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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180198 | Playlist creating apparatus and method, and dubbing list creating apparatus and method A playlist creating apparatus is provided which allows a user to select desired digital images from a plurality of programs and use the desired digital images to simply create a playlist or to select a digital image in dubbing it to another recording medium. One ima... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164990 | Recording apparatus, recording method, recording program, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing program, editing apparatus, editing method, editing program, and display method To provide a recording/reproducing apparatus for recording at least content data and reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the content data on a recording medium and reproducing the data recorded on the recording medium. The recording/repr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8125859 | Method and device for extending interactivity to multiple storage media A method of providing interactivity over a set of multiple optical storage media (90, 91) is disclosed. A logical unit, such as a playitem of a playlist is provided on a storage medium (90) of the set of optical storage media (90, 91), comprisin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107792 | Recording medium having a data structure for backing up management files and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses In one embodiment, the data structure includes original management data managing reproduction of stream data. The original management data includes at least one stream information file managing at least one stream file, which includes the stream data; at least one p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8064298 | Recording medium reproducing device, a method for reproducing a recording medium, a program for reproducing a recording medium, and a recording medium Problems In a recording medium such as DVD, for example, when groups having the same title or the same song and different numbers of channels are recorded, all the groups are reproduced, further, when a DVD author mistakes, contents which are not needed to be reprod... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7894310 | Content reproduction system, content reproduction apparatus, and content reproduction method The present invention provides a content reproduction system that can continue reproduction of a plurality of content even if a part of content is unreproducible. The content reproduction system includes a content storage apparatus including a content storage sectio... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7813228 | Accessing pre-recorded content on a record carrier A system includes a first manufacturing apparatus (510) for manufacturing a plurality of record carriers, such as DVDs, with a pre-recorded area storing the same content. A second manufacturing apparatus (520) stores an identifier in an identifier area... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7742369 | Content reproduction system, content reproduction apparatus, and content reproduction method The present invention provides a content reproduction system that can continue reproduction of a plurality of content even if a part of content is unreproducible. The content reproduction system includes a content storage apparatus including a content storage sectio... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7719930 | Apparatus and method for digital contents playback A digital contents playback and a method for playing the same are provided. The digital contents playback comprises an arrangement unit for re-arranging digital contents stored in a recording medium by selecting a “breath first arrangement mode”, a “depth firs... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7440388 | Information storage medium and information recording apparatus for storing video and audio signals distributed by digital broadcasting An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention includes a management area for recording management information, and a data area for recording content data. The content data recorded in the data area contains a plurality of object data, ea... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7389036 | A/V data recording/reproducing apparatus and method for selecting stored file list thereof The present invention lists and displays file information for each folder when reproducing video/audio files stored to a recording medium, performs a grouping for entire files on a folder for each folder according to a maximum number of files possibly displayed on o... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7366733 | Method and apparatus for reproducing play lists in record media There has been a problem that play list reproduction cannot be performed at a data processing level of a CD player and so on which cannot interpret a play list file in an HTML format. A recording and reproducing system has a CD-RW medium 15 of holding ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358434 | Methods and systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7345234 | Methods and systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327640 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, and storage medium When the user designates the reproduction of searching audio data, the designated searching audio data and audio volume data are read from a searching data recording portion. The searching audio data is reproduced corresponding to the audio volume data. When the use... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317666 | Method of playing optical recording media A method of reproducing information, and more particularly, a method of playing an optical recording medium storing music files by which a user can load only desired directories from the optical recording medium to reproduce the music files contained therein. Direct... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7290698 | Progress bar with multiple portions A method and system for providing information about recorded media content having a beginning and end time. A progress bar including a first portion is displayed on a display device. The first portion graphically represents the duration of the recorded media content... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283429 | Recording apparatus having playlist editing function A recording apparatus comprising a recording portion for recording moving image data on a recording medium, a recording instruction portion for instructing start and temporary stop of recording the moving image data, a playlist processing portion for producing playl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7262357 | Systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263038 | Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method The present invention includes a condition setting portion configured to set a condition used to select titles to be registered in a play list among a plurality of titles recorded on a recording medium, a retrieval portion configured to retrieve titles corresponding... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260701 | Information reproducing apparatus, data management information obtaining method, data management information obtaining program, and storage medium An information reproducing apparatus reproducing information of an information recording medium is disclosed. In the information recording medium, a record area is divided into a plurality of data areas. Also, data are recorded for each of the divided data areas. In... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256341 | Methods and systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248541 | Optical disk device and access method for optical disk device An optical disk device has a recording information management portion which detects a distribution of a recorded region R and an unrecorded region M based on reflection light received by an optical head and an access target setting circuit which determines an access... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246226 | Method and apparatus rendering user accounts portable Improved approaches for enabling user accounts to be portable across different multi-user computer systems are disclosed. A user account created at a multi-user computer can be stored to an external, portable data store, thereby rendering the user account portable. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243067 | Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer In a method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer, the vehicle-internal communication system has acoustic output unit for the playback of a received message. In the... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7220910 | Methods and systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218250 | Method and apparatus for keyboard control with programmable debounce and jog A method for providing debounce and jog control for a keyboard includes loading a first electronic storage register with a value indicative of a debounce period for the keyboard and loading a second electronic storage register with a value indicative of a jog period... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7205471 | Media organizer and entertainment center A media organizer and entertainment center includes an importer for importing individual media/data selections and automatically assigning each selection at least one associated category flag pursuant to predetermined or user defined criteria. The center also includ... | 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 |
| 7191409 | Method and apparatus for programming hot keys based on user interests A system is provided that configures a computer keyboard hot key based upon user interests. The system determines a profile of interests for a user, selects a web site address to associate with the hot key, and programs the hot key with the selected web site address... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173886 | Track jump method for dual-layered optical disk reading device A method is disclosed for jumping tracks on a double-layer optical disk from a first address A on a first data layer to a target address D on a second data layer. According to the method, the first address A where the optical head is currently positioned is read. Th... | 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 |
| 7149471 | Portable cellular phone Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user ... | 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 |
| 7145839 | Apparatus for editing management information to be recorded on an information storage medium 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... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133924 | Personalized audio system and method A personalized audio system and method that overcomes many of the broadcast-type disadvantages associated with conventional radio stations. According to one embodiment, the personalized audio system includes the following: (1) a user interface that enables a user of... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120785 | Method and apparatus rendering user accounts portable Improved approaches for enabling user accounts to be portable across different multi-user computer systems are disclosed. A user account created at a multi-user computer can be stored to an external, portable data store, thereby rendering the user account portable. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116898 | DVD auto-changer capable of setting all-repeat-mode A DVD auto-changer includes a controller, and in the DVD auto-changer, an all-repeat-mode that a plurality of disks stocked are exchanged to be successively reproduced can be set. The controller determines whether the all-repeat-mode is set or not, and unconditional... | 10/03/2006 |
