Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 05/07

20070122105 - Recording device, method thereof, program product and program recording medium: A recording device includes a first recording medium in which temporally continuous content data is recorded; a second recording medium in which whole content data is recorded; and a recording controller configured to control the recording of content data in the first recording medium and the second recording medium so... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070122106 - Video image recording apparatus: A video image recording apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive video image data transmitted from an external device; a recording unit configured to record the video image data in a file; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the external device can record the video image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070122107 - Client server system: Disclosed is a client server system including: a server apparatus equipped with a reproduction section to reproduce accumulated video data in a predetermined reproduction mode including a normal reproduction mode, a fast-forward reproduction mode and a fast-rewind reproduction mode, and a transmission section; a client terminal apparatus equipped with a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070122109 - Method and apparatus for checking overlap of reservation recordings, and recording medium storing program for executing the same: A method of checking overlap of reservation recordings in a content storage includes converting input reservation recording data into a valid unit of reservation recording data, and checking whether the valid unit of reservation recording data is overlapped with reservation recording data stored in the content storage based on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070122110 - Receiver provided with electronic program guide: The present invention provides a receiver provided with an electronic program guide in a program configuration with other programs inserted in the middle thereof, which easily transmits a reservation excluding the programs inserted in the middle thereof. In step S180, programs closely related to a reserved program are extracted from... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070122108 - Selective recording for digital video recorders: Video programming is selected for recording on a digital video recorder (DVR) using an electronic program guide data interface for obtaining a list of video programs available to the DVR for recording. A preference engine filters entries from the list of video programs using a user recording history to thereby... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070122111 - Content use device and recording medium: To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unit 102 extracts a content name from playback control information in a playback path information table 210, and inquires of a rights... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070122117 - Dvd video playback system and dvd disk playback method: In a DVD video playback system adapted to transmit data in the form of a PS (program stream) from a source device to each sink device, a navigation manager of the source device stores system parameters, which are necessary for each sink device to decode the PS, in an unused... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070122113 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an offset between time bases of first and second digital offset data series is calculated on the basis of a reproduction start time included in the first digital data series, a reproduction start time included in the second digital data series, and a playlist for specifying... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070122112 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system: There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070122118 - Method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data: A method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data is disclosed. An interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces A/V data recorded on an interactive recording medium such as an interactive DVD in conjunction with contents data provided by a contents providing server... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070122115 - Multi-av stream playback method and playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, primary object data and secondary object data which include data unit groups having playback time information and which are temporally independent and are different from each other are synchronously played back. Playback time information is acquired from the played-back primary object data, and playback time information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070122114 - Recording apparatus for initializing recording media: In a recording apparatus equipped with a drive apparatus for recording data on a recording medium such as an optical disk, and a function capable of initializing a management information area of the recording medium, a storage unit is further provided. The storage unit stores thereinto initializing data which is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070122119 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams: In one embodiment, a data structure recorded on the recording medium includes a text subtitle stream including one or more presentation segments. Each of the presentation segments specifies its own presentation start and end times. An initial value of a system time clock of the text subtitle stream is a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070122116 - Recording medium containing supplementary service information for audio/video contents, and method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information of the recording medium: The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital television signal for supplementary service information in accordance with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070122120 - Multi-av stream playback method and playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, object data which is formed of a data unit group having time information and includes main AV data and sub AV data is used. Upon synchronously playing back the main AV data and the sub AV data from this object data, time information is acquired from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070122121 - Apparatus and method for reproducing contents: A contents reproduction apparatus is provided that can resume reproduction according to the viewer. A CPU of a television executes the steps of: sending to a camera a command to pick up an image in response to input of an instruction to display a contents list; sending to an analysis... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070122122 - Digital video signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus: A digital video signal recording method for recording on a magnetic recording medium by using a rotary head, a first digital compressed video signal having a predetermined number of bytes in a packet format and a second digital compressed video signal having a predetermined number of bytes in a packet... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070122123 - Data transmission method and apparatus: A data transmission method and apparatus that both codes a moving picture and records the coded moving picture data, transmitting the coded moving picture data immediately to a receiving terminal that is not a latecomer terminal from among a plurality of receiving terminals and begins transmission to a latecomer receiving... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070122124 - Write-once optical disc, and method and apparatus for recording management information on write-once optical disc: A writable-once optical recording medium such as a BD-WO, and a method and apparatus for managing the writable-once optical recording medium, are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes recording temporary management information in a temporary defect management area of the recording medium, the temporary management information including disc... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070116425 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium: In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070116426 - Stream generation apparatus, stream generation method, coding apparatus, coding method, recording medium and program thereof: A stream generation apparatus of the present invention is a stream generation apparatus which generates a stream including coded pictures and a command for managing a buffer which holds a decoded picture, the command being added to one of the coded pictures as a reference picture. It includes a judging... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070116429 - Broadcast recording apparatus and broadcast recording method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus has a tuner unit which receives a broadcast signal, demodulates the received signal, and outputs video image and voice signals, first and second hard disk drive units which record the video image and voice signals from the tuner unit in a memory... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070116427 - Broadcasting recording: Digitally broadcast content is viewed through a portable terminal. One or more devices within a network configured to receive and record digitally broadcast content are queried, such as through the portable terminal. The digitally broadcast content is recorded using one or more of the queried devices within the network and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070116428 - Video display apparatus and method for storing and reproducing broadcasting program: A method is provided for reproducing a broadcasting program that includes setting a channel for the broadcasting program, and storing the broadcasting program in a storage medium. The stored broadcasting program may be reproduced when switching to the set channel. Other embodiments may also be provided.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070116434 - Information record medium, and apparatus for and method of reproducing the same: An information record medium is provided with: substantial information including video information and audio information which are related to each other; first reproduction control information to simultaneously reproduce the video information and the audio information out of the substantial information; and second reproduction control information to reproduce only the audio... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070116431 - Information recording/playback method and recording/playback apparatus: An apparatus is provided in which a recording area is effectively utilized even when information-deleted portions and/or information-moved portions are provided on an information recording medium. The apparatus includes a space extent management section which recognizes and manages space extents, an optimization processing section which creates a coupled extent by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070116432 - Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, and digital still camera: A digital still camera includes a vibration detector for detecting vibrations. In accordance with certain conditions, a control unit controls finalization (session closing) which enables a CD-ROM drive to read data recorded on a recording medium. The control of session closing includes starting session closing after a predetermined period of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070116433 - Software and system for customizing a presentation of digital images: A method for customizing a presentation of a set of digital images provided by a user is disclosed, comprising the steps of selecting an initial presentation format criteria for the set of digital images by the user; analyzing the digital images for additional information; providing to the user a first... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070116430 - Viewing program control method and video recording apparatus: In the content automatic recording and playback, if the recording and the playback are conducted according to a taste, the user's taste takes precedence and is emphasized. To cope with this situation, a scenario is disposed as a condition to restrict the taste. In the recording and the playback, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070116435 - Method of calculating temporal information of frame-based audio stream data: The present invention relates to a method of calculating temporal information of frame-based audio stream data, and more particularly, to a method of calculating temporal information of frame-based audio stream data, in which it can calculate time related information depending on the playback of stream data even when bitrate or... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070116436 - Video and audio recording device: A video and audio recording device includes: a storage, adapted to store condensed information; a specifier, operable to specify the condensed information stored in the storage; a registrar, operable to register the specified condensed information in a timer recording list as first timer recording information; and a recorder, operable to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070116437 - Region-based processing of predicted pixels: A method for decoding a compressed video data sequence containing one or more coded pixel blocks The compressed video sequence is buffered. Prediction information for each of the coded pixel blocks is reviewed. One or more groups of coded pixet blocks are formed based on the reviewed prediction information such... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070116438 - Portable recording device: A portable recording device operable to receive an electrical signal input and convert the input to digital data is disclosed. The device broadly includes a portable handheld housing; a signal element operable to receive an electrical input signal; a controller operable to convert the input signal to digital data; a... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070116439 - Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method: Systems and methods control an analog output of an information reproducing apparatus, such as a high-definition DVD player. At least partially in response to a determination that a multimedia presentation is content protected, one embodiment reduces a displayed resolution of an analog output to less than a full available resolution.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070116440 - Optical disk reproducing device: An optical disk reproducing device has a system controller that performs a controlling process so that after an optical disk storing still picture data is loaded, when the device is in an apparent stopped state, or while a slide show display using the still picture data is being performed until... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070116441 - Optical disk player: A user can simply select and set up resolution of a monitor display device 2 among the resolutions which the monitor display device 2 supports, according to his/her taste, only by operating a specific key such provided in the remote control 4. The resolution of the monitor display device 2... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070110389 - Transmitter, receiver, transmission method, reception method, transmission program, reception program, and video content data structure: A transmitter which transmits video content via a predetermined network, wherein the video content is encoded while an image group containing a plurality of frame images is handled as a processing unit, the transmitter includes a formation unit and a transmission unit. The formation unit is configured to form invalid-image... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070110390 - Picture coding apparatus and picture decoding apparatus: A picture coding apparatus (10) which generates a stream so as to be able to decode a picture by obtaining a picture parameter set necessary for decoding the picture even at the time of trick-play, the apparatus including: a slice coding unit (11) which codes the picture and generates coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070110391 - System and method for personal video recording: A system and method for personal video recording (PVR) is provided for recording digitally encoded streams, and for playing back and decoding the recorded streams. The PVR system may receive the digitally encoded streams from a digital cable box or a network server. The system enables trick modes including fast... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070110392 - Method for using a rotating input device: A method for using a rotating input device assigns multiple functions to the rotating input device without requiring special switching operations. When a rotating input operation of the rotating input device is first performed, the device detects a rotary position of the rotating input device at which the initial operation... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070110393 - Method of performing time-shift function and television receiver using the same: A method of performing a time-shift function and a television receiver using the same provide the time-shift function for at least one channel that is preferred by a user among a plurality of channels that are not currently viewed as well as for a currently viewed channel. The method includes... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070110394 - Program recording reservation system, recording apparatus, and controller apparatus: A program recording reservation system includes a recording apparatus including a recorder for recording broadcast programs; and a remote controller for setting a recording reservation for a broadcast program to be recorded by the recorder of the recording apparatus. There are provided a recording management section for obtaining a remaining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070110395 - Apparatus and method of content recording/playback: A content recording/playback apparatus includes: a first medium management section for reading the encoded content from the first medium; a decoder for decoding the encoded content having been read, and outputting a decoded content; a control section for receiving and outputting at least the decoded content having been output from... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070110400 - Apparatus for reproducing data and method thereof: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder and a memory. The decoder is configured to decode a text subtitle reproduced from the recording medium. The memory is configured to store text subtitle capability information indicating whether the apparatus has at least one text subtitle capability.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070110396 - Data processor: A player reads content data from a continuous area on a storage medium and plays back video and/or audio based on the content data. The continuous area includes a data area, in which the content data is stored, and a non-content-data area, in which the content data is not stored.... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070110399 - Device and method for displaying images: A device and a method for displaying images are provided. The device includes an input unit, a frame searching unit, a thumbnail selection unit, and a video processing unit. The input unit receives a signal for moving an image playback location along a time axis by an interval from a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110398 - Graphical representation of programs stored in a personal video recording device: A graphical display (FIG. 3) for a personal recording device. The display including a bar (38) extending in a predetermined direction. Markers (50) dividing the bar into at least two program sections and a program pointer (44).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070110397 - Playback apparatus and bookmark system: A playback apparatus that enables a user to acquire a desired partial content from a content. When it receives type information indicating a type of an object, the playback apparatus acquires position information indicating a playback position, which corresponds to a time at which the type information was received, in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070110402 - Reproduction apparatus: In a reproduction apparatus (100A), an information signal generation unit (Pa) generates a first information signal (Sav) from a recording medium (11). An information signal input unit (1, 8a) inputs a second information signal (Stv) which is provided from an external information source via a requested channel. When switching between... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070110401 - 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.

