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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7889968 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple reproduction path video data for at least a segment of a title recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium includes at least one data area storing video data for at least one segment of a title. The video data is recorded as video data packets and at least a portion of the video data packets associated with different reproduction paths for the segmen... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873262 | Data processing method, device thereof and program An optical disk device 4 for acquiring a file path to an AV file data corresponding to a designated data UMID in an optical disk, based on management data MD read out from the optical disk, in response to a request REQ from a computer 3 and further acc... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7826712 | Method and apparatus for receiving, storing, and presenting multimedia programming without indexing prior to storage A method and apparatus for improved digital recording and presentation of broadcast information is disclosed. Received broadcast data, which may include video, audio, private, or other data, relating to one or more particular content programs, is presented from an i... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822318 | Smart random media object playback An electronic equipment is provided that includes a playlist with a plurality of media objects, each associated with a ranking from a hierarchy of rankings, ranging from a highest ranking to a lowest ranking. The electronic equipment includes a media player section ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7801412 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple reproduction path video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The present invention relates to a data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data having multiple reproduction paths through title structure. A recording medium having a data structure according to the present invention comprises a data area storing... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787748 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, content reproducing apparatus, magnetic disk device, and control method thereof A head position estimator estimates the present position of a head relative to a recording medium, an LBA calculator for calculating positions of a data block to be read next and other data blocks existing before and after the data block, and a moving destination de... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7702211 | Information storage medium storing multi angle data, and recording method and reproducing apparatus thereof A method of storing multi angle data. Data for a plurality of angles of a scene are stored in interleaved blocks. Sizes of the interleaved blocks are integral multiples of sizes of integral numbered aligned units that include packets. Angle change points are include... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689098 | Method and apparatus for reproducing data using management data A method and apparatus are provided for creating and recording management information for digital data streams, and for reproducing data using the management information. According to an embodiment, the method for recording a digital data stream being received, comp... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7672567 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple reproduction path video data for at least a segment of a title recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The recording medium includes a path management area storing path management information. The path management information identifies clips of video data associated with each reproduction path of at least a segment of a title. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7639922 | Autorec signal multiplex apparatus, autorec signal multiplex method, program, and recording medium An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device of recording a video to generate a video signal, a photographer indication device of indicating a start of a recording and/or a stop of the recording, an AutoREC signal generation device of generating an Au... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630613 | Information-signal process apparatus and information-signal processing method A recording/reproduction apparatus that effectively and efficiently utilizes a large-quantity information signal recorded onto a recording medium and efficiently utilizing the recording medium for recording the information signal. In a process to record a video sign... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616863 | Information storage medium, information reproduction device, information reproduction method An information reproduction method comprises setting an imaginary access unit in a video object in which a still picture is recorded; and managing reproduction by use of the imaginary access unit. ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599602 | Method and apparatus for reproducing data using management data A method and apparatus are provided for creating and recording management information for digital data streams, and for reproducing data using the management information. The method for reproducing data from a recording medium includes receiving an access time for a... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596301 | Reverse trick mode using intra pictures The invention concerns a method and system for performing a trick mode in response to a trick mode command. The method 200 can include the steps of modifying a field display order indicator of at least one intra picture having at least a first field and a sec... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593620 | File and content management Disclosed herein is a table mapping a data offset in a bitstream, apparatus for evaluating position in a bitstream, and a command for controlling the transfer of a bitstream. ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587124 | Apparatus, method, and computer product for recognizing video contents, and for video recording An apparatus for recognizing contents of a video made of picture frames includes a splitting unit that splits the picture frames into a plurality of sets of video shots based on cut points indicating a change of screen; a similar-video-shot extracting unit that extr... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7574103 | Authoring of complex audiovisual products An authoring method for creating an audiovisual product. The method has three main stages. The first stage defines components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content and transitions that represent movements between components. The second s... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574104 | Moving image reproduction apparatus and method The digital camera photographs a moving image to record moving image data in an internal or an external memory. Plural frame images as index images are extracted from the moving image. A display area in an LCD is divided into plural index frames for displaying the i... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574105 | Device, system, method and program for data processing, recording medium storing the program, and player A data processor acquires video data and audio data and, after processing them appropriately, stores them on an optical disc and/or an HDD (300). When displaying an index of the images representing the acquired video data, thumbnail images are generated by me... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570869 | Method and apparatus for defining entry points in a data stream The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for defining entry points for a data stream, in particular a stream of audiovisual information. Entry points in the stream are defined at a predetermined interval. This may be a time interval, a byte interval or any... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7558467 | Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. A PlayList file contains a set of PlayItems and a SubPlayItem. Each PlayItem is configured to reproduce at least one main AV stream, and the SubPlayItem is... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7519269 | Video recording/reproducing apparatus and method based on program information A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a receiver which receives a broadcast program, an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program, a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together wit... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7505672 | Dynamic searching method and dynamic searching device of storage medium Disclosed is a dynamic searching method including the steps of: extracting and storing index information of a stream receiving and storing an image source therein; extracting a shot change point from the index information; and performing a reproduction while varying... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7493018 | Method for creating caption-based search information of moving picture data, searching and repeating playback of moving picture data based on said search information, and reproduction apparatus using said method This invention relates to a method of conducting search of moving picture data stream and repeating playback of a data stream section based on the caption information, which is displayed with moving pictures, and a reproduction apparatus using such method. The prese... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493019 | Information storage medium storing multi angle data, and recording method and reproducing apparatus thereof An information storage medium for storing multi angle data, and a recording method and a reproducing apparatus thereof. The information storage medium stores data for a plurality of angles of a scene in interleaved blocks. Sizes of the interleaved blocks are integra... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493020 | Digital video multiplex processing method and device A digital video multiplex processing method comprises the following steps: setting a normal play index and a fast play index; performing a normal recording/playback action of a video data; determining whether to let the video data enter a cue-and-jump action; taking... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7466901 | Recording medium containing thumbnail recorded thereon, recording apparatus and method therefor, and reproducing apparatus and method therefor A recording medium includes a program containing video data and/or audio data and navigation information which defines a thumbnail, wherein the thumbnail relates to the program and is reproduceable as moving pictures. The recording medium may include a plurality of ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460763 | Data loading method and chip A data loading method is for an audio/video playback system. The method is used for playing an audio/video data stored in a storage medium. The audio/video data comprises a plurality of audio/video segments and a plurality of navigation data corresponding to the aud... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444062 | Playback system A playback system for playing back image data from a recording medium on which image data of a plurality of titles is recorded and for outputting the played-back image data to an external display device while an image related to the played-back image data is being d... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440679 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. A writeable and rewriteable recording medium stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440675 | AV information reproducing system and a reproducing method applied to the same system In a system for reproducing AV information from a recording medium, such as a DVD, not only are usual titles reproduced, but also related information relevant to specific stream information is acquired easily by making use of resources on a computer network. In a re... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437055 | Recording apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, recorded medium, and program From input moving picture data, a thumbnail picture representing the moving picture data is generated as first thumbnail data. Form the moving picture data, a thumbnail picture of a picture extracted as being a characteristic picture, or a thumbnail picture of a pic... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7433577 | Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least one television broadcast program. The apparatus pre-stores a period ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424204 | Video information summarizing apparatus and method for generating digest information, and video information summarizing program for generating digest information A summary reproducing apparatus, which is capable of reproducing a summary accurately for each type of video information and of reducing a burden in generating digest information, provided with an audio feature amount extraction unit for obtaining a sound feature am... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424206 | Recording apparatus and method A recording apparatus of the present invention comprises a compressed data processing unit for performing compression processing of second definition data to generate compressed data, a system data generating unit for generating system data including at least time c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420903 | Electronic equipment, highlighting method, and program installed in the equipment Disclosed is electronic equipment enjoying improved ease of use, and a highlighting method and a program to be implemented or installed in the electronic equipment. For example, a user performs manipulations so as to reproduce a content up to the middle of the conte... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418192 | Dynamic key frame generation and usage A dynamic method and system for processing video source frames (e.g., a television movie) with a video processing system (VPS) that includes a processor, a memory structure, input devices, and an output display. The video source frames, which are received by the VPS... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398000 | Digital video segment identification An entertainment system, having a capability to playback a stored digital video record that includes frames of video data received from a television broadcast system, approximates ranges of frames in a digital video record that are either commercials or non-commerci... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394969 | System and method to compose a slide show A method of composing a multimedia slide show. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: selecting a plurality of digital images; encoding each of the plurality of digital images to generate a normal resolution image portion and a high resolution... | 07/01/2008 |
