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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7889969 | Audio frequency shifting during video trick modes The invention concerns a method and apparatus for audio content playback during fast forward playback video trick modes. A storage medium reader is provided for reading coded digital data from a storage medium such as a DVD. The coded digital data comprises a video ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7809241 | Audio frequency scaling during video trick modes utilizing digital signal processing The invention concerns a method and apparatus for audio track playback during fast forward playback video trick modes. A storage medium reader is provided for reading digital data from a storage medium such as a DVD. The digital data represents a video presentation ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7373414 | Multi-media system and method for simultaneously delivering multi-media data to multiple destinations A multimedia system and method that provides easy universal text searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and method of the present invention also facilitates content delivery through multiple, independent, simultaneo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362949 | Intelligent video system Described is an intelligent fast-forward video system that automatically controls a relative play speed of the video based on a complexity of the content reflecting the real story of a video, thereby enabling to carry out a fast-forward viewing for summarizing an en... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356950 | Karaoke card The device includes a body with monolithically and pivotally conjoined first and second sections. The second section includes front and rear portions. The front and rear portions include a finger protruding orthogonally thereof. The fingers interlock to maintain the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356245 | Methods to facilitate efficient transmission and playback of digital information Systems, methods, and computer products that facilitate transmission of information used for fast and responsive video and audio playback at non-standard, trick mode speeds. An embodiment of the present invention uses low resolution, compressed, and independent fram... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339954 | Multiplexing digital broadcast method that can establish a technique which can perfectly obtain a multiplexing digital broadcast data A multiplexing digital broadcast system includes a receiving terminal; and a broadcasting station. The receiving terminal includes: a receiving side recording device demodulating a specification digital data selectively specified from a multiplexing digital data tra... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330643 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track (1a) to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80) and reproduces audio information... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321559 | System and method of noise reduction in receiving wireless transmission of packetized audio signals A receiver for receiving wireless packetized audio signals having packet headers, and packet payloads including encoded audio signals is provided. The receiver includes an audio decoder for decoding the encoded audio signals into digital audio signals, an audio erro... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7304997 | Reception system for replacing transport packets A reception system has a receiving section which receives a transport stream transmitted from a transmission system that produces and transmits the transport stream, the transport stream being produced by multiplexing compression coded contents of a program, and ele... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296063 | Active stream format for holding multiple media streams An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport m... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295773 | Camera, an image inputting apparatus, a portable terminal device, and a method for transforming the camera configuration A camera has a camera body formed in a longitudinal rectangular shape, and in the intermediate portion of the camera body, a flexion/transformation mechanism dividing the camera body into an image photographing section including a lens system for capturing an optica... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286562 | System and method for dynamically changing error algorithm redundancy levels The invention is concerned with improvements in full duplex Internet telephone systems with a system architecture having low latency and permitting voice communication with telephone to telephone or PC to telephone connections. The architecture permits dynamic packe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286749 | Moving image playback apparatus, moving image playback method, and computer program thereof with determining of first voice period which represents a human utterance period and second voice period other than the first voice period In a moving image playback apparatus, periods A which represent human utterance periods, and other periods B are determined on the basis of sub-information contained in moving image data. Based on the moving image data, periods A undergo high-speed moving image play... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277622 | Recording medium of stream data, and recording method and playback method of the same Upon playback of stream data which is recorded while being appended with time stamp information in units of packets, time management is made using the time stamp information. A video playback time viewed from the user, which may be indicated by I-, B-, and P-picture... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274860 | Apparatus, method, and recording medium implementing audio gap information for an audio presentation discontinuous period An optical disk for recording more than one system stream containing audio data and video data. The audio data and video data of the plural system streams are recorded to the optical disk, and are interleaved such that the difference between the input start times of... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266287 | Using background audio change detection for segmenting video A video processing device includes a background audio change detector that detects background audio changes in audio data corresponding to particular video data. The video processing device detects semantically meaningful video scenes using detected background audio... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266288 | Video/audio playback apparatus and video/audio playback method Provided is a video/audio playback apparatus and a video/audio playback method in which on receiving an instruction for switching video operation from the video operation switching circuit, a data reading circuit reads a video/audio stream for playing an audio and a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263271 | System of sharing objects having a plurality of contents In order to use video contents created according to DVD video in DVD audio, audio and video sub-directories are located under a root directory. The video sub-directory includes video contents and their management information. The audio sub-directory includes audio c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7197088 | Digital broadcast receiving system A second is counted at a step S11, and an information table is read at a step S12. Content change of the information table is checked at a step S13. The content change is checked by checking the value of a CRC or checking content change of at le... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7173782 | Magnetic disk drive and refresh method Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive that does not generate errors when information is read even if considerable time has elapsed after the information was written on the magnetic disk. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk has a storage area divi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162145 | Multimedia system for transferring and receiving program number and methods therefor In a multi-media system for transferring and receiving a transport stream (MPEG2-TS) between a receiver and a recording/reproducing device using the IEEE 1394 interface, a program number command of a selected program is transferred from the receiver to the recording... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149412 | Trick mode audio playback A method for playing a digital audio recording at a speed other than 1X, the method comprises retrieving stored digital audio information represented in a plurality of audio frames. A portion of the plurality of audio frames are ranked according to an energy content... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136571 | System and method for fast playback of video with selected audio There is disclosed a video playback device for playing back a video program in fast forward mode on a display screen coupled to the video playback device. The video playback device contains an apparatus for selectively playing back portions of an audio signal associ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130528 | Audio data deletion and silencing during trick mode replay The invention concerns a method and apparatus for audio program playback during fast forward playback video trick modes. A storage medium reader can be configured to read coded digital data from a storage medium such as a DVD. The coded digital data can be a video p... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7085435 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068322 | Broadcasting receiver A remote control transmitter is provided with an AUDIO key for switching an audio mode in sound multiplex broadcasting and an ENTER key for determining various types of selections. When the ENTER key is operated in a state where the audio mode is temporarily selecte... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054544 | System, method and record medium for audio-video synchronous playback In an audio-video synchronous playback control system which outputs coded audio data to an external audio decoding device so as to be decoded and played back by the external audio decoding device while playing back video data maintaining synchronization with the aud... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047201 | Real-time control of playback rates in presentations Media encoding, transmission, and playback processes and structures employ a multi-channel architecture with different audio channels corresponding to different playback rates for a presentation to be transmitted over a network. Audio frames in the various audio cha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7023636 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus A playback error associated with overwriting on a narrow-width track is prevented from occurring in the overwritten portion. A signal generator (11) generates a signal of a predetermined data pattern that stabilizes the operation of a synchronizing pulse gene... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020799 | Method of and a system to play a media file Systems (112) that can play real-time audio and/or video often have strict timing constraints for reading, processing and playing the data. However, when data is corrupt or sectors from a data carrier (100) are incorrect, the system tries to recover fr... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012650 | Start/stop audio encoder apparatus and method for synchronizing digital audio and video signals The invention uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to synchronize an audio encoding process with a video synchronization signal. Namely, the encoder parameters of a DSP microchip are preset according to characteristics of an audio frame. A buffer temporar... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6980735 | Camera, an image inputting apparatus, a portable terminal device, and a method for transforming the camera configuration A camera has a camera body formed in a longitudinal rectangular shape, and in the intermediate portion of the camera body, a flexion/transformation mechanism dividing the camera body into an image photographing section including a lens system for capturing an optica... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6934759 | Method and apparatus for user-time-alignment for broadcast works An embodiment of the present invention is a method for broadcasting information from a server to a client which includes the steps of: (a) broadcasting information at predetermined starting times; (b) receiving a request for the information from the client at an arr... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931201 | Video indexing using high quality sound A method for video indexing using high quality audio clips enables a user to acquire high quality audio clips during an audio/video sequence recording so that the user can selectively view the audio/video sequence using the high quality audio clips as video indices.... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925340 | Sound reproduction method and sound reproduction apparatus An apparatus and method for recording and reproducing a sound (i.e. audio) signal corresponding to a video signal at a higher than normal speed. The method delimits a sound signal reproduced at a recording medium at a speed higher than a normal speed into successive... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6868224 | Method and apparatus for providing multimedia playback During a fast forward search of a multimedia presentation, the audio portion of the multimedia presentation is pitch-adjusted and played back in order to assist the user in determining where within the multimedia presentation the playback currently is located. In an... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6744974 | Dynamic variation of output media signal in response to input media signal A first input signal, which has a first playback sequence, is resequenced based upon a characteristic of a second input signal. The resequencing occurs analyzing the characteristic in the second input signal, and modifying the first playback sequence of the first in... | 06/01/2004 |
