Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 10/07

20070248312 - Information recording apparatus: An information recording apparatus has several function units that perform: storing a time when dubbing is started, halting the dubbing temporarily when that the connecting cable is disconnected, and storing a dubbing time and the picture and audio data for a predetermined time period when the dubbing process is halted... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070248317 - Apparatus and method for playing content based on the last-watched-point of series content: An apparatus and method are provided for playing content by searching for information on the last-watched-point with respect to the content that a user watched previously, with only a selection of a file name of selected content when playing series content. The apparatus includes an information-extracting unit which extracts a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248316 - Image display device and method for editing program thereof: An image display device is provided. A receiver receives a program, and a storage unit stores the received program. A signal processor processes the stored program so that the program is displayed. An interface unit is used to receive a control command. A controller performs a control operation such that... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070248323 - Disk recording device: The disk recording device according to the present invention comprises a control unit, a recording/reading unit, an actuation unit, and so on. If the disk menu upon the optical disk (i.e. the menu for actuation) is one for some other manufacturer, then the control unit receives confirmation in advance upon... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070248324 - Playback apparatus, program, and playback method: A playback apparatus including: a Clip information read circuit 5 that reads supplementary information from a recording medium 1, which also includes a video signal, and judges based on the supplementary information whether the video signal is of a first frame frequency or of a second frame frequency; a mode... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070248321 - Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording program: To provide a recording apparatus for recording at least content data and reproducing control information for controlling reproducing of the content data. The apparatus includes: a recording unit recording content data on a recording medium; and a control unit making a control to generate, with respect to the content data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070248325 - Recording control apparatus, recording control method, and program: A recording control apparatus for recording new data on a recording medium on which data forming an edit result is recorded for each file. The recording control apparatus includes: a specification section specifying an insert section into which the new data is inserted in the edit result; and when a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070248326 - One-step recording apparatus for portable media players: A recording apparatus for recording audio-visual (A/V) contents directly from an A/V input source to a portable media player (PMP) is disclosed. The recorded A/V contents can be played back by the portable media player immediately upon stopping the recording. The recording apparatus does not involve the use of any... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070248328 - Recording apparatus for use with a range of portable media players: A system and method of recording audio-visual (A/V) contents directly to a variety of portable media players (PMPs). The recorded contents can be played back by the portable media players immediately without further format conversions. To facilitate immediate playback of the recorded contents, the recording apparatus contains an identification device... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070248310 - Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program: Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program are disclosed. In a disclosed method, a plurality of recording times of sections of a recorded program are stored in association with playback times of the recorded program. Playback intervals between sequential pairs of the playback... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070248311 - System and method for transferring data between electronic data storage devices: Method, device, and system for transferring data from one portable media player to another. Small, portable devices that store and play back text, music, video, and/or other types of media have proliferated. Transferring data between such devices is often inconvenient, however, because it typically requires connecting both devices to a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070248313 - Archive management device, archive management system, and archive management program: Application of a used image material can be checked without reading an edited image material stored in a database device when a program is produced. There is provided an archive management device including a database unit that holds an image material and image material metadata describing the contents of the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070248314 - Method and apparatus for controlled viewing of recorded television programs: Segments of a recorded video program that are classified to be skipped during replay are scanned through at a predetermined rate, which is independent of viewer control. While faster than the normal play mode, the rate of forward scan is such that the content of the video segments being skipped... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070248315 - Reproducing device and reproducing method: A reproducing device and method not producing any abnormal sound in fast-forward reproduction and rewind-reproduction modes and not causing any delay in a reproduction mode. In the reproducing device and method a music reproducing circuit (200) comprises a silence encoding data storage section (201) storing encoded silence data created by... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070248318 - System and method for flexible mapping of av vs record channels in a programmable transport demultiplexer/pvr engine: A method and system are provided for flexible mapping of AV vs. Record channels in a programmable transport demultiplexer/PVR engine. The method may involve processing a portion of an incoming packet, which may result in a partially processed packet. The preprocessing may comprise extracting information from the packet to configure... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070248319 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores data of a plurality of medical images at different imaging angles or different imaging positions with respect to the same region, a display unit which displays the data of the medical image read out from the storage unit, and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070248320 - Video signal transmitting apparatus and video signal receiving apparatus: An interface is realized that can prevent video signals from being copied easily and which uses a luminance/color difference signal transmission scheme with an excellent harmony with a television circuit. In a video transmission using a digital interface, colorimetry information for defining the conversion from the luminance/color difference signal into... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070248322 - Recording apparatus, recording method, recording program, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing program, editing apparatus, editing method, editing program, and display method: To provide a recording/reproducing apparatus for recording at least content data and reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the content data on a recording medium and reproducing the data recorded on the recording medium. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes: a recording unit which records content data on a recording medium... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070248329 - Information recording medium wherein stream convertible at high-speed is recorded, and recording apparatus and recording method therefor: An information recording medium capable of converting a stream including seamless connection, which is recorded in a constrained format allowing format conversion from a first format (MPEG-TS) to a second format (MPEG-PS), into a second stream, and an apparatus and method for recording information in the information recording medium. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070248327 - Systems and methods for detecting exciting scenes in sports video: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying a scene in a video or audio source containing sports content. A representative method includes: extracting audio data from a video source, the video source containing sports content, removing from the audio data sounds not producible by human, classifying scenes of the video... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070248330 - Varying camera self-determination based on subject motion: In a method and digital camera, an initial set of evaluation images are captured. A plurality of characteristics of the initial set of evaluation images are assessed to provide a first assessment. The characteristics include subject motion between the initial set of evaluation images. When the subject motion is in... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070248331 - Recording and reproducing apparatus, sending apparatus and transmission system: A video signal recording and reproducing apparatus is provided that is capable of reducing the encoding amount required for video recording thereby to record a longer video signal while suppressing deterioration of image quality when the video is displayed. An apparatus is also provided that is similarly capable of efficiently... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070248332 - Image processing device, and image processing program: The image processing device comprises a motion detecting unit 14 for detecting a motion of an image, a cyclic coefficient storing unit 15 for storing therein a cyclic coefficient, a frame cyclic coefficient determining unit 16 for determining a new cyclic coefficient based on a result of the motion detection... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070248334 - Recording and reproduction apparatus and recording and reproduction method: A recording and reproduction apparatus may include an information signal recording section configured to record an information signal on a recording medium; a reproduction section configured to read/reproduce the information signal; a feature amount detection section configured to detect feature amounts of the information signal to be recorded and/or the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070248333 - Recording medium, reproduction device, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM contains an AVClip in which a video stream is multiplexed with an interactive graphics stream. The video stream constitutes a moving picture. On the other hand, the graphics stream constitutes menu presentations to be combined with a moving picture. The graphics stream includes a plurality of display sets... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070248335 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, and computer program: An information recording medium (100) is provided with: a first data area (106) in which first data having a form compliant with a predetermined format is recorded in advance; and a second data area (122) to record therein second data used with the first data in order to reproduce content... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070242925 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and reproducing apparatus: There is provided a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data on and from a recording medium with a sequential access system. The apparatus includes a connection unit configured to connect a network, a processor configured to mount a disk apparatus, to reproduce data from the recording medium,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070242926 - Video program processing method and system: A method for video program processing includes searching for a static image in a video segment, a static image comprising an image in the video segment that does not significantly change over a predetermined time of the video segment. Upon finding a static image, an indication is given to an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070242929 - Information recording apparatus and information recording control apparatus: An information recording control apparatus including: a selection section; a video acquiring section to acquire digital video data in a digital broadcast signal; an audio acquiring section to acquire digital audio data of a specific language selected on the selection section from the digital audio data of a plurality of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070242928 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive television broadcasting to generate an output signal, a signal processing unit configured to generate image data of a broadcast program using the output signal, a display unit configured to display an image represented by the image data of the broadcast... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242931 - Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus: An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information on an optical disc with format other than video recording format, includes a record control portion that records apparatus information indicating the apparatus on a DVD and stores record elapsed time in a recording process and aspect information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070242927 - Recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method and program-recorded medium: Disclosed is a recording/reproducing apparatus in which a rotary head records digital data in tracks inclined to the lengthwise direction of a magnetic tape and reproduces the digital data recorded in the inclined tracks. In a reproducing system (20), the capstan-servo operation unit (71) locks the phase in ±24-times fast... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070242930 - Method and apparatus for modifying a video signal or for providing a copy protection signal by adding selected negative going and positive going pulses: The horizontal blanking interval (HBI) of a normal video signal is modified to enhance the playability of the applied copy protected video signal while maintaining the copy protection effectiveness. As generally known, a copy protected video signal with positive-going pulses in a back porch region causes possible black level depression.... Agent: Patent Department Macrovision Corporation

