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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907812 | Image and audio recording/reproducing apparatus An image and audio recording/reproducing apparatus, comprising: an input portion, into which image/audio data are inputted; a recording/reproducing module, which is configured to record/reproduce the image/audio data onto a recording medium; and a controller module,... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7865064 | Recording/output apparatus and recording/output method Formerly, it was difficult to exercise proper control for recording and outputting a plurality of contiguous data. To solve this problem, for example, a plurality of contiguous data are acquired from a stream in which the reference information for reproducing at an ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860372 | Television receiver integrated with recording and reproducing device A television receiver includes: a video decoder that converts a composite signal into a digital signal; a video encoder that converts a reproduced data or the digital signal to output a Y/C signal; a monitor; a detecting unit that detects the reception of broadcast ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7756399 | Safe recovery in DVD recordable/rewritable realtime recording An apparatus comprising an encoder, a packet generator, a disc loader, and a rebuild circuit. The encoder may be configured to generate a format data stream in response to an input signal. The packet generator may be configured to generate special packets from extra... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7715695 | Apparatus for managing removable storage media that can be connected thereto, and method, program, and system LSI for managing removable storage media A storage media management apparatus includes a dividing unit 63e that divides a content into a plurality of content parts, a management information generating unit 63c that generates a plurality of pieces of content management informatio... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7606469 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein slideshow images can be reproduced for an arbitrary period of time. A scaling coefficient calculation section divides a slideshow reproduction time period by a selected effect total time period to c... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7421191 | Monitor connection destination setter connection destination setting method and connection destination setting program An input check device generates a connected apparatus table showing the correspondence between recording/reproducing devices and their respective output signals on the basis of instruction signals entered from a connection information setting unit. A storage stores ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420902 | Device and method for recording information A device for recording digitally encoded video information records video segments and playback information for controlling the playback of the segments. The device has an error detection unit (32) for detecting recording errors, and a bridging unit for creati... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7394974 | System and method for associating presented digital content within recorded digital stream and method for its playback from precise location To avoid discontinuities when resuming play of a video stream that was paused while being viewed live and being simultaneously recorded, the timestamp and video stream time base discontinuity count associated with the last-viewed frame are used to access the frame i... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7362957 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus, in which a reproduced information signal is equalized by an equalizer, includes a detecting circuit for detecting a digital signal from the reproduced information signal, and a controller for controlling an equalizing characteristic of the e... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363530 | Data recording method and data recording apparatus The latest management data recorded in a recording medium is read. Then, it is judged whether the fault is in this latest management data or not. When it is judged the fault is not in this latest management data, a data size of user data under the management of this... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350133 | Error correction encoding apparatus and method and error correction decoding apparatus and method An error correction encoding method including generating error correction code data, which is a predetermined number of bytes long, by error-correction-encoding user data in a predetermined manner; generating burst indicator subcode data, which is a predetermined nu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349296 | Write control in response to tracking error A method for controlling writing on a data carrier device, at least including: writing data on the data carrier device with a data writer device; obtaining a tracking error signal corresponding to a position of the data writer device with respect to a track on the d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7321452 | Image processing apparatus An object of the invention is to enable appropriate interpolation even in a halftone image binarized by error diffusion or the like. While image reading signals from a hand scanner are inputted to an A/D conversion section and converted to multivalued digital signal... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7292770 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a retrieving element for retrieving storage medium information and image data information from a memory formed integrally with a storage medium having image data recorded thereon; a recording element f... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277136 | Adaptive bandwidth control in a kinescope amplifier A method for controlling dissipation in a video amplifier for a display signal. The method comprises the steps of setting a first current for establishing a first gain bandwidth product in the video amplifier. Generating a control signal in accordance with a slew ra... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274862 | Information processing apparatus Audio data is prevented from not synchronizing with video data when splicing. A first GOP of a video stream of a second program is spliced to a last GOP of a video stream of a first program. A first GOP of an audio stream of the second program is spliced to a last G... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272301 | Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording apparatus, recording method, AV data switching method, output apparatus, and input apparatus In jumping reproduction, when an MPEG transport stream processed by the jumping reproduction is decoded and displayed, many noises occur in the video and the audio corresponding to the vicinity of the jumping. Provided are: a hard disk section 208 of r... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269331 | Apparatus and method of displaying video output An apparatus for displaying video output with dynamically adjustable drop rate to control playback quality. The inventive apparatus includes a playback engine, a pre-fetch engine, a rendering engine, and a drawing engine. The playback engine sends a pre-fetch requir... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263476 | High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual lo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260316 | Digital broadcast/analog broadcast receiving and recording apparatus A transport stream TSd generated from a digital broadcast signal and a transport stream TSa generated from an analog broadcast signal are recorded simultaneously and a portion of TSd wherein the reception state of the digital broadcast is bad is replaced with TSa co... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248789 | 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... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242855 | 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... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234340 | Apparatus, method, and medium for detecting and discriminating impact sound An apparatus, method, and medium for detecting an impact sound and an apparatus, method, and medium for discriminating the impact sound using the same. The impact sound detecting apparatus includes: an onset detector separating an input signal of a frame unit into a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236689 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus and data recording/reproducing method The present invention provides a digital camera for recording image data to a recording medium, which includes an image signal processor, a recording and reproducing unit having an Optical Pickup unit, and a control unit for managing files having a sequence of data ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233735 | Digital recording/reproducing apparatus with built-in storage medium There is disclosed a method in which a recording section configured to record an external input signal, and a display signal output section configured to output a display signal based on at least one of the external input signal and a reproduction signal from the re... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7203415 | Recording, reproducing, and recording/reproducing apparatuses for recording input data in a recording medium capable of non-linear access and methods therefor In recording, reproducing, and recording/reproducing apparatuses and methods thereof, while endlessly-recording first data, desired second data can be easily stored. The apparatuses include a recording mechanism for endlessly-recording the first data in a recording ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200319 | Recording-medium reproduction method and recording-medium reproduction apparatus When it is impossible to read NV_PCK from a DVD, a frame-start-position-information reading section reads VOBU_SRI obtained immediately before reading became impossible, stored in a memory; a search control section starts searching for the ddress indicated by FWDIn ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197236 | Recording/playback apparatus, playback apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, program and method A recording/playback apparatus for a DVD on which a VOB and a management file of the VOB are recorded. When detecting a failure in the management file, the recording/playback apparatus changes the state of the DVD to: (a) a first state in which reading/writing of th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190499 | Laser scanning unit A laser scanning unit mainly includes a semiconductor laser, a collimator, a micro electronic mechanic system (MEMS) oscillatory mirror, and an fθ lens or an f sin θ lens. The MEMS oscillatory mirror is disposed between the collimator and the fθ lens to replace a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188271 | Write-once optical disc, and method and apparatus for recording management information on write-once optical disc A writable-once optical recording medium such as a BD-WO, and a method and apparatus for managing the writable-once optical recording medium, are provided. The recording medium includes at least one recording layer having at least one temporary defect management are... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185264 | Image processing apparatus and method therefor For always executing an efficient and appropriate error compensation process and improving the convenience of the user, an image processing apparatus and a method enters encoded image data including a marker code for a resynchronizing process within one picture, det... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181123 | Video security system The invention provides a video security system for monitoring a plurality of locations simultaneously. In one embodiment, the system includes a text insertion means connected between a video camera and monitor, a control means connected to the text insertion means, ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159085 | Method of allowing point-in-time view of data on a disk A method allows point-in-time viewing of session data for multiple sessions being stored on a disk. Session bits are set for the session data in memory which points to the data at any particular point in time, and this can be done for multiple sessions. In order to ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158601 | Clock data recovery method and circuit for network communication Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for recovering the clock and data signals in a transmitted data signal In a computer network. The method comprises accessing a transmitted a data signal at a receiver in the network, locking the receiver on a d... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149415 | Program recording completion A program recording completion system automatically completes an incomplete program recording of a program. A recording application creates a program recording completion event corresponding to the incomplete program recording which includes program information to a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148877 | Liquid crystal display with optical disk drive control functions A liquid crystal display with optical disk drive control functions is described. The liquid crystal display is utilized in a notebook/tablet dual-purpose computer. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of control buttons, and an ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133341 | System and method for optical disc drive adjustment A system and method for adjusting optical drives. Rotating disc datum, and leader pin datum, must be adjusted to a specific position during a packaging process. An autocollimator according to the present invention senses tilt and sway of the rotating disc, outputtin... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133599 | Realtime data recording method A realtime data recording method allows recovery of recorded file data upon occurrence of a fault for use as a readable file. Prior to recording, initial management data are generated such that the entire area on a recording medium 1 is reflected as a recordi... | 11/07/2006 |
