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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7620298 | Disc reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus including a reproducing unit for reproducing an SACD held in a reproduction position and outputting an audio signal and also reading disc control information from the SACD when the SACD is held in the reproduction position, and a genre displa... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616867 | Recording medium for storing virtually deleted still picture information, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing virtual deletion information, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor are provided. The recording medium includes a first region having a plurality of still pictures, and a second region having first virtual dele... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7542661 | Method, apparatus, and program for image generation Serial reproduction digital video data in the form of a slide show can be easily generated from still image data and/or digital video data. Reading means reads still image data sets and/or digital video data sets stored in folders of a memory card, and selection of ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7515814 | Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for video and audio data paired as growth rings A system and method that permits audio data for each unit reproduction duration to be read from a disc-shaped recording medium and stored in a RAM. The audio data that are read from the RAM are transferred to a memory of a digital signal processor (DSP) and stored t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7440679 | Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. A writeable and rewriteable recording medium stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7409143 | DVD-audio disk, and apparatus and method for playing the same A DVD-Audio which includes a data zone for storing data to be reproduced and an information zone for storing information on the data to be reproduced. The information zone includes directories of a video title set (VIDEO_TS) and an audio title set (AUDIO_TS). The AU... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409145 | Smart profiles for capturing and publishing audio and video streams A method and system for capturing video and/or audio streams and for publishing consolidated video and/or consolidated audio streams. A capture profile specifying parameters for capturing the video stream and/or audio stream is selected from a list of predefined pro... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398011 | Recording medium and audio-signal processing apparatus A digital signal recording disc has a first area and a second area. The second area differs from the first area. The first area stores a first-channel digital audio signal and a second-channel digital audio signal. The first-channel digital audio signal results from... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394972 | Optical disc reproduction apparatus An optical disc reproduction apparatus starts reproduction of audio other than DTS audio when the audio number of the DTS audio on an optical disc is found to be greater than the audio number of other audio, starts reproduction of DTS audio assigned an audio number ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379658 | Optical disk, reproduction apparatus, and reproduction method An optical disk includes: a data region; and a management region. The data region stores: at least one video object containing video information and audio information; and at least one audio object containing audio information. The management region stores first pat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379659 | Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, and recording medium therefor Audio signals and video signals are recorded as follows. Three video PES packets, each being formed of one video frame, are combined to form a video editing unit. Then, the video editing unit and the associated audio editing unit are alternately disposed on a magnet... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366401 | Video summary play apparatus and method A signal receiving unit receives a signal including video data. A video data memory sequentially stores the video data. A timing decision unit decides a timing to generate a video summary by referring to the signal, and provides a generation request of the video sum... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359624 | Portable DVD player A portable DVD player includes a generally thin prismatic enclosure having a first major surface, a second major surface separated from the first major surface, and side surfaces connecting the first major surface to the second major surface. At least a portion of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359625 | Recording medium with content stream data recorded thereon, recording apparatus, and reproducing apparatus therefor A recording medium having content stream data recorded thereon and a recording and reproducing apparatus provided therefor. On the recording medium, content stream data is recorded as a stream object formed of one or more stream object units, each having a predeterm... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348955 | Method of controlling display method, display-use signal producing device, display device, and display system for implementing the method The sending party of a display-use image signal adds to a signal representing a display image a control parameter signal composed of a control tag signal specifying a controlled object and control start/end identification signal Ts or Te between a specific parameter... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340156 | Information storage medium with aggregate attribute information, and apparatus for reproducing the same An information storage medium includes: a plurality of unit audio information to be reproduced independently of each other; aggregate audio information each including one or more of the unit audio information; unit attribute information indicating attributes of the ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340155 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330643 | Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track (1a) to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80) and reproduces audio information... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327946 | AV data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327942 | Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324740 | AV data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321721 | Hard disk apparatus, medium, and collection of information Alternation processes reduce the recording and reproducing speed of a hard disk apparatus. A hard disk apparatus comprising: an HDD 10 for recording AV data onto a hard disk; and stream controlling means 8 which is connected to the HDD 10... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7305175 | AV data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302058 | Method and apparatus for securing control words In accordance with one embodiment, a method for securing control words is provided. The method includes receiving scrambled digital content in a descrambler integrated circuit. The method further includes receiving an encrypted control word in the descrambler integr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295141 | Method for mixing signals with an analog-to-digital converter The invention provides a method for mixing signals with an analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter receives a plurality of analog signals. First, the plurality of analog signals are respectively converted to a plurality of first datastreams with... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289722 | Optical disc, recording device and reproducing device Optical discs formatted to record plural audio streams of different content for reproduction with a single video stream can result in audio output of content unexpected by the user depending upon the audio stream configuration contained in the AV stream reproduced. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289723 | Digital recording system using variable recording rate An erase prohibition setting unit sets erase prohibition in accordance with an instruction. When the range is not set in units of cells of the current cell, the current cell is divided by a cell separator to set a sequence of advanced cells. A reconstruction part re... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286747 | Digital video apparatus user interface A method of controlling a system for processing stored information on a storage medium includes the following steps. Stored information is played back during a play mode of operation. A user is provided an opportunity to select a bookmark representing a correspondin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283444 | Method and device for determining disk size and stopping a rotating disk without using frequency generator signals A method and device for determining the presence or absence of a disk and/or a disk size without using FG signals, are provided. The method includes placing a pickup at a first zone on the optical recording medium, the first zone located between an outer radius of a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280747 | Information recording medium, information recording method and apparatus, and information playback method and apparatus An information recording medium of this invention has a first area which records common information which can be commonly played back by a plurality of types of information playback apparatuses provided by different manufacturers or distributors and complies with co... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280743 | Data recording apparatus for recording stream data in which dummy data is inserted and data recording apparatus for recording end code in place of dummy code A recording apparatus according to an aspect of this invention has an insertion unit configured to insert dummy data at a predetermined position of stream data, and a recording unit configured to record the stream data in which the dummy data is inserted on a record... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277621 | Recording medium with video index information recorded therein video information management method which uses the video index information, recording medium with audio index information recorded therein, audio information management method which uses the audio index information, video retrieval method which uses video index information, audio retrieval method which uses the audio index information and a video retrieval system The video index information has a tree structure comprising frame information, sound information, segment information, and package information each as a structure element object. The segment information manages package information for managing a plurality of other s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274860 | Apparatus, method, and recording medium implementing audio gap information for an audio presentation discontinuous period An optical disk for recording more than one system stream containing audio data and video data. The audio data and video data of the plural system streams are recorded to the optical disk, and are interleaved such that the difference between the input start times of... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269785 | Digital manipulation of video in digital video player According to the invention, a technique for operating a digital versatile disk (DVD) system is disclosed. First digital information is read from a DVD player. The first digital information is decompressed to create second digital information that is stored. In order... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260317 | AV data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260040 | Method and apparatus to display status of an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus A method and apparatus to display a status of an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The method includes, determining a type of an optical disc loaded into a tray; transmitting a predetermined signal based on the determination result to a laser emitting ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248786 | Video signal processing apparatus, video signal playback apparatus, and video signal recording apparatus A video signal processing apparatus, a video signal playback apparatus, and a video signal recording apparatus are presented for preventing illegal copying of thumbnail images. For example, a thumbnail encoder generates a thumbnail image of a video signal input from... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239800 | Portable player for personal video recorders A low-cost portable digital video player receives proprietary compressed data from a source such as a personal video recorder (PVR), and displays the data on an integral display. A rewritable non-volatile memory of the player stores the data and a media decoder of t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233558 | DVD seamless playback system A DVD seamless playback system has a first timer, a second timer, a register, a processor, a buffer, and a decoder. The processor is capable of parsing bit-streamed data and of setting count initial values of the first and the second timers alternatively if the data... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224385 | Video camera with multiple microphones and audio processor producing one signal for recording A video camera capable of recording and/or reproducing multiple channel audio signals and video signals simultaneously in a single recording medium in such a manner as to reproduce omnidirectional ambient sounds as surround sound. The video camera includes a number ... | 05/29/2007 |
