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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7403699 | Optical disc apparatus At the time of stopping the first reproduction process, a main controller makes a RAM store audio identification information corresponding to the kind of audio having been reproduced in the preceding reproduction process. At the time of restarting reproduction proce... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400859 | Combined modulator and MP3 player having socket power supply adapter and/or universal connector A combined digital audio file player and modulator. In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus comprising: an elongate housing having a distal end and a proximal end; a socket power adapter located at a distal end of the elongate housing; an interface port in ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7373076 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370114 | Software downloading using a television broadcast channel A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362963 | Multimedia photo albums A method and system for providing a disc media photo album having a physical data structure including a video title set, a video object set for title containing at least one video object and a plurality of cells is provided in which the disc media is backward compat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362955 | Video recording and reproducing apparatus A video recording and reproducing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of image contents recorded at given time points or images at a plurality of given portions within the same image contents is disclosed. A plurality of images read from a randomly a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362953 | 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... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7333722 | Disc playback apparatus with display of key images In a disc playback apparatus in which a plurality of digital versatile discs (DVDs) are loaded in a disc changer, a key-image extracting unit causes menu screens recorded on the plurality of loaded DVDs to be decoded, and generates predetermined key-image data by re... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333719 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333720 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330642 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330641 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| RE40044 | Data recording apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, data recording/reproducing apparatus and method, and transmission medium Video data and audio data inputted respectively from a camera system and a microphone are compressed and encoded in a video compressor/expander-encoder/decoder and an audio compressor/expander-encoder/decoder respectively, and then are multiplexed in a multiplexer. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327940 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321719 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio recordings with digital still frame images A digital audio recording device is provided with an audio recorder adapted to receive sound waves and to provide in response a digital audio data stream. The recording device also includes an image recorder which provides digital representations of multiple still f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321717 | Upgradable on-screen display system The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on-screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on-screen display of recorder player status meassages. A first embodiment returns a rep... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315323 | Digital camera using an indicating device to indicate a plurality of functions Operation situations of a plurality of functions of the camera can be checked from a front of the camera without adding any new hardware. A self-timer LED which is previously provided on a front of the camera is also used as an indicating device which indicates oper... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305172 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295752 | Video cataloger system with audio track extraction One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295759 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295760 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292777 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292778 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292779 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292780 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292776 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7288208 | Method of manufacturing ZnO substrate from ZnO crystal formed by hydrothermal synthesis method Li impurities are removed from a substrate of ZnO formed by a hydrothermal synthesis method. The surface layer of the substrate with Li impurities removed, is etched to planarize the substrate. ... | 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 |
| 7286745 | Providing a capability to sort contents data and to maintain a current sorting mode A reproducing apparatus is disclosed, that has at least one record medium on which contents data and related information thereof are recorded, for handling the contents data and the related information, the record medium being attachable to and detachable from the r... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286750 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277624 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269336 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263278 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 08/28/2007 |
