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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43377 | Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method Disclosed herein is an apparatus along with a method for displaying a list of data to be transferred from one storage area to another in conjunction with a progress status report of the data transfer, thereby allowing users to know at a glance how far the transfer o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151195 | Title editing for slow or fast motion on recordable DVD discs A method for editing a title recorded on a digital storage medium. The method includes the steps of (A) defining a portion of the title to be edited for slow or fast motion playback, (B) modifying at least one address of presentation control information (PCI) for th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132103 | Audio and/or video scene detection and retrieval Movie video trailers for a particular movie quote may be created and provided to a user. The Internet may be searched to identify documents that likely include references to a movie. A reference to the movie within an identified document may be detected and determin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8090712 | Method for navigating large image sets using sort orders A method of displaying items from a collection of items including a first item is provided. The method determines a first sort order of the collection, and at least one alternate sort order of the collection. At least items adjacent to the first item in the first so... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065614 | System for displaying video and method thereof A system and method for providing playback of multiple video streams simultaneously is shown and described. A priority is assigned to individual windows of a plurality of windows used for playback of the video streams. A current window being accessed by a user is as... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065615 | Method of retrieving information associated with an object present in a media stream The subject invention provides a method of retrieving information (10) associated with an object (12) present in a media stream (14). The method includes the steps of accessing the information (10) during playback of the media stream (... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046688 | System for and method of adjusting tempo to match audio events to video events or other audio events in a recorded signal The system and method herein adjust tempo of an audio recording to match audio events to video events or other audio events in an audio-visual recording. The process of fitting an audio segment to a video or audio segment can include receiving a reference indicating... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046359 | Data processing apparatus, display control method, and display control program embodied on computer readable medium In order to reproduce the content output before, an MFP includes an HDD to store data which includes a plurality of page data having corresponding page numbers, an instruction accepting portion to accept a page number of one of the page data to be displayed on a pro... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042047 | Interactive promotional content management system and article of manufacture thereof A system for creating user defined advertisements. The system comprises a computer readable storage medium. The medium comprises a digitized film/video; an attribute database comprising predetermined attributes. Each attribute correlates to at least one scene of the... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024657 | Visually encoding nodes representing stages in a multi-stage video compositing operation Some embodiments of the invention provide a user interface of editing video through a multi-stage editing process. The user interface selects a particular stage in the editing process. A particular editing operation is performed on a set of video images during the p... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023802 | Image processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus, the operation of which is controlled by a remote controller, designates procedure for reproducing an image signal stored on a recording medium; allocates a reproduction function corresponding to the designated reproduction procedure to... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020100 | Fast creation of video segments A computer-implemented method can include displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thum... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015493 | Data processing method and data processing system A data processing method is disclosed which includes the steps of: (a) generating edit data which includes a unique material identifier for uniquely identifying material data to be edited and of edit content of the material data; (b) generating management data indic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006184 | Playlist for real time video production A video production system provides a director with-control over video production devices used in producing a show. The video production system allows the director to pre-produce a show, review the show in advance of “air time.” and then, with a touch of a button... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006185 | Three dimensional viewer for video A computer-implemented method of presenting digital content can include displaying several arranged in a staggered formation in a user interface, wherein at least one of the several panes is entirely visible and adjacent panes are partially visible and displayed adj... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001473 | Methods and systems for generating a composition Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for generating a plurality of adjusted compositions by modifying selected properties of a first composition at random. In one embodiment, a first composition having a plurality of properties is... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996771 | Methods and interfaces for event timeline and logs of video streams Techniques for generating timelines and event logs from one or more fixed-position cameras based on the identification of activity in the video are presented. Various embodiments of the invention include an assessment of the importance of the activity, the creation ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7925978 | Capturing frames from an external source Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for designating a memory region for receiving image frames from an image frame server, the image frames are from a first sequence of image frames. Each image frame in the first sequence of image frames is a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913157 | Method and system for the authoring and playback of independent, synchronized media through the use of a relative virtual time code A method and system is provided for the creation and playback of multiple independently produced and distributed media intended for synchronized playback. One embodiment of the invention overcomes variances in independently produced and distributed media that make a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890867 | Video editing functions displayed on or near video sequences Video editing functions displayed in or near video sequences are described, including displaying a video window including a video sequence of a video presentation, receiving an input to enable an editing panel for performing an editing function for the video sequenc... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877689 | Distributed scalable media environment for movie advertising placement in user-created movies Ads are placed in a movie using a graphical interface that enables selecting of the ads from a set of ads, selecting frames of the movie for the ad, and selecting locations in the frames for the ads. Each of the ad and the movie can be a still image, a full motion v... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877690 | Media system with integrated clip views Techniques are provided for presenting time data for audio and video clips. Operations for a data processing apparatus include obtaining video data, including multiple video clips, and presenting the video data in a user interface. The user interface can include a v... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877688 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus generating deletion-data management information indicating a deleted portion of moving image data recorded on a recording medium, in response to an instruction to delete the portion of the moving-image data. The deletion-data management i... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873905 | Image processing system An interface screen used for the correlation between video data and reference picture data includes: a screen 70 for displaying the video data reproduced by a video player; and a screen 73 for displaying a reference picture to be correlated with. When ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865833 | Data processing apparatus, data processing server, data processing system, method of controlling data processing apparatus, method of controlling data processing server, computer program, and computer readable storage medium This invention provides a data processing apparatus, data processing server, and data processing system, which can easily edit data by utilizing features of object-based coding, and can easily generate object-based encoded multimedia data. A multimedia edit & playba... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7849406 | Apparatus and method for authoring The present invention is designed to display a matrix plane on which a time axis and an axis of applicable levels corresponding to a predetermined keyword cross each other, arrange and display identifiers indicating scenes obtained by dividing a moving image file in... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840898 | Video booklet Systems and methods are described for creating a video booklet that allows browsing and search of a video library. In one implementation, each video in the video library is divided into segments. Each segment is represented by a thumbnail image. Signatures of the re... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840570 | System and method for acquiring and adding data on the playing of elements or multimedia files The invention relates to a system and method for acquiring and aggregating information relating to the reproduction of multimedia files or elements in a database, said data including information relating to the number of multimedia file or element reproductions. The... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7823056 | Multiple-camera video recording Techniques and systems for recording video and audio in timeline sequences. In some embodiments, a method involves playing video from a timeline sequence that can include footage from portions of video tracks including at least one pre-recorded edit. In response to ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7802188 | Method and apparatus for identifying selected portions of a video stream A method is disclosed for identifying a selected portion of a video stream. A user interface is provided for designating a reference frame of a selected portion of a video stream. A processor is configured to compare the reference frame with other portions of the vi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793219 | Construction of multimedia compositions Novel techniques and tools for authoring multimedia compositions are presented. The novel techniques and tools allow an author of a multimedia composition to create a multimedia composition by dragging assets from a first window containing a project's unused assets ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788585 | Split edits A method and apparatus is described that is related to split editing. An indicia of a first time based stream of information is displayed at a source media. An indicia of a second time based stream of information is displayed at the source media. This is followed by... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774706 | System and method for mixing media content A visual display interface is provided that comprises an associated display icon. The display icon is dragged across the visual display interface in a movement so as to cause the mixing of a plurality of media streams. The output is a new mix of the various media st... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761795 | Interactive promotional content management system and article of manufacture thereof A system for creating user defined advertisements. The system comprises a computer readable storage medium. The medium comprises a digitized film/video; an attribute database comprising predetermined attributes. Each attribute correlates to at least one scene of the... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7743330 | Method and apparatus for placing virtual objects A method and an apparatus are used to place virtual objects in video programs. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs. The available virtual objects available are categorized and the categories are correlated to subsc... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739598 | Media handling system A media handling system in which candidate video sequences are displayed on a display screen in schematic form for selection by a user comprises means for detecting human faces in the candidate video sequences; a display screen for displaying representations of the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739599 | Automatic capturing and editing of a video Automatic editing of video clips detected during the capture of a video data stream. A media editing application identifies video clips as a function of determined property values of each of a series of video frames included in the video. An edit component automatic... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730406 | Image processing system and method A machine-implemented image processing method includes segmenting a scene into a background scene portion and a foreground scene portion, forming a mosaic for the background scene portion, enhancing the foreground scene portion, and constructing a composite of the b... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7694225 | Method and apparatus for producing a packaged presentation Some embodiments of the invention provide a computerized method for creating a scene selection from a marker for a multi-image content. The method allows identification of a multi-image content. The multi-image content includes several markers. Each marker represent... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7669130 | Dynamic real-time playback Systems and methods for previewing edited video. In general, in one implementation, a method includes generating a video sequence from a plurality of video segments, identifying an inability to output at least one video segment in the video sequence in substantially... | 02/23/2010 |
