Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 04/07

20070092199 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092200 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video streams: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for synchronizing an audio stream with a video stream. This method involves searching in the audio stream for audio data having values that match a distinct set of audio data values and synchronizing the audio stream with the video stream based on... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070092201 - Reproducing device having repetitive reproduction function and repetitive reproduction function control program: A reproducing device for reproducing contents recorded on an information recording medium has a repetitive reproduction function to reproduce contents in a predetermined repeating range repeatedly in diverse reproduction modes. A special reproduction mode request requesting a special reproduction mode, such as a slow-motion reproduction mode, is accepted during a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070092202 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus having commercial skip mode: A DVD recorder with a built-in HDD records a selected television program and commercial information about a commercial in the television program when recording. In a commercial skip mode, the recorder displays on a TV monitor only a program video of the television program with a commercial video in the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070092203 - Recording device and proxy-recording device: A recording device, which receives record instructions directly from a user, enables the user to give a variety of record instructions without being restricted by the recording capability of the recording device. The recording device judges whether a processing content specified in a record instruction received from the user is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070092204 - Strategies for controlling presentation of media information based on a sampling of customer playback behavior: Functionality is described for controlling the playback of a recorded media program. The functionality formulates initial playback decisions that govern the playback of the program based on a set of initial assumptions. The functionality then formulates modified playback decisions that define the manner in which the program should actually be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070092206 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method and storage medium: An image recording apparatus in which recording preset information, constituted by a recording start time and a recording end time, is stored for each preset program to be unattended recorded. If there is any overlap between the recording start times and the recording end times of the preset programs that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092205 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092209 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092207 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092208 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092210 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092211 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092214 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092217 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information recording apparatus, information playback method, and information playback apparatus: A type of a broadcasting system of a digital stream signal to be recorded is checked. When a recorded digital stream signal is present, the broadcasting system of the recorded signal is determined from APP_NAME, and the broadcasting system of the recorded signal is compared with the broadcasting system of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092215 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092216 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092218 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092212 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092213 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092223 - Method and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle stream files: In one embodiment, the method includes downloading at least one test subtitle stream associated with the recording medium to a storage in a reproducing apparatus. A virtual package including the downloaded test subtitle is created, and it is determined whether to reproduce the downloaded test subtitle in the virtual package... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070092221 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the method includes reading a play list including at least one subplayitem, the subplayitem including navigation information for a clip file including the graphic information. The graphic information is preloaded before starting reproduction of the playlist, and the graphic information is reproduced on the basis of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070092222 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the data structure includes at least one graphic information of first type graphic information and second type graphic information. The first type graphic information is for always on display and the second type graphic information is for display in response to user request.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070092220 - System for reproducing video: A system is provided in which a plurality of video display devices can reproduce the same contents without skip. A viewing system includes a plurality of televisions and a media server connected to a network. A first television includes an image pickup unit, a face image extraction unit extracting face... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070092219 - Video and audio reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing the same: The designated double speed number n is corrected by a ratio of a reproducing time of a VOBU calculated from the difference between VOBU_E_PTM and VOBU_S_PTM included in management information NV_PCK (navigation back) of the VOBU and a standard reproducing time (0.5 second) (S104), and an address of VOBU_SRI included... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070092224 - Content receiving apparatus, video/audio output timing control method, and content provision system: This invention realizes correct adjustment of lip-syncing of video and audio on a decoder side. According to this invention, a plurality of encoded video frames given video time stamps VTS and a plurality of encoded audio frames given audio time stamps ATS are received and decoded from an encoder side,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070092225 - Moving picture recording apparatus: A moving picture recording apparatus comprises an acquisition unit which acquires moving picture data that includes video data and at least two channels of audio data; a first recording unit which records the moving picture data as a moving picture file; an extracting unit which extracts audio data of channels... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070092226 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092228 - Information storage medium, information playback apparatus, information playback method, and information playback program: According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus includes an advanced content playback unit configured to play back an advanced content, and the advanced content playback unit includes a navigation manager unit configured to manage playback of video information and audio information which form the advanced content, and an AV... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092227 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: This invention has as its object to be able to support stream recording/playback even when information associated with a reception time of a digital stream signal is not available. Management information of a storage medium is configured to include a flag bit (PATS_SS) indicating validity/invalidity of information (PATS) associated with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070092229 - Optical disc, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, computer-readable recording medium, recording method and reproducing method: A recording apparatus for an optical disc is provided which stores a VOB, the recording apparatus performing: receiving, from an operator, an operation to specify a preceding reproduction section and a subsequent reproduction section from the VOB through an interactive screen; duplicating an end vicinity including an end point of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070092230 - Optical disc, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, computer-readable recording medium, recording method and reproducing method: A recording apparatus for an optical disc is provided which stores a VOB, the recording apparatus performing: receiving, from an operator, an operation to specify a preceding reproduction section and a subsequent reproduction section from the VOB through an interactive screen; duplicating an end vicinity including an end point of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070092231 - Optical disc, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, computer-readable recording medium, recording method and reproducing method: A recording apparatus for an optical disc is provided which stores a VOB, the recording apparatus performing: receiving, from an operator, an operation to specify a preceding reproduction section and a subsequent reproduction section from the VOB through an interactive screen; duplicating an end vicinity including an end point of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070086724 - Interface systems for portable digital media storage and playback devices: A docking assembly serves as an interface between (1) a portable digital media storage and playback (PDMSP) device, and (2) a media reproduction system. A remote controller preferably controls the docking assembly and PDMSP device, which may receive electric charge from the assembly. Media reproduction systems may reproduce audio and... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070086725 - Setting information writing apparatus and tuner-incorporated electronic apparatus: There is provided a setting information writing apparatus capable of saving the effort of channel setting for a tuner-incorporated electronic apparatus in which setting information written in an external recording medium is taken and used therein. In an arrangement of writing setting information into an external recording medium to be... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070086749 - Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing information: When recording operation is stopped due to, for example, unexpected interruption of electric power supply in the course of the recording operation on a real time basis, a technique of repairing a moving picture and sound data recorded on a recording medium until the recording is stopped, to thereby restore... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070086728 - Digital video recording device ticker playback system and method: The present invention is a system and method of controlling the playback of the event steam information of a particular television channel by a digital video recorder (DVR). The DVR is a computer system configured with a hard drive and video decoder/encoder devices. The hardware environment of DVR (100) further... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070086741 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086742 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086734 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086735 - Information playback system using storage information medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086736 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086739 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086740 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086737 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086738 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086743 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086745 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086730 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086731 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086732 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086733 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus: A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086744 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086746 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086729 - Method for reproducing data of optical disc: A method of reproducing data of an optical disc. The method corrects time information of an optical disc unsuitable for a prescribed standard using a Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) value of a predetermined area of the optical disc in which data is recorded according to other than a predetermined standard,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086726 - Method of creating playback control file for recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playlist control file: A method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file are disclosed. The method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium includes reading a virtual PlayList identifying a download list from the recording... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070086727 - Playback apparatus for performing application-synchronized playback: A playback apparatus for playing a digital stream in conjunction with an application includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information, and a selection unit operable to detect... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070086747 - Reproducing apparatus and video data storing method: A reproducing apparatus and a video data storage method, which are capable of seamlessly reproducing video data read from an additional storage medium, by providing profile information regarding a data transmission speed of the additional storage medium included in the reproducing apparatus. The reproducing apparatus includes an additional storage medium... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070086748 - Searching system, searching unit, searching method, displaying method for search results, terminal unit, inputting unit, and record medium: A searching system for searching contents that were broadcast, the searching system having an inputting unit, a searching unit, and a terminal unit is disclosed, wherein the inputting unit comprises a first storing means for storing information representing at least time at which contents were broadcast corresponding to a predetermined... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086750 - Wireless car digital audio/video system and its method: The present invention relates to a wireless car digital AV system to be applied in a car, and the wireless car digital AV system comprises an AV Host and at least one or multiple display devices. The AV Host includes a storage device and a wireless network interface, and the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070086751 - Image reproduction apparatus: Disclosed is an image reproduction apparatus that comprises a reproduction unit for reproducing an image recorded on an image recording medium, a display control unit for displaying, on a display unit such as a monitor display, the image reproduced by the reproduction unit, a renewal unit for renewing the image... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070086752 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086753 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086754 - Systems and methods for authoring lighting sequences: The systems and methods descried herein relate in part to intuitive methods for creation and design of lighting sequences, e.g., for theatrical, entertainment or advertising purposes, using a software interface. Additionally, the lighting sequences can be coordinated with control of additional devices. Also described herein is a controller capable of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070081787 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: Provided is a display apparatus including a broadcasting receiver for receiving a broadcast signal, a signal processing unit for processing the received broadcast signal, a display unit for displaying the processed broadcast signal thereon, a connection unit to which at least one external storage medium is connected, and an internal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070081788 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus having a digital record function and a method thereof. The display apparatus includes a broadcasting program memory in which a broadcasting program is stored; an up/down reproduction selecting part for selecting reproduction of the broadcasting program stored in the broadcasting program memory; and a controller for controlling... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081792 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081793 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus: A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081790 - Method for converting data format: A method for converting the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format is provided. The method includes reading and mapping the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format to generate a first title file and a second title file. Sequential playback functions defined in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070081791 - Reproducing method and apparatus to simultaneously reproduce a plurality of pieces of data: A method and an apparatus to reproduce at least one piece of data. The apparatus includes a data reproducing unit to reproduce the at least one piece of video data, an additional data reproducing unit to reproduce one of a plurality of pieces of additional data, each being related to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070081789 - Time shifting for video: A method of time shifting in a video recording is provided. The method includes dividing the video recording into one or more partitions, indexing each of the one or more partitions, and combining the one or more partitions to produce a second video recording that is used in retrieval of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070081794 - Hierarchical data storage: A method and system for encoding and recording data in a multi-stream format when the data is initially captured. The multiple streams of data can be combined to provide a high quality, or high resolution, representation, while a reduced subset of the streams can provide a lower quality, or lower... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070081797 - Disk replay device, and compressed video file replay system: A disk replay device includes a non-volatile storage unit, which forms a file list from file information including the file name of a compressed video file and the like, and from the number of times that viewing of the file is possible, and stores this file list. At the stage... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070081796 - Image capture method and device: Image capture methods and devices are provided. The image capture device comprises: an image capture system; an audio capture system; a user input system having a manual mode selection input, said user input system generating a mode selection signal indicating a setting of the mode selection input from among a... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070081795 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100), provided with: a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) in each of which record information can be alternately recorded, at least one of the first recording layer and the second recording layer provided with: an anchor area (AP#1 to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070081798 - Player for optical disc and its play back method: An optical disc player includes a detecting module and a creating module. The detecting module is used to detect whether to meet a branch point or an interruption point or a pause point; and the creating module is used to create a corresponding bookmark as a navigation for the subsequent... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070077020 - Transmission signal processing device for video signal and multi-channel audio signal, and video and audio reproducing system including the same: A transmission signal processing device 10 includes a transmission signal data demultiplexing circuit RX for receiving multiplexed transmission signal data and demultiplexing the transmission signal data into video signal data and multi-channel audio signal data, a decoder circuit 100 for decoding the multi-channel audio signal data to obtain a plurality... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070077021 - Recording apparatus and method and program: A recording apparatus includes a synchronization-signal generator configured to generate a predetermined synchronization signal on the basis of a reference synchronization signal; a resolution converter configured to convert a second signal into a third signal when a received signal is the second signal, the second signal being different from a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077022 - Data transfer method, data transfer source apparatus, data transfer destination apparatus, storage medium for recording data transfer program and storage medium for recording transferred-data recording program: Disclosed herein is a data transfer method which is adopted for transferring content data recorded on a data-transfer source recording medium to a data-transfer destination recording medium and for transferring database data recorded in the data-transfer source recording medium as data including information to be used by an application program... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077023 - Image encoding apparatus, picture encoding method and image editing apparatus: An image encoding apparatus includes an editor for editing a coded stream encoded from non-compressed video data such that two edit points (A and B) are arranged in succession, a decoding processor for decoding an edited stream, and an encoding processor for encoding the edited coded stream. The encoding processor... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070077024 - Input apparatus, input method, input control program, reproduction apparatus, reproduction control method, and reproduction control program: An input apparatus that inputs a reproduction speed of a video signal is disclosed. The input apparatus has a position detection section and a control section. The position detection section linearly detects a position that a user's finger has touched. The control section detects a moving speed of the user's... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077025 - Apparatus, method and program for image search: One or more representative images extracted from an image group comprising a plurality of images is/are displayed. A part or all of the representative image or images, such as a main subject region or a background region including a search target, is/are selected from the representative image or images, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070077027 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus: An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070077026 - Method of replaying dmb data during dmb service and dmb terminal implementing the same: A method for replaying DMB data and a DMB terminal implementing the same are provided. Part of the DMB data of a real-time DMB service is buffered in a replay buffer. Upon request for a replay during the DMB service, broadcasting data played from a predetermined time granule to a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070077028 - Receivers for television signals: A Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) receives signals defining television programmes and programme schedule data. The HDR receives updated programme schedule data substantially constantly in a dedicated programme schedule data channel and outputs this data for display on a television screen. The HDR comprises a hard disk for recording programmes. A... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070077031 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams: A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070077032 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams: A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070077029 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive display to be overlayed on the motion picture, where the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070077030 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive display to be overlayed on the motion picture, where the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070077033 - Image processing device and method, display device and method, and electronic device: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, a display apparatus and method, and an electronic apparatus in which a driver can be controlled by superposing panel setting data on an image signal. For example, a controller (63) supplies driver control signals to an image processor (61)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077034 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a recording unit operable to record data in a predetermined area, a detecting unit operable to detect a device connected to the apparatus, and an unmounting unit operable to unmount the predetermined area in the recording unit when the device connected to the apparatus is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070077035 - Camera body of a video system with a handgrip and video system: A camera body of a video system has a housing which is comprised of cover elements. Two of the cover elements which, in an area of the handgrip, are fitted together and which shape a part of the housing, also shape the handgrip of the housing.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070077036 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077037 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070077038 - Dvd playback over multi-room by copying to hdd: DVD playback over Multi-room by copying to the hard drive of a primary device in a networked multi-room system (NMS). The DVD content is saved to a hard drive and can then be retrieved by any of the remote devices in the NMS by accessing the program guide or the... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070077039 - Portfolios in disc authoring: Authoring a Blu-ray Disc including: defining an initial project and exporting portfolios from the initial project, where the portfolios include portions of the initial project. The portfolios are sent to vendors who enter information into the portfolios. The portfolios are then sent to a disc author who assembles the information... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070077041 - Optical disk device: A power supply unit includes a transformer, and outputs a first power supply voltage which is used for logic processing and a second power supply voltage which is used for driving a drive unit. A voltage control unit includes a shunt regulator to a detection voltage input terminal of which... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070077040 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method: A reproducing apparatus having a function to recover synchronization and a function to display information. The first function resumes synchronous reproduction automatically even though synchronous reproduction is interrupted. The second function lets the user know what is going on in the reproducing apparatus when synchronous reproduction is interrupted.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP