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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7676141 | Recording apparatus and recording method An apparatus and method for addressing data losses when power to a digital recorder is unexpectedly interrupted during recording, and a the file management information needed to play back digital content is not completely written to a disc. The recovery process for ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672572 | Recording apparatus and recording method An apparatus and method of addressing data losses when power to a digital recorder is unexpectedly interrupted during recording, and the file management information needed to play back digital content is not completely written to a disc. The recovery process for cor... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7373078 | Audio signal processing method, audio signal processing apparatus, Hi-Fi video apparatus, digital video apparatus and 8 mm video apparatus An audio signal processing method for repairing an anomalous state such as noise, a discontinuity, and a break of sound, comprising detecting the anomalous state of an audio signal, deleting the audio signal in the anomalous segment, deducing the correct audio signa... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352863 | Copy protection for video signal using narrowed horizontal synchronization signals and amplitude modulation Enhancements to a video anticopying process that causes an abnormally low amplitude video signal to be recorded on a illegal copy. The enhancement in one version include a negative going waveform that appears to the television receiver or videotape recorder to be a ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340153 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing information When recording operation is stopped due to, for example, unexpected interruption of electric power supply in the course of the recording operation on a real time basis, a technique of repairing a moving picture and sound data recorded on a recording medium until the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327943 | Installation closure having fiber management apparatus An installation closure having fiber management apparatus includes an outer shell and at least one cable centralizer disposed within the outer shell at a factory-assembled access location on a fiber optic distribution cable. The cable centralizer has a central chann... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7254537 | Speech input device A speech input device is provided with a microphone which inputs speech, a key entry detector which detects an operation of a key section which serves as a man-machine interface, and a noise eliminator which eliminates a component of an operation sound from the spee... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221782 | Method and apparatus for determining a dynamic range of a digital medical image A method and apparatus are provided for adjusting a dynamic range of a digital medical image for a medical imaging system. The digital medical image contains a clinical region and a non-clinical region. The method and apparatus identify the non-clinical region of th... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221848 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus and data recording and reproducing method I/O processing sections for inputting and outputting AV data between themselves and the outside are connected to RAIDS through a network. Each I/O processing section includes an input processing section for distributing divided AV data inputted from the outside to t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212247 | Audio/video system providing variable delay An audio/video system (100) is capable of introducing variable amounts of delay into a signal path so as to properly synchronize two signals, such a video signal and a corresponding audio signal. According to an exemplary embodiment, the audio/video system ( | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7173669 | Digital television system and method for supporting a film mode A digital TV system and a method for supporting a film mode in a digital TV system include generating an original frame from two fields except for repeated fields among 60 fields inputted in an interlaced scanning method if the film mode is detected, and converting ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7030930 | System for digitized audio stream synchronization and method thereof A system and methods are provided for presenting processed audio data and processed video data to corresponding outputs in a synchronized manner. Video and audio data from a multimedia stream are received by a processing system. The video data is processed through a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6998905 | Noise cancellation circuits and methods Circuits and methods for coherent noise cancellation are provided. More specifically, circuits and methods are provided for coherent cancellation of noise that is present in a data signal due to noise being present in the source signal (e.g., an optical signal) that... | 02/14/2006 |
| 7000039 | Information processing apparatus for recording streaming data in a storage device An information processing apparatus includes a first bus to transfer various data. A first processor is provided to manage, as a file, data recorded in the storage device. A receiver is provided to receive externally supplied streaming data. A second bus is provided... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6978414 | Method and apparatus for protecting against errors occurring in data storage device buffers A linear tape data storage device comprises a read head and a write head; a tape transport mechanism for transporting the linear tape data storage medium across the read head and the write head, the device being operated according to a predefined tape format; a DRAM... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6937706 | System and method for data recording A system and method for monitoring a telephone switching environment. In a preferred embodiment the system and method simultaneously monitor both an SMDR link and a real-time CTI link, gather information about calls from both sources, and combine gathered informatio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934466 | Buzz reduction circuit and TV/VCR combo using the same Buzz reduction circuit for eliminating a vertical period buzz without being influenced by amplifier circuits in an audio signal line. A video signal of a VCR video head is input to a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit to separate a vertical synchronizi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6904232 | Method and apparatus for seeking the burst cutting area of DVD media Methods and apparatus for reading data from the burst cutting area of a digital video disc. The present location of an optical head assembly is determined. The distance from the present location of the optical head assembly to the burst cutting area is calculated. T... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6862401 | Recording apparatus, method and program recording medium A recording apparatus includes a recording device which records audio visual data (hereinafter referred to as “AV data”) on a recording medium. A file restoration device which, when file management information for managing a file recorded on the recording medium... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6823128 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus including a write controller. This write controller specifies a start position of an effective time period of each field, based on an ID signal superimposed over lines 15 to 18 of an odd numbered field video signal and ove... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6789072 | Method and apparatus for searching recorded digital data streams using packet arrival time information A method and apparatus for recording time information for received digital data streams to be recorded on a recording medium such as a digital video disk and searching the recorded digital data streams using the time information. The format of the time information i... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6751404 | Method and apparatus for detecting processor congestion during audio and video decode Disclosed is a method and system for detecting processor congestion during decompression of a stream of video and audio data. The system and method includes a processor receiving and decoding a first frame of audio data in accordance with an audio decode software al... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6546190 | Synchronization of multiple media streams A method of synchronizing digitized audio information and digitized picture information establishes a reference time base based on timecodes included with the audio and picture information. The reference time base may be used to synchronize output between... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6510279 | Audio/video synchronous reproducer enabling accurate synchronization between audio and video and a method of audio/video synchronous reproduction In an audio/video synchronous reproducer for carrying out audio reproduction and video display synchronously in response to audio data and video data, an audio processing section (6) processes the audio data to produce a processed audio data amount in add... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6385391 | Video tape reproducing apparatus In a video tape reproducing apparatus, there is provided an integrated circuit in which an audio signal amplifier for amplifying an audio signal reproduced by a fixed type audio head, and a control signal amplifier for amplifying a control signal reproduc... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6369966 | Standby signal for audio FM demodulator In order to reproduce the audio signal which has been recorded as an FM audio signal in the slanted tracks of a recording medium in tape form by means of read/write heads arranged on a rotating head drum, it is possible to use PLL circuits which are desig... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6163343 | Electronic apparatus and method for independently resetting functional mode units of a multi-functional mode system An electronic apparatus having a reset circuit and a resetting method are provided. The electric apparatus includes at least two functional mode blocks, a controller for controlling the operations of the functional mode blocks, and a reset circuit for sel... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6147829 | Magnetic tape with a track configuration and apparatus for cooperation with such a magnetic tape A magnetic tape (2) and an apparatus (1) for cooperation with this magnetic tape (2) are configured in such a manner that video signals and audio signals can be stored in an inclined-track zone (67) and that a control signal (D-CTL signal) can be stored i... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6078725 | Apparatus for a synchronized playback of audio-video signals To provide an apparatus for a synchronized playback of com- pressed digital data of audio-video signals adequately even when there are data errors with a simple configuration to be applied to a system having comparatively low data processing ability, inde... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5712948 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus which replaces an inserted audio signal with a preceding field of a reproduced FM video signal A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus wherein synchronizing separation of a reproduction video signal can be performed accurately and a stabilized reproduction video signal can be obtained. The magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus include... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5608582 | Audio signal reproducing apparatus and method for use during a slow reproduction operation In an apparatus for sequentially reproducing the audio signal recorded in an adjacent track with a time interval T, an audio signal reproducing apparatus which reproduces an audio signal during a slow reproduction mode of operation includes a delay receiv... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5604603 | System and method for recording digital audio signal and digital video signal and recording medium for same A digital audio and video signal recording system and method wherein erasure of a channel has no major effect on adjoining audio signals in the case of high density recording. The same channel of audio signals are recorded arranged in blocks in a directio... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5543937 | Apparatus for recording and playing back digital data An apparatus serving as a digital videocassette recorder (VCR) for recording analog video and audio signals as digital signals. The apparatus serves also as a digital data storage drive. The digital VCR and the storage drive share common circuitry and a c... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5491590 | Rotary head recording and playback apparatus and method In a method of recording digital information signals to form tracks on a magnetic tape, the samples of the signals to be recorded are divided into a plurality of odd sample groups and a plurality of even samples groups. The groups containing adjacent samp... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5457668 | Data processing system with collating processing at start up for determining the presence of an improper optical CD Various data required for a game as well as first collating music data are recorded on a CD-ROM (4). On the other hand, second collating music data and collating program data are stored in a ROM (302) in an external memory cartridge (3). A CPU (101a) exec... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5432649 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus wherein synchronizing separation of a reproduction video signal can be performed accurately and a stabilized reproduction video signal can be obtained. The magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus include... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5428485 | Video tape recorder with PCM audio recording with device for detecting irregularities in the video signal A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus equipped with a rotating drum having on its circumferential surface video signal heads for recording and reproducing a video signal on and from a recording medium and PCM signal heads for recording and reproducin... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5424850 | Method and apparatus for recording compressed audio data on a video record medium Video and audio data are recorded onto video and audio signal recording areas of a track of a record medium, these areas being included either in one of several segments in the track or the track being comprised of only a single segment of video and audio... | 06/13/1995 |
