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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100278506 | MULTI DVR VIDEO PACKAGING FOR INCIDENT FORENSICS A system and method of exporting and playing video from different video recorders at the same time and in a single viewing window while maintaining the integrity of the video is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of data collection devices, selecting a ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278507 | Subtitle Generation System and Method Thereof The present invention discloses a subtitle generation system and method thereof. The subtitle generation method according to the present invention comprising the following steps: initially, creating a transparent base map; next, determining a original data format of sub... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100266262 | 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 |
| 20100260477 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SUBTITLE DATA STREAM OF A VIDEO PROGRAM, AND ASSOCIATED VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM A method for processing a subtitle data stream of a video program includes: receiving the subtitle data stream, wherein subtitle data carried by the subtitle data stream is originally stored with an image format; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the sub... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260475 | TELEVISION SIGNAL RECORDING A television signal recording apparatus comprises a recording unit that makes recordings of television signals and stores metadata representing information in respect of the recordings including the channel and the recording time. A graphical display of made recordings ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260478 | Video synthesizing apparatus and program The invention provides data for display on the display area for a child frame when the child frame is synthesized and displayed on the parent frame in picture-in-picture playback in order to give the displayed area of the child frame in conformity with the video content... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260479 | Video synthesizing apparatus and program The invention provides data for display on the display area for a child frame when the child frame is synthesized and displayed on the parent frame in picture-in-picture playback in order to give the displayed area of the child frame in conformity with the video content... | 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 |
| 20100260481 | RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH 3D VIDEO IS RECORDED, PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR PLAYING BACK 3D VIDEO, AND SYSTEM LSI A left view graphics stream and a right view graphics stream recorded on a recording medium each include one or more display sets, and the display sets are data groups used for displaying one screen worth of one or more graphics objects. The one or more display sets inc... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTANT PLAYBACK OF A MOVIE TITLE Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or segments. The header is a continuous portion of the file while the segmen... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100257448 | Object-Based Interactive Programming Device and Method The disclosed technology proceeds by placing an indicator on an object in a live action or pre-recorded video. The indicator may be placed on the object throughout a segment of the video manually, or with the aid of a computer-aided tracking program, sensor (e.g. satell... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254674 | PACKAGED MEDIA PLAYBACK WITH REMOTELY OBTAINED SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT Fans or other persons can upload content that others can choose to view when they play back a film, television show or other packaged media content item. A server system receives a playback indication from a remote media player via a data network, and in response retrie... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253765 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURE There is provided an information processing device enabling a content of 3D image to be appropriately reproduced from a recording medium. A virtual extent read out from a recording medium recorded with interleaved data obtained by dividing each of a base stream and an e... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100247075 | VIDEO/AUDIO RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS A stream input unit (102) receives a transport stream. A subtitle information extracting unit (104) separates the received transport stream into subtitle information and information other than the subtitle information. Next, a stream format converting unit... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247077 | CONTENT USE DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unit 102 extracts a content name from playback control information in a playback p... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING COMPRESSED DATA USING DIGITAL DATA INTERFACE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING COMPRESSED DATA USING DIGITAL DATA INTERFACE A method of receiving media data capable of being transceived via a digital data interface is provided. In the method, media data is received and parsed, and ancillary data for raw data and compression-related information about compressed data for the raw data are extra... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247076 | IMAGE SUPPLY APPARATUS, IMAGE SUPPLY SYSTEM, IMAGE SUPPLY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An image supply apparatus that transmits data to an image display apparatus includes: a control section; and a storage section that stores video files, wherein the control section includes the functions of receiving specification information indicating video reproductio... | 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 |
| 20100247078 | Recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of text subtitle data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses In the data structure for managing reproduction of text subtitle data, a text subtitle information area stores at least one text subtitle information segment. The text subtitle information segment is represented by a single PES packet of transport packets. In one embodi... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100239230 | METHOD FOR RECORDING AV DATA AND ASSOCIATED DATA, AV DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, AV DATA REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An original stream file and an after-recording data file are managed as different files. In the original stream file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CU) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. Likewise, in the after-recording data file, data is ma... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100239231 | RECORD CARRIER CARRYING A VIDEO SIGNAL AND AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SIGNAL A record carrier is described carrying a video signal and at least one additional information signal, such as graphics or audio. The at least one additional information signal is meant to be reproduced simultaneously with said video signal. The record carrier further ca... