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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7073128 | Video browser data magnifier A method of conceptually magnifying video browser data, the data being organised hierarchically in one or more levels (304, 312) is disclosed. The method comprises firstly selecting a parent level (304), the parent level selection making visible a firs... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068921 | Method of arranging divided recording area segments of recording medium in broadcast receiving system A method of arranging divided recording area segments of a recording medium in a broadcast receiving system having a random access storage device. In the method, a circular buffer area is disposed in a first predetermined position of the recording medium, for record... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065287 | Apparatus, method and database for control of audio/video equipment Control of audio/video equipment is provided by an apparatus constructed like a computer, with audio and video subsystems. The audio subsystem includes a programmable analog mixer and several analog and digital multiplexers to route and mix multiple inputs to multip... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065288 | System and method of patching missing digital video packets communicated in an IEEE 1394 compliant implementation The present invention is a system and method that facilitates the reduction of presentation glitches in a digital video system. The present invention is a system and method that automatically determines if digital video (DV) data is missing from a stream of DV infor... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062151 | Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium An IRD (Integrated Receiver-Decoder) causes SmartFile information of a D-VHS (Digital-Video Home System) to be read so as to operate the D-VHS on the basis of the SmartFile information. The IRD instructs the D-VHS to record a program, extracts content information an... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062713 | Displaying control points over a timeline On a display monitor (102) the first region is displayed representing a first timeline (601) showing transitions between a first set of image clips. A second region is displayed representing a second timeline (602) showing transitions between a ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061837 | Digital-audio-signal recording apparatus Audio data are read out, via an ATAPI interface, from an audio CD set in a CD drive. Thus, even where an inexpensive low-speed CPU is used, high-speed copying can be performed. When audio data stored on a hard disk are to be reproduced, and if copying authorization/... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058288 | Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A v... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057993 | Copy protection using multiple security levels on a programmable CD-ROM A copy-protected optical disc, including a preformed identification number (ID) in the ATIP signal and the subcode which is impressed upon the optical disc and a number of other optical discs during optical disc manufacture, a unique identification number for the op... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058282 | Data recording/reproduction apparatus with built-in camera and data recording/reproduction method The present invention provides index information that can be handled with ease. Microcomputer 7 reads out the video data recorded in video cassette 100 on the basis of the recording information on-the video data and generates index-related images on th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058770 | Method and apparatus for controlling the recording of digital information, by using unit management table A recording area of a hard disk is managed by units. Each unit comprises physically continuous recording regions having predetermined size, and usage status of the unit is stored in an allocation unit (AU) management table. Data requiring a real time processing is s... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058901 | Methods and apparatus for controlling the display of medical images A navigation rectangle controls display of medical images in a multi-display system. Multiple thumbnail sized medical images are displayed on a control panel. Each navigation rectangle encompasses one or more thumbnail size medical images on the control panel. In tu... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054539 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus for reproducing a recorded digital data stream can detect a time information or emergency news object contained in the recorded digital data stream, and inhibit display of the time information or emergency news which is insignificant in... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7054541 | Editing of digital video information signals The invention relates to editing of video information signals recorded on a record carrier, such as an optical record carrier are edited in an internal memory of the edit apparatus. Editing results in an edited stream of information, which includes a bridging fragme... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054546 | Data multiplexing method, data recorded medium, data recording apparatus and data recording program To ensure seamless reproduction of video data and audio data even when the video data and audio data are edited video object unit by video object unit in multiplexing of the video data and audio data, a playback time of the video data is compared with that of the au... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054542 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus having a data transfer device selectively transferring data between multiple data recording and reproducing devices A data recording and reproducing apparatus which can easily perform the editing of audio and/or visual data even at the camera site. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, a VTR portion and an MO disc portion are integrally constituted. Audio and/or visual... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053927 | System for optimizing the display and rendering of digital images for digital mastering A digital mastering system for processing digital image signals originating from scanned motion picture film includes a film scanner for scanning motion picture film and generating a stream of digital image signals corresponding to motion picture images, a color gra... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054481 | Automatic person meta-data labeller A method 214 of identifying an object in a target image is disclosed, the method comprising steps of selecting 400 a part of the object having a distinctive color, searching 702 the target image for said part, and tagging 704 the target i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055100 | Editing system, editing method, clip management apparatus, and clip management method An editing system for producing a resultant clip from a plurality of clips. Information indicating relations between the clips is stored and managed in a database according to a hierarchical structure. The content of a first resultant clip can be updated at any time... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055166 | Apparatus and methods for broadcast monitoring Disclosed herein are systems and methods for editing the content of a broadcast programming signal to provide a proprietary program signal that has been tailored to the preferences of an individual monitoring the broadcast programming signal. Accordingly, the system... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050110 | Method and system for generating annotations video A method and system for processing video signals is disclosed. The system receives a video signal, a first audio signal containing an annotation and a second audio signal containing environmental sounds corresponding to the video signal. In one embodiment the system... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050453 | Method and apparatus for ensuring compatibility on a high performance serial bus A data communications system is disclosed having at least one Legacy cloud coupled to at least one Beta cloud. The system further having at least one BOSS node and at least one border node. A method for ensuring compatibility is disclosed comprising determining when... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046909 | System and method for identifying inconsistencies in duplicate digital videos A system for checking the consistency between a digital video master and a duplicate video. Both the digital video master and the duplicate digital video have digital data, the digital data composed of a plurality of data segments. A loader module receives the digit... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046911 | System and method for reduced playback of recorded video based on video segment priority There is disclosed a video playback device for playing back a recorded television program in time-compressed mode on a display screen coupled to the video playback device. The video playback device comprises: 1) a disk storage system for storing the recorded televis... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046251 | Editing system with router for connection to HDTV circuitry A non-linear editor is connected to video processing equipment through a serial digital video interface to edit high definition (HD) television video data. The non-linear editor includes a randomly accessible, computer-readable and re-writeable storage medium that s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047298 | Alarm server systems, apparatus, and processes A system and method to manage a network by monitoring an interface of the network. The system comprises a poller, a server, and a database. The poller checks the interface through a poller query message to the interface. Upon suspected failure, the poller sends an a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043075 | Computer vision system and method employing hierarchical object classification scheme A method and apparatus are disclosed for classifying objects using a hierarchical object classification scheme. The hierarchical object classification scheme provides candidate classes with an increasing degree of specificity as the hierarchy is traversed from the r... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043136 | Program length extending or shortening device and method, and program length adjusting system A program length extending or shortening device for extending or shortening the program length in a digital video tape recorder of the image information compression recording method. The device comprises storage means for storing an image of a material video program... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043484 | System and method for producing storage media images A system for producing custom media images, the system including a media server which includes a title database and a creation server connected to the media server, the title database containing a plurality of title records, each title record including a title descr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043584 | Interrupt prioritization in a digital disk apparatus In an digital video disk player the timely acquisition of specific data types is particularly important during trick mode operation. During trick modes a controller can provide enhanced control capability by employing interrupt requests having priorities that differ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039913 | Optical disc, method of writing to an optical disc, and method of reading from an optical disc An ID information, user data, and a control information are disposed each in one block, and coded for error correction. The user data and control information are disposed in an ECC block 1, while the ID information is disposed in an ECC block 2. The EC... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035527 | Method of sharing a memory between a browser mode and a video mode to reduce memory usage in a video system The present invention provides a method and system for switching between browser and video modes in a standalone VCD-ROM system including a VCD player and a VCD-ROM disk. A browser program is first executed in the VCD-ROM system. The browser program allows a user to... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034791 | Digital video display employing minimal visual conveyance Select areas and specific pixels of a digital video display screen may be updated at video frame rate while other areas or pixels are not updated at video frame rate. Further, select pixels may be updated more than once within the normal update timing of a single vi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034862 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A sequence of electronically captured images are converted into modified images providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system, where the film reproduction system is of the type that includes a motion picture negative film printed onto a m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032182 | Graphical user interface adapted to allow scene content annotation of groups of pictures in a picture database to promote efficient database browsing A graphical user interface (GUI) allows a picture database user to enter metadata serving to annotate digital pictures to promote efficient picture database browsing. The annotation is permitted, not just for individual pictures, but for groups of pictures. The anno... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031594 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for detecting and displaying audio signal levels of input and output and ports A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031593 | Video tape recorder In a video tape recorder, a digital AV signal which is A/D-converted by an A/D converting section 12 is separated into a video signal and an audio signal by an audio-video separating section 131. In response to a selection operation on an operating sec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031237 | Discontinuous position detecting device and method for detecting a discontinuous position A discontinuous position detecting device for detecting a discontinuous position at which date and time information indicative of date and time of recording on a recording medium is discontinuous, the discontinuous position detecting unit including, a scanning unit ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028325 | Annotating programs for automatic summary generation Audio/video programming content is made available to a receiver from a content provider, and meta data is made available to the receiver from a meta data provider. The meta data corresponds to the programming content, and identifies, for each of multiple portions of... | 04/11/2006 |
