Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 04/06

20060088273 - Processing device and method for time domain change of a/v data stream: A processing device and method for time domain change of A/V data stream comprises a starting threshold setting unit for setting a starting threshold; a detecting module for detecting whether the A/V data stream having a SCR domain change; a counting unit comprising a counter for recording a continuous probable...

20060088274 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: A video signal processing apparatus is disclosed. The video signal processing apparatus determines whether pixels of a video signal have been dropout compensated and compensates pixels that have been dropout compensated according to a correlation of adjacent pixels, corresponding pixels in adjacent fields, or corresponding pixels in adjacent frames....

20060088278 - Data processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, data processing system, reproduction method, program, and storage medium: A data processing apparatus outputting picture data to a reproduction apparatus reproducing a plurality of picture data in an order in accordance with a designated reproduction direction, the unit having a processing circuit outputting to the reproduction apparatus the picture data in an order in accordance with a reproduction direction...

20060088275 - Enhancing contrast: Video processing for enhancing contrast includes detecting the ambient light levels on a display, performing local contrast enhancement processing to emphasize the luminance component based on the detected ambient light levels to provide a processed video signal, and presenting the processed video signal on the display....

20060088277 - Image/audio playback device of mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is an image/audio playback technology in a mobile communication terminal. According to the present invention, a single image is divided into two halves, i.e., left-half and right-half images, which are displayed on two mobile communication terminals, respectively. In addition, two mobile communication terminals can play left-side and right-side audio...

20060088276 - Interlinking sports and television program listing metadata: Matching metadata for sporting events with television program listing data. A global sports format enables the import of sports metadata from various providers. The metadata is interlinked with the television program listing data via configurable match rules or criteria. An enhanced electronic programming guide is created to display, to a...

20060088281 - Movie player, mobile terminal, and data processing method of mobile terminal: A movie video player able to differentiate data set at the time of an incoming call and thereby able to prevent copyright infringement when switching sound data, that is, a movie player comprising a movie playback unit for playing back a movie including audio and video, a display unit able...

20060088280 - Remote controller for use with digital recording and reproducing apparatus: A remote controller includes at least a button and an audio prompt generator is disclosed. The button is used for cooperating with a digital recording/reproducing apparatus. The audio prompt generator generates an audio prompt in response to a triggering operation done on the button....

20060088279 - Reproduction apparatus, data processing system, reproduction method, program, and storage medium: A reproduction apparatus for decoding and reproducing a plurality of picture data forming reproduced data in order, comprising a reproduction memory, a decoder for decoding the picture data, writing decoding results in the reproduction memory, and reproducing and outputting the decoding results read from the reproduction memory, and a processing...

20060088282 - Video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via ieee 1394 serial bus: A video recorder connected to a DV (Digital Video) camcorder via an IEEE serial bus comprises a memory for storing time codes in dubbing-unwanted information, commanded by a user, in a DV tape. When commanded by the user for video recording, a microprocessor of the video recorder controls the DV...

20060088283 - Video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via ieee 1394 serial bus: A video recorder connected to a DV camcorder comprises: a microprocessor; a program data file for storing time codes in stream data on a DV tape corresponding to dubbing start and end positions (“start and end time codes”) when a user commands the start and end positions after commanding the...

20060088284 - Digital photo kiosk and methods for digital image processing: The present invention provides systems and methods for automating the conversion of digital images from a first storage media used by digital cameras to a second storage media used by computers and video playback devices. The conversion can be performed by a self-contained kiosk which detects the insertion of the...

20060088286 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An information processing apparatus for decoding compression-coded video data includes at least one decoder decoding the compression-coded video data, a supply controller controlling the supply of the compression-coded video data to the decoder, and a controller controlling processing executed by the supply controller and the decoder. The controller determines the...

20060088285 - Reproduction apparatus, data processing system, reproduction method, program, and storage medium: A reproduction apparatus successively decoding and reproducing a plurality of picture data forming reproduced data, comprising a reproduction memory, a decoder decoding the picture data, writing the decoding results in the reproduction memory, and reproducing and outputting the decoding results read from the reproduction memory, and a processing circuit for...

