Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 09/07

20070223883 - Backup management apparatus: A backup processor for backing up data stored on a first storage medium to a second storage medium includes an obtaining unit that obtains, from the first storage medium, backup reference data for referring to directory data included in the data to be backed up; a memory that stores the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070223881 - Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing method: A header information acquiring section is operable to acquire header information of reproduction data to be reproduced from a hard disk. A bit rate information extracting section is operable to extract information on a bit rate at which the reproduction data is reproduced, from the acquired header information. A comparison... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070223882 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a frame buffer to store graphics data, a control section to perform control to alternately store in a plurality of buffers data of even-numbered lines and data of odd-numbered lines in picture data based on a progressive... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070223877 - Playback apparatus and playback method using the playback apparatus: A playback apparatus includes an output unit configured to output main video data used as a main image, sub-video data used as a subsidiary image, cursor data to display a cursor, graphics data to display operation guidance, and sub-picture data to display subtitles, a first blend processing unit configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070223884 - Apparatus and method for determining rendering duration of video frame: This invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining a rendering duration. An audio/video recording system is used for recording an audio bit stream and a video bit stream. The audio bit stream includes a plurality of audio frames. The video bit stream includes N video frames. According to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070223885 - Playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, a playback apparatus includes first to third digital signal processors. The first digital signal processor includes decode functions corresponding to a plurality of kinds of compression-decoding schemes and decodes first audio data, which is compression-encoded by using an arbitrary one of the plurality of kinds of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070223870 - Single board digital video system: A digital video system integrates onto a single circuit board the features of a hard disk drive with DVR control functionality. The video system includes a front end module that receives and tunes incoming video signals, a DVR module that provides overall system control and DVR trick play functionality and... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070223872 - Dubbing method utilizing label for identifying dubbing status: The present embodiments provide a program transferring method and an apparatus thereof. The method includes the following steps: selecting a program in a first storage medium; transferring the program from the first storage medium to a second storage medium; and generating a label for identifying the transferring status of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223871 - Method of generating a content item having a specific emotional influence on a user: A method of processing media content, the method comprising the steps of (210) obtaining a plurality of segments of the media content, each segment being associated with a predetermined emotion of a particular user; and (230) combining the segments so as to generate a content item (300, 410) for presentation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223873 - System and method for altering playback speed of recorded content: A method, apparatus (100) and system (200) for altering the playback speed of recorded content (105) to match a target syllable rate is provided. A user may enter a desired, target playback syllable rate through a user interface (101), such as a keypad or touch screen. Alternatively, the target playback... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070223874 - Video-audio synchronization: Visual and aural output from an audiovisual system (100, 200, 300) are synchronized by a feedback process. Visual events and aural events are identified in an audio signal path and a video signal path, respectively. A correlation procedure then calculates a time difference between the signals and either the video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223879 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing information: An information processing apparatus may include a recording controller for controlling recording of management information containing access information corresponding to recording information for an information recording medium. The recording controller may record backup management information on a non-volatile recording medium prior to the recording of master management information on the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070223878 - Image displaying method and video playback apparatus: A video playback apparatus includes a thumbnail creating unit for creating thumbnail image data for a video file, and a user operation unit for receiving an instruction from a user. The thumbnail creating unit divides a total playback duration time T of the video file into 2ˆn intervals and creates... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070223876 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program, reproduction method, and integrated circuit: A BD-ROM on which an AVClip and a Java™ application are recorded. The AVClip includes a video stream and an audio stream multiplexed therein. On the BD-ROM recorded further are management information and the Mixing_On flag corresponding to the management information. The management information indicates a playback control of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070223875 - Storage device and method of accessing storage device: The present embodiments provide a storage device and a method of accessing the storage device. The storage device is utilized for storing a plurality of first data and a plurality of second data. Each first data correlates respectively to a second data. The storage device includes a first storage segment... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223880 - Video playback apparatus: A video playback apparatus informs a user of scene change. The video playback apparatus includes a feature extraction unit to extract feature scenes having audio/video content and a playback unit to replay feature scenes that have been extracted by the feature extraction unit. The playback unit further includes an identification... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070223886 - Device for producing progressive frames from interlaced encoded frames: The present invention relates to a method of and a device for decoding a set of encoded frames at a first resolution (SD) so as to produce a set of output frames at a lower resolution (QCIF). Said device comprises: a partial decoding unit (DECp) for producing a first residual... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070223887 - Image processing method, image recording method, image processing device and image file format: A recording process records low-resolution video data while obtaining a high-resolution image in a window region being a portion of an entire image. Then, the process learns, as a resolution conversion rule, a resolution increasing parameter by using the high-resolution image. In a resolution increasing process, the resolution of the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070223888 - Digital television transmission with error correction: In a transmitter, a standard stream of encoded multi-media data and uniform error correction data is transmitted through a first channel. The uniform error correction data provides substantially the same error correction for all portions of the encoded multimedia data. Simultaneously, additional unequal error correction data is generated for critical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223889 - Embedded high definition media management module for information handling systems: A method for navigating within a disc. The method includes authoring the disc, the authoring including storing a plurality of files on the disc and a media management module on the disc and using a media management generation module to associate the files with search criteria, and executing the media... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070223890 - Optical disc apparatus: Provided is an optical disc apparatus capable of achieving a time search even if a loaded optical disc is a DVD on which information is recorded in +VR format. A system controller equipped in the optical disc apparatus adds up playback times of cells sequentially from a first cell and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070217757 - Av signal storage method and apparatus and television having broadcast stream storage function: Provided are an AV signal storage method and apparatus and a television (TV) having an AV signal storage function. The method includes storing an AV signal in a first storage unit when the AV signal is received; storing the received AV signal in a second storage unit when the second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070217760 - Pll control circuit of optical disc apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon program for controlling the optical disc apparatus: A PLL control circuit of an optical disc apparatus comprising: a voltage frequency conversion circuit that adjusts an oscillating frequency based on a control voltage to generate a first frequency signal; a phase comparison circuit that compares the phase of the first frequency signal with the phase of a second... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070217756 - Methods of storing and accessing pictures: A method of storing and accessing pictures in a multi-field video operation includes storing a first portion of a first field in first page of a first bank of a DRAM; storing a first portion of a second field in the first page of the first bank; reading the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070217758 - Data processor: To provide means for editing a content data stream quickly. A data processor according to the present invention can edit a content that has been written on a medium. The content is stored in a file as a data stream including multiple packets of the same packet size. And a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217759 - Reverse playback of video data: A first group of video frames are decompressed to create a first group of decompressed video frames. The first group of decompressed video frames are compressed in reverse order to create a first group of reverse-order video frames. A second group of video frames are decompressed to create a second... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070217761 - Method for video/audio recording using unrestricted pre-event/post-event buffering with multiple bit and frame rates buffer files: Aspects of the present invention include method and apparatuses that may be utilized to more efficiently use available storage space for a digital video recording system in a law enforcement vehicle and final “backend storage systems.” In one embodiment of the present invention, video and audio data is recorded in... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070217762 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM stores a video stream and a plurality of pieces of copy control information. The plurality of pieces of copy control information include “CCIforHD with CM”, “CCIforSD with CM”, “CCIforHD without CM”, and “CCIforSD without CM”. The video stream constitutes video composed of a plurality of video streams. Among... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070217763 - Robust surveillance system with partitioned media: A surveillance system having a plurality of MPEG compressed data streams each originating from a separate video/audio source. The data is stored on hard disk and streamed to tape in real time. The data is partitioned on the tape into about ten partitions, each partition including a plurality of data... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070217765 - Method and its application for video recorder and player: In a video recorder/player that increases a frame rate for only a channel in which an event occurs in images captured by a plurality of cameras and which performs event analysis with higher accuracy within limited processing resources and limited storage capacity, the channel in which the event occurs is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070217764 - Electronic apparatus, security management program and security management method: The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, including a photographing apparatus control unit controlling a photographing apparatus; and an access management unit performing an operation for recording, in history information by correlating with an information name invested to specific information, an image of an operator photographed by way of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070217767 - Method of managing media files and media playback apparatus: The invention relates to a method of managing media files received under different transmission modes and related media playback apparatus thereof. The method includes receiving a media file; retrieving media information from the media file regardless of what transmission mode is used when the media file is received; and modifying... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070217766 - Rotation speed control apparatus for disk recorder and method thereof: A rotation speed control apparatus for a disk recorder is provided, which includes a buffer monitor and a rotation speed decision maker. According to the amount of data in the buffer, the buffer monitor outputs a buffer data. According to the buffer data, the rotation speed decision maker outputs a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070217768 - Optical disc image forming apparatus: When an image is formed on an optical disc, a pickup is moved by a pitch S in the radial direction of the optical disc together with a slider supporting the pickup. An objective lens within the pickup is shifted by a predetermined shift amount L by an actuator to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070217769 - Method and kit for conducting marketing research using dvd technology: A method and a kit for conducting marketing research in which respondents evaluate a program and commercials using DVD technology.... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070212016 - Brake control system architecture and method for updating firmware of embedded controller: In a brake control system of a vehicle, a non-volatile memory of a micro controller mounted on a control apparatus can be rewritten data. The integrated control apparatus and a plurality of control apparatuses, which control the brake apparatuses to correspondingly installed at each wheel, are connected via the network.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070212020 - Timer reservation device and information recording apparatus: A timer reservation device includes a control portion for extracting broadcasting programs that match entered contents from broadcasting programs obtained by the broadcasting program obtaining portion when any one of items that are necessary for the timer reservation, such as record start date, record start time, record end time, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070212021 - Timer reservation device and information recording apparatus: A timer reservation device can enter a number greater than 24 as hours of time when the timer reservation is performed, and as to the recording reservation in a DVD recorder, “Dec. 16 (Thursday)”, for example, is entered as record start date, “25:00” is entered as record start time, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070212027 - Image processing device and image data transmission method: An image processing device includes: a reading unit to read information stored in a detachable storage medium; a transmission unit to transmit image data outwardly; a determination unit to determine, in a case where the transmission unit transmits the image data, whether or not the information stored in the detachable... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070212029 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method: A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A reproduction section reproduces video data from a record medium. The video data are managed in a unit of a clip composed of a plurality of frames which are chronologically successive. A first decode section decodes a first clip which is currently being output and... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070212014 - Two-branch outputting solid-state imaging device, driving method for the same and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a two-dimensional array, each of the photoelectric conversion elements accumulating a signal charge in accordance with a received amount of light; a charge transfer path that transfers the signal charge read... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212015 - Unlocking an audiovisual product: A method for use in reproducing an audiovisual product. The audiovisual product has plurality of cells of audiovisual data whose playback is controlled by a plurality of sequence instructions that each has a predetermined structure location within the audiovisual product. A playback code comprising a first set of digits is... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070212018 - Broadcast recording apparatus and broadcast recording method: According to one embodiment, there is provided broadcast recording apparatus having tuner unit which receives broadcast signal, demodulates the received signal, and outputs video image/voice signal, reservation setting unit which makes image recording reservation for specific program, and then, provides lock setting for preventing automatic deletion after image recording at... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070212019 - Broadcast recording apparatus and brodcast recording method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast recording apparatus includes a tuner unit which receives a broadcast signal, demodulates the received signal, and then, outputs a signal of a program, a recording unit which records the program signal outputted by the tuner unit in a recording medium together with management information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070212017 - System and method for television programming data management: A system, method, and service of managing data comprises establishing a computerized user profile guideline corresponding to selected television programming interests of a user; instructing a processor to manage data based on the computerized user profile guideline, wherein the data is received from a television programming broadcaster; and managing access... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070212022 - Electrophoretic display with reduced cross talk: A technique for driving a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display with reduced cross talk, including reduced image retention and dithering ghosting. Drive waveforms are aligned so that, during an image update period, image transitions (500, 600, 700, 800, 900) between substantially similar optical states (e.g., black-to-black) are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070212025 - Method and apparatus for restricting dvd content: Techniques described herein enable parents to establish a child-protective “kids zone” on a DVR. According to one technique, a DVR receives, from a parent, identities of DVD content items that the parent does not want children to view. The DVR maps the identities to a kids zone. During times that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070212024 - Method for processing a video sequence and apparatus implementing said method: The present invention is in the field of Content protection, most particularly in cinema venues where camcorder acquisition followed by immediate illegal distribution creates important revenue losses for content owners. It is known that anti-camcorder systems using a color modulation can be circumvented by using low shutter speed in the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070212023 - Video filtering system: A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for selective filtering of video and audio content. Incoming content (e.g., video content and/or audio content) is broken into segments that are individually, on a segment-by-segment basis, analyzed using user-defined criteria, referred to as “cues”. Based on the quantity and weight... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070212026 - Removable storage medium for audio-visual data: Playback devices, e.g. DVD players, for removable mass storage media used for the distribution of multimedia content contain a lot of firmware to control its functions. Typically, such firmware may be updated several times during the lifetime of the device. For playback devices that are already at a consumer's site... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070212028 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method: A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A reproduction section reproduces video data from a record medium, the video data being managed in a unit of a clip composed of a plurality of frames which are chronologically successive. A first decode section decodes a first clip which is currently being output and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070212030 - Video playback apparatus: A silent detector detects a silent segment based on output of an audio signal of contents. A determination unit determines a segment, in which the time length of each silent segment is essentially a multiplication of the predetermined time, as a first content segment regarding continuous plural silent segments that... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070212031 - Video monitoring system and video monitoring program: Disclosed herein is a video monitoring system including: a camera connected to a network; a recorder configured to record, via the network, a video image captured by the camera; a displayer configured to display a video image captured by the camera; and a controller configured to execute control such that... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070212032 - Optical disc, access apparatus and access method: The optical disc of the present invention includes a plurality of areas which are previously allocated to correspond to a plurality of conditions. The plurality of areas include: at least one first area, which is previously allocated to correspond to at least one first condition under which the optical disc... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070212033 - Optical disk image forming apparatus and optical disk image forming method: An optical disk image forming apparatus that forms an image on an optical disk, comprises: an optical disk drive that includes a rotating unit for rotating an optical disk and a laser light irradiating unit being movable in a radial direction of the optical disk; and a control unit that... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070206922 - Information presentation system: An information presentation system for supporting interactions based on presentation of various pieces of information in a scene where persons face each other, the information presentation system includes: a plurality of display record media, each having a unique identifier, where display information can be rewritten; an information selection section that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206916 - Display device, display program storage medium, and displaying method: A display device configured to display a list of programs stored in a storage device includes: a cutout image acquiring section which acquires a cutout image obtained by cutting out a scene in a program; a distribution date-time acquiring section which acquires distribution date and time when the program is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070206917 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program: A data processing apparatus that processes image data of a moving image includes: an acquiring unit acquiring variations representing degrees of change in the image data, in a unit of picture; a display-type determining unit determining, on the basis of the variations in pictures, display types, which represent display methods... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070206919 - Method and apparatus for controlling a recording function of a mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for controlling a recording function of a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. The terminal determines an amount of available storage capacity for storing a received multimedia broadcast, and selectively records and stores frames of the broadcast according to a recording speed signal. Another embodiment is disclosed... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070206918 - Selecting device, selecting method, and selecting program storage medium: Disclosed are a selecting device, a selecting method, and a selecting program storage medium, which are configured to surely and easily select programs such as a drama series, even when a large number of programs are recorded. The selecting device includes: a designating section which designates a program from programs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070206920 - Information process apparatus and method, program, and record medium: To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an index file management section... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070206923 - Information processing apparatus, display method thereof, and program thereof: An information processing apparatus includes a first display control section, a first input section, and a second display control section. The first display control section controls displaying of a plurality of content representative pictures so that the content representative pictures are displayed and arranged in a first direction. The content... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070206924 - 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.

20070206925 - 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.

20070206926 - 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.

20070206927 - Method for managing recording and reproduction of multi-dubbed audio stream: In one embodiment, a first play list is generated if a first additional data stream is provided, and a second play list is generated if a second additional data stream is provided. The first play list links the main video data stream with the first additional data stream such that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070206921 - Recording apparatus for supporting titling image, and method and control program for the same: A recording apparatus such as a DVD recorder for supporting titling an image shot by a DV camera or the like, sparing a user the trouble of inputting the title with a remote controller. The DVD recorder prestores information on the schedule of persons who may be objects of shooting,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070206928 - 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 writing an audio/video information stream to an optical disc (2), and for reading the information from disc. The information stream comprises a plurality of alternative video parts (VS 1; VS2; VS3) which are recorded in an interleaved manner; an interleaved unit (IU(i)) comprises a plurality... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070206929 - System and method for presenting karaoke audio and video features from an optical medium: An optical medium, such as Blu-ray Disc (BD) medium, presents audiovisual information in a user selected Karaoke mode by mixing first and second audio streams and a textual stream according to synchronization information. For instance, the first stream has instrumentation and the second stream has vocals so that the audio... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070206930 - Apparatus and method for image coding and decoding: A multiplexed stream is inputted and includes multimedia coding data. A video stream is separated from the inputted multiplexed stream, and the separated video stream is decoded. A predetermined conversion process is performed in accordance with additional information indicating whether a mismatch is present in a relationship between the decoded... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070206931 - Monochrome frame detection method and corresponding device: The invention relates to a detection method applied to digital coded video data available in the form of a video stream comprising consecutive frames divided into macroblocks themselves subdivided into contiguous blocks. These frames comprise I-frames, coded independently, P-frames, predicted from a previous I- or P-frame, and B-frames, bidirectionally predicted... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070206932 - Apparatus and method for image coding and decoding: A multiplexed stream is inputted, and a video stream is separated therefrom. A predetermined conversion process is performed on the separated video stream. Whether multimedia coding data is contained in the multiplexed stream is determined. Coding control information for instructing the predetermined conversion process to not change a display format... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070206933 - Method of managing recorded still pictures on a recording medium: The present invention relates to a method of conducting management operations such as deletion, copy, and movement of recorded still pictures recorded on a recording medium. The present method records still pictures onto a recording medium, groups the recorded still pictures based on their attributes, creates a list listing filenames... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch