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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7917013 | Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and c... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7835621 | Encoding controlling apparatus and encoding system An encoding controlling apparatus is disclosed which includes: offset holding means for holding an offset equivalent to a time period by which to start encoding an audio signal earlier than a video signal upon recording of a chapter; recording mode determining means... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836109 | Data structure, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, and record medium A data structure having at least content data and reproduction control information with which reproduction of the content data is controlled is disclosed. The data structure includes an index table, an object, a play list, and clip information. With the index table,... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7720353 | Parallel communication streams from a multimedia system A multi-stream multimedia system is provided for providing simultaneous parallel communication streams from a plurality of communication devices, displaying the simultaneous parallel communication streams on a plurality of presentation devices, providing a high prec... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711244 | Video/audio synchronizing apparatus A video and audio reproducing apparatus is provided with a re-synchronization controlling portion (20) for carrying out operation control with respect to re-synchronization of video and audio which are transmitted via an IP network, wherein the delay times of... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702212 | Information recording apparatus with memory control structure An information recording apparatus includes: a transferring device that separately and simultaneously receives at least two information supplied through at least two channels, and separately and simultaneously transfers the at least two information to a storing devi... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7668435 | Multimedia signal processing system A multimedia signal processing system utilizes an easily manipulated, low-cost storage and display system that allows the user to view a television program and instantly review previous scenes within the program. The invention also allows the user to store selected ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643725 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data representing multiple reproduction paths and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses In the data structure, a data area of the recording medium stores a transport stream of at least video data. The transport stream is divided into transport packets, and each of the transport packets is associated with one of the multiple reproduction paths. Also, th... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7623758 | Method and apparatus of recording a multi-channel stream, and a recording medium containing a multi-channel stream recorded by said method The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording a multi-channel data stream on a recording medium in such a manner that substreams of digital channels constituting the multi-channel data stream can be distinguished each other in reproduction. The ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7570871 | Continue recording channel feature for personal video recorder A PVR (A) includes an output (70) wherein a TV channel selected for viewing is output, and a storage device (20) that selectively stores a channel indicator (24) therein. A user interface (60) provides means for selectively loading the st... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7502546 | Method and apparatus for digitally recording and synchronously retrieving a plurality of video signals A method and apparatus for connecting a plurality of digital video recorders to a plurality of video transmitters via first transmission lines and for connecting the plurality of digital video recorders to a playback receiver via second transmission lines. The playb... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7471877 | Image recorder and method and program for displaying recorded images An image recording method and system according to the present invention includes an image-recorder unit, which records images acquired by different image-obtaining units such as a digital camera and a digital video camera. The system also includes a time period disp... | 12/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7411604 | Synchronization of a stereoscopic camera A method for synchronizing the recordings of two video cameras which are operated in parallel for the three-dimensional representation of an image sequence includes fading a light signal into the image area of the two cameras and simultaneously recording the light s... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406095 | Data processing apparatus and method with packet parsing A transport stream (TS) is recorded and the recorded TS is reproduced simultaneously. An input PID parser extracts the first packet only to be recorded, the second packet to be recorded and to be used for controlling, and the third packet to be used only for control... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7376336 | Recording apparatus and recording control method A recording apparatus is provided with a receiving device which simultaneously receives a plurality of broadcast video signals; a multiplexing device which obtains a plurality of broadcast video signals from the receiving device, putts each of the plurality of broad... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362955 | Video recording and reproducing apparatus A video recording and reproducing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of image contents recorded at given time points or images at a plurality of given portions within the same image contents is disclosed. A plurality of images read from a randomly a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362956 | Apparatus for playing back a video content storage medium An apparatus is capable of playing back video content recorded on a DVD-Video disk without requiring the playing of a menu. A presentation sequence control unit of a non-video navigation manager extracts button commands for playing titles from a VMGM-PG for displayi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7330900 | Low-latency packet processor Packets of real-time media streams are processed at a network node such within a desired maximum latency less than the frame interval of the streams. The media streams have respective packet rates all substantially equal to a nominal packet rate and respective packe... