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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7502070 | Method and apparatus for processing a data series including processing priority data A reception control section 11 for receiving the information including data and its transmission format information from a memory or communication channel, a separating section 12 for analyzing and separating received information, a transmitting sectio... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7436454 | Method and apparatus for transmitting encoded information based upon piority data in the encoded information A reception control section 11 for receiving the information including data and its transmission format information from a memory or communication channel, a separating section 12 for analyzing and separating received information, a transmitting sectio... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7359004 | Bi-level and full-color video combination for video communication Systems and methods for video communication are described. In one aspect, network bandwidth conditions are estimated. Bi-level or full-color video is then transmitted over the network at transmission bit rates that are controlled as a function of the estimated bandw... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7212662 | Method for the compressed transmission of image data for 3-dimensional representation of scenes and objects The invention relates to a method for the compressed transmission of image data for a three-dimensional representation of scenes and objects. A known method for transmitting video data between an emitter and a receiver according to the method for prioritised pixel t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191242 | Methods and apparatuses for transferring data The present invention provides several methods and apparatuses for transmitting multimedia data using streaming media protocols such as real-time transfer protocols (RTP) and real-time streaming protocols (RTSP) in a computer network environment. In one exemplary em... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170546 | Television system distributing a dynamically varying number of concurrent video presentations over a single television channel A system for providing, in a television system, the combination, transmission, and reception of multiple video presentations over a single channel of a television distribution system. Presentations may be concurrently broadcast for viewing by many users, as well as ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7120167 | Broadcasting system and its method A sorting section 64 in a restoration section 76 sorts out a packet for an intended service from a transport stream received according to the control of a reception control section 66. The sorted out packet is provided to an output section 70... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116897 | Information recording apparatus, information recording method, information reproduction apparatus, information reproduction method, information recording medium, and electronic distribution system An information recording apparatus of this invention includes a MAIN MPU for generating manager information representing the correspondence between a compressed content and a program for expanding the content, and a disc drive section for recording the content, prog... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7062557 | Web server request classification system that classifies requests based on user's behaviors and expectations A server application system includes a server application module that performs predetermined functions in response to external user requests. The server application system further includes a characterization module coupled to receive the external user requests, and ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051170 | Method and system for scheduled activation of system information tables in digital transport streams A method and system for decoding a transport stream are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a system information table in the transport stream, reading an activation time from the system information table, storing the table in a memory withou... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050202 | Image data transmission method and apparatus, image data recording method and apparatus When transmitting at least one group of image data from a transmitter for transmitting image data or a relay apparatus for relaying image data using common wiring or frequency band having the same transmission wave, it is checked whether a total volume of the image ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940902 | Code quantity assignment device and method A code quantity assignment apparatus used for compression encode data storing system is provided. In the apparatus, an image group code quantity assignment device assigns code quantity for every image group so that buffer occupation rate of an image group having a p... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6918077 | Data transmission method and data transmission apparatus A data transmission apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving transmitted packets; a priority decision unit; a retransmission packet storage unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the rece... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6873368 | Low noise encoding and decoding method An adaptive digital image processor precedes an MPEG2 encoder. The processor receives a high definition video signal intended for broadcast or storage, and adaptively low-pass filters the signal. The signal is subjected to low-pass two-dimensional filtering to elimi... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6845107 | Video data multiplexer, video data multiplexing control method, method and apparatus for multiplexing encoded stream, and encoding method and apparatus The present invention makes it possible to efficiently transmit data for statistical multiplexing which is required for control using statistical multiplexing. By utilizing private packets, respective encoding devices transmit encoding difficulties serving as the da... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6674477 | Method and apparatus for processing a data series including processing priority data A reception control section 11 for receiving the information including data and its transmission format information from a memory or communication channel, a separating section 12 for analyzing and separating received information, a transmitting section 1... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6577682 | Video processing system also compressing coding decision data An MPEG2 decoded video signal is accompanied by a representation of the coding decisions to aid downstream re-encoding. The representation is MPEG compliant bit modified to reduce the number of bits.... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6553153 | Method and apparatus for reducing video data A method and apparatus for reducing video data. The apparatus is composed of a plurality of reducers. A block is received, corresponding to a plurality of color space components and having a width defined by a plurality of pixels digitally represented by ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6381369 | Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding method, image decoding apparatus, image data transmitting method and recording medium In order to produce a decoded image substantially identical to an original image by processing a small amount of data, utilizing a thinning circuit (subsampler) a level of compression data obtained by extracting 9 pixels of an original image by 1 pixel is... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6337715 | Broadcasting reception apparatus and data broadcasting method A broadcasting reception apparatus includes a display unit for presenting a display showing a plurality of channels, with which the user can recognize whether decoding software programs for decoding program signals being currently broadcast via each chann... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6330036 | Digital video receiving apparatus The present invention provides a digital video receiving apparatus for displaying a plurality of digital TV pictures on a plurality of receiving terminal apparatuses. The digital video receiving apparatus includes a tuner for extracting the received digit... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6252989 | Foveated image coding system and method for image bandwidth reduction A foveated imaging system, which can be implemented on a general purpose computer and greatly reduces the transmission bandwidth of images has been developed. This system has demonstrated that significant reductions in bandwidth can be achieved while stil... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6215530 | Logical and composite channel mapping in an MPEG network Two additional structures for addition to the Digital Video Broadcasters (DVB) Service Information (SI) for implementation of the MPEG-2 Systems Standard (ISO/IEC 13818-1) are provided: the Logical Channel Table (LCT) and the Composite Channel Table (CCT)... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6188436 | Video broadcast system with video data shifting An apparatus for temporally shifting video data within a video signal is provided with a video data source for providing a video signal and a signal splitter for generating a first video data stream and a second video data stream, the first video data str... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6049694 | Multi-point video conference system and method A terminal for use in a multi-point video conference system that includes a plurality of terminals connected to each other via a network, the terminal includes a compressor for packetizing video data inputted from a video camera, and outputting packetized... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6038256 | Statistical multiplexed video encoding using pre-encoding a priori statistics and a priori and a posteriori statistics A statistical multiplexing apparatus and method for generating and combining a plurality of encoded video bit streams. A storage device contains pre-stored a priori statistics indicative of the encoding complexity of the video signals from which the encod... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5861919 | Dynamic rate optimization for an ensemble of video encoders The present invention relates to a method for dynamically allocating bandwidth to each encoder in an ensemble of video encoders whose output bit streams share a single communications channel. In accordance with the present invention, the channel bandwidth... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5848057 | Apparatus for estimating variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic, and method therefor An apparatus is provided for accurately estimating an equivalent bandwidth of a variable bit rate Moving Picture Expert Group in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) by which an effective connection admission control of VBR MPEG video traffic in ATM network c... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5629736 | Coded domain picture composition for multimedia communications systems Video composition techniques are disclosed for processing video information from a plurality of sources to provide a video image having a plurality of rectangular regions. Each rectangular region displays video information from a specific one of the plura... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5621463 | Easily expandable transport stream encoder A transport stream encoder is disclosed which comprises a plurality of FIFO buffers coupled to sources of component signals. Each of the FIFO buffers has a data output terminal for producing component signal data. A packetizer has a data input terminal fo... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5550590 | Bit rate controller for multiplexer of encoded video In the present invention, by performing a control so that the I-coding modes of the encoders of a plurality of respective channels do not overlap each other, the amount of generated encoded information for the total system can be reduced without reducing ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550589 | Method of adaptively multiplexing a plurality of video channel data using channel data assignment information obtained from a look-up table A method of adaptively multiplexing a plurality of video channel data is disclosed. A multiplexed data includes a plurality of frames each of which contains a plurality of sub-frames. The video channel data are adaptively allocated to the sub-frames. A me... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5543842 | Apparatus and method for providing multiple video data streams from a single source A method is provided for generating a composite video data stream. A first data stream composed of a sequence of frames of video data each having an x-dimension of a preselected number of pixels and a y-dimension of a preselected number of pixels is recei... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5526050 | Methods and apparatus for concurrently acquiring video data from multiple video data sources The invention provides apparatus and methods for concurrently acquiring video data from multiple video data sources. The invention comprises an asynchronous interface that collects pixel data from multiple video data sources. A packet manager collects the... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5500676 | Method of encoding and multiplexing picture signals and apparatus utilizing the same A picture signal encoding multiplexing method and apparatus in which encoded data of a plurality of picture signals, which are respectively output from a plurality of picture signal encoding processing units, is multiplexed in a channel multiplexing unit.... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5485198 | Multiple channel decoding device for TV systems A decoding device for use in television systems having coded channels includes a tap and decoding blocks arranged in parallel for simultaneously decoding a plurality of channels. The decoding device may include a remote control to enable the remote contro... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5361096 | Method and apparatus for multiplex transmission of video signals in a plurality of channels with refresh control utilizing intraframe coding Time-varying picture signals of a plurality of channels are predictively coded by utilizing the interframe correlation and multiplexed at the transmitting side. The signals are separated for each channel, switched and selected for any channel for decoding... | 11/01/1994 |
