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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7466897 | Indicator device for receiver apparatus with data memory Electrical apparatus for processing received digital data into audio and/or video formats for listening via speakers and/or viewing via a display screen connected to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a memory means in which said received data can be stored for s... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7330164 | Video controlled detector sensitivity A method for setting opto-sensor detection sensitivity in a projection video display comprising the steps of sequentially generating video signals of different colors for illuminating a sensor with video images of the video signals. In responsive to the video signal... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7283719 | Video capture device An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for digitizing ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7233781 | System and method for emergency notification content delivery A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7145605 | Synchronization of chroma and luma using handshaking An apparatus for synchronizing chroma and luma data includes a first handshake block for luma data, a second handshake block for chroma data, and a means for providing a handshake signal to the first block and to the second block based at least in part on a determin... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143354 | Summarization of baseball video content Summarization of video content that includes the identification of a plurality of segments from a Video including baseball. In some embodiments the system does not use a model sequence of frames. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7054256 | High capacity digital data storage by transmission of radiant energy through arrays of small diameter holes A storage media for storage of data thereon is provided. The storage media including: a first layer, the first layer being substantially transparent to a predetermined radiant energy used for reading the data; and a second layer formed on the first layer and being s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046294 | Electronic still camera with printer An electronic still camera has a camera section for photographing a subject as an electronic image through an image sensor and recording it as digital image data in a memory, and a printer section for printing the electronic image on an instant photo film sheet base... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042940 | Digital video signal transmission apparatus and image display apparatus A digital video signal transmission apparatus is provided with (a) a digital video signal conversion circuit for converting each chrominance signal of an input digital video signal in such a manner that every plural frames (1) in one frame of the plural frames each ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030925 | Camera system having converting means, recording means, reproduction means, plate-shaped display and protection means A camera system comprising means for converting an object image into an image signal, recording means for recording the image signal on a recording medium, reproduction means for reproducing the image signal recorded on the recording medium, finder means for display... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6958784 | Video signal processing apparatus using multi-conversion stages A video signal processing apparatus for processing a video signal containing first and second color difference signals so as to adjust colors of an image represented by the video signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of gain setting sections for se... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952272 | Electronic still camera with printer and printer with monitor An electronic still camera has a camera section for photographing a subject as an electronic image through an image sensor and recording it as digital image data in a memory, and an optical printer section for printing the electronic image on an instant photo film s... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952287 | Electro-optical apparatus, image processing circuit, image data correction method, and electronic apparatus An interpolation processor interpolates reference correction data stored in a ROM according to the level (gray scale) to generate correction data DHr which correspond to gray scales available for image data, for each of a plurality of reference coordinates. The corr... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952685 | Music distribution system and associated antipiracy protection Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based user station. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choos... | 10/04/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6909456 | Electronic still camera with printer There is disclosed an electronic still camera that has a printer section in addition to a camera section. The printer section prints an image on a self-developing type instant photo film unit in accordance with digital image data picked up and memorized through the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6807359 | DVD sub-picture decoder with minimal buffering A memory efficient method for translating and displaying sub-picture images for DVD data. The method uses less memory than prior systems. Rather than storing the sub-picture image in a memory, the method decodes and displays the sub-picture images on-the-fly. Subseq... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6741792 | Variable speed playback method and apparatus for playing back digital data stored in a recording medium A variable speed playback method and apparatus is provided. The variable speed playback apparatus includes a transfer unit for moving a recording medium, a controller for controlling the transfer unit so as to repeatedly perform a fast transfer operation for moving ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6556767 | Video capture device An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6526214 | DVD sub-picture decoder with minimal buffering A memory efficient method for translating and displaying sub-picture images for DVD data. The method uses less memory than prior systems. Rather than storing the sub-picture image in a memory, the method decodes and displays the sub-picture images on-the-... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6374033 | Signal processing apparatus and method There is provided a signal processing apparatus for performing signal processing of image data in units of blocks each consisting of n (vertical)×m (horizontal) pixels, including a memory for storing the image data, a division unit for dividing image dat... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6269215 | Information processing system An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6014491 | Method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals The present invention is a method and system to compress and/or convert audio and video signals into a static audio file format and/or a static video file format, respectively, in which a playing device can be instructed to commence playing specific sound... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5812731 | Signal processing apparatus for adding synchronizing signal to horizontal and vertical blanking periods of a color difference signal A signal processing circuit for adding a synchronizing signal to a predetermined signal, wherein the synchronizing signal oscillates to one side from a reference level of the synchronizing signal, and wherein the predetermined signal oscillates to one sid... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5734779 | Image pickup device having a plurality of pickup element regions and a color filter A recording/reproducing system is provided with an image pickup element comprising a color filter having a plurality of colors. An image pickup device compresses the color image information obtained from the image pickup element to provide compressed imag... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5659654 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a video signal An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a video signal as a moving image or a still image. A moving image may be recorded in a first (YCrCb) recording mode wherein a luminance signal Y and color difference signals (R-Y) and (R-B) corresponding there... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5510898 | Information signal recording apparatus Apparatus for processing signals having time base variations comprises: time base variation correction circuitry for correcting time-base variations existing in a signal input thereto and having an input terminal and an output terminal, the output termina... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5390028 | Apparatus for converting input video signal to motion picture film image A picture signal converting apparatus converts a picture signal obtained from a video camera into a film recording signal. A color characteristic to be corrected and a corresponding correcting value are predetermined for each picture element of the pictur... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5321517 | Image transmission apparatus indicating a color type of the color signal transmitted An image transmission apparatus indicating a color type of the color signal transmitted includes circuitry for separating color image information into a plurality of color signals and transmitting the plurality of color signals. An indication device is pr... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5276522 | Electronic film editing with system having telecine mode and film writing mode A telecine can be adapted to write video signals onto film. The film gate and flying spot scanner are enclosed in a light-tight shield and a four-segment (R, G, B, and clear) color filter wheel is interposed in the optical path between the scanner and the... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5155589 | Storage and retrieval of images from a grey image having artificially enhanced color regions Methods and apparatus for decomposing a set of complementary color signals that form a color enhanced image into four or five color maps of an image, for storing said four or five color maps on a sheet of black and white film, and for reconstructing color... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4839743 | Interactive video and audio controller An interactive video controller 10 for selecting between two or more tracks of video data responsive to the input of a player and for displaying the selected video track. The interactive video controller 10 displays and stores the selected track and then ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4829368 | Solid color pickup apparatus A solid pickup apparatus comprises a photo sensitive portion comprising photosensitive means and photosensitive transfer means for receiving a light including image information and generating respectively first signal charges and second signal charges the... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4779143 | Video disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus for color video signal A luminance signal Y and two color difference signals (R-Y), (B-Y) are separated from a color video signal. A color difference time division multiplex (TDM) signal is produced from the two color difference signals by a time base compression and time base ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4779144 | Image storage using separately scanned luminance-detail and narrowband color-component variables Computer main memory is used for storing relatively densely sampled luminance detail information concerning a television display and for storing relatively sparsely sampled narrowband color-component information concerning the same television display. The... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4746969 | Video signal processing device for line sequential signals A video signal processing device rearranges line sequential signals included in a video signal into line simultaneous signals by detecting the kinds of information carried by them, respectively, for horizontal scanning periods; and adequately inhibits the... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4627004 | Color image recording system and method for computer-generated displays A high spatial and dynamic resolution color image recording system and method for computer generated displays includes a low cost personal computer having a low resolution display monitor adapter and a photographic image recorder coupled to receive low re... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4553176 | Video recording and film printing system quality-compatible with widescreen cinema Red, green, and blue signals from a video camera are separately recorded. In preparation for this, the three signals (advantageously generated at twenty-four frames per second and more than 655 noninterlaced raster lines per frame) are first applied to th... | 11/12/1985 |
