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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356243 | Recording medium, method and apparatus for recording digital data streams A recording medium, method and apparatus for recording digital data streams are provided. The method includes recording a received digital data stream of data packet units by grouping the data packet units into an object, and creating and recording a managing inform... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356249 | Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing data, which enable reading of data recorded even when the apparatus stops due to a power failure The hard disc is provided with two areas for storing file system management information and content management information. The disc recorder records double file system management information and content management information onto the hard disc. Further, informatio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356244 | Method and system for replaying video images The present invention relates to method of replaying video images by placing a bookmark on the particular thumbnail image of the broadcast content using thumbnail method and replaying it from the position a user wants. The method of the present invention extracts a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356247 | Information recording apparatus and method for the same Entry points are managed so they are easy for users to understand. The data recording apparatus has a receiver unit that receives a stream of encoded digital data; an analyzer that detects change in an attribute of the received stream and that outputs the detection ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356248 | Apparatus and method of reproducing subtitle recorded in digital versatile disk player In an apparatus and method of reproducing a subtitle recorded in a digital versatile disk player including a subtitle processing section for receiving, storing and reproducing multilingual subtitles, as well as video data and audio data of multiple titles which are ... | 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 |
| 7352957 | 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... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352958 | 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... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352993 | Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing system A data reproducing system of the invention includes a data transmitter for transmitting a data signal containing audio data by air and a data receiver for receiving the data signal by air from the data transmitter. The data receiver includes a data receiving section... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352994 | Method, system and recording medium using a relay device for detecting and inhibiting communication A relay device includes a first signal reception unit receiving a signal from the outside, a first radio communication unit transmitting the signal by radio that is received by the first signal reception unit, a second radio communication unit provided separately fr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353187 | Methods and systems for storing predetermined multimedia information An apparatus for storing predetermined multimedia information is provided. The apparatus includes a telephony messaging platform and first and second storage locations contained in the telephony messaging platform. The predetermined multimedia information is stored ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349578 | System and method for editing digital images A system and method for editing digital images are described. The system for editing digital images forms an image template containing a selected record of one or more image editing operations performed on a first image to obtain a first edited image. The image temp... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347560 | Method and/or apparatus for projecting an image Methods, apparatuses and systems for projecting an image, such as a diffused image, are disclosed herein. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349010 | Digital camera including an on-line sales mode A digital camera comprises an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images; a processor for processing the plurality of images and producing a corresponding plurality of digital image files; a memory for storing the plurality of digital image files; and a mode c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349623 | Data recording apparatus and system having sustained high transfer rates According to the invention, techniques for recording data onto recording media at relatively high transfer rates for relatively long periods of time. Embodiments according to the present invention include systems and apparatus capable of an improved sustained rate o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346267 | Video and audio reproduction apparatus A system control unit sets stream_id of each reproduced elementary stream and the total number of streams in each of the elementary stream from management information read from a medium. A stream separation unit reads an MPEG stream from the medium to record a combi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346266 | 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... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343450 | Optical disk recording apparatus An optical disk apparatus includes a data conversion unit that converts input video data into record data, a data record unit that temporarily stores the record data in buffer memory and writes on to an optical disk while maintaining data continuity, and a control u... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343085 | Automatic broadcast program recorder A recorder capable of automatically recording a broadcast program without presetting recording of each program is disclosed. According to the automatic broadcast program recorder, keywords characterizing a program to be recorded are preliminarily designated, a reser... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343089 | Information processing apparatus for executing format conversion An information processing apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding predetermined information into first video information ST1 based on a first format, an insertion section for inserting conversion information VOBU_2NDREF_EA, VOBU_3RDREF_EA, VOBU_A_SYNC... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340152 | Method and system of copy protection of information The invention relates to a method of copy-protection of information stored on an information carrying medium. The method allows a reading device (e.g. a DVD drive) and an application device (e.g. an MPEG decoder) to exchange copy-protection information regarding the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340155 | 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... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340156 | Information storage medium with aggregate attribute information, and apparatus for reproducing the same An information storage medium includes: a plurality of unit audio information to be reproduced independently of each other; aggregate audio information each including one or more of the unit audio information; unit attribute information indicating attributes of the ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340676 | System and method for automatic layout of images in digital albums A system and method for automatic creation of digital image albums. A Page Creator Module utilizes a genetic engine and a layout evaluation module. The genetic engine evolves a group of images to a plurality of album pages, based on certain layout criteria. The eval... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340154 | Television set embedded with DVD player A television set include a DVD-IC 20 for outputting a composite signal a containing subtitle information and closed caption information, a TV-IC 10 for outputting an OSD signal b based on the closed caption information identified in the composite signa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340765 | Archiving and viewing sports events via Internet Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339853 | Time stamping events for fractions of a clock cycle Generally, the embodiments are directed to circuits and methods for time stamping an event at a fraction of a clock cycle. A time stamping circuit comprises two or more detection circuits. The detection circuits receive an event-in signal and generate event signals ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340153 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing information When recording operation is stopped due to, for example, unexpected interruption of electric power supply in the course of the recording operation on a real time basis, a technique of repairing a moving picture and sound data recorded on a recording medium until the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336891 | Information recording apparatus and method for converting video information An information recording apparatus for recording video information conforming to a first format comprises generation section for generating conversion compatibility information indicating the compatibility of conversion of video information conforming to the first f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336888 | Method and apparatus for performing continuous capture during recording real-time data An encoder encodes the captured real-time data into a program stream. A disk authoring transforms the program stream into a disk file format. A disk writer records the disk file format on an optical disk, wherein the disk writer further includes at least two recordi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337462 | System and method for providing timing data for programming events A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for individual programming events that make up the program. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336792 | Virtual acoustic image localization processing device, virtual acoustic image localization processing method, and recording media An acoustic image localization processing device that can localize an acoustic image of reproduced sound in an arbitrary position according to the circumstances of reproduction. To accomplish this, an acoustic image localization processing device includes a decoder ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336890 | Automatic detection and segmentation of music videos in an audio/video stream A “music video parser” automatically detects and segments music videos in a combined audio-video media stream. Automatic detection and segmentation is achieved by integrating shot boundary detection, video text detection and audio analysis to automatically detec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336681 | Data format and data transfer A signal format that can be accessed, as a file, by the computer on which it is stored is provided with a plurality of concatenated content packages. The content package comprises System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary Items. The System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary I... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336889 | Recording medium having data structure for managing presentation duration of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The present invention relates to a recording medium having a data structure for managing presentation duration of at least still pictures recorded thereon. A recording medium having a data structure according to the present invention has a data area storing a still ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336839 | Digital video compression command priority A video compression system for compressing a stream of digital video data is disclosed. Known run-length encoding is applied whenever possible to the digital video data stream. When a run is not identified, the encoder determines whether a consecutive series of pixe... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333406 | Apparatus and method for reproducing information recorded on information storage medium including improved reproduction halt and restart capabilities, and recorded program media for controlling the same When halting reproduction of an optical disc, the work memory stores identification information of the optical disc and halt position information thereof, and a contents data memory section stores information of reproduction contents. When resuming reproduction, a d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333720 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334248 | Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system A method and an apparatus for processing a packetized transport stream that determines whether a sequence of transport packets are received in a proper sequence and whether an error is present in a particular transport packet. The method includes the steps of determ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333407 | Defect area management system and method for optical storage medium A defect area management system for an optical storage medium including a management part producing a defect area management signal for real-time processing and transmitting the signal along with data to be written; and a write part executing a defect area managemen... | 02/19/2008 |
