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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8054726 | Processor and processing program An object of the present invention is to retrieve and process a piece of content to be processed by a simple method at the time of storing content recorded in a CD into an HDD or the like, reading desired content out of the content stored in the HDD from the HDD, an... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7499387 | Method and appliance for copying data from a tape onto a storage medium The method for copying data from a tape onto a storage medium comprises the steps of scanning the tape in a fast winding operation, counting control pulses present on the tape during the fast winding operation in a counter, defining a compression rate in dependency ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7403616 | Electronic apparatus, data recording method for the electronic apparatus, and storage medium storing program for executing the data recording method There is provided an electronic apparatus which once makes a user conscious of copyright and the like of digital data, such as audio data and image data, when the user records the digital data or performs the like processing, and then allows the user to use the digi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391964 | Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7356514 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method of digital video signal or audio signal A reproduction method and apparatus for reproducing video data and/or audio data from a recordable medium having video data and/or audio data recorded thereon. The video data and/or audio data is generated by superimposing information concerning an attribute of a vi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7289393 | Music jukebox Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a da... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7225310 | Method for successively recording data in hybrid digital recorder A method for successively recording data in a hybrid digital recorder. If an optical disc has no redundant area when a hybrid digital recorder in which an optical disc recorder and an HDD recorder, etc. are integrated in one body records an input data stream on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7187510 | Method of magnetic transfer to flexible medium A signal such as a servo tracking signal is recorded on a flexible slave medium by magnetic transfer. When forming the flexible slave medium of a magnetic strip in a continuous length, the signal is recorded on the magnetic strip by patterned master magnetic transfe... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7158456 | Optical disc player and method for reproducing thereof An optical disc player discriminates an attribution of tracks recorded onto a disc inserted in the player, and normally reproduces MP3 tracks recorded onto discs inserted into a plurality of disc drivers using an MP3 decoder. Also, according to a method of reproduci... | 01/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7069274 | Method and apparatus for cataloguing and scripting the display of informational content A digital department system is disclosed. The digital department system of the present invention includes a network management center, a network operating center that is coupled to the network management center, a multimedia server, a multicasting transmission mediu... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061838 | Apparatus and method for caching and selectively reproducing information from recording media A system control microcomputer 31 of a control section 3 controls to automatically make a temporary copy in a temporary area B of a recording/reproducing section 2, and reproduce by reading this temporary copy, when an optical disc 12 is ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055166 | Apparatus and methods for broadcast monitoring Disclosed herein are systems and methods for editing the content of a broadcast programming signal to provide a proprietary program signal that has been tailored to the preferences of an individual monitoring the broadcast programming signal. Accordingly, the system... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7024453 | Reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system and method of operation A reconfigurable audiovisual previewing system includes a user interface module, a media communications module, and a plurality of application programs. One of the plurality of application programs is selected and configures the interface module to identify the prod... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6944632 | Method and apparatus for gathering statistical information about in-store content distribution A digital department system is disclosed. The digital department system of the present invention includes a network management center, a network operating center that is coupled to the network management center, a multimedia server, a multicasting transmission mediu... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931406 | Method and apparatus for distributing promotional material to a user in a commercial sales outlet A digital department system is disclosed. The digital department system of the present invention includes a network management center, a network operating center that is coupled to the network management center, a multimedia server, a multicasting transmission mediu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6810200 | Digital data processing device that restricts usage of data present on a recording medium A digital data recording control system reads music data from a CD and records (i.e., copies) the music data onto an SD card. The CD also stores an ISRC that specifies the content of the CD, that is, the music data present on the CD. The digital data recording contr... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6782434 | Apparatus and method for transferring information among variety of information recording and reproducing apparatus An information transfer apparatus includes a casing having at least two sections accommodating a variety of information recording and reproducing apparatuses, respectively. A transfer device is arranged to transfer information from one of the information recording a... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6754347 | Input/output unit, input/output method, and receiving unit A switching portion of an IRD supplies a non-descrambled TS (transport stream) received from a front end portion or a descrambled TS received from a descrambler to a DVCR connected to an IEEE 1394 interface. In addition, data received from the DVCR is supplied to th... