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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8041180 | Hardware apparatus and method having video/audio encoding and multiplexing functionality The apparatus includes a video signal acquisition device, an audio signal acquisition device, a time information processing device, a video signal encoding device, an audio signal encoding device, a multiplexing device and an output device. The video signal acquisit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7945140 | Apparatus and method for storing and retrieving digital real time signals in their native format An embedded system which stores, controls and retrieves real-time digital signals is configured as a programmable and reconfigurable embedded system. The embedded system interface is capable of handling in real time both continuous and irregular signal formats, such... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7792412 | Multi-screen image reproducing apparatus and image reproducing method in multi-screen image reproducing apparatus To provide a multi-screen video playback apparatus outputting video data to a plurality of display units constituting a multi-screen display, respectively, and capable of reliably and efficiently delivering the video data and playback control information required fo... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7434155 | Icon bar display for video editing system A method and apparatus are provided for editing video sequences. The method includes the steps of providing a display with a plurality of audio/visual sequences depicted on the display where each audio/visual sequence of the plurality of audio visual sequences is di... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424279 | Method for enhancing in real-time the playback of an audio broadcast signal A method is provided for enhancing in real-time the playback of a broadcast data signal. The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a broadcast data signal at a player device; (b) storing the broadcast data signal on the player device; (c) generating an output... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7411604 | Synchronization of a stereoscopic camera A method for synchronizing the recordings of two video cameras which are operated in parallel for the three-dimensional representation of an image sequence includes fading a light signal into the image area of the two cameras and simultaneously recording the light s... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7382973 | Data processing apparatus, information processing system and computer-readable recording medium recording selecting program The present invention provides a data processing apparatus comprising a first additional information acquisition unit for acquiring the first additional information with regard to a first processing target data; a second additional information acquisition unit acqui... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362944 | Combination system using set-up value commonly, and method for setting up value of the same A combination system commonly using a set-up value with regard to plural devices. The combination system has an input unit to input the set-up value, plural set-up value storage units to store the input set-up value, and a controller to control a set-up value storag... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7333865 | Aligning data streams The invention aligns two wide-bandwidth, high resolution data streams, in a manner that retains the full bandwidth of the data streams, by using magnitude-only spectrograms as inputs into the cross-correlation and sampling the cross-correlation at a coarse sampling ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313313 | Audio/video synchronization with no clean points A computing system that has access to a streamed multimedia sample that is stored on a storage medium applies a zero-based presentation timestamp numbering scheme to the data packets of the multimedia sample, on-the-fly, and after each seek operation. After seeking ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305088 | Video distribution playback method, apparatus to be disposed on video distribution end, apparatus to be disposed on video playback end, computer readable medium, and movie distribution method A motion-picture distributor (12) uses a computer system (22) to convert video signals from a master film (14) into serial video data (41) complying with DVD-Video standards. Further, the computer system (22) modifies the sequence ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283954 | Comparing audio using characterizations based on auditory events A method for determining if one audio signal is derived from another audio signal or if two audio signals are derived from the same audio signal compares reduced-information characterizations of said audio signals, wherein said characterizations are based on auditor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280739 | Reproduced image transmitting apparatus A reproduced image transmission apparatus which can display reversely reproduced images normally even when the transfer order of asynchronous transfer and isochronous transfer is not ensured on IEEE1394, in cases where an apparatus for generating the reversely repro... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260304 | Recording and accessing metadata Apparatus uniquely identifies material recorded on an example of a recording medium. The medium has distinguishing data, a tape ID, distinguishing that example from other examples thereof recorded thereon. A generator generates data, e.g. IN and OUT time codes, iden... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257135 | Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signa... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7209641 | Decoder A decoder having improved accuracy for reading data. The decoder decodes reproduced data including preamble data, to which a first synchronization pattern is added, and information data, which follows the preamble data and to which a second synchronization pattern i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197229 | Digital signal recording devices, digital signal recording/playback devices, and digital signal receiving/recording/playback devices A digital signal recording device or a digital signal recording and playback device which receives an inputted digital signal having a predetermined packet format and including a digital video signal and a digital audio signal. The device also receives an inputted a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197458 | Method and system for verifying derivative digital files automatically A method and apparatus for verifying automatically that a plurality of derivative audio (or other multimedia) files have acceptable sound quality. In one embodiment, each derivative file is compared on a byte-by-byte basis to a corresponding original file to generat... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7167640 | Method and apparatus for efficiently allocating memory in audio still video (ASV) applications A dynamic allocation of available ASV buffer memory space is performed on each pack in a DVD-A bitstream one pack at a time. Concurrently, an ASV buffer table is updated for each type of data pack currently being processed. The ASV buffer table includes pointers cor... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7146179 | Portable imaging device employing geographic information to facilitate image access and viewing A system and method for accessing and viewing images transmitted from a remote location to a portable imaging device, wherein each of the transmitted images having associated geographic information. The method comprises the steps of: providing the portable imaging d... