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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305171 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing digital data, such as audio/video (A/V) data, and control method thereof A digital data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a control method thereof, In particular, the digital data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method are capable of recording and reproducing an incoming digital broadcasting program in compressed form... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303088 | Tamper-evident closure A tamper-evident closure includes a body adapted to mount on a container, a cap, and a hinge coupled to the body and to the cap. A tamper-evident tear strip is coupled to the cap to retain the cap temporarily in a fixed position relative to the body. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304650 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305170 | Information recording medium, apparatus and method for recording or reproducing data thereof An information recording medium stores information transmitted as a transport stream as objects. The management information written to the information recording medium includes object information for managing the recorded objects. The object information includes an ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302158 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method When second material data is inserted into first material data, in point and out point are set in the first material data and the second material data to generate editing processing information. On the basis of the editing processing information, there are prepared ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301568 | Cameras, other imaging devices, and methods having non-uniform image remapping using a small data-set of distortion vectors A camera has a body and an electronic capture unit mounted in the body. The electronic capture unit selectively captures and stores a scene image as a representational electronic image having a first array of pixels. A control system is mounted in the body. The cont... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295217 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295218 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295216 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295615 | System for embedding additional information in video data, and embedding method It is one object of the present invention to provide a method and system for embedding an electronic watermark directly in an MPEG stream. An intra-macroblock of an I-frame or of a P or B-frame is detected in an MPEG stream, and following the detection of an intra-m... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295752 | Video cataloger system with audio track extraction One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295755 | Method and apparatus for simplifying the access of metadata Available storage media capacity for personal video recording increases continuously. metadata can be used to organize the recordings, search for content and access specific recordings. If metadata are embedded within the multimedia content itself, like DVB specific... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295756 | Signal reproducing method and apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295768 | Recording and reproducing apparatus In a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, includes: a shuffling memory (6); a writing means for writing video data into the shuffling memory in accordance with the synchronizing signal and a write reference clock signa... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292772 | Method and apparatus for decoding and recording medium for a coded video stream A video decoder reproduces an MP@ML/MPEG-2 video bit stream at an arbitrary speed. When a slice decoder control circuit receives parameters, the slice decoder control circuit sequentially supplies parameters of a picture layer and a write pointer associated with a f... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292771 | Apparatus, method and medium for information processing An information processing apparatus and process for dealing with moving pictures. A storage stores still pictures corresponding to scene switchovers of the moving pictures, and time stamps of the scene switchovers. A display controller provides a display control to ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292574 | Automated method for mapping constant bit-rate network traffic onto a non-constant bit-rate network A constant-to-variable cache router is situated between a constant bit-rate network and a variable bit-rate network. A monitor within the variable bit-rate network measures the available bit-rate within the variable bit-rate network and communicates the available bi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289717 | Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording means which is arranged in operation t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289718 | After-recording apparatus An audio signal is compressively encoded into encoding-resultant audio data. A video signal is compressively encoded into encoding-resultant video data. An audio time stamp for audio-vide synchronous reproduction is added to every unit of the encoding-resultant audi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289564 | Video encoding method with support for editing when scene changed A video encoding method with support for editing when scene changed. The video encoding method reads and stores the pictures by the display order and detects whether the scene change occurred. The method encodes the pictures by the coding order when there are not sc... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287113 | Method of and apparatus for controlling bidirectional streams of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure An isochronous data pipe provides a bi-directional path for data between an application and a bus structure. The isochronous data pipe includes the ability to send, receive and perform manipulations on any isochronous stream of data, including data on any number of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286745 | Providing a capability to sort contents data and to maintain a current sorting mode A reproducing apparatus is disclosed, that has at least one record medium on which contents data and related information thereof are recorded, for handling the contents data and the related information, the record medium being attachable to and detachable from the r... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286132 | System and methods for using graphics hardware for real time two and three dimensional, single definition, and high definition video effects A method, system, and computer readable medium including instructions for processing single definition or high definition video data to produce an two dimensional and three dimensional effects to occur at a future time. The effects are created in a video processing ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286746 | Medium for storing audio/image information and management system thereof In a memory card having editable audio information and image information recorded therein, a music unit for audio reproduction and a cell as the reproduction unit of less than the music unit are defined. In the memory card, cell information CI having a reproduction ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287106 | Regulating real-time data capture rates to match processor-bound data consumption rates Subject matter to regulate real-time data capture rates to match processor-bounded data consumption operations is described. In one aspect, a computing device receives data from a data source at a real time rate. The data is associated with an object of a particular... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286747 | Digital video apparatus user interface A method of controlling a system for processing stored information on a storage medium includes the following steps. Stored information is played back during a play mode of operation. A user is provided an opportunity to select a bookmark representing a correspondin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284262 | Receiver/decoder and method of processing video data A method of processing video data in a receiver/decoder including at least one port (31) for receiving data and memory means (40) including a data buffer area (45A0, 45A1) for storing incoming data for display, and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284187 | Encapsulated document and format system Methods for producing and multiplexing a file format, as well as structures for a hierarchical file format and data file, are provided. The data file may include data that is divided in a hierarchical manner, including a highest level document portion that supports ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280753 | Display apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing system In a display apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus which detects the change amount in an input image and stores, as a detected image, an image during a period with a change amount equal to or more than a predetermined amount, the change log of the cha... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280738 | Method and system for specifying a selection of content segments stored in different formats A method, system and program product are described for specifying a selection of content segments stored in different formats. The invention involves receiving specification of a plurality of portions of first content stored in a first format, the specification iden... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280707 | Registration of separations Images may be registered using temporal (time-based) and spatial information. In a film implementation, because film is a sequence of frames, using information from neighboring frames may enable a temporally smoother visual experience. In addition, it may be benefic... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277098 | Apparatus and method of an improved stencil shadow volume operation The computer graphics system is configured to improve the performance of a stencil shadow volume method for rendering shadows. The apparatus and methods utilize a combination of compressed and uncompressed stencil buffers in coordination with compressed and uncompre... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274475 | Image recording and reproducing device, method and memory medium readable with computer A camera device includes an image data generation unit which generates image data corresponding to a captured image; a specific information generation unit which generates specific information relating to the image data; a recording unit which records the image data... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274479 | Method of utilizing variable data fields with a page description language A computer implemented method for generating a bitmap suitable for high-speed variable printing, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a page description language file, the page description language file defining at least one variable data area and at least one sta... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274864 | Method and device for digital video capture A method and a device of digital video capture for capturing recorded video data into a computer system. In one embodiment, the device may include a reading unit to read frames of video data, a detection unit to estimate scene changes, a determining unit to determin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272667 | Portable and dedicated compact disk read-write unit A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware for enabling functions of the drive. In a preferred embodiment the driv... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272295 | Commercial skip and chapter delineation feature on recordable media A method and apparatus for controlling an MPEG video media recording device to automatically identify and selectively skip segments of a video signal, such as commercial advertisements, during a recording session. During an MPEG video data recording session the syst... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271932 | Digital image processing apparatus, digital image processing method, digital image processing program product, and digital image printing system Digital image processing apparatus is provided with a monitor for displaying an image, a moving picture reader for reading moving picture data, a memory for storing still image data obtained from the moving picture data, a display controller for displaying on the mo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271809 | Method for using viewing time to determine affective information in an imaging system A method for determining affective information for at least one image in an imaging system includes sequentially displaying a plurality of digital images for viewing by a user; monitoring the viewing time for each of the plurality of digital images; and using the vi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271926 | Image printing apparatus, image printing system, image data processing method and memory medium An image printing apparatus, an image printing system, an image processing method and a memory medium are provided for preventing the image printing apparatus from being occupied for a long time by a single user, thereby enabling efficient utilization of the printin... | 09/18/2007 |
