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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7324136 | Electronic camera, and image display method and image recording method therefor The electronic camera, and image display method and image recording method applied thereto are capable of eliminating discontinuity in moving image caused by a camera control such as interruption by still image recording in moving image capturing and aperture switch... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7072257 | Data recording controller A controller for recording data on a CD with a DVD recorder. The controller includes an LPP decoder, an ATIP decoder for decoding address information of a CD, and an address converter for converting an ATIP address into an LPP address. When recording DVD format data... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7024575 | Apparatus and method for time synchronization of a plurality of multimedia streams An apparatus and method for time synchronization of a plurality of multimedia streams are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the concurrent capture of multimedia data via a plurality of multimedia platforms. During the concurrent capture of the multim... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6947609 | System with motion triggered processing A document image capture (scanning) system and control method are described for scanning and processing document images received live from a camera. A motion detector detects image motion between two image frames. When the image is stationary, image processing (such... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6895174 | Frame number detecting device An object is to provide a frame number detecting device having a frame counter which is less apt to output a wrong frame number even if a sync signal type was erroneously detected from a DVD etc. and the combination of variation of the sync signal types corresponds ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6351595 | Method for fine recording of video frames Disclosed is a method for fine recording of video frames at the contiguous recording portion on the video tape. The fine recording is accomplished by inserting a position identification code, which is generated in a serial order, into every frame of a vid... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6219067 | Measures for characterizing compressed bitstreams Compressed bitstreams are characterized by generated graphical displays that display useful information related, for example, to the quality of the data contained in the bitstream. One set of graphical displays indicates lead time between receipt of packe... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5835663 | Apparatus for recording image data representative of cuts in a video signal A video signal from a camera portion is supplied as moving picture data to a moving picture recording portion. The video signal is recorded by the moving picture recording portion with a time code attached thereto. The video signal from the camera portion... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5333082 | Video signal recording/reproducing apparatus A video signal recording/reproducing apparatus is provided a rotary drum, recording and reproducing heads. Synchronous separation units separate vertical synchronous signals from input and reproduced signals. A memory stores a time difference which repres... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5301026 | Picture editing apparatus in a digital still video camera system A picture editing apparatus of a digital still video camera system includes a digital still video camera and a reproduction device which selectively controls a picture assignment address in a memory card for mixing and displaying a multiple of one or more... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5136435 | Screen-splitting system for a video recording and reproducing apparatus A video tape recorder having provisions for erasing a desired fraction of each frame of a composite picture signal on a magnetic tape and for recording substitute picture information on the erased fractions, thereby making it possible to split the screen ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5067030 | System for reproducing picture signals and inserting character signals in the reproduced picture signals A system (1) for reproducing picture signals from a record carrier (3) in the form of a tape on which the reproduced picture signals are stored in juxtaposed inclined tracks comprises a character generator (23) for inserting character signals into reprodu... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5029021 | Video recording/reproducing apparatus and method of editing video tape A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a variable delay circuit for delaying an input video signal which is to be newly recorded on a recording medium and a delay controller for controlling a delay provided by this variable delay circuit. At th... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4837638 | Video tape editing system with vertical interval time code A video editing system which utilizes the vertical interval time code address as the sole edit control code in performing a video edit, whereby a time code of the edit point is read from the record videotape and is supplied to an inserting circuit which i... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4835626 | Preserving a record of timecodes used in editing a recorded digital video signal A method of processing timecode data in a recorded digital video signal comprises assigning a first timecode to a first timecode location in the signal during recording, assigning the first timecode to a second timecode location and assigning a current se... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4805042 | Editing apparatus for separately recording a plurality of information signals along with respective time code signals in slant tracks on a magnetic tape In a recording and reproducing or editing apparatus for recording, in successive slant tracks on a magnetic tape, at least a first information signal and, thereafter, a second information signal along with respective time code signals, the time code signa... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4802023 | System for reading and writing vertical interval time code A system for editing videotape includes a subsystem to scan particular information lines within vertical blanking intervals and to identify particular lines that contain time code information, and a subsystem to generate time code information and to write... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4663674 | Video cassette designed for video theater use A video theater system employs a rental video cassette which has extra ribs on the periphery thereof for inhibiting an unfair use in conjunction with a conventional cassette VTR, and in which an ID code is also superimposed on video signals on tape within... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4506304 | Apparatus for transferring pre-recorded image signal information from one recording medium to a master recording medium A video disc system adapted for use with a recordable, master storage, video disc and a prerecorded, transfer storage, video disc comprises a turntable for rotating the master disc and the transfer disc in synchronism, a playback head for reading the vide... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4467371 | Method of pre-editing an original video tape in combination of scene numbers with a card and systems for carrying out the method For use in pre-editing a video tape, an original video tape is prepared by automatically recording successive scene numbers on a video tape in correspondence to the respective scenes being recorded on the tape. As the scenes are displayed in combination w... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4280149 | Equipment for preventing gaps between previously recorded and newly recorded information on an information carrier A television camera is synchronized by horizontal and vertical synchronization signals furnished by a signal generator. When the equipment is switched to a recording mode, that is when new information is to be added to previously recorded information, the... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4175271 | Helical video tape insert recording editing method with flying erase head and servo control Disclosed is a helical scan video tape recorder having a flying sense head located upstream from a flying erase head and further upstream from a flying record/playback head. By employing a separate sense head to detect synch pulses, tension and relative s... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4163263 | Method and apparatus for tape recording time-spaced segments of video information from a video camera A video recording technique for recording sequential scenes or segments of video information, such as from a video camera, in such a manner that the recorded scenes may be reproduced without loss of synchronization. In a video tape recorder of the longitu... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4130842 | Circuit for generating a digital, deleted data, blinking cross signal which is stored in a deleted track and selectively displayed for detection A circuit for generating a deleted data signal, which is reproduced as a blinking cross in a television picture, to provide thereby visual indication that a storage location in a video frame store is unoccupied, and available for recording therein. The bl... | 12/19/1978 |