20060088287 - Apparatus and method for integrated scheduled recording in multi-tuner system: An apparatus and method are disclosed for setting scheduled recording of a plurality of standard broadcast signals received by a multi-tuner system on a single integrated scheduled recording setup graphical user interface (GUI) screen. The apparatus comprises a multi-tuner receiver for receiving a plurality of broadcast signals complying with different...

20060088288 - Auxiliary operation interface of digital recording and reproducing apparatus: An auxiliary operation interface includes a guiding menu and an audio prompt generator. The guiding menu has a targeting item optionally triggered to have the digital recording/reproducing apparatus execute a selected function. The audio prompt generator is enabled to generate a first audio prompt when the targeting item is triggered...

20060088290 - Controller device connected via ieee 1394 serial bus to device having tuner function and digital recording device: A controller device such as a digital television receiver that is connected via an IEEE 1394 serial bus to a device having a tuner function and a digital recording device compares a keyword entered by a user with information about each program that is contained in program schedule information received...

20060088289 - Information recording and reproducing device: An information recording and reproducing device allows a content having data about title, among contents recorded on a recording medium, to be contained in a frame for distinguishing the title from a background image so as to generate a framed title image. For a content without data about title, the...

20060088291 - Method and device of automatic detection and modification of subtitle position: A method and device of automatic detection and modification of subtitle position comprises the steps of comparing an active display area parameter of a displaying device to an original subtitle control signal to generate a comparison result, and outputting a targeted subtitle control signal to modify the position of the...

20060088292 - Method for tagging and displaying songs in a digital audio player: A method for determining and displaying the status of a user selectable parameter associated with a song stored in a digital audio player. The method allows a handheld player that has limited computing power to easily determine the status of the user selectable features and display the status. The method...

20060088293 - Subtitle file loading method and system thereof: The present invention relates to a subtitle file loading method for loading subtitle files from a disc to a memory of a disc player. The memory has a first memory block and a second memory block. A first group of subtitle files is first loaded into the first memory block....

20060088294 - Image recorder: An image recorder is provided which assures recording even if its primary recorder is inoperable. The recorder includes an image compression processor to compress input images, a buffer to buffer the compressed image data, a first recorder to record the image data, and a second recorder for recording the image...

20060088295 - Reproduction apparatus, data processing system, reproduction method, program, and storage medium: A reproduction apparatus for successively decoding and reproducing a plurality of picture data, comprising a reproduction memory and a decoder for successively decoding the plurality of picture data in an order in accordance with a designated reproduction direction, writing the decoding results in the reproduction memory, and reproducing and outputting...

20060088297 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an image processing unit for extracting an image parameter indicating a change in shooting condition from an image signal obtained by shooting an object; an audio processing unit for extracting an audio parameter indicating a change in shooting condition from an audio signal obtained by...

20060088296 - Image processor and operating method thereof: An image processor and an operating method thereof are provided. The image processor includes: an audio data processing unit having a timer for providing audio data and information about time increment thereof; an image capturing unit for generating a number of video frames through photographing; a video data processing unit...

20060088298 - One chip camera with color sensing capability and high limiting resolution: A high sensitivity, single chip, low light level imaging device is provided. The imaging device of the present invention utilizes sparse color sampling, to maximize the luminance information gathered. In particular, color information is gathered by a small proportion of the pixels included in an image sensor, while the remaining...

20060088299 - Peer-to-peer-type content distribution system and content reproduction terminal device for use therein: If a peer 20 fails in an event notification (NO in S214), the peer 20 immediately stops the reproduction of a content item even when the content item is being reproduced (S221), and prohibits the reproduction of the content item (S222). After a retry interval time elapses since the prohibition...

20060088300 - Recording apparatus for recording signal including a plurality of sound information: A first sound signal includes a first kind of sound signals and a second kind of sound signals. Chapter numbers are added to the first sound signal for respective switching of the kind of the sound. A second sound signal indicates a resulting sound signal after deletion of the second...

