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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8125871 | Recording apparatus, recording method and recording program A recording apparatus that records data to an optical disc is disclosed. The recording apparatus includes a determination section that determines, when the optical disc is inserted, whether or not the recording condition information has been copied and recorded in t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7369475 | Optical disc, information playback apparatus, information playback method, and information recording method An optical disc according to one aspect of this invention has a first field to record first version information, and a second field to record second version information obtained by updating the first version information. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362946 | Automated visual image editing system A method of editing a video sequence comprising a series of clips, in which each clip is formed by video content captured between two points in time. Duration data associated with the duration of each clip is extracted from the sequence. The duration data is process... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359304 | Method for recording wobble signals on an optical disc and optical disc on which the wobble signals are recorded After pre-coding bit data of address information to be recorded on an optical disc on the basis of at least 4 wobble units, wobble data pre-coded on at least 4 wobble units is modulated by a BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying) or ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying) method, an... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356242 | Editing device, editing system and editing method Program configuration is carried out by using the screen of a display section 17 and an input operating section 18 of a video editing device 10, and data of this program configuration is recorded in a RAM 19. In accordance with the data o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349621 | Information recording apparatus with selective control of recording medium and recording means drive means An information recording apparatus has a stop mode in which only recording means comprised of a rotatable drum on which a recording head is mounted and recording medium driving means comprised of a capstan/pinch roller are stopped, which stop mode can be changed fro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7269110 | 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... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266287 | Using background audio change detection for segmenting video A video processing device includes a background audio change detector that detects background audio changes in audio data corresponding to particular video data. The video processing device detects semantically meaningful video scenes using detected background audio... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260312 | Method and apparatus for storing content A system receives a broadcast program and temporarily stores the program data. A request is received to permanently record the broadcast program. This request is received after a portion of the broadcast program has been received and temporarily stored. The broadcas... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260582 | Information recording apparatus, method, information reproduction apparatus, and method An information recording or reproduction apparatus and method in which a transport packet for padding is not inserted and a limited recording space is used effectively when performing data editing to delete a mid-stream of the moving picture file consisting of an MP... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242849 | Broadcast video image recording apparatus A broadcast video image recording apparatus for recording broadcast video image data has a first storage unit for storing broadcast video image data, a second storage unit for storing video image data to be played back, and a control unit for searching the first sto... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237198 | System and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver A system and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver. One embodiment of the system comprises an electronic music player that is connected to a plurality of music renderers via device drivers via a music renderer controller. The music... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7218422 | Image output control apparatus An image output control apparatus includes a recognition unit for recognizing mounting of a recording medium, a reading unit for reading image-reproduction instruction data recorded in the recording medium based on the recognition of the mounting, and a generation u... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215611 | Compressed audio data editing method and apparatus A digital recording system for stereophonic audio signals is disclosed. Included is an MP3 encoder coupled to an ADC for encoding the two channels of digital audio signals into a compressed data stream. Before being directed into a flash memory for editing, the comp... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215627 | Method and apparatus of processing audio information having system header When a portion of an audio object comprising a head pack having a system header is to be deleted, a copy of the system header of the pack is inserted in a pack which is the end boundary of deletion. This gives a new head pack after the deletion a system header havin... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7203012 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus which is capable of reducing the occurrence of noise at editing points without the need to decode an encoded audio signal when editing the encoded audio signal. A recording/reproduction section reproduces an audio signal sequence includ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7196983 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method The present invention provides an information recording method and an information recording apparatus, which are capable of recording reproduction controlling information in information recording medium such as DVD. An operation portion designates a division timing ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7130251 | Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its method A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130249 | Device for inputting title of recording medium A device for inputting the title of a recording medium readily. When a capturing key of a tuner unit (1) is depressed, a first system controller (7) stores the text information, received currently by an FM multiplexed text broadcasting receiving tuner ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7102968 | Method and system for time compensation of re-writable optical media write parameters An optical medium storage device improves the usable life of re-writable optical storage mediums, such CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks, by adjusting write parameters to compensate for time between an initial write on the optical storage medium and the current time, ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092773 | Method and system for providing enhanced editing capabilities A method and system for providing enhanced editing capability of media data. Media data arriving in a continuous stream is saved in a buffer. When a user enters record mode, some data received before record mode was entered is designated for permanent storage. Simil... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089271 | Editing apparatus and editing method An editing apparatus and method for dividing or combining a data file(s) that is segmented into blocks of a predetermined data length and recorded in a non-volatile memory. An attribute file having a predetermined length is modified so as to reflect such dividing or... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085214 | Data recording apparatus, data recording method, and optical recording medium including pseudo-erasing features Data is recorded on packet basis to a track of an optical recording medium and the data is pseudo-erased by erasing contents information of the track having the data. Information indicating the end position of the packet containing the data is recorded on the optica... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082089 | Data recording apparatus, data recording method, and optical recording medium including pseudo-erasing features Data is recorded on packet basis to a track of an optical recording medium and the data is pseudo-erased by erasing contents information of the track having the data. Information indicating the end position of the packet containing the data is recorded on the optica... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076205 | Control method, control apparatus, data receiving and recording method, data receiver and receiving method A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7061837 | Digital-audio-signal recording apparatus Audio data are read out, via an ATAPI interface, from an audio CD set in a CD drive. Thus, even where an inexpensive low-speed CPU is used, high-speed copying can be performed. When audio data stored on a hard disk are to be reproduced, and if copying authorization/... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058462 | Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program An audio data processing means registers one of audio data extracted from a music CD as one of sound sources for an entertainment apparatus. The audio data processing means has an audio data extracting means for sampling desired audio data from the audio data introd... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057751 | Image output control apparatus An image output control apparatus includes a recognition unit for recognizing mounting of a recording medium, a reading unit for reading image-reproduction instruction data recorded in the recording medium based on the recognition of the mounting, and a generation u... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054540 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene changes in the moving images recorded by the first recording controlling element; a second recording cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054541 | Editing of digital video information signals The invention relates to editing of video information signals recorded on a record carrier, such as an optical record carrier are edited in an internal memory of the edit apparatus. Editing results in an edited stream of information, which includes a bridging fragme... | 05/30/2006 |