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6560577 | Process for encoding audio from an analog medium into a compressed digital format using attribute information and silence detection The present invention discloses method and system of encoding audio information (e.g., music, speech, etc.) from an analog medium (e.g., vinyl recordings, cassette tapes, etc.) into a compressed, track-oriented, digital format using attribute information ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6421750 | System and method for recording digital data on glass master recording disks A system concept and the components integrated therein for storing useful and control information as well as feature items, general components for data flow control of all components integrated in the system concept as well as special components for data ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6311240 | Hardware assisted formatted data transfer system having a source storage controller and a formatting storage controller receiving on-media structure definition and a data definition A system and method for hardware assisted formatted data transfer allows a formatting storage controller to read and record data on a formatted storage medium and avoids a requirement of continuous interaction by a host system in the transfer process. The... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6226672 | Method and system for allowing users to access and/or share media libraries, including multimedia collections of audio and video information via a wide area network Using a music oriented Web site, a "student" user requests a tutorial or tour of a musical artist or genre on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet. The "expert" user peruses the "student" personal music library and creates a playlist for that librar... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6104555 | Method and device for duplicating an initial program of a hard disk drive A device for copying programs installed on an original hard disk drive into duplicating hard disk drives is disclosed. The storage area of an original HDD is divided into a plurality of sub-storage areas corresponding to different HDD models so as to stor... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5983295 | Method and system for wrapping single files for burning into compact disk A system and method for transforming specialized data files of a first computer system into industry-standard byte-stream files usable for a second system or other systems. First and second programmatic interfaces of the first system can take the speciali... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5963530 | CD recording device with auxillary input A device for recording onto a compact disc signals received from another compact disc is provided including a compact disc player adapted to removably receive a compact disc via a first slot formed in the housing and play the same. Further included is a c... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5959944 | System and method for production of customized compact discs on demand A system and method for production of customized compact discs on demand includes acquisition means for acquiring audio data from a plurality of commercial-quality CDs and converting the audio data to digital format; mass storage means, coupled to the acq... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5943311 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing information An information recording and reproducing apparatus for reproducing record information, which includes character information and main information, from a first record medium and recording the reproduced record information onto a second record medium so as ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5930208 | Method for integrating information retrieval from a plurality of dissimilar storage media including at least one optical disk An information reproduction method uses a first storage medium and a second storage medium. For the method a plurality of pieces of information and retrieval information are recorded in one of the storage media. The retrieval information is used to retrie... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5909421 | Reproducing and recording apparatus and method for dubbing video data Reproducing and recording apparatus and method for dubbing video data includes structure and steps employed in a system for copying encoded video data recorded on a first recording medium to a second recording medium. Structure and steps are provided for ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5881041 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing information An information recording and reproducing apparatus for reproducing record information, which includes character information and main information, from a first record medium and recording the reproduced record information onto a second record medium so as ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5872758 | Method of manufacturing tape-like information carriers and a web-like intermediate carrier A method of manufacturing a prerecorded tape (9), the master taking the form of a helical pattern (13) on a cylinder (10). This cylinder (10) is rolled over a web-like intermediate carrier (1), the pattern (13) being replicated in strips (5) by a contact ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5761169 | Methods and apparatus for recording to and reproducing from an optical master disc data to emulate the behavior of a reproducing only optical disc An optical disc apparatus and data recording method simplifies debugging when supplying a large quantity of software with a the reproducing only optical disc in place of a optical magnetic disc. The optical disc apparatus and data recording method convert... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5740388 | Apparatus for creating individually customized videos A apparatus for creating an individually customized video product from a plurality of video segments uses a central computer and one or more workstations to control the operation of a video file server and video recorders connected thereto. An operator at... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5740146 | Method and apparatus for reducing noise using a plurality of recording copies The present invention provides a method for reducing noise using a plurality of recording copies. The present invention produces a master file with lower noise than the available recording copies, and avoids the problems of losing musical content caused b... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5732059 | Synchronous dubbing system and method thereof A synchronous dubbing system for dubbing data between any one of a plurality of record units and any one of a plurality of playback units, wherein a command for causing all playback units connected from a record unit through a bus line to be released from... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5726967 | Disk playback apparatus for a disk player A disk playback apparatus comprises a stocker including a plurality of shelves for compact disks, a pallet disposed adjacent to the stocker, a lift stage for moving the stocker up and down so that a selected one of the shelves is located in a position hig... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5623471 | Adaptive backup for storage library In an automated information storage and retrieval library system having a single recording drive, a backup or copying operation is preferably performed in a single-threaded fashion whereas in a library having two or more drives, a multi-threaded approach ... | 04/22/1997 |
