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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115870 | Content reproducing system and content reproducing method A content reproducing system having a first device and a second device connected to each other through a transmission path for transmitting content data is provided. The first device includes an outputting unit and an output controlling unit configured to output the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8068174 | Data rate management system and method for A/V decoder Devices and methods are disclosed for managing an output of an output stream. One embodiment relates to a method of tracking an output of an A/V decoder. In this embodiment, indication of an output stream time reference and a location of at least one output sample a... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7970261 | Method and apparatus for determining title of recorded content An apparatus and method thereof determines a title of a recorded program. After a desired video content that is transmitted through a channel has been recorded upon user's request of timer recording, it is checked if more than one program is scheduled for broadcast ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948557 | Apparatus and method for generating a control signal for a film event system An apparatus for generating a control signal for a film event system is described for synchronizing film events with an image reproduction, wherein a film comprises film information applied in a time sequence, and the apparatus comprises a means for storing the film... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7738039 | Method and apparatus for setting a voltage controlled crystal oscillator in a video processing device The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for setting a frequency reference in an integrated receiver decoder (IRD). More specifically, the present invention discloses an electrical circuit arrangement in which the voltage controlled crystal oscillator (... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7649569 | Time base correction in video systems System and method for digitally correcting time base errors in video display systems. A preferred embodiment comprises 1) correcting time base errors in a first portion of a horizontal line of video information, wherein the first correcting makes use of an error est... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7605867 | Method and apparatus for correction of time base errors The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the correction of time base errors in a video signal. The method and apparatus may combine a horizontal scaler and a time base corrector. A time base corrector in accordance with the present invention can fun... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7589791 | Methods and systems for independently controlling the presentation speed of digital video frames and digital audio samples A digital receiver contains a local video clock that controls the video presentation speed and a local audio clock that controls the audio presentation speed separately and independently of the video presentation speed. To control the video presentation speed, a com... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7570304 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for synchronizing presentation of digital video data with serving of digital video data The present invention provides a method for matching the rate of presentation of digital video data at a receiver/client with the rate the server is serving the data without the need of a voltage control oscillator or other hardware. An embodiment of the invention c... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7499104 | Method and apparatus for determining relative timing of image and associated information Measurement of the relative timing between images and associated information, for example video and audio. Image mutual event characteristics are recognized in the images and associated mutual event characteristics are recognized in the associated information. The i... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495705 | Methods and systems for independently controlling the presentation speed of digital video frames and digital audio samples A digital receiver contains a local video clock that controls the video presentation speed and a local audio clock that controls the audio presentation speed separately and independently of the video presentation speed. To control the video presentation speed, a com... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7466362 | Data rate management system and method for A/V decoder Devices and methods are disclosed for managing an output of an output stream. One embodiment relates to a method of tracking an output of an A/V decoder. In this embodiment, indication of an output stream time reference and a location of at least one output sample a... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7436456 | Video device and method for synchronising time bases of video devices A video system comprises a first video device which transmits a video signal comprising image information and synchronisation information and a second video device which receives the composite video signal. The second device has a time base. For synchronising the tw... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7411604 | Synchronization of a stereoscopic camera A method for synchronizing the recordings of two video cameras which are operated in parallel for the three-dimensional representation of an image sequence includes fading a light signal into the image area of the two cameras and simultaneously recording the light s... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391416 | Fine tuning a sampling clock of analog signals having digital information for optimal digital display Method and system for fine tuning frequency and phase of a sampling clock of analog signals (R, G, B) having digital information, for sampling the analog signals within an optimal sampling period, enabling optimal display by a digital display device (92). Sma... