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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5710239 | Water-soluble sulfonated melamine-formaldehyde resins The present invention relates to a sulfonated water-soluble melamine-formaldehyde resin, to a method of manufacturing the resin, and to insulation products prepared using the resin. The resin is particularly useful for making thermal insulation having low... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5671066 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing video signals with preemphasis and deemphasis processes A video signal recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a magnetic tape (4) into which video signals are recorded. A preemphasis circuit (35) modifies the video signals prior to the recording into the magnetic tape (4), so as to increase magnitude of... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5659400 | Information signal recording device for recording main information signal with index signal for rapidly and accurately searching main information signal A signal recording apparatus is arranged to record main information in a first area provided in each of a multiplicity of parallel tracks formed on a tape-shaped recording medium, and an index signal in a second area of each of a predetermined number of c... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5638184 | Electronic video camera with recording and reproducing functions An electronic video camera which picks up an object image and records on a recording medium an image signal corresponding to the object image picked up is arranged to record an information signal indicative of an image pickup sensitivity along with the im... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5617218 | Bi-directional television and motion picture film to magnetic tape format digital signal converter A television signal format converter is provided for converting without loss of picture information a television format or a motion picture film image format to or from a given recorder/player format. An interface converts between RGB and luminance/chromi... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5598276 | System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk An optical disk containing PG-rated and R-rated versions of the same motion picture. To minimize redundant storage of data, three types of video data blocks are provided in the same track, in an interleaved fashion - - - A-type blocks which contain materi... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5596421 | Optical disk recorder for video signals and an optical disk for use therein A video recorder for recording a video signal having one frame period and having a high resolution such as a high definition television signal. The video signal in a frame period is divided into two groups for corresponding to a respective field period of... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5596418 | Deemphasis and subsequent reemphasis of high-energy reversed-spectrum components of a folded video signal A system for reproducing a luminance signal from a medium containing a previously recorded luminance signal with a high-frequency portion thereof compressed in dynamic range includes a circuit for recovering that luminance signal from the medium. Filterin... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5594550 | Digital signal recording apparatus for recording digital data comprising a plurality of recording blocks A recording apparatus for recording digital data comprised of a plurality of recording blocks on a recording medium includes a grouping circuit which makes a group of the digital data according to a predetermined time-based interval, A sequence number gen... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5592301 | Video camera apparatus A video camera has a time setting portion for setting a shot-time of one cut and a display member for displaying the information indicative of elapsed time. Further the video camera has a auto-stop mode which automatically stops the recording operation of... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5592300 | Method and apparatus for using programming signals for automatic time settings A method and device for automatic time setting utilizing broadcasting signal which can set the present time automatically utilizing broadcasting signals of teletext and video program system. The automatic time setting device includes a tuner and demodulat... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5589947 | Karaoke system having a plurality of terminal and a center system A karaoke system includes a plurality of terminal systems respectively reproducing music and video images of music pieces, and a center system connected to the plurality of terminal systems. The center system includes a musical performance information sto... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5587803 | Digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus and error-correcting apparatus Fast speed playback is performed with a reduced error-correcting capability as compared with that for normal speed playback. Information of K symbols is encoded with a first error-correcting code C1 and appended with (N-K) check symbols. After that, m sym... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5587807 | Apparatus for processing digital video data with error correction parity comprising error concealment means In an apparatus for processing input N-bit digital video data with an error correction parity, the input N-bit digital video data includes each one sample of higher-order-N-bit data and a plurality of samples of lower-order-(M-N)-bit data, wherein M>N. An... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5585933 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing image data compressed according to different compressing methods A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing image signals compressed according to different compressing methods. This recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a compressing circuit for compressing first image data acco... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5583654 | Digital video and audio signal recording and reproducing apparatus efficiently storing a variety of different accompanying video and audio information data A video tape recording apparatus records and reproduces digital video and audio signals in the form of coded signals that have a recording format which includes a video signal recording area for recording video data and its respective accompanying informa... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5579119 | Recording signal control apparatus capable of optimizing recording conditions for magnetic recording medium A plurality of test signals of different frequencies are recorded on a magnetic recording medium while gradually increasing or decreasing recording current, and the variation of the level of each of the replayed test signals and the variation of the recor... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5579121 | Real-time image compression processor A real-time image compression processor records on a CD or other recording media a compressed video signal which is compressively processed in a high recording efficiency at real-time as being reproduced by a VTR while preventing the image quality from be... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5579123 | Track judgement apparatus for discriminating between video and other signals during signal reproduction In a system for reproducing signals which may be video or audio, the reproduced signal is judged to be an audio signal if signals corresponding to sync signals occur at a rate frequency greater than once per field interval. In one embodiment, the track ju... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5574567 | System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk An optical disk containing PG-rated and R-rated versions of the same motion picture. To minimize redundant storage of data, three types of video data blocks are provided in the same track, in an interleaved fashion--A-type blocks which contain material un... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5574564 | Reading apparatus for reading a record carrier on which coded pictures have been recorded A read device (320) for reading a record carrier (184) on which coded pictures (4TV, TV, TV/4) have been recorded. The recorded coded pictures represent pictures made up of a matrix of P rows of Q pixels (p). The dimension of the pixels in a horizontal di... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5572331 | Video signal recording format, deep recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor A video signal recording format, a deep recording/reproducing apparatus of a video signal and method therefor includes a recording system in which a digital video signal of one frame is divided into a predetermined number of segments and recorded on a sur... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5568271 | Image information recording apparatus for recording a plurality of image information onto a plurality of information recording means An endoscope image recording apparatus comprises a video endoscope having, at a forward end of an inserting section, an image pickup element, for image-picking-up the interior of a body cavity or the like, an image control unit for signal-processing a pic... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5568272 | Schedule display system for video recorder programming A system for programming the automatic operation of a video recorder over an extended time period uses an associated television receiver as a display device for alphanumeric messages to the operator to provide a self-explanatory, interactive programming r... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5559608 | Method of digitally compressed video and audio data A data recording system for recording in a CD-ROM or similar recording medium a data file containing data such as compressed audio and video data and an index file containing index data for searching the individual data of the data file. The data stored i... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557423 | Synchronization of digital video with digital audio A method of synchronizing digitized audio information and digitized picture information establishes a reference time base based on timecodes included with the audio and picture information. The reference time base may be used to synchronize output between... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5555098 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple programmed audio/still image presentations from a digital disc image player An apparatus and method are provided for use with a system including a digital data base for storing digitized images and digitized audio messages, for controlling concurrent reproduction of digitized images on an image reproduction device and audio infor... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550641 | System and method for rendering images An image processing system comprising and image recording system and an image rendering system. The image recording system records images of a scene, and comprises a recording device for recording images of the scene on a series of frames, each frame incl... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550642 | VCR control of a cable converter unit A VCR includes circuitry for controlling a cable converter unit, circuitry for detecting the presence of a television signal, and control code transmission circuitry for remotely controlling a cable converter unit. Advantageously, because the VCR is coupl... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5546193 | Autoprogrammed, channel mapping for a video cassette recorder In a videocassette recorder including "VCR PLUS+™" videocassette recorder programming system capability and autoprogramming capability, it is herein recognized that the channel-mapping procedure may be greatly simplified by using the autoprogramming fea... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5543928 | Digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus which rearranges error correction blocks representing video signal and corresponding to data blocks of image represented by video signal In a digital VCR, which carries out bit rate reduction coding of digital video signals for magnetically recording and reproducing the same, a plurality of blocks each including the digital video signal of a plurality of pixels are formed, and the digital ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5541737 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing a digital video and audio signal Apparatus and method for recording in selectable recording modes, track number data and information signals in recording tracks on a recording medium, in which the track number of a track in which an information signal is recorded is determined by utilizi... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5532834 | Video cassette recorder capable of automatically removing interferences between a recording signal and a broadcast signal A recording apparatus, for use in a video cassette recorder ("VCR") equipped with a timer recording feature is capable of eliminating an interference between a first broadcast signal selected by a VCR tuner and a second broadcast signal captured by a tele... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532836 | Apparatus for gradually switching video presentation of stored pictures An apparatus for reading picture data stored on a record carrier for first and second pictures, and providing an output video signal which changes smoothly from the first to the second picture. The apparatus has a single picture memory having storage loca... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532829 | Automatic color control circuit having a control signal storing capacitor A control circuit includes: a capacitor for normal reproduction which stores an output of a reproduction color burst level detection for automatic color signal level control in a color signal processing circuit at the time of normal reproduction in a vide... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5526126 | Signal processor for VTR which converts color under signals to color signals A first reproduced color under signal is delayed by one or two horizontal periods by a delay circuit, and this delayed second reproduced color under signal and the aforementioned first reproduced color under signal have their frequencies converted individ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5526129 | Time-base-correction in video recording using a frequency-modulated carrier A circuit for recording and reproducing a TBC reference signal for use in video recording/reproducing systems includes a circuit for adding to a video signal to be recorded a TBC reference signal in which the TBC reference signal has a period adaptively v... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5523857 | Image signal recording control in accordance with the detected state or type of power supply An image signal recording apparatus includes a first storage device arranged to receive image data and to temporarily store the image data inputted, and a second storage device which has a moving part arranged to record on a recording medium the image dat... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5521891 | Speed detection apparatus, speed control motor, and track jump control circuit A track jump control circuit comprises: a head; a rotary motor which drives the head and is controlled in accordance with an input signal; a unit for detecting a speed of rotation corresponding to the rotation of the rotary motor; distance detection unit ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519505 | Bypassing circuit for use in an audio signal recording/reproducing apparatus An improved audio recording/reproducing apparatus reduces noises in the reproduced audio signal by employing a bypassing circuit which includes a transistor having a low internal resistance.... | 05/21/1996 |
