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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7609942 | Recording device and method, salvage device and method, and program A recording apparatus, a recording method, a salvage apparatus, a salvage method, and a program for reading data from a recording medium that has failed to normally end a recording process. Each of salvage markers contains a recognition pattern for recognizing a sal... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7609943 | Method and apparatus of recording graphic data on a recording medium The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording graphic data constituting sub-pictures in a main video on a high-density recording medium such as a Blu-ray Disk ROM (BD-ROM) disk. In the present invention, when a plurality of graphic objects, name... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606465 | Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple title video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses A navigation area of the recording medium stores navigation management information associated with each title of video data. The navigation management information indicates at least one reproduction path for the title of video data and includes an attribute field in... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606466 | Recording device and method for data of mixed formats Video data of a plurality of different formats is mixedly recorded onto one disc-shaped recording medium so that they can be continuously reproduced. A clip is constructed by video data, audio data, auxiliary AV data, and time-sequential meta data which are time-seq... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606467 | 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... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606468 | 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... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603025 | Method and apparatus for copy protection detection in a video signal A method and apparatus for detecting copy protection included in an input video signal is described. Two types of copy protection are particularly addressed, including techniques that imbed copy protection pulses and copy protection phase flips in the video signal. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599603 | Upgradable on-screen display system A digital television receiver comprises a receiving means having selectable first and second inputs. The first input receives a broadcast digital television signal and the second input receives a digital television signal from a reproduction apparatus, and generates... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599604 | Asynchronous copy protection detector A video system (100) includes detection circuitry (200A-200C) operative to detect pseudo-synchronization pulses within a composite synchronization signal in dependence upon at least one timing signal. Timing circuitry (200D-200F) i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599605 | 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... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599606 | Recording medium and method for reproducing information therefrom A recording medium having recorded thereon, a plurality of picture information sets, presentation time values each of which is associated with the corresponding one of the picture information sets, picture information record marks each of which is associated with th... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596303 | Apparatus for use with information storage medium containing enhanced AV (ENAV) buffer configuration information, reproducing method thereof and method for managing the buffer A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with an information storage medium including ENAV buffer configuration information includes: an ENAV buffer in which an ENAV file is loaded; and an ENAV engine which interprets and reproduces the ENAV file, wherein th... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593622 | Information recording medium, information recoding/reproduction system apparatus, and information recording/reproduction method An information recording medium of the present invention is an information recording medium in which data is recorded by using a data structure, the data structure including a file structure area and a data area. The data includes first AV data having a first attrib... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593623 | Specially formatted optical disk and method of playback In an optical disk storing digital image information in the form of a succession of blocks, each comprising a plurality of frames comprising I-, P- and B-pictures, wherein an address format is preformatted in front of the block of image information of said plurality... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590330 | Picture sequences coded for horizontal motion on a display and corresponding data storage media The present invention provides a picture sequence coded for horizontally moving objects such as running scripts, while complying with the rules and instructions specified in the DVD Standard, and optimizing the memory requirement. In one embodiment of the present in... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590331 | Broadcast recording apparatus A broadcast recording apparatus according to the present invention includes: a JMF which records video/audio data into a recording area; a storage administration library which, in the case where an extracted Java program and AIT differ from an already-recorded Java ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587130 | 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... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587129 | 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... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587127 | 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... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587128 | 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... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583887 | Recording medium having data structure for managing main data additional content data thereof and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses A recording medium having a data structure for managing additional content data of main data recorded thereon in accordance with the present invention comprises a data area storing at least one clip file including main data and/or additional content data of the main... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580615 | Method and apparatus for displaying multiple subtitles using sub-picture processing The mechanism of a sub-picture processing method for displaying multiple subtitles in a video/audio playing apparatus is provided. The purpose for displaying multiple subtitles in different languages simultaneously can be achieved under a user's control. Due to the ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580614 | Information playback apparatus having expansion information storage unit and information playback method An information playback apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention has a first acquisition unit configured to acquire contents from an information storage medium, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire expansion information from at least one... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580616 | 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... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580613 | Information processing apparatus and method, recorded medium, and program In DVRVolume( ), 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 in... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577336 | Method and apparatus for storing content A system receives a broadcast program and temporarily stores the program data. A request is received to permanently record the broadcast program. This request is received after a portion of the broadcast program has been received and temporarily stored. The broadcas... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574108 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574109 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574110 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574112 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574111 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574106 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section picking up any signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods from a recording medium. The recording medium records the signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods and ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574107 | 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... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570873 | Subtitle file loading method and system thereof The present invention relates to a subtitle file loading method for loading subtitle files from a disc to a memory of a disc player. The memory has a first memory block and a second memory block. A first group of subtitle files is first loaded into the first memory ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570872 | Method of creating playback control file for recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file A method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium and a 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 creating a virtual strea... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561780 | Text subtitle decoder and method for decoding text subtitle streams A method and a text subtitle decoder for decoding a text subtitle stream recorded on a recording medium are disclosed. A subtitle loading buffer initially loads a text subtitle stream including a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and a dialog pr... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561781 | 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... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561777 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous recording and displaying two different video programs A method and apparatus for simultaneously recording and displaying video signals from two different video sources. The apparatus comprises a main channel processing circuit/logic, a second channel processing circuit/logic, and common circuitry/logic. The common circ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561778 | Method for recording and managing a multi-channel stream The present invention relates to a method for recording and managing a multi-channel broadcast stream. The present method records on a recording medium such as a BD-RW a multi-channel broadcast stream where a plurality of channels are multiplexed, and creates and re... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561779 | Video data processor having converting section for producing NTSC- or PAL-compliant synthetic video data A data processor according to the present invention includes: a receiving section to receive a data stream including data of first primary video to be presented by switching pictures at a first vertical scanning frequency and data of first auxiliary video to be pres... | 07/14/2009 |