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379121 | Signal transmitting device and signal receiving device In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter, and ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375731 | Video mining using unsupervised clustering of video content A method mines unknown content of a video by first selecting one or more low-level features of the video. For each selected feature, or combination of features, time series data is generated. The time series data is then self-correlated to identify similar segments ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370221 | CPU frequency adjusting system and method A Central Processing Unit (CPU) frequency adjusting system has a multi-level architecture including an application level, a driver level, a hardware abstraction level, and a hardware platform. The application level includes a user interface (10) for generatin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359005 | Method and system for component sync detection and alignment In a method and system for component sync detection and alignment, the Y/G channel is used as a master channel from which the vertical and the horizontal syncs are detected by a master sync generator. The master sync generator determines a fast and slow slice level ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339958 | System and method for performing signal synchronization of data streams A system for performing signal synchronization of data streams having frames associated with source time reference. A system clock generates a local time reference. A decoder processes the data stream. A system controller determines a difference between the source t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336667 | Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use CRC in communications network The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are added to the partial 5 bits CRC to f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333150 | Method, system, and program product for eliminating error contribution from production switchers with internal DVEs Measurement of the relative timing between images and associated information, for example video and audio. Image mutual event characteristics are recognized in the images and associated mutual event characteristics are recognized in the associated information. The i... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327816 | High resolution synthesizer with improved signal purity An automatic test system using a DDS signal generator to create a signal with high spectral purity or a low jitter digital clock. The low jitter clock has variable frequency and is programmed to control other test functions, such as the generation of arbitrary wavef... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327381 | Signal transmission system, signal transmitter, and signal receiver A signal transmission system has a signal transmission apparatus including a time-base compression unit for time-base-compressing an audio signal, and a multiplexing unit for time-division-multiplexing a control signal and the time-base-compressed audio signal in a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324167 | High-quality twisted-pair transmission line system for high-resolution video A system comprising a first filter having an input and an output adapted to compensate for the characteristics of a first length of twisted-pair wire is disclosed. A first bypass path has an input and an output for bypassing the first filter. A second filter has an ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315308 | Methods and system for merging graphics for display on a computing device Disclosed are methods and systems that allow video applications to merge their outputs for display and to transform the outputs of other applications before display. A graphics arbiter tells applications the estimated time when the next frame will be displayed on a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312833 | Channel equalizing apparatus and method for digital television receiver Disclosed is a channel equalizing apparatus and method for a digital television receiver that performs channel equalization using equalizing algorithms. The channel equalizing apparatus includes a channel equalizing section for compensating for channel distortion us... | 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 |
| 7295248 | External synchronous signal generating circuit and phase difference measuring circuit An external synchronous signal circuit comprises: means for measuring a phase difference between the external frame synchronous signal (FRM_SYNC) and the frame synchronous signal (FRM) of the digital video signal; means for generating a signal (EXT_H) having the sam... | 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 |
| 7290057 | Media streaming of web content data Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other comp... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287113 | Method of and apparatus for controlling bidirectional streams of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure An isochronous data pipe provides a bi-directional path for data between an application and a bus structure. The isochronous data pipe includes the ability to send, receive and perform manipulations on any isochronous stream of data, including data on any number of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7283175 | System and method for determining lip synchronization between audio and video in a digitized environment using buffer calculation The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for maintaining synchronization between a video signal and an audio signal that are processed using clocks that are locked. The system may comprise a component that determines at least one initial level of a bu... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280156 | Process and device for synchronizing presentation of audio and/or video frames A method and device are provided for synchronizing the presentation of audio frames and/or of video frames comprises the detection of presentation time stamps in a stream of frames. The presentation instant indicated by a time stamp is compared with a time delivered... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272153 | System and method for distributed processing of packet data containing audio information The present invention pertains to a system and corresponding method for distributed processing of packet data containing audio information. The system includes a host processing module for exchanging packet data containing audio information with a data packet networ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268826 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video data A system receives a transport stream containing video data and audio data. A determination is made regarding the time required to process the video data contained in the transport stream and the time required to process the audio data contained in the transport stre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268824 | Method and apparatus for canceling jitter A jitter canceling apparatus is provided for canceling jitter in a video signal. For processing a video signal, using as a reference an internal synchronization signal and an external synchronization signal different from the internal synchronization signal in the j... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268825 | Digital synchronizing generator A sync generator (genlock) (10) for frequency and phase locking an incoming video signal to a system clock (12) includes a digitizer (16, 22) for digitizing the incoming video signal to yield a digitized color sub-carrier burst component. A nume... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266501 | Method and apparatus for accommodating primary content audio and secondary content remaining audio capability in the digital audio production process The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering, accommodation of PCPV/PCA and/or SCRA signals... | 09/04/2007 |
