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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7555205 | Method for controlling defect of optical disk, optical disk recording device, and optical disk reproducing device An optical disc recording apparatus (1) includes a system control unit (14) that judges whether main information and sub information which is recorded by being superimposed on said main information, relocates and records the main information or the sub... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555208 | Recording/reproduction apparatus and method of recording/reproducing audio-visual data from a recording medium A recording/reproduction apparatus recording/reproducing audio-visual data from a recording medium includes; a reception unit a reception unit receiving, from a server via a network, distribution information for audio data that is not recorded an optical disk; a dis... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555207 | Storage medium storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and apparatus and method of playing back the storage medium A storage medium includes text-based subtitle data including style information for use with an apparatus and a method of playing back the storage medium. The storage medium includes moving image data, and subtitle data for providing a subtitle for the moving image d... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551845 | Method for reproducing optical disc having plurality of titles A method for reproducing an optical disc having a plurality of titles. The method is capable of, when an all disc repeat play operation or an all disc successive play operation is performed with respect to a plurality of optical discs loaded in a multi-disc changer,... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7542663 | Optical disc recording apparatus, optical disc reproduction apparatus, and optical disc recording method that are all suitable for seamless reproduction An optical disc recording apparatus including: a receiving unit operable to receive designations from a user, the designations including a recording start designation, a recording end designation, a pause designation, and a pause release designation; an encoding uni... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7509031 | Optical disk recorder and method of writing signal to an optical disk In an optical disk recorder, an optimum threshold value (M′) of a front-end buffer is calculated from data size, signal transfer rate (Rt) and signal write rate (Rw). Writing the signal to the optical disk is performed multiple times each immediately after the sto... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7483626 | Portable DVD player and optical disc player A portable DVD player or optical disc player instructs an interior selection state to an output selector and outputs an internal signal to an output terminal. Whether a lock slide switch is in the exterior selection state or in the interior selection state is displa... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7469095 | DVD-ROM backwards compatible defective sector management in recordable DVD media A method for DVD-ROM backwards-compatible defective sector management in recordable DVD media can include the following steps. Initially, a first block of logically contiguous sectors can be allocated in which indivisible data can be written to the recordable DVD me... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460768 | Audio-only combined DVD and CD player This invention relates generally to a DVD-CD player which plays conventional CD audio as well as the audio portion of DVDs. A mechanism for sightlessly navigating video menus normally visible on a DVD display is also included. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457532 | Systems and methods for retrieving, viewing and navigating DVD-based content Methods, systems and architectures for enhancing a user's DVD experience are described. In one embodiment, the hierarchical structure (e.g. titles and chapters) of a DVD is ascertained and a corresponding playlist structure shell is built. Metadata associated with t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450830 | Optical disc playback apparatus An optical disc playback apparatus having DTS sound incompatible function is provided, which apparatus is capable of automatically playing back the Dolby sound without selecting the Dolby sound in the menu setting, when an optical disc including the DTS content is p... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444066 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. A writeable and rewriteable recording medium stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444065 | System control apparatus for moving picture data A multimedia optical disc for recording main video data which is composed of sets of frame data that is processed beforehand to allow compatibility with displays of a plurality of aspect ratios. The disc has a stream area storing streams made up of the main video da... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444069 | Method for creating and exhibiting multidimensional interactive stories A means of creating and means of exhibiting a multi-dimensional production consisting of two or more interrelated stories, story lines or story parts, in audio-visual media, by simultaneously delivering or streaming parallel “tracks” or “channels,” between a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440676 | Method and apparatus for transmitting dummy video sync and audio signals in optical disc player A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting dummy video sync and audio signals in an optical disc player, which are capable of generating a dummy video sync signal when the optical disc player plays an audio-only optical disc. The method and apparatus trans... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440678 | Information recording apparatus and method for recording information onto a rewritable-type recording medium The information recording apparatus records unit information which includes recording information including, for example, video and audio data and reproduction control information for the reproduction on a rewritable-type recording medium. After information is recor... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440679 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. A writeable and rewriteable recording medium stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7437053 | Digital video recorder, method of driving the video recorder and program A digital video recorder writes data on a selected one of a first storage medium and a second storage medium. The recorder includes an abnormal state detector for detecting any abnormal event that possibly occurs while the recorder is writing the data on the first s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433574 | Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit contained in the stream data coincide with the heads of access units ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428371 | Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and c... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426336 | Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and c... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426335 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424200 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method In an information recording apparatus, for conducting finalizing process on a removable recording medium with certainty, on which information is recorded in an easy format contained within a portable equipment in real-time manner, wherein the finalizing process is e... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420902 | Device and method for recording information A device for recording digitally encoded video information records video segments and playback information for controlling the playback of the segments. The device has an error detection unit (32) for detecting recording errors, and a bridging unit for creati... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418196 | Video signal recording apparatus A recording time acquiring device is provided to acquire the recording time of the video signal recorded on the digital videotape on the basis of signals outputted from the digital video camera when the digital videotape is fast-forwarded from a leading position to ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415190 | Optical recording medium to display stored command along with content, and apparatus and method to play the same An optical recording medium for recording a predetermined command code at a predetermined region of contents, an apparatus and method to play the optical recording medium, which executes a predetermined command when the contents are played so that the predetermined ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415196 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415193 | Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and c... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415197 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415195 | Information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management-file having management information on a control method of repro... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412149 | Trick mode generation in video streaming A method for generating a trick replay video stream, including the steps of: selecting from stored data adapted for transmission as a streamed movie a sequence of Intracoded frames (I-frames), and inserting one or more difference frames between consecutive I-frames ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406255 | Information processing apparatus A system controller displays all setup items on a setup screen, at the time of a setup mode in which a setup button 18a of a remote controller is depressed, in case that it is judged that a disc is not loaded on a tray of an apparatus itself, and, in c... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406249 | Disk media, and method of and device for recording and playing back information on or from a disk media In a video disk recording/playback device for converting a digital video signal or the like into high-efficiency coded data and recording the coded data on a video disk, or for restoring high-efficiency coded data recorded on the video disk and reproducing an output... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406251 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403698 | Recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as recording medium The invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as a recording medium wherein, when nondestructive editing is executed for an AV signal, the AV signal can be reproduced seamlessly without suffering from any interruption. Information repr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403699 | Optical disc apparatus At the time of stopping the first reproduction process, a main controller makes a RAM store audio identification information corresponding to the kind of audio having been reproduced in the preceding reproduction process. At the time of restarting reproduction proce... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398010 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track recorded with record information to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80), and performs a re... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394973 | Signal compressing apparatus An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394972 | Optical disc reproduction apparatus An optical disc reproduction apparatus starts reproduction of audio other than DTS audio when the audio number of the DTS audio on an optical disc is found to be greater than the audio number of other audio, starts reproduction of DTS audio assigned an audio number ... | 07/01/2008 |
