Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7869696 | Method for recording recorded digital data stream and for providing presentation managing information for the recorded digital data stream A method and apparatus for providing presentation managing information for the recording medium, are provided. The method includes generating a transport stream, comprising reproducing, from a recording medium, an MPEG transport stream composed of a series of transp... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865057 | Method and apparatus for conveying rights across an analog video interface Method and apparatus for controlling subsequent permitted use, such as storage, of video on a digital storage device such as a personal video recorder (PVR). An analog video signal is provided with at least one modification to its video characteristics, for instance... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856168 | Recorder/reproducer and content data protection system for preventing unauthorized use of content The recorder/reproducer, when moving a first content data, writes a second content data, which is obtained by re-coding the first content data recorded in a first recording medium, into a second recording medium instead of the first content data, writes one or more ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853121 | Recording medium, reproduction device, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM stores a video stream and a plurality of pieces of copy control information. The plurality of pieces of copy control information include “CCIforHD with CM”, “CCIforSD with CM”, “CCIforHD without CM”, and “CCIforSD without CM”. The video stre... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7817902 | Apparatus and method of generating video-reproducing clock signal from 480p signal An apparatus and a method of generating a video-reproducing clock signal from a 480p signal. The apparatus generates a video-reproducing clock signal from a 480p signal that includes a vertical synchronization signal, horizontal synchronization signals, and copy gua... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805056 | Methods and apparatus for providing cycles of normal and non normal phase in a color burst signal A method and apparatus provides a modified color stripe video copy protection signal. Normally, prior color stripe video copy protection signals include a color burst signal in which all cycles of subcarrier have an incorrect (i.e., non-normal) phase, thereby to pro... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7787752 | Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium The present invention is intended to control the reproduction, duplication, or charging of content recorded to a recording/reproducing apparatus using a storage-type medium. Storage control information includes data for controlling content recorded to a storage-type... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783158 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information record medium having a record track recorded with at least video information is to be reproduced by a reproducing apparatus, which has a read device and reproduces at least video information while relatively moving the read device along the record tra... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769271 | Method and apparatus for managing parental level of optical disc Method and apparatus for managing a parental level of an optical disc can allow a user to set a parental level of a data stream recorded and stored on a rewritable optical disc or write-once optical disc, and can record and manage the set parental level as navigatio... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760988 | Content use device and recording medium To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unit 102 extracts a content name from playback control information in a playba... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742681 | Scrambling content information in a first recording medium when downgrading the quality of content information for storage on a second recording medium An information record apparatus includes: a down-convert device for down-converting a first content information having a first reproduction quality (HD) into a second content information having a second reproduction quality (SD) which is lower quality than the first... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738775 | Recording/reproducing device The present invention provides a recording/reproducing device which shortens time required for dubbing, when a user performs the dubbing of program data. The recording/reproducing device of the present invention is a recording/reproducing device which records and re... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7715689 | Broadcast receiver and system for performing copy prohibition and timed recording A receiving system and a receiving device are provided for receiving and processing broadcast digital and analog signals such as video and audio programs. The system and device are capable of determining whether a received program is subject to copy prohibition. If ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715688 | Broadcast receiver and recording method A broadcast receiver is provided which can prevent recording of uncopyable contents without failing to record copyable contents. A copy information detecting unit (4) detects copy control information attached to contents. A discriminating unit (5) disc... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706664 | Apparatus, method, and program product for recording and reproducing contents A contents recording and reproducing apparatus performs a record and a reproduce of a recording medium, in which the recording medium records a title key file registering therein at least one title key which encrypts each of plural title contents corresponding to a ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702213 | Data recording method and apparatus, data recording medium, and data reproducing method and apparatus The present invention provides remarkably improved availability in a data recording method and apparatus, a data recording medium, and a data reproducing method and apparatus. By recording additional information for data reproduction in each sector on a data reprodu... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689100 | Digital signal recording/reproducing apparatus A digital signal recording apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of protecting the copyright of the analog input information encoded into a first digital signal in a recording medium. A second digital signal encrypted based on the key information and the input an... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7672568 | Outputting apparatus, outputting method, recording apparatus, recording method, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and recording medium Recording control with additional information superposed on data and recording control in response to a type of a recording medium on which data are recorded are disclosed. A recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium includes an identification d... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668436 | Video information recording device and reproducing device A method is provided for recording video information in which copy control information of video information is managed in the case of copying the content of data from one recording medium to another recording medium. Copy control information (CCI) or a watermark (WM... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664369 | Method and apparatus for improving the playability of a PAL or NTSC video signal containing color burst modifications In the known color stripe process for preventing recording of video signals, the color burst present on each line of active video is modified so that any subsequent video tape recording of the video signal shows variations in the color fidelity that appear as undesi... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7646963 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and presentation medium An information processing apparatus comprises an extracting means for extracting main information including first copy control information and auxiliary information representing attributes of the main information from input information; a first generating means for ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7634171 | PC-based personal video recorder A PC-based personal video recorder (PVR) system enables recordation of video content on a general-purpose computer in a way that the computer is unable to perceptively display the recorded content, but is able to playback and distribute the content to a decoder box ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634172 | Methods for recording multiple sessions on a rewritable DVD disc A software driven method for recording multiple sessions on a rewritable DVD is provided. Examples include a software-driven method for appending data to rewritable DVD disc. A rewritable DVD disc for recording, wherein the rewritable DVD disc contains previously wr... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7609941 | Multimedia data recording apparatus, monitor system, and multimedia data recording method A multimedia data recording apparatus is disclosed that enables large-volume recorded data to be recorded for a long period in accordance with the importance of the data, by means of a simple configuration and simple processing, and without imposing a heavy load on ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606464 | Signal processing apparatus and associated methodology for controlling the recording of data streams A data stream inputted to the inventive system from the outside is supplied to a PID (packet ID) extracting circuit 1, in which a PID is detected from a transport stream TS regardless of whether the transport stream TS is a full transport stream TS or a parti... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587125 | Reproducing/recording apparatus A playback unit (3) reproduces contents which are recorded on a video cassette tape (2), and a recording unit (6) records the contents on another video cassette tape (7) and, simultaneously, an erasing unit (5) erases the contents ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587126 | Video information outputting apparatus, video information receiving apparatus, video information outputting method and video information transmitting method According to a video information outputting apparatus, a video information receiving apparatus, a video information outputting method and a video information transmitting method, for receiving and outputting digital video information. The digital information is outp... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7546023 | Method and apparatus for protecting broadcast data A broadcasting system, a receiving apparatus, a broadcasting method, and a receiving method which can protect a copyright of a still image which is sent by a digital broadcast are provided. When it is necessary to protect the copyright of the still image in the digi... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539394 | Method and apparatus for the copy protection of optical discs The present invention relates to a method of copy protecting optical discs, such as CD-ROMs. Instead of encoding data onto the CD-ROMs in a manner which ensures balanced dc content, for copy protection the digital data is encoded and recorded onto the optical disc s... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532804 | Method and apparatus for video copy detection A method for a matching technique for detecting copies of a video clip is provided. The method includes comparing temporal trails of intensity distributions between frames of the video clip and frames of a target video. A computer readable media, a computer system a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7512320 | Reproduction apparatus and reproducing method A reproducing apparatus has three reproducing modes that are a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode. In the first mode, when a program that has been reproduction restricted is tried to be reproduced, the reproducing operation is paused and the user is asked w... | 03/31/2009 |
| RE40689 | Method and apparatus for disabling anti-copy protection system in video signals A method and apparatus for disabling the effect of copy-protect signals placed in a recording video signals which is based on differences in the characteristics of television and VCR circuitry. Copy-protect signals include pseudo-sync pulses and/or added AGC pulses ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7474833 | Moving image reproducing apparatus and moving image reproducing method A moving image reproducing apparatus for reproducing a moving image recorded on an optical disk includes a storage unit which stores a reproduction permissible level set with respect to a parental level and stores a reference level, a moving image reproducing unit w... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463818 | Information recording/playback processor, method, and computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions, with additional data recorded with content data In an information recording processor, component bits of additional data to be recorded on an information recording medium are stored in specific user control data. Pointer information representing row and column numbers used as identification information of the use... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460765 | Universal multimedia optic disc player and its application for revocable copy protection The media player employs an operating system that supports a virtual machine into which auto-run playback programs may be loaded and run. The auto run playback program is stored on the media containing the program content, such as on an optical disc medium. When the... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444064 | Broadcast receiver, program recording method and program product The broadcast receiver that incorporates an HDD as a recording medium and records programs on the recording medium, when recording a program on the recording medium, determines whether the program content is prohibited from being copied afterward. If it is determine... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440677 | Detection of copy protection indicators or redistribution control indicators in an analog video signal To detect at least one of a copy protection indicator and a redistribution control indicator in an analog video signal, the video format of the analog video signal is determined, e.g., by detecting the horizontal frequency and vertical frequency of the signal. Based... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437057 | Image controlling circuit, image controlling method, and computer readable medium, wherein programs to execute the image controlling method on a computer system are stored An information processing apparatus prevents from illegal copying analogue pictures with copy guard, providing the image controlling circuit and the method. When the copy guard signal is detected, the screen information is processed and stored, is prevented from bei... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437056 | Combination system and copy error preventing method thereof A combo system and method having a play unit to play a signal recorded on a first recording medium and a recording unit to record the signal played by the play unit on a second recording medium. A detector detects whether a predetermined copy preventing signal exist... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430362 | Recording apparatus with determining whether or not information signals recorded previously on recording medium in accordance with repetitive recording reservation program have already been reproduced The present invention provides a recording apparatus having a recorder that records information signals pertaining to broadcast programs received from a receiver onto a recording medium, a setting device that sets a repetitive recording reservation program specifyin... | 09/30/2008 |
