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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7751685 | Recording medium having data structure including graphic data and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The present invention relates to a recording medium having data structure including graphic data to be used for a menu page etc. of main video data recorded thereon as well as methods and apparatuses for reproducing and recording the data structure. A recording medi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7689097 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for recording time information for digital data streams A method and apparatus for recording time information for received digital data streams are provided. The method includes recording first time information and second time information on a recording medium. The first time information is part of management data for ma... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7483620 | Replay appliance for accessing a recording media containing information blocks A relay appliance at a defined playing time for accessing information on recording media containing information blocks, if the recording medium has no concordance list producing a relationship between the replay time and the recording location, or the concordance li... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7406252 | Encoding apparatus of audio signal, audio disc and disc reproducing apparatus DVD-video data and DVD-audio data are recorded in a DVD-Avd disc. The DVD-audio data is composed of an audio manager having an audio manager information, an audio manager menu, a first audio title set including first audio data and a second audio title set including... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7382966 | Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing operation information in association with video or music Timer generates a first time code with a relatively high resolution. Second time code, given from a reproduction device in relation to video or music reproduced by the reproduction device, has a resolution lower than the first time code. By correcting the timer-gene... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369749 | System and method for recording and reproducing broadcasting programs There is provided a system for recording and/or reproduction of broadcasting programs permits the facilitation of selection and management of recorded videos in the manner of following the operations of general AV equipment such as televisions and video decks, in wh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366195 | Apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting and receiving multicast data Apparatuses and methods for efficiently transmitting and receiving multicast data having a scalable data structure preferably provide for the transmission of a first data stream at a basic data rate using a first modulation scheme that can be received by all receive... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352697 | Network processing using fractional time stamp values Fractional or fuzzy time stamp values are used during processing network traffic. Handling fractional time stamp values permits scaling down of time stamp values, so that fewer bits, and memory, are needed to store each fractional time stamp value. According to a sp... | 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 |
| 7337462 | System and method for providing timing data for programming events A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for individual programming events that make up the program. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333717 | Method of using AV devices and AV device system A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324743 | Time code calculating method and time code calculating apparatus When converting a predetermined time code into another time code in a different format while increasing or decreasing a count value for one second corresponding to the format of the time code thus converted, first of all, a time code 210 which has not been co... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319808 | Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a pac... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315689 | Recording system A recording system for preventing inconsistencies between the time information of the AV data which is recorded on the recording medium of the image sensing device (camera integrated digital video recorder and so on), and the time information of the AV data which is... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312390 | Automatic music playing apparatus and computer program therefor An external storage device stores automatic music playing data files, each file including data of a progression of musical notes constituting a performance of a music piece, and registration data files, each file including data of a set of parameters to determine th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302169 | Method and apparatus for playing-back moving image data The invention is directed to the provision of a moving image data playback method, and more particularly, an MPEG data playback method that can randomly access MPEG data stored at a VBR. The playback method comprises: storing in a table an average bit rate computed ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7298963 | Time code generator and time code generating method, time code reader and time code reading method, and video recording and reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus for generating a time code compatible with 50P, 60P or 59.94P and having interchangeability with existing time codes. The apparatus includes: a microcomputer for dividing a frame number indicated by time address data in su... | 11/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7269842 | Time shifting enhanced television triggers Enhanced television broadcasts including triggers with expires attributes may be utilized in a variety of situations where the expires attribute may adversely affect the utilization of the trigger. For example, in situations where the broadcast is recorded, playback... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260304 | Recording and accessing metadata Apparatus uniquely identifies material recorded on an example of a recording medium. The medium has distinguishing data, a tape ID, distinguishing that example from other examples thereof recorded thereon. A generator generates data, e.g. IN and OUT time codes, iden... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248779 | 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... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242437 | Compressed timing indicators for media samples A first frame of data is encoded and a first timestamp associated with the first frame of data is generated. The first timestamp includes complete timing information. The first frame of data and the associated first timestamp is transmitted to a destination. A secon... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242809 | Digital video segmentation and dynamic segment labeling A method and system for segmenting video into an optimal set of video clusters that correspond loosely to one or more events, date ranges, time ranges, chapters or other logical segmentations of the digital video that is meaningful to the user. Video shots are selec... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239320 | System and method for transmitting interactive synchronized graphics A method and system for compact representation of interactive data and transmitting the data via a computer network is disclosed. The system and method provide for logically separating the data into a graphical and multimedia data sections. The multimedia data secti... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236684 | Editing apparatus and editing method An editing apparatus for editing coded data coded in a predetermined unit to be stored into a storage medium includes a designation section, an evaluation section and a notification section. The designation section designates an editing position of the coded data. T... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227073 | Playlist managing apparatus and method The present invention relates to a playlist managing apparatus and method capable of automatically generating and updating a playlist in response to a dynamic change in taste of a user. Hit rates for respective pieces of audio data are calculated based on output sta... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225203 | Information storage system and information management system This invention provides a system for managing information in a format that can be used based on the international standard time and local time. Upon storing and managing information (150), a) the local time (121) of a predetermined area, b) a standard ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224886 | Method of using AV devices and AV device system A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221801 | Method and system for generating input file using meta language regarding graphic data compression Provided are an input file generation method and system using a meta language regarding graphics data compression. The method includes making an extensible markup language (XML) schema that defines at least a compression node describing object data to be compressed,... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212365 | Servo writer Disclosed is a servo writer when, detecting an abnormality from servo signals written on a tape-shaped recording medium, such as a magnetic tape, corrects the abnormality through a simplified procedure, thereby allowing for an increase in the transport speed of medi... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209643 | Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, recording medium, program, and computer-readable recording medium A recording apparatus contains a timer that measures the current time based on a time zone. When writing a VOB onto a DVD, the recording apparatus refers to TM_ZONE recorded on the DVD, and judges whether the time zone which the timer is based on matches the time zo... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200320 | Time code slate system and method A system and method for providing generated, synchronized, and displayed video time code for recording on film or videotape during the recording of the film or videotape in production. The system, in an embodiment thereof, comprises a slate wherein the generated, sy... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197053 | Serializer with programmable delay elements A two-bit serializer circuit as described herein includes programmable delay elements having adjustable phase delay that allows for phase tuning of two parallel input signals relative to an output multiplexer select signal. The two parallel input signals are retimed... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191153 | Content distribution method and apparatus Media which stores protected content is distributed to users without the need for payment at the time of media distribution. Payment can be performed at a later time in response to which content may be enabled, and/or users may selectively pay for, and receive enabl... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187845 | 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... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188259 | Method for providing security to a chaining of operations performed by an electronic circuit within the context of executing an algorithm A method for providing security to a chaining of useful operations of the same type, performed by an electronic circuit executing an algorithm, randomly introduces one or more dummy operations in the chaining of operations. This prevents any fraudulent access to pro... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181624 | Information recording/playback apparatus and method A block key to encrypt block data is generated using an ATS (arrival time stamp) appended to each of TS (transport stream) packets included in a transport stream correspondingly to the arrival time of the TS packet. The ATS is a random data depending upon an arrival... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
