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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7031593 | Video tape recorder In a video tape recorder, a digital AV signal which is A/D-converted by an A/D converting section 12 is separated into a video signal and an audio signal by an audio-video separating section 131. In response to a selection operation on an operating sec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030930 | System for digitized audio stream synchronization and method thereof A system and methods are provided for presenting processed audio data and processed video data to corresponding outputs in a synchronized manner. Video and audio data from a multimedia stream are received by a processing system. The video data is processed through a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028331 | Content proxy method and apparatus for digital television environment The present invention describes and claims a new system and technique or method for decoupling the interpretation of broadcast content information from the display of this information. The information may exist in any of the available types, such as audio, video, or... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027718 | Packet data recording/reproducing system A packet recording/reproducing system is provided which records or reproduces packets on or from tracks formed in time sequence on a magnetic tape. In a recording operation, the packet recording/reproducing system adds to input packets time stamps whose values are s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027717 | Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and record medium A recording apparatus for recoding digital data to a record medium that is removable and assigned unique medium identification information is disclosed, that comprises a converting means for converting data to be recorded into a file structure that allows a first fi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027714 | Apparatus for reproduction of video and audio with suspension function An apparatus for reproducing video and audio includes a video decoder which receives video data coded by a unit of a first time length, an audio decoder which receives audio data coded by a unit of a second time length different from the first time length, and a syn... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027124 | Method for automatically producing music videos Music videos are automatically produced from source audio and video signals. The music video contains edited portions of the video signal synchronized with the audio signal. An embodiment detects transition points in the audio signal and the video signal. The transi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022067 | System and method for controlling in vivo camera capture and display rate Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied based on physical measurements related to the motion of the camera. Alternatively, t... | 04/04/2006 |
| RE39039 | Audio and video signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method An audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus and method is described, which uses a movable storage memory such as a memory card, so that audio and video signals are easily accessed without separate editing devices. The apparatus uses a separable memory so... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016601 | Method and apparatus for storing different types of data on the same storing medium A data storing apparatus for inputting and outputting a plurality of types of data in parallel and storing data with a disc shaped record medium that is randomly accessible is disclosed, that comprises an inputting means for inputting a plurality of types of data in... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016598 | Data recording/reproduction apparatus and data recording/reproduction method A data recording/reproduction apparatus and a data recording/reproduction method according to the invention can effectively and economically utilize the limited resource of hard discs when editing files by defining the editing points on a plurality of data recorded ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016595 | Television set capable of controlling external device and image storage controlled by television set An image storage for storing digital still image data is connected to a television set for selectively watching a broadcast program in a first mode or a still image transmitted from the image storage in a second mode. The image storage has an input circuit for recei... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013283 | System and method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal A system and a concomitant method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal. The programming content and the audio signal are transmitted in a network having a forward channel and a back channel. In one embodiment, the system comprises a local... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010218 | Digital magnetic recording/reproducing device for recording/reproducing plural types of audio data, and recording/reproducing method therefore A digital magnetic recording/reproducing device for recording or reproducing plural sorts of audio data, and a recording/reproducing method therefor. The digital magnetic recording/reproducing device includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) co... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006758 | Data recording medium, and data reproducing apparatus An information recording medium on which are recorded substantial data and reproduce control information for reproducing the substantial data, wherein the reproduce control information includes first reproduce control information required for reproducing the substan... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006760 | Processing digital data having variable packet lengths When macro blocks each of which has a variable length are input for one picture, null syncs each of which has a unit length are generated corresponding to the format of the video data to be handled. Corresponding to the length information, an overflow portion of a m... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006755 | Storage device with an index indicating a sequential relationship In recording a stream in a storage device, a packet containing a start part of encoded image data subjected to intra-frame coding is identified from the input stream of packets. Presence or absence information of the start part of the encoded image data subjected to... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006754 | Picture image outputting apparatus There is provided a playing time limiting mode for controlling a picture image outputting apparatus by means of a playing time enabling the outputting operation of a picture image and a locking time disabling the outputting operation of a picture image, in which the... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006555 | Spectral audio encoding Blocks of audio are encoded based upon corresponding first and second frequencies. The first and second frequencies are hopped from block to block. An audio quality measure (AQM) is computed for each block of audio such that, if x out of y blocks of audio have an AQ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006422 | Recording medium and audio-signal processing apparatus A digital signal recording disc has a first area and a second area. The second area differs from the first area. The first area stores a first-channel digital audio signal and a second-channel digital audio signal. The first-channel digital audio signal results from... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003590 | Automatic ID allocation for AV/C entities Disclosed herein is an automatic ID allocation technique for use in AV/C device applications. The method allows ID assignment without manual user intervention. The method includes assigning an ID to an entity when called to do so upon detection of a new entity. Furt... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003286 | System and method for conference call line drop recovery A system and method for identifying users dropped from a conference call and rejoining the user to the call upon reconnection. Users can participate in the conference by connecting through different types of networks using a device having one or more types of commun... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003214 | Recording, edit, and playback methods of audio information, and information storage medium Audio information is recorded in units of tracks on an information storage medium on which audio information and management information that pertains to the audio information are recorded, and information indicating the playback sequence of the audio information is ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003132 | Embedding hidden auxiliary code signals in media Methods for embedding and reading auxiliary messages from image signals use embedded code signals modulated with the auxiliary message. These embedded ode signals may be used to convey hidden tracking codes in images, video and printed objects. The embedded code sig... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999827 | Auto-detection of audio input formats Auto-detection of audio formats is provided by using an auto-detect element to exploit differences among multiple formats to output a format select signal corresponding to the input to the auto-detect element. In a preferred embodiment, edge detection circuitry and ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998527 | System and method for indexing and summarizing music videos A system and method is disclosed for indexing and summarizing music videos. A music video summary controller in a video playback device receives a multimedia data stream that contains a plurality of music videos. The music video summary controller (1) segments and i... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996545 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal A reproduction apparatus includes a demodulator which demodulates data modulated in accordance with a modulation rule, a temporal store which stores the data demodulated by the demodulator, an error-corrector which error-corrects the demodulated data stored in the t... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993479 | Method for the compression of recordings of ambient noise, method for the detection of program elements therein, and device thereof The amount of data produced in the process of recording even short hearing samples by means of a monitor (1) may be considerably reduced by effecting a normalization to a range of values D and a subsequent nonlinear mapping to a second, preferably smaller ran... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993248 | Recording apparatus, recording method, playback apparatus, playback method and recording media A recording apparatus for recording a data stream including one or more packetized video streams, comprising a detector for detecting a random-access point of the data stream and an apparatus for obtaining an address of the random-access point. A packet including an... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993246 | Method and system for correlating data streams Events in a first data stream are correlated with events in a second data stream based on a method of indexing. As information of a first and second data stream are stored to a data file, the data streams are monitored for certain trigger events. An informational da... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993198 | Encoding apparatus and encoding method In this invention, when frame encoded data is to be generated on the basis of data obtained by separating image data and sound data contained in frame data of a motion image and hierarchically encoding both the data, frequency subbands of the same significance level... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993139 | Method of and apparatus for decoding audio data An audio decoding apparatus includes a CPU which groups received sample data into one block. Furthermore, the CPU adds control information relating to attributes to data of each block. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993120 | System and method for copying and transmitting telephony conversations A system and method for copying and transmitting telephony recordings during a conference call. A user can forward a portion of the recording to a third party during the conference call. A user issues a command using a telephony device and optionally indicates the b... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987926 | Signal encoding apparatus, audio data transmitting method, audio data recording method, audio data decoding method and audio disc A format of data recorded in a DVD-Audio disc is composed of an audio manager (AMG) and a plurality of audio title sets (ATSs) following the AMG. A plurality of audio packs are arranged in each ATS. An audio signal indicating a musical composition is encoded to audi... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6985783 | Data processing device with an indexed immediate addressing mode A data processing device is provided with an indexed-immediate addressing mode for processing streams of data. An instruction register 900 receives an instruction for execution. Decoding circuitry 913 selects a register specified by a field in an instr... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980694 | Picture decoding apparatus, picture decoding method and recording medium for storing the picture decoding method In a demultiplexer, picture signals of channels included in an input transport stream are separated from each other and supplied to VBV buffers for the respective channels to be stored therein. Picture signals read out from the VBV buffers are supplied to a signal s... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977887 | Method and apparatus for loop breaking on a serial bus A method for loop breaking includes selecting a first port of a node, transmitting a first packet containing a first identifier from the first port of the node, listening for a second packet containing a second identifier for a period of time on a second port of the... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975364 | Radio television and frequency modulation monitor transmitting receiving control apparatus A radio television and frequency modulation monitor transmitting receiving control apparatus is constructed to include at least one receiving module respectively installed in a respective monitor controlled by a remote controller, and a radio television and frequenc... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973256 | System and method for detecting highlights in a video program using audio properties There is disclosed an apparatus for detecting program highlights in a video program. The apparatus comprises: 1) a keyword detection circuit for detecting a location of a selected keyword in an audio track of the video program; and 2) an audio signal energy level de... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971024 | Recording medium, data recording method and apparatus, data reproducing method and apparatus, and copying control method Data is recorded in a first part in accordance with a signal format equivalent to that of an existing CD at the lower limit of an allowable value of a track pitch and the lower limit of linear velocity, so that data can be recorded in the first part for the maximum ... | 11/29/2005 |
