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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170392 | Method and apparatus for generation, distribution and display of interactive video content Proposed is a model for generation and use of metadata for interactive video navigation and video content identification. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7869694 | Method of providing recordable time according to remaining memory capacity and terminal therefor Provided is a function of providing a recordable time considering remaining memory capacity. To implement this function, an average reception rate of broadcasting data received for a predetermined time (e.g., several seconds) is calculated, and the recordable time i... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869693 | Method and apparatus of recording digital data stream, and a recording medium containing data recorded through said method The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording digital data stream on a recording medium such as a high-density digital versatile disk. The present recording method searches received digital data stream containing video signals for each picture s... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860373 | Information storage medium with structure for multi-angle data, and recording and reproducing apparatus therefor An information storage medium on which multi-angle data is recorded includes at least two clips in each of which video object data for an angle of the multi-angle data is recorded. The at least two clips are recorded in contiguous areas of the information storage me... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848616 | Processing device and method for time domain change of A/V data stream A processing device and method for time domain change of A/V data stream comprises a starting threshold setting unit for setting a starting threshold; a detecting module for detecting whether the A/V data stream having a SCR domain change; a counting unit comprising... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848617 | Recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams A recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams are disclosed. A buffer initially preloads a text subtitle stream including a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and first and second dialog presentation segments. A ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848618 | Unified recording and pause buffer format A unified recording format allows both recorded programs and paused buffered broadcasts to be stored in memory as a common virtual stream. As content is received on a channel, it is placed into the virtual stream with newer content at the start of the stream and pro... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840120 | Communication system, recording apparatus and method, recording medium, and program A communication system includes a first recording apparatus and a second recording apparatus. The first recording apparatus determines whether recording of a broadcast program is settable in the first recording apparatus based on first information for reservation of... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7801418 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for recording or reproduction control, and data structure containing control signal A whole stream consisting of a plurality of partial streams each composed of content information including still image information is multiplexed/recorded in packet basis on an information medium. The information record medium includes a file for storing object data... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783170 | Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information An optical disc and a method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information on the disc, are provided. The method includes recording a digital data stream including at least one predetermined-sized unit, each unit carrying header informa... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7760991 | Multimedia data reproducing apparatus A multimedia data reproducing apparatus includes: a multimedia data acquiring unit configured to acquire multimedia data, the multimedia data including sound data; a receiving unit configured to receive an external operating signal; a sound data processing unit conf... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734153 | Video stream processing method for time-delayed viewing A broadcast receiving system which simultaneously supports time-delayed viewing and recording/reproduction. In the broadcast receiving system, blocks are discontinuously arranged in a circular buffer to rapidly implement time-delayed viewing of a channel and recordi... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7689103 | Pipeline processing system and information processing apparatus A pipeline processing system capable of high speed operation and capable of realizing a reduction of power consumption and an information processing apparatus to which this is applied, wherein a decoder/encoder circuit accesses a first memory and a second memory in ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684681 | Receivers for television signals A Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) (3) is arranged to receive signals signals defining television programmes and television programme schedule data. The HDR receives updated programme schedule data substantially constantly in a dedicated programme schedule data chann... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680396 | Reproducing system and reproduction method, and data transmission device and data transmission method A reproduction player (10) comprising a packet processing unit (14) for allowing A/V data reproduced from a recording medium by a disc reproducing unit (12) and an encoder (13) to be packet data so that communication packet is provided, a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672574 | Data broadcast playback control device, data broadcast playback control method data broadcast playback control program, and recording medium recording program thereon During reception of data broadcast, the control information is created by a control information creator for storage into a first storage. During normal reproduction of the data content stored in the first storage, the data content of the data broadcast being reprodu... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7653289 | Stream converting method and apparatus thereof, and stream recording method and apparatus thereof A packet separating section 103 separates TS packets having a designated PID from a first transport stream TS1 and outputs them as a first TS packet string P1 to a bit-rate converting section 104. On the other hand, the other TS packets a... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653290 | Information outputting apparatus and information outputting method, information recording apparatus and information recording method, information outputting recording system and information recording medium An example outputting apparatus repeatedly transmits contents such as music or movies reproduced a player while attaching order information such as sector address numbers to the contents. An example recording apparatus records the contents on a recording medium such... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646967 | Information processing apparatus and method, program and recorded medium An AV stream, as an entity of contents, is managed by ClipInformation. The reproduction of the AV stream is managed by PlayList. The attribute information of the AV stream is recorded in the ClipInformation, whereby the attribute information may include address info... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643730 | Video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via IEEE 1394 serial bus A video recorder connected to a DV (Digital Video) camcorder via an IEEE serial bus comprises a memory for storing time codes in dubbing-unwanted information, commanded by a user, in a DV tape. When commanded by the user for video recording, a microprocessor of the ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7623768 | Recording system A recording system includes an input unit for inputting moving image data, a memory for accumulating the moving image data input by the input unit, a recording unit for recording the moving image data in a recording medium, and a selection unit for selecting either ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7616868 | Video processing device The video processing device plays the video on an interface screen 250, and receives from a Digest button 203 designation of frame image data chosen by the user for use in digest video. The video processing device, on the basis of frame evaluation leve... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609945 | Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium are disclosed. The recording medium includes a record area in which at least one first title and at least one second title having different attributes are recorded, and a r... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599608 | Information recorder An information recording apparatus comprising image signal processing units for processing image signals from an image taking unit for recording with respect a magnetic tape and a microcomputer for recording, when abnormality occurs in the recording with respect to ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7590333 | Image extraction from video content Image templates define characteristics of video content desired to be recorded, including color characteristics and spatial distribution of regions to be compared in determining a level of similarity and white regions of expected variability which are ignored in the... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577340 | Device and method for recording real-time data The navigation generator 12 sets the time length of a VOB to a time length that is determined in advance depending on a scheduled recording time H. Even if a user makes an operation to stop the recording before the time length of a recorded part of the VOB eq... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7577339 | Method and device for reading MPEG recorded data transmitted on an IEEE 1394 bus The process is characterized in that it comprises: a step of reading tags recorded together with the packets, these tags defining the instants of arrival of the data packets to be recorded, on the basis of a tagging clock (8... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574115 | Method to select recordings by their duration The invention relates to a method for the selection of stored video programs (Si) in which, together with the video program (Si), their running time (tDi) and, if necessary, an information item (Ii) about the content, for ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565061 | 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 between adjacen... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558471 | Video recording apparatus and method, and video output apparatus and method A DVD recorder is provided which includes an NTSC decoder (15) for converting an NTSC-based TV signal into an ITU-R BT. 601-based video signal, an MPEG encoder (17) for encoding the ITU-R BT. 601-based video signal into an MPEG-2 data stream, a driver ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551843 | Authoring system, program, and authoring method In an authoring system of the invention, generation of volume configuration information for a DVD-Video is performed in parallel with generation of volume configuration information for a BD-ROM. Each of the client apparatuses 21 through 23 generates a ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551842 | Video player system and method of playback control using subtitle information A system for playing video data and audio data and displaying subtitles includes a subtitle analyzer for analyzing the subtitles and providing subtitle display time, a controller for providing playback control signals based on the subtitle display time from the subt... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546025 | Media projector system A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether th... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7512325 | Method and apparatus for MPEG video processing A method and an apparatus for processing a motion picture expert group (MPEG) video, used in a video reproduction apparatus, can prevent a non-reference picture displaying error due to the non-reference picture decoding not completed in time. The apparatus includes ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509029 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing plural streams compressed in different formats A recording and reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing the signals of both a digital broadcast system and an analog broadcast system is disclosed. By utilizing the existing configuration efficiently, the cost increase due to the system change is ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7502549 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus displays representative images of clips recorded on a recording medium in list form, reproduces part of data after a front end of the clip corresponding to the representative image selected from among the displayed representative images from ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496283 | Methods and systems for processing digital data rate and directional playback changes Various methods and systems permit digital data, such as video data, audio/video data, audio/video/subpicture data and the like, to be processed in a manner that permits playback at different speeds in both forward and reverse directions. Various embodiments are als... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7474840 | Data recording apparatus for managing content when content is deleted A data recording apparatus capable of properly managing contents of data and reproduction information even if a portion of the data is deleted. If a portion of Clip is deleted so that an ATC-sequence becomes discontinuous, the value of offset_STC_id for an STC-seque... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463820 | Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing method The present invention relates to a non-tracking VTR apparatus. The data reproducing apparatus is characterized in that, of tracks of the predetermined number serving as the editing unit, tracks of a part of the rear side are set to a pre-writing priority area and th... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463819 | Video playback method and apparatus A video playback circuit receives flip call information and vertical synchronization information, and in response determines a pause mode and a playback mode. Flip call information, as is known in the art, provides an indication for flipping between a front buffer a... | 12/09/2008 |