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317864 | Method and apparatus for transmitting information, and reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and recording medium for the information, and transmission data thereof An output control (OPC) information is recorded on the magnetic tape 1 in conjunction with an MPEG stream. The OPC information is composed of two bits and is extracted from a reproduced signal by the output control circuit 9 and controls the digital in... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7280806 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269334 | Recording and playing back multiple programs The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for recording multiple programs onto a storage medium. The invention includes the steps of: receiving (210) a plurality of multimedia inputs; sampling (212) the multimedia inputs such... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7206498 | Recorder The invention provides a video recording device which comprises a tuner 2 for receiving a television broadcast signal, an XDS signal extraction circuit 4 for extracting an XDS signal from the received television broadcast signal, a VCR mechanism 6 | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200814 | Reproduction apparatus There is provided a reproduction apparatus for reproducing stream data recorded on a recording medium, the stream data containing menu item coordinate information representing a display location of a menu item and image information representing an image. The reprodu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194735 | Executing native code in place of non-native code A code execution mechanism is provided which can direct a data processing system to execute native code in place of executing non-native code, in which the native code is functionally equivalent to the non-native code. The data processing system is operatively coupl... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190415 | Digital broadcasting receiver A digital broadcasting receiver for changing a current channel from one channel to another channel when a commercial message is broadcast on the one channel on which a program is being watched. The time after changing the current channel is measured by a timer IC. W... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185102 | Method for handling byte code in a configurable manner A method and apparatus for timely delivery of classes and objects is provided. A header comprising timing information is attached to said classes and/or objects. A “start loading” time and a “load by” time are specified in the header. Other classes and/or ob... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177532 | Dual video player for disc jockeys The video player for disc jockeys has a playback unit (100) and a control unit (200) in separate housings (102, 202). The playback unit has two video drives (110, 112) contained therein. Each drive (110, 112) has a signal. The cont... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171106 | Method and apparatus for processing, digitally recording and retrieving a plurality of video signals A method and apparatus for processing and digital recording video signal where transmitters for generating video signals receive an external synchronizing signal for synchronizing the transmitters. A recorder receiving the video signals has a switch sequentially con... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171110 | System and a method for storing audio/video programs on a hard disk drive for presentation to a viewer An audio/video (A/V) system for storing A/V programs includes an interface configured to receive a transport stream structured in packets and representing a plurality of A/V programs. Each A/V program is represented by a plurality of packets and is identified by pro... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146092 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7124425 | Audio/video system and method utilizing a head mounted apparatus with noise attenuation A head mounted display in a video/audio system includes a display device, a head mount, noise reduction devices, and a speaker. The display device is coupled to the head mount and produces visual images based on received video signals. The head mount is mounted on t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113694 | Apparatus for creating and managing navigation information in rewritable recording medium and method therefor An audio recording apparatus provides a method of managing the video and audio navigation data for a rewritable recording medium, such as DVDs. The recording medium contains video and audio files in either originally recorded or user defined sequence. During recordi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099563 | Multichannel recording device and method The present invention is directed to a recording device and method for recording digital data constituting a program on a disc-shaped recording medium using a specified minimum data length (CDA) unit that must be contiguous. Digital data constituting a first and sec... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095947 | System for synchronizing the playback of two or more connected playback devices using closed captioning The present invention is directed to a method and system for synchronizing the replay of a pre-recorded program between a plurality of playback devices utilizing closed-caption data. The internal block of the playback devices are synchronized. Upon receiving program... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088909 | Method and apparatus for the recording the reproduction of transmitted programme contribution In the context of recording program contributions, in particular television transmissions, it is frequently undesirable for the advertising blocks broadcast during the transmission also to be recorded and displayed in the event of subsequent reproduction. The invent... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076153 | Digital video recording system and its recording medium In a DVD recording/playback system, a set top box STB receives an MPEG transport stream constituted by a plurality of transport packets, and a formatter extracts support information indicating if management information included in the transport packets includes pred... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071991 | Image decoding apparatus, semiconductor device, and image decoding method The present invention provides an image decoding apparatus, a semiconductor device, and a image decoding method, capable of outputting images simultaneously using different formats. In the image decoding apparatus, an MPEG decoding portion 1 decodes an inputt... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058288 | Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A v... | 06/06/2006 |
