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

20060140575 - Audio/video recording apparatus, recording method, playback apparatus, playback method, playback program, and recording program: At the time of recording, only an edition point is recorded (step S4). At the time of reproduction, overlap time (A_overlap) between an audio frame to be reproduced last and an audio frame to be reproduced first, each including a video connection point is calculated and, further, offset time is...

20060140577 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus according to the present invention is capable of writing video and/or audio data to a storage medium. The data processing apparatus includes: a power controller for controlling powering on or off; a signal processing circuit for generating data; and a drive section for writing the generated...

20060140576 - Information recording control apparatus and file recording control method: The present invention makes it possible to automatically select a recording device at the time of file recording. In response to a file recording request from a terminal apparatus and in accordance with the device information about recording devices, which is stored in a management information database, and the attribute...

20060140578 - Image recording apparatus and image capture apparatus: An image recording apparatus (e.g., a hard disk and so on) comprises (a) a recording unit adapted to record moving image data from an external device (e.g., a video camera and so on) on a recording medium; (b) a detection unit adapted to detect an occurrence of a dropout which...

20060140579 - Method for playing a repeat segment: The present invention relates to a method for playing a repeat segment, which can be applied to portable electronic devices. The method for playing a repeat segment includes: inputting a repeat segment starting time; inputting a repeat segment ending time; and beginning to play an electronic file at the starting...

20060140580 - Video playback apparatus: A video playback apparatus includes: video data inputting unit; a ranking data inputting/generating unit that inputs or generates ranking data where scenes in video data are ranked according to importance; a playback scene determination parameter inputting unit that inputs parameters when determining scenes to be played back according to importance;...

20060140582 - Recording and playback device and programmed recording program: To provide a recording and playback device for simplifying setting operation of programmed recording of a series of programs associated with each other (for example, drama series) and enabling to associate the plural recording media each other when the series of programs are recorded across the plural recording media. The...

20060140583 - Recording method of digital recording apparatus: A method for recording in a digital recording apparatus is disclosed, whereby storage suitable for recording a broadcasting program is determined in consideration of an expected data capacity of the broadcasting program. There is an advantage of solving the discomfort of manipulating an external key at every time when storage...

20060140584 - Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features: Methods and systems that provide enhanced personal video recorder (“PVR”) and interactive television program guide (“IPG”) functionality are provided. An interactive television application (“application”) may be implemented to provide such functionality. The application may be used to display a list of PVR recordings, to schedule recordings to a PVR, to...

20060140581 - Video recorder and method for reserve-recording a broadcast program: A video recorder for recording a program video in a built-in HDD (hard disk drive) or the like on the basis of EPG data is easily put in a reserve-recording mode. To this end, reserve-recording candidate data is generated from the EPG data with use of recorded program information to...

20060140585 - Detection of copy protection indicators or redistribution control indicators in an analog video signal: To detect at least one of a copy protection indicator and a redistribution control indicator in an analog video signal, the video format of the analog video signal is determined, e.g., by detecting the horizontal frequency and vertical frequency of the signal. Based at least on the determined video format,...

20060140586 - Picture reproducing apparatus, network system, and picture reproducing method: A picture reproducing apparatus includes a buffer which temporarily holds picture contents input the apparatus, an acquiring circuit to select one added contents from a plurality of different added contents concerning the picture contents held in the buffer based on conditions preset in the apparatus, and to acquire the selected...

20060140588 - Apparatus and method of inserting personal data using digital caption: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of inserting personal data using digital caption. A digital receiver, which has a function of separating an analog caption from an input digital stream, inserts a user edited data to the analog caption, and outputs the analog caption carrying the user edited data to...

20060140587 - Information recording device and information recording method: A top menu is configured to provide information about chapters contained in a recording medium when it is finalized. From an optical disk as a recording medium, a title retrieval section 310 reads title information about each title of motion picture data recorded on the optical disk. A chapter retrieval...

20060140589 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: A region in which at least one of subsidiary video data and subsidiary audio data packed after identification information has been assigned thereto is provided in a region in which a main stream of an information recording medium is to be recorded. The main stream is an MPEG2 program stream,...

20060140590 - Optical disc, recording device and reproducing device: Optical discs formatted to record plural audio streams of different content for reproduction with a single video stream can result in audio output of content unexpected by the user depending upon the audio stream configuration contained in the AV stream reproduced. This can confuse and cause the user to change...

20060140591 - Systems and methods for load balancing audio/video streams: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for load balancing audio/video streams to maximize the number of video frames that are actually rendered on a target device, thus giving the user of the target device a higher quality playback experience. Some embodiments are directed to transcoding an audio/video...

