Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189997 | Terminal device A terminal device determines whether a clock is a secure clock or a self-running clock. If the clock is the self-running clock, the device stores a clocking time of the clock as a timestamp file in a memory card in recording content. In playing back the content, the... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189989 | Playback device for optical recording medium, optical recording medium playback method, and playback program for optical recording medium To play back an optical disk requiring network connection, a playback device is provided, which has a function by which the network condition is evaluated before playing back a title. The playback device plays back the optical disk including programs connecti... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189988 | Digital video recorder having hierarchical memories and method for implementing hierarchical memories A digital video recorder having hierarchical memories and a method for implementing the hierarchical memories are disclosed. The digital video recorder in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes i) a storage unit, which includes a volatile me... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190000 | Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording program A recording apparatus capable of multiplexing video data and audio data and recording the video data and audio data in multiple record units as one file on a recording medium includes a data receiving unit, a recording instruction receiving unit, a packet generating... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190003 | Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184944 | Recording medium, recording device, recording method, and playback device A recording medium having recorded thereon one or more pieces of playlist information each of which includes a stream table including multiple stream entries. Each audio stream has been encoded in one of a mandatory format that is an encoding format decodable by a p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184943 | Transport controls for a media device A method of scanning content comprises receiving an input signal indicating that content being displayed is to be scanned, sensing a duration of the received input signal, and scanning the content at a rate based at least in part on the sensed duration of the receiv... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184952 | Segment boundary obfuscation A method and system for obfuscating segment boundary markers, such as but not limited to obfuscating boundary markers used to identify beginning and/or ending boundaries of a sequence of segments forming a programming event. The obfuscation may be achieved by embedd... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184953 | Selection of hash lookup keys for efficient retrieval Videos are received and indexed based on fingerprints generated for the videos, using lookup keys which correspond to sub portions of the reference fingerprints. Specifically, a set of lookup keys is selected such that the number of reference fingerprints such that ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184960 | Method and system for performing reverse play of SD MPEG video One or more methods and systems to efficiently process MPEG video in order to perform a reverse play or slow rewind function are presented. The method reduces system bandwidth required to implement the reverse play function when SD MPEG video is received by the MPEG... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184947 | Electronic apparatus, content categorizing method, and program therefor An electronic apparatus includes a detecting unit and a categorizing unit. The detecting unit compares each of a plurality of frames that constitute each of a plurality of video contents with one another, and detects a video feature generated by one of a camera oper... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184954 | Information recording medium in which one land pre-pit is formed in each group unit of wobbles formed by each “N” cycles of wobbles An optical disc (100) is provided with a recording region where prescribed clock information (WBL) is preformatted for recording. The clock information is (i) included in a first frequency band that is definable by a first reference frequency (Fstd) (that is ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184951 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus prevents, when a format instruction is given via an on-screen menu in an image format of one of HDTV and SDTV standards and the content item to be erased is in the other standard, erroneous erasure of a content item on a recordi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180198 | Playlist creating apparatus and method, and dubbing list creating apparatus and method A playlist creating apparatus is provided which allows a user to select desired digital images from a plurality of programs and use the desired digital images to simply create a playlist or to select a digital image in dubbing it to another recording medium. One ima... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180199 | Playback apparatus, playback method, program for playback method, and recording medium recorded with program for playback method thereon A playback apparatus which plays back video or music contents, includes: a playback unit playing back the video or music contents recorded on a recording medium; an output unit outputting the video or music contents played back in the playback unit; and a control un... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180196 | Optical recording/reproducing apparatus and data recording method thereof An optical recording/reproducing apparatus and a data recording method thereof. The optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: an encoder which encodes a data for recording in a specified format; an optical pickup which records the encoded data onto a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180201 | Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180194 | Authored video programs A storage medium is encoded with a video program created using authoring systems and methods. The processor-based authoring system removes an author from consideration of low-level configuration functions during authoring. The authoring system includes an authoring ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179982 | Transmitting additional information in the headers of encapsulating data packets in mobile/handheld (M/H) DTV signals Apparatus for transmitting digital data in an 8-vestigial sideband (8-VSB) signal format for reception by mobile/handheld (M/H) receivers is described. The apparatus for transmitting digital data includes a generator of MHE packet headers that include additional inf... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179984 | Multifunctional transmitters Multifunctional transmitters capable of transmitting signals of different specifications in different modes are provided, in which N output units are provided and each output unit comprises a serializer and an output driver. A control unit, according to a mode selec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180195 | Memory structures and methods for video codec A memory device for storing a plurality of macroblocks may include a plurality of memory banks. Each macroblock may include m*n pixel data, wherein m is a positive integer, and wherein n also is a positive integer. The plurality of memory banks is adapted to store t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175441 | Playback program A plurality of audio object (AOB) files and a plurality of picture object (POB) files are stored. Default Playlist Information and sets of Playlist Information each show an order in which AOBs stored in the plurality of AOB files are to be reproduced. The DPLGI incl... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175444 | Method of reproducing from storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command A method of reproducing from a storage medium video data and graphics data for displaying a menu screen. The method includes: decoding graphics data; and outputting, on the basis of the decoded graphics data, the decoded graphics data when an activation command is g... | 05/08/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8175442 | Program recording completion A program recording completion system automatically completes an incomplete program recording of a program. A recording application creates a program recording completion event corresponding to the incomplete program recording which includes program information to a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170395 | Methods and systems for handling montage video data Video data may be extremely useful in online property commerce. However, the current methods of handling this video data fail to provide users of the data with effective and convenient ways of consolidating footage from multiple videos or portions thereof and convey... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170402 | Portable high capacity digital data storage device A portable data storage device compatible with both standard and high definition digital video cameras is provided. The device includes at least one SDI I/O, and preferably at least one audio I/O and preferably at least one medium speed I/O interface. A device contr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169345 | Methods and systems for processing digital data rate and directional playback changes Various methods and systems permit digital data, such as video data, audio/video data, audio/video/subpicture data and the like, to be processed in a manner that permits playback at different speeds in both forward and reverse directions. Various embodiments are als... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170403 | Video data reproduction apparatus A video data reproduction apparatus includes a selecting portion that selects a notification image associated in advance with a prescribed instruction when there is input of the prescribed instruction from a user while video data is being output, a generating portio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170123 | Media acceleration for virtual computing services Streaming media is problematic for thin clients using remoting protocols like RDP that were never designed to handle the volume of data associated with multimedia. The result is large demands on the host computer and thin client CPU and excessive bandwidth on the ne... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165454 | Recording control apparatus, recording control method and recording apparatus integral with camera The present invention efficiently executes a transfer process from a flash memory to an optical disc. A recording control apparatus includes a UDF file system section that configures a UDF file system on the flash file system of a flash memory and an application for... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165458 | Playback device, playback method, playback program, and integrated circuit The reading unit reads an application program, image data, a video stream, and an application management file from a recording medium. The virtual machine unit executes the application program. The memory unit includes an image data area for storing the image data. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165447 | Information recording apparatus and information converting method An information recording medium capable of converting a stream including seamless connection, which is recorded in a constrained format allowing format conversion from a first format (MPEG-TS) to a second format (MPEG-PS), into a second stream, and an apparatus and ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165448 | System using multiple display screens for multiple video streams Multiple video streams, or other image information, from a DVD or other single source are selectively directed among two or more display screens. The video streams can be directed automatically, manually or by a combination of automatic and manual techniques. This a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165449 | DV metadata extraction A set of interfaces, data structures and events represent a DV metadata extraction tool. The DV metadata extraction tool includes an API (application programming interface) for describing DV metadata packs that are to be extracted from a DV data stream. The extracti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160426 | Storage management of a recording device in a multi-user system Systems and methods for managing the storage of recordings in a recording device in which the recordings were requested by several users are provided. Each user may be assigned a storage space limit defining the amount of storage space each user is entitled to use. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160422 | Data recording device, data recording method, data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure To effectively reproduce video depending on the performance of a reproducing apparatus. A controller 446 determines whether or not an entry of video is a beginning of a chapter of video or whether or not a scene change of the entry is important. In other word... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160424 | Broadcast receiver and method for diagnostic information presentation A host includes a controller configured to collect video data recording device diagnostic information from a video data recording device. The controller is further configured to control displaying of the video data recording device diagnostic information. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160431 | Image reproduction system and device, image capture device, and information processing device An image reproduction system configured by an image reproduction device that can accumulate a still image or a moving image for reproduction, and an information processing device that makes a setting to the image reproduction device. The image reproduction device in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155499 | Screen saving method of image apparatus A screen saving method of an image apparatus is provided. The screen saving method includes playing back an audio signal, and displaying a screen saving image that includes audio playback data, according to the played back audio signal. The image apparatus includes ... | 04/10/2012 |
