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

20070172194 - Program for controlling display of simulation video digest: Image processing device is able to obtain digest video of an actual video with a simple configuration and has processor that generates simulation video data, image display control circuit that converts simulation video data into video signal and displays video signal on a display device, primary buffer that reads the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070172197 - Realtime playback method for video recording system: The invention provides a realtime playback method for a digital video recording system, comprising receiving input video data, saving the input video data as buffered data, and, when the digital video recording system operates in a realtime playback mode, converting the buffered data to the output video data.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070172205 - Data storage apparatus and data reading method: A data storage apparatus using a plurality of hard disk drives for storing stream data includes a command receiving portion for receiving a stream data read command from the outside; and a data processing portion reading the stream data stored in the hard disk drives upon receiving the read command,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070172195 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, computer program, program storage medium, data structure, recording medium, recording device, and manufacturing method of recording medium: A reproducing apparatus includes a playback data acquisition unit for acquiring playback data containing encoded stream data, a decoding unit for decoding the stream data, a mixing unit for mixing data to be mixed, different from the stream data, with the stream data decoded by the decoding unit, and a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070172196 - Apparatus and method for programming the recording of broadcast programs: An apparatus and method for programming the recording of broadcast programs, for programming recording by setting the recording start time and the recording end time of a given program in the broadcast program information is provided, wherein the apparatus and method for programming the recording of broadcast programs, delays the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070172198 - Information recording apparatus and method, information processing terminal, method and apparatus, and recording medium: New content is recorded onto a recording medium. Whether the current free recording capacity of the recording medium is sufficient to record the new content is determined. When the current free recording capacity of the recording medium is sufficient, the new content onto the recording medium is recorded. When the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070172204 - Information reproducing apparatus and method of displaying the status of the information reproducing apparatus: When objects are reproduced according to a playlist, its playback state is displayed live in such a manner that the user can understand the disc easily. This invention comprises a navigation manger which manages a playlist that specifies a playback time arbitrarily for a plurality of objects separately or in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070172201 - 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.

20070172203 - 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.

20070172206 - Moving image recording apparatus and method, moving image reproducing apparatus, moving image recording and reproducing method, and programs and storage media: A moving image recording apparatus is provided, which allows a user to enjoy reproducing a moving image by easily finding a corresponding desired scene from moving images. A moving image is recorded together with attribute information therefor. Division points at which the moving image breaks on a time base are... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070172208 - Optical disc, video data editing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium storing an editing program, reproduction apparatus for the optical disc, and computer-readable recording medium storing an reproduction program: An optical disc includes a data area for recording a plurality of video segments and an index area from recording original type chain information and user-defined type chain information. The original type chain information defines an original type chain including first ones of the video segments by describing a reproduction... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070172200 - Playback apparatus, playback method, and program: A playback apparatus includes a classified region selecting section that selects a classified region at random from among a plurality of classified regions on a recording medium, the recording medium including recorded data managed such that a plurality of pieces of unit data belong to corresponding classified regions serving as... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070172207 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing the recording medium: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a data area storing moving picture data, and a navigation area storing navigation information for managing reproduction of the moving picture data. The navigation information includes a metadata indicator indicating whether metadata associated with the moving picture data exists. The metadata is additional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070172209 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for recording on recordable recording medium, and method for managing backup files of the same: A method of recording data on a recording medium by a recording apparatus which is unable to create a backup file. The method includes deleting a backup file corresponding to an original file from the recording medium when the original file on the recording medium is modified or deleted.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070172202 - 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 a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070172199 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, program storage medium, and program: The present invention displays subtitles in a language desired by a user in a desired format. A text data decoder 121 decodes text subtitle data, supplies a character object to a character object buffer 122, and supplies attribute data to an attribute data buffer 123. The attribute data stored in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172210 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, and recording medium: For a large capacity recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility and enriched representation is accomplished. A flag that represents whether a play item has a multiple angle structure of which the play item is reproduced with a plurality of angles is described. In addition, a flag that represents... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172211 - Adaptive filtering to enhance video bit-rate control performance: This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pixels. An adaptive image filter may compare image information associated with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070172213 - 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.