20060140592 - System and method for synchronizing video indexing between audio/video signal and data: In the present system and method, synchronization information is inserted into specified positions of the content of a multimedia stream at the time when the contents are produced. Thus, the present invention enables a user to easily search the synchronization information on the specified positions through an annotation. As a...

20060140593 - Recording/reproduction device: The present invention provides a recording/reproduction device that can perform post-record editing on a disk on which post-record editing has been determined to be impossible by conventional methods, and that can reproduce data that thus has been subjected to post-record editing, by devising a method for access in one cycle...

20060133768 - Methods and apparatus for tracking consumer preferences in a video rental system: Apparatus and methods for gathering information about a customer's preferences, storing the customer's preferences in a memory, selecting informational content to be added to the rented video medium based upon the customer's preferences, adding the selected informational content to the rented video medium, extracting customer information from the rented video...

20060133769 - Picture reproduction apparatus and picture reproduction method for continuously reproducing plurality of still-picture files: A user selects a still-picture file (JPEG11, JPEG22, JPEG37, . . . ) to be reproduced, from a list of still-picture file information. Then, the user sets a reproduction time period (7 seconds, 5 seconds, 2 seconds, . . . ), a start display effect (fade, wipe, dissolve, . ....

20060133770 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An information processing apparatus decodes compression-coded video data including I-pictures, P-pictures, and B-pictures. The information processing apparatus 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...

20060133772 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A recording and reproducing apparatus including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce information data, which is error-correcting-coded for every N tracks, from a recording medium, wherein the information data includes moving image data which is variable-length-encoded, a recording unit configured to record moving image data on the recording medium, a...

20060133771 - Television receiver integrated with recording and reproducing device: During watching television programs, a composite signal is converted into a digital broadcast video signal by a video decoder, and encoded into a Y/C signal by a video encoder and then, broadcast pictures are displayed on a monitor by using the Y/C signal. Further, when reproducing a DVD, reproduced pictures...

20060133773 - Television set capable of controlling external device and image storage controlled by television set: An image storage for storing digital still image data is connected to a television set for selectively watching a broadcast program in a first mode or a still image transmitted from the image storage in a second mode. The image storage has an input circuit for receiving a control signal...

20060133774 - Digital broadcast receiver and method of controlling reception of digital broadcasts: A digital broadcast receiver includes: first reception means for receiving a certain channel of program from a multichannel digital broadcast under a state of normal viewing; first decoding means for decoding an encoded signal of the digital broadcast received by the first reception means and for outputting the decoded signal...

20060133775 - Method of storage medium management and video recording system and storage system thereof: A method of storage medium management includes providing a storage medium; storing a plurality of encoded bit streams within the storage medium; monitoring a remaining storage space available within the storage medium; and if the remaining storage space is below a threshold, transcoding a stored bit stream within the storage...

20060133777 - Data recording medium, and data reproducing apparatus: An information recording medium on which are recorded substantial data and reproduce control information for reproducing the substantial data, wherein the reproduce control information includes first reproduce control information required for reproducing the substantial data in all available reproduce patterns, and second reproduce control information required for reproducing the substantial...

20060133776 - Disk reproducing apparatus and information reproducing apparatus: An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing an audio file and a still picture file recorded in a recording medium capable of recording the audio file and the still picture file, includes a reading unit that reads audio and still picture folders containing audio and still picture files recorded in the...

20060133778 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060133779 - Video recording apparatus and method of operation therefor: The invention relates to a video recording apparatus (100) comprising a selection unit (101) for selecting between a first input (103) for receiving a first input signal and a second input (105) for receiving a second input signal of a different type. The first input signal is typically an analogue...

20060133780 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus: To change a position of a control board against a frame of an optical disk drive unit so that an output terminal, etc., mounted on the control board can contact a backplane of a housing of a different depth dimension. Locating pins 25 and a locking nail 27 are formed...

20060133781 - Dvd random shuffle method: A DVD random shuffle method includes adapting a DVD player to play a pre-set initial routine, and instructing the DVD player to present a subsequent routine selection to a user. The subsequent routine selection is between a first pre-set routine and a second routine. The second routine is a random...

20060127032 - Method and system for concurrent communicating of high definition television (hdtv) and standard definition television (sdtv) information in a multistandard wireless communication system: Methods and systems for communicating information in a network are disclosed herein and may include receiving, at a mobile terminal, a high definition television (HDTV) signal via a DVB-H downlink communication path. A standard definition television (SDTV) signal may be simultaneously received at the mobile terminal via a cellular downlink...

