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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7424206 | Recording apparatus and method A recording apparatus of the present invention comprises a compressed data processing unit for performing compression processing of second definition data to generate compressed data, a system data generating unit for generating system data including at least time c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421192 | Recording/reproducing apparatus, transmitting apparatus and transmitting method Disclosed are an image recording/reproducing apparatus and a transmitting method which are user-friendly when transmitting image data recorded on a medium to an external device. Reproduction path information for transmitting image data edited by a user is recorded o... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7359623 | File reproducing apparatus and file reproducing method A file reproducing apparatus for reproducing files recorded on a recording medium by using a FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, which includes a cluster table which associates offset positions indicating the distances from the head of the file set at the prede... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7317868 | Optical disk for high resolution and three-dimensional video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, and optical disk recording apparatus The present invention has an objective of providing an optical disk having a high resolution picture and a system for reproducing data on the optical disk, which are compatible with a conventional system for reproducing an ordinary resolution picture. A high resolut... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307668 | Shifting letterbox video to prolong display life A system, a method and an article of manufacture for uncentering an image of a video stream on a video display is provided. The image of the video stream is displayed uncentered on a video display at a position that depends on the aspect ratio of the video stream an... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295611 | Methods and apparatus for decoding and displaying different resolution video signals Methods and apparatus for implementing a reduced cost HDTV/SDTV video decoder are disclosed. The described joint video decoder is capable of decoding HDTV pictures at approximately the resolution of standard definition television pictures and can be used to decode H... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7277137 | Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners A system or method selects among multiple tuners to tune a particular channel. A request is received to tune a first channel. In response to this request, a first tuner is assigned to tune the first channel. A request is received to tune a second channel. If the pro... | 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 |
| 7262806 | System and method for aligned compression of interlaced video A method and system are disclosed for vertically phase shifting fields of at least one interlaced frame of video into at least two vertically aligned frames of video. The at least two vertically aligned frames of video are compressed, transmitted or stored, decompre... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248788 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup ci... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248784 | Signal conversion apparatus and method When an input signal is signal-converted and is output, the copyright of a signal to be signal-converted is reliably protected. In an additional information detection/determination section, digital watermark information, CGMS information, etc., which are superposed ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239794 | Method and apparatus for transmitting information, and reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and recording medium for the information, and transmission data thereof An output control (OPC) information is recorded on the magnetic tape 1 in conjunction with an MPEG stream. The OPC information is composed of two bits and is extracted from a reproduced signal by the output control circuit 9 and controls the digital in... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228466 | Method of detecting violation of block boundary and apparatus therefor A disk recording apparatus and method therefore including a boundary violation detector to determine whether a violation of a block boundary occurs on a disk by determining a phase difference between a block boundary signal and an encoding block synchronous signal. | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221853 | Digital recording apparatus and copyright protection method thereof The CGMS unacceptable recorder accepts transmission frames only when the copyright protection information in a transmission header transmitted to the IEEE1394 serial bus indicates copy free. The CGMS acceptable recorder accepts transmission frames when the copyright... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7205997 | Transparent video capture from primary video surface A method and system for converting an image data generated by a graphics subsystem into a video format. In one embodiment, the method includes generating the image data, storing the image data in a buffer, capturing the buffer to convert the image data to a texture,... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203370 | Image processing apparatus which records images in a compressed state and outputs compressed images in an expanded state An image signal processing apparatus includes two JPEG codecs. A plurality of frames of image signals periodically input from a multiplexer are individually compressed by the two JPEG codecs, and the compressed image signals are recorded on a hard disk by an HDD. Fu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190718 | Method and apparatus for determining a receiver sampling phase for use in diagnosing a channel An apparatus for processing a received signal includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to produce a sampled signal from a received signal using a candidate sampling phase. An adaptive filter includes adaptive filter coefficients and is configured to ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173970 | Methods and apparatus for decoding and displaying multiple digital images in parallel Methods and apparatus for implementing a reduced cost HDTV/SDTV video decoder are disclosed. The described joint video decoder is capable of decoding HDTV pictures at approximately the resolution of standard definition television pictures and can be used to decode H... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167205 | Image processing apparatus for print process of photographed image An image processing method of performing various image correction processes to a photographed image and printing the photographed image comprises the steps of: inputting image information to which photographing condition information is added; analyzing the character... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7126642 | Image display apparatus There is provided an image display apparatus which automatically detects a picture defect and shifts an image region to eliminate the picture defect. The image display apparatus includes a memory unit for temporarily storing an input image signal, a memory control u... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120352 | Selectable recording frame rate video tape recorder A video tape recorder is provided which is capable of recording information at different frame rates while maintaining accurate time codes. Data about a recording frame rate set at recording time and time code data about DF/NDF settings are recorded in an AUX area o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113211 | Video signal processing circuit, viewfinder apparatus, television camera, and image monitor apparatus A video signal processing circuit, which performs contour adjustment by means of digital signal processing, is applicable to a viewfinder apparatus for a television camera and an image monitor apparatus, which can be operated both in an NTSC/PAL system and an HDTV s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095947 | System for synchronizing the playback of two or more connected playback devices using closed captioning The present invention is directed to a method and system for synchronizing the replay of a pre-recorded program between a plurality of playback devices utilizing closed-caption data. The internal block of the playback devices are synchronized. Upon receiving program... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7058771 | System and method for managing memory in a surveillance system A control program controls a digital storage device which stores images from digital camera streams. The control program monitors the status of the digital storage device. When the storage device (or portion thereof allocated for image storage) becomes fall and new ... | 06/06/2006 |
| RE39111 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042947 | Decoding apparatus and method, and storage medium storing decoding processing program of the same This invention is to provide a decoding apparatus/method in which a bitstream obtained by coding a plurality of object data in units of objects and multiplexing the coded data is input, coded data of each object is separated from the bitstream, a predetermined objec... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043135 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus changes a display location of an on-screen-display (OSD) for setting a condition responsive to a ratio of lateral length vs. vertical length of a screen of a display device such as TV and an aspect ratio of a video. In ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034886 | Video production switcher with integrated aspect ratio converter A video production switcher converts an aspect ratio through the use of an integrated aspect ratio converter. Additionally, by having both converted and native format signals input to a switcher processor, the effective number of inputs can be doubled. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027616 | Monitoring system In transmitting image data from multiple cameras to an image processing section to produce a synthesized image from respective camera images, the amount of data transmitted through a transmission path can be cut down without sacrificing the quality of the synthesize... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024052 | Motion image decoding apparatus and method reducing error accumulation and hence image degradation An Hadamard transform coding circuit changes a rounding method for each Hadamard transform block to prevent a rounding operation from providing an error biased in one direction, as seen in a picture in its entirety, for data compression and rounding. More specifical... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020197 | Telecine converting method In a telecine converting method for converting a video in a movie film composed of 24 frames per second into a video signal composed of 60 frames per second, a telecine converting method is characterized in that in order that respective integration values of display... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006666 | Method and apparatus for detecting and reacting to occurrence of an event A method of detecting occurrence of an event. The method includes comparing a first compressed frame size to a later compressed frame size to determine the occurrence of an event. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003007 | System and method for using an output transformer for packaged laser diode drivers A laser diode driver output stage for driving an associated laser diode device. In one aspect of the present invention, the laser diode driver output stage includes a driver circuit having at least one input node and an output node. The driver circuit is adapted to ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003711 | Information recording medium on which sector data generated from ECC block is recorded, information recording apparatus for recording sector data, and information reproduction apparatus for reproducing sector data An information recording medium includes a management area where management information is recorded and a plurality of physical sector areas used to record a plurality of physical sector data blocks, which are generated by combining some data contained in a pluralit... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6978047 | Method and apparatus for storing digital video content provided from a plurality of cameras The present invention provides a distributed surveillance system that allows for the digital storage of data, as well as the recognition of external patterns obtained in parallel operations. Further, digital data can be stored at different levels of compression, and... | 12/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6968121 | Video disc having an aspect ratio information and video disc player having an aspect ratio converting function Image information is reproduced in respectively correspondence to monitors of different aspect ratios as in the NTSC system or HDTV system adaptive type. The image information recorded on a video disc is reproduced. An ID signal held in the video disc is detected. T... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963999 | Source coding to provide for robust error recovery during transmission losses A method and system are described for a multiple level shuffling process of a signal that provides for robust error recovery. A signal is defined as multiple levels wherein each level comprises a frame, a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of bits. In one embodime... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950600 | Exponential storage system and method A system records a sequence of frames of a video in circular buffers. Each buffer is configured to store the frames in a sequential order. Disjoint sets of frames are selected from the video. There is one set of frames for each buffer such that a first set selects a... | 09/27/2005 |