20070110403 - Video capture system input control: A video capture system includes an input mean for receiving a plurality of analogue video signals, each analogue video signal including a plurality of active periods, there being dead time periods between successive inputs of different video signals; a switching mechanism for selecting any one of the analogue video signals... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070110404 - Automotive display having a function of reading data storage media: An automotive display having a function of reading data storage media is disposed inside an automobile. The automotive display includes a display panel for displaying AV data and a display driving module for transmitting the AV data to the display panel for display. A data storage media reading module is... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070110405 - Information recording device and electronic instrument: An information recording device includes a TS separation section which extracts a first TS packet for generating image data as reproduction data, a second TS packet for generating sound data as reproduction data, and a third TS packet other than the first and second TS packets from a transport stream,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070110406 - Recording apparatus, method for controlling the apparatus, and storage medium storing control program: A recording apparatus to record data on a recording medium including a plurality of recording layers is provided. The recording apparatus includes a recording circuit adapted to record data on a recording layer selected from among the plurality of recording layers included on the recording medium; a recordable capacity detecting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070110407 - Electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus control method: An electronic apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to access a recording medium using a head; an acceleration sensor that detects acceleration generated in the electronic apparatus; and a control unit configured to write, in the recording medium or a predetermined memory, detection data indicating a result of the detection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070110408 - Device for displaying boot animation of optical disc player and method thereof: A method for displaying a boot animation of an optical disc player during a boot-up sequence of the optical disc player is disclosed. The method includes reading a boot animation data stream stored in the optical disc player storage device and processing the boot animation data stream for displaying the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070110409 - Video display device with optical disc reproduction apparatus and television receiver with optical disc reproduction apparatus: Disclosed is a television with DVD reproduction apparatus including optical disc reproduction apparatus that can reproduce video data and audio data recorded in DVD and audio data recorded in CD, Braun tube to display video corresponding to video data, and speaker to output audio corresponding to audio data. When optical... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070104452 - One-click video recording system and method: A computer apparatus and system having the functionality of one-click video recording enables and stops the video camera module via a controller requesting the system chip. By method of matching to loopup the mapping table embedded in input/output (I/O) system, the functional hotkey is pressing to approach recording image and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070104453 - Video image encoder, video image decoder, and coded stream generation method: According to the embodiment, there is provided a coded stream generation method for generating a coded stream including a plurality of first units and a plurality of second units that are arranged in a time series. The method includes; separating the coded stream into a plurality of information units and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070104454 - Video image encoder, video image decoder, and coded stream generation method: According to the embodiment, there is provided a coded stream generation method for generating a coded stream including a plurality of first units and a plurality of second units that are arranged in a time series. The method includes; separating the coded stream into a plurality of information units and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070104455 - Video image encoder, video image decoder, and coded stream generation method: According to the embodiment, there is provided a coded stream generation method for generating a coded stream including a plurality of first units and a plurality of second units that are arranged in a time series. The method includes; separating the coded stream into a plurality of information units and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070104457 - Apparatus and method for recording digital multimedia broadcasting: A broadcasting recording apparatus including a broadcasting communication unit configured to request and receive a broadcast from a broadcasting system, and a recording unit configured to record the broadcast received by the broadcasting communication unit at an image quality set at the broadcasting communication unit.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070104458 - Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, recording medium, program and computer-readable recording medium: A recording apparatus contains a timer that measures the current time based on a time zone. When writing a VOB onto a DVD, the recording apparatus refers to TM_ZONE recorded on the DVD, and judges whether the time zone which the timer is based on matches the time zone that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070104456 - Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recording device as supplemental storage: Systems and methods for recording programs using a user's equipment and a network recording device are provided. An interactive television application may determine whether the user's equipment has sufficient resources (e.g., tuners or space) to record a program selected for recording. If the interactive television application determines that the user's... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070104460 - Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing digital video signal on audio signal, and optical disk apparatus: A disk-like recording medium recording/reproducing method or apparatus for performing a data recording operation and a data reproducing operation to the disk-like recording medium alternately. The recording operation is performed at a constant linear velocity, and whether a recording area at an ending point of an n-th recording operation on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070104459 - Video-signal recording and playback apparatus, video-signal recording and playback method, and recording medium: Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104461 - Digital audio recording/reproduction apparatus for recording and reproducing still image and video and method of providing user interface therein: A digital audio recording/reproduction apparatus to record and reproduce a music file and to record a still image or video, and a method of providing a user interface therein, includes a controller to control the digital audio recording/reproduction apparatus and to display a user interface which displays a function to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070104462 - Image signal processing device, imaging device, and image signal processing method: An image signal processing device that includes: a recording section; a first processing section that calculates an amount of screen motion through detection of a motion of a captured image, and determines a frame rate through comparison between the amount of screen motion and a preset motion threshold value; and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070104463 - Method and apparatus for recording and playing back monitored video data: A method and an apparatus are provided for recording and playing back monitored video data for recording monitored video data generated continuously for a long time on a magnetic tape. Video signals from a video camera are converted to digital signals in an A/D converter, compressed and encoded in a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070104464 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus and method are provided to decode compressed moving image data and selectively display a moving image corresponding to the decoded moving image data. The image forming apparatus includes a decoding unit which decodes compressed moving image data and a moving image reproduction unit which reproduces the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070104465 - Device and method for recording information: A device records a video program on a record carrier according to a predefined recording format, such as DVD. The device has an input unit (27) for receiving the video. The program includes menus for display on a screen for providing user control for accessing the program. The device has... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070104466 - File recording device, file reproducing device, file editing device, file recording method, file reproducing method, file editing method, program of file recording method program of file reproducing method program of file editing method: The present invention is applied to a videodisc device for example, sets information necessary for reproducing a multiplexed stream, and information necessary for reproducing streams making up this multiplexed stream to one of blocks serving as management information, and assigns this multiplexed stream to the track corresponding to the block... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070104467 - Portable player for videodisc with a screen which can rotate in upturn and/or turn around: A portable videodisc player with a screen which is axially and upwardly rotatable. The player has a screen, which is rotatable within 180 degrees relative respectively to the vertical and horizontal axes. The player has a main body having a disc driver and a disc information read/processor, and a display... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070098348 - Degradation/preservation management of captured data: In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for designation of a first portion of a data stream for retention at a first resolution, wherein the data stream represents video and/or audio information; and accepting input for designation of a second... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070098349 - Feeling and physical condition stabilizer for stabilizing user's feeling and physical condition: An information processing unit is provided which positively stabilizes a user's feeling and physical condition by deciding the user's feeling and physical condition based on the user's body temperature change and the like. Depending on the user's hand temperature, a CPU (110) automatically selects an aromatic for stabilizing the user's... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070098352 - Broadcast receiver and method for diagnostic information presentation: A host includes a controller configured to collect video data recording device diagnostic information from a video data recording device. The controller is further configured to control displaying of the video data recording device diagnostic information.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070098355 - Computer and monitor, display environment adjustment system and method comprising the same: A display environment adjustment system and method are provided for a computer which comprises a connector with which a monitor is connected, and a video card supplying a video signal to the monitor through the connector, further comprising a program storage part which stores an auto adjustment program therein to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070098353 - Dvd recorder with surveillance function: A recording/reproducing apparatus with a surveillance function includes a first signal input terminal for receiving video signals from an image-capturing device; a second signal input terminal for receiving TV signals from a TV signal source; a control circuit coupled to the first and second signal input terminals for processing the... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070098354 - 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.

20070098351 - Methods and computer program products for playing audio/video programs on a portable electronic device: Methods of playing audio/video content at a portable electronic. device include playing a first audio/video program, interrupting the playing of the first audio/video program based on a stored user preference, and playing a second audio/video program. Playing of the first audio/video program may be resumed after the completion of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070098350 - System and method for content-based navigation of live and recorded tv and video programs: A system, method and computer-readable medium are presented for providing real-time content-based navigation of live video programming. The video programming is received and a searchable database is generated. The method aspect of the invention comprises receiving a live video program, generating an index to the received live video program by... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070098356 - Data processor: A data processor includes: a stream extracting section for acquiring a first data stream and then a second data stream; a packet inserting section, which makes a dummy packet, having a dummy identifier that is different from any of the identifiers of packets in a stream, and which inserts the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070098358 - Digital video recorder with jump-pause function: A television set, digital video recorder, or the like having a user-operable jump-to-start-and-pause function. When activated, such as via a remote control unit button or an on-screen menu item, the jump-to-start-and-pause function jumps or rewinds the currently playing video program to its beginning and pauses until the user e.g. selects... Agent: Richard Calderwood Stexar Corp.

20070098357 - Dvr content skip navigation: DVR content skip navigation is described. In an embodiment, a video system renders video for display at a playback speed for viewing. An input can be received to initiate a fast review of the video for a designated duration during which the video is viewable. After the designated duration of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070098359 - 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.

20070098361 - Broadcasting signal recording/playing system, broadcasting signal recording/playing apparatus and broadcasting signal tuning apparatus: A broadcasting signal recording/playing system and method are provided, including a storage apparatus which stores a broadcasting signal therein; a playing apparatus which processes the broadcasting signal and outputs it; and a broadcasting signal tuning apparatus which has a broadcasting signal tuning unit to tune the broadcasting signal, and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070098360 - Program recording reservation system and remote controller: A program recording reservation system includes a recording apparatus including a recorder for recording a broadcast program; and a remote controller for making a recording reservation for the recording apparatus. A content management section is provided for managing, as recording parameters, an average recording bit rate for each of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070098362 - Content item recorder and method of recording therefor: The invention relates to a content item recorder such as a DVD recorder. The recorder comprises a user input (111) for receiving protection information from an end user. A section processor (113) divides the content item into sections in response to the protection information, and an access characteristic processor (115)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070098365 - 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.

20070098366 - 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.

20070098367 - Recording medium and recording and reproducing method and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source. Each text subtitle stream includes text data to be displayed within a region of a display screen, first information specifying a global style of the region, and second information specifying a local style... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070098363 - Recording medium, playback apparatus and method, recording method, and computer-readable program: A BD-ROM stores a video stream and a graphics stream. The video stream represents a moving picture. The graphics stream is used for overlaying one or more menus on the moving picture, and includes interactive control information (ICS) and a plurality of pieces of graphics data (ODSs). The graphics data... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070098364 - System for making a personalized digital recording: The invention is a system for producing a production run of recordings on digital media, in which each recording of the run is unique and each contains personal information of some type relating to an individual in a group. The personal information can be a photo of an individual imprinted... Agent: Robert L. Shaver Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20070098369 - Digital audio/video playback system capable of controlling audio and video playback speed: A digital audio/video playback system capable of controlling audio and video playback speed for decoding a digital audio/video signal and then outputting such signal. The system includes: a loader configured to receive the digital audio/video signals, a parser configured to resolve the digital audio/video signals into a video bitstream and... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070098368 - Mobile recording studio system: A stand-alone performance recording system includes an enclosure or performance area adapted to be moved from a first location to a second location, and temporarily, semi-permanently or permanently set up at the second location for the purpose of recording the audio and/or visual aspects of an event performed within the... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy LLP

20070098370 - Digital video recorder: A digital video recording system and method for recording video data. The digital video recording system has a video recording device configured to receive video input from the video input device. The video recording device includes a server, a plurality of video encoder cards, and a storage control module. Each... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070098371 - Multimedia learning system with digital archive: The present invention relates to a multimedia learning system with digital archives, in which all lecture notes and audio/video data are integrally stored and controlled with the time axis and the semi-structured language, i.e., extensive markup language (XML). The user can access the audio/video data from the archives with log... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070098372 - Digital television recorder for recording multiple sets of audio tracks and method thereof: A digital television (DTV) recorder includes a tuner coupled to an incoming RF signal for selecting a carrier frequency and outputting a corresponding transport stream, a program de-multiplexer such as an MPEG de-multiplexer coupled to the transport stream for outputting at least one selected program service, a track selector coupled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation