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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7643723 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method In an image processing apparatus, when a plurality of items of moving-image data, modified data obtained by modifying the plurality of items of moving-image data, and presentation-description data which indicates the presentation order of the plurality of items of m... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639920 | Recorder A recording apparatus which executes an effect process on a moving image signal and records it on a recording medium. The recording apparatus produces a representative image signal of the moving image signal recorded in the recording medium by using a portion of the... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7627225 | Image capturing device and image capturing method An image capturing device includes an image capturer, operable to perform a first image capturing of an object image so as to generate first image data corresponding to a first time period shorter than a predetermined time period, and operable to perform a second im... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623754 | Motion picture recording device using digital, computer-readable non-linear media A digital media recorder including a video camera digitizing circuitry and a digital computer readable and writable random access medium, such as magnetic or optical disk, in which sequences of digital still images are stored directly on the recording medium. Audio ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620292 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus that is capable of applying a special effect process to a moving picture signal reproduced from a recording medium is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus is configured to set an execution time of the special effect process shorter than or eq... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613380 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium The present invention comprises an input part for inputting image data, a receiving part for receiving production information relating to production transmitted from another apparatus, a recording part for recording the production information received by the receivi... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609938 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, and editing method The present invention provides a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing any of video data, audio data, and realtime metadata corresponding to any of the video data and the audio data by use of a random-accessible recording medium. The reco... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606462 | Video processing device and method for producing digest video data The video processing device calculates evaluation levels of frame images in video data. Scene evaluation levels are then calculated from the frame evaluation levels in each scene. The playback times for the digest video of each scene are determined from the scene ev... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596296 | System and method for dynamic media reproduction A system and related techniques integrate the accessing, retrieving and playback of enhanced music or other digital media or content, including to permit advanced authoring, mixing and environmental inputs and effects. According to embodiments of the invention in on... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7590329 | Recording apparatus, editor terminal apparatus, recording medium, and video content editing support system and method using them A video content editing support system is disclosed which is made up of a recording apparatus for recording captured video content data to a recording medium, and an editor terminal apparatus for displaying the video content data supplied from the recording apparatu... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587122 | Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses In the data structure for managing reproduction of graphic information, first graphic information is stored multiplexed with main data in a first clip file and second graphic information is stored in a second clip file separate from the first clip file. ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7574101 | Image editing apparatus, method, and program An editing condition input screen of an image editing program is provided with a selecting button for selecting a basic scenario of a photo movie and a still image to be a material and is also provided with each button for performing priority designation for the ima... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574102 | Methods and apparatus for editing digital video recordings, and recordings made by such methods Various methods are disclosed for producing an edited MPEG audio/video stream from first and second streams recorded in a transport-stream format normally intended for broadcast purposes. According to one implementation, a bridge sequence is generated which recodes ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565059 | Dynamic variation of output media signal in response to input media signal A first input signal, which has a first playback sequence, is resequenced based upon a characteristic of a second input signal. The resequencing occurs analyzing the characteristic in the second input signal, and modifying the first playback sequence of the first in... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7565058 | File recording apparatus and editing method for video effect The present invention is directed to a video Effect editing method of automatically preparing/editing Movie Atom having Effect track by an instruction such that user pushes down a button for a time period during which he desires to implement Effect during Movie reco... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558465 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method, recording medium, and program An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed by which an encoder having no reference picture inputting function can be used to edit compressed image data of the Open GOP structure. First and second non-compressed image signals each obtained by decodin... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558464 | Data editing apparatus, data editing method and data recording/reproducing apparatus Provided are a data editing apparatus, a data editing method and a data recording/reproducing apparatus which can easily reedit edited data recorded on a nonlinear-accessible recording medium. When a start point (IN point) or an end point (OUT point) of partial data... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7532802 | Apparatus and program for image reproduction Image data sets obtained by photography can be reproduced without consideration of image sources that store the image data sets. Image storage devices are connected to an image reproduction apparatus, and image data sets that have been recorded serially are read fro... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529464 | Method for implementing an adaptive mixing energy ratio in a music-selected video editing environment A method for implementing an adaptive mixing energy ratio between at least two soundtracks of video footage in a video image-editing environment is disclosed, the process being transparent to a user beyond a single step of initiation. The method includes applying at... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529463 | Speculative recording device In a speculative recording device, a profile extracting unit extracts a user profile which indicates a preference of a user in viewing programs based on an operation by the user, and a program list managing unit acquires attributes of a program. Moreover, a speculat... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526182 | Editing apparatus and editing method An editing apparatus which edits first stream data of a first format by analyzing a header of the first stream data, creating a header of second stream data of a second format based on the analysis of the header of the first stream data, and converting the first str... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522814 | Information recording medium, recording apparatus, editing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, editing method, and reproduction method An information recording medium is for recording of information, and identification information indicating whether the information is an album content distributed by electronic distribution or information edited by a user. ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519264 | Broadcast program contents menu creation apparatus and method It is determined whether the broadcast program of the stored video signal is a broadcast program of a predetermined genre. A predetermined feature image portion of each of frames in the video signal of the broadcast program of the predetermined genre is detected fro... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519265 | Method and apparatus for making archival copies of audiovisual recordings Recorded audiovisual programs are aggregated for archival storage on another storage medium, such as a DVD. As related programs are temporarily recorded on a DVR, the lengths of the programs are summed and compared to the recording capacity of the DVD. When a suffic... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515811 | Method of maintaining edit summary information on a rewritable storage medium The present method of maintaining edit summary information on a rewritable storage medium maintains edit summary information (TableOfFastEditInfo) about real play list files, virtual play list files, and clip information files recorded on a rewritable storage medium... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512313 | System and method for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording A method and system for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording are described. The method involves determining a beginning time stamp for an edit segment in a digital recording and an ending time stamp for the edit segment in the digital recording.... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512314 | Recording/editing apparatus, recording/editing method, computer program product, and server for editing record contents A recording/editing apparatus is provided with an operation inputting device. A user uses this operation inputting device to input record-reservation information, a delete condition to delete record contents from a storage medium, or the like. Moreover, the recordin... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505671 | Recording/reproduction apparatus, system and program which reproduces a section of a recorded program based on a keyword relating to the section and a reproduction speed corresponding to the keyword Program data included in a digital television broadcast received from a broadcast station is recorded. A program keyword list that has stored keywords on program sections of the program data corresponding to broadcast time zones is received from a service company's ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7486871 | Time shifting by concurrently recording and playing a data stream A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being re... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486872 | Information editing apparatus and information reproducing apparatus An information editing apparatus for editing a reproduction manner of record information which is recorded on an information storage medium and includes at least one picture information, includes: a selecting unit for selecting a partial record information from the ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483618 | Automatic editing of a visual recording to eliminate content of unacceptably low quality and/or very little or no interest A visual recording can be automatically edited in a manner that creates a summary of the visual recording in which only content that is of unacceptably low quality and/or very little or no interest is eliminated, thereby enabling the original unsummarized visual rec... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480442 | Systems and methods for generating multi-level hypervideo summaries A hypervideo summary comprised of multiple levels of related content and appropriate navigational links can be automatically generated from a media file such as a linear video. A number of algorithms and selection criteria can be used to modify how such a summary is... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7471871 | Index validation system and method An index validation system comprises a processor and a validator accessible by the processor. The validator is adapted to access index data corresponding to video data and validate the index data after editing of the video data. ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469093 | Data processing apparatus for processing playback description data An apparatus for processing information data and playback description data indicating a playback procedure of the information data newly generates modified information data by using part of the information data, modifies the playback procedure such that the modified... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460762 | Automatic selection, recording and meaningful labeling of clipped tracks from broadcast media without an advance schedule Automatic selection, recording and meaningful labeling of tracks from broadcast media streams is provided. Content information which relates to tracks currently being played and/or to previously played tracks is used to guide selection of tracks to be recorded and t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457515 | Digital data distribution system A method of and apparatus for recording selected AV (Audio/Video) data from a first data store (106) to an AVDDM (Audio/Video Distributable Data Medium) (102) is described. The method comprises reading a portion (104, 112, 122) of the selected A... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440675 | AV information reproducing system and a reproducing method applied to the same system In a system for reproducing AV information from a recording medium, such as a DVD, not only are usual titles reproduced, but also related information relevant to specific stream information is acquired easily by making use of resources on a computer network. In a re... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433577 | Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least one television broadcast program. The apparatus pre-stores a period ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433574 | Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit contained in the stream data coincide with the heads of access units ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424201 | Method for field-programming a solid-state memory device with a digital media file The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method for field-programming a solid-state memory device with a digital media file. In one preferred embodiment, a solid-state memory device is provided that comprises a memory array comprising a plurality of fiel... | 09/09/2008 |
