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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7773857 | Process and device for audio-visual program editing The audio-visual program editing process comprises: in an iterative manner, a step (200) of editing the combined image comprising: a step (210) of selecting an image source, ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769270 | Editing system and control method thereof This invention realizes an editing system and control method thereof capable of significantly improving working efficiency of editing work. A proxy editing terminal device creates an EDL with low-resolution video/audio data, resulting in reducing time to create the ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7743037 | Information processing apparatus and method and program A system and method to facilitate editing of content data. An update metadata identification block identifies metadata that is affected (or must be updated) by destructive edit processing by a material data destructive edit processing block. If the metadata is requi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7716572 | Creating a new music video by intercutting user-supplied visual data with a pre-existing music video A method in which a pre-existing music video (which may be a professionally-created music video) is intercut with an end-user's own additional visual data (pictures or video). In a first phase, a plurality of temporal sections are defined in a pre-existing music vid... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7693394 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of data streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The data structure on the recording medium includes a navigation area storing at least one playitem in a playlist. The playitem includes a stream indication field indicating the data streams associated with the playitem. For example, the stream indication field indi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7672566 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium includes a data structure with presentation data stored in a data area of the recording medium. The presentation data is divided into still picture units with each still picture unit including at least one still picture and associated related da... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7660510 | Device for creating content from multiple video and/or audio materials and method therefor An EPL maker (10) is composed mainly of editing terminals (15), (16) and (17) each reading and decoding each of highly compressed sub materials to produce a material data and make an EPL while displaying, on a monitor, a video based on th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7639921 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still images recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium includes a data structure having a clip stream file and a clip information file associated with the clip stream file. The clip stream file includes at least video data for a still image, and the clip information file including at least an entry ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636510 | Private video recorder using content segment pointing information to record, edit and reproduce content In a private video recorder for recording contents of TV program delivered from TV stations, data of the contents of TV program (contents data) are memorized into segments in a contents data memory area, and the contents data are controlled as one video picture file... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623755 | Techniques for positioning audio and video clips Techniques and systems for positioning video and audio clips in timeline sequences. In some embodiments, a computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, is operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations that include, in response... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7616862 | Recording medium having data structure for managing video data and additional content data thereof and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The present invention relates to a data structure for managing video data and additional content data recorded on a recording medium. A recording medium having the data structure for managing video and its additional content data in accordance with the present inven... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609939 | Method and apparatus of reproducing data recorded on recording medium and local storage An apparatus of reproducing data recorded on a recording medium includes a pick-up unit, a local storage, and a decoder. The pick-up unit reads main data recorded on the recording medium. The local storage stores sub data associated with the main data. The decoder d... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606463 | Recording medium having data structure for managing playback control and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The data structure on the recording medium includes a navigation area storing an information file. The information file includes a plurality of navigation segments representing one or more reproduction paths of a title. Each of the navigation segments includes at le... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7593619 | Data processing unit and method, and program The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus and method and to a program in which a user can reliably record desired data. An instructed recording start point B indicates a position at which AV data captured when the user gives an instruction to star... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587123 | Method of processing data, system of the same and video recording system An edit device performs editing based on image data L_IM, generates an edit decision list L_EDL indicating that content and transmits this to a video recording system. In the edit decision list L_EDL, as an instance number of UMID, “FF FF FF” is stored. The vide... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7570866 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple reproduction path video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium has a data structure for managing reproduction of at least multiple reproduction path video data recorded on the recording medium. A data area of the recording medium has more than one reproduction path of video data recorded therein. Each repro... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7546021 | Content reproduction device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for content reproduction, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to edit taken images easily and automatically in accordance with an intention of an editor. Each time a reproduction is perfo... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7483619 | System for authoring and viewing detail on demand video A method and system provide additional detail to a video sequence in response to user input. The system allows a user to generate a link from an anchor point in a source video sequence to a target point in a destination video sequence. A video sequence may be constr... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471872 | Reproducing apparatus for data stored in disk-shape storage media A reproducing apparatus performing reproduction of a play list by inserting a frozen image when the length of data of a clip to be referred by the play list is smaller than the minimum unit which is capable of continuing reproduction of video/audio (Continuous Data ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7457517 | 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... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457516 | Video editing system and method of computer system A video editing system and method of computer system disclose at least one play mark and at least one leap mark by a mark unit to mark a complete frame of video data provided by a display unit, moreover, through a P frame differential value provided by a detect unit... | 11/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7424202 | Editing system and control method using a readout request An editing system and a control method for improving efficiency of editing work. The editing system is provided with a server for storing the video data of edit material. A memory stores the video data read from the server, the memory having accessibility faster tha... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7359617 | Dual mode timeline interface A dual-mode GUI (600) is disclosed which includes a source timeline (614) and a manual editing timeline (606) within a common editing window (608). This arrangement enables the user to maintain a contextual appreciation of relationships (... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356241 | Data recording and/or reproducing apparatus A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording, reproducing or editing of video and audio data includes an input processing unit, having an input processing control portion for controlling data inputting to a recording medium, an output processing contr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356250 | Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems inc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356242 | Editing device, editing system and editing method Program configuration is carried out by using the screen of a display section 17 and an input operating section 18 of a video editing device 10, and data of this program configuration is recorded in a RAM 19. In accordance with the data o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352952 | System and method for improved video editing There is provided herein an invention that utilizes a themed template which is designed to assist novice video editors quickly compose a complete video work which memorializes a particular familiar occasion, such as, for example, a birthday, a wedding, a trip to the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340765 | Archiving and viewing sports events via Internet Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336788 | Electronic book secure communication with home subsystem The invention, an electronic book selection and delivery system, is a new way to distribute books and other textual information to bookstores, libraries and consumers. The primary components of the system are a subsystem for placing text in a video signal format and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334248 | Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system A method and an apparatus for processing a packetized transport stream that determines whether a sequence of transport packets are received in a proper sequence and whether an error is present in a particular transport packet. The method includes the steps of determ... | 02/19/2008 |
