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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7912337 | Spatial and temporal alignment of video sequences Some embodiments allow a video editor to spatially and temporally align two or more video sequences into a single video sequence. As used in this application, a video sequence is a set of images (e.g., a set of video frames or fields). A video sequence can be from a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903927 | Editing apparatus and control method thereof, and program and recording medium A plurality of video materials specified from video materials is managed as one group. Information associated with each video material belonging to the group is displayed on a graphical user interface according to a first operation. According to a second operation, ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889967 | Information editing and displaying device, information editing and displaying method, information editing and displaying program, recording medium, server, and information processing system Disclosed herein is an information editing and displaying device for editing information using an editing screen area and a reference screen area, the information editing and displaying device including: an operating section; an editing input section; a search reque... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889966 | Information processing apparatus and method as well as program storage medium An information processing apparatus is disclosed which allows image data to be used commonly by a plurality of personal computers. A check box of a copy option setting window is selected in order to delete AV contents of an original recorded on a HDD after the AV co... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873260 | Video and audio processing control A system for modifying video including a source of a filter stack specifying filter operations to be carried out on a video clip, a filter registry of filter functions including information on filter operations that can be carried out by the filter functions, and a ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7848611 | Storage system and digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system is provided, in which an editing storage connected to plural digital image editing apparatuses can be managed as a virtual storage in a collective manner and an editing storage connected to other digital image editing apparatuses can be... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844163 | Information editing device, information editing method, and computer product An information editing device includes an index generating unit that generates, in a plurality of different formats, a plurality of pieces of index information indicative of a list of the pieces of screen image information each for one scene; and a display controlli... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835617 | Data recording apparatus and system having sustained high transfer rates According to the invention, techniques for recording data onto recording media at relatively high transfer rates for relatively long periods of time. Embodiments according to the present invention include systems and apparatus capable of an improved sustained rate o... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835618 | Recording apparatus, recording method, program of recording method, and recording medium having program of recording method recorded thereon The present invention relates to a recording apparatus, a recording method, a program of the recording method, and a recording medium having the program of the recording method recorded thereon. The invention can be applied to a portable record/playback apparatus fo... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826709 | Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that de... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822315 | Editing device, editing apparatus, and editing method for HDTV signal An editing device including first and second decoders that decompress the compressed first and second high-definition television video data transferred by a computer; respectively, and edit processing unit for performing edit processing on the decompressed first hig... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817900 | GPU timeline with render-ahead queue Video editing and video playback utilizing a render-ahead queue for storing rendered video frames. The render-ahead queue facilitates the smooth playback of video in forward and reverse timeline direction, avoiding video glitches that occur when video frames are ren... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805052 | Apparatus and method for video processing, and storage medium and program therefor A video recording apparatus for continuously presenting a main program to a user without a break while presenting a commercial. A main program buffer records a main program of a video signal in accordance with a temporal position of at least the main program or comm... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796857 | Video playback apparatus A video playback apparatus includes: video data inputting unit; a ranking data inputting/generating unit that inputs or generates ranking data where scenes in video data are ranked according to importance; a playback scene determination parameter inputting unit that... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796856 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program therefor An optical disk contains main video data obtained by compressing pictures captured by a video camera at a relatively low compression ratio, low resolution proxy video data obtained by performing compression at a compression ratio higher than that for the main video ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792411 | File processing device, file processing method, program of file processing method, recording medium on which program of file processing method is recorded, and imaging device and recording medium on which file is recorded The present invention is applied to an imaging device for recording, for example, a result of imaging on an optical disc by a QuickTime file format and forms an real data block by allocating management information for managing a specific region recorded by interleav... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787744 | Recording apparatus, recording method, program, recording medium, and image pickup apparatus An entry property 2 contained in an entry property identifies normal or system. The normal represents an entry of entity data. The system represents an entry which describes a definition of flags. The flags represent attribute information of a file. The flags... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787745 | System for playing digest of moving image and mobile communication terminal having the same A system for playing a digest of a moving image file is provided, including: a header parsing part that parses a header of the moving image file and acquires information concerning the playback length M and random access point of the moving image file; a section div... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783154 | Video-editing workflow methods and apparatus thereof Video-editing workflow methods and apparatus thereof are disclosed. A user drops off (or send) to a merchant that provides video-processing services the analog or digital videotape. The videotape can be processed (digitized if necessary) into both a high-resolution ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778520 | Personal video recording device The present invention is a set top box or other content management device that can convert television programming stored in a temporary buffer into a persistent event. The present invention may also trim data from a temporary buffer, such as an input buffer, without... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769269 | High performance storage device access for non-linear editing systems Disclosed are systems and methods for storage device access control initiated by a non-linear editor (NLE). In one embodiment, a storage device access controller can include: a storage device configured to store clips, such as audio, graphics, or video clips, arrang... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756391 | Real-time video editing architecture An architecture which allows real-time video editing using a 2D/3D graphics engine. This architecture comprises input and output buffers. It receives video streams from either compressed sources of data or non compressed sources of data. This architecture allows a f... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756392 | Optical disc, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, computer-readable recording medium, recording method and reproducing method A recording apparatus for an optical disc is provided which stores a VOB, the recording apparatus performing: receiving, from an operator, an operation to specify a preceding reproduction section and a subsequent reproduction section from the VOB through an interact... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751683 | Scene change marking for thumbnail extraction A technique for marking scene changes within video files. A video file with multiple frames is stored on a data store connected to a computer. Initially, the video file is received by an encoder or other processor. The frames of the video file are analyzed to identi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751684 | Signal processor A signal processor includes a buffer memory for storing the image signal for output as a main image signal; a point setting section for storing a position on a temporal axis of the main image signal as a registration point in response to a given capture command, the... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738769 | Method and apparatus for processing video data containing a plurality of video tracks This invention provides a method and apparatus for processing video data containing a plurality of video tracks. According to an aspect of this invention, new modified data is generated by modifying part of the plurality of video tracks. After that, play list data t... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738770 | Recording/playback apparatus and information processing apparatus A recording/playback apparatus is disposed with a first recording/playback unit, a second recording/playback unit, and a display unit. The display unit includes a first display representing the first recording/playback unit, a second display representing the second ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734144 | Method and apparatus for editing source video to provide video image stabilization A method and apparatus for editing a source video that has already been taken to stabilize images in the video. To eliminate jerky motion from a video, changes in shots are first detected. Then, any jerkiness within the video of that shot is classified and the video... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734145 | System and method of patching missing digital video packets communicated in an IEEE 1394 compliant implementation The present invention is a system and method that facilitates the reduction of presentation glitches in a digital video system. The present invention is a system and method that automatically determines if digital video (DV) data is missing from a stream of DV infor... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725003 | Digital broadcast recorder and recording method thereof A digital broadcast recorder and a recording method thereof are disclosed. The recording method of a digital broadcast recorder having a storage medium, includes analyzing transmitted channel data and program data, and editing a broadcast program for the unit of pro... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720349 | Image processing apparatus, method, and program, and program storage medium An image processing apparatus, method, and program and program storage medium that enable easy search for a desired part. A plurality of video data are created from video data and are displayed, each as a motion picture, at time intervals in a display order on a plu... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715685 | Recording media maintenance support The handling of large amounts of data on storing media shall be simplified. Therefore, a method for maintaining a storage media by generating, editing or reading log data related to the content and usage of a data item stored or to be stored on a storage medium is p... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715686 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus including a first recording apparatus (optical disk drive) for recording information on a removable/loadable recording medium and a second recording apparatus (HDD) for recording information on a recording medium incorporated therein, in which t... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711240 | Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method A reproducing apparatus enabling reproduction of a moving image file using index information larger than a memory size without re-reading the index information into the memory. The apparatus includes a table size obtaining unit (S40) obtaining, from a recordi... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7680393 | Content editing assistance system, video processing apparatus, playback apparatus, editing apparatus, computer program, and content processing method A content editing assistance system includes a mark generator for generating electronic mark data relating to content data; a take-metadata generator for generating a take-metadata file based on the electronic mark data generated for each take; a manager for managin... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7664368 | Information recording/play-backing apparatus It is possible to save power in an HDD/optical disc combination camera. During a normal recording operated by a battery, only the hard disk is operated and operation of the optical drive is stopped. Alternatively, only the optical drive is operated and the operation... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657154 | Providing edited video data suitable for efficient use of video reproducing device capabilities The present invention provides an editing apparatus, a reproducing apparatus, and a recording medium for reproducing special effects by full use of the capabilities of the reproducing apparatus. The editing apparatus having original video data and edited data that a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653284 | Method and apparatus for editing a data stream The invention relates to a method of editing a data stream, the data stream having a first unique identifier of an identifier space and having assigned metadata, the metadata comprising meta information and a metadata link, the metadata link comprising the first uni... | 01/26/2010 |
| RE41081 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus and data editing method A data recording and reproducing apparatus has facilities for recording and reproducing, inputting and outputting, and editing data and can perform edits by itself. The data recording and reproducing apparatus records AV data inputted from an input port on HDDs by u... | 01/19/2010 |
| RE41082 | Information recorder, recording method, and recording media There are described a data recording system, a data recording method, and a recording medium, all of which are directed to enabling easy editing of AV data without involvement of duplication of the AV data, as well as to eliminating a necessity for an additional dat... | 01/19/2010 |