20060127033 - Apparatus for recording and reproducing data and recording method therefor: A recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording method for use in the same. The recording and reproducing apparatus allows a user to freely select a desired input terminal from among a plurality of input terminals when video/audio information received from a satellite receiver or a set-top box is transmitted...

20060127034 - Docking station for portable entertainment devices: A docking station is configured to receive media in the form of audio and/or video from a portable entertainment device. The docking station transmits the received media to a remote playing device via a wired, wireless, or powerline connection. The media may include a control signal associated with the audio...

20060127035 - Clip based trick modes: Multi-frame trick play clips of the stored performance are selected for playing in a trick play mode, portions between the trick play clips, at least as long as the trick play clips, are skipped in the trick play mode. The trick play clips are sufficiently long and presented at a...

20060127036 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein slideshow images can be reproduced for an arbitrary period of time. A scaling coefficient calculation section divides a slideshow reproduction time period by a selected effect total time period to calculate the ratio between them as a scaling coefficient and supplies...

20060127038 - Method and apparatus for modifying scheduled recordings: A method and apparatus for modifying scheduled recordings when a scheduled recording entered by a user overlaps in time with one or more pre-stored scheduled recordings is disclosed. If a channel and recording duration for a new scheduled recording is entered by a user, it is determined if the duration...

20060127037 - Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content: A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to...

20060127039 - Method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content: A method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content enables the secure transfer of previously broadcasted content between DVRs on a computer network....

20060127051 - Information recording medium, information playback method, and information playback apparatus: This invention has as its object to provide more colorful menus and to improve interactiveness in contents playback from a recording medium. In an information recording medium having a data area including a management area and object area, the object area stores expanded video objects which undergo playback management for...

20060127040 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, imormation reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure includin: Video information indicating a main video, sub-video information indicating a sub-video at least part of which can be displayed superimposedly over the main video, predetermined part coordinate information specifying the coordinates of a predetermined part included in the sub-video in the coordinate system defined with respect to the sub-video, and...

20060127043 - Information storage medium including meta data for multi-angle title, and apparatus and method for reproducing the same: A storage medium including meta data for providing an enhanced search function on AV data supporting multi-angle, and a reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing AV data from the storage medium are provided. The storage medium comprises moving picture data for supporting multi-angle; and meta data for providing an enhanced...

20060127044 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127045 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127046 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127047 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127048 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127049 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127050 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information...

20060127041 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A recording and reproducing apparatus is provided which can easily record and reproduce recorded content information that is displayable irrespective of the type of a reproducing apparatus, which can record and display the recorded content information by detecting it also from data other than EPG data, and which can cope...

20060127042 - Structure of navigation information for video data recorded on a recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses using the structure: A structure of navigation information for video data recorded on a recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses using the structure. The method of recording video data in accordance with the present invention records video data on a recording medium with organizing the video data into navigation units...

20060127054 - Image browsing apparatus and image browsing method: An image browsing apparatus has: a display unit for displaying image data; a reproducing unit for reproducing audio data; a detector for detecting a feature of the audio data reproduced by the reproducing unit; and a controller for, when predetermined audio data is reproduced by the reproducing unit, controlling an...

20060127053 - Method and apparatus to automatically adjust audio and video synchronization: An automatic AV synchronization adjusting method and apparatus to automatically adjust a synchronization error between a video signal and an audio signal generated in an AV system. The method includes: generating video and audio test signals; measuring an audio delay amount from when the audio test signal is generated to...

20060127052 - Recording device, recording method, and program: The present invention allows a postrecording process to be executed even if a bit rate of data recorded on or data for recording onto a recording medium is higher than a bit rate for reading out from or recording onto the recording medium. At step S363, a control section causes...

20060127055 - 3-dimensional video recording/reproduction device: A stereoscopic video recording and reproducing apparatus that obtains a high-quality, flicker-free stereoscopic image is provided. The stereoscopic video recording and reproducing apparatus images a subject image for left eye in one field of a video signal and images a subject image for right eye in another field of the...

20060127056 - Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium: Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input externally from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also provided. A constrained format which enables conversion from a first stream...

20060127057 - Video transfer system: When the picture drops out in a part of video image data transmitted by a video transmitting apparatus, the video transmitting apparatus outputs a command indicating that the scene drops out, together with the video image data, to a video receiving apparatus. In accordance with this command, the video receiving...

20060127058 - Digital video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via ieee 1394 serial bus: A digital video recorder connected to a DV camcorder sends, to the camcorder upon detecting camcorder mode change from a reproduction mode to a rewind mode, a stop command to forward a DV tape toward its end until a newest time code coincides with a time code at a reproduction...