20070172212 - Recording apparatus, integrated circuit for recording apparatus, recording method, computer program, and recording medium which facilitates content recording: When a preprogrammed recording is set, a recording medium to be used for the preprogrammed recording is specified using an identifier. In a case where the recording medium with the specified identifier is not attached to the drive unit when a content is to be recorded, the content is recorded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070172214 - Optical disc signal reproducing device: The optical disk signal reproducing device is configured to reproduce audio/video signals recorded on an optical disk at high multiplex speed, separate the reproduced audio/video signals into audio signals and video signals, expand and decode the video signals, encode the decoded video signals to video signals of a predetermined signal... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070165996 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an apparatus body having on one surface thereof a recording medium insertion slot of a recording medium storing portion where an information recording medium is detachably stored, in which the recording medium storing portion is obliquely provided such that the information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070166008 - Digital information recording medium, digital information recording and reproducing apparatus and recording and reproducing method thereof: In a recording medium in which a rewritable video manager and video objects are recorded, the video objects comprise video elementary streams defined in H.264, and the video manager includes information of the video objects having described therein a video object type in which a seamless flag and a seamless... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165997 - Control signal receiving apparatus: When the HPD (104b) which indicated that the transmission of a control signal between the data receiving apparatus (102) and the control signal receiving apparatus (101) has become possible is detected, the command judging section (115) ignores the first reception command which it directly received from the remote controller (103)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070165998 - File recording device, file reproducing device, file recording method, program of file recording method, recording medium containing therein program of file recording method, file reproducing method, program of file reproducing method, and recording mediu: This invention applies illustratively to the editing of taken pictures by use of a QT format file. An effect track ET is made by setting a null effect having no effect advantage and an active effect having an effect advantage with regard to a video track ST associated with video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165999 - Coded-data decoding/playback apparatus: A coded-data decoding/playback apparatus includes an image decoding means 2 for decoding blocks containing intra-coded data which can be independently decoded and which is include in inputted compressed image data in response to the placement of the image decoding means in a trick play mode in which image data is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070166001 - Digital security surveillance system: A digital security surveillance system allows a user to store selected security surveillance feeds while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing another feed. User control commands are accepted and sent through the system. The system parses the resulting digital stream and generates identifying information associated with at least one... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070166000 - System and method for generating trick mode streams: Disclosed are systems and methods for creating a trick mode stream. A digital home communication terminal (DHCT) comprises a network interface, a storage medium, at least one memory storing program code; and at least one processor programmed by at least the program code. The network interface is in communication with... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070166003 - Personal spectrum recorder: A system and method is disclosed for a personal radio recorder. The personal radio recorder allows for random access of communication signals by identifying a channel and time. The personal radio recorder is capable of concurrent reception, storage and playback of a complete spectrum of individual communication signals. A wide-band... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070166004 - Robot system using menu selection card having printed menu codes and pictorial symbols: Disclosed herein is a robot system. The robot system includes a menu selection card, an optical reader, and a robot main body. Minute codes corresponding to respective menu options selectable in a robot system are printed on the menu selection card along with pictorial symbols corresponding to the respective menu... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070166002 - System and method for transport pid version check: Systems and methods for processing media information are disclosed and may include tracking a number of times that at least one stored identifier that identifies program content for a particular data channel that is received via one of a plurality of multiplexed transport data streams is modified. At least a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070166009 - Dvd menu authoring system and method: A DVD authoring system in a processor-based system removes an author from consideration of the DVD Specification during authoring. According to a preferred embodiment, the authoring system provides an authoring engine having an interactive graphical authoring interface, a data management engine, an emulator, a compiler, a multiplexer and a simulator.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070166005 - Method for controlling movie subtitles and captions: A method for controlling subtitles and captions information in video is described. The method includes determining at least one subtitle or caption within a video data stream, pausing the video data stream based on the determination and resuming play of the video data stream after a determined time period. The... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070166007 - Recording apparatus, recording method, program, encoding apparatus, and encoding method: A recording apparatus is disclosed which includes: a linking section configured to link one of a plurality of modes either to an input terminal through which to input a content or to an input encoding format for encoding the input content in accordance with a command from a user, each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070166006 - Video recording apparatus and method, video transmission method, program for video recording method, and storage medium having stored program for video recording method: A video recording apparatus includes a data acquisition section, an encoding section, and a recording section. With a plurality of groups of pictures corresponding to a cell in an optical disk format set as a recording unit, the encoding section generates streaming data by time division multiplexing of encoded data... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070166010 - Method for recording information on a record medium, record medium containing information, and method and device for reading information from a record medium: A method is described for recording an audiovisual information stream comprising a plurality of alternative parts (VS1; VS2; VS3) and at least one common part (AS1; AS2; GS1; GS2), wherein the alternative parts of the information stream are recorded in an interleaved manner. Each of the alternative information stream parts... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070166011 - Eit data processing system and method: Electrical impedance tomography (EII) data processing system, for acquiring and processing data from two-phase flows, comprising a dual-plane sensor, a plurality of digital signal processing modules configured in a data pipeline processing arrangement and a plurality of data acquisition subsystems in communication with a first one of said digital signal... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070166012 - Image data recording method and image data recording apparatus: Upon copying or moving an image file assigned a file name and containing image data and at least either a shooting date and time related to the image data or exposure related information at the time of shooting to record the image file onto recording means, the file name of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070166013 - Methods and apparatus for indexing and archiving encoded audio/video data: Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conversion into various formats required at the time of use or distribution. A single... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070166014 - Method and system of reducing data storage consumption when storing and using dvd data streams: Herein described is a system and method for storing and retrieving DVD data using a data storage drive. The system and method may be employed within an enhanced multimedia processing system, such as a personal video recorder (PVR) or digital video recorder (DVR). The PVR or DVR may incorporate a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070166015 - Recording device and method: The present invention relates to a recording device (1) and a corresponding recording method for recording user data in a user area (UA) on a recordable or rewritable optical record carrier (4) comprising OPC means (3) for performing optical power calibration by writing OPC test data on a record carrier... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160341 - Video signal playback unit and video signal playback method: A video signal playback unit includes a record and playback section (3) for recording and playing back image data, a skip operation section (6) for receiving skip playback instruction input resulting from user operation, a calculating section (8) for calculating, based on the skip playback instruction input being input from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070160342 - Methods and apparatuses for managing reproduction of text subtitle data: In one embodiment, the method includes, receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source. Each text subtitle stream includes a style segment and at least one presentation segment associated with the style segment. The style segment includes at least one set of style information, and each set... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070160343 - Playback apparatus, playback authorization server, program, and system integrated circuit: The playback apparatus of the present invention is able to judge whether a region code assigned to a BD-ROM matches a region code assigned to the playback apparatus. When the judgment result is in the affirmative, the playback apparatus plays back the content recorded on the optical disc. When the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070160347 - Image recording/reproducing apparatus: A video recording/reproducing apparatus capable of discriminating commercial message portions even when a broadcasting mode is the same. A magnetic head records television broadcasting signals to a magnetic tape and reproduces the television broadcasting signals from this magnetic tape. When the television broadcasting signals are reduced by recording/reproducing apparatus, an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070160345 - Multimedia reproduction device and menu screen display method: A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and user-friendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070160346 - Reading apparatus, reading method, program, and program recording medium: A reading apparatus for reading data from a digital versatile disc (DVD) generates information indicating a plurality of predetermined portions of content stored on the digital versatile disc, based on navigation information of the DVD on which the content is recorded. A storage reads the predetermined portions from the DVD... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160344 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program, and reproduction method: An AV Clip formed by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream and recorded on a BD-ROM as a recording medium. The video stream constitutes a moving picture while the graphics stream enables graphics to be overlaid on the moving picture, and includes pieces of control information called a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070160349 - Image and audio recording apparatus: An image and audio recording apparatus has a function of recording image data and/or audio data on a recording medium and a function of recording data on a set time band with a timer. When the timer-recording function is caused to set the recording operation, the recording of the image... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070160348 - Record reproducing device, simultaneous record reproduction control method and simultaneous record reproduction control program: A record/play device (200) includes a recording processor (201) that records, on a recording medium (220), a series content data sequentially input, a playback processor 203 that plays back, during a recording process by the recording processor (201), content data recorded on the recording medium (220), and a controller 204... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160350 - Playback apparatus, program and playback method: When playing an AV Clip recorded on a BD-ROM, a judgment is made, for each elementary stream, which of a plurality of predetermined conditions the elementary stream satisfies. The plurality of predetermined conditions include (a) a condition that a playback apparatus has a capability of playing the elementary stream, (b)... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070160351 - Apparatus and method of reproducing moving picture at variable speed: Moving pictures are reproduced from a stored moving-picture signal and output at a set reproduction speed that is a first reproduction speed matching a rate of motion of the moving pictures or a second reproduction speed different from the first reproduction speed. The stored moving-picture signal is reproduced in accordance... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070154162 - Information recording apparatus, non-contact recording medium and recording method for the same: An information recording apparatus with a capability of recording information to a plurality of non-contact recording media within a communicable range of the apparatus body, the apparatus including: a medium loading portion into which a non-contact recording medium is removably loaded; a medium detector configured to detect that a non-contact... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070154164 - Converting a still image in a slide show to a plurality of video frame images: A method comprises generating still images for a slide show, converting at least one of the still images to a plurality of video frame images; and implementing a visual effect on at least one of the plurality of video frame images.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Adminstration

20070154163 - Systems and methods for creating aggregations of episodes of series programming in order: A viewer of an episode of a series such as a television series may wish to access episodes of the series that the viewer missed when they were originally broadcast. Interactive applications may receive the viewer's indication of interest to record missed episodes of the incomplete series, which may include... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070154166 - Apparatus and method for simultaneously providing a plurality of time shifting functions: An apparatus and method for simultaneously providing a plurality of time shifting functions is disclosed. An apparatus for simultaneously providing a plurality of time shifting functions comprises a first memory for storing a first broadcast program for performing a first time-shifting function; a second memory for storing a second broadcast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070154165 - Media delivery system with content-based trick play mode: A media delivery system simultaneously delivers a media asset stream (201) for normal play-out and a trick play stream (202) for the fast forward and rewind modes. The trick play stream (202) is a content-based summary of said media asset stream (201) instead of a dropped frame version of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070154167 - 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.

20070154173 - Broadcasting receiver and method for recording and reproducing video signal: A broadcasting receiver and method for recording and reproducing a video signal in a digital recording medium are disclosed. A digital/analog broadcasting signal which is directly received via an antenna or a cable, an external video signal (e.g., a HDMI signal, a DVI signal, an YPbPr signal, a RGB signal,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070154170 - Managing a digital video recorder via a network: The aspects of the present invention provide a computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for managing programming for a digital video recorder via a network. The method includes receiving user instructions at a content manager, wherein the content manager receives the user instructions through a network. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070154171 - Navigating recorded video using closed captioning: Video navigation is provided where a video stream encoded with captioning is received. A user-searchable captioning index comprising the captioning and synchronization data indicative of synchronization between the video stream and the captioning is generated. In illustrative examples, the synchronization is time-based, video-frame-based, or marker-based.... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070154172 - Recording and reproduction apparatus: With time buffer reproduction, which uses a fixed-length ring buffer, it is necessary to forcefully change the reproduction position in the case where reproduction is paused and the recording position within the ring buffer makes a revolution around the ring buffer and reaches the position of reproduction, and thus the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070154168 - Systems and methods for accessing media program options based on program segment interest: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for maintaining a user's interest level in a media program by providing different media program options for a media program. The media programs can have logical segments, and the disclosed technology can monitor a user's interest in particular media program segments. In one... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070154169 - Systems and methods for accessing media program options based on program segment interest: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for maintaining a user's interest level in a media program by allowing a user to access particular segments of interest from a media program. A media program can have logical segments, and the disclosed technology can identify the segments of the media program.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070154174 - Video signal recording and reproducing apparatus: The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video signal; a writing section for intermittently writing a compressed video signal, obtained as... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070154175 - Digital information recording-reproducing apparatus: A digital information recording-reproducing apparatus which records and reproduces a digital information signal transmitted together with an additional information includes a discriminator which discriminates a type of the digital information signal based on the additional information, a recorder which generates control information based on the additional information, adds the control... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070154177 - Apparatus and method of recording or reproducing content selection menu: A data processing apparatus includes a recording unit operable to record content including video stream and/or audio stream to a recording medium, and a menu recording unit operable to generate control information for displaying a first menu (“Treasure Menu”) and a second menu (“Pleasure Menu”). The first menu allows selection... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070154179 - Information playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus plays back content of an optical disk and hard disk, and displays the content on a display device. The information playback apparatus has a menu window display processing unit which stops playback of the content upon pressing a menu key during playback... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070154176 - Navigating recorded video using captioning, dialogue and sound effects: Video navigation is provided where a video stream encoded with captioning is processed to locate captions that match a search string. Video playback is implemented from a point in the video stream near the located caption to thereby navigate to a scene in a program containing dialogue or descriptive sounds... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070154180 - Recording medium having a data structure for backing up management files and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the data structure includes original management data managing reproduction of stream data. The original management data includes at least one stream information file managing at least one stream file, which includes the stream data; at least one playlist file, which manages the stream information; and at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070154181 - Recording medium, apparatus and method related to information representing tunes: An information recording medium includes a recording area for an auxiliary signal, and a recording area for a main signal. The auxiliary-signal recording area and the main-signal recording area are successively arranged. The main-signal recording area stores first information, second information, and third information. The first information represents plural tunes.... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070154178 - Video recording/reproducing apparatus having commercial view control function: Within a television broadcast recording/reproducing apparatus, for preventing a commercial message (CM) from being cut when viewing an abridgement (digest), and for presenting the CM to a viewer without losing an advantage of viewing the abridgement, a ranking value of a CM portion is changed, with using a means for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070154183 - Image and audio recording/reproducing apparatus: An image and audio recording/reproducing apparatus, comprising: an input portion, into which image/audio data are inputted; a recording/reproducing module, which is configured to record/reproduce the image/audio data onto a recording medium; and a controller module, which is configured to make such control of producing reproduction time information corresponding to timing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070154182 - Signal pickup method and video/audio recording and playing system using the same: In a signal pickup method of a video/audio recording and playing system, a recording length and a tracing-back length are preset. An external signal is received and storing into a buffer of the video/audio recording and playing system. A designated section of the external signal is automatically picked up from... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070154184 - Digital signal recording devices, digital signal recording/playback devices, and digital signal receiving/recording/playback devices: A digital signal recording device including: a digital broadcasting receiver which receives a digital broadcasting signal; an analog tuner which receives an analog broadcasting signal in which an analog video signal and an analog audio signal are multiplexed; a video A/D converter which converts to a digital video signal; a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070154186 - Method and apparatus for transmitting information, and reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and recording medium for the information, and transmission data thereof: An output control (OPC) information is recorded on the magnetic tape 1 in conjunction with an MPEG stream. The OPC information is composed of two bits and is extracted from a reproduced signal by the output control circuit 9 and controls the digital interface (D. I/F) 7 and the switch... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070154187 - Method and apparatus for transmitting information, and reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and recording medium for the information, and transmission data thereof: An output control (OPC) information is recorded on the magnetic tape 1 in conjunction with an MPEG stream. The OPC information is composed of two bits and is extracted from a reproduced signal by the output control circuit 9 and controls the digital interface (D. I/F) 7 and the switch... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070154185 - Method and system for transcoding video information to enable digital video recording (dvr) trick modes: Aspects of a method and system for transcoding video information to enable digital video recording (DVR) trick modes are provided. A current picture may be identified that is used in decoding additional pictures and not independently decodable. The picture may be decoded and re-encoded so that it is independently decodable.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070154189 - 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.

20070154188 - Method for operating a medical examination apparatus and an examination apparatus associated therewith: Method for operating a medical examination apparatus, having an image recording device, which is moved in a rotary motion through a predetermined angular range around the patient in order to produce image recordings of a periodically moving object, with several runs being carried out by the image recording device in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070154190 - Content tracking for movie segment bookmarks: Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant... Agent: Brenda Pomerance Law Office Of Brenda Pomerance

20070154191 - 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.