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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349023 | Camera-integrated video recording and reproducing apparatus, and record control method thereof A video recording/reproducing apparatus combined with a camera adapted to control a target information amount according to the nature and properties of an animated image to be photographed, and a recording control method for the same are provided. A target informati... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7305171 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing digital data, such as audio/video (A/V) data, and control method thereof A digital data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a control method thereof, In particular, the digital data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method are capable of recording and reproducing an incoming digital broadcasting program in compressed form... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301563 | Image pickup apparatus A short-time exposure image data and a long-time exposure image data of the same object to be photographed are stored to SE memory and LE memory and then transferred to CPU, motion thereof being detected at a motion detecting section on the basis of the two image da... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7242850 | Frame-interpolated variable-rate motion imaging system A method of recording and processing a digital motion image sequence, includes the steps of: recording a digital motion image sequence at a capture frame rate; determining different effective image content change rates as a function of the scene content changes in d... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7224853 | Method and apparatus for resampling data A set of known data samples are identified and an approximation of an original function from which the known data samples were obtained is created. The approximation function is then resampled to obtain desired values that are not contained in the set of known data ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7194396 | Simulation device A simulation device capable of displaying still images of a three-dimensional model of a machine such as a robot in the midst of an operation of the machine and simulating the operation from a start to the midst of the operation. The simulation device receives histo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7155110 | Image transmission method In an image transmission method of the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, when compressed image data Dv obtained by compressively coding digital image data corresponding to a moving picture is transmitted, an identification flag Hfd indicating wh... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6011663 | Digital VTR increasing recorded amount of high priority data The digital VTR includes an extractor, variable-length decoder, quantizer and variable-length encoder. The extractor receives digital data divided into blocks, and which is quantized and variable-length coded on a block-by-block basis. Portions of the dig... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5923811 | Apparatus and method for decoding data Data decoding suitable for a compressed moving picture, audio information, and so forth recorded on a disc or the like. A pack header and a packet header are separated from information reproduced with the video signal; and a time code is extracted from th... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5526135 | Video signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus operable in normal and differential speed playback modes A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for grouping input video data at an interval of a predetermined number of pixels and encoding each block by a DCT circuit, a quantization circuit and an entropy encoding circuit, recording the encoded data on a mag... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5486931 | Digital video signal recording and reproducing method and apparatus thereof A recording/reproducing method includes helically scanning a first region of a magnetic tape running at a normal speed using several rotary heads, recording a digital data train on several sloped tracks and simultaneously recording single-frame data at N-... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5473441 | Video signal reproduction processing method and apparatus for reproduction of a recorded video signal as either a sharp still image or a clear moving image Both a sharp print image and a natural reproduced move image can be obtained from a signal recorded on a recording medium. A recording signal, read from the recording medium, is converted into digital data and is delayed by one field. Data representing th... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5365380 | Variable-speed video signal reproducing apparatus able to switch video signal interpolation In the reproduction of a video signal from tape-shaped recording medium on which plural oblique tracks are formed in parallel manner, the signal processing for interpolating the video signal reproduced by a rotary head is suitably switched according to th... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5200862 | Eliminating signal quality deteriorations in a reproduced still image A device capable of reproducing recording information without error and which eliminates a deterioration in a reproduced image quality during a dubbing operation. The still image reproducing device has a change-over switch that is capable of selectively d... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5168394 | Apparatus for generating time information for a frame of video information using interpolation In a time information generator for generating time information in an arbitrary frame of video information varying with changes in time on the basis of time information delivered at a predetermined time interval from a video information forming device for... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4847701 | Sub-nyquist sampling apparatus with improved effects processing A digital type VTR or the like image signal recording and reproducing apparatus using sub-Nyquist sampling on the image includes an interpolator circuit for carrying out interpolation on a signal based on correlation between image signals in neighboring f... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4816929 | Dual access frame store for field or frame playback in a video disk player A video player, specially adapted to accommodate "mixed field and frame" recordings, incorporates a frame store for playing back still pictures recorded on a magnetic disk as either single field or dual field (full frame) video signals. A repetitive, inte... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4587573 | Coded signal reproducing apparatus A coded signal reproducing device for a video tape recorder wherein a PCM recorder is used for the audio signal and wherein sometime the VTR is set to variable speed reproducing mode for various purposes. The present invention utilizes a counter for count... | 05/06/1986 |
