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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8068719 | Systems and methods for detecting exciting scenes in sports video Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying a scene in a video or audio source containing sports content. A representative method includes: extracting audio data from a video source, the video source containing sports content, removing from the audio data soun... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7933171 | Personal digital stereo player Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a da... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7903504 | Method and apparatus for recording data tracks into large storage device A recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method capable of making correspond to original data without recording repeated data are provided. The recording and reproducing apparatus includes: reproducing element 2 for reproducing ma... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7848183 | Information processing device and method, and recording medium for reducing replication time between a source and a destination An information processing device performing replication of data between recording media so that valid information recorded in a first recording medium is recorded in a second recording medium, the information processing device includes a replication control unit con... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7839728 | Optical disc recording device A technique for investigating differences of composition and structural state of a recording layer of an optical disc along with other defects, such as scratches, contamination, warp and distortion, prior to video recording and for setting up appropriate recording c... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817502 | Method of using a personal digital stereo player Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a da... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7782719 | Editing apparatus for optical disc reproducing device A reproducing apparatus comprises storage to store a plurality of programs being managed as a group, and management information including group information of programs, an input unit, a reproduction unit, and a controller to control the reproduction unit to reproduc... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7701811 | Editing apparatus for optical disc reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are searched... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7656755 | Method and apparatus for recording digital audio to compact disc from a mass storage device Audio data which are read out from a compact disc drive are written into a hard disk drive (6) at a rate that is higher than an audio playback rate. The written audio data are read out at a rate which is higher than the audio playback rate, and then output to... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7573785 | Method and apparatus for recording audio tracks into large storage device A recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a reproducing element for reproducing main data and TOC data for managing the main data that are recorded in a CD; a recording and reproducing element for recording in and reproducing from an HDD the main data reproduc... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7443770 | Apparatus for playback of data storage disks A CD player for use with a CD having prerecorded thereon a series of tunes or tracks together with track numbers, and with a TOC which lists the prerecorded tunes with their starting addresses but, conventionally, with no ending addresses. The CD player comprises a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7403469 | Data management information obtaining method for obtaining data management information including information concerning part of data areas as information concerning a pseudo area On an information recording medium, a recording area is divided in a plurality of data areas, and data is recorded on each of the data areas. In response to a request for obtaining data management information concerning a recording of the data recorded on each of th... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7369464 | Editing device capable of changing the displaying mode of management information Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366061 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and method and system for recording and reproducing information in a plurality of levels of recording units High speed access to an information recording medium is possible by preparing information relative to a lower level recording unit, e.g., a fragment, which is set smaller than a higher level recording unit, e.g., a session. A fragment identifier, typically, a fragme... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366887 | System and method for loading programs from HDD independent of operating system A method for booting into computer memory a non-operating system (O.S.) program from a hard disk drive (HDD) prior to booting into memory an O.S. from the HDD. The method includes establishing a table of contents (TOC) on the HDD that contains entries for special O.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7336583 | Optical information recording medium and recording apparatus A recordable optical information recording medium having an address t for each sector, comprises: an area A1 starting from an address t1 to which access is made only when a recording apparatus performs recording operation; an area A2 starting fr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327641 | Editing device capable of displaying logical positions of tracks Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7307934 | Recording apparatus Apparatus nominally used for recording includes a reproduction section to play digital data from a recording medium recorded with that digital data and retrieval information, a recording section to write the digital data reproduced by the reproduction section and re... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289393 | Music jukebox Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a da... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286446 | Track management method and apparatus for managing tracks on a storage medium A track management method includes steps of obtaining track information from a play order table having track information entries arranged in a predetermined play order, the track information corresponds to a track to be deleted and points to a track descriptor in a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283446 | Recording medium for storing write protection information and write protection method thereof A recording medium storing a write protection information, and a write protection method for protecting data recorded on a recordable and/or rewritable disc from unwanted overwriting or erasing. In order for write protection of a disc in a bare state that is usually... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272080 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a management information processing portion for generating management information describing a reproducing procedure for reproducing a series of information data by designating positions of from a head to an en... | 09/18/2007 |
