Famous Patents
The first commercial microwave oven was nearly 6 feet tall and weighed in at 750 pounds.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493013 | Information storage medium having a program chain command table structure An information recording method of recording object information (VOB) and reproducing control information (PGC) is provided. In this method, while the object information is recorded, the reproducing control information (PGC) defining a method of reproducing the obje... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7424202 | Editing system and control method using a readout request An editing system and a control method for improving efficiency of editing work. The editing system is provided with a server for storing the video data of edit material. A memory stores the video data read from the server, the memory having accessibility faster tha... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412153 | Information recording device and method, and information recording system In recording information, an SMPTE 339M-defined UMID buried in video and audio material signals to be recorded to a magnetic tape (30) or a UMID generated from information other than the material signals, is written to a contactless memory tag (37), wh... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7366401 | Video summary play apparatus and method A signal receiving unit receives a signal including video data. A video data memory sequentially stores the video data. A timing decision unit decides a timing to generate a video summary by referring to the signal, and provides a generation request of the video sum... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7213089 | System and method for displaying a preview indicating a time-based adjustment of image data or sound data An information processing device for setting a parameter about objective data, comprising an output unit for outputting the objective data, an operation unit for detecting an instruction of a user, an output control unit for altering the parameter value with time in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7190880 | Player and disc system for producing video signals in different formats A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181124 | Methods, systems and data structures for timecoding media samples Timecoding systems, methods and data structures are described which, in some embodiments, permit a true time to be ascertained from media samples whose timecodes contain an amount of drift which can arise from having non-integer frame rates. Inventive methods incorp... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174301 | System and method for accessing geographic-based data A system and method for creating a unified commercial real estate data model through collection, distribution and use of information in connection with commercial real estate and for creating a web-based marketplace that facilitates the efficient and secure buying, ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7057385 | Method of inspecting magnetic recording medium based on contact duration time A magnetic recording medium inspection method detects small protrusions that constitute defects on the surface of a magnetic recording medium. The method includes flying a glide inspection head at a predetermined height over the surface of the moving magnetic record... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054541 | Editing of digital video information signals The invention relates to editing of video information signals recorded on a record carrier, such as an optical record carrier are edited in an internal memory of the edit apparatus. Editing results in an edited stream of information, which includes a bridging fragme... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031593 | Video tape recorder In a video tape recorder, a digital AV signal which is A/D-converted by an A/D converting section 12 is separated into a video signal and an audio signal by an audio-video separating section 131. In response to a selection operation on an operating sec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027100 | Video signal transmission device, video signal output device, video signal reception device, video signal duplication control system, information superimposing/extraction device, and image recording medium This invention provides an image transmission method, image anti-duplication method, image anti-duplication device, and image recording medium in which the information for anti-duplication control is superimposed on the video signal without deterioration of the resu... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6993567 | Recording/reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method, and data recording/reproducing method Although music program data has been recorded on a disc, imperfect index data or a signal has been recorded so that music program data is prohibited from being reproduced. To allow music program data to be reproduced, the index data is rewritten to perfect index dat... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6909836 | Multi-rate real-time players A method of optimizing the scheduling of the drawing of graphical elements of a multi-player display (102) in an image processing environment. Each player (801 to 804) is capable of operating asynchronously and deriving its source from a differe... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6853800 | METHOD OF GENERATING INDEX IMAGE, APPARATUS FOR GENERATING INDEX IMAGE, METHOD OF CORRECTING INDEX IMAGE DATA, APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING INDEX IMAGE DATA, METHOD OF CORRECTING EDIT AUXILIARY DATA, AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING EDIT AUXILIARY DATA It becomes possible to generate an index information used as an auxiliary upon edition on a recording medium where video information is recorded to record it on a recording medium, and to select a picture matched with a desired condition from the video information r... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6847776 | Signal record/playback apparatus and method featuring independent recording and playback processing In a signal record/playback apparatus and its method which performs the recording for recording a signal on the recording medium DISK and the playback for playing back the recorded signal from the recording medium DISK at the same time, the recording position and th... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6813438 | Method to customize the playback of compact and digital versatile disks A playback program for DVDs and CDs enables a user to customize the playback of the disk. Regions that are independent of prerecorded tracks are created and/or played back based on the content of the disk, e.g., visual content or audio content, in those regions. Thu... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6775462 | Tone-controlled video muting The present invention is a method and apparatus to control muting a video output. A tone detector detects a first tone in a control tone signal generated by a video player during playing a video program from a master medium. The control tone signal is recorded on th... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6744968 | Method and system for processing clips An editing system for editing a plurality of clips recorded on a random-accessible recording medium includes a clip processing device having a plurality of clip processing layers to execute a predetermined process for the clips, and a hierarchy decision device havin... