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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131127 | Broadcast receiving apparatus and broadcast receiving method To store TS packet in an external memory connected via an external IF unit at the time shift reproduction time, a buffer for storage is provided at a previous stage and a buffer for reproduction is provided at a subsequent stage. When the data storage in the externa... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131128 | Audiovisual system and control method thereof In an audiovisual system in which a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player and the like are combined, another device constituting the system is automatically set to an optimal operation state according to the content recorded on an optical disc. A reproduction content ju... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7916994 | Signal processing apparatus When a stream encoded with a variable length code is output, a stream containing a syntax error and a format violation is prevented from being output. A checker checks encoding parameter for a stream that is reproduced from a magnetic tape and a stream that i... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7899302 | System for modifying the time-base of a video signal A storage device 500 includes an input 405 for receiving a digital video stream complying with a predetermined video encoding standard via a digital video communication system. The stream includes a sequence of digital video frames, a sequence of progr... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894703 | Retrieving video data via a coded surface A method of retrieving video data using a print medium, comprising the steps of: determining a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device, the print media identifier having been linked to the video data; ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889965 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus for recording information on an optical disk or for reproducing information recorded on an optical disk, wherein previews corresponding to respective titles or chapters of information recorded on an optical disk are displayed and reproduced... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889964 | Closed caption tagging system Tags are inserted into a broadcast stream. The tags contain command and control information that a receiver acts upon. For example, tags may indicate start and end points of a program segment. The receiver may skip the segment automatically or in response to the vie... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885507 | Image reproducing apparatus and method An image reproducing apparatus for selectively reproducing and outputting image data of an arbitrary angle from image data of a plurality of angles including a plurality of reproduction units, comprising: an angle position information determination section which det... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7876996 | Method and system for time-shifting video A method and system for time-shifting video. Specifically, in the method a digital input video signal is received at a processor unit, such as a video processor unit (VPU). A live feed of the digital input video signal is provided as a digital output video signal fo... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873258 | Method and apparatus for reviewing video One embodiment is a method for reviewing videos, comprising: deriving at least two video segments from unedited video footage based upon a previously determined unique saliency, each saliency associated with a corresponding one of the video segments; and displaying ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873259 | Synching a recording time of a program to the actual program broadcast time for the program A recording system receives a broadcast signal from at least one service provider. An offset controller of the recording system samples a portion of the current broadcast signal on a particular channel over a particular interval of time. The offset controller then c... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869688 | Recording apparatus The recording apparatus of the present invention: stores therein one or more recorded data pieces, each of which is created by encoding a video data piece, and one or more encoding information sets, each of which is information extracted when a different one of the ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860368 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure containing control signal An information recording medium (100) on which there are recorded: a series of content information which includes an image portion which can be a background image; button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860366 | Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of generating a priority table in a straightforward manner. JPEG 2000 data 151 inputted to a table generation section 114 is held by ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860367 | Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method A method for displaying index data corresponding to contents data recorded on a recording medium, the method comprising: retrieving the index data from the recording medium: displaying the index data retrieved from the recording medium and a plurality of media relat... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853114 | Reduced user response time during simultaneous playback and recording for recordable DVD A method and apparatus for controlling simultaneous recording and playing back of data onto a disc medium. In response to a user generated pause-resume command, the apparatus can firstly buffer in a writing buffer a plurality of video object units to be recorded ont... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853115 | File management system of image data In a system for file managing image data of an electronic camera, so long as the image data is recorded by the same image pickup apparatus, a peculiar file name which is not overlapped is generated and in order to prevent that a plurality of files of the same name e... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853117 | Information processing apparatus and method and computer program An information processing apparatus that reliably records data to predetermined recording media and stores the recorded data therein. A HDD recording control block relates recording data with identification information for identifying a DVD and records the data and ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853116 | Recording apparatus and record medium for successively reproducing movie data A recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. An encoding section encodes the data corresponding to a predetermined compressing ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848610 | Data processing system, reproduction apparatus, computer, reproduction method, program, and storage medium A data processing system comprising a computer outputting to a reproduction apparatus data required for reproduction of a reproduction point in the reproduced data when receiving as input a first command designating a reproduction point of reproduced data and output... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840112 | Gradually degrading multimedia recordings A system including a recording device in which multiple lesser quality recordings of a program, e.g., recordings at a reduced bit rate, are determined by transcoding a high quality version of the program. Since transcoded recordings are determined with respect to th... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835614 | Data recording method, data recording apparatus, and data recording medium To produce a user program externally referring to an original program and to record postrecording data to the user program, ref_counter that indicates how many times the postrecording data is referred to from a user program of the postrecording data is set (S1505... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835616 | Information presentation system An information presentation system for supporting interactions based on presentation of various pieces of information in a scene where persons face each other, the information presentation system includes: a plurality of display record media, each having a unique id... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835615 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus includes an encoder and a processor. The encoder generates reproduction units each including I/B/P picture data, and information indicating reproduction time to reproduce each of the pictures to generate a data stream. The processor gener... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831127 | Combining video material and data A method of combining data with other material comprises the step of repetitively distributing the data in the other material. The data is for example metadata associated with the other material. The other material may be one or more of video, audio and data materia... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831128 | Video and audio recording apparatus A video and audio recording apparatus including: a plurality of tuner units each of which receives commercial broadcasting to output video and audio signals; a distributor that distributes high-frequency signals input to an input terminal from the outside of an appa... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826708 | System and method for automatically customizing a buffered media stream A “media stream customizer” customizes buffered media streams by inserting one or more media objects into the stream to maintain an approximate buffer level. Specifically, when media objects such as songs, jingles, advertisements, etc., are deleted from the buff... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817897 | Method for recording AV data, AV data recording apparatus, data recording medium, program and program recording medium An original stream file and an after-recording data file are managed as different files. In the original stream file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CU) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. Likewise, in the after-recording data file, data i... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817898 | Hard disk recorder An HDD recorder connected to a DV camcorder via an IEEE 1394 serial bus cable comprises hard disks and a microprocessor having a function that when the HDD recorder is connected to the DV camcorder while a list display screen with a list of various recorded video fi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813617 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method A data recording/reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a temporary storage unit for storing a data stream including a plurality of data units, which is divided into M (M is a natural number) segments that stores the plur... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809238 | After-recording method and apparatus for digital recording medium and reproduction method and apparatus for the digital recording medium An after recording method comprising a first step of reading the original data including at least a video bit stream from a digital recording medium (1), a second step of decoding the original data, a third step of encoding audio data in synchronism with the ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809239 | Electric appliance system having selectable user interfaces and method for controlling the same In an electric appliance system, an electric appliance for performing designated functions and first and second remote controllers are included. The first remote controller is optionally triggered for controlling a first group of the designated functions, and the se... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805051 | System and methodology for utilizing a portable media player A low-cost portable digital video player receives proprietary compressed data from a source such as a personal video recorder (PVR), and displays the data on an integral display. A rewritable non-volatile memory of the player stores the data and a media decoder of t... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805050 | Mobile video entertainment system A mobile video system comprising a video player having a hinge and a display pivotally attached on the hinge. The video player and the display are contained by a bag which is preferably suspended from and fastened to seats with adjustable straps for viewing by a use... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801409 | Glitch-free realtime playback Described herein is a technology for facilitating playback of video segments (with transforms applied therein) which can be both glitch-free and realtime. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801408 | Apparatus and method for converting operation mode in image display compound device An operation-mode conversion apparatus for an image display compound device includes: a power-state detector which detects a power state of the compound device; an operation-mode determination unit which determines a present operation mode of the compound device; an... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792410 | Playback diagnostics A request is received to create a program event to record a program from a broadcast start time through a broadcast end time on a broadcast channel. The program event is created to record the program in a recording for a playback of the program from the recording. U... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792409 | Information processing apparatus and control method therefor The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, comprising: a video recording unit for video recording a received broadcast program; a video recording indicator light for indicating visually whether the video recording is in progress or not; and ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787741 | Prioritized content recording and storage management A storage management system selectively reduces a quality level of previously stored content. When storage in the system is becoming full, selected content is converted to a lower quality or lower storage size, based at least one of priority or age. Such conversion ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787742 | Compact optical permanent read-only recording discs with read-write sections enabling users to write data to personalize the discs to the users' needs A consumer is provided with an implementation to personalize his compact optical recording discs. A compact optical recording disc comprising a primary section including a read-only permanent digital data recording, and an ancillary read-write section enabling a use... | 08/31/2010 |