20060083479 - Portable recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing system, and recording and reproducing method: A portable recording and reproducing apparatus has a communication unit configured to make communication with an external device, a recording unit configured to record contents information, a display unit configured to display image information, and a controller configured to notify image size information displayable on the display unit via the...

20060083480 - Video recording and playback apparatus and video playback method utilizing the apparatus for enabling direct examination of selected linkage positions between successive cuts that constitute edited video contents: An apparatus stores a plurality of video cuts successively linked by playlist information, and corresponding thumbnails. A plurality of the thumbnails can be displayed successively arrayed, with an intermediate image defined between each adjacent pair. When a GUI is operated to select an intermediate image and a playback operation is...

20060083481 - Method for generating a playlist and the system for the same: The present invention discloses a method for generating a playlist, which comprises: retrieving data of every video file stored in storing means; generating a video timeline based on the data, wherein the video timeline represents the video files arranged in order; setting at least one pair of beginning and end...

20060083482 - Method and apparatus for programming the playback of program information: A program information player automatically skips over any intermediate channel changes as a result of interrupting a prior recording of a selected program. The program information player includes a program sequence playback information generator. The program sequence playback information generator analyzes selected program identifier information and recorded program history log...

20060083484 - Program recording apparatus and program recording medium: A program recording apparatus has a program information input unit inputting program information concerning programs; a program recording setting unit setting of the recording of programs; a recording unit writing in, and erasing, data containing the contents of the programs to and from a recording medium; and a management unit...

20060083483 - Program recording device utilizing electronic program guide: An operation input unit receives an instruction for unattended recording of a program on a designated broadcast channel at a designated broadcast time. A program recording reserving unit refers to an electronic program guide, and produces a program recording reservation list bearing, as a time of programmed recording, a different...

20060083485 - Information medium, recording method, playback method, recording apparatus, and playback apparatus for digital stream signal: A disc configured to record a digital stream signal including multi-view video picture data and the like is used. This disc has a management area and data area. The data area is configured to store the multi-view video picture data and the like as multi-angle data, and the management area...

20060083487 - Apparatus and method for recording/reproducing moving picture and recording medium: A recording medium includes moving picture data having first audio or first audio and second audio, and the basic unit information includes state information on the first audio and the second audio. The state information on the first audio represents an original audio state in which the first audio is...

20060083486 - Reproducing apparatus and method: For reproduction of transport stream (TS) from a recording medium, it is necessary to control the reproduction so as not to overflow the decoder buffer at the time of starting the reproduction and or when switching to the normal reproduction from special reproduction. At the times of starting the TS...

20060083488 - Allocation and scheduling strategy for improved trick play performance and temporal scalability: A method and apparatus for recording a data stream on a storage medium for improving non-linear playback performance of the recorded data is disclosed. First, the data stream is received. The I-pictures from the data stream are stored in a first buffer and the remaining data from the data stream...

20060083489 - Recording control apparatus and recording control method: If it is detected that moving image data stored in a buffer increases in size beyond a first size and then reaches a second size, a portion of the moving image data from a head thereof stored in the buffer, corresponding to the first size, is retrieved and output as...

20060078278 - Broadcast receiver and control method for the receiver: A broadcast receiver comprises a connection terminal to which a plurality of video recording devices are connected, a library display means for displaying a library including program names of a plurality of programs recorded in arbitrarily selected video recording devices among the plurality of video recording devices, a retrieval screen...

20060078277 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and network connection method: A broadcast receiver to be connected through a network is provided, wherein management of files or folders on shared digital recording equipment is performed safely when a plurality of sets of digital recording equipment connected to the network and a plurality of broadcast receivers are connected to one another through...

20060078279 - Broadcasting content processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: A broadcasting contents processing apparatus includes a setting device to set position information in the apparatus, the position information indicating an area where the apparatus is installed, an acquiring device to selectively acquire first identification information indicating a broadcaster of a broadcasting content of a desired channel among broadcasting contents...

