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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8081865 | AV data recording apparatus and method, recording media recorded by the same, AV data reproducing apparatus and method, and AV data recording and reproducing apparatus and method To provide an AV data recording and reproducing apparatus capable of easily carrying out real-time recording and reproducing via a 1394 interface, and method thereof. Input time information relating to one or a plurality of transport packets are stored in the differ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7982797 | Detecting blocks of commercial content in video data Systems and methods of detecting blocks of commercial content in video data are described. In one aspect, visual parameter values and audio parameter values are extracted from the video data. Visual boundary events, audio boundary events, and commercial content tran... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7855751 | Data transmission device and data reception device As shown in FIG. 7, a data receiver receives video data and audio data together with a frequency division parameter N that depends on the pixel clock of the video data and the sampling frequency of the audio data, and a count value CTS that is obtained by cou... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7705912 | Method for processing a digital video signal A method of decoding audio data, encoded in multiple DIF blocks in a Digital Video (DV) data stream, and outputting said audio data as a PCM frame, includes fetching a single Digital Interface Frame (DIF) block from the DV data stream. A first byte in the single DIF... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7434155 | Icon bar display for video editing system A method and apparatus are provided for editing video sequences. The method includes the steps of providing a display with a plurality of audio/visual sequences depicted on the display where each audio/visual sequence of the plurality of audio visual sequences is di... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7400820 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method for locating a lost position of auxiliary data For conversion of a first video signal into a second video signal of a different format, a second auxiliary data packet is generated from a header carrying location data for multiplexing a first auxiliary data packet and main data of a first auxiliary data packet in... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397933 | Collusion resistant desynchronization for digital video fingerprinting Systems and methods are described that desynchronize a video to be protected, thereby creating one or more digitally fingerprinted videos. In one implementation, a video to be protected is temporally desynchronized and spatially desynchronized. A fingerprinted copy ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389318 | Data processor capable of preventing data overflows and underflows A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386223 | Method and an apparatus for stream conversion a method and an apparatus for data recording and data recording medium In a recording medium storing MPEG stream, flag information (encode_condition) indicating that the stream is recorded in a format enabling easily the first stream (MPEG transport stream) to be converted into the second stream (MPEG program stream) is provided. Such ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383344 | Remote encoder system and method for capturing the live presentation of video multiplexed with images A system for use with a speaker providing audio and video in conjunction with images being provided by a podium computer responsive to the speaker as part of a live multimedia presentation. A device provides video signals and audio signals wherein the video signals ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382971 | Image data recording apparatus and method Image data is encoded using a buffer memory, and code amount of image data occupying the buffer memory upon coding is detected and buffer information related to the detected code amount is outputted. The coded image data and the buffer information are recorded on a ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379653 | Audio-video synchronization for digital systems The audio-video synchronization process ensures continuity of displayed AV data. To initialize the process, a transport processor determines whether an occupancy criterion of a buffer storing received audio and video frames has been met. If the criterion is met, the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376188 | Format structure of serial data and serial data conversion apparatus Disclosed is a serial data conversion apparatus comprising: a video signal packet conversion unit for converting a characteristic signal of a video signal into a video signal characteristic packet and simultaneously converting a video signal into a video signal pack... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373079 | Method and an apparatus for stream conversion, a method and an apparatus for data recording, and data recording medium For encoding externally input AV signal to MPEG-TS that enables quickly conversion from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS, data unit (Multiplexing Unit) is defined which includes a plurality of packet and has data size corresponding to data amount of one pack in MPEG-PS, and MPEG-... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359437 | Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TMDS-like l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356618 | Method and system for synchronizing platform clocks in a distributed wireless platform According to one embodiment of the present invention, a novel method and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first node records a first node local time of receiving a wirelessly transmitted packet, the first node local time recorded with a monotonically incre... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334078 | Method and system for handling streaming information One aspect of the present invention leads to a method of handling streaming information. The method includes receiving the streaming information and analyzing the streaming information to locate one or more points of interest in the streaming information. An index o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324742 | Video-signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program Apparatus to suppress image deterioration in a data, broadcast thereby providing a display with quality, wherein a video signal separated from a reception signal by a demultiplexer is outputted to a converter section through an MPEG decoder section. When the video s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313154 | TDD frame format A method of operating in a point-to-multipoint communication system with a base station and a plurality of remote stations, wherein the communication system enables transmission of data in a multicast mode with different Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) levels,... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301971 | Method and apparatus for continuous synchronization of a plurality of asynchronous data sources An apparatus and method for continuous synchronization of a pair of independently clocked asynchronous data streams (100, 101) consisting of raster data from independent imaging acquisition systems comprises a means for acquiring individual rasters from a fir... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295249 | Digital television display control apparatus and method Apparatus for controlling a digital television display, the apparatus comprising a main processor 4, a main memory 5 coupled to said main processor 4 via address and data busses, the main memory 5 being arranged to store at least temporar... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295247 | Synchronisation of audio and video signals The present invention relates to adaptive time-shifting of audio frames (Fa) in encoded audio signal relative to video frames (Fv) in encoded video signal, which together form an audio/video message steam such that the corresponding decoded aud... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292610 | Multiplexed data producing apparatus, encoded data reproducing apparatus, clock conversion apparatus, encoded data recording medium, encoded data transmission medium, multiplexed data producing method, encoded data reproducing method, and clock conversion method A multiplexed data producing apparatus which multiplexes N (integer) pieces of object data in which one of video data, audio data, and digital data is multiplexed to produce one piece of multiplexed data comprises a temporal storage means for temporarily storing the... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283566 | Method and circuit for generating time stamp data from an embedded-clock audio data stream and a video clock In preferred embodiments, a system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit video data, embedded-clock auxiliary data (or auxiliary data derived from embedded-clock auxiliary data), and a video clock ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280743 | Data recording apparatus for recording stream data in which dummy data is inserted and data recording apparatus for recording end code in place of dummy code A recording apparatus according to an aspect of this invention has an insertion unit configured to insert dummy data at a predetermined position of stream data, and a recording unit configured to record the stream data in which the dummy data is inserted on a record... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278069 | Data transmission apparatus for high-speed transmission of digital data and method for automatic skew calibration A data transmission apparatus and method employing the phase noise characteristics within the receiving registers to measure and control the characteristics of the channel as a function of the data pattern and to compensate for production tolerances within the chann... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277387 | Package manager A package manager of a media gateway component is described, which is configured to receive requests to encode or decode a message containing package descriptors. The package manager determines the type of package descriptor, and invokes the appropriate helper funct... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263275 | System and method of manipulating a system time clock in an audio/video decoding system Systems and methods that manipulate a system time clock in an audio decoding system and/or a video decoding system are disclosed. In one example, the method may include the steps of selecting a trick mode rate and adjusting system time clock update rate as a functio... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260149 | Digital data transmission apparatus, digital data reception apparatus, digital broadcast reception apparatus, digital data transmission method, digital data reception method, digital broadcast reception method, and computer program A multiplexer 106 conducts time division multiplexing on various data trains input from a digital broadcast reception tuner 103 and various interfaces 104 and 105 while adding packet arrival time correction information. A demultiplexer | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260662 | I2C bus controlling method A module has an IC for communication control (a PHY unit) and an EEPROM (or MCU) connected to the PHY unit via an I2C bus. When a software reset is triggered while the PHY unit reads non-volatile register (NVR) data from the EEPROM (or MCU) via the I2C bus, the modu... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260116 | Bandwidth allocation method in point-to-multipoint communication system A bandwidth allocation method used in a point-to-multipoint communication system, for efficiently using the bandwidth while shortening delay time. A central unit quantizes round-trip propagation delay times of subsidiary units, groups the subsidiary units, assigns t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254310 | Clock-slaving in a programmable video recorder According to one embodiment, a Programmable Video Recorder (PVR) receives streaming multimedia data from a data source and stores the multimedia data in a backing store. Prior to being stored, the multimedia data is assigned Presentation TimeStamps (PTS)s according ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248602 | Flexible filtering A circuit and method for demultiplexing in a receiver a digital data stream including at least two types of data. In one particular application, such a receiver is used in a television system having a digital set-top-box receiver. A first control circuit extracts a ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243363 | Entertainment system, picture display apparatus, information processing apparatus and synchronization control method An entertainment system comprised of plural game playing machines interconnected over a communication channel in which the pictures generated and displayed in the game playing machines are synchronized with external synchronization signals. In performing real-time i... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240013 | Method and apparatus for controlling buffering of audio stream A method and apparatus for controlling buffering of an audio stream so that audio can be played continuously without stoppage using a minimum amount of buffering are provided. The method for controlling buffering of data includes (a) determining a buffering period o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236490 | Backplane interface adapter A backplane interface adapter for a high-performance network switch. The backplane interface adapter receives narrow input cells carrying packets of data and outputs wide striped cells to a switching fabric. One traffic processing path through the backplane interfac... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230651 | A/V decoder having a clocking scheme that is independent of input data streams Devices and methods are disclosed for decoding data in a data stream. One embodiment relates to a method of decoding data using an A/V decoder. In this embodiment, timing information is recovered from the input stream. The output rate of an output stream is adjusted... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230650 | Data transmission method, data receiving method, video data transmission apparatus and video data receiving apparatus The present invention is relative to a video signal transmitting/receiving system in which digital video signals are transmitted from a transmitter (30) to a receiver (50) using a line (9) as a transmission channel. The transmitter (30) c... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224837 | Digital video broadcasting A method is provided for transmitting a plurality of informational video programs over a single digital transport stream to a plurality of receivers, wherein the receivers are operative to select from the transport stream data identified with any given program and t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221406 | Data creation method and data transfer method and apparatus A method of producing digital data, which comprises the steps of making first arrangements for 12-bit word digital data constituting a digital video signal, which include a frame rate of 24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz or 60 Hz, 1125 lines per frame, 1080 active lines pe... | 05/22/2007 |
