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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6236802 | Editing apparatus and editing method An editing apparatus or method, when applied in particular to a simple editing system using an information processing apparatus, such as a personal computer, makes possible execution of various aspects of editing in a simple configuration. Only partial vi... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236801 | Video replay automation with manual control track editing A video recording and playback device has a control track recorder for recording a control track signal including timing edges recorded on a tape or other storage medium together with the video program. A decoder is coupled to the control track signal and... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6229576 | 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 me... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226038 | HDTV editing and effects previsualization using SDTV devices A system provides real-time previsualization of effects to be added to high definition (HD) video data and real-time rendering of the HD video data including the added effects. The computer based system for editing high definition television (HDTV) resolu... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219043 | Method and system to replace sections of an encoded video bitstream A method and system in which a section of a previously encoded digital bit stream is replaced with another section of encoded video. In order to remove a section of encoded video, it is necessary to determine the beginning and ending points of the encoded... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6215949 | Picture processor and picture editing system A time-divided multi-task image processing apparatus conducts each task in a time slice. This image processing apparatus correlates a first identification code to the picture information sequentially input and stores it in memory means for a specified per... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6201924 | Disk-assisted editing for recorded video material A disk-assisted system for editing video tapes. Source material from video tapes is logged onto random access storage such as a hard disk drive using of a Macintosh-based computer system. At any one time, only a small portion of the tape material is store... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6201925 | Method and apparatus for editing video files A method for copying a segment from a video file having a multiplicity of video frames, where at least some of the frames are encoded as predicted frames. The method includes the steps of selecting a mark-in location in the video file such that the mark-i... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6192184 | Picture print generating method and system, and recording medium When a picture print is generated by editing a picture image recorded on a film, the print in accordance with a customer's requirements is generated by simple operations and at a low cost. Low resolution image data of a picture image read from a film are ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6192183 | Video editing scheme using icons directly obtained from coded video data A video editing scheme for enabling a video editing operation on the coded video data efficiently. In a system in which the coded video data are decoded and displayed on a video display device, events including scene changes are detected from the coded vi... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188830 | Audiovisual effects processing method and apparatus for instantaneous storage-based playback of audio data in synchronization with video data The present invention overcomes the serious practical limitations inherent in presently-existing RAM-based audiovisual effects processing systems for essentially instantaneous playback of data. The method of the invention divides individual audio effects ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185369 | Apparatus and method for synchronously reproducing multi-angle data An apparatus for synchronously reproducing compressed and multiplexed data for multi-angle reproduction. The apparatus for synchronously reproducing multi-angle data includes a plurality of reproducers to receive a data stream in which multi-angle data is... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6169841 | Data bank apparatus and method of a video recording and reproducing system A data bank apparatus and method for use in a video recording and reproducing system are disclosed. The apparatus includes scanning devices for scanning two recording media install to and drive a video recording medium and an additional data recording med... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6169840 | Image-modification methods Methods for recording, reproducing, modifying, and displaying image information. An electro-optical scanner, such as a camera, scans an image field and generates signals that vary in accordance with variations in the optical characteristics of the matter ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167187 | Speed controlling circuit of dubbing recorder and dubbing equipment using the speed controlling circuit A speed control circuit for a dubbing recorder includes a demodulation circuit which receives a video signal for dubbing from a master VTR, a sync separation circuit to separate a sync signal from the output signal of the demodulation circuit, a detection... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6160951 | Information recording medium and information reproducing apparatus A recording apparatus for recording record information onto a record medium to be reproduced by a reproducing apparatus, is provided with: a process device for dividing the record information into a plurality of partial record informations on the basis of... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154601 | Method for editing image information with aid of computer and editing system There is provided an editing method and an editing system for conducting editing processing on a video information material containing sound information and moving picture information with the aid of a computer. Information of the video information materi... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6154600 | Media editor for non-linear editing system A non-linear editing system for home audio and video applications includes a compression/decompression engine, a high capacity storage device and a media editor that provides point and click audio and video editing functionality, including recording, play... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6151444 | Motion picture including within a duplication of frames A video disc and a motion picture playing method comprising retrieving segment information of a motion picture, the motion picture including within a duplication of frames, at least one overlapping segment, and/or a segment that is congruent in at least o... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148031 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method for inputting image data and coding the image data using inter-frame correlation in which image data of a desired frame out of the image data input is intra-frame coded. The image processing apparatus includes an i... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144797 | Intelligent video information management system performing multiple functions in parallel In an intelligent video information management (IVIM) system, a first sequence of dynamic video images is generated by a first video camera on a first occasion and is recorded on a hard disk. The same camera, or a different camera, generates a second sequ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6144798 | Method of and apparatus for editing information recorded on magnetic tape An editing apparatus of relatively small size for editing material information highly efficiently and accurately with simplified processing capabilities has a plurality of tape transports, a selector for selecting input and output paths for the tape trans... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141484 | Method of and apparatus for editing video signals using a temporary recording medium An editing method and an editing system can considerably improve an efficiency for editing. This editing system includes a reproducing-side VCR (2), a temporary recording medium (3), a DME (5), an audio mixer (6), a recording-side VCR (8) and an editing c... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137944 | Image recording/reproducing apparatus An apparatus having two or more digital video tape recorders provides high-quality digital data copying. The apparatus comprises a first digital video tape recorder; a second digital video tape recorder; a transfer unit which receives data on a first data... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137946 | Picture editing apparatus and method using virtual buffer estimation A bit stream C is composed in editing work at a high processing speed wherein at least a portion of a bit stream A resulting from MPEG encoding is concatenated with at least a portion of a bit stream B also resulting from MPEG encoding. The amount of data... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137945 | Apparatus and method for editing recorded material A method and apparatus for editing recorded audio and/or video material, in which temporally successive material clips of a edited output material sequence are represented by corresponding clip icons on a display screen displayed in a display order corres... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6134380 | Editing apparatus with display of prescribed information on registered material An editing apparatus with a display for displaying predetermined information relating to registered materials to be edited and moreover, out of prescribed information relating to registered material to be edited, displaying some or the whole of the inform... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134378 | Video signal processing device that facilitates editing by producing control information from detected video signal information In the video signal processing device which records video signal (D60) as the material by the predetermined recording reproducing means (64) and conducts the desired editing processing upon reading out the video signal recorded in said recording reproduci... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6124999 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing digital information to/from a memory device Apparatus for recording/reproducing digital information to/from a memory device is for use with a memory device which has plural memories at least one of which stores digital information corresponding to information stored in at least one other of the plu... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6118920 | Image signal recording device An image signal recording device comprises a remaining amount detecting processor which detects a remaining amount of a memory card, which is recordable. When the remaining amount is greater than a recording capacity, which is necessary for recording an i... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6104441 | System for editing compressed image sequences This disclosure provides for an image editing system that permits manipulation of compressed image formats without full decompression to the image domain. In particular, an editor manipulates discrete cosine transform ("DCT") coefficients for a dependent ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6100941 | Apparatus and method for locating a commercial disposed within a video data stream A commercial detection apparatus includes a frame grab thread which acquires frames from an input data stream to be analyzed by a cut detector thread and a filter thread. A commercial detection thread determines whether a commercial has occurred from data... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6094522 | Video data recording and reproduction apparatus having a plurality of input/output control devices A video data recording and reproduction apparatus in which a plurality of input/output control circuits input and output video data between the recording and reproducing apparatus and external apparatus based on a control signal received from an external ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6085019 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing video data to and from a record medium Apparatus and corresponding method for recording and reproducing video data to and from a record medium operate to communicate with plural external devices. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes plural audio/video data input/output devices each of ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6075916 | Image recording and reproduction apparatus and interface circuit for use in such an apparatus The invention has an object to provide a digital VCR with a packet communication interface to a packet communication bus, which VCR can be used for reproduction, recording and editing in which image signals from two or more reproduction VCRs are mixed. A ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6064793 | Reproducing apparatus having editing function A reproducing apparatus having an editing function of performing editing by using another apparatus is arranged to, during the editing actions, output an information image signal indicating the status of progress of editing actions to the other apparatus ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6058236 | System and method for digitally capturing video segments from a video assist of a film camera The invention disclosed herein is a media recorder for recording live and prerecorded analog audio and/or video information. It is capable of receiving, digitizing, and storing analog audio and/or video information in real time. The invention detects disc... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6052508 | User interface for managing track assignment for portable digital moving picture recording and editing system Editing interfaces for a moving picture recording device that includes a random-access, computer-readable and writable storage medium to provide non-linear access to recorded clips. The device provides digital capture of both video and audio information. ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6052241 | Method and apparatus for minimizing erasure errors during information recording/reproducing An information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information signals on a recording medium as a track pattern having two tracks adjacent to each other, and for reproducing the information signals recorded on the recording medium. The apparatus... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6047099 | Video recording and reproducing device In order to easily conduct channel switching and inter-channel mixing at the time of editorial operation without connecting an external device for channel switching or inter-channel mixing, the lap top type video recording and reproducing device includes ... | 04/04/2000 |