| RE39811 | Musical information recording and reproducing technique for use with a recording medium having a UTOC area There is generated a rhythm corresponding to a designated tempo and meter of a music piece to be recorded. Performance of a musical instrument is started at specific timing according to the generated rhythm, and the musical information resulting from the performance... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242642 | High speed recording and reproducing for optical disk device of different format In an optical disk high-speed replaying/recording apparatus, a first read data quality determining section determines a quality of read second units of digital data. Upon determination that the quality of the second units of digital data is low, a first re-reading s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7212481 | Searching method and device for a recording medium having overlapped time address A method and device for searching a recording medium are provided. The recording medium has a management information area of which location information is overlapped with that of a program area. The method for determining an area on a recording medium having an over... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213088 | Mass storage apparatus and data output method of output device attached to mass storage apparatus When reading/writing data between a computer and a mass storage of a mass storage apparatus, the data transmitted from the computer are immediately confirmed by using an output device attached to the mass storage apparatus. There is provided a control device 101 | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212471 | Method for operating the tray of an optical disk system A method is for simultaneously operating the tray of an optical disk system and the front panel of the computer cabinet wherein the optical disk system is housed. In the method, the tray of the optical disk system is ejected immediately after the front panel of the ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209432 | Data management information obtaining method for obtaining data management information including information concerning part of data areas as information concerning a pseudo area On an information recording medium, a recording area is divided in a plurality of data areas, and data is recorded on each of the data areas. In response to a request for obtaining data management information concerning a recording of the data recorded on each of th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206766 | Method and apparatus for distributing multimedia programs Distribution of audio and other multimedia content is accomplished by generating a multimedia session consisting of at least one multimedia program, generating a data session consisting of digital files including at least one software player program and a digital co... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200090 | Information recording apparatus including information attaching and generating device which generates group control information When a detection device detects any kind of change regarding track recording after the start of the track recording, a grouping instruction is given to information attaching and generating device. Then, the information attaching and generating device attaches the sa... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194617 | Method and apparatus to prevent the unauthorized copying of digital information A method for authorizing the rendering of a digital recording. A first section and a last section of a track is first identified. A watermark is then decoded from the first and last sections of the track. It is then determined if at least one reserved bit is marked ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187628 | Editing device capable of imparting group management information to each recording track Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187627 | System for controlling recording and reproducing data using management information on the medium An information reproducing/recording system has a reproducing apparatus which reproduces program information from a first recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus which records program information on a second recording medium or reproduces program informa... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184390 | Data management information obtaining method for obtaining data management information including information concerning part of data areas as information concerning a pseudo area On an information recording medium, a recording area is divided in a plurality of data areas, and data is recorded on each of the data areas. In response to a request for obtaining data management information concerning a recording of the data recorded on each of th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178087 | Read-only record carrier with recordable area in subcode channel A method of providing a read-only record carrier on which user data can be recorded at predetermined recordable positions of subcode frames of a subcode channel after mastering of said record carrier, includes the steps of setting the subcode symbols at said predete... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174350 | Data edition method and data edition device A data editing method by which reduction of the burden of an editing process regarding stream data recorded on a recording medium is anticipated and a higher speed editing operation can be achieved. Stream data recorded on a recording medium are presupposed to be ma... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167425 | Dubbing apparatus A dubbing apparatus to dub data managed per program like audio data such as a piece of music is provided. In the dubbing apparatus, for passing output data read from a CD through a CD drive for compression of the data and transferring the compressed data for recordi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166791 | Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest ord... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7149159 | Method and apparatus for editing data streams MP3 decoders decode MP3 data streams that comprise headers and signal data interspersed with each other, each header specifying a distance to a subsequent header, each header corresponding to a frame of signal data, the header being associated with a pointer that po... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149156 | Editing apparatus for optical reproducing device A highlight of a representative track of each album stored in a recording medium and a highlight of each track of a designated album are pre-set. Highlights of representative tracks of albums are successively reproduced from album 1. As a result, albums are s... | 12/12/2006 |