20060078284 - Combination recorder/player: The invention provides a combination recorder/player equipped with three recording/playback functions of a VCR unit, DVD unit, and HDD unit almost equal to exterior size of a conventional combination recorder/player equipped with two according/playback functions of a VCR unit and DVD unit. In an enclosure 3, a VCR unit 4...

20060078281 - Communication apparatus and communication method: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus comprises a measuring section adapted to transfer and record one or more files stored in a storage region in the recording device registered via the communication section and network, measure recording time from the start to the end of recording, and then, transfer...

20060078280 - Digital image signal processing apparatus and controlling method used in the same: A digital image signal processing apparatus includes a storage device to store a plurality of identification information for identifying the respective the plurality of recording media, an acquiring device to acquire a registration file describing identification information of the respective recording media in initial registration, when there occurs a request...

20060078275 - Display apparatus and method for displaying screen where dragging and dropping of object can be executed and program stored in computer-readable storage medium: A data storage apparatus is provided which includes a storage device for storing digital data. In response to writing of data input from an external apparatus into the storage device, the data storage apparatus analyzes the written data, and performs at least one process and/or algorithm on the written data...

20060078282 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling its external appliances and a television broadcast receiver: An information processing apparatus previously grasps a function of an information recording/reproducing apparatus externally connected via a network when a connection is made. When the information recording/reproducing apparatus is in a recording state, the apparatus instructs the information recording/reproducing apparatus to reproduce recorded information in response to an instruction input...

20060078286 - Method and apparatus for unified switching of digital or analog video and audio using an analog video switching device: A system and method are described for using the video switching capabilities of a first video switching device to select one of a plurality of distinguishable probe signals. The selected probe signal is detected and a corresponding control signal for a second video switching device is generated. In one embodiment...

20060078283 - Method for recording service data depending on service type in digital tv complex machine: Provided are a method for recording service data and a digital TV complex machine using the same. The method includes: determining whether to include OSD data as an additional data for guiding broadcasting contents to a user or providing a convenient manipulation of the digital TV complex machine to the...

20060078276 - Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus: When an input video signal is not present, a signal presence/absence deciding unit decides that the input video signal is not present. A switch unit is switched to an output side of a flash memory in response thereto. Then, fixed image data from the flash memory 18 is supplied to...

20060078272 - Optical element: An audio-video playback system comprises a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes an audio-video content playback device and a playback controller connected to the audio-video playback device. The second unit includes a speaker, a video display and an audio-video signal interface. The playback controller enables selection...

20060078273 - Promotional materials derived from digital cinema data stream: A method provides, at an exhibition site, a promotional item formed using motion picture data. The method uses the steps of receiving a motion picture data stream at the exhibition site, wherein the data stream is encoded to define at least one recordable portion (92) and storing the at least...

20060078285 - Recording/reproduction apparatus, recording/reproducing method, program, and medium for the same: When contents recorded program by program can be reproduced, the contents can be reproduced without any pause, even if the recording unit and recorded contents do not coincide with each other. Guidance information for contents broadcasted through a broadcast service is acquired, and based on the acquired guidance information, a...

20060078274 - Video recording control device and video recording control method: A predetermined video recorder is selected from a plurality of video recorders having a channel selecting function, and when video recording information is set in the selected video recorder, the video recorder selects and records a program using the self channel selecting function based on the set video recording information....

20060078290 - Editing apparatus and editing method: An editing apparatus which edits first stream data of a first format, comprises means for analyzing a header of the first stream data, means for creating a header of second stream data of a second format based on an analysis result by the analyzing means, and means for converting the...

20060078287 - Method for implementing an adaptive mixing energy ratio in a music-selected video editing environment: A method for implementing an adaptive mixing energy ratio between at least two soundtracks of video footage in a video image-editing environment is disclosed, the process being transparent to a user beyond a single step of initiation. The method includes applying at least one video/audio analysis technique to a session...

20060078288 - System and method for embedding multimedia editing information in a multimedia bitstream: Systems and methods for embedding multimedia editing information in a multimedia bitstream to form a hybrid multimedia bitstream having data representing multimedia editing information as well data representing a multimedia signal. The embedded multimedia editing information may be extracted from the multimedia bitstream by an executable module to assist in...

