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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443871 | Method and system for managing a jitter buffer Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting the length of delay before playback as a function of the amount of transmission jitter is disclosed, whereby a target error rate is received, error rates at different delays are tracked and current delay is adjusted as a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7369600 | Burst communications apparatus and method using tapped delay lines A communications apparatus and method use tapped delay lines as multiplexers and demultiplexers. In one embodiment, a receiver (100) uses a tapped delay line (110) as a demultiplexer to acquire a burst communication at very high data rates in the range... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366295 | Telephone signal generator and methods and devices using the same A method or device includes a telephone with an audio or video effects generator to produce audio or video effects that are transmitted as part of a signal from the telephone. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7269331 | Apparatus and method of displaying video output An apparatus for displaying video output with dynamically adjustable drop rate to control playback quality. The inventive apparatus includes a playback engine, a pre-fetch engine, a rendering engine, and a drawing engine. The playback engine sends a pre-fetch requir... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7180429 | Slow motion detection system Searching through a series of images such as video images for slowly-moving objects such as enemy snipers, using pattern matching, color matching, brightness matching, or the like. Multiple search speeds facilitate finding objects moving at different velocities thro... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174082 | Method for designing de-emphasis circuit for video signal processing integrated circuit and integrated circuit made by the same In a de-emphasis circuit designing method for minimizing the number of peripheral components of a video signal processing integrated circuit (IC), a circuit device for determining the level of a reproduced video signal of the de-emphasis circuit is included in the v... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7149757 | Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, control program for information processing apparatus and recording medium having control program recorded thereon for information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus, a method of controlling the information processing apparatus, a control program for the information processing apparatus and a recording medium having the control program recorded thereon for the information processing apparatus,... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142382 | Phase adjustment circuit and demodulation circuit A phase adjustment circuit includes: a carrier-wave-delay adjusting circuit for delaying an input carrier wave and outputting the delayed carrier wave, in accordance with phase information; and a phase-difference detecting/adjusting circuit for detecting a phase dif... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7076623 | Information update count managing method, information update count managing apparatus, contents usage count managing method, and content usage count storing apparatus The present invention provides an information update count managing method, including: a write step of writing pieces of information in a predetermined order in an information storage area including at least one WORD of a non-volatile memory, wherein information can... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068325 | Video signal processor and video signal processing method The present invention relates to a video signal processing device for avoiding a phenomenon that noise is upwardly or downwardly shifted due to noise reducing operation when a non-standard signal is input. When a non-standard signal is input as an input video signal... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054540 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene changes in the moving images recorded by the first recording controlling element; a second recording cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7023993 | Signal reproducing/recording/transmitting method and apparatus and signal record medium for use with signals featuring a multiple-phase color burst A signal reproducing apparatus for prohibiting copying or unauthorized use. The apparatus includes a copying management information decision circuit 19 for discriminating the state of the copying management information read out from each header of a data sect... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6950114 | Apparatus for compensating for luminance level of video signal A luminance level compensating apparatus passes only the luminance signal of a pixel in a first detection range in the vertical direction of an image indicated by an input luminance signal, detects and stores a first frequency for each luminance level of the passed ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6925244 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing high resolution video signal A video signal recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing a high resolution video signal wherein the video resolution is enhanced by shifting a carrier frequency to a higher band in frequency modulation in a VCR's video signal recording mode, and by d... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6920533 | System boot time reduction method A system and method to reduce the time for system initializations is disclosed. In accordance with the invention, data accessed during a system initialization is loaded into a non-volatile cache and is pinned to prevent eviction. By pinning data into the cache, the ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917752 | System and method for editing video information This invention relates to a recording/reproduction system having a function of recording/reproducing video information with a GOP structure in the MPEG2 scheme on/from a disk. In this system, when a cut position designated by the user on the reproduction frame is se... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6904232 | Method and apparatus for seeking the burst cutting area of DVD media Methods and apparatus for reading data from the burst cutting area of a digital video disc. The present location of an optical head assembly is determined. The distance from the present location of the optical head assembly to the burst cutting area is calculated. T... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895174 | Frame number detecting device An object is to provide a frame number detecting device having a frame counter which is less apt to output a wrong frame number even if a sync signal type was erroneously detected from a DVD etc. and the combination of variation of the sync signal types corresponds ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6879775 | Optical disc playback apparatus In an optical disc playback apparatus capable of appropriately setting a font resolution of an on-screen message depending on a display resolution of data to be reproduced from an optical disc, a reader 12, 13, 14, 15 reads record data Si from a recording sur... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6873788 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus At least address information that is necessary for access of an input data recording area of a disk-shaped recording medium is recorded in a nonvolatile memory. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6865336 | User-specific time values for time-based navigation functions of video recorder systems There is provided a method for managing time-values of time-based navigation functions in a video recording system. A user input is received that specifies a re-programmed time-value for a time-based navigation function. The re-programmed time-value is stored for fu... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865339 | Digital video and data recorder A “pause and resume” function and a “channel change” function for recording and playing interframe compressed audiovideo data, particularly MPEG data. The invention includes a digital track format and a method for recording one or more sessions from one or m... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862401 | Recording apparatus, method and program recording medium A recording apparatus includes a recording device which records audio visual data (hereinafter referred to as “AV data”) on a recording medium. A file restoration device which, when file management information for managing a file recorded on the recording medium... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6832042 | Encoding and decoding system in an optical disk storage device An encoding/decoding system in an optical disk storage device for performing compact disc/digital video disk (CD/DVD) encoding/decoding of data. The encoding/decoding system includes address mappers for C1, C2, CD P/Q, and DVD inner/outer codes respectively and a sh... | 12/14/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6496645 | Video recorder having playback-signal processing means adaptable to different playback qualities of video recordings A video recorder for playing video recordings recorded on magnetic tapes, these recordings being available with different playback qualities, and including a reproduction apparatus for scanning a magnetic tape and for supplying a playback signal; and a pl... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6459848 | Magnetic recording apparatus and method, and magnetic recording medium First and second magnetic heads are alternately used to record an analog video signal on a magnetic recording medium while first tracks are sequentially formed thereon. Third and fourth magnetic heads are alternately used to record a digital video signal ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6332056 | Circuit arrangement for processing a video signal, including means for avoiding a vertical color shift at horizontal color transitions A video recorder, includes: a filter for performing a comb-filtering operation and supplying a comb-filtered component of a video signal; controllable influencing apparatus for terminating the output of the comb-filtered component and activating instead, ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6330391 | VTR signal processing circuit In a VTR signal processing circuit, a first reproduced color under signal and a second reproduced color under signal obtained by delaying by one or two horizontal period in synchronism with a predetermined clock signal are supplied to the first and second... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6204890 | Noise reducer using memory A noise reducer which applies a time-cyclic type of noise reproduction processing to only a predetermined image signal in an input image signal in the case of applying the time-cyclic of noise reduction processing to the input image signal by using a memo... | 03/20/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6072594 | Information signal reproducing apparatus with noise processing An information signal recording apparatus for recording an information signal having a predetermined frequency band onto a recording medium, which comprises signal separating means for receiving said information signal and for separating the received info... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6023303 | Video signal processing apparatus and method for preventing a signal dropout An output signal of an 1H delaying circuit and a signal received from an input terminal are supplied to a subtracting circuit that forms a comb line filter. Thus, even if a dropout takes place in a luminance signal, not in a chroma signal, the chroma sign... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6005732 | Device and method for restoring data in digital VCR Device and method for restoring data in a digital VCR is disclosed in which redundancy is provided for detection of more reliable user data. The device optimally equalizes data reproduced in the VCR, and employs comparison detection in restoring the equal... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5999160 | Method for forming sub image data packet including data of sub image superimposed on main image, recording medium for recording sub image data packet, and image process apparatus A sub image display control system is composed of two sub image display control portions that are a display region control portion and a display timing control portion and a display output portion. A sub image data packet is composed of three types of dat... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5956452 | Still picture recording and reproducing apparatus which properly performs recording and reproducing a plurality of different recording formats In a still picture recording and reproducing apparatus, image data are recorded from a communication frame memory directly to a recording medium, thereby editing is carried out and reproduced data, title or the like is stored in a memory. The title is var... | 09/21/1999 |
