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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7873263 | Multiplexing method preventing overflow of audio decoder buffer A time zone start time point calculating unit calculates a time zone to be set in a VOBU in accordance with audio bit rate. A time zone comparing unit compares a time point at which an audio pack is to be multiplexed with the time zone calculated by the time zone st... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7783165 | Signal compressing apparatus An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7738778 | System and method for generating a multimedia summary of multimedia streams A system facilitates and enhances review of one or more multimedia input streams that includes some combination of video, audio and text information, generating a multimedia summary, thereby enabling a user to better browse and/or decide on viewing the multimedia in... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7715694 | Apparatus and method of reproducing audio/video data and additional data associated with the audio/video data A method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data is disclosed. An interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces A/V data recorded on an interactive recording medium such as an int... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711249 | Recording/reproduction device and method When a digital broadcast is decoded and then re-encoded and digitally recorded, detailed program information contained in the original digital broadcast and information such as age-based viewer control information or parental control information may be lost. This pr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706667 | Recording apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program for reproducing a video stream in a simpler method. A VOBU of an AV stream recorded on a recording medium includes, from the begi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693399 | Method for providing program specific information recorded on high density disc medium The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing data stream together with program specific information (PSI) requisite for data stream selecting, separating, and decoding of a digital TV set. The present invention, when transmitting PSI to a digit... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7574113 | Video and audio data recording apparatus, video and audio data recording method, video and audio data reproducing apparatus, and video and audio data reproducing method Video data and audio data of multiplexed data are separated. Abstract video data is generated from the separated video data and abstract audio data is generated from the separated audio data. Then, the abstract video data and the abstract audio data are packed and a... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565060 | Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, and recording medium for multi-angle video reproduction For a large capacity recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility and enriched representation is accomplished. A flag that represents whether a play item has a multiple angle structure of which the play item is reproduced with a plurality of angles is ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7555203 | Information recording medium, information recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method, computer program for controlling record or reproduction, and data structure including control signal An entire stream containing a plurality of partial streams each consisting of content information is multiple-recorded on packet basis on an information recording medium. The information recording medium includes a file for storing object data consisting of a plural... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7457525 | System multiplexing apparatus preventing overflow of audio decoder buffer A time zone start time point calculating unit calculates a time zone to be set in a VOBU in accordance with audio bit rate. A time zone comparing unit compares a time point at which an audio pack is to be multiplexed with the time zone calculated by the time zone st... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440679 | 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 ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433577 | Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least one television broadcast program. The apparatus pre-stores a period ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433574 | Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit contained in the stream data coincide with the heads of access units ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415192 | Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program An AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) each of which is used for graphics display and includes a control segment and graphics data. When an act... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412152 | Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive disp... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406095 | Data processing apparatus and method with packet parsing A transport stream (TS) is recorded and the recorded TS is reproduced simultaneously. An input PID parser extracts the first packet only to be recorded, the second packet to be recorded and to be used for controlling, and the third packet to be used only for control... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406250 | Information recording method and information reproducing method 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... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403699 | Optical disc apparatus At the time of stopping the first reproduction process, a main controller makes a RAM store audio identification information corresponding to the kind of audio having been reproduced in the preceding reproduction process. At the time of restarting reproduction proce... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400653 | Maintaining synchronization of streaming audio and video using internet protocol A playback system in a digital cinema network synchronizes the presentation of visual and aural content by deriving timing information for packets of information that are conveyed in video and audio data streams, examining the timing information to determine if any ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400820 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method for locating a lost position of auxiliary data For conversion of a first video signal into a second video signal of a different format, a second auxiliary data packet is generated from a header carrying location data for multiplexing a first auxiliary data packet and main data of a first auxiliary data packet in... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394973 | Signal compressing apparatus An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394972 | Optical disc reproduction apparatus An optical disc reproduction apparatus starts reproduction of audio other than DTS audio when the audio number of the DTS audio on an optical disc is found to be greater than the audio number of other audio, starts reproduction of DTS audio assigned an audio number ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389318 | Data processor capable of preventing data overflows and underflows A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376151 | Recording and producing an MPEG information signal on/from a record carrier A method of transmitting timing critical data via an asynchronous channel without changing any datum to be transmitted. The timing critical data can be an MPEG transport stream. The asynchronous channel can be a computer or telephone network, a digital storage media... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370146 | Recording/reproducing control apparatus A recording/reproducing apparatus 11 has a directory service block 22 that stores management data for enabling search for stream data recorded in a virtual recording space, a controlled block 21 for receiving stream data identification informati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366241 | Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method In a data transmission system, a server is provided with a data storage unit which holds plural video streams having different I-frame intervals, as coded data corresponding to the same video sequence, and a data transmission unit for transmitting a predetermined vi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366744 | File management device and file management method The present invention relates to a data recording/reproducing apparatus (1), which includes a reader (3) for reading content data recorded in a minidisc (2), and a controller (4) for generating one file by gathering a plurality of content... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362691 | Optical disc having tracking polarity information, and apparatuses and methods for recording and reproducing user data on the same An optical disc includes tracking polarity information. The optical disc includes a clamping area, a lead-in area, a data area, and a burst cutting area (BCA). The BCA is present between the clamping area and the lead-in area and in which information regarding the o... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362677 | Information record medium and information writing/reading apparatus An information writing/reading apparatus that cooperates with an information record medium including a ROM area and a RAM area, either the RAM area or the ROM area having in advance control information recorded thereon used to limit reading and/or writing of informa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362951 | Disk playback apparatus and disk playback method When an instruction is given to perform a playback operation, for example, a fast-forward operation, at a speed greater than normal, a system controller obtains playback data (VOBU) corresponding to a current playback position, and the video images and the subtitles... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356024 | Communication apparatus and communication method A correlation memory section 105 stores a prescribed table in which each control data is grouped for each kind of it (for each message unit) to be correlated to each other. A control data synchronization section 104 successively accumulates input contr... | 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 |
| 7342935 | Method and apparatus for sending out multi-channel digital data, method and apparatus for programming the information and method and apparatus for managing multi-channel digital data An information source management system 11 performs inventory management for CDs and a material information management progress programming system 12 performs programming. An material information registration system 13 compresses the musical num... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339954 | Multiplexing digital broadcast method that can establish a technique which can perfectly obtain a multiplexing digital broadcast data A multiplexing digital broadcast system includes a receiving terminal; and a broadcasting station. The receiving terminal includes: a receiving side recording device demodulating a specification digital data selectively specified from a multiplexing digital data tra... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339868 | Information recording method, information recording device, information system, program, and recording medium An information recording method records information to a multilayer recording medium in which a number of record layers are laminated and recording of information to each record layer is possible. When an amount of the information being recorded to the medium does n... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7334078 | Method and system for handling streaming information One aspect of the present invention leads to a method of handling streaming information. The method includes receiving the streaming information and analyzing the streaming information to locate one or more points of interest in the streaming information. An index o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333713 | Information recording apparatus and method, and information recording medium on which information is recorded by using them In a disk camera, when additional information and moving picture information are managed as one file and recorded on an optical disk, useless area is minimized, thereby allowing effective use of recording capacity. A recording controlling part records continuously w... | 02/19/2008 |
