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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7432929 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method A plurality of frame data are extracted from a moving image file included in at least one image file recorded in a recording device. In a case where a moving image file is selected from the image file, the extracted plurality of frame data are displayed on a display... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7386219 | Video data recording apparatus and video data recording method A time from covering to edit or broadcast is shortened and also management and handling of materials are made simpler. Encoder 1A compresses digital video signal DVS obtained by camera into encoded data DVA of low resolution. Encoder 1B compress... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366462 | Method and apparatus for seamlessly switching reception between multimedia streams in a wireless communication system Techniques to seamlessly switch reception between multimedia programs are described. For “continued decoding”, a wireless device continues to receive, decode, decompress, and (optionally) display a current program, even after a new program has been selected, unt... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362954 | Recording apparatus and method, recording medium, and program When the head of a data pack that can be a start point of consecutive recording is included in an ECC (error correcting code) bank, data indicating this is set in an ECCTB (error correctly code two-B picture). When the head of a data pack that can be a start point o... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305525 | Memory system for network broadcasting applications and method for operating the same A memory system for network broadcasting applications, such as video/audio applications, has at least one memory which is divided into a plurality of addressable memory units, which have a respective dedicated output for interchanging data. The inputs of a matrix sw... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295594 | Device for low-interfernce signal transmission Digital signal transmitter devices mostly present a distinct wide-band interference spectrum which renders compliance with the presently applicable EMC standards substantially more difficult. Available provisions for improving the EMC characteristics take an ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283719 | Video capture device An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for digitizing ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269564 | Method and apparatus to indicate an encoding status for digital content A method of determining an encoding rate for digital content. According to the method, the a sample of the content data is encoded for a predetermined period of time. The encoding rate is calculated by knowing the size of the sample of content encoded and the length... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7242853 | Recording/reproducing system In a recording/reproducing system RRS1, an I-picture detecting section 15 generates, from a transport stream DETS output from a descrambler 13, a control signal CS indicating a bit location of a TS packet including a part of an I picture for... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7151802 | High frequency content recovering method and device for over-sampled synthesized wideband signal In a method and device for recovering the high frequency content of a wideband signal previously down-sampled, and for injecting this high frequency content in an over-sampled synthesized version of the wideband signal to produce a fill-spectrum synthesized wideband... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149757 | Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, control program for information processing apparatus and recording medium having control program recorded thereon for information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus, a method of controlling the information processing apparatus, a control program for the information processing apparatus and a recording medium having the control program recorded thereon for the information processing apparatus,... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7058288 | Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A v... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6978086 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus, such as a video camera, is arranged to record a first image signal and a second image signal on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, respectively. While recording on the first recording medium the first image signal subjected... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965730 | Method for improving bandwidth efficiency A method for dynamically managing a digital recording system's bandwidth requirements, provides prioritized accesses to the recording system's hard drive according to a pre-defined policy which gives the first priority to the data streams being written to the disk, ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6917752 | System and method for editing video information This invention relates to a recording/reproduction system having a function of recording/reproducing video information with a GOP structure in the MPEG2 scheme on/from a disk. In this system, when a cut position designated by the user on the reproduction frame is se... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6907190 | Method and an apparatus for reproducing bitstream having non-sequential system clock data seamlessly therebetween A system stream contiguous reproduction apparatus to which are input one or more system streams interleaving at least moving picture data and audio data, and system stream connection information includes a system clock STC generator for producing the system clock th... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901210 | Multi-session disc having a DVD application session, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method thereof A multi-session disc having a digital versatile disc (DVD) application session, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method, are provided. In this multi-session disc, which has a compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) session, a lead-in are... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6892025 | Apparatus and method for reproducing picture signal A picture signal reproducing apparatus for synchronously reproducing a variety of digital coded data strings, comprises: data transmission controlling unit for inputting a series of digital multiplexed coded data strings including a plurality of packs connected with... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6892024 | Information recording apparatus An information recording apparatus includes: a transferring device that separately and simultaneously receives at least two information supplied through at least two channels, and separately and simultaneously transfers the at least two information to a storing devi... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6882794 | Recording medium storing additional information for restoring digital data stream/information, recording method and restoring method A recording medium which stores additional information for restoring digital data streams, and a recording method and a restoration method therefor. The restoration method includes determining the scope of unification of data streams which were divided by editing/re... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879769 | Device for processing recorded information and storage medium storing program for same An information preparation device, such as a personal computer, detects non-consecutive position information, such as times and dates, based on parameters (S11), such as preinputted non-consecutive point detection margins, and prepares (S12) an informa... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876813 | Signal processing device for processing video signal information by using memory A signal processing device having a video signal input, a circuit for processing a video signal, a generating device for generating a character signal, and a memory for storing the video signal to be processed and for storing the character signal generated by the ge... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876814 | Digital format compression and decompression in which information representing a physical quantity is accompanied by predictable data A compression method adapts a digital format in which information representing a physical quantity is accompanied by predictable data having a value independent of that of the information representing a physical quantity. The method includes an operation of reducing... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873788 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus At least address information that is necessary for access of an input data recording area of a disk-shaped recording medium is recorded in a nonvolatile memory. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871012 | Unique digital content identifier generating methods and arrangements In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of the generic DVD navigator component. Of significance herein, was the need to assign a unique identifier to DVD discs and the like. Doin... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6865339 | Digital video and data recorder A “pause and resume” function and a “channel change” function for recording and playing interframe compressed audiovideo data, particularly MPEG data. The invention includes a digital track format and a method for recording one or more sessions from one or m... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865340 | CD-type disc in which a DVD application is recorded on a physical layer of the CD-type disc, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method thereof A disc in which a digital versatile disc (DVD) application is recorded in a physical layer of the disc, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method are provided. In the disc, a lead-in area, a lead-out area and a user area, each having a co... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6856759 | Recording apparatus and coding apparatus A recording apparatus includes a detector for detecting a video attribute, a detector for detecting an audio attribute, and an address information generator for generating specific address information which indicates a data write address at the time when the video a... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856757 | Apparatus and method for detecting sports highlights in a video program A method and system to automatically detect and isolate segments of interest from sports programs is provided. Accordingly, the method includes the steps of: segmenting incoming video programs into a plurality of segments; detecting a slow moving object between the ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6847781 | Digital signal recording apparatus and recording medium The present invention provides a digital signal recording apparatus and a recording medium for recording digital compressed picture information on magnetic tape, and specifically the structure of the recording apparatus that suitably records picture trick-play data ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6845214 | Video apparatus and re-encoder therefor The present video apparatus is provided with a re-encoder having an audio/video processing section disposed between a decoder and an encoder so that the decoded audio/video signals can be re-encoded. Image resolution of the video information is altered by the audio/... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6832041 | VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM UTILIZING HOST-PROCESSOR-RESIDENT ERROR RECOVERY TO TRANSFER NON-TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-INTOLERANT DATA SEGMENTS WHILE TRANSFERRING TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-TOLERANT STREAMING DATA SEGMENTS AT A REQUIRED DATA TRANSFER RATE The present invention may be regarded as a video recording system and method of transferring a non-time-critical, error-intolerant data segment stored or to be stored on a disk drive, which is responsive to a set of data transfer commands generated by a host process... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6819862 | Video data recording medium, video data recording apparatus and video data playback apparatus Video data divided into a plurality of cells, attribute information for specifying the playback order of the plurality of cells, and a flag for specifying whether the playback can be effected or not for each of the plurality of cells are recorded on an optical disk.... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816667 | Memory efficient method and apparatus for determining run times of DVD titles A technique for determining cell starting times for DVD titles entails maintaining a snapshot in memory of starting times for the “most likely” to be played cells, and maintaining in memory a list of “hints” so that starting times for cells outside this most... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6807359 | DVD sub-picture decoder with minimal buffering A memory efficient method for translating and displaying sub-picture images for DVD data. The method uses less memory than prior systems. Rather than storing the sub-picture image in a memory, the method decodes and displays the sub-picture images on-the-fly. Subseq... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804457 | Digital video signal recorder/reproducer and transmitter When recording/reproducing a digital video signal having 1080 effective lines, an MPEG stream can be extracted on the reproducing side with a simple structure and without causing serious deterioration of the image quality, and without wastefully consuming the capaci... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6804453 | Digital signal recording/reproducing apparatus A digital signal recording apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of protecting the copyright of the analog input information encoded into a first digital signal in a recording medium. A second digital signal encrypted based on the key information and the input an... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6598101 | Recording apparatus and recording method, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method There is provided an AV server system with high operationality for a simple use. A file system is not provided in an AV server, and AV data are continuously recorded or reproduced from a place (sector) of a random-accessible HD where a magnetic head is po... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6510554 | Method for generating information sub-streams for FF/REW applications A method and apparatus for processing an information stream comprising a plurality of compressed information frames to produce an information sub-stream having a reduced number of information frames. In the case of an MPEG video information stream, the in... | 01/21/2003 |