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6731860 | Video reproduction controller for controlling reproduction of a recorded special video and a storage medium for the video reproduction controller When, during the replay of the VTR, time codes are sent to the control unit and the special part detection device supplies detection data to the control unit, the control section displays an indication of the special parts being detected and the time codes found and... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6708251 | Disk drive having separate interfaces for host commands and audiovisual data A disk drive connectable to a host system includes a disk, a buffer memory, and an audiovisual interface responsive to first data from the host system to provide audiovisual data. The disk drive further includes a host command interface adapted to receive host comma... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6694086 | Reproducing apparatus having editing function A reproducing apparatus having an editing function is arranged to, in response to an instruction for setting an editing program, generate a display image signal corresponding to the contents of the set editing program, to, in response to an instruction fo... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6658196 | Editing technique merging video signals recorded on the same optical disk An editing apparatus for editing video signals recorded on an optical disk. The editing apparatus comprises: a video signal reproducing unit for reproducing a first and a second video signal from the optical disk; a video signal merging unit for merging t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6542692 | Nonlinear video editor A method and a system are provided for playing back sequences of segments of video media data stored on a storage media. A segment of the video media data is retrieved at a predetermined period prior to playback and stored in a temporary storage. Control ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6526216 | Video production system of progress television mode and recording and reproducing device therefor A video production system, which has realized an effective utilization of many existing broadcasting equipments (a time-code generator, an editing controller, etc.) that require a framing with a frequency of 30 Hz and also equipments that function accordi... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6498894 | Video and/or audio data recording and/or reproduction apparatus A video data recording and reproduction apparatus in which a plurality of input/output control circuits input and output video data between the recording and reproducing apparatus and external apparatus based on a control signal received from an external ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6487360 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EDITING MOVING IMAGE AND DISPLAYING SELECTED GROUPS OF REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES OF CUTS OF THE MOVING IMAGE SUCH THAT REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES HAVING A PREDETERMINED FEATURE CAN BE DISTINGUISHED FROM REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES NOT HAVING THE PREDETERMINED FEATURE A method and an apparatus for editing a moving image display a plurality of representative images, each representing a specific frame image among a plurality of serial frame images constituting the moving image, by arranging the representative images on a... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6470134 | Method and apparatus for dubbing a recording tape A method and apparatus for dubbing a recording tape in a video recording and reproducing device. A source video recording and reproducing device reproduces data of a source recording tape in response to a dubbing demand from a user and confirms an error r... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6456779 | Method and apparatus for providing a video editor An apparatus and method for editing video frames stored on a digital video disk is disclosed. The apparatus includes memory for storing instruction sequences, a processor, and a digital video disk drive. The processor executes instructions stored in the m... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6445875 | Apparatus and method for detecting edition point of audio/video data stream Information searching apparatus and method and a transmission medium with which an edition point can be detected simply from coded data without decoding all the coded data. Particularly, in the present invention, an audio signal is divided into plural blo... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6400886 | Method and apparatus for stitching edited video segments Disclosed is a stitcher implemented to join segments of video glue generated during a first pass of an editing engine. Preferably, the generated glue segments are implemented at the beginning and at the end of a clipped video segment. In the second proces... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6396998 | DVD recording/reproducing apparatus having a high-speed copying capability A DVD recording/reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a copy range designator for designating a copy range of data to be copied from a source disc to a dubbing disc, a VOBU fetcher for fetching VOBU according to information des... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6351597 | Data recording and reproducing method and data recording and reproducing apparatus Upon recording, movable terminals b of switches 112 and 119 are switched to the terminals a1 sides, whereas upon reproduction, they are switched to the terminals a2 sides. A controller 131 controls switches 114 and 118 so that memories 116-1 through- 3 re... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6347180 | Signal processor Inputted video signals are highly compressed in a high-compression processing means and the compressed signals are saved in a high-compression system processing means, and the video signals lowly compressed in a low-compression processing means and the co... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6341192 | Decoding method and decoding player and recording medium A stream whose redundancy has been eliminated using the continuity specified particularly in the MPEG and the like, is interrupted once, and well connected to another stream. An edit point decoding method for reproducing and decoding data from a disc in w... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6337710 | Graphical video editing system for regeneration of bitstreams A graphical video editing system that allows manipulation of images for input to the video encoding and decoding process. The debugging of video encoders and decoders is aided by user controlled editing of problem areas in test images, and the graphical v... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6289163 | Frame-accurate video capturing system and method A frame-accurate video capturing system is described. The frame-accurate video capturing system captures a frame-accurate video segment into digital form. The system includes a start and stop frame capturing system that allows a user to identify a start f... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6263149 | Editing of digital video information signals The invention relates to editing of video information signals recorded on a record carrier, such as an optical record carrier (3). The editing is carried out in an internal memory of the edit apparatus. Editing results in an edited stream of information, ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6201924 | Disk-assisted editing for recorded video material A disk-assisted system for editing video tapes. Source material from video tapes is logged onto random access storage such as a hard disk drive using of a Macintosh-based computer system. At any one time, only a small portion of the tape material is store... | 03/13/2001 |
