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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7835619 | Information storage medium storing multi-angle data and method and apparatus for reproducing the multi-angle data An apparatus and method for reproducing multi-angle data in a seamless manner, even during a change of angle, and an information storage medium on which the multi-angle data is recorded. AV data divided into clips, which are recording units, is recorded on the infor... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7711241 | Short film generation/reproduction apparatus and method thereof A short film generation/reproduction apparatus for generating video of a short film using at least one still picture and reproducing such video is comprised of: a picture feature extraction unit 1107 for extracting picture features from an input picture; a pi... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7555197 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes: a display control unit for displaying a story board on a display device, the story board displaying a plurality of representative images corresponding to a plurality of image clips in a reproduction order and displaying an aud... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7509019 | Contents editing apparatus with frequency adjustment A content editing apparatus (10) includes a CPU (12). When combining JPEG data and audio data forming a moving file 1 with JPEG data and audio data forming a moving file 2, the CPU (12) calculates a reproduction frequency of combin... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7477831 | Apparatus and method for video editing There is disclosed a video editing apparatus capable of editing video/audio data in which image and sound data are multiplexed at a high rate. The video editing apparatus for editing the video/audio data constituted by multiplexing the image and sound data includes ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7360235 | Systems and methods for operating a peripheral record/playback device in a networked multimedia system Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the remote devices to operate the peripheral device, such as a DVD player, VCR, or camcorder, via the primary... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343082 | Universal guide track A method and apparatus is disclosed which provides an efficient tool for performing post-production synchronization of a video source. In the preferred embodiment, the graphemes of a detected audio source are synchronized with a script and are shown through a user i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327938 | System for recording digital information including audio information In recording audio information, an information medium in a format obtained by expanding the RTR (recordable/reproducible DVD) standard is used. For management information about each piece of information recorded on the information medium, an “audio information cel... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7302697 | Broadcast pause and resume for enhanced television A broadcast pause and resume system may enable replay from a random access memory of video information received from a video distribution source such as cable, broadcast television or satellite distribution as examples. Key frames may be stored which enable the repl... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7295977 | Extracting classifying data in music from an audio bitstream The method of the present invention utilizes machine-learning techniques, particularly Support Vector Machines in combination with a neural network, to process a unique machine-learning enabled representation of the audio bitstream. Using this method, a classifying ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7266286 | Editing system and method and distribution medium Temporarily storing audio data to be reproduced in the block form, temporarily storing synthesized audio data in the block form, generating and supplying a reference signal, and calculating the first address of the block of audio data, the editing system of the pres... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265782 | Image recording device with a post-recording function A digital camera comprises a CCD, sample-and-hold circuit, analog to digital converter, color processing circuit, microphone, voice processing section, flash memory in which voices input from the microphone are arbitrarily added to still images and the still image d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263271 | System of sharing objects having a plurality of contents In order to use video contents created according to DVD video in DVD audio, audio and video sub-directories are located under a root directory. The video sub-directory includes video contents and their management information. The audio sub-directory includes audio c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260306 | Editing method for recorded information A method, apparatus and computer program for editing recorded information having a format where both a video signal and an audio signal are recorded on a recording medium. When the recorded information is reproduced, a detection is conducted to determine a position ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257132 | Receiver set, information apparatus and receiving system For providing a receiving contract service being convenient or friendly to both the broadcast service providers and the viewers, and in particular, for providing a digital broadcast receiver set, an information apparatus and a digital broadcasting receiving system, ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242854 | Magnetic tape recording apparatus and method, magnetic tape format, and recording medium therefor 139 sync blocks, each having 111 bytes, are disposed on each track of a magnetic tape. Among the 139 sync blocks, 121 sync blocks each consist of a two-byte detection pattern for detecting the sync block, three-byte identification information for identifying the syn... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230641 | Combined editing system and digital moving picture recording system A moving picture recording device 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. Multiple data paths are provided to all... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221850 | Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium When MPEG streams are connected, audio data is connected without losing continuity, so that playback data which is not unnatural is obtained. In a case where data of videos of a stream is connected to immediately after another video of another stream and these are e... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212729 | Information recording apparatus and method, information processing terminal, method and apparatus, and recording medium The invention provides an information recording apparatus and method by which unattended recording can be executed in accordance with a set condition. If a hard disk recorder recognizes that unattended recording set by a user cannot be executed because of insufficie... