Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 10/06

20060239636 - Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, and reproducing method: MPEG streams of different chroma formats are recorded and reproduced without need to recognize their formats. In an MPEG stream, a header is followed by DCT blocks. Time slots are generated in such a manner that when the chroma format detected from the header is 4:2:2, in all periods of...

20060239639 - Apparatus for and method of processing information, and program: When an information processing apparatus is turned on, startup processes for an HDD and a DVD are started. When the startup process for the HDD is finished, the information processing apparatus starts to record recording data in the HDD. Thereafter, when the startup process for the DVD is finished, the...

20060239638 - Information processing apparatus and method and computer program: The present invention is intended to more surely record data to predetermined recording media and store the recorded data therein. A HDD recording control block 43 relates recording data with identification information for identifying a DVD 31-1 and records the data and information to a HDD 12. A DVD recording...

20060239637 - Projection apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a projection apparatus that can be separated into a projection section and a projection accessory section. The projection section can have a chargeable battery, and the projection accessory section can have a charging unit for charging the battery. The projection section includes...

20060239641 - Automatic recording/reproducing method and automatic recording/reproducing apparatus: Recording reservation information of a plurality of programs is grouped and at least the latest program among the programs recorded on the basis of the reservation information is left on a recording medium. Therefore, a program information registration unit to register a plurality of items of recording reservation information as...

20060239642 - Communication system, recording apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: A communication system includes a first recording apparatus and a second recording apparatus. The first recording apparatus determines whether recording of a broadcast program is settable in the first recording apparatus based on first information for reservation of the recording and second information for selecting an apparatus to be used...

20060239640 - Contents information displaying device and method: There are growing needs to efficiently programs desired to be viewed from among contents spreading to a channel direction and a time axis direction. However, GUI having a hierarchical structure and requiring numerous button operations require users to perform several complicated operations to view desired image contents. The present invention...

20060239650 - Apparatus, method and database for control of audio/video equipment: Control of audio/video equipment is provided by an apparatus constructed like a computer, with audio and video subsystems. The audio subsystem includes a programmable analog mixer and several analog and digital multiplexers to route and mix multiple inputs to multiple outputs. Databases are stored in computer mass storage to record...

20060239647 - Data storage medium and apparatus and method for reproducing the data from the same: A data storage medium having stored thereon includes an audio sequence including at least one audio stream; at least one video stream; and reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the at least one audio stream and the at least one video stream. The reproduction control information includes reproduction order...

20060239646 - Device and method of storing an searching broadcast contents: A device and a method of storing and searching broadcast contents are provided. A video storing and searching system extracts a representation image and feature information of the representation image from video contents to be stored and stores the extracted representation image and the feature information together with the video...

20060239645 - Event packaged video sequence: Methods and systems for packaging video sequences based on user-specified events are described herein. An illustrative method of event-packaging a video sequence may include the steps of acquiring a video stream containing an event of interest, extracting various event information from the video stream and storing one or more event...

20060239643 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for recording or reproduction control, and data structure containing c: An information recording medium (100) includes: content information; and button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the content information, for each reproduction capability which is necessary to reproduce the content information....

20060239649 - Recording/reproducing apparatus: When a program (title) is divided into a plurality of chapters, an actual program is reproduced in a moving picture reproduction region. When a chapter boundary is determined, and an Enter key of a remote controller is operated by pointing a cursor to “divide” in a button region, a thumb...

20060239648 - System and method for marking and tagging wireless audio and video recordings: A system and method for audio/visual (A/V) recording in which A/V data is continuously recorded and selected segments of A/V data are marked, tagged, categorized, and archived. Archived segments of A/V data may be shared among users using a social networking scheme over a communications network, such as the Internet....

20060239644 - Video abstracting: A method of creating a collection of relevant video segments (201,203) by selecting respective portions (222-234, 242-254) from a video stream (200) which corresponds to a program is disclosed. The collection of relevant video segments (201,203) can be applied as video trailer or as video abstract. Hence the duration of...

