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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7953313 | 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... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7912338 | Recording medium having data structure for managing random/shuffle reproduction of video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses A recording medium having data structures for managing random/shuffle reproduction of video data recorded thereon is disclosed. The recording medium in accordance with the present invention comprises at least one piece of title management information, a playlist dir... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912346 | Image information recording medium, image information processor, and image information processing program This invention provides a DVD-ROM includes an image information area for DVD-Video playback apparatus and an image information area for computer processing. A CD-ROM includes an image information area for Video-CD playback apparatus and an image information area for... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894704 | Reproducing apparatus and method, and recording medium A reproducing apparatus and method includes a reproducing unit to reproduce mainstream data and sub audio data separately added in the mainstream data, wherein the reproducing unit comprises a counter used in reproducing the sub audio data. Accordingly, it is possib... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889970 | 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... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885510 | 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... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7869690 | Apparatus and method for recording AV streams onto a recording medium with reproduction path change point features The present invention facilitates reading in advance information on addresses where data of each reproduction path to be reproduced is stored. Clip AV stream 1 to Clip AV stream 3 of angles forming a multiangle are managed by PlayList#1 to PlayL... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869691 | Apparatus for recording a main file and auxiliary files in a track on a record carrier The invention relates to an apparatus for recording a main file comprising a main information signal and auxiliary files comprising auxiliary signals in a track on a record carrier. The apparatus writes in a first location a block of an auxiliary file comprising a p... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865058 | Apparatus for receiving a digital information signal comprising a first video signal producing images of a first size, and a second video signal producing images of a second size smaller than the first size The invention relates to an apparatus for receiving a first and second video signal. The first video signal represents a sequence of images having a first size, and the second video signal representing a sequence of images having a second size, the second size being... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865061 | Recording apparatus for recording data to recording medium with a Plurality of clusters A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record moving image data including a plurality of frames on a recording medium. The recording medium includes a plurality of clusters. The apparatus also includes an editing unit of the moving image data,... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865059 | Device and method for recording information including realtime data in accordance with a predefined recording format A device for recording information records a real-time data stream (51) in blocks having contiguous logical addresses (LA0-LA5) on a record carrier at corresponding physical addresses (PA0-PA8). The device has allocation means for ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865062 | Information processing apparatus and method, recorded medium, and program In DVR Volume( ), there is stated the information pertinent to the totality of the information recorded in a disc. The information recorded in the disc can be confirmed on the basis of this description. In TableOfPlayList( ), there is stated the information usable i... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865060 | Recording medium reproduction device program, reproduction method A BD-ROM stores PlayList information. The PlayList information defines a playback section of each of a plurality of AV clips and includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information designates one of the AV clips as a Main Clip and defines... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860371 | Information recording method,information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856169 | Reproduction device, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM playback apparatus for selecting and playing back one among text subtitle streams together with a moving picture. PSR 48-61 store Decode Capability flags whose set values indicate, for each language, whether or not a decode capability is prese... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853124 | Data insertion apparatus and methods for use with compressed audio/video data Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for performing data insertion in compressed audio/video data streams are disclosed. A disclosed method receives a digital data stream containing a plurality of compressed media streams associated with a plurality of di... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853125 | Reproduction device, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM playback apparatus for selecting and playing back one among text subtitle streams together with a moving picture. PSR 48-61 store Decode Capability flags whose set values indicate, for each language, whether or not a decode capability is prese... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853122 | Device for reproducing content such as video information and device for receiving content The present invention is relative with a reproducing apparatus and a receiving apparatus for affording the impression or evaluation in line with the intention of a content supplier to the audience. The reproducing apparatus reproduces an optical disc (1) in w... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853123 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848615 | Medium for storing subtitle data structure of an audio/ video program and method for displaying the same The present invention provides a medium for storing a subtitle data structure of an audio/video program and a method for displaying the same. The subtitle data structure of the audio/video program includes a plurality of character packages and a background image pac... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844168 | Video decoding apparatus, video decoding method, and digital audio/video playback system capable of controlling presentation of sub-pictures A video decoding apparatus capable of controlling presentation of sub-pictures includes a first decoder, a second decoder, a first scaler, a second scaler and a combiner. The first decoder and the second decoder respectively decode a digital audio/video signal to ge... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844167 | System and apparatus for digital audio/video decoder splitting signal into component data streams for rendering at least two video signals The present invention provides a system and an apparatus for a digital audio/video decoder comprising a file reader capable of obtaining an encoded audio/video data stream from a data source, a navigator that instructs the file reader to obtain the encoded audio/vid... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844169 | Method for converting data format A method for converting the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format is provided. The method includes reading and mapping the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format to generate a first title file and a second title file. Sequential playback functions defin... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840117 | Information recording medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information recording medium includes: a plurality of recorded information pieces being independent of each other; a plurality of individual attribute information pieces each corresponding to each of the recorded information piece and including information relati... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840118 | Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method for recording data into recording medium, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing data from recording medium Data is recorded in a data area of a disk in a hierarchical structure of program chains, programs, cells and packs, each pack is constructed by a pack header for identifying the pack and a packet having a data stream recorded therein, the packet has a packet header ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835622 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data recorded on the recording medium may include, for example, path management information for managing reproduction of the multiple reproduction path video data recorded on the recording medium. The pa... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835624 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus for recording a video signal on an optical disc using a video recording (VR) format and for reproducing the optical disc in which the video signal is recorded in the VR format, the recording and reproducing apparatus includes an... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835625 | Recording medium, playback apparatus, management program and playback method A BD-ROM on which an AVClip and a Java™ application are recorded. The AVClip includes a video stream and an audio stream multiplexed therein. On the BD-ROM recorded further are management information and the Mixing_On flag corresponding to the management informati... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835623 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of video data recorded thereon The data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data recorded on the recording medium includes a general information file area storing at least one general information file. The general information file includes at least one playlist identifier identi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831131 | Method of creating playback control file for recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playlist control file A method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file are disclosed. The method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium includes reading a virtual PlayList... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826714 | Controlling movie subtitles and captions A method for controlling subtitles and captions information in video is described. The method includes determining at least one subtitle or caption within a video data stream, pausing the video data stream based on the determination and resuming play of the video da... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826715 | Method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium A method for downloading data associated with a recording medium from an external source, and reproducing data recorded in the recording medium is disclosed. A method for reproducing data from a recording medium in a player equipped with a network device (i.e., a Ne... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826716 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826713 | Storage medium storing multimedia data for reproduction of AV data and programming function, and reproducing apparatus and method thereof A storage medium storing multimedia data for the reproduction of audio-visual (AV) data and a programming function, and a reproducing apparatus and method thereof. The storage medium includes: reproduction mode data for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program da... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826717 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817904 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817903 | Data recording apparatus, method, program, and recording medium A data recording apparatus and a data recording method to record multimedia files are provided. The data recording apparatus is configured to record media data into a file on a fragment-by-fragment basis. At least one fragment of the data is deleted in chronological... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813621 | Synchronized streaming layer with presentation layer A “tag” is attached to streaming video data as it is streamed from the streaming layer to the presentation engine. Each frame containing a button or other user feature also has a “tag” associated with it. When the presentation engine processes a packet of da... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813619 | Synchronizing of a digital signal using a PCR program clock reference A digital signal receiving system is provided for establishing high-speed clock resynchronization even if abnormality such as a poor radio wave receiving condition takes place. The system is constructed such that recipient STC data and PCR data are acquired in respo... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813620 | Recording apparatus, editing apparatus, digital video recording system, and file format Provided is a digital video recording system which can properly maintain a corresponding relationship between recorded data in two different kinds of formats which are generated from the same inputted video-audio data, even if those data are managed separately. In a... | 10/12/2010 |
