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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7843772 | Content use system, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus and system control method A recording apparatus includes a storage section that stores content data. The recording apparatus additionally includes a reproduction history information acquisition section that acquires reproduction history information about the content data from a portable repr... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7688683 | System and method of creating digital recordings of live performances In one embodiment, the present invention provides an event recording system that has an event-capture module, an editing module, and a media recording module. The event capture module captures an event signal, such as an audio signal from a sound event, and transfor... | 03/30/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7349552 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342308 | Component stacking for integrated circuit electronic package Component stacking for increasing packing density in integrated circuit packages. In one aspect of the invention, an integrated circuit package includes a substrate, and a plurality of discrete components connected to the substrate and approximately forming a compon... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340765 | Archiving and viewing sports events via Internet Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7320012 | Method and apparatus for file management File management method having first and second processing modes for storing file type information for discrimination between first and second processing modes in recording medium as file management information associated with file for file management. In first proce... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7275253 | Electronic apparatus and apparatus for recording and/or playback on recording medium An apparatus is provided comprising: a record and/or playback units having a first circuit board provided with a grounding potential unit; a cover body pivotably mounted to the record and/or playback unit and including a shield member connected to the grounding pote... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275252 | Cell phone or other portable handset containing microminiature optical disc drive A microminiature optical disc drive is mounted in a cell phone or other handheld portable device to provide a large data source for playing games, movies and other digital content on the device. The optical disc drive is manufactured to an extremely small form facto... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262359 | Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively shaped with the inner surface, and a padded member conjoined to the ext... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251477 | Method for storing and reproducing a voice message in a mobile telephone A method for managing voice messages in a mobile telephone, including a voice message store mode and a voice message reproduce mode. In the voice message store mode, the remaining memory capacity is calculated first, and, if there is sufficient memory, the voice mes... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246064 | Single control message device A message device records and plays messages. In a first aspect, actuation is effected by way of a single control. The control generally corresponds to the whole cover. Relatedly, in a second aspect the device is extremely simple and promotes openness communication. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228188 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and a method thereof The present invention comprises a communicating means to communicate with external device providing content, a storage medium retaining the content capable of recording and reading the content, recording and reproducing means which record the content obtained by mea... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224296 | Error-correcting binary run-length-limited product-code A signal includes a runlength limited (RLL) encoded binary d,k channel bitstream, parameter d defining a minimum number and k defining a maximum number of zeroes between any two ones of the bitstream, or vice versa. The signal further includes a number of sections o... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209410 | Set of electronic apparatuses having first and second electronic devices, and computer program product A portable audio player (100) includes a decoder (14) and other devices for reproducing audio data, a microcomputer (16) for controlling starting and stopping the reproduction, and a radio communication device (24). An on-vehicle audio pl... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203142 | Multi-source surround audio apparatus A DVD audio signal reproducer reproduces a DVD to generate a DVD reproduced audio signal. A reproduced signal determiner determines whether the DVD reproduced audio signal is a 5.1-channel digital surround audio signal or a 2-channel digital audio signal, and genera... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7181636 | Method of ensuring synchronous presentation of additional data with audio data recorded on a rewritable recording medium A recording medium and a method and apparatus for managing data are provided. The method includes recording additional data in a data file separate from a file containing main data and recording navigation information that links the main data and the additional data... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159230 | Emergency alert system A system for inputting conventional emergency alert messages into a digital subscriber television system. The method allows existing emergency alert equipment to interface with the digital system equipment in the headend of a digital subscriber television system. A ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154822 | Optical disc recording control method, drive, and recording system for recording data in a pre-gap, all tracks, a lead-out area, a lead-in area, and a program memory area According to an optical disc recording control method, a drive, and a recording system of the present invention, in a drive of an optical disc, when data transfer from a host computer is interrupted while data transmitted from the host computer is being recorded in ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7136712 | Digital acoustic reproducing apparatus, acoustic apparatus and acoustic reproducing system In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatus 10 for selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information source 11 having plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are prov... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130251 | Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its method A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7111381 | Method of making a hard disk drive more visually stimulating A method of configuring a hard disk drive with a transparent cover allows the elements of the disk drive to be observed while they are in operation. The cover also can be tinted with different colors or made somewhat translucent for further differentiation. In addit... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7075861 | Reproduction apparatus capable of selecting pieces of information for reproducing An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a record medium. One of reproduce modes of reproducing information recorded on a record medium is selected. A reproduce program for selecting pieces of information recorded on the record me... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072249 | Digital audio signal playback apparatus with scratch effect control device In a scratch effect control device for a digital audio signal playback apparatus, a control unit controls output of digital audio data recorded in a data recording medium and read by a data reading device in accordance with a first control signal representative of a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6961895 | Method and apparatus for synchronization of text and audio data A method and apparatus for synchronizing audio data to text data in which the text is manually or automatically divided into an arbitrary number of sections and a text section is selected for display and presented to a narrator for audio input. A human narrator read... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959411 | Intelligent error checking method and mechanism An intelligent MP3 error check detection method and apparatus. The claimed invention discloses an apparatus and method where all MP3 files are initially assumed to have compatible error checksums. A parameter W is initialized to zero. The parameter W is not constant... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6943982 | Lockout mechanism for I/O station of automated library A lockout lever is hinged on the side of a slot in an I/O station of an automated library. The lever includes a leading blade and a trailing blade that protrude into the slot. The leading blade is urged open by a spring. When an LTO cartridge or a DLT cartridge in t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6924017 | Ultraviolet-curable composition and optical recording The present invention provides an ultraviolet-curable composition having satisfactory protective performance even in endurance testing at high temperature and high humidity in an optical recording medium having for its reflective film Ag or a metal and/or alloy havi... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6919819 | Sunshade board The present invention provides an improved sunshade board, the sunshade board comprises: a digital radio device that comprises at least one memory card socket, operate display panel, a sense display device that comprises at least one display screen, optical coupling... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6920428 | Method of selling and distributing articles associated with live events A method comprises the steps of: providing an opportunity for prospective event ticket purchasers to pre-purchase one or more copies of a recording of at least a portion of a live event; conducting said live event; recording at least a portion of said live event; de... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917566 | System and method of creating digital recordings of live performances In one embodiment, the present invention provides an event recording system that has an event-capture module, an editing module, and a media recording module. The event-capture module captures an event signal, such as an audio signal from a sound event, and transfor... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6895165 | Apparatus for enabling perpetual recording and instant playback or storage of a time-specific portion of an audio or audio visual broadcast medium A radio or television apparatus has tuning circuitry for selecting a channel from an input spectrum, an output for presenting a presentation from a selected channel, a recording apparatus having a memory with capacity for recording a fixed time duration T of the sel... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6876432 | Moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus and schedule setting method thereof A moving picture recording/reproducing apparatus has a camera portion to take a moving picture, a compressor/expander which compresses and expands a video signal and an audio signal, a card slot which receives a memory card that records compressed video and audio da... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6795156 | Orientation inspector for liquid crystal display (LCD) cell An orientation inspector for LCD cell is utilized to inspect the LCD cell. The LCD cell includes two transparent substrates wherein the first transparent substrate is slightly bigger than the second transparent substrate and a step is formed on the first transparent... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6614729 | System and method of creating digital recordings of live performances In one embodiment, the present invention provides an event recording system that has an event-capture module, an editing module, and a media recording module. The event-capture module captures an event signal, such as an audio signal from a sound event, a... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6501463 | Electronic whiteboard system using a tactile foam sensor An electronic whiteboard system using an electronic whiteboard having a foam sensor for measuring the input data drawn onto the whiteboard writing surface. The electronic whiteboard system includes a communications interface that allows the electronic whi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6347185 | Apparatus and method for recording audio/video signal and detected feature information thereof A recording apparatus configured to receive analog video and audio signals, digitize and compress the same, and record the compressed audio and video signals on a digital recording medium such as an optical disk. As the audio and video signals are receive... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6342664 | Data reproducing apparatus A music reproducing apparatus is provided by which audio data or the like can be downloaded into an internal memory with ease. A connector portion that can be connected to a predetermined card slot of a data processing apparatus, an audio data memory, an ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6069851 | Entertainment micro system The invention relates to an entertainment system having a playback device for retrieving data from a recording medium and for generating a signal corresponding to the data, wherein the playback device includes a transparent door which covers the recording... | 05/30/2000 |
