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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7853126 | Multiple source recording A system and method are disclosed that accepts different types of signals from multiple sources and routes the signals to the appropriate devices for conversion or other processing so that each signal is in a common or desired format, such as the MPEG standard. The ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835627 | Method and device for restoring sound and pictures An embodiment improves the quality of sound rendition during restitution of sound and picture originating from a source signal exhibiting temporal drift. To restore the sound and the pictures at a selected fixed picture rate, a picture sequence is calculated at the ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826718 | Method and apparatus to facilitate the efficient implementation of trick modes in a personal video recording system A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating efficient operation of trick modes in a personal video recording (PVR) system. Stream-navigation data from a data stream is captured and pre-processed to generate a frame-correlated NAV table comprising one entry... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822320 | Method and apparatus for creating still picture management data and recording still pictures on a recording medium The present invention relates to a method of grouping still pictures recorded on a recording medium for the purpose of efficient management. The present method records still pictures onto a recording medium, groups the recorded still pictures based on their attribut... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813623 | Method and apparatus for creating still picture management data on a rewritable storage media A process and system for creating and recording still picture management data in a rewritable storage media making it possible to reduce the amount of navigation information and index information necessary by grouping a plurality of still pictures according to their... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809246 | Apparatus for reproduction of encoded signal A formatter is provided and, when a code sequence which matches a part (‘00’) of the head of a predetermined code sequence detected by a start code prefix detection unit, is detected, the start code prefix detection unit detects the residual part (‘00’, ‘0... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7783166 | Recording medium, and system and method for recording and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium has a first recording area on which recording information is recorded, and a second recording area on which management information for managing the recording information is recorded. The second recording area includes a bit rate recording area for... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7760990 | Recording apparatus, recording method, playback apparatus, playback method and recording media, including recorded list of random access points A recording apparatus for recording a data stream including one or more packetized video streams, comprising a detector for detecting a random-access point of the data stream and an apparatus for obtaining and address of the random-access point. A packet including a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751690 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a recording medium concurrently while recording the information, includes a compression section, a temporary storage section, a reproducing process section, and a storage section. The comp... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747137 | Method of and system for recording image information and method of and system for encoding image information A digital video data recording system has a signal source, a motion detector, an external memory for storing motion vector data, an encoder, a recorder, and a controller. The controller obtains motion vector data and quantization step size data in a preprocessing pr... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742684 | Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access point... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7725008 | Information processing apparatus and decoding control method According to one embodiment, the information processing apparatus includes an input module, a decoding module, a first analysis module, a second analysis module and a decoding control module. The first analysis module acquires the number of macroblocks, which are ge... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711250 | Apparatus for receiving transport stream to provide multi-screen and control method therefor Disclosed is an apparatus and method for constructing and broadcasting a multi-screen broadcasting program by using a transport stream in a digital broadcasting, and for decoding the constructed transport stream to restore image and voice signals. The method include... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7693400 | Imaging apparatus, recording apparatus and recording method An imaging apparatus for encoding a moving picture signal output by imaging means using intraframe encoding and interframe encoding. An encoded image signal which includes picture groups comprising n frames of an image signal including intraframe-encoded pictures an... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7623767 | Real time data compression apparatus for a data recorder A real time data compression apparatus examines whether a present read-in data point is in a predetermined tolerable error range. If yes, the previous data point is deemed as redundant and is ignored and after which a new data point is read in for comparing again. W... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7558470 | Digital broadcast recording apparatus The present invention provides a digital broadcast recording apparatus which prevents an unnecessary recording in a situation where it is not possible to descramble a program or it is prohibited to record a scrambled program. The digital broadcast recording apparatu... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7496281 | Signal recording apparatus and method and signal reproduction apparatus and method A free space detection section detects a free space of a recording medium. A recording capacity calculation section calculates a recording capacity necessary for recording a program in the form of a first encoded signal on the recording medium. A signal control sect... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7483625 | Picture recording apparatus and method thereof A picture recording apparatus for compression-encoding a moving picture sequence and recording the resultant data to a record medium is disclosed, that comprises an encoding unit for compression-encoding an input moving picture sequence, a recording unit for recordi... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7457526 | Recording/reproducing apparatus for video/audio signals For providing a recording/reproducing apparatus, for recoding and reproducing a digital signal onto first and second recording media 200 and 300, in particular, being simple in the controlling method when conducting data copying between those recording... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454123 | Personal video recorder having reduced overscan coding A digital recording device for storing video data is disclosed. The digital recorder intelligently records less data than is provided to it by determining which data to record, and which data to eliminate. In some embodiments, the recorder drops or modifies overscan... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7437059 | Methods and systems for expanding recording capacity of optical discs A software driven method for appending data to a rewritable optical disc is provided. The method includes detecting a rewritable optical disc, and the rewritable optical disc contains a first written session with a file system and an associated volume descriptor. Th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437057 | Image controlling circuit, image controlling method, and computer readable medium, wherein programs to execute the image controlling method on a computer system are stored An information processing apparatus prevents from illegal copying analogue pictures with copy guard, providing the image controlling circuit and the method. When the copy guard signal is detected, the screen information is processed and stored, is prevented from bei... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7423683 | Image quality selecting method and digital camera Selection candidates for number of imaging pixels and for an image compression rate are displayed in a two-dimensional arrangement on a setting screen for setting an image quality, and combinations of selectable number of image pixels and a compression rate can be p... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424207 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit makes signal processing on the camera data read from a camera data area of an SDRAM to produce YUV data for record. A thin-out circuit makes a thin-out processing on the recording Y... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403567 | Decoding method and apparatus and recording method and apparatus for moving picture data A method and apparatus for recording moving picture data encoded using a prediction encoding system, in which the playback control information is recorded along with moving picture data encoded using the MPEG system. The playback control information includes the inf... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400685 | Decoding method and apparatus and recording method and apparatus for moving picture data A method and apparatus for recording moving picture data encoded using a prediction encoding system, in which the playback control information is recorded along with moving picture data encoded using the MPEG system. The playback control information includes the inf... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398006 | Disc access processor processing a result of accessing a disc and method thereof Prior to recording, a difference between a disc's temporal, maximum recordable length and a temporal length having been consumed by recording data is calculated. A scale is determined to allow a length of a period of a preprogrammed recording to be relatively matche... | 07/08/2008 |
| RE40415 | Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when the sign... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391962 | Optical recording/reproducing apparatus having a function of separating luminance and color components An optical recording/reproducing apparatus comprising an audio and video (A/V) codec having a function for separating luminance and color components. A video decoder converts an analog video signal into a digital video signal; an A/V codec having a pre-compression p... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386219 | Video data recording apparatus and video data recording method A time from covering to edit or broadcast is shortened and also management and handling of materials are made simpler. Encoder 1A compresses digital video signal DVS obtained by camera into encoded data DVA of low resolution. Encoder 1B compress... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382971 | Image data recording apparatus and method Image data is encoded using a buffer memory, and code amount of image data occupying the buffer memory upon coding is detected and buffer information related to the detected code amount is outputted. The coded image data and the buffer information are recorded on a ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379656 | Forward trick modes on progressive video using special groups of pictures The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for encoding a video signal. The method includes the steps of receiving (212) a progressive video signal and encoding (214) the progressive video signal into at least one group of pic... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379659 | Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, and recording medium therefor Audio signals and video signals are recorded as follows. Three video PES packets, each being formed of one video frame, are combined to form a video editing unit. Then, the video editing unit and the associated audio editing unit are alternately disposed on a magnet... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376335 | Method and device for recording real-time information A device for rendering real time information arranged in cells constituted by units encoded at a variable bit rate, e.g. video on a DVD, is described. The device has various trick play modes for rendering the information at a different speeds based on speed pointers... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376330 | Encoded data recording apparatus and mobile terminal In a mobile terminal provided with an encoded data recording function, there is assumed a condition in which a picture frame transmitted from the terminal of a communication partner is reproduced by means of decoding processing and is displayed on a LCD (34) ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369161 | Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370342 | Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various characteristics of each viewers, including television watching preference... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367041 | Information compressing and recording device When TV images are inputted as video data through a channel selected by the first inputting means, the video information including audio information is compressively encoded at a specified compression coding ratio by a compression coding portion, provided with a com... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366402 | Method and apparatus of recording a high definition digital television broadcast signal The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of recording a directly-received digital television broadcast signal. This method demodulates a received high definition digital television broadcast signal, extracts transport stream belonging to a chosen chan... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362959 | Method of and device for encoding an information stream The application relates to a method of and devices for encoding an information stream (20) into a variable bit rate (VBR) encoded information stream (24). The application discloses a method of estimating the relation between the variable bit rate, the ... | 04/22/2008 |
