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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7423662 | Method and system for electronic capture of user-selected segments of a broadcast data signal A personal video recorder (PVR) includes a “bookmark” feature with which a user can specify and capture segments of an audiovisual program, for example, a television broadcast, that contain information or content that the user wishes to record for later access. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421187 | Reproducing apparatus and superimposing method In an AV server system, it is facilitated to grasp the entire structure of an AV server and determine which position a failed resource assumes in the entire AV server. On the basis of a file which describes resources of the AV server, resources forming the AV server... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421188 | Information edition device, information edition method, information edition program, and information recording medium An information editing apparatus is provided which can prevent a thumbnail image, which shows the contents of recorded information recorded on an information recording medium, from being accidentally changed by a misoperation of the user. The information edit... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421189 | Data recording device, data recording method, data editing device, and data editing method An original coded stream reproduced from a magnetic tape is decoded by an MPEG decoder, and original video data of a base band is thus generated. A switching circuit generates edited video data by switching the original video data and supplied insertion video data o... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421192 | Recording/reproducing apparatus, transmitting apparatus and transmitting method Disclosed are an image recording/reproducing apparatus and a transmitting method which are user-friendly when transmitting image data recorded on a medium to an external device. Reproduction path information for transmitting image data edited by a user is recorded o... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418190 | Accelerated access to frames from a compressed digital video stream without keyframes A digital video recorder stores digital video streams having sequences of encoded frames that are predominantly non-keyframes. The digital video recorder synthesizes keyframes for the digital video stream by decoding the frames in sequence and occasionally capturing... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418189 | Method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals The present invention pertains to an apparatus for manipulating video or audio signals. The apparatus includes a mechanism for analyzing a video or audio signal having a size. The apparatus includes a mechanism for producing a representative signal from and correspo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415189 | Auto title frames generation method and apparatus A method and apparatus that provides a user a capability to create a title frame for recording when the user records a broadcasted program onto a recording device, using program data received from the broadcasted television transmission. The transmitted program data... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412153 | Information recording device and method, and information recording system In recording information, an SMPTE 339M-defined UMID buried in video and audio material signals to be recorded to a magnetic tape (30) or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals, is written to a contactless memory tag (37), wh... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7400818 | Recording apparatus having a pause mode in which video signals are written to memory by cyclically designating write addresses A recording apparatus reads and stores video signals on a recording medium. The recording apparatus has a recording mode and a recording pause mode. In the recording mode, the video signals are stored in a memory, and the video signals read from the memory are recor... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398006 | Disc access processor processing a result of accessing a disc and method thereof Prior to recording, a difference between a disc's temporal, maximum recordable length and a temporal length having been consumed by recording data is calculated. A scale is determined to allow a length of a period of a preprogrammed recording to be relatively matche... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398004 | Software methods for authoring multimedia content to be written to optical media A computer implemented method for authoring a multimedia compact disc is provided. The method includes obtaining multimedia content from at least one source and enabling manipulation of the obtained multimedia content. The method further includes arranging the obtai... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398003 | Index data generation apparatus, index data generation method, index data generation program and recording medium on which the program is recorded This invention provides a data-recording/reproduction apparatus that creates hierarchical-structured video data for partial contents data based on telops, and that is capable of easily and accurately reproducing a summary searching for an arbitrary scene in contents... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398002 | Video editing method and device for editing a video project A video editing method for editing a video project is for user to edit video clips and transition effects. The method firstly provides a timeline and multiple tracks along the timeline. Then the video clips and transition effects are inserted into the corresponding ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391436 | Image processing apparatus with comparing of difference of camera operation information between image data of plural sections in input image data The invention provides an image processing apparatus, capable of selecting arbitrary plural sections in input image data, designating an order of reproduction of the image data of the selected plural sections, comparing the camera operation information relating to t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391958 | Editing system and method, image recording device, editing device, and recording medium To improve the efficiency of primary editing of a video tape, a shot mark as a mark at the time of primary editing is determined. With a video tape of a digital VTR format, the shot mark may be recorded onto a user's bit on a time code track. Even at the time of edi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391959 | Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs and methods and systems for processing media content Methods and systems for managing multiple inputs that are capable of competing or contending for a particular or primary output are described. In one embodiment, the multiple inputs are managed through the use of a software-implemented matrix switch object, and an a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389035 | Stream processing system with function for selectively playbacking arbitrary part of ream stream In a stream processing system, a stream partitioned by a prescribed time interval is extracted as a partial stream, from one or more real streams formed by continuous time series data, according to playback position information or timestamps of the real streams, and... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386219 | Video data recording apparatus and video data recording method A time from covering to edit or broadcast is shortened and also management and handling of materials are made simpler. Encoder 1A compresses digital video signal DVS obtained by camera into encoded data DVA of low resolution. Encoder 1B compress... | 06/10/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379655 | Information searching device, information receiver, and methods therefor By storing usage history information of a recording medium for recording information, which is obtained by using the recording medium, in storing means 13, and retrieving information that matches a user's preference from a plurality of information based on th... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379653 | Audio-video synchronization for digital systems The audio-video synchronization process ensures continuity of displayed AV data. To initialize the process, a transport processor determines whether an occupancy criterion of a buffer storing received audio and video frames has been met. If the criterion is met, the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376334 | Data recording/reproduction apparatus, method and program for real-time processing A data recording/reproduction apparatus classifies each request into any one of a real-time processing data request, a metadata request, and a non-real-time data request and accumulates each classified request. A request readout device in the apparatus sequentially ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376333 | Information storage medium including markup document and AV data, recording and reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus therefore An information storage medium including a markup document and AV data for use in a reproducing apparatus includes AV data including audio data and video data, a markup document, and scene synthesis information which describes one of at least two display modes for di... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373589 | Keyword creation method and its apparatus A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373603 | Method and system for providing data reference information Reference information related to data that is copied using computer software is provided. The data can be copied from a first computer application to a memory. Reference information related to the data can also be copied to the memory. The copied data can be pasted ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367887 | Game apparatus, storage medium, and computer program that adjust level of game difficulty A game apparatus, a storage medium and a computer program, suitable to games that can be experienced by a player using an entire body to play a game. The game apparatus comprises: a storage section for storing a predetermined assigned movement for a player; an assig... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369745 | Data recording device and method, program storage medium, and program This invention relates to a data recording apparatus, a data recording method, a program storage medium, and a program whereby data recorded on an information recording medium is edited and reproduced in a suitably controlled manner. Where an AV stream file includin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369752 | Universal multimedia optic disc player and its application for revocable copy protection The media player employs an operating system that supports a virtual machine into which auto-run playback programs may be loaded and run. The auto run playback program is stored on the media containing the program content, such as on an optical disc medium. When the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369756 | Method for decoding non-DV data stored in a DV format A method for extracting and decoding data stored in a DV format having sequential DIF blocks that include a header and a payload portion, where the stored data is not decodable under the DV format in which the data is stored. The data is sequentially extracted and d... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366407 | Method and apparatus for storing MPEG-2 transport streams using a conventional digital video recorder An apparatus for storing an MPEG-2 transport data stream with a conventional digital video (DV) recorder. The MPEG-2 transport stream data is inserted into a data block of a digital video (DV) frame. The DV frame is stored on the storage medium of the DV recorder. F... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366397 | V-Chip data processing for decoder with personal video recording functionality Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a vi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366399 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and program used therewith An information processing apparatus includes a file-time-code (FTC) sort unit and a logical block number (LBN) scheduling unit. The FTC unit sorts data items recorded on an optical disk based on the playback times of the pieces of data. The LBN scheduling unit sorts... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366816 | Method and apparatus for adaptively adjusting the bandwidth of a data transmission channel having multiple buffered paths A method and apparatus for adaptively adjusting the bandwidth of a data transmission channel having multiple buffered paths. Each output path includes a buffer for holding respective portions of the data. A value representative of at least the number of buffers that... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366240 | Decoder and method of decoding using pseudo two pass decoding and one pass encoding A method of processing video frame data includes the steps of: receiving a video frame; partially decoding the video frame; fully decoding the video frame to produce macroblocks; determining video data parameters from the partially decoded video frame or both the pa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362950 | Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of video contents A method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of video contents, wherein a user can readily move a play position to a desired scene within a brief period of time to reproduce video contents from the moved play position. The user can pause or replay a desired s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362948 | Video copying apparatus When execution of copying of video and audio from a DVD from a videotape is instructed, a video copying apparatus 1 detects the remaining amount of the videotape set in a apparatus and reproduction time of video and audio copied to the videotape and based on ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362946 | Automated visual image editing system A method of editing a video sequence comprising a series of clips, in which each clip is formed by video content captured between two points in time. Duration data associated with the duration of each clip is extracted from the sequence. The duration data is process... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362959 | Method of and device for encoding an information stream The application relates to a method of and devices for encoding an information stream (20) into a variable bit rate (VBR) encoded information stream (24). The application discloses a method of estimating the relation between the variable bit rate, the ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362947 | Device, method, and system for video editing, and computer readable recording medium having video editing program recorded thereon A variety of special effect processing is performed on video frames retrieved from a disk device 30 in effect processing stages ES1, ES2, and so on. A work memory 112B is always interposed between processing at one stage and processing at... | 04/22/2008 |