20060127059 - Media player with high-resolution and low-resolution image frame buffers: According to some embodiments, a low-resolution buffer may be provided to store lower-resolution image frame information associated with first media content. A high-resolution buffer may also be provided to store higher-resolution image frame information also associated with the first media content. A playback device may then receive (i) the higher-resolution...

20060127060 - Method and apparatus for calculating length of media contents including in multimedia contents: A method of providing media contents in a wired/wireless network environment and an apparatus using the same. The method includes: calculating the length of multimedia contents; calculating a length of information included in the multimedia contents; and calculating the length of the media contents included in the multimedia contents from...

20060127061 - Image recording apparatus having a title information confirmation function and a title information confirmation method for using the same: An image recording apparatus having a title information confirmation function of determining whether title information has been correctly recorded before finalization, and a title information confirmation method for using the same are provided. The image recording apparatus records an image on a digital versatile disc (DVD) and finalizes the DVD...

20060127062 - Image recording apparatus having a title information creation function and a title information creation method for using the same: An image recording apparatus having a title information creation function and a title information creation method using the same are provided. The image recording apparatus records an image on a digital versatile disc (DVD) and finalizes the DVD for compatibility between the DVD and a player. The title information creation...

20060127063 - Optical disc apparatus: The present invention provides an optical disc apparatus that records information on an optical disc in accordance with the UDF standard. A volume recognition sequence is data indicating that the file system used for organizing information recorded on an optical disc is a UDF file system, and is written to...

20060127064 - Recording medium for carrying transport time information: A recording medium according to an embodiment includes a recording layer and a transport stream recorded on the recording layer. The transport stream is composed of one or more predetermined units, each predetermined unit starting with at least one transport packet for carrying navigation information used to manage subsequent transport...

20060127065 - Recording apparatus and method: A recording apparatus of the present invention comprises a compressed data processing unit for performing compression processing of second definition data to generate compressed data, a system data generating unit for generating system data including at least time code, an extended track number generating unit for generating extended track number...

20060115232 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing system, and reproducing method: A reproducing apparatus has a communication unit which receives distribution of contents from a server device via a network, a decoding unit, a reproducing unit, and a control unit which controls to when encrypting and distributing divided contents of the contents from plural modules owned by each of plural server...

20060115233 - Display methods for digital video disk recorders and integrated menus for same: Menu display methods for a DVD recorder. Title list and editing functions are displayed in an integrated menu for a digital video disk in a digital video disk recorder. The integrated menu is displayed for executing playback and editing functions....

20060115234 - Moving picture compression-encoding apparatus and storage method: A moving picture compression-encoding apparatus and a moving picture storage method of compression-encoding and storing predetermined video frames necessary to replay a moving picture at the time of receiving a recording stop or pause signal during recording. At the time of receiving the recording stop or pause signal, encoding and...

20060115235 - Moving picture recording apparatus and moving picture reproducing apparatus: A technique by which whole and close-up high-quality moving pictures can be easily photographed, recorded and reproduced. An imaging unit picks up an image at a higher resolution than a resolution of pixels for moving picture recording. An image processing unit converts the resolution of an original image obtained by...

20060115237 - Advancing playback of video data based on parameter values of video data: A digital video data system automatically skips the playback of recorded video data to a position that corresponds to a transition between segments of the video data. Positions that are candidates for being segment transitions are identified by quantifying the rate of change of one or more parameters of the...

20060115236 - Video recording apparatus and video printing apparatus: The present invention provides a video recording apparatus comprising a video inputting device for inputting a video, a video storing device for storing a video inputted by the video inputting device, a keyword inputting device for inputting a keyword, a key image generating device for generating a key image for...

20060115238 - Digital data processing device and method therefor: A digital data processing apparatus which receives digital data whose use is charged for through a data recording medium or a network and uses the received digital data by using use right data, wherein the apparatus has memory means in which use history information of the digital data has been...

20060115239 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: The present invention provides a recording and reproducing apparatus by which a user can specify to which recording medium a portion of content is transferred, even when the portion of the content is transferred from a source recording medium to another recording medium. A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a...

20060115240 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus and method: Outputs obtained by dividing a signal into a predetermined number N are respectively decoded and then simultaneously supplied to a plurality of encoders where the outputs are encoded. The outputs encoded in the respective encoders are coupled with each other, thereby reducing the copying speed to 1/N while changing the...

20060115241 - Content management device and content management method: The present invention provides a content management device that enables to reproduce a content with original quality even after the content has been converted to have lower quality to be moved, and further enables to notify a user of information regarding the moved content. The content management device includes: a...