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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4775897 | Dubbing method and apparatus for digital recording reproducing apparatus including direct digital outputs Disclosed is an apparatus in which a picture signal is converted into digital signals and the digital signals are recorded into a recording medium, and which is suitable to perform dubbing of the digital signals reproduced from the recording medium. The a... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4768102 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing a controller to a VTR for editing purposes A VTR controller provides an internal counter which counts a frame reference to provide a number representing the position of the reference in the video color sequence. This numbr must be synchronized to the color sequence of the station reference in orde... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4766501 | Method for splicing non-consecutive video signal frames A method for editing and splicing color videograms. A first video tape machine records videogram sequences contained on a video tape in a second machine. The sequence includes a first frame series terminated with a final frame and a second frame series wh... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4761691 | Method for controlling video signal time-base correctors A video recording system employs an editing device to communicate schedules of instructions to a videotape recorder control system which, in turn, communicates selected ones of the instructions from the schedules to a time-base corrector so that the time-... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4750050 | Editing system and method An editing system and method for editing, which may include two or more video signal sources, a storage and retrieval device, color correction circuits, and equipment for combining video signals. Two or more sets of color correction values may be stored i... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4724491 | Inserting television advertising spots automatically A downlink dish receives television signals from a remote location transmitted by satellite. Satellite receivers demodulate these received signals and normally transmit them through a switch to modulators which modulate respective carrier signals to retra... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4712143 | Apparatus for monitoring a timebase compressed color video signal An apparatus for recording a color video signal in which a luminance signal and a chrominance signal are recorded on separate channels and at least two chrominance component signals are compressed in timebase and alternately arranged in turn to be recorde... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4698664 | Audio-visual monitoring system An analog data stream is monitored as a series of blocks. A ring memory array digitally stores the blocks and repetitively loads and unloads the blocks. A freeze switch disables loading of the latest blocks. A block identifier puts out a unique block iden... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4682245 | Video and audio signal recording, reproducing and editing apparatus with replacement of viewed luminance signal component during insert audio editing mode An apparatus for recording and reproducing a video signal and an audio signal which are recorded in different areas or portions of each slant track on a tape includes first and second rotary heads for recording and reproducing the video and audio signals ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4668999 | Time base equalizer and corrector (TIBEC) for video tape or disk machines in playback modes A time base video equalizer and/or corrector for video tape or disk machines including a precorrector and a postcorrector section. The device is driven by a master video source, corrected or not, and synchronization with a slave video machine is achieved ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4618895 | Video editing system A video editing system uses apparatus for connection with a video playback machine (first VCR) and a dub video recorder, (second VCR). The apparatus includes tone generator circuitry for generating an edit tone to be recorded upon an audio track of a colo... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4612569 | Video editing viewer A video editing viewer for use in editing a television signal is disclosed. A plurality of frames of the input television signal stored in a memory are repeatedly read-out and a frame picture array is displayed on a screen of a monitor. The frame picture ... | 09/16/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4496991 | Method in the editing of kinematographic picture material In a method for editing kinematographic color picture material which, when finalized, shall have the form of a color video tape, the following procedural steps are carried out. The original picture material, which may either have the form of a color film ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4468693 | Video printing apparatus A video printing apparatus for forming color separation films and a color film recording an image of a video signal of a desired frame is disclosed. The video signal is once recorded on a 1" video tape together with time codes denoting respective frames. ... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4357624 | Interactive video production system An improved interactive image processing system (200,300) is provided which is capable of simultaneous processing of at least two different digitized composite color images to provide a displayable resultant composite color image. Each of the digitized co... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4305131 | Dialog between TV movies and human viewers A video amusement system by which one or more viewers influence the course of a motion picture as if each viewer were a participant in a real-life drama or dialog. A speech-recognition unit recognizes a few spoken words such as "yes" and "run" spoken by a... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4283735 | Method and apparatus for selectively deleting during video tape recording A technique is provided for deleting those portions of a video program which are in color, thereby allowing a monochrome movie or the like to be continuously recorded on video tape without interruption. Since station breaks and commercials are almost inva... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4172264 | Control arrangement for video synchronizers A video control arrangement for a synchronizer includes a joystick for moving the T.V. picture in at least one plane to a first selected position. A memory arrangement receives and holds information on the location of the first preselected position which ... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4152719 | Video picture compression A video compressor including an analogue to digital converter for sampling an incoming video signal, a store for holding the sampled signal and a digital to analogue converter for reconverting the stored signal into analogue form. A processor is provided ... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4052733 | PAL four-frame subcarrier phase detector Apparatus for digitally processing a composite video signal recorded in PAL format for producing a continuous waveform at a four-line rate indicates at any four-frame reference time if the polarity of the subcarrier is in phase with a reference or inverte... | 10/04/1977 |
| 3959818 | Servo for video tape apparatus with editing capabilities Video tape recording apparatus with means for editing the recorded material without significant sudden change in current to the capstan motor. During recording of the added or replacement material the capstan motor is controlled by comparing the phase of ... | 05/25/1976 |
