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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7551831 | Information recording medium and information recorder An object of the invention is to provide an optical disc in which the influence of recording interference is reduced to make it possible to narrow the interval between adjacent recording tracks and increase the recording density of information. The optical disc comp... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7444066 | 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 ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440972 | Interactive media authoring without access to original source material The present invention relates to improvements in the generation of an authoring file, readable by an authoring program of a DVD-Video or other interaction video media, that defines the playback structure of the content residing in a given disc's “authored content ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7433577 | Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least one television broadcast program. The apparatus pre-stores a period ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7398006 | Disc access processor processing a result of accessing a disc and method thereof Prior to recording, a difference between a disc's temporal, maximum recordable length and a temporal length having been consumed by recording data is calculated. A scale is determined to allow a length of a period of a preprogrammed recording to be relatively matche... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398000 | Digital video segment identification An entertainment system, having a capability to playback a stored digital video record that includes frames of video data received from a television broadcast system, approximates ranges of frames in a digital video record that are either commercials or non-commerci... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386222 | Audio/video information recording/reproducing device and method therefor An audio/video information recording/reproducing device capable of easily implementing a post-recording function on an optical disk by using even a low-cost disk drive having a comparatively low-speed seek time. When recording a video file, it is recorded on an opti... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376343 | DVD drive integrated television receiver, DVD television system and zoom mode setup method A DVD drive integrated television receiver includes a first microcomputer for a television having a zooming function, and a second microcomputer for a DVD drive having a zooming function and connected to the first microcomputer to enable two-way communication. Prefe... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369755 | System and method for synchronizing video indexing between audio/video signal and data In the present system and method, synchronization information is inserted into specified positions of the content of a multimedia stream at the time when the contents are produced. Thus, the present invention enables a user to easily search the synchronization infor... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369744 | Signal receiving apparatus and signal recording method A signal receiving apparatus includes a tuner (102) for selecting a broadcasting station or a program, which becomes a reception subject, a program recording/playing circuit (202) for recording a received signal of the reception subject, and a control ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352959 | Moving picture reproducing device and moving picture reproducing method The moving picture reproducing device to decode frames of moving picture data and synchronously output decoded moving picture data based on time information given to each frame, and to count up the number of frames from a first frame up to a second frame. The first ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7313320 | Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and record medium A recording apparatus for recoding digital data to a record medium that is removable and assigned unique medium identification information is disclosed, that comprises a converting means for converting data to be recorded into a file structure that allows a first fi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304768 | Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium storing program, image processing method, method for producing dynamic image and printer An image processing apparatus which performs correction processing on a dynamic image including a plurality of frame images for determining the correction value suitable for each of the frame images of the dynamic image including: a detector detecting change of scen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302163 | Information processing apparatus and recording control method including erroneous-erasure prevention feature An information processing apparatus for receiving a recording medium that stores image data and data setting conditions for an operation relating to the image data, and that includes an erroneous-erasure prevention mechanism, includes an image recording device for r... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295762 | Information record medium having first and second recording layers in which mid areas are recorded respectively, and apparatus for recording the same An information record medium is provided with a first recording layer on which a data group is recorded, and a second recording layer on which a data group is recorded. On the first recording layer, a lead-in area, management information for the whole of recording i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286748 | Sharing live advanced streaming format indexed files A computing system connected to storage medium and one or more rendering devices receives streamed multimedia data. The multimedia data is encoded in a format, such as an Advanced Streaming Format, that is conducive to storing the multimedia data in files having app... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7239793 | On-screen display insertion A digital apparatus for reproducing a digital video representative signal stored on a recorded medium is connected to a receiving device including a decoder. The apparatus comprises a processing means for the digital video representative signal stored on the recorde... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218839 | Management of television presentation recordings A method for managing television presentation recordings includes determining if a television presentation corresponding to a television presentation listing is scheduled to be recorded, assigning a color to the television presentation listing responsive to determin... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206497 | Electronic program guide subsystem for receiving and processing electronic program guide information from a set-top box An electronic program guide processing device is connectable to a set-top box configured to receive electronic program guide information. The set-top box includes at least one auxiliary interface that supports communication between the electronic program guide proce... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197233 | Method of marking digital data A method is proposed introducing a temporarily erased flag in order to indicate a cell to be temporarily erased. In addition, necessary time stamps are set for complete Stream Object Units to be erasable to enable on the fly permanent erasure without any additional ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181298 | Information converting method, information converting apparatus and information reproducing apparatus An information converting method of converting audio information, which comprises a plurality of partial-audio information based on a predetermined record standard in each of which output control information to control a state of the audio information at a time of o... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7133600 | Video recording system utilizing storage redundancy 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 on a disk drive, which is responsive to a set of data transfer commands generated by a host processor and which is ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127153 | Host system, driving apparatus, information recording and reading method for the host system, and information recording and reading method for the driving apparatus A host system used in combination with a driving apparatus for recording information on an information recording medium and reading information recorded on the information recording medium. The host system includes an instruction generation section for generating an... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127149 | Three-stage menu processing for digital disc recorder A method for real time generation of menus in a DVD recorder. The method includes the steps of providing a template menu having one or more dummy buttons, activating a marking command during a video data recording session, and in response to the marking command, mod... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7116897 | Information recording apparatus, information recording method, information reproduction apparatus, information reproduction method, information recording medium, and electronic distribution system An information recording apparatus of this invention includes a MAIN MPU for generating manager information representing the correspondence between a compressed content and a program for expanding the content, and a disc drive section for recording the content, prog... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7103268 | Optical disk reproducer The number of sectors which are NV_PCK in an ECC block is detected by a number-of-sectors detection circuit 12, and a control circuit 14 considers, when the detected number of sectors is larger than a predetermined value, that NV_PCK reference processi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7079756 | Storage medium and method for processing data of such storage medium The invention relates to a storage medium on which a set of data is stored, whereby a first data section of the data set is stored in a read-only memory area and a second data section of the data set is stored in a read/write memory area, and the data set comprises ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072575 | System and method for synchronizing video indexing between audio/video signal and data In the present system and method, synchronization information is inserted into specified positions of the content of a multimedia stream at the time when the contents are produced. Thus, the present invention enables a user to easily search the synchronization infor... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065535 | Methods and devices for recording or reading files on/from a sequential medium and sequential medium In a method and a device for reading and a method and a device for recording files on a sequential medium as well as the sequential medium itself, in order to enable the use of sequential write-once mediums, the file system descriptor pointing to a current version o... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065290 | Information recording apparatus, information recording method, and information recording medium in which information recording program is computer-readably recorded According to the present invention, there is provided an information recording apparatus in which, even when it cannot previously determine that a recording signal with any attribute is inputted, recording information conformable to DVD video standards etc. which is... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057982 | Servo error detector for optical disk A servo error detector usable in an optical disk system is provided. An envelope detecting unit (24) detects the top envelopes and bottom envelopes of RF signals SA–SH, and top envelope signals SAtop–SHtop and bottom envelope signals SAbtm–SHbtm that re... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046916 | Encoded video image formatting A method and apparatus are provided to enable variable speed forwards or reverse play of motion-prediction coded sequences of video signal frames. Successive images of a sequence are MPEG encoded with some images of the sequence becoming I-frames and the remainder P... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7002895 | Optical disk having zone constant angular velocity wobble An optical disk has a groove in a recordable medium. The groove has a constant angular velocity wobble that is BPSK-modulated. Such a wobble provides timing and address information. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993249 | Coding method for picture sequence or sub-picture unit The DVD Standard specifies how, for example, subtitles can be overlaid on a video picture in a simple way. According to this Standard, in each case one so-called sub-picture data unit must be provided on a DVD disk per overlay. The DVD Standard does not contain any ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977689 | Method for timing data processing and implementing device The invention relates to a process and a device for time-managing the utilization of data detected in a data flow and constituting a data set. The device comprises a circuit (MP) for calculating a minimum duration of utilization of the detected data, which is... | 12/20/2005 |