20060239652 - Audio/video control mechanism and method: The present invention describes an audio/video control mechanism including a storage device, a first selector, a computer system, an input device, an audio/video playback controller, a second selector, a third selector, an image output device, and a sound output device. With this mechanism, the computer system can automatically pass the...

20060239651 - Portable multimedia platform: The present invention discloses a multimedia platform integrating with different interfaces. The multimedia platform comprises a portable multimedia player as a host. A connect interface is electrically connected with the portable multimedia player. A video interface and an audio interface are electrically connected with the portable multimedia player....

20060239653 - Digital camera: A small and slim digital camera with an improved grip and a large display unit. The digital camera takes a picture of an object via a lens unit installed in a front surface of a case of the digital camera. The digital camera includes: a case has: a main body...

20060239654 - Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor: Auto focus control processing for still image recording is performed while continuously performing movie recording when an initiation instruction for a still image recording preparation process is issued during movie recording. Movie recording is interrupted to perform still image recording processing only when an initiation instruction for still image recording...

20060239655 - Optical disc playback apparatus: After a playback RF signal 3 detected from an optical disc medium 1 is waveform-shaped, it is converted into a digital RF signal 6 with a sampling clock 8 having a cycle twice as long as a channel clock. Thereafter, a first offset correction circuit 9 corrects an offset fluctuation...

20060239657 - Dedicated digital media for playing of music and video content: Self-contained apparatus for storing, distributing, and playing of digital content. The present invention is of a media for commercial distribution of music and video, which is also capable of playing the digital content stored therein, thus eliminating the need for a separate player. This enables copyright owners to distribute digital...

20060239656 - Recording medium for storing video file and method for editing video file: A recording medium for storing video files and a method for editing video files are disclosed. In the method, when a video file is stored in a computer-accessible recording medium for storing video files of the present invention, the end positions of groups of pictures (GOPs) align with cluster boundaries...

20060239658 - Multiple disc changer video game: A video game that's able to hold multiple disc video games, which is also capable of playing any of the disc video games by rotation. Furthermore, it's also capable of resetting, disc skipping and turning on or off by using the main control. These features are all new in the...

20060239659 - Removable hard disk drive: The present invention provides a digital video disc (DVD) recorder with a removable hard disk drive (HDD). The DVD recorder has a compartment for accommodating the HDD, wherein the compartment is designed to facilitate the removal of the HDD from the DVD recorder. The compartment provides end-users the convenience of...

20060239661 - Frequency detection methods: An upper slicing level and a lower slicing level are determined to slice an RF signal into an upper sliced signal and a lower sliced signal respectively. A maximum pulse width occurs in the upper sliced signal or the lower sliced signal during a predetermined period is detected, and compared...

20060239662 - Optical disk, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, and recording medium: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces...

20060239663 - Optical disk, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, and recording medium: An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces...

20060239660 - Single piece optical mechanical assembly for optical data storage engines: The invention provides an Optical Mechanical Assembly (OMA) for use in a portable optical data storage device, having a single piece chassis with mounting means for mounting components of the portable optical storage device. The chassis mounting means can mount the windings of the disc spindle motor, the control circuit...

20060233515 - Recording apparatus and mount control method: The present invention prevents data stored in memory cards from being damaged while maintaining the operability of inserting and ejecting memory cards. A device has a connection section to which a memory card 11 is connected. The memory card 11 is different from an optical disc 10 on which image...

20060233514 - System and method of video editing: Disclosed is a system and method for editing video data through marking during video playing so that image retrieval and compiling can be easily made afterwards. During playing the video, the user commands at any position. The system gets the corresponding playing time and stores it as a mark. Then,...

20060233516 - Encoded video conversion apparatus, conversion method and program product: A video encoding conversion apparatus which records a video signal recorded on a first compressed video record medium on a second compressed video record medium, including: a video decoder with n/m-fold speed reproduction function for reproducing the video signal recorded on the first compressed video record medium; a video encoder...

20060233521 - Content playback method and content player: A content playback method in a content player which searches for content data by a hierarchical structure defined based on a plurality of attributes, comprising a display step of displaying a plurality of classification items for classifying the content data on a screen, a classification item specification step of specifying...

