a method that includes receiving a single video stream, wherein the video stream includes plural processed representations of a video signal, wherein each of the plural processed representations of the video signal (PPROTVS) includes a respective sequ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119204 | EDITING APPARATUS AND EDITNG METHOD An editing apparatus for a editing video sequence, comprises: an editing unit for setting a first range to one part of the video sequence; a video sequence file generating unit for generating a video sequence file including video sequence corresponding to the first rang... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111489 | Digital Camera System for Recording, Editing and Visualizing Images A digital camera system (20), as illustrated in FIG. 1, includes an optical assembly (22) to gather light (24) from a desired scene (26), a modular imaging subsystem (28) aligned with the optical assembly (22), and an ima... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100098389 | VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD In a reproducing apparatus capable of displaying text subtitles in synchronization with an AV stream, before the AV stream is reproduced, text subtitle streams and font information are read into a preload buffer section (122, 123) in a sequence determined by a pr... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100092150 | SUCCESSIVE VIDEO RECORDING METHOD USING UDTA INFORMATION AND PORTABLE DEVICE THEREFOR A successive video recording method and portable device for recording video in continuation at the end of a previously-stored video file to create a merged video file without special editing applications or special skills. A video file stored in a storage unit of the po... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100092149 | AV COMPLEX EDITING APPARATUS, AV PROCESSOR, AND PROGRAM An AV complex editing apparatus includes an effect category selecting unit (E1) which selects any effect category among a plurality of effect categories, and an effect mode selecting unit (E4) which selects a signal to be an object of effect processing. Th... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100086278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING A SCENE Systems and methods for optimizing properties of objects within a scene or achieve a visual goal.... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100086277 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELETING VIEWED PORTIONS OF RECORDED PROGRAMS Systems and methods are provided for deleting viewed portions of recorded programs. In one embodiment, a media guidance application may provide a list of recorded programs, where each recorded program in the list includes an indication of an amount of time that the reco... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100086276 | Movie Making Techniques In an implementation, a plurality of media is collected, each having associated metadata that describes respective media. A movie is made from the plurality of media having a credit sequence and a title sequence that are generated automatically and without user interven... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100080528 | ONLINE VIDEO AND AUDIO EDITING An online video and audio editing method and system can create edited final products by performing video and audio editing via a communication network. The system includes a server, which provides downloadable operator interface software; and a client terminal, which is... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100080384 | Systems and Methods for Integrating Interactive Features Into Multiple Media Content Sources One embodiment, among others, includes a method for editing video. The method comprises receiving a plurality of media files and receiving specified special effects corresponding to each of the plurality of media files. Based on the received plurality of media files and... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100074590 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device, a first display process module, and a second display process module. The storage device is configured to store a plurality of moving picture data, and still images which are composed of a pl... | 03/25/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100067865 | Systems, Methods and Devices for Augmenting Video Content Methods, systems, products and devices are implemented for editing video image frames. According to one such method, image content is embedded into video. A selection input is received for a candidate location in a video frame of the video. The candidate location is tra... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100067866 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND EDITING IMAGE USING THE SAME An image displaying apparatus, an image editing apparatus, an image editing system, an image displaying method and an image editing method are disclosed. The image displaying apparatus includes an image processing unit which captures a still image, a communication modul... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100067864 | VIDEO DEPTH MAP ALIGNMENT A system (1) for producing a depth map of a video sequence comprises a client (C) and a server (S) connected by a network (N). A secondary video sequence (M*) available at the client (C) is derived from a primary video sequence (M) available at the server (S), th... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100061695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING RE-CUSTOMIZABLE MULTI-MEDIA The present invention is a method and system that facilitates the production of personalized movies. The invention enables the repeated and high-volume generation of unique, customized multi-media (e.g., movies) from a collection of stock media. A production method for ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100061697 | MOTION PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOTION PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A motion picture decoding device for decoding encoded motion pictures on a plurality of channels and synthesizing and reproducing the resultant images on the same screen, includes a decoder (511a, 511b) configured to decode an encoded motion ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054693 | APPARATUSES FOR AND METHODS OF PREVIEWING A MOVING PICTURE FILE IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSOR Provided is a digital image processing apparatus and method. More particularly provided are apparatuses for and methods of previewing a moving picture file in a digital image processor which can extract and display frames at predetermined time intervals from a moving pi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054692 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CHANGING A MOVING IMAGE DATA SECTION, AND PROGRAM Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a creation unit to combine first section data in moving image data with other content data to create a composite moving image content, a reproduction unit to reproduce the moving image data, an oper... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054691 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method A video processing apparatus calculates displayed time of two input segments having a telop area in a video on the basis of a time displayed area, determines whether or not the two input segments are a series of scene segments on the basis of the two displayed times, an... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100050198 | METHOD OF RECORDING AND PLAYING BASEBALL GAME SHOWING EACH BATTER'S PITCH A recorded complete baseball game is condensed into about fifteen minutes of action. All of the at-bat appearances of the players, in turn, are recorded, and then the recorded game is edited to leave only the last pitch thrown to each player, plus any action ensuing aft... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100040341 | COMPRESSED TIME INGESTION OF RECORDED VIDEO Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer programs for processing recorded digital video content in massively parallel computing networks. In one embodiment, a disclosed method of processing recorded digital video content includes receiving a video clip, dividing the... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034509 | MANAGEMENT OF TELEVISION RECORDINGS In a television recording apparatus having a storage unit capable of storing recordings of television signals, during reproduction of a recording, an analysis of the reproduced television signal is performed to detect a credits sequence of a program. Responsive to input... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100034508 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Division editing of a movie stream file picked up for a recording application is executed while conforming to a predetermined standard format. When a stream file is divided at an arbitrary division point, a preceding chapter is created by g... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100027961 | INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO COMPOSITING Certain interactive role performance systems and methods are disclosed that allow users to select a role to play in a prerecorded video, such as a movie scene, and to replace an original actor of that role with the user's performance. In certain examples, the user selec... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100027959 | Image processing program, image processing device and image processing method An image processing program that is executed by a computer includes: reading process of reading a plurality of image data items that have been photographed and acquired by a plurality of cameras; and editing process of extracting image data items of which dates and time... | 02/04/2010 |
