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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7787754 | Continuous extension of discrete transform for data processing A method of interpolating images using continuous extension functions of inverse discrete transforms is described. ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7432929 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method A plurality of frame data are extracted from a moving image file included in at least one image file recorded in a recording device. In a case where a moving image file is selected from the image file, the extracted plurality of frame data are displayed on a display... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7391960 | DV format capable recording and reproduction device and method Audio DIF blocks containing audio data and video DIF blocks containing video data are extracted by an audio/video extracting unit and respectively recorded in separate storage areas of an HDD. System data and audio auxiliary data are extracted by a system data recon... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324136 | Electronic camera, and image display method and image recording method therefor The electronic camera, and image display method and image recording method applied thereto are capable of eliminating discontinuity in moving image caused by a camera control such as interruption by still image recording in moving image capturing and aperture switch... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7316026 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method, and storage medium A signal receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes receiving unit for receiving a television broadcast, instruction unit for instructing change of a receiving channel of the receiving unit, and control unit for, in response to the instruction o... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7292273 | Digital camera accommodating recording media from other digital cameras A signal recording/reproducing apparatus includes a CCD imager. The still image taken by said CCD imager is recorded, together with resolution information, on a recording medium. The recording medium is recorded, together with resolution information, is a still imag... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286310 | Apparatus for receiving compressed digital information An apparatus for receiving digital information including a receiver which receives the digital information that has digital video information bit-compressed by a first compression system, digital audio information bit-compressed by a second compression system, and e... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274862 | Information processing apparatus Audio data is prevented from not synchronizing with video data when splicing. A first GOP of a video stream of a second program is spliced to a last GOP of a video stream of a first program. A first GOP of an audio stream of the second program is spliced to a last G... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7259926 | Digital information recording/reproducing apparatus A transmitting apparatus and method for transmitting a digital signal in which a time-base compressor compresses the digital signal, a bit compressor compresses the time-base compressed signal from the time-base so that a transmission rate of the time-base compresse... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257309 | Distributed storage of audio/video content Provided are systems and techniques for playing audio/video programs (e.g., movies) using a bank of networked audio/video players (e.g., digital projectors). Initially, a first portion (e.g., the majority) of an audio/video program is stored on a first audio/video p... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7190415 | Digital broadcasting receiver A digital broadcasting receiver for changing a current channel from one channel to another channel when a commercial message is broadcast on the one channel on which a program is being watched. The time after changing the current channel is measured by a timer IC. W... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7142978 | Navigation system with map and point of interest databases Methods and apparatus are provided for generating route instructions on a turn-by-turn navigation system in a vehicle. Turn instructions can include a turn icon as well as visual and audio prompts. The turn-by-turn navigation system typically includes a dual-use dis... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136106 | Apparatus controller, device and method for controlling data transmission of digital apparatus, and data transmission control system According to the present invention, when an image data currently being received is switched over to the data from another image information device, the best picture quality is provided without stopping the image up to the next I frame even when the switching request... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127516 | Verification of image data Image data, such as image data coded in MPEG4 format, is verified by a client receiving an information data stream that is generated by multiplexing a plurality of coded object data and associated intellectual property management data, from a contents distribution s... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7116715 | Video coding apparatus according to a feature of a video picture A variance between sequential video pictures is extracted, and then, a GOP boundary position is decided based on inter-frame variance information. Furthermore, simple motion estimation is carried out with respect to video pictures inside one GOP. If a motion variati... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099556 | Video recording/reproducing apparatus with tuner A video recording/reproducing apparatus with tuner includes a microcomputer. The microcomputer determines as to having-station/having-no-station on CH3 and CH4 that usually have no station in the U.S.A. and then sets a frequency of a channel determined as having-no-... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099563 | Multichannel recording device and method The present invention is directed to a recording device and method for recording digital data constituting a program on a disc-shaped recording medium using a specified minimum data length (CDA) unit that must be contiguous. Digital data constituting a first and sec... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7043360 | Sensor unit In a sensor unit, an antenna section receives a high-frequency signal transmitted from a positioning system for output to a combining circuit. Also, in the sensor unit, a sensor section detects an angular velocity around one axis, and further detects an acceleration... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7013025 | Image correction apparatus The nature of the target image to be corrected is identified in regard to whether it is a still image or a moving image, and where it is a moving image, correction is performed with regard to the entire image, and where it is a still image, the image is divided into... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6977877 | Compressed audio data reproduction apparatus and compressed audio data reproducing method An object of the present invention is to easily and quickly decode a plurality of types of compressed audio data. A compressed audio data reproduction apparatus comprising a plurality of decoders configured to decode compressed audio data of respective exclusive com... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6963374 | Method for live view display and digital camera using same Digital camera techniques improve the convenience of a live view display and the like. Image processing in a digital camera includes image processing (i.e., live view processing) for real-time display of a subject on a liquid crystal monitor and image processing per... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6901248 | Frequency converter and radio frequency tuner A single conversion frequency converter comprises an image reject mixer and a local oscillator. The local oscillator comprises a variable frequency oscillator and a variable divider. The variable divider supplies to the mixer a local oscillator signal whose frequenc... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6823128 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus including a write controller. This write controller specifies a start position of an effective time period of each field, based on an ID signal superimposed over lines 15 to 18 of an odd numbered field video signal and ove... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6744475 | Video switching apparatus for switching between a plurality of channels To generate a multiple video signal generated by video recorder 2, a conforming or nonconforming ID signal superimposed on a video signal is detected by an ID detecting circuit 11. Operation of appending a conforming ID signal is switched by a selector... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6724824 | Digital signal processing method A digital signal processing method comprising the steps of: (a) composing, a plurality of first encoded video data and a plurality of second encoded video data; (b) dividing, each of high quality M bits audio channel into audio data of upper L bits and... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6704490 | Information recorder/reproducer Video signals are recorded according to the number of tracks corresponding to the broadcasting system for each basic unit. When control signals are recorded on a magnetic tape in the longitudinal direction, the duty ratio of the control signals for every ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6594441 | Method and apparatus for video tag signal recovery using various techniques to regenerate and re-record the tag signal In typical prior art generational copy protection processes, a video tag signal is added to a watermarked and/or copy protected video signal to prevent the production of unauthorized second generation copies and the playback of illicit second generation c... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594444 | Digital video playback apparatus and method A digital video playback apparatus which selectively reproduces video signals that are recorded by using a plurality of cameras each at different angles and method therefor. The digital video playback apparatus reads out first and second video stream data... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6445872 | Recording and reproducing apparatus for recording digital broadcast compression-coded data of video signals of a multiplicity of channels A bit stream which is a data string including coded data of a multiplicity of channels is output from a tuner section 22, and a recording channel selection section 23 selects coded data of a desired channel from the bit stream and output by configuring th... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6421091 | Data transmission apparatus for transmitting digital video and audio data between respective audio visual apparatuses, and method therefor In a data transmission apparatus for transmitting digital video and audio data, a block forming circuit forms a plurality of data blocks of transmission data composed of at least one of digital video data, digital audio data, and digital auxiliary data re... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6360055 | Information storage medium, recording method used therefor and reproducing apparatus Data on multiple stories or scenes are recorded on a recording medium so as to reduce the physical distance moved by a pickup at playback time and to suppress breaks or disturbances in reproduced video. A multi-scene program having a plurality of optional... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6347182 | Recording/reproducing apparatus including search reproducer controlled by tracking controller so that picture information of a selected type can be normally detected during search reproduction A recording/reproducing apparatus includes a recorder which records plural types of picture signals and picture information representing types of picture signals on recording tracks of a recording medium; a setting circuit which sets a type of picture sig... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339676 | Video signal recording and reproducing apparatus compatible with analog and digital video signal recording and reproducing An apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital video signal on and from a common recording medium by using the head configuration common to the conventional one while maintaining exchangeability with the current analog VTR. An analog video and audio... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6298195 | Information storage medium, recording method used therefor and reproducing apparatus Data on multiple stories or scenes are recorded on a recording medium so as to reduce the physical distance moved by a pickup at playback time and to suppress breaks or disturbances in reproduced video. A multi-scene program having a plurality of optional... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6278837 | Multichannel recording and reproducing apparatus A multichannel recording and reproducing apparatus which includes: an input and output circuit; a buffer for temporally storing multichannel of video data through inputting and outputting circuit; a disc unit for storing the video data; a disc interface; ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6243531 | Recording apparatus capable of recording motion image and still image A motion image and a still image are selectively recorded onto a recording medium. When the recording of the still image is instructed during the recording of the motion image, one picture plane in the motion image is extracted and stored into a memory. A... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6222982 | Information storage medium containing multi-scene programming and a reproducing apparatus Data on multiple stories or scenes are recorded on a recording medium so as to reduce the physical distance moved by a pickup at playback time and to suppress breaks or disturbances in reproduced video. A multi-scene program having a plurality of optional... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6198874 | Information storage medium, recording method used therefor and reproducing apparatus Data on multiple stories or scenes are recorded on a recording medium so as to reduce the physical distance moved by a pickup at playback time and to suppress breaks or disturbances in reproduced video. A multi-scene program having a plurality of optional... | 03/06/2001 |
