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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7124431 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120924 | Method and apparatus for receiving a hyperlinked television broadcast A system and method of receiving information hyperlinked to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded fo... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120352 | Selectable recording frame rate video tape recorder A video tape recorder is provided which is capable of recording information at different frame rates while maintaining accurate time codes. Data about a recording frame rate set at recording time and time code data about DF/NDF settings are recorded in an AUX area o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117524 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116896 | 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... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116895 | 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... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117181 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal Assuming that copying is permitted only once in broadcasting or the like, there is provided a reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal for preventing a pirated edition disk which is produced by recording a signal onto ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117517 | Method and apparatus for generating data structures for a hyperlinked television broadcast A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113692 | Data processing device and data recording method A recording/reproducing device has an NTSC decoder which receives a video signal and outputs a video signal, an MPEG audio encoder which receives an audio signal and outputs an audio signal, and a synchronous control circuit which detects a synchronizing signal from... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113475 | Optical information storage medium and recording/reproducing method for the optical information storage medium An optical information storage medium includes information on recording layers having the same reproduction channel characteristics or different reproduction channel characteristics. Nominal recording speed information is recorded in a read-only zone, and maximum an... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113906 | Transmission-reception system, transmission apparatus, reception apparatus and transmission-reception method A transmission-reception system is disclosed wherein digital data whose miss cannot be admitted can be transmitted on the real time basis with certainty and accurately without imposing a high load to any of electronic equipments on the transmission side and the rece... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114174 | Computer program product for transforming streaming video data According to one embodiment, a computer program product for a system including a processor includes a tangible memory including code that directs the processor to determine an output resolution for an output stream of data, code that directs the processor to determi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113220 | Image capturing apparatus with convenient handling and operation According to the present invention, an image capturing apparatus for capturing a subject includes: a vertical body including a front face and a back opposed to the front face; a grip to be grasped by an operator's hand, the grip including at least a region of the fr... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113886 | Circuit and method for distributing events in an event stream A circuit and related method for distributing events in an event stream (i.e., an electronic signal having a plurality of rising edge transitions and falling edge transitions). The circuit distributes the events in a primary event stream across multiple secondary ev... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110662 | Apparatus and method for recording data on a DVD-audio disk 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... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107516 | Method and system for viewing images from an image capture device on a host computer A method and system for viewing images from an image capture device on a host computer. The method and system include establishing communication between the image capture device and the host computer, and mounting the image capture device as a disk on the host compu... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107111 | Trick play for MP3 Trick play and/or editing is applied to an original data stream, for example an MP3 data stream which includes headers and signal data interspersed with each other. Each header specifies a distance to a subsequent header, each header corresponding to a frame of sign... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106952 | 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... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106946 | Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure A transport stream recording device, method thereof, transport stream reproduction device, method thereof, and recording medium for efficiently recording and reproducing transport streams. A source packet having a four byte TP_extra_Header attached to a 188 byte tra... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106951 | 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... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106953 | Audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus An audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus of the present invention is an audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus, comprising: an input switching device for switching an input between a first input signal including a first audio and video s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106367 | Integrated CMOS imager and microcontroller A method and apparatus providing a CMOS imager with an integrated controller on a common integrated circuit substrate. Also integrated on the common substrate are, a serializer circuit including a dynamic arbiter under the control of the microcontroller core and a s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103261 | Consumer friendly error correcting formating method for white book 2.0 video compact disc with CD-DA red book audio tracks Consumer friendly compact disc which employ MPEG 1 video data for DVD players, computers, and CD-DA tracks for Compact Disc players with traditional playback identified by these independent machines. DVD playable MPEG 1 video time will not alter CD audio playability... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099563 | Multichannel recording device and method The present invention is directed to a recording device and method for recording digital data constituting a program on a disc-shaped recording medium using a specified minimum data length (CDA) unit that must be contiguous. Digital data constituting a first and sec... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099565 | Data storage medium, and apparatus and method for reproducing the data from the same A data storage medium having stored thereon includes an audio sequence including at least one audio stream; at least one video stream; and reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the at least one audio stream and the at least one video strea... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096407 | Technique for implementing chipkill in a memory system A technique for handling errors in a memory system. Specifically, a new dual mode ECC algorithm is provided to detect errors in memory devices. Further, an XOR memory engine is provided to correct the errors detected in the dual mode ECC algorithm. Depending on the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095700 | Optical disc medium, optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus and method The present invention separates MTF into a plus frequency region and a minus frequency region and uses the plus frequency region and the minus frequency region to thereby enable an effectively usable frequency region to be doubled in effect. Digital information to b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096271 | Managing timeline modification and synchronization of multiple media streams in networked client/server systems In a client/server network system, multimedia content is streamed from one or more servers to the client. The multimedia content includes multiple media streams that can be streamed to the client from the same server or from different servers. The user is able to mo... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096302 | Method and apparatus for accelerating detection of serial bus device speed signals A method and apparatus for accelerating detection of speed code signals, and in particular S400 signals, for IEEE Standard 1394-1995 serial bus devices. The present invention validates S400 mode immediately after detecting an S400 speed signal, ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092620 | Converting analog video data into digital form The inventive stand alone mechanism converts video data from an original format such as VHS or digital video to an optical media such as a CD-RW or DVD-RW and prepare it for use in non-linear computer applications such as video editing and production in a single ste... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092621 | Data recorder-reproducer and bit map data processing method, control program processing method and setting data processing method of data recorder-reproducer In a data recorder-reproducer, and a bit map data processing method, a control program processing method and a setting data processing method of the data recorder-reproducer, bit map data supplied from the external is taken in, and the taken bit map data is superimp... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092618 | Audio information reproducing system, audio information reproducing apparatus and audio information reproducing method An audio information reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio information on a recording medium, which can be connected with a bus. In the medium reproducing control information for controlling a reproducing mode of the audio information and the audio information... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088906 | Information reproducing apparatus In an information reproducing apparatus, when a car is travelling, it is inhibited that the image information played back by a DVD reproducing apparatus is displayed on a display device, or the map information outputted from a navigation system is displayed. Further... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088910 | Optimizing use of storage space in a video data recording system Systems and methods for optimizing the use and availability of storage space in a video data recording system. An intelligent disk recording and management system selectively assigns tags to determine the manner and/or priority of recording programs onto a storage d... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089348 | Streaming information appliance with circular buffer for receiving and selectively reading blocks of streaming information An information appliance for receiving streaming information includes a buffer, a writer module which receives blocks of streaming information and writes the blocks to the buffer, and a reader module which selectively reads the blocks from the buffer. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089575 | Method of using transcript information to identify and learn commercial portions of a program Advertisers want to deliver their message in a relatively short period of time. This leads to the product name, company name and other identifying features being repeated frequently during a commercial broadcast. Transcript information can be used to detect commerci... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084908 | Image signal recording apparatus with controlled recording of main, preceding and succeeding moving image signals A recording apparatus, which is designed to generate play list data according to a recording operation of a moving image signal, the play list data being used for controlling a reproducing process of one moving image stream including a moving image signal so as to i... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085201 | Optical disc drive and method of checking optical disc An optical disc drive 1 of the present invention can record and/or reproduce data including audio data and non-audio data onto and/or from a multi-session optical disc 2 when the optical disc is loaded into the optical disc drive. The optical disc driv... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085205 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for causing data recorded on a first recording medium to be stored in a second recording medium. This recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing unit for reading out data from the first recording medium at ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085477 | Television apparatus A ROM 51 stores a plurality of volume set values and a plurality of level change rates corresponding to each other and an IC 5 accepts a volume set value specified by a user when carrying out volume setting. Moreover, it is decided whether a reproducin... | 08/01/2006 |