20060078289 - System and related method for video data processing: A system for video data processing includes an media processing device for converting data stored in a storage media into digital data, a digital media recorder board for converting the digital data into a first type signal, a computer for converting the digital data into a second type signal, and...

20060078291 - Timecoding media samples: Timecoding embodiments are described which, in some embodiments, permit a true time to be ascertained from media samples whose timecodes contain an amount of drift which can arise from having non-integer frame rates....

20060078292 - Apparatus and method for embedding content information in a video bit stream: Systems and methods for deriving content information about a work of multimedia content and embedding the derived content information in a multimedia bitstream to form a hybrid multimedia bitstream are disclosed. The embedded derived content information may be extracted from the multimedia bitstream by an executable module to assist in...

20060078296 - Digital broadcasting system and digital video recording/reproducing apparatus: An apparatus that does not cause inconsistency between an original picture and an image for performing operations under a special playback mode. A transport stream from a receiver is supplied to a converter. The converter generates a data stream for normal playback. If a desired service contains control data for...

20060078294 - Image-reproducing apparatus and image-reproducing method: On receiving a fast-forward playback instruction from a remote-control manager, a system controller determines whether the fast-forward playback speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed and whether the display screen should be divided into sections. If it determines that the display screen should be divided, the system...

20060078293 - Method and system for trick mode support in a motion adaptive deinterlacer with inverse telecine: A system and method that repeat video images in a deinterlacing system. The method comprises detecting a signal requesting an input video image be repeated and determining the desired number of repetitions. The input video image may then be processed to generate an output video image and the output video...

20060078295 - Recording medium reproducing apparatus, repeated reproduction method, and method of moving repeated reproduction section: The present invention provides a recording medium reproducing apparatus, a repeated reproduction method, and a method of moving a repeated reproduction section, by which repeated reproduction can be performed and the repeated reproduction section can be moved with simple operations and the setting of the repeated reproduction section can be...

20060078297 - Method and apparatus for customizing content navigation: Methods and apparatus for customizing content navigation. In one embodiment, a user navigates through pre-recorded or cached content in accordance with on one or more user preferences. Such user preferences may include one or more of content cache size, instant replay time, advance time, FF/REV speeds, slow motion speed and...

20060078299 - Automatic broadcast program recorder: A recorder capable of automatically recording a broadcast program without presetting recording of each program is disclosed. According to the automatic broadcast program recorder, keywords characterizing a program to be recorded are preliminarily designated, a reservation table of programs as candidates to be recorded is created by checking program information...

20060078298 - Method and apparatus for facilitating program data acquisition: Methods and apparatus for facilitating program data acquisition. In one embodiment, a set-top box is set to enter an auto-off state based on a user-defined auto-off time. Once the set-top box has entered the auto-off state, a channel from which program guide data may be obtained may be automatically tune...

20060078300 - System for modifying the time-base of a video signal: A storage device 500 includes an input 405 for receiving a digital video stream complying with a predetermined video encoding standard via a digital video communication system. The stream includes a sequence of digital video frames, a sequence of program clock reference stamps (PCR) and a sequence of video presentation...

20060078301 - Playback apparatus, program, playback method: The set-up unit 32 inquires of a user whether the user wishes to increase the number of languages in which subtitles are displayable even if inconvenience may be caused during the display. In the case where the user performs an affirmative operation in response to the inquiry, the stream selection...

20060078304 - Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor: A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor, stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a space having a logically one-dimensional order, rather than in each file, and still picture group information...

20060078303 - Recording medium for storing virtually deleted still picture information, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor: A recording medium for storing virtual deletion information, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor are provided. The recording medium includes a first region having a plurality of still pictures, and a second region having first virtual deletion information for the still pictures, and still picture group information for...

20060078302 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium: A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium are disclosed. A method for reproducing data of a recording medium in which a first title and a second title having different attributes are recorded, includes the steps of reproducing the first title using a...

