"I hate what they've done to my child...I would never let my own children watch it. "
Vladimir Zworykin, television pioneer ; Talking about an invention in which he played a critical role.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7590033 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus In an optical disc reproducing apparatus, when a stop key is pressed during reproduction of an optical disc, a resume function is activated, and a resume-on indication appears on a display device. When the resume-on indication goes out a predetermined time thereafte... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7406509 | Dynamic switching of a communication port in a storage system between target and initiator modes A storage system includes a communication port, the mode of operation of which can be dynamically switched by a user between a target mode and an initiator mode. The port may be a Fibre Channel port. The storage system may be a unified storage system operable to pro... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7394731 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain editing effects using an optical disc in the same sense as an analog record disc is manipulated. An audio editing apparatus for playing back an optical disc such as a CD is provided with a rotatable jog dial, d... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7356244 | Method and system for replaying video images The present invention relates to method of replaying video images by placing a bookmark on the particular thumbnail image of the broadcast content using thumbnail method and replaying it from the position a user wants. The method of the present invention extracts a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349749 | Audio signal mixer for long mix editing An audio signal mixer capable of performing a long mix editing with simple manipulations. A second audio signal producing means is prevented from producing a second audio signal when an operating member is positioned at a first end, while a first audio signal produc... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7301857 | Media player including a resume function A method and arrangement remembers a last-played position of a recorded medium by associating an identification number with the medium and storing therewith in memory a last-play position of the medium. The identification number of the recorded medium is analyzed af... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7158781 | System management A method may be provided for establishing a service communication channel to a multi-server computer system comprising a plurality of modular units. At least selected modular units can have a wireless communication port. The method may comprise transmitting an exist... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7130656 | Automotive information system and method of controlling the same, recording medium storing control program, disk playback apparatus, and semiconductor integrated circuit An automotive information system has a main unit including a CPU and component units connected to the main unit through a universal serial BUS (USB), such as a car audio system including a CD-ROM auto-changer, a security control system, and a telephone system. At le... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7115807 | Information processing unit, display method for the information processing unit, program for the same, recording medium for recording the program therein and reproducing unit A reading section (10) reads information recorded in an optical disk and outputs a read signal. A DSP (20) detects the read signal, and make it reproducible. An operational instruction recognizing section (51) recognizes an instruction for a spe... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7072257 | Data recording controller A controller for recording data on a CD with a DVD recorder. The controller includes an LPP decoder, an ATIP decoder for decoding address information of a CD, and an address converter for converting an ATIP address into an LPP address. When recording DVD format data... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7042814 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain editing effects using an optical disc in the same sense as an analog record disc is manipulated. An audio editing apparatus for playing back an optical disc such as a CD is provided with a rotatable jog dial, d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6930515 | Level shifting and level shifting amplifier circuits Level shifting and amplified level shifting circuit topologies are provided that include two or more level shifting or amplified level shifting circuits. The level shifting circuits receive a variable and fixed input and generate a variable and fixed output that are... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928039 | Method and apparatus for the reduction of power consumption in a compact disc player A method and apparatus for playing compressed audio compact discs in a CD player is provided in which compressed audio data is cached in the local memory of the CD player. If a sufficient amount of compressed audio data is cached in the local memory of the CD player... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6914863 | Disc player and method of preventing lock of its resume play A disc player includes a reproducing parameter setting/extracting unit, a reproducing state monitor, a reproducing parameter storage unit for storing a reproducing position, a number-of-loadings counter, and a controller for controlling them. The controller, during ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6904005 | Power supply apparatus and method using same A power supply module removably disposed within an automated data storage and retrieval system. An automated data storage and retrieval system which includes one or more power supply modules removably disposed therein. An accessor movably disposed with an automated ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6751167 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain sound effects by using an optical disc in much the same way an analog record is manipulated. A pressing pressure applied onto a rotatable jog dial is detected by providing a pressure sensing layer to the jog di... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6574170 | Recording medium reproduction apparatus When a disk reproduction apparatus 1 receives an input caused by the operation of "a fast-forwarding key" or "a rewinding key" during the reproduction operation, then the apparatus detects the number of successive operations of "the fast-forwarding key" o... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6388958 | Method of building a play list for a recorded media changer A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which does not have identifying features which are recognized by ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5889920 | Receiver/recorder of television transmissions A receiver/recorder for television transmissions whereby continuous recording of television transmission occurs from at least one channel onto a random-access rewritable recording medium. At each of a plurality of predetermined locations a binary code is ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5870355 | CD-ROM device capable of reproducing both audio data and computer data A CD-ROM device has an audio data buffer and a computer data buffer. The audio data is read into the audio data buffer at a speed higher than required for audio playback. The audio data may then be accessed at the normal audio playback speed. The audio da... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5463601 | CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus with means for storing progression data of a control means A CD-ROM disc reproducing apparatus of the present invention includes a memory for storing progression data of a program that plays and controls a CD-ROM disc, a power supply switch and a book marker switch. The memory sequentially stores therein progress... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5446714 | Disc changer and player that reads and stores program data of all discs prior to reproduction and method of reproducing music on the same The disc player accommodates a plurality of CD-I discs, to each of which program data required to reproduce information on the disc is recorded at a predetermined area thereof. The disc player has a disc changer to selectively supply each CD-I disc to a r... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5359580 | Method of using a single microprocessor to perform data retrieval and disc reproduction control in a disc reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus for a disc in which data read out from a disc are retrieved, in which, with the use of sole CPU, a data retrieval related processing is executed as a main routine and a reproduction control processing for the disc is executed as a ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5331613 | Data reproducing method and apparatus capable of shortening the total time of data reproduction for a plurality of reproduction requests A data reproducing method includes the steps of causing an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus to read first data from an optical information recording and reproducing medium when a first reproduction request is received, and storing t... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5257254 | Apparatus for controlling CD audio player to playback CD-ROM A data reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section for reproducing digital data and whose reproducing state is controlled by a signal transmitted in a wireless fashion to thereby output reproduced data as digital data, and a control section for t... | 10/26/1993 |
| 4852073 | Remote control transmission apparatus a remote control transmission apparatus for remote control of the operation of a recorded data playback apparatus such as a video or audio disc player is provided with a memory and a display. Data which are inputted by actuations of key switches, e.g. to ... | 07/25/1989 |