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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366240 | Decoder and method of decoding using pseudo two pass decoding and one pass encoding A method of processing video frame data includes the steps of: receiving a video frame; partially decoding the video frame; fully decoding the video frame to produce macroblocks; determining video data parameters from the partially decoded video frame or both the pa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362955 | Video recording and reproducing apparatus A video recording and reproducing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of image contents recorded at given time points or images at a plurality of given portions within the same image contents is disclosed. A plurality of images read from a randomly a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362947 | Device, method, and system for video editing, and computer readable recording medium having video editing program recorded thereon A variety of special effect processing is performed on video frames retrieved from a disk device 30 in effect processing stages ES1, ES2, and so on. A work memory 112B is always interposed between processing at one stage and processing at... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7319493 | Apparatus and program for setting video processing parameters A video signal processing apparatus 1 and a video processing parameter setting apparatus 2 comprise a video processing apparatus (visual mixer). A parameter value collectively specifying portion 3 specifies in accordance with the order stored in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7224838 | Method and apparatus for recovery of encoded data using central value The present invention provides a method for comprising data by determining a central value that is greater than the minimum value and less than the maximum value of the range of data. In one embodiment, the central value is chosen to be a value that substantially re... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218836 | Playback apparatus A playback apparatus plays back, from a recording medium, a plurality of information files, and a modified file which is generated using a portion of the plurality of information files. If modified data specified in playback description data for specifying a playbac... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7174084 | Method and apparatus for performing sub-picture level splicing based on interrupts Techniques to effectuate splicing at sub-picture level. In one aspect, splicing is effectuated via an interrupt generated after each splice has occurred. The interrupt may be generated by either the hardware designated to perform splicing or other peripheral hardwar... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7130525 | Method of determining access position on recording medium and method of managing recording medium A management system for a recording medium recorded with a multimedia data stream wherein in a first data made up of video and sound, an amount of data for a predetermined playback period is managed as a first unit (EU), an individually reproducible minimum unit of ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7054540 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene changes in the moving images recorded by the first recording controlling element; a second recording cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7020381 | Video editing apparatus and editing method for combining a plurality of image data to generate a series of edited motion video image data A video editing apparatus for editing electronic motion video image data utilizes an effect setting table that specifies mapping of editing effect names arbitrarily registered by the user to editing effects or screen effects, for example, transition effects between ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6988805 | Image projection lighting device An improved image projection lighting device is disclosed. Commands received by a communications port of the base housing may be acted upon to change zoom and focus values of a zoom and focus lens. A cooling system may be provided which compares an input air tempera... | 01/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6970639 | System and method for editing source content to produce an edited content sequence The present invention provides an editing system and method for editing source content such as video and/or audio material to produce an edited content sequence, source metadata being associated with portions of the source content. The system comprises storage for s... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957008 | Image editing apparatus and recording medium This invention relates to a materials sending apparatus for creating an edit list of an material including one or both of video data and audio data and sending the material, comprising: edit list creating means for creating an edit list containing information associ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6934462 | Signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program For accurate scene-change detection, the amplitudes of sub-band signals subjected to the spectral decomposition are detected, and the detected amplitudes are smoothed and sampled during smoothing. Then, the amount of spectral change is determined based on the smooth... | 08/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6807361 | Interactive custom video creation system The present invention analyzes recorded video from a video camera to identify camera and object motion in the recorded video. Keyframes representative of clips of the recorded video are displayed on a user interface that allows a user to manipulate an order of the k... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6763176 | Method and apparatus for real-time video editing using a graphics processor 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... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6763175 | Flexible video editing architecture with software video effect filter components 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... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6721361 | Video processing system including advanced scene break detection methods for fades, dissolves and flashes The invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting a scene transition in digitized video data. The method includes determining if a gradual transition is detected in the video data that ends with a current frame based at least on the current frame and one o... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6587155 | Fading of main video signal without affecting display of superimposed video signal A fade circuit adjusts the luma as well as one or more chroma components of a main video so that the fade ins and fade outs of the main video do not change the color of an on-screen display image, such as the volume bar. In one embodiment, luma component ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6421498 | Image signal processing apparatus and method for cross-fading moving image signals Apparatus and method for cross-fading moving image signals include structure and steps for temporarily storing moving image signals in a memory for a predetermined period of time. Moving image signals read out from the memory and newly-input moving image ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6301429 | Reproducing apparatus, recording apparatus and recording medium adapted to process fade-in, fade-out and cross-fade An optical pickup reads a video signal and fade information on "start time" and "speed", recorded in an optical disc or the like and supplies them to a demultiplexer through a data reproduction circuit. The fade information is supplied to a controller via... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6248944 | Apparatus for switching picture items of different types by suitable transition modes A karaoke apparatus is constructed for producing karaoke accompaniments of requested songs while switching picture items of different types displayed on a monitor. In the karaoke apparatus, a sound source block works in an operating period when a requeste... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6198873 | Editing system and video signal output system An editing system and a video signal output system are disclosed. The inventive system comprises a server for reproducing video signals for a plurality of scenes from disk drives and for consecutively outputting these video signals through a single output... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5995703 | Apparatus for generating a screen fade effect in a video disc reproducing system An apparatus which controls a video signal reproduced from a video compact disc to gradually fade in or out on a screen in a video disc reproducing system, is disclosed. When the video signals read out from the video disc are decoded by the MPEG video dec... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5940351 | Information record medium as well as editing apparatus and reproducing apparatus for the same An information record medium from which only necessary record information can be reproduced as well as an editing apparatus and a reproducing apparatus designed to edit and reproduce the information record medium, respectively, to allow such selective rep... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5926603 | Video signal editing apparatus in which multiple video clip edit frames are simultaneously displayed on one monitor An editing apparatus forms an output video signal by effecting an editing processing on a plurality of video signals effect on first and second input video signals. There are generated first and second video clips representing a starting position and an e... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5841597 | Divided master tape production device, dubbing device and dubbing system which is equipped with these devices A high-speed dubbing system which is not a complicated system adjusts phase shifts to return a plurality of multiple divided master tape audio signals to a time series signal array which is the same as that of the original master tape signal. The dubbing ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5802226 | Method and apparatus for video fade effect with a single video source An apparatus for mixing portions of a video signal produced by a single video source. The apparatus includes an input terminal for receiving a current video signal. A memory, coupled to the input terminal, receives the current video signal and stores a pl... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5717815 | Compression data editing apparatus In a compression data editing apparatus, a smooth switching (edition) having no noise is enabled to be performed. A code train 10 is supplied to an MPEG decoding circuit 2 and is delayed by a fixed time and, after that, it is decoded into an audio signal.... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5710857 | Edit seaming in a video data recording/reproducing apparatus In recording one frame of video data in a plurality of tracks, high-frequency components of the video data are recorded in first and last ones of the plurality of tracks while low-frequency components thereof are recorded in the other tracks. In an editin... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5636311 | Tape dubbing and divided master tape producing system A high speed dubbing apparatus for producing magnetic tapes such as video, audio or computer soft tapes, is provided. Typical form of the apparatus may comprise 3 master tape playback devices for synchronously playing back 3 divided master tapes respectiv... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5625461 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus is capable of editing video signals and audio signals recording additional information data for controlling the reproduction output level. The recording side includes an additional information data generating circuit,... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5499106 | Digital signal recording method and digital video tape recorder A digital video tape recorder has interpolation and crossfading circuits and records audio and video signals in independent frames, the audio frames being offset with respect to the video frames. For a four-channel audio signal, the even and odd samples a... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5481411 | Tape dubbing and divided master tape producing system A high speed dubbing apparatus for producing magnetic tapes such as video, audio or computer soft tapes, is provided. Typical form of the apparatus may comprise 2 master tape playback devices for synchronously playing back 2 divided master tapes respectiv... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5225945 | Apparatus for editing PCM signals reproduced at different speeds from two memories A PCM signal editing apparatus with functions of storing in memories the edit-point proximate sample data of a first PCM audio signal reproduced from a first recording medium and that of a second PCM audio signal reproduced from a second recording medium,... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5189563 | Video tape editor with fade control functions A video tape editing apparatus for use with first and second video playback devices and a video recording device allows effective editing of homemade video tapes which produces clean, professional transitions of the edit-points. The editing apparatus incl... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5173813 | Image processing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for processing image signals read out from a recording medium in which different kinds of image signals are stored. One frame of the image signals from the recording medium is stored in sequence until a time at which the kind of ima... | 12/22/1992 |
