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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7881584 | 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... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865063 | Signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program For accurate scene-change detection, the amplitudes of sub-band signals subjected to the spectral decomposition are detected, and the detected amplitudes are smoothed and sampled during smoothing. Then, the amount of spectral change is determined based on the smooth... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7792416 | Encoding apparatus of audio signal, audio disc and disc reproducing apparatus DVD-video data and DVD-audio data are recorded in a DVD-Avd disc. The DVD-audio data is composed of an audio manager having an audio manager information, an audio manager menu, a first audio title set including first audio data and a second audio title set including... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7778525 | Method of preventing audio or video from interruption due to the other for a mix mode multimedia player A method of preventing playing of audio or video data from being interrupted for a mix mode multimedia playback system comprises the following steps: a video stream buffer, a audio stream buffer, and a parser module is provided; then amount of free space in the vide... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7751689 | Stream converter Conversion of audio data is performed such that a bit stream conforming to the DVD-VR standard is converted into a bit stream conforming to the DVD-video standard. A stream converter includes: a first converter for receiving a bit stream conforming to a DVD-V... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747136 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recordable and/or rewriteable recording medium for storing still picture data, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. The recording medium stores still picture group information for grouping a plurality of still pictures in order to manage... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742683 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure containing control signal An information recording medium includes a file for storing object data consisting of a plurality of packets and a file for storing, as its reproduction control information, (i) correspondence definition information for defining relationship between a plurality of p... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738777 | DVD-audio disk, and apparatus and method for playing the same A DVD-Audio which includes a data zone for storing data to be reproduced and an information zone for storing information on the data to be reproduced. The information zone includes directories of a video title set (VIDEO_TS) and an audio title set (AUDIO_TS). The AU... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725007 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor, stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a space having a logically one-dimensional order, rath... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715693 | Control apparatus and control method A control apparatus for controlling an event in accordance with the playback of playback data includes a playback processor performing playback processing on the playback data, an acquisition unit acquiring playback section information associated with the playback d... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697822 | Apparatus and method for automatically selecting and recording highlight portions of a broadcast signal A method and apparatus for automatically selecting and recording a highlight portion of a broadcast signal, which is capable of detecting a highlight code, a voice level, or an image motion in a broadcast signal when a highlight recording mode is set, judging the pr... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693398 | Digital information reproducing apparatus and method High audibility output is realized when audio output is provided in special playback. In special playback with audio output, skip/repeat control is done so that decoding and outputting of the audio data is periodically repeated/skipped during part of one frame. The ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689102 | Device and method for recording program broadcast signal as digital information In recording contents of received broadcast programs on an HDD, the starting of a new program is detected depending on whether or not there is a change of audience restriction information which is received together with the broadcast programs. Each time a change of ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684678 | Disc reproducing apparatus having screen display control unit A disc reproducing apparatus connected to a monitor of an image output system controls image display on the monitor. According to information about an instruction given by a user through operation of a remote controller or a front panel key, an MPU sets one of a scr... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7664373 | Program, data processing method, and system of same A program capable of individually decoding video data and audio data from data storing, mixed together, the video data, the audio data, and attribute data interleaved, wherein an SYS parse routine parses data MXF_D to extract system data SYS; a PIC parse routine par... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7623766 | 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... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7616866 | Encoding apparatus of audio signal, audio disc and disc reproducing apparatus DVD-video data and DVD-audio data are recorded in a DVD-Avd disc. The DVD-audio data is composed of an audio manager having an audio manager information, an audio manager menu, a first audio title set including first audio data and a second audio title set including... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7603026 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit, and can guarantee continuous reproduction of the divisionally rec... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7587131 | Audio clocking in video applications A method of operating an electronic video device such as a DVD player, wherein video clock signals and audio clock signals are derived from a system clock signal using two phase-lock loops, and these video and audio clock signals are used to process encoded video da... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7555202 | Digital dat recording/reproducing apparatus A digital data recording/reproducing apparatus which divides each of information data pieces into a plurality of cells, further divides each of the cells into a series of a plurality of units, and records the units. The digital data recording/reproducing apparatus h... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551839 | Method of generating video reproduction synchronizing signal, program for generating video reproduction synchronizing signal, timing control apparatus, method of synchronously reproducing video and audio, program for synchronously reproducing video and audio, and apparatus for synchronously reproducing video and audio Exemplary embodiments include a method of generating a video reproduction synchronizing signal to generate a video reproduction synchronizing signal to reproduce video data and audio data in synchronization with each other. The method includes acquiring output proce... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7539398 | Digital video and audio collectible card A digital video and audio collectible sports card which combines electronic media stored on the card with the outward appearance of a sports card or collectible, which allows the creation of an interactive, multi-media message complete with video, audio, still pictu... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536086 | Video playback apparatus and display control method In a video playback apparatus, it is determined whether or not a current screen is a menu screen on the basis of signals recorded on a recording medium while the display of a display unit is turned off by a display-off setting made by a user. When the current screen... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7522821 | Optical disc apparatus In an optical disc apparatus using a decoder chip with no synchronization function of audio data and visual data, when reproduction of the audio data goes ahead of reproduction of the visual data by a period equal to or larger than 100 ms, a reproducing period of a ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519277 | Editing apparatus and editing method An editing apparatus and method for dividing or combining a data file(s) that is segmented into blocks of a predetermined data length and recorded in a non-volatile memory. An attribute file having a predetermined length is modified so as to reflect such dividing or... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519276 | Method for dubbing audio on rewritable medium A method for dubbing audio on rewritable medium such as a high-density rewritable optical disc (BD-RE) is provided, which is capable of simultaneously recording a main A/V stream and a dubbed audio stream on the recording medium, while automatically and continuously... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515813 | Image and audio reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing image data with audio data included An image and audio reproducing apparatus comprises a display device, means for storing a picked-up image data, audio data which is generated before and at a pick-up timing of the image data and time data indicating the pick-up timing, means for reproducing the audio... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499630 | Method for playing back multimedia data using an entertainment device A method for playing back multimedia data using an entertainment device, priorities for a corresponding classification of multimedia data being assigned based on a user profile. The multimedia data is then played back based on the priorities and the availability of ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496280 | Still picture information recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing still picture information therefrom A technique is provided for reproducing information from a recording medium, on which there are recorded a plurality of picture information sets; presentation time values, each associated with a corresponding one of the picture information sets; picture information ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496279 | Method of recording dubbing audio data onto a rewritable recording medium A recording medium and method for managing still pictures and related audio data are provided. The method includes managing still pictures and audio data related to the still pictures using a playlist. The playlist includes first navigation information for the audio... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7483624 | System and method for indexing a video sequence A method and system for indexing a video sequence comprised of video information and audio information, wherein the video sequence has been created by at least one camera. The video sequence is separated into motion segments that were created while the camera was in... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480446 | Variable rate video playback with synchronized audio The invention enables the apparent display rate of an audiovisual display to be varied. The invention can modify an original set of audio data in accordance with a target display rate, then modify a related original set of video data to conform to the modifications ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474835 | Disc playback apparatus and disc playback method A disc playback apparatus capable of effectively utilizing an image display function is provided. When an instruction for setting a still image is made, a selection screen creation section performs processes for creating and displaying a predetermined selection scre... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474836 | Playback method for an after-recording operation The invention provides an information recording medium, such as an optical disk, having a large capacity and being capable of performing read/write operations at high speeds. The recording medium includes an audio stream prepared for after-recording data, and a audi... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471879 | Recording medium and signal processing apparatus A recording medium has a first area storing an audio title set. The audio title set contains a plurality of audio objects including a first audio object and a second audio object. The first audio object consists of first packs having audio data. The second audio obj... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7471878 | Playback program A plurality of audio object (AOB) files and a plurality of picture object (POB) files are stored. Default Play list Information and sets of Playlist Information each show an order in which AOBs stored in the plurality of AOB files are to be reproduced. The DPLGI inc... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7460767 | Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing moving picture and recording medium A recording medium includes moving picture data having first audio or first audio and second audio, and the basic unit information includes state information on the first audio and the second audio, The state information on the first audio represents an original aud... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7447419 | Writable storage medium, apparatus and method of recording to a storage medium A writable storage medium has a first storage area divided into a plurality of sectors having the same data capacity and a second storage area. The first storage area stores at least encoded moving picture data and encoded audio data. The second storage area stores ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444066 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. A writeable and rewriteable recording medium stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444063 | Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, information-reproducing apparatus, information-reproducing method, and information-recording medium In an information-recording apparatus and the like according to the invention, digital information is recorded in a magnetic tape according to a recording format in which two types of sync lengths exist. The recorder records digital information having a first inform... | 10/28/2008 |