20060233519 - Content playback system, content playback apparatus, and content playback method: A content playback system includes a content server providing content, a plurality of content playback apparatuses playing back the content, and a portable terminal capable of communicating with each of the plurality of content playback apparatuses at least in accordance with a short-distance communication method. The content playback apparatuses each...

20060233531 - Content reproduction apparatus and subtitle reproduction method: A content reproduction apparatus includes a content reproduction unit which reproduces a content data item from a recording medium, the recording medium storing the content data item and a plurality of segment data items which are described in a structured document description language, the segment data items corresponding, respectively, to...

20060233526 - Contents recording system and contents recording method: A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with low resolution proxy AV data...

20060233529 - Contents recording system and contents recording method: A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with low resolution proxy AV data...

20060233525 - Encoding apparatus and method, and decoding apparatus and method: An encoding method includes controlling recording of frame-position information representing the position of a frame in a video stream, and controlling recording of unit-region-position information representing the position of a unit region serving as a processing unit used when the video stream is decoded....

20060233524 - Information management apparatus and information management method: According to one embodiment, in a system in which a server which delivers contents and receiving terminals of respective users are connected via a network, the server is configured to manage contents obtained from various media, individually for the receiving terminals of respective users. Consequently, it is possible to respond...

20060233527 - Information management system, information management apparatus and information management method: An information management system has an information management apparatus that receives a data stream with a general-purpose format, which is constituted of data and additional information, from a data-supplying system and separates the additional information from the data stream to hold and manage the data obtained by separating the additional...

20060233523 - Information recording medium, and information recording apparatus and method: There is provided an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) for recording information. At least one of the recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) has a management information area where recording speed management information defining the maximum possible recording speed when recording information...

20060233520 - Method for transmitting and receiving graphic data between an image display apparatus and an external apparatus, and information frame structure including information on the graphic data: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving graphic data between an external apparatus and an image display apparatus and an information frame structure including information on the graphic data. The image display apparatus receives a predetermined graphic data such an OSD data, which is displayed by overlapping on a...

20060233518 - Method of scaling subpicture data and related apparatus: A method for scaling subpicture data comprises receiving a video data stream and a subpicture data stream; pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain line information of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and bottom field pixel data; calculating the number of lines contained in...

20060233528 - Program, information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium: With an information processing method for generating information utilizable for decoding a bit stream, a forward prediction encoded frame of the bit stream is decoded, the decoded forward prediction encoded frame is subjected to intra-frame encoding, the bit stream is analyzed, and attribute information is generated that is utilizable for...

20060233517 - Reproduction device and program: The playback apparatus that plays contents recorded on the package medium 2 according to sequence information. Pieces of the sequence information are detected from a recordable medium such as a HD 3 and a memory card. A dynamic menu is generated so as to display the detected pieces of the...

20060233530 - 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 at a designated time....

20060233522 - Video processing apparatus: A video processing technique which enables users to effectively watch highlight scenes while listening to audio part thereof in a short period of time is disclosed. Upon input of video data, highlight scene data describing therein a highlight scene(s) in the video data is input or generated. Then, based this...

20060233532 - Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information into information recording medium: Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input from external 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...

20060233533 - Information recording/reproducing system, information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording/reproducing method: Information recording/reproducing system decodes an MPEG data stream constituted of one-grouped pictures of I2, B0, B1, P5, B3, B4, P8, B6, B7, P11, B9, B10, P14, B12, and B13 in turn on B picture, P picture and I picture to become the MPEG data stream constituted of one-grouped pictures of...

20060233535 - Information recording/reproducing system, information recording/reproducing apparatus and information recording/reproducing method: An information recording/reproducing system has a data storage device that stores a data stream with a predetermined data format and an information recording/reproducing apparatus, which is connected with the data storage device, for recording and reproducing the data stream. The apparatus includes information recording/reproducing portion and memory portion that stores...

20060233534 - Method and device for recording digital data: Various applications record or handle uncompressed video, where the amount of information needed for each frame or field is constant, based on the video frame rate and color resolution of each pixel. Since various video frame rates and audio sample rates are defined and can be combined independently, the amount...

