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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7693393 | Image recording apparatus and image capture apparatus An image recording apparatus (e.g., a hard disk and so on) comprises (a) a recording unit adapted to record moving image data from an external device (e.g., a video camera and so on) on a recording medium; (b) a detection unit adapted to detect an occurrence of a dr... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7580612 | Digital broadcast sending apparatus, receiving apparatus and digital broadcast system In the digital broadcast to a mobile unit, the continuous reproduction of an image cannot be guaranteed when switching the hierarchical level in accordance with the receiving condition of the radio wave and therefore the viewer has a sense of discomfort. A digital b... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7339958 | System and method for performing signal synchronization of data streams A system for performing signal synchronization of data streams having frames associated with source time reference. A system clock generates a local time reference. A decoder processes the data stream. A system controller determines a difference between the source t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7231556 | Data processing apparatus having error concealment function Main line data as video data and low-resolution data obtained by lowering the resolution of the video data and the data amount thereof is recorded on an optical disk. The main line data and the low-resolution data are read from the optical disk. While the main line ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224884 | Design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit and integrated circuit and video signal processing apparatus thereby A video signal processing apparatus and a design method therefor are provided, and more particularly, a design method for a video signal processing integrated circuit (IC), in which to solve the shortage of pin ports caused by designing a video signal processor in a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7194588 | Method for reproducing digital information and digital information recording or reproducing device A method for reproducing digital information includes the steps of: transferring, with a control circuit, information in a hard disk drive to a memory simultaneously with completion of storage of the information in the hard disk drive from outside of a device body, ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174091 | Method and apparatus for improving video reproduction quality A delay detector detects a reproduction delay for a video signal based on a delay notification communicated from a manager to manage the reproduction delay using a state variable. A controller conducts delay recovery control by forcing an image quality improving uni... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168026 | Method and apparatus for preservation of failure state in a read destructive memory One aspect of the invention provides a novel scheme to preserve the failure state of a memory location. According to one embodiment, the data is read from a memory location in a read-destructive memory device. If the data is found to be valid (uncorrupted) it is wri... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7149409 | Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method A reproducing apparatus comprises a reproduction unit adapted to reproduce one or more moving image data from a recording medium, and a control unit adapted to control the reproduction unit using program information indicating a reproducing procedure of the one of m... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127576 | Method and system for data duplication According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for duplicating data is provided. The system includes a first recorder having an operating clock speed. An output port of the first recorder is permanently electrically coupled to an input port of a second recor... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7062158 | Data recording/reproducing apparatus and program recorded medium Management in a disk according to conventional techniques is effective in only one recording area which is the entire disk, and therefore, it has been heretofore impossible to manage files by data type. A data recording/reproducing apparatus comprises recordi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7031237 | Discontinuous position detecting device and method for detecting a discontinuous position A discontinuous position detecting device for detecting a discontinuous position at which date and time information indicative of date and time of recording on a recording medium is discontinuous, the discontinuous position detecting unit including, a scanning unit ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6996326 | Data recording apparatus and data recording method An data recording apparatus in accordance with the present invention is configured so as to determine whether a received data block is of the same data to a previously received data block or not on the basis of the data block particular information in the data block... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973118 | Digital broadcasting apparatus A frequency interleaving circuit frequency-interleaves main signals generated according to sound data by parameters set according to frequencies of transmission channels. A sub-signal generating circuit generates sub-signals for transmission control including pilot ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959141 | Data reproduction apparatus and reproduction method A data reproduction apparatus and a data reproduction method can alleviate the workload of a special processing operation of fast forward or reverse data reproduction and improve the data access speed for fast reproduction of data. The data reproduction apparatus co... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6934466 | Buzz reduction circuit and TV/VCR combo using the same Buzz reduction circuit for eliminating a vertical period buzz without being influenced by amplifier circuits in an audio signal line. A video signal of a VCR video head is input to a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit to separate a vertical synchronizi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6920618 | System and method for configuring graphics pipelines in a computer graphical display system A system and method for configuring a plurality of graphics pipelines in a computer graphical display system is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a graphical user interface to enable a user to graphically specify at least one parameter for a plurality of pi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6912248 | Equalizer circuit and equalizing An equalizer circuit includes a carrier sensor, first and second equalizer units, carrier sense controller, and reception signal switching unit. The carrier sensor senses the start of a reception signal on the basis of a signal representing the reception level of th... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6895173 | Combined DVD/CD data processor A combined DVD/CD (Digital Video Disk/Compact Disk) data processor used in a DVD/CD player. The DVD/CD data processor includes a PLL (Phase Locked Loop) to receive a pulse stream input to generate a PLL clock; a frame/ID synchronization detector to latch the pulse s... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6823128 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus including a write controller. This write controller specifies a start position of an effective time period of each field, based on an ID signal superimposed over lines 15 to 18 of an odd numbered field video signal and ove... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6718120 | Magnetic recording and reproduction method and apparatus In a recording and reproduction method for recording digital data on magnetic tape by a helical scanning method or for reproducing digital data recorded on magnetic tape by the helical scanning method, a plurality of sectors are generated in each track on the magnet... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6640328 | Method for detecting dropouts in data delivered over a bandwidth-limited bus A method for detecting dropouts in digital data transferred over a bus from a digital data source to a computer system. Each address in the computer system buffer memory is initialized to a selected code value known not to exist in the data to be transfer... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6628888 | Arrangement for superimposing two images without jittering In order to avoid, during trick mode, jittering of a second image superimposed on a first image, the arrangement is able to provide a signal including a vertical synchronisation signal and representative of a first image to a screen. The arrangement also ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6564001 | Code multiplexing/reading apparatus for preventing outputting an erroneous code A code multiplexing/reading apparatus includes a first register. Two codes that reside in a predetermined relationship are outputted from the first register, which are superimposed on a video signal to be recorded by operation of switches. Consequently, a... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6369966 | Standby signal for audio FM demodulator In order to reproduce the audio signal which has been recorded as an FM audio signal in the slanted tracks of a recording medium in tape form by means of read/write heads arranged on a rotating head drum, it is possible to use PLL circuits which are desig... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6310660 | Video signal dropout detector A method and apparatus for detecting video signal dropout. The method includes the step of generating a video signal, and then electronically isolating at least one component of the video signal. The at least one component is representative of the absence... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6229950 | Reproducing apparatus capable of controlling reproduction equalizing characteristic An apparatus is arranged to perform an equalizing process for equalizing an input signal including a video signal, to obtain a reproduced video signal by performing reproducing processes on the signal equalized and to vary the equalizing characteristic of... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6185361 | Information signal processing apparatus for detecting both dropout of information signals and absence thereof An information signal processing apparatus is arranged to detect an amplitude level of an input information signal with a first time constant and to obtain a first amplitude level detection signal which corresponds to the amplitude level of the input info... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185359 | System for the multi-speed reproduction of recorded color television signals and for the correction of color sequence errors in reproduced color television signals In a system (1) including a reproducing device (2) for reproducing color television signals recorded on a record carrier (7) in adjacent track portions in at least one normal reproducing mode and at least one special reproducing mode, which includes a col... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6172827 | Device for recording signal so as to facilitate effective dropout compensation A signal recording device includes a signal inputting unit for inputting a signal to be recorded on a recording medium, as well as a dropout detector which detects a dropout portion of a signal output from the signal inputting unit and generates a pulse s... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6144798 | Method of and apparatus for editing information recorded on magnetic tape An editing apparatus of relatively small size for editing material information highly efficiently and accurately with simplified processing capabilities has a plurality of tape transports, a selector for selecting input and output paths for the tape trans... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6075917 | Jitter compensating method and device for OSD A jitter compensating device for an on-screen display (OSD) of a picture reproducing apparatus which performs a normal-play mode and a special-play mode includes a compensating vertical synchronous signal generator for receiving a vertical synchronous sig... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6061494 | Image recording/reproducing apparatus having a memory with a variably--set threshold Image recording/reproducing apparatus having a memory with a variably-set threshold includes reproducing circuitry for reproducing data recorded on a recording medium. Memory structure is provided for storing the data reproduced by the reproducing circuit... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6044338 | Signal processing method and apparatus and signal recording medium A signal processing method is provided which detects a signal dropout portion in the input signal and which modifies the detected signal dropout portion with a signal derived from the portion in the input signal other than the signal dropout portion by pr... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6035092 | Data reproducing device A data reproducing apparatus comprising reproducing device for reproducing data stored on a recording medium, a first memory for storing data reproduced from the recording medium, a decoder for decoding data read out from the first memory, a second memory... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6034828 | Recording of reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus reproduces a digital information signal and a control signal from a memory device, which is integrally formed of different kinds of memories and, according to the reproduced control signal, controls an operation of re... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5943444 | Image reproducing apparatus A construction circuit which constructs data of nondecodable blocks by using interpolation data generated by a predetermined method, a movement estimation circuit which estimates the movement of the nondecodable blocks on the basis of the movement of the ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5899578 | Digital signal processor, processing method, digital signal recording/playback device and digital signal playback method An improved digital signal processor is provided, and includes a tuner for selecting a single transport stream containing a plurality of multiplexed channels from a plurality of transmitted transport streams, a demultiplexer for separating video data and ... | 05/04/1999 |
