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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7181124 | Methods, systems and data structures for timecoding media samples Timecoding systems, methods and data structures are described which, in some embodiments, permit a true time to be ascertained from media samples whose timecodes contain an amount of drift which can arise from having non-integer frame rates. Inventive methods incorp... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177531 | Record and playback apparatus and record medium The present invention provides a record and playback apparatus including: a quantitative display unit of visually quantitative displaying a record time of a record-completed image recorded in the storage medium and the remaining recordable time; a record indicator c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178087 | Read-only record carrier with recordable area in subcode channel A method of providing a read-only record carrier on which user data can be recorded at predetermined recordable positions of subcode frames of a subcode channel after mastering of said record carrier, includes the steps of setting the subcode symbols at said predete... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177522 | System and method for personal video recording A system and method for personal video recording (PVR) is provided for recording digitally encoded streams, and for playing back and decoding the recorded streams. The PVR system may receive the digitally encoded streams from a digital cable box or a network server.... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177857 | Apparatus and method for creating distribution content A distribution content provided with conditions that are only effective to part of a content body is created. On a time axis, a section of a content body is specified. Management data is then created which indicates use conditions that are only effective to the spec... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177520 | System and method of timecode repair and synchronization in MPEG streams A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for processing a previously encoded MPEG video high-resolution (HR) file and corresponding proxy file, for frame accurate timecode repair and synchronization of individual video frames of the HR and proxy fi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174084 | Method and apparatus for performing sub-picture level splicing based on interrupts Techniques to effectuate splicing at sub-picture level. In one aspect, splicing is effectuated via an interrupt generated after each splice has occurred. The interrupt may be generated by either the hardware designated to perform splicing or other peripheral hardwar... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174083 | Systems and methods for using structured representations to index recordings of activity The systems and methods of this invention use an index and digital audio and/or video recordings of an activity to provide access to recently recorded material. For example, users initiate audio and/or video recordings. An index, e.g., an agenda, outlines the struct... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174085 | Apparatus and method of seamless switching between a live DTV decoding and a PVR playback Methods and apparatus for switching between a live video decoding and a recorded playback in a digital video and recording system. A received video data stream is transmitted to a first-in first-out video decoder buffer without first looping the video data stream th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174420 | Transaction-safe FAT file system In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a process for maintaining file allocation tables (FATs) for a volume of storage medium. The process includes triggering, by a write operation, modification of data in an existing sector of a data file by writing of dat... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170566 | Family histogram based techniques for detection of commercials and other video content Techniques are disclosed for detecting commercials or other particular types of video content in a video signal. In an illustrative embodiment, color histograms are extracted from frames of the video signal. For each of at least a subset of the extracted color histo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170935 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory Frames constituting an input moving picture are extracted by a frame extraction unit, the extracted frames are compared and scene changes in the moving picture are discriminated by a scene-change discrimination unit. Scene-change information relating to specific sce... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171677 | Broadcast storing and displaying apparatus and video apparatus A broadcast storing and displaying apparatus including a network, a network management apparatus for managing the network, and plural types of video apparatuses connected to the network, wherein each of the plural types of video apparatuses transmits the state there... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167632 | Process for displaying broadcast and recorded transmissions possessing a common characteristic and associated receiver A broadcast network sends audiovisual transmissions to a plurality of receivers. The transmissions contain also short audiovisual transmissions, typically advertising spots and information for triggering the displaying of an advertisement page. The receivers are fur... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164809 | Image processing A method of writing image data files to frame storage means, implemented as an array of disks, on which image data is stored as contiguous clips of frames. A remote system transmits a plurality of data packets over a network in any order, the data packets constituti... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164486 | Image forming apparatus, expansion box for image forming apparatus and image editing system An image editing system having an image forming apparatus and an expansion box. The image forming apparatus includes an image inputting part which inputs the original image as an image, an image processing part which converts image information of an input color coor... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162145 | Multimedia system for transferring and receiving program number and methods therefor In a multi-media system for transferring and receiving a transport stream (MPEG2-TS) between a receiver and a recording/reproducing device using the IEEE 1394 interface, a program number command of a selected program is transferred from the receiver to the recording... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162144 | Data recording apparatus, medium and information package A data recording apparatus that sequentially input: data configured in units that cannot be recorded across different files and records the data in a file having a predetermined volume, has: size detecting unit for deciding when data is sequentially recorded in file... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161637 | Program restart and commercial ending notification method and system A method and system are provided for allowing channel surfing during the presentation of a commercial broadcast by returning the viewer to the desired program channel after the commercial broadcast has concluded. When a commercial broadcast is received that interrup... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158713 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus In an information recording and reproducing apparatus, a plurality of first video-contents signals are recorded on a first recording medium. A plurality of second video-contents signal are recorded on a second recording medium. The second recording medium differs fr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158676 | Interactive system An interactive system provides a video program signal and generates interactive content data to be associated with at least one object within a frame of the video program. The interactive content data is embedded with the object and the object is tracked through a s... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158689 | Correlating captured images and timed event data A method for correlating asynchronously captured event data associated with a timed activity and images associated with the events comprises the steps of: (a) capturing a plurality of images and storing the images and data corresponding to the images, including a ti... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155109 | Programmable video recorder having flexible trick play A computing system connected to storage medium and one or more rendering devices identifies and processes only selected frames of data that are stored on the storage medium, thereby reducing the resources and bandwidth is required to process and transmit the data to... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154906 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and computer-readable storage medium storing image processing program code A natural-image signal obtained by encoding a natural image is input. An artificial-image signal obtained by encoding an artificial image is input. The natural-image signal and the artificial-image signal are adaptively multiplexed according to the communication sta... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155108 | Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply sou... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155448 | Method and apparatus for recording data and recovering recorded data The file system of a hard disk or optical disc may lose consistency when an unexpected event like a power failure occurs during recording. When recording a data stream, e.g. a video stream, an interruption would lead to a loss of stream data when previously known me... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151558 | Monitor camera system and auto-tracing implementation method using the same In a monitor camera system comprising a monitor camera rotatable through 360 degrees in panning directions and through 90 degrees or more in tilting directions and a control unit for controlling the monitor camera, the monitor camera holds an auto-tracing record inc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149408 | Method and apparatus for editing video data Disclosed herein is a moving-picture editing apparatus that comprises a display device and a controller. The display device has a display screen and can display the frames forming a moving picture, on the display screen in the form of a frame matrix based on the fra... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149974 | Reduced representations of video sequences A system that represents a video sequence comprising plurality of video clips as a number of images. The plurality of video clips is represented as a reduced representation of video images. A video clip is represented as a keyframe, wherein multiple keyframes may th... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149247 | Methods and systems for encoding and decoding video data to enable random access and splicing Various embodiments provide approaches that facilitate decoding in the context of video coding standards that allow for complicated dependencies among pictures of an encoded sequence of pictures. In some embodiments, the notion of a random access point or “RAP” ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149409 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method A reproducing apparatus comprises a reproduction unit adapted to reproduce one or more moving image data from a recording medium, and a control unit adapted to control the reproduction unit using program information indicating a reproducing procedure of the one of m... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145839 | Apparatus for editing management information to be recorded on an information storage medium Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as select... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145921 | Asynchronous data pipe for automatically managing asynchronous data transfers between an application and a bus structure An asynchronous data pipe (ADP) automatically generates transactions necessary to complete asynchronous data transfer operations for an application over a bus structure. The ADP includes a register file which is programmed and initiated by the application. The regis... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143352 | Blind summarization of video content A method summarizes unknown content of a video. First, low-level features of the video are selected. The video is then partitioned into segments according to the low-level features. The segments are grouped into disjoint clusters where each cluster contains similar ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142777 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and method generating recording location table for plurality of programs received in multiplexed data train An apparatus for receiving a data train multiplexing a plurality of programs each constituted of a plurality of transmission packets and recording the received data train in a storage medium, generates a storage location table storing storage location data of a pred... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139470 | Navigation for MPEG streams Navigation information can be generated from compressed and packetized MPEG streams, and the navigation information then placed in a separate navigation file that can be accessed to permit navigation functions to be performed during decompression and playback of the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139466 | 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... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139031 | Automated language filter for TV receiver A method and apparatus for use in connection with home television receivers involving processing an electronic signal, including audio and video processors; the audio information, including digital representations thereof, is analyzed and modified to compare words a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136508 | Image processing apparatus, method, and program for processing a moving image A moving image Vd consists of a plurality of frames F1–F12. A scene change SC of the moving image Vd is detected according to change in each frame regarding to brightness information of image, and the plurality of frames are divided into fram... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136570 | Algorithm to print DV data to a DV deck with frame accuracy DV data is streamed to a DV device without losing the leading section of the streaming data, and in a frame-accurate manner by sending a command to the DV device for performing an absolute track number search for a selected track number. A predetermined number of fr... | 11/14/2006 |