20060078306 - Image-and-audio data real-time integration system of an image-and-audio data storage device: The present invention relates to an image-and-audio data real-time integration system for integrating an image data and an audio data into an image-and-audio integrated data, and has an image data parser, an audio data parser, and an image-and-audio data integrating processor. The image data parser retrieves image data from an...

20060078305 - Method and apparatus to synchronize audio and video: A method and an apparatus to synchronize an audio signal and a video signal. The method includes: displaying video on a screen that corresponds to an audio signal including a high frequency component having a predetermined pattern inserted therein to indicate when a scene change occurs in a video signal,...

20060078307 - Personal video recorder method and user interface: A method of recording and playing back contents to and from a personal video recorder (PVR) for audio-visual contents. The recorder comprises a storage medium (12). Information is presented concering the recorded content on said medium (12). Programmes of a first type of programmes are recorded on the storage medium...

20060078308 - Video reproducing apparatus: To provide an image reproducing apparatus which requires a small amount of memory capacity in reverse reproduction. The apparatus has an analyzing unit for acquiring interrelation between a plurality of items of reference image data to be referred to during decode processing from control data with a stream of encoded...

20060078309 - Home monitoring digital video recorder (dvr): A digital video recorder makes use of a flash memory for storage of A/V data to accomplish multiple times of read/write. A programmable digital signal processing (DSP) chip is also provided to integrate various circuits with different functions in a modular way to decrease the number of chips, lower the...

20060078315 - Image display device, image display program, and computer-readable recording media storing image display program: An image display device of this invention has a display screen provided with a first thumbnail area, and second and third sub-thumbnail areas. Thumbnail images of images belonging to a group distant by a prescribed time period from the group displayed in the first thumbnail area are randomly extracted and...

20060078310 - Low-light exposure modes for digital photo sensors with free-running shutters: Techniques for locating one or more regions of interest in a frame sequence by tracking activity at pixel locations in the sequence enables subsequent manipulation of color pixel values to achieve various interesting effects, such as time-scale filtering, color-based filtering and user selected motion control. The data structure for storing...

20060078312 - Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, picture taking apparatus, and program: A picture processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an acquiring device which, apart from a first picture sequence picked up for reproduction purposes, acquires a second picture sequence picked up in synchronism with the first picture sequence, the second picture sequence being made up of pictures wider in angle than...

20060078313 - Picture reproducing apparatus: In a picture reproducing apparatus, a scene changing point is detected with respect to contents, and then, a position where a temporal stopping operation is performed and a position where a reproducing operation is restarted are determined by using information of the detected changing point. In detecting the scene changing...

20060078311 - System for concurrently recording a video sequence and location information: A video camera is used to record a picture sequence on a recording medium. A related geographic location signal provided by a GPS receiver is recorded as audio data on the recording medium concurrently with the picture sequence....

20060078314 - Webcam communication system using handheld device with camera and method thereof: A webcam communication system using a handheld device with a camera and a method used are provided. The system connects the handheld device to a computer executable platform by a transmission interface or a transmission platform at local, such, that the handheld device can be used as a webcam to...

20060078316 - Disk device with multimedia video interface: A disk device with a multimedia video interface has a processor to control servos to operate the disk device for picking up information signals on a disk. The processor also cooperates with a build-in MPEG interface to transform information signals into a decompressed video format for output via the multimedia...

20060078317 - Method and apparatus for random-access sequencing of audio/visual information: Apparatus is described for random-access sequencing of audio/visual information that is accessible initially to the apparatus in the form of plural program events available from a source, such as videotape, in a non-random access condition. The apparatus includes a receiver for acquiring the plural program events, and converter/player sub-apparatus for...

20060072896 - Data reproducing device capable of reading and reproducing only reproducible information: A CPU obtains select information from a flash memory. The CPU provides a reproduction instruction for reproducing only data selected according to the select information. The decoder unit reproduces data in response to a reproduction instruction, and provides a reproduction result. When the reproduction result indicates non-reproducibility, the CPU changes...

20060072895 - Image supply device, recording apparatus, recording system, and control method therefor: In a recording system in which a DSC and PD printer are directly connected via a communication interface, and image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer and recorded, it is determined whether predetermined status information is received from the PD printer within a predetermined time period...

