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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7310745 | Efficient media scan operations for storage systems A method for media scan operations for storage system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of arranging a range of sections of media of PSDs to perform media scan operations; scheduling the media scan operations; selecting a section in the range; verifying m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7245816 | Method for designing envelope detecting circuit for video signal processing integrated circuit and integrated circuit using the same In a method for designing an envelope detecting circuit for a video signal processing integrated circuit (IC), the number of peripheral components of the video signal processing IC is minimized by incorporating, into the video signal processing IC, a circuit device ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231556 | Data processing apparatus having error concealment function Main line data as video data and low-resolution data obtained by lowering the resolution of the video data and the data amount thereof is recorded on an optical disk. The main line data and the low-resolution data are read from the optical disk. While the main line ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224884 | Design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit and integrated circuit and video signal processing apparatus thereby A video signal processing apparatus and a design method therefor are provided, and more particularly, a design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit (IC), in which to solve the shortage of pin ports caused by designing a video signal processor in a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212724 | Jitter correcting apparatus and method for video signals A jitter correcting apparatus and method for a video signal in a video signal reproduction system includes a digital video decoder for demodulating an externally-applied video signal and a phase-locked loop for generating a first clock signal synchronized with the v... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200319 | Recording-medium reproduction method and recording-medium reproduction apparatus When it is impossible to read NV_PCK from a DVD, a frame-start-position-information reading section reads VOBU_SRI obtained immediately before reading became impossible, stored in a memory; a search control section starts searching for the ddress indicated by FWDIn ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197194 | Video horizontal and vertical variable scaling filter An apparatus for variably scaling video picture signals comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more data signals vertically scaled to a first value in response to (i) the video picture signals and (ii)... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7082172 | Digital signal gating apparatus and method in a pulse receiver system A digital signal gating method and apparatus of a preprocessor in a detection system wherein the detection system includes a central processing unit, a main memory and a receiver, whereby the apparatus and method bifurcate received digital signals, delays them along... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7031088 | Apparatus and method for detecting an abnormality in a recorded signal An apparatus for detecting an abnormality of a recorded signal of a recorder/player includes a plurality of recording/reproducing heads for recording/reproducing a signal onto/from a medium, and a determining portion for determining an abnormality of the recorded si... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6934466 | Buzz reduction circuit and TV/VCR combo using the same Buzz reduction circuit for eliminating a vertical period buzz without being influenced by amplifier circuits in an audio signal line. A video signal of a VCR video head is input to a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit to separate a vertical synchronizi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931197 | Frequency modulation (FM) recording apparatus of video tape recorder A frequency modulation (FM) recording apparatus for recording an FM modulated video signal onto a recording medium is provided. This recording apparatus (luminance components plus color components) includes an automatic gain controller; a limiter for limiting the le... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6922195 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a memory circuit, one-line judging circuit, a write control circuit and a read control circuit. The memory circuit stores an input data in response to a write address and outputs an output data in response to a read address. Th... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6895173 | Combined DVD/CD data processor A combined DVD/CD (Digital Video Disk/Compact Disk) data processor used in a DVD/CD player. The DVD/CD data processor includes a PLL (Phase Locked Loop) to receive a pulse stream input to generate a PLL clock; a frame/ID synchronization detector to latch the pulse s... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6832041 | VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM UTILIZING HOST-PROCESSOR-RESIDENT ERROR RECOVERY TO TRANSFER NON-TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-INTOLERANT DATA SEGMENTS WHILE TRANSFERRING TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-TOLERANT STREAMING DATA SEGMENTS AT A REQUIRED DATA TRANSFER RATE The present invention may be regarded as a video recording system and method of transferring a non-time-critical, error-intolerant data segment stored or to be stored on a disk drive, which is responsive to a set of data transfer commands generated by a host process... | 12/14/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6525776 | Information compressing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus includes an address generation circuit for generating an address signal. A memory operates for storing an information signal containing a video signal in response to the address signal. The address signal is periodicall... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6310660 | Video signal dropout detector A method and apparatus for detecting video signal dropout. The method includes the step of generating a video signal, and then electronically isolating at least one component of the video signal. The at least one component is representative of the absence... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6185359 | System for the multi-speed reproduction of recorded color television signals and for the correction of color sequence errors in reproduced color television signals In a system (1) including a reproducing device (2) for reproducing color television signals recorded on a record carrier (7) in adjacent track portions in at least one normal reproducing mode and at least one special reproducing mode, which includes a col... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5926602 | Time-base corrector circuit capable of adding color burst signal to output signal based on kind of input video signal A memory controller which controls writing/reading operation to/from a memory in a TBC circuit prohibits writing operation to the memory circuit in response to an activation of a frame grab signal after an A/D converted video signal for one frame is store... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5911028 | Video signal and camera signal processing apparatus In the VTR reproduction mode, since a signal of which a luminance signal and a chroma signal that have been band-limited are combined is supplied to a Y comb filter and a C comb filter, the process can be performed with only one A/D converter. In addition... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5900952 | System for converting color image signals having high-frequency components from RGB to CMY color spaces A system for converting original RGB color signals to CMY signals includes the step of separating color signals from the original image into low-frequency and high-frequency components. The low-frequency components are converted to CMY signals via a look-... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5841934 | Method for noise suppression and noise-suppression circuit for video recorders A noise suppression apparatus and method for recorded luminance signals in which a level of an FM signal from the recording medium is detected, and the level of the recovered chroma signal is detected, the luminance signal is bandpass filtered and limited... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5818999 | Video signal reproducing apparatus A video signal reproducing apparatus having a video camera part which produces a video signal by picking up an image of an object and is arranged in one unified body at least with a reproducing part which reproduces a video signal from a recording medium ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5732182 | Color image signal recording/reproducing apparatus An information signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus is arranged to selectively input any one kind of information signal from among a plurality of kinds of information signals which are externally supplied and an information signal reproduced from... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5666458 | Reproduction error correction circuit for a video reproduction system, and the method for operating it A reproduction error correction circuit for a video reproduction system includes a line-storage memory for temporarily storing composite video signal samples, which memory is operated to provide both for time-base correction and for drop-out compensation.... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5606426 | Digital time base corrector for reproducing video signals A digital time base corrector in which a memory for correction of a time base is commonly used as a memory for correction of a drop-out and a signal process to a video signal which is replaced by a drop-out compensation is made unnecessary. The corrector ... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5602685 | Method and apparatus for interleaving data in a digital recording system A data interleaving method for a digital recording system providing increased error correction capacity includes steps for determining a moduli number (NMod) in accordance with the number of fields per frame and the number of segments per field, assigning... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5587804 | Reproduction error correction circuit for a video reproduction system & the method for operating it A reproduction error correction circuit for a video reproduction system includes a line-storage memory for temporarily storing composite video signal samples, which memory is operated to provide both for time-base correction and for drop-out compensation.... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5477336 | Apparatus and method of recording and reproducing video signal A video signal recording and reproducing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes A/D converters, a shuffling circuit and magnetic heads. The A/D converters A/D-convert a luminance signal Y and color difference signals PB and... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5471250 | Digital time base corrector with dropout compensating function A digital time base corrector reduces the capacity of a memory to approximately a 1 H of image data while maintains the interleave relationship between a luminance signal and a chrominance signal of a video signal. Polarity data indicating the polarity of... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5438459 | Method of processing and recording data while reproducing the same and apparatus for the method The precedingly reproduction signal reproduced by a precedingly reproducing head is recorded on a tape. If it is detected that the reproduction signal includes abnormality owing to a reason such as poor error rate, the recording operation is stopped. Then... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5438458 | Data reproducing apparatus that detects positional shifts of a control head A data reproducing apparatus capable of detecting easily the position shift of a control head including first position information to discriminate recording tracks recorded on recording tracks formed helically on a tape-shaped recording medium and second ... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5339321 | Decoding signal error concealment system A decoding signal error concealment system for concealing data which are determined as errors during the process of decoding coded image data into signals in a digital VTR system including an error correction decoder, a block data selecting unit a block d... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5280396 | Video signal processing apparatus for correcting time base of video signal An apparatus for correcting a time base of a video signal includes a first memory having a capacity of one line of a video signal and a second memory having a capacity of N lines of the video signal connected to the first memory. A video signal is written... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5260800 | Apparatus and method for high-speed video tape duplication from master disk A laser video disk master is operated at 2× speed for duplicating video information to be recorded in VHS format. Two last disk video players are modified to operate in synchronism in order to multiplex from one to the other in duplicating video programs... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5231680 | Horizontal adaptive error concealment system for component digital television signals Error concealment of an erroneous pixel in a line of pixels is provided by adaptively using a large number of adjacent correct pixels along the same horizontal line. The invention discards any corrupted adjacent pixel which would be used in the calculatio... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5223946 | Apparatus using comparator to detect drop-out of recorded video signal A drop-out detecting apparatus comprises an amplitude detecting circuit supplied with a high frequency video signal reproduced from a record medium, a first smoothing circuit supplied with a detected output of the amplitude detecting circuit and having a ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5194963 | Dual deck videocassette recorder system A videocassette deck and taping system includes two videocassette decks therefor (A and B) included within a single housing utilizing a common power supply, tuner, controls, and switching and control circuitry to enable simultaneous multiple functions usi... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5179450 | Video signal processing apparatus and method for the time base compensation A video signal processing apparatus and method are provided in which time base errors in the luminance and color signals of a video signal reproduced from a recording medium are compensated. Time base errors in the luminance signal are reduced by storing ... | 01/12/1993 |