20060233536 - Digital photo album: A box structure with an external appearance of a photo album and configured to electronically display digital images, the structure comprising: (a) a front cover for the box structure, the cover being connected to the box structure along an edge such that the cover is configured to pivot along the...

20060233537 - Visually encoding nodes representing stages in a multi-stage video compositing operation: Some embodiments of the invention provide a user interface of editing video through a multi-stage editing process. The user interface selects a particular stage in the editing process. A particular editing operation is performed on a set of video images during the particular stage. After the selection of the particular...

20060228096 - Contents information display device: Desired contents information can be easily extracted in a contents information display device. The contents information display device includes: an information receiving part that receives contents information; a recording part that records received contents information; a display part that displays the contents information; an input part that inputs an operation...

20060222318 - Information processing apparatus and its method: There is provided an information processing apparatus in which with respect to video to be recorded and stored, division suitable for viewing, the determination of control points and the giving of relevant information can be performed without requiring a manual operation each time. A video/audio processing apparatus includes a key...

20060222317 - Information recording/play-backing apparatus: It is possible to save power in an HDD/optical disc combination camera. During a normal recording operated by a battery, only the hard disk is operated and operation of the optical drive is stopped. Alternatively, only the optical drive is operated and the operation of the hard disk is stopped....

20060222316 - Time shift actuation and control method used for personal video recorder: A time shift actuation and control method used for a personal video recorder (PVR), comprises the following steps: receiving an infrared interrupt signal; upon verifying that it is a time shift signal, determining the time shift function relating to said PVR, if said time shift function has already been initialized,...

20060222319 - Pre-recorded dvd ad insertion: Prerecorded DVD menu alteration and ad insertion. Additional material, such as commercials, previews, and computer files can be inserted into a presentation that has been saved on a storage device. The presentation can originate from a store bought DVD. The additional information can be inserted at any point during the...

20060222320 - Use of multiple related timelines: A sequence of video images can be represented using multiple related timelines by generating a first timeline identifying a decode order associated with a sequence of video images and a second timeline identifying a display order associated with the sequence of video images, wherein the sequence of video images is...

20060222322 - Method and system for preservation and improvement of television advertisement in digital environment: Distributing a scrambled video content together with a video player that descrambles the content and limits playing to conditions defined by content distributor. The conditions may include an expiration date and a limit imposed on both fast forward and fast reverse operations in such a way to prevent users from...

20060222323 - Rapid media channel changing mechanism and access network node comprising same: A method is provided for enabling rapid media stream channel changes in conjunction with increasing network resource utilization efficiency. A media stream is multicast for reception by a plurality of requesting decoders. The media stream includes packets containing groups of pictures (GOPs), which are stored in a buffer of an...

20060222321 - Trick play resistant ad insertion: Trick play resistant advertisements. Specified commercials could be recognized by the software in set-top boxes to prohibit the use of trick play for the duration of the commercial. The commercials would also be precluded from trick play when played in a multi-room system or when recorded to a DVD. Specified...

20060222324 - Imaging device: An imaging device has an image sensor, and a color filter that is located on said image sensor and has at least four color elements, a signal reading processor that reads at least four series of color signals corresponding to the at least four color elements from said image sensor,...

20060222328 - Digital broadcast playback system, digital broadcast receiving apparatus, and digital broadcast recording and playback apparatus: A digital broadcast playback system is provided in which, when a program being watched on a digital broadcast receiving apparatus is intermittently unable to be watched, only missed portions can be watched later on a digital broadcast recording and playback apparatus in a simple manner. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus...

20060222329 - Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing system serves to input a timer record setting of a content. The system includes a dividing unit that divides a first timer record setting to record the content delivered from a predetermined source for a predetermined period into a plurality of second timer record settings each designed...

20060222326 - Recording apparatus: The invention provides an effective means that realizes a long-hour recording and multi-channel simultaneous recording of TV broadcast programs without sacrificing the picture quality in reproduction. The invention also enhances user-friendliness in recording multiple channels. The invention provides a transcoder for the digital broadcast, utilizes program information during recording, and...

