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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7428023 | Remote control device with integrated display screen for controlling a digital video recorder A remote control for a digital video recorder includes an integrated display screen configured to display a list of programs. The list may be an EPG, a list of programs to be recorded, or a list of recorded programs. A user can navigate through the list to select a ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7417690 | Video processing system and video processing method A system which allows significant camera breaks to be automatically detected among a large number of camera breaks and which is suitable in retrieving or playing a digital video is realized. Using a detected result recorded in an analysis result recording unit, a ca... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411604 | Synchronization of a stereoscopic camera A method for synchronizing the recordings of two video cameras which are operated in parallel for the three-dimensional representation of an image sequence includes fading a light signal into the image area of the two cameras and simultaneously recording the light s... | 08/12/2008 |
| RE40415 | Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when the sign... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379654 | Programmable video recorder backing store for non-byte stream formats The buffer of a programmable video recorder includes a backing store having a plurality of discrete temporary files that are configured to store non-byte streamed data, such as ASF data. The data stream includes a number of data samples that are each assigned a time... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369755 | System and method for synchronizing video indexing between audio/video signal and data In the present system and method, synchronization information is inserted into specified positions of the content of a multimedia stream at the time when the contents are produced. Thus, the present invention enables a user to easily search the synchronization infor... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362954 | Recording apparatus and method, recording medium, and program When the head of a data pack that can be a start point of consecutive recording is included in an ECC (error correcting code) bank, data indicating this is set in an ECCTB (error correctly code two-B picture). When the head of a data pack that can be a start point o... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356080 | MPEG-4 encoder using H.263 multimedia chip An MPEG-4 encoder utilizing an H.263 multimedia chip. The MPEG-4 encoder includes a DC (Direct Current) predictor for predicting a DC component of the image frame encoded by an H.263 standard upon receiving a prescribed MPEG-4 quantization value, and an MPEG-4 recon... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349030 | Segment buffer loading in a deinterlacer A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and/or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion perfor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330639 | Method of playing optical recording media An optical recording medium playing apparatus and method thereof to play an optical disc includes a signal processor to process signals read from the optical disc as a reproduced signal. A timer counts a preset time from when the key is entered a first time a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7296031 | Auto playlist generator A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7260314 | Data recording medium, and data reproducing apparatus An information recording medium on which are recorded substantial data and reproduce control information for reproducing the substantial data, wherein the reproduce control information includes first reproduce control information required for reproducing the substan... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7239662 | System and method for video error concealment The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a system and method for concealing video errors. The system encodes, reorders, and packetizes video information into video data packets for transmission over a communication network such that the system conceals err... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228058 | Multiple pause recording on a rewritable disk medium A method utilizing a disk medium for implementing a second pause during the course of a previously paused program, comprising the steps of: interrupting recording to and playing back from a first pattern of interleaved segments used to implement the first pause and ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7136577 | RTP-formated media clips A transmitter (14) of audio, video, or other real-time information reads the information from a persistent store (22) in which the real-time information has been stored in the Real-time-Transport Protocol (“RTP”) format (FIG. 4). A receiver ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7116898 | DVD auto-changer capable of setting all-repeat-mode A DVD auto-changer includes a controller, and in the DVD auto-changer, an all-repeat-mode that a plurality of disks stocked are exchanged to be successively reproduced can be set. The controller determines whether the all-repeat-mode is set or not, and unconditional... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110661 | Stream data generation method and partial erase processing method Stream data has a recording data structure formed in units of stream blocks (or stream object units SOBU) which are segmented to have a predetermined data size. Data are recorded (or encoded) and partially erased (or temporarily erased) in units of the stream blocks... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106749 | System for data stream processing A method for processing a data stream including receiving a transport stream (TS), storing at least a portion of the TS, the at least a portion of the TS having a beginning and including a plurality of TS packets, determining, from among the plurality of TS packets,... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103269 | System of multiple players generating outputs of different formats from identical discs A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088779 | Method and apparatus for reducing the word length of a digital input signal and method and apparatus for recovering a digital input signal A method and signal processing apparatus for reducing the number of bits of a digital input signal (Mi), includes adding a pseudo-random noise signal (Na) to the digital input signal (Mi) to obtain an intermediate signal (Di | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085479 | Optical disc player for playing a disc in a selected format A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080312 | Data transformation for explicit transmission of control information The present invention provides a system and method for explicitly transmitting a block attribute in the data of a block. In one embodiment, a current block of data is randomized in accordance with an ID value from the current block and from at least one temporally a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072575 | System and method for synchronizing video indexing between audio/video signal and data In the present system and method, synchronization information is inserted into specified positions of the content of a multimedia stream at the time when the contents are produced. Thus, the present invention enables a user to easily search the synchronization infor... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065291 | Method of processing data packets, and video recording/playback apparatus incorporating the method In a video recording/playback apparatus, when recording a series of packets transmitted over an IEEE 1394 bus, a relative value is taken between a requested time of arrival written in a header portion and a cycle time at the time of reception, and then the requested... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062147 | Time shifting by concurrently recording and playing an audio stream A audio stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the audio stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being re... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050704 | Method for storing and retrieving digital data to/from a tape recording medium through a digital interface A method for enabling a magnetic recording medium such as a digital video cassette tape of a digital video tape recorder to be used as an auxiliary storage device of a personal computer (PC) which communicates through a digital communication line is provided. A PC r... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043145 | Method of distributing multimedia presentations in different formats on optical discs A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6972680 | Electronic device controlling apparatus and electronic device controlling method At a time of a movement made by a user viewing a television broadcast program, which is recorded on a hard disk device and read from the hard disk device to enable time shift viewing, and is reproduced at a TV set, the movement of the user is detected via a transmit... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6965980 | Multi-sequence burst accessing for SDRAM Methods and apparatus for accessing memory locations in a memory device in different orders. In one implementation, a memory device includes: a memory array, including a plurality of memory locations divided into memory pages, where each memory location has a row ad... | 11/15/2005 |
| RE38849 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information recording apparatus (SSI) is provided with: a signal process device (72) for applying a predetermined signal process to a plurality of partial record information blocks constructing whole record information (R) to thereby generate processed par... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6944226 | System and associated method for transcoding discrete cosine transform coded signals A method is provided for transcoding between video signals in two standards, DV and MPEG-2, each standard including discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed signals. The each of the signals have macroblocks containing a plurality of DCT blocks. The DCT blocks are ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934462 | Signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program For accurate scene-change detection, the amplitudes of sub-band signals subjected to the spectral decomposition are detected, and the detected amplitudes are smoothed and sampled during smoothing. Then, the amount of spectral change is determined based on the smooth... | 08/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6928234 | Picture recording apparatus and method thereof A picture recording apparatus for compression-encoding a moving picture sequence and recording the resultant data to a record medium is disclosed, that comprises an encoding unit for compression-encoding an input moving picture sequence, a recording unit for recordi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6922520 | Recording medium cartridge with memory circuit employing a hierarchical data structure A recording medium cartridge includes a memory circuit for storing information concerning signals recorded on the recording medium within the cartridge. The information is stored in the memory circuit in the form of a hierarchic data structure which includes a plura... | 07/26/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6915065 | Data processing system architecture Disclosed is a data processing system architecture, as may be employed in a digital video security system, that provides easy identification of system components such as system and video data hard drives through physical position and orientation, through color and i... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907558 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing data into and from optical disk using zigzag scan A method and apparatus are provided for recording and/or reproducing data to and from an optical recording medium. The method includes reading zigzag direction, blocks of data having a predetermined size of byte units arranged in a pre-set number of rows and columns... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907184 | Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information for identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply... | 06/14/2005 |
