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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7430360 | Replaying a video segment with changed audio A method of, and a system capable of, replaying a portion of a video, the method comprising the steps of, and the system comprising the means for: receiving, during a playing of a video, a replay request to replay a portion of the video; skipping, responsive to the ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7412153 | Information recording device and method, and information recording system In recording information, an SMPTE 339M-defined UMID buried in video and audio material signals to be recorded to a magnetic tape (30) or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals, is written to a contactless memory tag (37), wh... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7366240 | Decoder and method of decoding using pseudo two pass decoding and one pass encoding A method of processing video frame data includes the steps of: receiving a video frame; partially decoding the video frame; fully decoding the video frame to produce macroblocks; determining video data parameters from the partially decoded video frame or both the pa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366402 | Method and apparatus of recording a high definition digital television broadcast signal The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of recording a directly-received digital television broadcast signal. This method demodulates a received high definition digital television broadcast signal, extracts transport stream belonging to a chosen chan... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7352956 | Method for implementing trickplay modes in a data stream recorder Stream recording assumes e.g. a settop box to be connected to a DVD Streamer. The connection is e.g. of IEEE 1394 type using interfaces including transmitting and receiving firmware. Stream Data include one or more Stream Objects which each can be stored as a Progra... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353447 | System and method for representing compressed information The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343084 | Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and computer readable storage medium This invention can play back a smooth moving image in both normal and slow playback modes in consideration of the human visual recognition level, even when moving image data to be decoded (played back) is recorded (encoded) at a high frame rate. To this end, in this... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333519 | Method of manually fine tuning audio synchronization of a home network A method is provided for manually synchronizing the playback of a digital audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices. The method is applicable for use with methods such as those that use a time code, insert a control track pulse, or use an audio wavefo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324737 | Method and apparatus for using standard VTR transport buttons to operate a disk recorder playback device Briefly, there is provided a method for manipulating content stored on a disk recorder/playback device using conventional transport commands, such as those used on a conventional videotape recorder (VTR). The method commences by detecting whether the content is in o... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324738 | Video stream processing apparatus and video stream processing method An image-quality control information adding section 13 reads image-quality control information corresponding to a type of an input video stream 101 from an image-quality control information storage section 12, and then adds the read image-qualit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321721 | Hard disk apparatus, medium, and collection of information Alternation processes reduce the recording and reproducing speed of a hard disk apparatus. A hard disk apparatus comprising: an HDD 10 for recording AV data onto a hard disk; and stream controlling means 8 which is connected to the HDD 10... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319794 | Image decoding unit, image encoding/ decoding devices using image decoding unit, and method thereof An image decoding unit comprises a decoding unit, a data memory unit, a reconstruction unit, and a frame memory. The decoding unit includes an entropy decoder, a motion compensator, an inverse quantizer, and an inverse DCT unit. The data memory unit includes a data ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313317 | Portable image recording apparatus The portable image recording apparatus comprises a coding unit which codes an input sound and image data relating to an image, a parameter setting unit which variably sets a frame rate and a bit rate of coding to be executed by the coding unit according to a type of... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298959 | Method and apparatus for storing MPEG-2 transport streams using a conventional digital video recorder A method and apparatus for storing an MPEG-2 transport data stream with a conventional digital video (DV) recorder is described. The packetized MPEG-2 transport stream data is inserted into a data block of a digital video (DV) frame. The digital video frame is store... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292772 | Method and apparatus for decoding and recording medium for a coded video stream A video decoder reproduces an MP@ML/MPEG-2 video bit stream at an arbitrary speed. When a slice decoder control circuit receives parameters, the slice decoder control circuit sequentially supplies parameters of a picture layer and a write pointer associated with a f... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272299 | Data conversion apparatus, data coding apparatus, and data recording apparatus A data conversion apparatus is provided with a temporary storage means for temporarily holding inputted variable-frame-rate coded data, a coded data time stamp reading means for reading a coded data time stamp of the inputted coded data, a time stamp conversion mean... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263273 | Recording medium cartridge with memory circuit employing a hierarchical data structure A recording medium cartridge includes a memory circuit for storing information concerning signals recorded on the recording medium within the cartridge. The information is stored in the memory circuit in the form of a hierarchic data structure which includes a plura... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263274 | Recording medium cartridge with memory circuit employing a hierarchical data structure A recording medium cartridge includes a memory circuit for storing information concerning signals recorded on the recording medium within the cartridge. The information is stored in the memory circuit in the form of a hierarchic data structure which includes a plura... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245821 | Image processing using shared frame memory When a reverse reproduction is instructed, an MPEG video stream is once decoded and is again recoded by an MPEG video encoder so as to generate a recoded data sequence which will be overwritten on a storage area in a hard disk. An MPEG video decoder reads out this r... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245664 | Transmission control method of coded video signals and transmission system A system for transmitting coded digital video signals in a packet form through a signal line and a method of controlling the system. A transmission portion converts the digital video signals to a signal stream as a sequence of a plurality of packets each containing ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239793 | On-screen display insertion A digital apparatus for reproducing a digital video representative signal stored on a recorded medium is connected to a receiving device including a decoder. The apparatus comprises a processing means for the digital video representative signal stored on the recorde... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231091 | Simplified predictive video encoder In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with a residual, wherein inter-coding codes the input video data with ref... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231129 | Information reproduction apparatus and information reproduction method An information reproduction apparatus which can perform repetitive reproduction is provided. In the apparatus, information recorded in an information storage medium is read. The read information is decoded. The decoded information is stored in a predetermined region... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231138 | Method and system for DVD single frame stepping backwards Aspects of performing single frame backwards playback in a DVD system are described. The aspects include receiving a signal indicating selection of a single frame reverse function. Frame data for a preceding frame of an original playback is then reconstructed while ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231132 | Trick-mode processing for digital video A method for processing digital video data intended for normal mode display to obtain corresponding digital video data for trick-mode display includes modifying the normal mode digital video data to achieve a substantially uniform delivery rate to a video client. Th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228063 | Recording apparatus and method, and reproducing apparatus and method A selector has both a function for creating a header of a sequence layer and a header of a picture layer corresponding to reproduced data of a system area and a function for outputting one of an input stream and a stream of which a created header has been added to t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218842 | Efficient methods of performing motion compensation based decoding and recoding of compressed video bitstreams The present invention provides efficient methods for performing motion compensation. The methods are particularly useful during motion compensation based decoding and recoding. In one aspect, motion compensation in accordance with the present invention improves on-c... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215871 | Changing a playback speed for video presentation recorded in a field structure format The invention includes a system and method for changing a playback speed of a selected video segment containing field pictures which has been recorded onto a portion of a storage medium. A selected video segment can be modified for a changed playback speed and the m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209631 | Image recording/reproducing apparatus A video recording/reproducing apparatus capable of discriminating commercial message portions even when a broadcasting mode is the same. A magnetic head records television broadcasting signals to a magnetic tape and reproduces the television broadcasting signals fro... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197070 | Efficient systems and methods for transmitting compressed video data having different resolutions The present invention relates to systems and methods for combining compressed video data encoded or received with different resolutions. The present invention combines the compressed video data from the two separate bitstreams without decoding and re-encoding each b... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194189 | Methods and apparatus for smooth reverse playback of MPEG encoded media A method and an apparatus for performing the method of decoding and playing in reverse MPEG encoded content. The MPEG encoded content comprises a plurality of pictures frames. The picture frames are comprised of one or more picture frame types selected from the grou... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194195 | Software based digital video recorder device A system and method for converting information stored on a magnetic medium to DVD format. A tape transport mechanism may sample information stored on a magnetic medium at a selected rate where the selected rate is correlated to an available buffer size in a data pro... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187840 | Reproducing arrangement having an overview reproducing mode A reproducing arrangement for reproducing scenes of a stored film in an overview reproducing mode of the reproducing arrangement, has random access memory means for the storage of audio/video data (AVD) of a film which is reproducible at a normal reproducing speed d... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7174090 | Digital VTR In a digital VTR having a certain recording bit rate, within a range not higher than a remaining data rate after recording the bit stream, first HP data D1 is recorded in first specific regions, and second HP data D2 is recorded in second specific regi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174084 | Method and apparatus for performing sub-picture level splicing based on interrupts Techniques to effectuate splicing at sub-picture level. In one aspect, splicing is effectuated via an interrupt generated after each splice has occurred. The interrupt may be generated by either the hardware designated to perform splicing or other peripheral hardwar... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7159164 | Method and apparatus for recovery of particular bits of a frame A method and an apparatus for recovery of particular bits in a frame are disclosed. An origination station forms a frame structure with groups of information bits of different importance. All the information bits are then protected by an outer quality metric. Additi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155114 | Information recording apparatus and method, information reading apparatus and method, magnetic tape format, and recording medium An information recording apparatus for recording information on a predetermined recording medium includes a creation unit for creating search data from main image data; and a recording unit for recording the search data created by the creation unit and the main imag... | 12/26/2006 |
