Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 06/07

20070147769 - Portable image pickup device: From a time point at which a storage capacity reaches a certain remaining capacity with respect to a limit value of 4 GB per one file depending on a file system, a subtraction time-managing portion (100A) changes photographing elapsed time display (174) which is displayed on a display picture of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070147770 - Moving image reproducing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a moving image reproducing apparatus which reproduces content including a plurality of compressed streams comprises a display section which generates and outputs a display signal for displaying in list form configurations of a plurality of streams in the content and a plurality of reproducing conditions each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147779 - Information-processing device, content-reproduction-propriety-determination-notification method, and content-reproduction-propriety-determination-notification program: An information-processing device including a recording unit configured to record a plurality of types of content-data items to be recorded onto at least one predetermined recording medium, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the plurality of types of content-data items recorded onto the recording medium by the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070147785 - Method of detecting information break position of multiplexed stream, sound digital broadcast recording apparatus, and recording control method: A sound digital broadcast recording apparatus includes receiving means for receiving a multiplexed stream, stream separating means for separating the multiplexed stream received by the receiving means into sound data and a section, decoder means for decoding the sound data, recording means for recording the sound data, silence detecting means... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070147775 - Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals: An audio and/or video generation apparatus comprises a recording processor which is operable to record audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor which is operable to generate meta data identifying the content of the audio/video signals, and a communications processor which arranged to communicate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147772 - Broadcast recording apparatus and broadcast recording method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus includes a tuner unit which receives a broadcast signal, demodulates the received signal, and outputs a plurality of broadcast contents, a recording unit which records the plurality of broadcast contents from the tuner unit, and a control which that makes control to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147773 - Digital television: When recording image data inputted from a plurality of data ports and a clock port, for a data port at which the data value has not changed over a predetermined time period, the data value at that data port and a data item which indicates that this data value has... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070147774 - Image display system, image reproducing apparatus, digital television apparatus, image display method, and storage medium: There is provided an image display system that can display images recorded by a plurality of image recording apparatuses in such a manner that the images are associated with each other. The image display system is comprised of a TV apparatus that captures and reproduces images recorded by the plurality... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147771 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and programmed recording method thereof: A recording and reproducing apparatus is operable to set a programmed recording of a television program. A recording date setting section sets a recording date of the programmed recording to a date of a day on which the programmed recording is set when the programmed recording is commanded. A recording... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070147778 - Combination system and copy error preventing method thereof: A combo system and method having a play unit to play a signal recorded on a first recording medium and a recording unit to record the signal played by the play unit on a second recording medium. A detector detects whether a predetermined copy preventing signal exists within the signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147777 - Communication apparatus and its control method and program: In a network including a source of video contents and a playback terminal to receive video contents distributed from the source of video contents and play back the video contents, information on viewing state of video contents is collected and the collected information is stored. Then access right of the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070147776 - Recording medium destruction apparatus, recording medium destruction system, electronic equipment supervising apparatus, and computer program: A recording medium destruction apparatus capable of confirming that a recording medium no longer required is destroyed to enter an unreadable state is provided. In a recording medium destruction apparatus 91 that drives a pin 1 for destroying a recording medium 15 so that information recorded on the recording medium... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070147783 - Combination system and copy error preventing method thereof: A combo system and method having a play unit to play a signal recorded on a first recording medium and a recording unit to record the signal played by the play unit on a second recording medium. A detector detects whether a predetermined copy preventing signal exists within the signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147781 - Information playback apparatus and operation key control method: Operation keys are selectively invalidated according to the type of an information medium or recorded contents. The medium type of an information medium to be played back is discriminated in addition to detection as to whether or not the information medium to be played back includes information (ADV_OBJ file, etc.)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147782 - Information reproducing apparatus and method of displaying the status of the information reproducing apparatus: When an object is reproduced according to a playlist, the reproducing status is lively displayed. An information reproducing apparatus includes a navigation manager which manages a playlist used to arbitrarily specify reproducing times of a plurality of objects in a singular form and/or multiplexed from, a data access manager, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147784 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data using management data: A method and apparatus are provided for creating and recording management information for digital data streams, and for reproducing data using the management information. According to an embodiment, the method for recording a digital data stream being received, comprising: (a) recording received stream units of a digital data stream along... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070147780 - Recorder and recording method: According to one embodiment, a recorder comprises: a first area generation unit configured to generate a first recording area used for recording first data in the storage medium; a second area generation unit configured to generate a second recording area in the storage medium, the second recording area used for... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070147786 - Moving picture playback equipment and moving picture playback method: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a moving picture playback equipment includes a disk drive section which reads out video information containing voice streams, subtitle streams and menu information items of a plurality of languages and management information thereof, a decode stream setting information management section, a decode... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147788 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes an apparatus body having a storage medium insertion slot to insert and remove an information storage medium, and a display unit supported by the apparatus body in a turnable manner, being capable of opening and closing the storage medium insertion slot. The display unit includes a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070147787 - Image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, method of controlling image recording apparatus, method of controlling image reproducing apparatus, computer program, and recording medium: A system, method and computer program product for arranging digital data in a file in an apparatus-implemented system, is disclosed. One or more pages are generated, where each page includes: i. a mode field containing a camera operation mode, ii. an image data field containing image data, iii. an offset... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147789 - Apparatus and method for image coding and decoding: A computer-readable medium has data stored thereon for processing by an image decoding apparatus so that multimedia content is presented in an intended manner by a display. A data recording area contains data representing a converted video stream, at least another stream, and multimedia coding data for controlling display of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070147790 - Image data recorder, image data recording method, and program: An image data recorder coding a still image in accordance with a moving image coding system, and recording a still-image-converted moving image acquired by coding onto a recording medium includes: a reading unit reading out an aspect ratio set for the recording medium; a determining unit acquiring an aspect ratio... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147791 - Moving image reproducing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a moving image reproducing apparatus which reproduces content including a plurality of streams compressed according to a plurality of CODECs, the moving image reproducing apparatus comprises a display section which generates and outputs a display signal for displaying in list form configurations of a plurality of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147792 - Moving picture playback equipment and moving picture playback method: According to one embodiment of this invention includes a disc drive section which reads compressed video information and management information from a recording medium. The management information contains resolution information obtained when the compressed video information is decoded. Digital-to-analog converters subjects the video information decoded by the decoder sections to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147793 - Display control apparatus and display control method, and program thereof: A display control apparatus includes: reading means for reading still image data from a recording medium on which the still image data are recorded in a predetermined order; display control means for displaying the still images read by the reading means; and still image accepting means for accepting commands regarding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147795 - Disk unit-integrated display: A disk unit-integrated display capable of reducing a height of the disk unit-integrated display while inhibiting the number of components from increase and structure from complication, in a case of having a structure in which a rib portion for locating a position in a height direction is provided at a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070147794 - Information processing apparatus and playback control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is capable of playing back moving picture data from a disc medium of a two-layer structure. The apparatus includes an estimation processing portion to estimate an available time to play back the moving picture data item stored in the first recording layer... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070147799 - Disk reproducing device and video data output method: A disk reproducing device which is connected to a television device meeting an HDMI standard and is operable to output information data that has a native format and is recorded on a disk to the television device, includes: an obtaining unit, operable to obtain an EDID including video resolution information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070147800 - Disk reproduction apparatus and content reproduction method: According to one embodiment, a disk reproduction apparatus featured by downloading additive contents from a supply source of contents of a disk at a time point at which the disk has been set, and then, storing the downloaded additive contents in a predetermined storage section, detecting a first play list... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147796 - Disk unit-integrated display and disk unit-integrated television: A disk unit-integrated display capable of increase in conveyance efficiency and reduce in conveyance cost of a disk unit, a holding member and a first circuit board unitized with each other can be obtained. This disk unit-integrated display includes the disk unit having a drive portion, the holding member for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070147797 - Disk unit-integrated television and disk unit-integrated display: A disk unit-integrated display capable of being downsized while inhibiting the number of components from increase is obtained. This disk unit-integrated display includes a disk unit, a cover member arranged on an upper surface of the disk unit and including a mounting portion, a first circuit board mounted on the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070147798 - Dvd player with function of displaying variable sentences simultaneously and method for producing subtitles thereof: The present invention is to provide a DVD player with function of displaying variable types of sentences simultaneously and a method for producing subtitles thereof. The system includes system resolution apparatus, a subtitle generation unit, a video decoding unit, a video subtitle composing unit, video outputting apparatus and a subtitle... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070147801 - Data playback method and device: There is provided a data playback method including: acquiring first image data by illuminating reference light for reading onto an optical recording medium on which a hologram has been recorded by Fourier transforming and simultaneously illuminating reference light and signal light expressing digital data as a light-and-dark image, and detecting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070147802 - Optcal disk device: A storage means, for each optical disk, and for each title recorded upon that optical disk, stores whether or not it is a replay-completed title. And an output means separates the titles recorded upon an optical disk which is loaded into replay-completed titles and titles which are not replay-completed, based... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070147803 - Image data recording apparatus, image data recording method, and program: An image data recording apparatus that sets a video image aspect ratio for a recording medium according to a predetermined recording format includes a determining unit for determining whether the aspect ratio has been set for the recording medium, a selecting unit for allowing a user to select the aspect... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147804 - Efficient systems and methods for transmitting compressed video data having different resolutions: The present invention relates to systems and methods for combining compressed video data encoded or received with different resolutions. The present invention combines the compressed video data from the two separate bitstreams without decoding and re-encoding each bitstream. To do so, the present invention determines which compressed video bitstream has... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070140658 - Time-shifting user interface method with automatic chaptering and audio-visual device using the method: A time-shifting user interface method employing an automatic chaptering function includes analyzing stored AV data and dividing the stored AV data into one or more chapters, and displaying a time-shifting user interface including information related to the one or more chapters on a screen. An audio-visual (AV) device uses the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140644 - Apparatus and method for indentifying the geographic location and time in a recorded sound track by using a stealth mode technique: A stealth mode technique records information onto the sound track of a camcorder without the knowledge of the user. Infrasound is continuously generated by an array of audio sources placed in a geographical position that potentially encompasses the location of the recording device. A database stores the known characteristics of... Agent: Thaddeus Gabara

20070140645 - Circuit arrangement and method for generating local oscillator signals, and phase locked loop having the circuit arrangement: A circuit arrangement for generating local oscillator signals is supplied with a reference frequency signal by means of a signal input. A frequency divider is used to derive a second signal from the reference frequency signal. The reference frequency signal and the second signal are supplied to a selection device,... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070140646 - Non-linear editing device: A non-linear editing device capable of removing a medium from a system during editing or even after editing by copying a material file in the medium to another medium such as a built-in hard disk during editing and automatically changing a reference destination of material. This non-linear editing device includes... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070140648 - Electronic device and scene skipping method: According to one embodiment, an electronic device which reproduces moving image data recorded in a recording medium includes (i) a scene change point detection module that detects a scene change point and (ii) a scene skipping module that skips from a first position of the moving image data to a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070140647 - Video data processing method and video data processing apparatus: I-frames are extracted from a normal play stream in an extract section (12), coding parameters and control parameters, such as VBV delay, related to a decoder buffer are modified for trick play in an I-frame picture data conversion processor (15), repeat pictures that display the same image content as the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140650 - Broadcast receiving apparatus: A broadcast receiving apparatus which can change the operation of a Java application depending on whether a broadcast is being viewed or recorded content is being reproduced. Control information, including first control information which controls startup of the Java application at the time of broadcasting and second control information which... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070140652 - Display apparatus for having a scheduling function to play recorded programs and a method thereof: A display device for having a scheduling function to play a recorded program and the method thereof is disclosed. The present invention includes a display device for having a scheduling function to play a recorded program comprising a memory for storing the recorded program, a user interface for setting a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070140649 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus with function of video recording reservation and information recording and reproducing method: Provided is a technique to eliminate a waste of a recording capacity due to redundant video recording reservations. When the video recording reservations made by a plurality of users overlap one another at least in part, video recording information in an overapping part of the video recording reservations is jointly... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140651 - Recording apparatus: The broadcast recording and reproduction apparatus 1300 which limits loss of content to a minimum includes: a recording generation unit 2801 which records data included in a broadcast signal into a unit-region; a volume remainder detection unit 2813 which detects the remaining capacity, within the unit-region, that can be recorded... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070140657 - Information recording method and information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion: With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140655 - Medium for storing subtitle data structure of an audio/ video program and method for display the same: The present invention provides a medium for storing a subtitle data structure of an audio/video program and a method for displaying the same. The subtitle data structure of the audio/video program includes a plurality of character packages and a background image package, wherein each character package further has a header... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070140656 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing subtitles with a video: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronising subtitles with a video, the method comprising, upon receipt of a user input indicative of a synchronisation error between the video and the subtitles displayed on the display, modifying the relative timing of the subtitle and video displays in accordance... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070140654 - Recording content on a record medium that contains a desired content descriptor: The invention relates to a method for recording content on a record medium (2) that contains a desired content descriptor (3), comprising the steps of reading said desired content descriptor (3) from said record medium (2), scanning the content (10, 12) of at least one multimedia source (6, 7) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140659 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for storing, reproducing and decoding a text subtitle stream: In one embodiment, the invention relates to a recording medium for storing a data structure. The data structure has at least one text subtitle stream. Each text subtitle stream includes a style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of presentation segments. Each presentation segment has at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140653 - Recording medium, playback device, recording method, playback method, and computer program: A recording medium capable of executing menu calls based on the particular characteristics of different versions of the same movie work when these different versions are recorded on a single recording medium. An AV clip and a dynamic scenario are recorded on a BD-ROM 100 (recording medium). The dynamic scenario... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070140660 - Description data structure for displaying a menu in an audio/video disc and method for using the same: A description data structure of a menu stored in an audio/video disc and a method for using the same are provided. The description data structure comprises a navigation data packet, a menu packet, and a program packet, wherein the menu packet further comprises a first header, a background image packet,... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070140661 - Image pickup device and reproduction control method: An image pickup device includes an image pickup including an image pickup lens system and an image pickup element operable to obtain a pickup image; a recording device operable to record image data based on the pickup image to a predetermined recording medium; a reproducing section operable to reproduce the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070140662 - Information processing apparatus, imaging device, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a data processor configured to execute processing for selecting a plurality of frame pictures from moving-picture data and for displaying an array of the selected frame pictures. In selecting frame pictures to be displayed, the data processor preferentially selects frame pictures corresponding to highlight points... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070140664 - Method, apparatus and program for reproducing a moving picture: An apparatus and a method in which, even in case the transmitted speed on a transmission channel is low and hence it is not possible to provide a sufficient number of frames, a receiving side is able to restore a picture, which has not been received, with the use of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140663 - Multi-programme recording in dvd compliant format: There is a desire to simultaneously record two or more programmes (sources 28). There is hereby disclosed a method of and apparatus for recording two or more independent video programmes simultaneously to a recordable DVD (digital versatile disk) (10) while maintaining conformance to the DVD Video specification. The DVD Video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140665 - Image recording/reproducing apparatus: A multidirectional operation switch is disposed on the same surface as a display area of an image display unit rotatable about a rotating shaft of a hinge when an image recording/reproducing apparatus is in use, and is positioned near the display area and at the other end of the hinge.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070140666 - Image switching apparatus and method of controlling image processing unit thereof: An image processing unit of an image switching apparatus includes main circuit blocks (5a), (5b) and (6) and sub circuit blocks (5d), (5e) and (7). An operation unit in the image switching apparatus includes a means for designating one of or both of the main circuit blocks and the sub... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070140667 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, recording medium, data structure, authoring apparatus, authoring method, and authoring program: A reproducing device which reproduces contents data recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium is disclosed. The reproducing device includes: an input unit which inputs data including at least the contents data, button images capable of displaying animations of buttons used in an operation screen that prompts a user to perform... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140668 - Stream control device: The stream control device includes: (a) a series of units from an AV output device to a de-multiplexing unit, which decodes a stream and outputs the decoded data; (b) a parameter list storage unit in which a parameter list is stored, the parameter list including basic list structures connected in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070133937 - Control device and control method: A control device including: a reception section for receiving a control signal from a transmission section which transmits, based on activation of N sensing portions (where N is an integer equal to or greater than two) placed in a predetermined arrangement, a control signal for giving an instruction to an... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070133939 - Hard disk equipped optical disk recorder: A hard disk equipped optical disk recorder includes an optical disk drive which performs recording and reading of data to and from an optical disk loaded thereinto, and a hard disk drive which performs recording and reading of data to and from a hard disk. When the optical disk drive... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070133938 - 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 facilitates a selective playback of a specific one among a plurality of broadcast programs stored for the time-shift function. The television receiver includes a personal video recorder for enabling a time-shift function by storing in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133941 - Playback apparatus: A playback apparatus plays back, from a recording medium, a plurality of information files, and a modified file which is generated using a portion of the plurality of information files. If modified data specified in playback description data for specifying a playback procedure for the plurality of information files including... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070133940 - System and method for generating and documenting personalized stories: The invention enables customers to generate a story by interaction with a computer. A software program allows the customer to assume the role of a character within a story. Digitized photographs and personal data are captured and input (retail environment) or uploaded (Web environment), relating to the customer, associated children,... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20070133942 - Reproduction of a trick play signal: A trick play signal is derived from a stored, and typically encrypted video stream. The video stream comprises data representing a series of I frames and P or B frames encoded at a variable bit rate, the I-frames being decodable independent of any other frame, decoding of the P or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133943 - Broadcast recording apparatus and broadcast recording method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus has a temporary recording region portion that records broadcast contents from a tuner, a storage region portion that records broadcast contents, and control unit that carries out recording of broadcast contents within a range of a time limit in the temporary recording... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070133944 - Information processing apparatus, information recording medium manufacturing apparatus, information recording medium, method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit and a memory. The control unit obtains a content playback application program, recorded on an information recording medium, corresponding to content recorded on the information recording medium, and performs a content playback operation according to the obtained content playback application program. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133948 - Digital video system: The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playback management information of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133946 - Dvd changer ux: A user experience for displaying and organizing content available on discs in an external media changer is provided. A media content organizer for identifying discs, retrieving supplemental information, and presenting a display of the discs and disc information is also provided.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070133945 - Recording/reproducing device: The present invention provides a recording/reproducing device which shortens time required for dubbing, when a user performs the dubbing of program data. The recording/reproducing device of the present invention is a recording/reproducing device which records and reproduces information, including: a tuner control unit 4 which obtains first information; a recording/reproduction... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070133947 - Systems and methods for image search: The invention relates to systems and methods for searching using images as the search criteria. In one aspect, video is searched using images as search criteria. In another aspect, images are used to search for items for purchase, for example, in a store or in an auction context.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070133949 - In-vehicle information reproducing apparatus: An in-vehicle information reproducing apparatus includes a display capable of presenting plural pictures reproduced by a picture reproducing portion corresponding to seating positions of plural passengers individually. A sound distributing portion distributes plural sounds corresponding to the plural pictures reproduced by the sound reproducing portion individually corresponding to the seating... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070133950 - Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording method, image display apparatus and recording medium: A reproduction apparatus on which secondary video, which is displayed as a picture in picture video, is encoded in such a way that the secondary video information has an HD-size resolution as a video but its effective area is equal to or lower than a predetermined ratio of the whole... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070133952 - Method and system for reproducing contents: A contents reproducing method and apparatus are provided. The method of reproducing a group of contents includes: obtaining information on a plurality of pieces of contents belonging to a group to be reproduced; reading at least a part of the contents to be reproduced and buffering the part in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133951 - Offspeed playback in a video editing system of video data compressed using long groups of pictures: An editing system handles offspeed and full speed playback of long GOP compressed video information by having one decoder for full-speed or slower forward playback of long GOP compressed motion video information, and a second single-frame, stateless decoder for use for off-speed playback. When compressed data is read from a... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070133953 - Backup and recovery of recorded contents: The invention relates to a content item recorder (101) comprising storage means (109) for storing a plurality of content items. The content item recorder (101) may be a Personal Video Recorder comprising a hard disk. The content item recorder (109) comprises a back-up processor (115) generating reduced reference information associated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133954 - Data recording method, data recording apparatus and image pick-up apparatus: The present invention is directed to a data recording method of performing data recording while properly using at least two respective divided recording areas on an optical recording medium (5) in accordance with kind of data to be recorded, wherein in the case where inputted data is still picture, remaining... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070127879 - Audio/video reproducing systems, methods and computer program products that modify audio/video electrical signals in response to specific sounds/images: An audio/video reproducing system is automatically electronically controlled in response to specific sensed sounds, specific sensed images and/or specific sensed patterns of nonvisible electromagnetic radiation that are identified electronically from a predefined set of specific sounds, a predefined set of specific images and/or a predefined set of electromagnetic radiation patterns.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070127880 - Apparatus and method for video data processing in digital video decoding: An apparatus and method for video data processing in digital video decoding, such as digital video disk (DVD) decoding, which produces new video data according to main picture data, sub-picture unit (SPU) data, and an aspect ratio. The apparatus includes a sub-picture-unit-decoding and color-determining device, a mixer, a buffer, and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070127881 - System and method for smooth fast playback of video: I-frames are transcoded to lower than normal rates during fast playback modes, so that smoother fast playback is performed at the original stream rate because no I-frame need be dropped.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070127883 - Digital multimedia broadcasting receiver, image-forming system having the same, and image-forming method thereof: A digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) receiver is provided in an image-forming. Such a DMB receiver comprises: a receiving unit for receiving DMB signals; a data storage unit for converting the received DMB signals to image data and storing the converted image data; and a connection unit arranged to interface with... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070127882 - Video recording apparatus and method thereof: A video recording apparatus, by comparing the preselected video recording duration with a preset reference video recording duration, assumes a video recording end time as an end time of a broadcast program next to the broadcast program for which the start of video recording is instructed in case the preselected... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070127887 - Digital video recorder enhanced features: A method and device for performing enhanced recording, editing and management features for content in a communication system. The device may be a set top box (STB) for example, and preferably a STB equipped with digital video recording (DVR) capabilities. The method offers users an ability to select, record and... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070127886 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for decoding text subtitle streams: At least one text subtitle stream is recorded on a recording medium. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog presentation segment contains at least one region of dialog text and being linked to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070127885 - 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. The text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog style segment contains at least one region of dialog text,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070127884 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, program, recording medium, and data structure: The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, a program, a recording medium, and a data structure that enable interactive operations when playing back AV content. A controller 34 obtains an order list of audio stream numbers in advance. In response to an instruction to switch audio... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127888 - Audio and video recording and reproducing apparatus, audio and video recording method, and audio and video reproducing method: A recording and reproducing apparatus for audio and video has an AV input section (100) that receives audio and video main information, an audio additional information input section (110) that receives audio additional information (voice memo) added to the main information, a recording and reproducing section (140) that records and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070127889 - Method and apparatus for providing audio content selection information, generating and providing thumbnail of audio content, and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A method and apparatus for providing information allowing a user to select an audio content desired to be reproduced based on a visual thumbnail of the audio content, and a recording medium storing a program for performing the method are provided. The method includes analyzing additional information and frequencies of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070127890 - Mobile telephone device: A user photographs an area including a desired portion of a television program schedule (with G-code numbers) in a newspaper, and the like, with a digital camera functional portion (219) of a mobile telephone device (2). A CPU (209) performs, for example, a data transmission/reception by a mobile telephone functional... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070127891 - Apparatus and method of seamless switching between a live dtv decoding and a pvr playback: Methods and apparatus for switching between a live video decoding and a recorded playback in a digital video and recording system. A received video data stream is transmitted to a first-in first-out video decoder buffer without first looping the video data stream through a playback buffer. The video data stream... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070127892 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127893 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127894 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127895 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.