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133231 | Method and apparatus for recording data on hard disk drive, and storage medium therefor A method of and an apparatus for recording data on a hard disk drive, and a storage medium containing a program for executing the method. Data is recorded on a track in a recording region and an address of a next track to be recorded with the data is determined so t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7095947 | System for synchronizing the playback of two or more connected playback devices using closed captioning The present invention is directed to a method and system for synchronizing the replay of a pre-recorded program between a plurality of playback devices utilizing closed-caption data. The internal block of the playback devices are synchronized. Upon receiving program... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7071402 | Automatic soundtrack generator in an image record/playback device An Automatic Soundtrack Generator permits merger of a sound track that is independent of the external sound source, while either recording or playing a video sequence. The Automatic Soundtrack Generator integrates in a video recorder or player a module that generate... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7039070 | Moving image packet decoding and reproducing apparatus, reproduction time control method thereof, computer program product for controlling reproduction time and multimedia information receiving apparatus Error correcting section holds PTS(n−1) and DTS(n−1) of the frame immediately preceding the current frame and the most recent CPTS as determined to be correct in the past. The time stamp of the current frame is determined to be incorrect if (1) CPTS>PTS(n) which... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027714 | Apparatus for reproduction of video and audio with suspension function An apparatus for reproducing video and audio includes a video decoder which receives video data coded by a unit of a first time length, an audio decoder which receives audio data coded by a unit of a second time length different from the first time length, and a syn... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023489 | Method and device for detecting the parity of successive fields of an interlaced video signal Successive values of a horizontal phase of a video signal are determined a predetermined integer number of video lines after the successive occurrences of vertical synchronization pulses. The successive values of a parity bit are updated according to the successive ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015947 | Measurement of performance of communications systems The subjective quality of an audio-visual stimulus is measured by measuring the actual synchronisation errors between the audio and visual elements of the stimulus, identifying characteristics of audio and visual cues in the stimulus, and generating a measure of sub... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012650 | Start/stop audio encoder apparatus and method for synchronizing digital audio and video signals The invention uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to synchronize an audio encoding process with a video synchronization signal. Namely, the encoder parameters of a DSP microchip are preset according to characteristics of an audio frame. A buffer temporar... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6993399 | Aligning data streams The invention aligns two wide-bandwidth, high resolution data streams, in a manner that retains the full bandwidth of the data streams, by using magnitude-only spectrograms as inputs into the cross-correlation and sampling the cross-correlation at a coarse sampling ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983100 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium Disclosed is an information processing method comprising the steps of: storing measured position information in association with first time information representing times of day at which the measured position information is obtained; storing video information in ass... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6971024 | Recording medium, data recording method and apparatus, data reproducing method and apparatus, and copying control method Data is recorded in a first part in accordance with a signal format equivalent to that of an existing CD at the lower limit of an allowable value of a track pitch and the lower limit of linear velocity, so that data can be recorded in the first part for the maximum ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968116 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium Disclosed is an information processing method comprising the steps of: storing measured position information in association with first time information representing times of day at which the measured position information is obtained; storing video information in ass... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6928230 | Associating recordings and auxiliary data In order to match up individual recordings in a sequence (150) of recordings with corresponding items in a sequence (151) of separately-stored auxiliary data items concerning those recordings, both the recordings and auxiliary data are time-stamped, th... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6892024 | Information recording apparatus An information recording apparatus includes: a transferring device that separately and simultaneously receives at least two information supplied through at least two channels, and separately and simultaneously transfers the at least two information to a storing devi... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6871004 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program Disclosed is an information processing method comprising the steps of: storing measured position information in association with first time information representing times of day at which the measured position information is obtained; storing video information in ass... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6791521 | Liquid crystal display device having a gray-scale voltage selector circuit A liquid crystal display device has a circuit for selecting voltage levels based upon display data from an externally-supplied gray-scale voltage varying periodically. The circuit includes a plurality of series combinations of processing circuits. Each of the series... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6762797 | Method and apparatus for catch-up video viewing A method and apparatus are provided for catching-up on viewing a program on a viewing device. The apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a storing mechanism configured for simultaneously recording and playing back digital video and audio stre... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6757304 | Method and apparatus for data communication and storage wherein a IEEE1394/firewire clock is synchronized to an ATM network clock The present invention relates to a data communication system for data communication between a bus and a network. This data communication system of the present invention includes a first interface device for performing interface processing for the bus, a second inter... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6728678 | Variable rate video playback with synchronized audio The invention enables the apparent display rate of an audiovisual display to be varied. The invention can modify an original set of audio data in accordance with a target display rate, then modify a related original set of video data to conform to the modifications ... | 04/27/2004 |
