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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189986 | Manual playback overshoot correction A video display function that addresses fast-forward overshoot. Holding down a play key during a fast forward function, for longer than a predetermined amount of time, causes a video presentation to be placed in reverse mode until the play key is released. This allo... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE42795 | Apparatus and method for recording or reproducing digital data using speed information An apparatus and method for controlling recording and reproduction in a video cassette tape recorder are disclosed apparatus is capable of, in a recording mode, separating specific data for speed-varied reproduction from compressed digital video signals, recording t... | 10/04/2011 |
| RE42679 | Apparatus and method for recording or reproducing digital data using speed information An apparatus and method for controlling recording and reproduction in a video cassette tape recorder are disclosed apparatus is capable of, in a recording mode, separating specific data for speed-varied reproduction from compressed digital video signals, recording t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7885508 | Input apparatus, input method, input control program, reproduction apparatus, reproduction control method, and reproduction control program An input apparatus that inputs a reproduction speed of a video signal is disclosed. The input apparatus has a position detection section and a control section. The position detection section linearly detects a position that a user's finger has touched. The control s... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881582 | Slowing display of digital video Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for slowing display of digital video that include receiving in a video display device a digital video stream for display, identifying by the video display device a digital video clip of the digital vide... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881583 | Playback apparatus, playback method, and playback program A playback apparatus is capable of playing back video data at a variable speed ranging from a forward normal speed to a reverse normal speed, the video data having been encoded for compression through inter-frame compression based on predictive coding and recorded o... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873261 | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing alternative media content Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the display of overlying alternative media content in real time upon the initiation of a fast-forwarding action associated with underlying media content. According to implementations, a method includes displa... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865056 | Method of controlling special playback mode of video signal reproducing apparatus A method of controlling a run mode of a video signal recording/reproducing apparatus is provided. More particularly, a method of controlling a special playback mode of a video signal reproducing apparatus, by rejecting a special playback key input during comparison ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860369 | Play-back device and method for controlling the same A play-back device receiving data including program parts and specific parts, detecting duplicated part in which contents are repeated in the specific part included in the data and before and after the specific part. On playing back the data, when it comes to the sp... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856167 | Image playback apparatus and method, and program The present invention relates to an image playback apparatus and method, and a program for enabling a quick display of a last picture of moving pictures during fast forward playback as well as a first picture of the moving pictures during fast reverse playback. Conc... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853118 | Image replay apparatus and method for moving-picture streams According to one embodiment, a moving-picture-stream replay apparatus includes a first-replay-start time acquisition section which acquires, in accordance with a replay speed N, a replay start time that indicates a time elapsing from a leading portion of the moving-... | 12/14/2010 |
| RE41987 | Method and apparatus for using standard VTR transport commands to operate a disk recorder playback device Briefly, there is provided a method for manipulating content stored on a disk recorder/playback device using conventional transport commands, such as those used on a conventional videotape recorder (VTR). The method commences by detecting whether the content is in o... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848612 | Pausing media playback at appropriate intervals A pause soon feature calls for providing media tags and pause points for pausing playback of media at appropriate intervals. The media tags and pause points may be resident in the media, the media player or in any combination thereof. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| RE41971 | Apparatus, method and storage medium for recording and/or reproducing digital data using relative position data An apparatus and method for controlling recording and reproduction in a video cassette tape recorder are disclosed apparatus is capable of, in a recording mode, separating specific data for speed-varied reproduction from compressed digital video signals, recording t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840114 | Video and audio reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing the same The designated double speed number n is corrected by a ratio of a reproducing time of a VOBU calculated from the difference between VOBU_E_PTM and VOBU_S_PTM included in management information NV_PCK (navigation back) of the VOBU and a standard reproducing time (0.5... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840113 | Optical disk reproducing apparatus An optical disk reproducing apparatus that plays back information recorded on an optical disk, includes: a system controller; and a controller that is operated in accordance with an instruction of the system controller, wherein: when a user operation of skip up/skip... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831129 | Capturing apparatus According to one embodiment, a capturing apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture a moving image video, a storage unit configured to store the moving image video captured by the capturing unit, an operation unit configured to include a plurality of ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826710 | Playback device, computer program, playback method A playback device judges whether a connected display device is equipped to display only interlaced video or both interlaced and progressive video. It equipped to display both interlaced and progressive video, a mode setting unit 15 sets an operation mode of t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826711 | Digital video disc (DVD) player or digital video recorder (DVR) playback with memory The present invention is directed towards providing a viewer an option of beginning a previously-viewed DVD or DVR from its last viewed position. A processor determines a unique identifier of the DVD or DVR and stores the unique identifier in a presentation table in... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822316 | Digital video recorder to be connected to DV camcorder via IEEE 1394 serial bus A DVD recorder acquires a time code from a DV camcorder that is in process of rewinding a DV tape in response to a rewind command, and calculates a difference between a current rewind position and a beginning position on the DV tape. When the difference is smaller t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822317 | Broadcast program recording apparatus and program for executing a broadcast program reproducing process A recorded broadcast program including CM portions is reproduced with CM portions skipped. When an instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered at the beginning of CM portion and an instruction to execute a reproducing operation is entered at the termi... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817901 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce information data, which is error-correcting-coded for every N tracks, from a recording medium, wherein the information data includes moving image data which is variable-lengt... | 10/19/2010 |
| RE41820 | Apparatus, method and storage medium for recording and/or reproducing digital data using relative position data An apparatus and method for controlling recording and reproduction in a video cassette tape recorder are disclosed apparatus is capable of, in a recording mode, separating specific data for speed-varied reproduction from compressed digital video signals, recording t... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809240 | Content provision system and associated methodology of controlling distribution of content When various content is broadcasted via the Internet, a user is free from restriction of time and space and user's desired content is provided. The content is controllably recorded and read to a random-access recording medium via a network, and at least the content ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805053 | Exploitation of discontinuity indicator for trick mode operation A system and a method for modifying a stream of multimedia content to implement trick mode playback functions in MPEG receivers that do not follow general MPEG trick mode implementation recommendations. The system can include a processor that sets a discontinuity in... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805054 | Signal compressing apparatus An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801411 | Moving picture data playback apparatus, moving picture data playback method, moving picture data recording apparatus, moving picture data recording method, and recording medium with moving picture data recorded thereon In order to provide: a moving picture data playback apparatus and a moving picture data playback method, in which smooth high-speed playback is performed even when the moving picture playback speed is changed stepwise, and, in addition, the number of frames skipped ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796859 | DVD reproducing apparatus A DVD reproducing apparatus having an A-B repeat function of repeating reproduction between point A set on a VOBU of plural VOBUs and point B set on a VOBU behind the point A, includes an NV_PCK storage unit that stores an address data stored in an NV_PCK of the VOB... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796860 | Method and system for playing back videos at speeds adapted to content A method plays back a video at speeds adapted to content of the video. A video is partitioned into summary segments and skipped segments. The summary segments are played back sequentially at a normal play back speed, and the skipped segments are played back at varyi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796858 | System of mix mode multimedia player A mix mode multimedia player having audio scenery and video scenery thereof being controlled individually comprises a playback manager module, and a presentation engine module. The playback manager module for generating audio-format play list, video-format play list... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792414 | Signal compressing apparatus An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792413 | Recording and reproducing an MPEG information signal on/from a record carrier During recording of an MPEG information signal on a record carrier, transport packets (Pk) are stored in signal blocks in a track on the record carrier. x transport packets of the MPEG information signal are stored in the second block sections (SB) of y s... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792415 | Picture coding apparatus and picture decoding apparatus A picture coding apparatus which generates a stream so as to be able to decode a picture by obtaining a picture parameter set necessary for decoding the picture even at the time of trick-play, the apparatus including: a slice coding unit which codes the picture and ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792806 | Rate change A system and methods provide handling of variable rate playback in a multimedia computer architecture. The systems and methods provide data structures and interfaces that enable a computer architecture and components therein with the ability to playback data at spee... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787747 | Playback apparatus, Playback method, recording medium, and program A playback apparatus for playing back a moving image at a speed higher than a normal speed of the moving image on the basis of moving image data for displaying the moving image, the moving image data being coded by setting a predetermined number of images as a unit,... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787746 | Fast motion trick mode using non-progressive dummy bidirectional predictive pictures The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) performing a trick mode on a video signal containing a plurality of original pictures. The method includes the steps of selectively skipping (214) at least one of the original pictures to co... | 08/31/2010 |
| RE41611 | Apparatus and method for recording or reproducing digital data using speed information An apparatus and method for controlling recording and reproduction in a video cassette tape recorder are disclosed apparatus is capable of, in a recording mode, separating specific data for speed-varied reproduction from compressed digital video signals, recording t... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783155 | Method and system for detecting weak or invalid signals in data streams There is provided a method for detecting signal conditions for Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) streams. Alternate-mode flags and valid frames within the MPEG streams are detected within a pre-defined search window. An indication that a valid signal is detected i... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773858 | Optical disc drive and method for adjusting working speed An optical disc drive and the method for adjusting the working speed are disclosed. In the present method, the user decides the highest working speed in advance. Then, in response to an initiation event, the optical disc drive chooses one of the highest working spee... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764863 | System and method for providing trick modes A method for facilitating trick plays includes receiving a request to change a display mode of a certain media stream; fetching a media stream associated data structure associated with the certain media stream; and processing the media stream associated data structu... | 07/27/2010 |
