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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434155 | Icon bar display for video editing system A method and apparatus are provided for editing video sequences. The method includes the steps of providing a display with a plurality of audio/visual sequences depicted on the display where each audio/visual sequence of the plurality of audio visual sequences is di... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7372873 | Reconstructing a partial transport stream A method and a system for reconstructing a partial transport stream are described. One embodiment of the method includes time-stamping each packet when the packet arrives, storing of the selected subset of packets and the associated timestamps in a storage medium, r... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7289718 | After-recording apparatus An audio signal is compressively encoded into encoding-resultant audio data. A video signal is compressively encoded into encoding-resultant video data. An audio time stamp for audio-vide synchronous reproduction is added to every unit of the encoding-resultant audi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277623 | Equal duty cycle frequency divider The invention relates to a frequency divider (1), in particular for radio frequency (RF) applications, wherein the division ratio can be expressed by a—preferably odd numbered integer—divisor. The frequency divider (1) comprises an input circuit ( | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269215 | Equalization processing method and the apparatus for periodic fluctuation of transmission line characteristic A method used in equalization processing is provided, in which a reference signal is received and a change point of transmission line characteristics is detected. A basic frequency signal of fluctuation period of the transmission line characteristics is extracted, a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260311 | Apparatus, method, program and recording medium for program recording and reproducing In recording and reproducing a program contents, a first difference between a desired playback start time and a time corresponding to a desired recorded video position of said program is calculated, then a second difference between the desired start time of the prog... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7199834 | Vertical synchronizing signal generation apparatus and video signal processing apparatus The vertical sync signal generator includes: a vertical sync signal separation circuit for separating a vertical sync signal of an input luminance signal and outputting the separated signal as a first vertical sync signal; an automatic frequency control circuit for ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7181696 | System and method for performing market research studies on online content A system and method for conducting market research studies on online content utilizing moderator and respondent computers connected over a network. A moderator at the moderator computer directs a plurality of respondents at the respondent computers to view preselect... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174087 | Playback apparatus and adaptive equalizing circuit with a phase-locked loop coupled thereto An equalizing circuit is provided for a playback apparatus not requiring tracking control. A playback signal is supplied to a plurality of unit delay devices which are connected in series, and the signals at the input ends and the output ends are supplied to weighti... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7143134 | System and method for integrating electronic transcription systems The present invention provides a system and method for integrating one or more electronic transcription systems (12) having sessions providing data on a network (18) wherein real-time, two-way interactive access to the data by one or more remote users ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133881 | Encoding and transferring media content onto removable storage A media content is encoded at multiple bit rates to form a multi-bit-rate encoded media content, wherein the media content contains at least one segment. The multi-bit-rate encoded media content is stored to a first data storage device. An amount of disk space avail... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130249 | Device for inputting title of recording medium A device for inputting the title of a recording medium readily. When a capturing key of a tuner unit (1) is depressed, a first system controller (7) stores the text information, received currently by an FM multiplexed text broadcasting receiving tuner ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113692 | Data processing device and data recording method A recording/reproducing device has an NTSC decoder which receives a video signal and outputs a video signal, an MPEG audio encoder which receives an audio signal and outputs an audio signal, and a synchronous control circuit which detects a synchronizing signal from... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7083320 | Kneading apparatus and method, including selectable supply ports, for kneading rubber or rubber compositions A continuous kneading apparatus and method are provided wherein discharge ports are provided at a plurality of positions of the barrel to discharge a kneaded product, and one of the plurality of the discharge ports is selected according to a desired kneading conditi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072572 | Method of and apparatus for merging bit streams for seamless reproduction, and recording medium for recording control information for bit stream merging A method of and apparatus for merging bit streams for seamless reproduction, and a recording medium for recording control information for bit stream merging. System clock reference (SCR) control information representing whether the SCR value of a bit stream is tempo... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058281 | Recording and reproducing apparatus, and variable speed reproducing method using same When a variable speed reproduction of a low-time speed like an overtaking reproduction is executed by using an MPEG2 stream, deterioration in picture quality is prevented and low costs are realized. An arrival time of an input TS packet is added by an input counter ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046479 | Magnetic recording/reproducing device having position control Track thinning at an IN point of consecutive recording is prevented by doing a head-track one-edge coincidence tracking by using a head of a larger width than the track width. ATF control unit (15) makes a control during reproduction of pre-roll of consecutiv... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042518 | Digitally controlled variable frequency HF emphasis circuit for use in video displays A sharpness filter processes a video signal that is to be displayed in a windowed environment. The windowed environment may contain windows that for displaying television images derived from video standards such as NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. Displaying windowed televisio... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7006756 | Method and apparatus for timestamping a bitstream to be recorded A set top box can be connected to a DVD Streamer via an IEEE1394 interface which contains means to timestamp data and to strip off these timestamps again, using them for timing regeneration. The DVD stream also must regenerate the timing of data packets as it was up... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6975807 | Video tape recorder A video tape recorder includes a rotary cylinder of double-azimuth four-head structure having a pair of main heads and a pair of subheads. When it is detected base on an envelop signal that clogging or the like occurs in the pair of main heads, a controller performs... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973258 | Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams A method and apparatus for recording digital data streams. When a digital broadcast data stream received by a set top box is transmitted through a communication interface such as an IEEE-1394 bus to a streamer, program clock references contained in the data stream b... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6931087 | Feedforward clock switching circuit A clocking circuit includes primary and secondary clock sources. These sources are input to a multiplexer which selectively chooses between them. A PLL stabilizes the output of the multiplexer. A clock detection circuit monitors the presence of the primary clock sou... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6901248 | Frequency converter and radio frequency tuner A single conversion frequency converter comprises an image reject mixer and a local oscillator. The local oscillator comprises a variable frequency oscillator and a variable divider. The variable divider supplies to the mixer a local oscillator signal whose frequenc... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6865336 | User-specific time values for time-based navigation functions of video recorder systems There is provided a method for managing time-values of time-based navigation functions in a video recording system. A user input is received that specifies a re-programmed time-value for a time-based navigation function. The re-programmed time-value is stored for fu... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6850694 | Video signal processing apparatus The present invention relates to a video signal processing apparatus for outputting an inputted video signal after subjecting the video signal to time axis correction, particularly to a video signal processing apparatus preferable in the case of subjecting the video... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6789072 | Method and apparatus for searching recorded digital data streams using packet arrival time information A method and apparatus for recording time information for received digital data streams to be recorded on a recording medium such as a digital video disk and searching the recorded digital data streams using the time information. The format of the time information i... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6714717 | Time base corrector A time base corrector apparatus for removing time base errors from video signals. A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCXO) is locked to the chroma burst of the input signal. The VCXO is used to digitize the input video, to comb filter and to demodulate chroma signals.... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6694088 | Progressive scan video production system and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus In a progressive scan video production system with no 30 Hz information dealing with progressive scan TV signals, phase of time code signals of 30 Hz and video signals of the progressive scan TV system is locked. Two VTRs of the progressive scan TV system... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6661966 | Reproducing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium and method for displaying information corresponding to an area When, after moving to an area having a time difference, a camera-integrated recording-and-reproducing apparatus has been used for taking a video image and recording the taken video image together with date and time information without performing a time-di... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6559758 | Multi-tone warning sounder A sounder device includes a piezoelectric resonant transducer, an amplifier and a coupling transformer to drive the transducer, an electronic signal produced to provide an input signal to the amplifier, and in which the electronic signal producer includes... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6510279 | Audio/video synchronous reproducer enabling accurate synchronization between audio and video and a method of audio/video synchronous reproduction In an audio/video synchronous reproducer for carrying out audio reproduction and video display synchronously in response to audio data and video data, an audio processing section (6) processes the audio data to produce a processed audio data amount in add... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6389219 | Method and device for controlling the phase relation between a head drum and tape feed system of a magnetic tape recording device A method for controlling a phase relation between a head drum and a tape feed system, of a type wherein digital picture data is subdivided into blocks having an assigned pointer value each and wherein the pointer values define which part of the picture th... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6336001 | Digital recording/reproduction apparatus A digital recording/reproduction method and apparatus includes a data detection circuit for detecting a frequency of occurrence of a specific data value contained in an information signal, and a phase controller for controlling a phase of a sampling clock... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6282510 | Audio and video transcription system for manipulating real-time testimony A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys. Based on the hardware present, the court reporter terminal automatically selects the most appropriate synchronization and ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6097879 | Video camera apparatus of digital recording type A digital recording/reproducing video camera apparatus which externally receives analog video and audio signals as a standard video signal for data compression and recording. Selection switches for switching between a camera pick-up mode and a line input ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6075917 | Jitter compensating method and device for OSD A jitter compensating device for an on-screen display (OSD) of a picture reproducing apparatus which performs a normal-play mode and a special-play mode includes a compensating vertical synchronous signal generator for receiving a vertical synchronous sig... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6009226 | Recording and reproducing apparatus for packet data In a recording and reproducing apparatus, time stamps are generated which represent moments of arrival of sequentially-inputted packets of data respectively. The generated time stamps are added to the sequentially-inputted packets respectively, and thereb... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6006006 | Frame pulse generation apparatus for a video cassette recorder A frame pulse generation apparatus for a SD-VCR generates a correct frame pulse even though a track pair number differs from an original one due to an error, to obtain an accurate picture. A frame base pulse generator compares the track pair number detect... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5923377 | Jitter reducing circuit A sync signal correction circuit generates a corrected sync signal which is obtained by correcting a timing of a sync signal on the basis of a time axis variation component (jitter component) of the sync signal separated from a picture signal. The correct... | 07/13/1999 |
