Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860370 | Reproduction apparatus for shortening a user's waiting time until reproducing a beginning of a part that the user wants to view, and a reproduction method and computer readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for performing the same A reading control section 40 reproduces information read from a recording medium, and a reproduction-operation section 20 accepts an instruction for a forward skip or a backward skip. Further, a controller 10 makes the skip time for one of the f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840115 | Optical disc recording apparatus, computer-readable recording medium recording a file management program, and optical disc An optical disc recording apparatus for recording a video object onto an optical disc. A recording area of the optical disc is divided into a plurality of zones which each include a plurality of adjacent tracks. The optical disc recording apparatus includes: a readi... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7756394 | DVD navigation information for improved trick modes A method for providing improved trick mode performance in a DVD having a plurality of video object units where each of the VOBUs contains a navigation pack. The method involves storing on the DVD within each navigation pack certain supplemental disc search informati... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7603024 | Apparatus for storing and searching audio/video data containing additional information An audio/video data storing and searching apparatus is provided, which stores audio/video data including additional information of a user desired program, to thereby perform an easy searching. For this purpose, the present invention decodes a transport stream (TS) p... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7444664 | Multi-view video format Interactive multi-view video presents new types of video capture systems, video formats, video compression algorithms, and services. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos and any assoc... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7412149 | Trick mode generation in video streaming A method for generating a trick replay video stream, including the steps of: selecting from stored data adapted for transmission as a streamed movie a sequence of Intracoded frames (I-frames), and inserting one or more difference frames between consecutive I-frames ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406250 | Information recording method and information reproducing method With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406255 | Information processing apparatus A system controller displays all setup items on a setup screen, at the time of a setup mode in which a setup button 18a of a remote controller is depressed, in case that it is judged that a disc is not loaded on a tray of an apparatus itself, and, in c... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7382967 | Video disk player In a video disk player for playing back a disk containing a plurality of music pieces, each recorded as a combination of video data and corresponding audio data, a picture-search process section for mainly searching the video data includes an audio-data buffer memor... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373075 | Recording method of stream data and data structure thereof An information medium which has a data area for recording stream data (SOB) using stream packets each of which includes an application packet area, and a management area for recording management information that pertains to the stream data (SOB) is used. The stream ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362381 | Device interoperability utilizing bit-mapped on-screen display menus Interoperability for exchanging on-screen display menus and associated control between common consumer electronic (CE) devices is provided. This interoperability is based on the IEEE 1394 serial bus for the physical and link layers and makes use of AV/C or CAL as th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363398 | Intelligent total access system A system for interfacing a user with an electronic device. An accessor device provides a user interface matched to the needs, abilities and intentions of the user and translates the user input commands and data into commands for the electronic device. An intelligent... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362665 | Seek method of optical disks and optical storage device An optical disk includes a first area, a second area having time information undistinguishable from time information of the first area and a third area having unique time information. The third area is divided into a plurality of sub-areas. Peculiar zone numbers are... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359620 | Information transmitting method, information processing method and apparatus, and information recording and reproducing method and apparatus For example, in case of distributing contents by BS broadcast and recording a transmitted TS stream into a storage device, even if the stream has been encrypted, a trick play can be easily performed. A start marker packet and an end marker packet are sent just befor... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359625 | Recording medium with content stream data recorded thereon, recording apparatus, and reproducing apparatus therefor A recording medium having content stream data recorded thereon and a recording and reproducing apparatus provided therefor. On the recording medium, content stream data is recorded as a stream object formed of one or more stream object units, each having a predeterm... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7343083 | Digital video signal record and playback device and method for selectively reproducing desired video information from an optical disk A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343544 | Optical disk playback apparatus and data playback method therefor An optical disk playback apparatus for playing back or reproducing main data and its associated sub-code which are read from an optical recording medium comprises an interleave RAM for storing the main data. The optical disk playback apparatus performs a predefined ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340151 | High-speed search of recorded video information to detect motion A system and methods are described for high speed searching of digital video data 20 to find regions that have motion, for example in a scene monitored by a security camera system. Conventional video motion detection is used to find zones 28,29 and/or ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340150 | Digital video signal record and playback device and method for selectively reproducing desired video information from an optical disk A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digit... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336681 | Data format and data transfer A signal format that can be accessed, as a file, by the computer on which it is stored is provided with a plurality of concatenated content packages. The content package comprises System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary Items. The System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary I... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333713 | Information recording apparatus and method, and information recording medium on which information is recorded by using them In a disk camera, when additional information and moving picture information are managed as one file and recorded on an optical disk, useless area is minimized, thereby allowing effective use of recording capacity. A recording controlling part records continuously w... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330640 | Display of closed caption and sub-picture information during limited speedup video trick modes The invention concerns a method and apparatus for displaying closed caption information during trick mode playback. A video processor (150) can be configured to delete one or more pictures in a segment of the video presentation that contains at least one pict... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330639 | Method of playing optical recording media An optical recording medium playing apparatus and method thereof to play an optical disc includes a signal processor to process signals read from the optical disc as a reproduced signal. A timer counts a preset time from when the key is entered a first time a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317866 | Reproducing a digital datastream containing program information for trick mode display In the case of trick mode decoding e.g. single step backward, it is necessary to decode any picture in the GOP independently from its location within the GOP. The inventive method for reproducing a digital data stream containing program information for trick mode di... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313315 | Methods and apparatus for making and replaying digital video recordings, and recordings made by such methods Broadcast data received in MPEG Transport Stream format (TS) is processed (8) to produce a modified transport stream for recording on an optical disc (3) to record the content of a selected audio-visual program. Various techniques are disclosed for per... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305170 | Information recording medium, apparatus and method for recording or reproducing data thereof An information recording medium stores information transmitted as a transport stream as objects. The management information written to the information recording medium includes object information for managing the recorded objects. The object information includes an ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301580 | Method of realizing combination of multi-sets of multiple digital images and bus interface technique A method of digital image combination for multiple channels with multiple sets and a bus interface which includes an image-processing unit for m-channel sub-images, an image-processing unit for n-set combining images, n-set video data buses, address and control buse... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301857 | Media player including a resume function A method and arrangement remembers a last-played position of a recorded medium by associating an identification number with the medium and storing therewith in memory a last-play position of the medium. The identification number of the recorded medium is analyzed af... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295767 | Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, and recording medium A recording medium which records thereon moving pictures encoded by a first encoding method, first pictures corresponding to the moving pictures and which have pixels smaller than the moving pictures, still pictures encoded by a second encoding method, and second pi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292781 | AV data recording device and method, disk recorded by the AV data recording device and method, AV data reproducing device and method therefor The present invention provides an AV data recording apparatus and method that facilitate various processes concerning a recorded video, including continuous reproduction, digital transmission, file operation, partial deletion, and post-recording. The AV data recordi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292773 | Implementation of mandatory segments in multimedia content Techniques are provided for enforcing mandatory segments in multimedia content. Generally, a command is received and it is determined if a duration of the command affects a mandatory segment of the multimedia content. If so, the command and the duration are used to ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289717 | Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording means which is arranged in operation t... | 10/30/2007 |
