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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7518656 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, signal processing program, program reproducing apparatus, image display apparatus and image display method A signal processing apparatus comprises: an audio signal detection circuit which detects a specific audio signal from a broadcasting program including an image signal and an audio signal; a control unit which controls an image processing processor, wherein the audio... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7394499 | Data transmitting method, data receiving method, data transmitting device, and data receiving device This invention provides a data transmission method and a data receiving method which enable audio data to be multiplexed into video data and be transmitted using a DVI standard cable or the like satisfactorily with a simple configuration. From a data transmit... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7289721 | Method and apparatus for data reproduction A data reproduction method and apparatus includes first circuitry to produce an information signal from a storage medium. The information signal includes copy control information. Detection circuitry is provided to detect the copy control information. Control circui... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7266286 | Editing system and method and distribution medium Temporarily storing audio data to be reproduced in the block form, temporarily storing synthesized audio data in the block form, generating and supplying a reference signal, and calculating the first address of the block of audio data, the editing system of the pres... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260829 | Terminal with multiple audio and video A novel advanced set top terminal capable of digital decompression, displaying picture-on-picture, outputting multiple video channels, outputting multiple audio signals, outputting multiple audio channels corresponding to a single video channel, and other advanced f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259795 | Method for selecting an audio language of a set-top box and medium including computer readable code controlling a computer to perform the same A method for selecting an audio language of a digital broadcasting receiver, including determining whether an audio language selection has been made, increasing an audio language on-screen display order number by one, setting a previous audio language on-screen disp... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7227953 | MPEG data recorder having IEEE 1394 interface A copy-protected-state indicating MPEG-TS data output unit (3) holds a bit stream obtained by previously compressing and encoding image and/or audio data representing that recording desired by the user has ended in failure because the contents is copy-protect... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7139241 | Method for preventing buffer underflow during digital transport stream transmission, multiplexing and splicing A method for splicing MPEG-2 encoded transport streams to prevent decoder buffer underflow. Emulation of the transport stream prior to transmission determines whether a decoder underflow would occur after a splice proposed at a predetermined time. When a potential u... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7085968 | Audibly enabled error status A disk drive system includes a control bus, a processor and a controller attached to the control bus. An error table and an audio signal table are in communication with the controller and processor. An audio output device is attached to the bus of the disk drive. Th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7064796 | Method and system for re-identifying broadcast segments using statistical profiles A method and system for extracting segments from a broadcast television signal uses a mean display attribute value of pixels of each successive frame of a video component of the signal to identify segment transitions. Elapsed times between the identified segment tra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057669 | Language displaying apparatus for digital TV and method for the same A language displaying apparatus for a digital TV and a method for the same notices all kinds of languages included in broadcasting signals and enables a user to recognize them and select the preferable language easily and accurately. To achieve this, the method acco... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053938 | Speech-to-text captioning for digital cameras and associated methods A digital camera includes a processor and a microphone. The camera captures audio speech and converts the speech to text. The text can be combined with a captured image to provide a composite file. The processor executes an instruction set which performs the audio t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036139 | Method and apparatus for remote control of a distributed television broadcasting system A TV broadcast system uses multiplexed and duplex, communication and verification methods, it directs and controls form a central continuity studio one or more remote stand alone TV transmitters to change and/or modify the content of their local broadcast material. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6952237 | Apparatus and method for transmitting audio over a dedicated video line Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmission of audio signals over a dedicated video transmission line in which the analog audio signal is inserted into and becomes a part of the video signal. Samples of the audio signal are inserted into the active video li... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940563 | Language switching method and digital broadcast receiver using the method In a digital broadcast receiver, a digital broadcast receiver 10 can select an arbitrary language among plural kinds of languages and output sound by said language, and has a configuration comprising EEPROM 18 for storing the selected language, an MPU ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6915064 | Apparatus and method for recording elementary streams A video recording and reproducing apparatus is provided which is capable of, even if the number of elementary streams (ES) of bits of a program to be recorded is too large and all the elementary streams can hardly be recorded, carrying out a recording operation with... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912008 | Method of adding data to a data communication link while retaining backward compatibility A method of adding auxiliary data, e.g., audio data, to a high-speed serial video link in such a way that it is invisible to existing receiver and such that auxiliary data, e.g., audio, can be transmitted without any knowledge of the capabilities of the display to r... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6895596 | Circuit and method for interleaving a data stream A circuit and method of interleaving a data stream (DATA) in which the data to be interleaved is contained in separate sections of the data stream. A buffer storage circuit (28) receives and stores the data stream. A first section (T1-T2) of the... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6879349 | Broadcasting receiver with automatic audio selection function A broadcasting receiver that receives broadcasting signals transmitted by a broadcasting station accompanying audio signals of multiple languages and automatically selects a certain broadcasting language to be outputted is described here. The receiver is capable of ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6829017 | Specifying a point of origin of a sound for audio effects using displayed visual information from a motion picture Displaying visual information from a motion picture in a visual field within a designated extent of a related aural field supports editing of a spatial audio effect for the motion picture. The extent of a related aural field also is displayed. Information specifying... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6829018 | Three-dimensional sound creation assisted by visual information A sound imaging system and method for generating multi-channel audio data from an audio/video signal having an audio component and a video component. The system comprises: a system for associating sound sources within the audio component to video objects within the ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6813281 | Method of assigning audio channel identification, method for selecting audio channel using the same, and optical recording and reproducing apparatus suitable therefor A method of assigning a channel identification (ID) of an audio signal by which it is possible to follow up and select the audio channel selected by a user even though a program or an audio data stream is changed in an audio/video (A/V) device for reproducing a prog... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6807676 | Methods of formatting data to maximize the readability and the amount of song identification information displayed on a limited number of lines A method of formatting data to maximize the readability of song identification (ID) information displayed on a monitor screen and a method of formatting data to maximize the amount of song ID information displayed on a limited number of lines on the monitor screen. ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804455 | Method and apparatus for transceiving audio data stream through a digital interface The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving audio data reproduced from a recording medium such as a digital video disk (DVD) through a digital interface such as IEEE 1394. The transmitting method according to the present invention separa... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6778607 | Method and apparatus for multi-rate encoding of video sequences A method and apparatus for multi-rate encoding of video sequences. The input data stream is received at a first bit rate. A domain transformation is performed on the input data and the transformed data is encoded into a series of output data streams each with a diff... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6744815 | Method for synchronizing audio and video streams In a combined audio and video encoding system, the encoding system receiving a stream of video samples and a stream of audio samples, the encoding system producing an encoded video stream from the video samples and an encoded audio stream from the audio samples, a m... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6721015 | Sound bite augmentation An audio description of a television program, i.e., a sound bite, is reproduced simultaneously with the display of the program at a television receiver. Specifically, the sound bite is embedded in a television signal that contains audio component and a video compone... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6697687 | Image display apparatus having audio output control means in accordance with image signal type An image display apparatus capable of automatically controlling an output status for each of audio information signals inputted with image information signals from various different image sources. A first signal input circuit inputs an image information s... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6690428 | Method and apparatus for embedding digital audio data in a serial digital video data stream Audio data of at least two audio data groups is embedded in an ancillary data space of a serial digital video data stream by multiplexing the audio data groups to provide a serial multi-group audio data stream, and inserting the serial multi-group audio d... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6687305 | Receiver, CPU and decoder for digital broadcast In decoding a data signal that is associated with a compressed video signal and a compressed audio signal in digital broadcast and is multiplexed in digital broadcast, a digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention efficiently decodes the... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6539001 | Visual telephone apparatus and data compression multiplexing method therefor as well as recording medium on which data compression multiplexing control program is recorded The invention provides a visual telephone apparatus which can assure a high speed of response of a user data application. An image compression section compresses an image signal imaged by a video camera with an image compression ratio based on control inf... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6525775 | Method for updating software in a digital television receiver using recorded data A television receiver which is coupled to a digital VCR to receive an ATSC-encoded multi-program stream containing video, audio and data programs. The receiver recognizes one of the data programs as containing computer software for the digital television ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6519008 | Filter circuit For an optimal adjustment of the filter frequency of a signal filter, independently of external influences, process spreads and temperature fluctuations, a filter circuit for filtering at least one sound carrier in a composite video signal by at least one... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6505153 | Efficient method for producing off-line closed captions Disclosed is a five-step process for producing closed captions for a television program, subtitles for a movie or other uses for time-aligned transcripts. An operator transcribes the audio track while listening to the recorded material. The system helps h... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6496233 | Command and control architecture for a video decoder and an audio decoder A method and apparatus for using an interface and concomitant communication protocol to allow a video decoder to communicate with an audio decoder. More specifically, an interface structure having a status interface line and at least two data interface li... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6452640 | Sound bite augmentation An audio description of a television program, i.e., a sound bite, is reproduced simultaneously with the display of the program at a television receiver. Specifically, the sound bite is embedded in a television signal that contains audio component and a vi... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6452952 | Digital information processing system with copy protection subsystem A digital information processing system ensures illegal-copy protection of video and audio signals without changing the structure or format of a stream of multiplexed video, audio and data packets. A packet demultiplexer selects packets from a packet stre... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6356701 | Editing system and method and distribution medium Temporarily storing audio data to be reproduced in the block form, temporarily storing synthesized audio data in the block form, generating and supplying a reference signal, and calculating the first address of the block of audio data, the editing system ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6295319 | Decoding device A decoding device for decoding a bit stream defined by MPEG2 Audio Multichannel is provided. The bit stream including an MPEG1 compatible area and an MPEG2 multichannel extended area, the MPEG1 compatible area including MPEG1 side information. The decodin... | 09/25/2001 |