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100239229 | TRANSMISSION SERVER SYSTEM AND MATERIAL TRANSFER METHOD A transmission server system includes: a material output portion that temporarily stores materials making up a program and transferred from a material server and outputs the materials by successively reading out the materials, wherein the material output portion has a p... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100232762 | System and Method for Closed Captioning An apparatus and method is presented for displaying auxiliary information associated with a multimedia program. Specifically, the present invention is directed to receiving program signals, acquiring auxiliary information (e.g. closed captioning information) from the pr... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232598 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An information recording medium (10, 301) is provided with: a content recording area to record therein a content group (20) including title information (30); and a control information recording area to record therein control information (37, 38 | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232763 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE This invention includes: a menu data recording unit (131) that records a menu file onto a recording medium, the menu file for displaying a menu of contents recorded on the recording medium that is portable; a standard form menu file generation unit (129) t... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232764 | PROGRAM REPRODUCING DEVICE AND PROGRAM A program reproducing device has: a receiving unit (12) that receives a reproduction instruction of program data stored in a program storage unit; a reproducing unit (14) that reproduces the program data to which reproduction is instructed through the rece... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100226625 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiving apparatus includes a receiving module configured to receive a broadcast signal; a storage configured to store audio files and video files; a reading module configured to determine whether the broadcast signal received i... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100226626 | Video Bit Stream Extension By Video Information Annotation A method and apparatus are provided for video bit stream extension by video information annotation. In one embodiment, the invention may include gathering video data from a video source, gathering non-visual video information associated with the video data, maintaining ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100226627 | Multimedia Stream Processing System A multimedia signal processing system allows a user to store selected programs while simultaneously watching or reviewing another. The system includes an input section and an output section. Across all configurations, the output section remains substantially the same, w... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220973 | Video data reproducing apparatus, video data generating apparatus and recording medium To provide a video data reproducing apparatus or the like, which includes: a flag reader 101 for reading out a flag that designates a playback style during special playback, from video data; decoders 102 and 103 for decoding two sets of video data; ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220971 | Method, Apparatus and System for Providing Reproducible Digital Imagery Products The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for providing reproducible digital imagery products from captured image content and for the color correction of the reproducible digital imagery products. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a l... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220978 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention has been made to facilitate search or management of video data. The present invention generates a display space defined by display axes determined by feature parameters representing the feature of video data or audio data or associated parameters l... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100215343 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT The recording medium 100 stores playlist information and a plurality of elementary streams. The playlist information includes a basic stream selection table and an extension stream selection table. The basic stream selection table shows elementary streams that ar... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215338 | SIGNALLING OF DECODABLE SUB-SEQUENCES In one embodiment, providing a transport stream including a video stream that comprises a sequence of pictures corresponding to a video program, each of the pictures of the sequence uniquely associated with one of k successive tiers, where k is a non-negative integer nu... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215334 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD, INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, DATA STRUCTURE, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM The present invention relates to a playing apparatus and method that can easily edit or add meta-information, a program storage medium, and a program. A stream playing unit 16 plays a stream on the basis of a stream file, and additionally outputs playback informa... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215344 | TRANSPORT STREAM PROCESSING DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF GENERATING AND ALIGNING SOURCE DATA PACKETS IN A PHYSICAL DATA STRUCTURE A transport stream recording device, method thereof, transport stream reproduction device, method thereof, and recording medium for efficiently recording and reproducing transport streams. A source packet having a four byte TP_extra_Header attached to a 188 byte transpo... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215345 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus is disclosed which comprises: a first recording element for recording input picture information in units of recording into a first area of a recording medium; a representative data generating element for generating representative data ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING VIDEO USING WATERMARK INSERTING FUNCTION A method and apparatus for reproducing a video using a watermark inserting function. The method of inserting a watermark into a video being reproduced, using an on-screen-display (OSD) data mixer included in a video reproduction apparatus, includes determining a waterma... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208042 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, SYSTEM LSI, PLAYBACK METHOD, GLASSES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR 3D IMAGES A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right-view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent with... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100209076 | Recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium The present invention relates to a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and to reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium. The present recording medium has script files including additional information about mo... | 08/19/2010 |