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200324 | Magnetic-tape recording apparatus and method, magnetic-tape reproduction apparatus and method, and recording medium A magnetic-tape recording apparatus records digital data on a magnetic tape by a rotating head. It includes a first obtaining device for obtaining predetermined-unit video data; a second obtaining device for obtaining audio data corresponding to the predetermined-un... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187357 | Device for entering values using a display screen Device for setting values for processing audio signals includes a signal processor, at least two elements for manually entering and/or adjusting the values, a carrier for the at least two elements, and a screen for displaying the entered and/or adjusted values. The ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7149414 | Optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc recording method for facilitating dubbing, storage medium for storing optical disc recording program for facilitating dubbing, optical disc reproducing apparatus, and optical disc reproducing method A recordable optical disc stores one or more video objects. A video stream, a first audio stream, and a second audio stream which is used for dubbing are multiplexed into each video object. Also, an optical disc recording apparatus generates the second audio stream ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142250 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video streams Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for synchronizing an audio stream with a video stream. This method involves searching in the audio stream for audio data having values that match a distinct set of audio data values and synchronizing the audio strea... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120925 | System and method for displaying editorial content through television navigation controls and electronic program guides A system and method for presenting advanced editorial content items to subscribers in a distribution network. The method comprises presenting an electronic program guide comprised of data representing program availability on a broadcast distribution network and a se... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103260 | Video editing system There is described an editing system in which image data representing an initial moving image input in a first format at a corresponding rate is stored in a store and is manipulated to produce image data representing an edited moving image for output in a second for... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095947 | System for synchronizing the playback of two or more connected playback devices using closed captioning The present invention is directed to a method and system for synchronizing the replay of a pre-recorded program between a plurality of playback devices utilizing closed-caption data. The internal block of the playback devices are synchronized. Upon receiving program... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092620 | Converting analog video data into digital form The inventive stand alone mechanism converts video data from an original format such as VHS or digital video to an optical media such as a CD-RW or DVD-RW and prepare it for use in non-linear computer applications such as video editing and production in a single ste... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091933 | Electronic information display system Methods are provided for distributing a visual presentation. One described method includes storing show data and media referenced by the show data at a data center. The method also includes processing the show data and media to generate a set of visual presentation ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079905 | Time scaling of stereo audio A time scaling process for a multi-channel (e.g., stereo) audio signal uses a common time offsets for all channels and thereby avoids fluctuation in the apparent location of a sound source. In the time scaling process, common time offsets correspond to respective ti... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069092 | Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio processing profiles are stored in a processing profile database such that spec... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062154 | Magnetic-tape recording apparatus, magnetic-tape recording method, magnetic-tape format, and recording medium A magnetic-tape recording apparatus for recording digital data on a magnetic tape by a rotating head includes a first obtaining unit for obtaining first-group data, including video data, audio data, or search data. A second obtaining unit obtains second-group data, ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054542 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus having a data transfer device selectively transferring data between multiple data recording and reproducing devices A data recording and reproducing apparatus which can easily perform the editing of audio and/or visual data even at the camera site. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, a VTR portion and an MO disc portion are integrally constituted. Audio and/or visual... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047547 | Electronic television program guide schedule system and method An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a television receiver to a selected one of the plurality of channels. A ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046909 | System and method for identifying inconsistencies in duplicate digital videos A system for checking the consistency between a digital video master and a duplicate video. Both the digital video master and the duplicate digital video have digital data, the digital data composed of a plurality of data segments. A loader module receives the digit... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038669 | System and method for providing a reference video signal A method is taught for providing a reference video signal to a video display through a video interface from a video display adapter for a host computer. The method includes the step of providing a horizontal sync line to carry a horizontal sync signal that occupies ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031593 | Video tape recorder In a video tape recorder, a digital AV signal which is A/D-converted by an A/D converting section 12 is separated into a video signal and an audio signal by an audio-video separating section 131. In response to a selection operation on an operating sec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031594 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for detecting and displaying audio signal levels of input and output and ports A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other ... | 04/18/2006 |