20060222327 - Reserved program recording apparatus and its method: A broadcast reception apparatus 10 includes a broadcast program reception part 101 to acquire broadcast program information from a signal of a broadcast program, an audio information temporary storage part 103 to acquire audio information of the broadcast program to be recorded and to temporarily store it onto an audio...

20060222325 - System and method for quality marking of a recording: Systems and methods for identifying a recorded video program are provided. The method may include recording a video and identifying the video as lacking desirable recording attributes. A future occurrence of a transmission of the video may be automatically selected in response to the identification of the video as lacking...

20060222330 - Content protection for digital recording: Content protection for digital recording may be provided through the use of digital keys that are unique to specific devices and/or to devices associated with specific household and/or business dwellings. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for enabling digital recording using a signal receiving apparatus and a digital recording...

20060222331 - Digital recording apparatus and copyright protection method thereof: The CGMS unacceptable recorder accepts transmission frames only when the copyright protection information in a transmission header transmitted to the IEEE1394 serial bus indicates copy free. The CGMS acceptable recorder accepts transmission frames when the copyright protection information in the transmission header indicates copy free. When the copyright protection information...

20060222332 - Device and method for recording information: A device for recording records digitally encoded video information on a record carrier according to a predefined recording format, such as BD. The device has an input unit (91) for receiving a data stream comprising the video information and application data objects contained in messages, such as DVB-MHP. The device...

20060222337 - Digest reproducing apparatus and digest reproducing apparatus control method: A digest reproducing apparatus which creates and shows a digest which gives an overview of a whole motion video content regardless of the number of scenes included in an original content. To achieve the above technique, for example, we need to record data on plural still images obtained by encoding...

20060222335 - Dvd recording of tuned source with ad inwertion: DVD recording of tuned source with ad insertion. Additional material, such as commercials, previews, and computer files can be inserted into a presentation that has been saved on a storage device. The presentation originates from a recording of a tuned signal. The additional information can replace the original ads of...

20060222336 - Method and apparatus for displaying multiple subtitles using sub-picture processing: The mechanism of a sub-picture processing method for displaying multiple subtitles in a video/audio playing apparatus is provided. The purpose for displaying multiple subtitles in different languages simultaneously can be achieved under a user's control. Due to the unique control procedures and the concept of time division multiplexing, the present...

20060222339 - Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information: An optical disc and a method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information on the disc, are provided. The method includes receiving a digital data stream including a plurality of packets; and recording the digital data stream while grouping the data packets into a packet group, one...

20060222340 - Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc: A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding...

20060222333 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program: An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) which are each used for graphics display. The DS includes graphics data and a control segment that includes time stamps (DTS and PTS) for designating...

20060222334 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program: An AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) each of which is used for graphics display and includes a control segment and graphics data. When an active period of the...

20060222338 - Recording/playback control device, contents management method and recording/playback apparatus: A decision section decides whether or not contents recorded on a HDD satisfy a predetermined condition based on contents management information indicating an attribute of the contents and an operation exerted on the contents. If contents satisfying the condition have not been compressed by a contents compress processing section, the...

20060222341 - Image acquisition apparatus and data recording method: According to one embodiment, an image acquisition apparatus includes a removable recording medium which is attached to a recording medium requiring certain time for starting up, and configured to record data when only a system program is started, an image processing unit which generates an image signal to be recorded,...

20060222343 - Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method: A data recording/reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a temporary storage unit for storing a data stream including a plurality of data units, which is divided into M (M is a natural number) segments that stores the plurality of data units; a control unit for...

20060222342 - Recording and reproducing device: The present invention relates to a recording and reproducing device including a DVD unit, an HDD unit and a VCR unit and an MPEG board which processes both video/audio signals of the DVD unit and the HDD unit and provides a recording and reproducing device capable of efficiently radiating heat...

20060222344 - Signal output apparatus and signal output method: According to one embodiment, information that indicates a reception specification of a connected receiving-side device is acquired from the receiving-side device, and signals including images or voices of a form that corresponds to the acquired reception specification are searched and obtained from either one of a mounted information recording medium...