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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6654498 | Image capture apparatus and method operable in first and second modes having respective frame rate/resolution and compression ratio An image transmission apparatus/method characterized by inputting image data, detecting the motion of the image data, setting a transmission condition of the image data in accordance with the detection of the motion of the image data, processing the image... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6654544 | VIDEO DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO DATA RECORDING METHOD, VIDEO DATA REPRODUCING APPARATUS, VIDEO DATA REPRODUCING METHOD, VIDEO DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHOD The present invention is a video data recording apparatus, a video data recording method, a video data reproducing apparatus, a video data reproducing method, a video data recording and reproducing apparatus, and a video data recording and reproducing met... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6631242 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital picture data In an apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital picture signal, the large number of data bits in the digital picture signal to be recorded is reduced by a ratio of approximately 1:9, and the thus compressed data are recorded with a recording densi... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6618438 | MPEG stream switching process The process is characterized in that, if: DTS_next_AUold-PCRold | 09/09/2003 |
| 6597860 | Digital camcorder apparatus with MPEG-2 compatible video compression A camcorder comprises a video camera responsive to light images for supplying video signals on a frame by frame basis; circuitry responsive to the video signals supplied by the video camera for generating segments of a transport stream, which segments are... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6598101 | Recording apparatus and recording method, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method There is provided an AV server system with high operationality for a simple use. A file system is not provided in an AV server, and AV data are continuously recorded or reproduced from a place (sector) of a random-accessible HD where a magnetic head is po... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6587506 | Video editing apparatus, video editing method, and data storage medium for a video editing program Picture quality loss is minimized and buffer underflow and overflow are prevented when extracting and recombining a plurality of consecutive scenes from an MPEG stream. The smallest number of pictures (equivalent at most to 1 second) that must be re-encod... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6556627 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium Encoding parameters of picture and higher layers of importance to a number of applications, and encoding parameters of slice and lower layers of no importance to all applications are converted into auxiliary packets inserted respectively into a V-blanking... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553183 | Recording apparatus for performing hierarchical overwrite recording of video and/or audio data to a recording medium An object of the present invention is to provide a recording device for hierarchical overwrite recording of video and/or audio data to a recording disc without an accompanying complicated mechanical operation. To achieve the object, a block generator gene... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549579 | Transmitting and recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus of information and its recording medium A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, wherein each of the data includes reference time information indicating a reference time and packet information, includes the steps of rearranging the data on a time axis such that a time interval betw... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6539057 | Coding apparatus providing improved access to selected coded data A coding apparatus includes a block forming unit which divides an input image signal into m, where m is an integer, blocks. A coder uses an orthogonal transformation to compression code the m blocks of data. A producing unit produces n, where n is an inte... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6516137 | Recording arrangement for digitally recording a received analog video signal in data packets of an MPEG transport stream A recording arrangement (2) includes a first receiving device (25) for receiving an analog video signal (AVS1) and a second receiving device (10) for receiving a digital video signal formed by an MPEG transport stream (TS1), at least one video packet of a... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6516135 | Compressed video data processing with conversion of image compression format A local server records compressed digital video data according to a first image compression format at normal and four times speeds, while a main server records compressed digital video data according to a second image compression format at normal speed. A... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6507672 | Video encoder for digital video displays An improved multimedia encoder having features advantageous for use in a computer system. These features provide for the reduction of bandwidth and storage requirements, the enhancement of noise immunity, the evening of computational loading, and the use ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6490109 | Data storage device There is provided a data storage device concurrently allowing storage of data that can be reproduced in higher quality and storage of data that can be used also in a data transmission path with a lower transfer speed. The data storage device comprises an ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6480664 | Trick mode VTR which generates trick play data from a stream of images containing intra-pictures and predictive pictures and selects specific DCT coefficients for intra-pictures Tape formatting, tracking and trick mode data generation are disclosed for providing trick modes for compressed video stored on a video tape. The tape is formatted so that trick mode data is recorded at normal speed within certain areas delineated by pred... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6467093 | Method and apparatus for receiving digital broadcasts In a digital broadcast receiving apparatus, digital broadcast signals provided by a digital broadcast method are supplied to various types of external units and are effectively utilized. In the above apparatus, a descrambler descrambles a transport stream... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6441979 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital information signals of different transmission rates In a digital information recording and reproducing apparatus of a rotary magnetic head type for selecting and recording a plurality of digital information signals having different transmission rates and for selectively reproducing the recorded signal, a h... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438556 | Method and system for compressing data which allows access to data without full uncompression A system and method for compressing data on a computer system is disclosed. The method and system include separating the data into a plurality of segments. The plurality of segments includes a plurality of unique segments. The method and system also inclu... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6438172 | Transmitting and recording method, reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus of information and its recording medium Transmitting and recording methods, a reproducing method, and a reproducing apparatus of compressed video and audio signals which can easily realize a retrieval on a picture group unit basis. Packs are formed from a stream of compressed video and audio da... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6430363 | Video signal recording and reproducing apparatus The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video sig... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6430362 | Digital video signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a digital signal recording method and a digital signal recording apparatus, capable of readily producing a signal used to reproduce in a trick play mode from a digital compression video signal. The above-de... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6408338 | Method of generating information for fast searching of packet data, recording medium storing the information, and recording and/or playback apparatus using the same A method of generating information used for fast searching of packet data, a recording medium for storing the information, and a recording and/or playback apparatus using the same. Packet data is segmented into basic units of a predetermined size and basi... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6393204 | Digital motion picture decoding apparatus and digital motion picture decoding method A digital motion picture decoding apparatus comprising an input buffer memory for storing coded data to be decoded, a reproduced picture memory for storing the decoded picture data to be displayed, and a display picture deciding means for deciding a repro... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6393197 | Digital video signal recording/reproducing apparatus and method thereof Reproducing heads reproduce signals from a tape in advance of recording heads for a time period equivalent to a system delay. An ECC decoder corrects an error of a signal received from each reproducing head. A BRR decoder decompresses and decodes the sign... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389224 | Wireless communication device having a reconfigurable matching circuit It is made possible to record, on a recording medium on which original image data before compression is recorded, data resulting from a first coding processing performed when coding the data by a variable rate compression and coding system and to code qui... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6389218 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously producing compressed play and trick play bitstreams from a video frame sequence An "all-in-one" encoder that simultaneously produces an MPEG-2 compliant fast forward, fast reverse and play bitstreams from a sequence of video frames, e.g., 601-format video. The encoder subsamples the video sequence, extracting a plurality of frames fr... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6363213 | Interface for digital recorder and display The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on-screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on-screen display of recorder player status messages. A first embodiment ret... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6363212 | Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding digital video data Digital video data encoder and decoder operate to enable the low and high speed reproduction of variable rate encoded digital video data by reproducing and decoding intraframe encoded frames that are identified by previously reproduced intraframe encoded ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6363114 | Signal coding method, signal coding apparatus, signal recording medium, and signal transmission method A signal coding method and apparatus enables effective coding of a predetermined time segment of a video signal with a variable bit rate at real time (one-path) into a total coding bit amount of a constant data capacity. A coding difficulty calculator 13 ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6359849 | Signal processing apparatus, recording medium, and signal processing method A signal processing apparatus, a recording medium, and a signal processing method that can be applied to, for example, an optical disk apparatus for recording audio signals in an optical disk, the optical disk, and an optical disk apparatus for reproducin... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6347180 | Signal processor Inputted video signals are highly compressed in a high-compression processing means and the compressed signals are saved in a high-compression system processing means, and the video signals lowly compressed in a low-compression processing means and the co... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339671 | System and method for improving video recorder performance in a search mode A method and apparatus wherein video images are recorded on a plurality of tracks of a tape such that, for playback in a search mode at a speed higher than the recording speed the displayed image will consist of a plurality of contiguous parts, some of th... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6334024 | Helical scan data recording apparatus and a helical scan data reproducing apparatus A data recording apparatus is disclosed comprising memory circuits for storing video and sound data, and an error check code generation circuit for generating check codes for the data. The check code data is stored in a data block including the data and t... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6324025 | Digital transmission signal processing system and recording/reproducing system A digital information transmitting apparatus includes a first bit-compressor for bit-compressing a digital video information by a system of discrete cosine transform and a second bit-compressor for bit-compressing a digital audio information by a differen... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6321027 | Video signal recorder and method of recording video signals When a recording instruction is absent, a recording medium drive is not driven. Encoding of a video signal and driving of the drive are both started simultaneously when recording instruction is given. The coded data is sequentially recorded and stored in ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6317557 | Digital signal recording method and apparatus and recording medium therefor Digital signals are recorded in sequential tracks on a tape-form recording medium. In the case where the digital signals are recorded in accordance with a first recording format, at least first digital signals for normal reproduction are recorded in a sin... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6311013 | Signal reproducing apparatus and signal reproducing method DVD reproducing apparatus which enables seamless images at a plurality of angles recorded on a DVD to simultaneously be watched or instantaneously be watched even if the images are switched. The frame memory of a DVD reproducing apparatus has m display da... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6295094 | Instant replay of digital video optimized using non MPEG frame tags A method and device for providing instant replay in an MPEG video decoder. The method and device provides non-MPEG frame tags for correlation of the frames in the decompressed domain to the frames in the compressed domain.... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6263151 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and reproducing apparatus In a recording/reproducing apparatus and a reproducing apparatus based on a helical scan system for recording or reproducing a video signal and an audio signal on or from a magnetic tape by use of a magnetic head assembly mounted on a rotary drum, the rec... | 07/17/2001 |