20060072898 - Information managing apparatus, information managing program, and recording medium: On the basis of an information managing database configured to store information on a plurality of multimedia contents stored by a content memory of an information reproducing apparatus and information on multimedia contents stored by an information memory of an information managing apparatus, a content managing unit of the information...

20060072897 - Method and device to manage the recording of an audio/video stream within a communications network, and corresponding computer program product: A method for the management of the recording of an audio/video stream within a communications network comprises a step for setting up a first recording connection between a source device and a recording device connected to said communications network. The step for setting up the first recording connection is followed...

20060072900 - Method and apparatus for storing a stream of data received from a source: State-of-the art video recorders are equipped with a pause function. This function may be used in the play and record mode. When used in the record mode, no data is recorded. This is all right when only audio and/or video are recorded. However, when other data like interactive applications are...

20060072899 - Rotation speed control for recording information: A disc recording device has a mode control unit (31) for switching the device either to a read mode or to a write mode. Reading and writing can be alternated for simultaneous recording and reproducing of video. A rotation speed control unit (37) sets the rotation speed of the record...

20060072901 - Recording and reproducing apparatus, and editing method: The present invention provides a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing any of video data, audio data, and realtime metadata corresponding to any of the video data and the audio data by use of a random-accessible recording medium. The recording and reproducing apparatus executes destructive editing on any...

20060072902 - Method of recording a program comprised in a television signal: The invention relates to a method of recording a program comprised in a television signal. A television signal comprises program information including the real starting hour of at least a following program. The method comprises the steps of: —memorizing a theoretical starting hour of the program to be recorded (30);—defining,...

20060072903 - Method and system for storing calibration data within image files: A system and method for storing, within an image transfer medium, an image and image-specific data associated with the image includes obtaining the image-specific data from a probe such as a borescope or endoscope, obtaining the corresponding image, choosing a specific image transfer medium, writing the image to the medium,...

20060072904 - Image data display on an information carrier: The invention relates to an information carrier (101) intended to be put into a rotary motion, said information carrier (101) comprising: display means (102) designed to display image data, said display means (102) being spatially located by a spatial position, processing means (103) for periodically sending to said display means...

20060072905 - Apparatus for recording a main file and auxiliary files in a track on a record carrier: The invention relates to an apparatus for recording a main file comprising a main information signal and auxiliary files comprising auxiliary signals in a track on a record carrier. The apparatus writes in a first location a block of an auxiliary file comprising a part of an auxiliary information signal...

20060072907 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing cont: An information record medium contains video information indicating main-video, sub-video information indicating sub-video which can be displayed at least partially over the main-video, and sub-video control information. The sub-video control information includes (i) sub-frame range information specifying at least a part of the region in the sub-video as a sub-frame...

20060072906 - Method and device for recording information on a record medium, record medium containing information, and method and device for reading information from a record medium: A method is described for recording an audiovisual information stream comprising a background sound stream (2), a background graphics stream (3), an optional original sound stream (20) containing original spoken text, at least one optional translation sound stream (21, 22) containing spoken text in different languages, and at least one...

20060072908 - On-the-fly crc parity generation and scrambling in dvd storage devices: A digital video disc (DVD) recording device including an interface for communicating between the DVD recording device and a host, an error detection code (EDC) generator receiving data sent directly from the interface and generating a data frame by adding an EDC to the data, and a scrambler for scrambling...

20060072909 - Optical storage controller with a serial ata interface: The present invention describes an optical storage controller with serial transmission. The controller is used as the signal transmission between an optical disk controller and a MPEG decoder to enhance the transmission rate. Therein a sharing memory is adopted to save memory usage. The optical storage controller couples with the...

20060072910 - Video reproduction device and video reproduction method: The following video reproduction device is provided that is intended so that when recorded video data is reproduced from a recording medium, videos not giving a feeling of discomfort to a user can be viewed by first acquiring display rate information processable by a display apparatus, then displaying the display...