20070242932 - Information recording device, information recording method, information recording program and recording medium: A CDA processing section extracts an unused area of an information recording medium via a disc status management section and a drive control section. The CDA processing section divides the extracted unused areas by a division criteria value MAS, which allows continuous reproduction of a video and audio stream, and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070237492 - Timed events during recorded media playback: A system and method are provided for providing a timed event to a user viewing recorded media content at a defined time interval. The recorded media content may be any media viewed on a time-shifted basis. For example, the recorded media may be television content recorded by a Digital Video... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070237491 - Portable personal entertainment video viewing system: A portable head-worn audio/video display system that allows a user to watch and hear an audio/video media presentation such as a movie in a private environment. The movie or other media presentation can be stored on a separate or integral storage unit. The device can take the form of a... Agent: Clifford Kraft

20070237493 - Providing user access to digital content data: Providing user access to digital content data involves maintaining a database having contents including plural records, each associated with a channel. Each record relates to a different item of digital content, and includes: a displayable icon; a record date; a channel identifier, and a resource locator. A current view is... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070237494 - Media player audio video synchronization: Techniques for evaluating media player performance are described. A particular implementation supplies media to a media player where the media includes a video component which has a waveform that alternates between a first video state and a second video state, and an audio component which has a waveform that alternates... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070237495 - Stream data reception/reproduction device and stream data reception/reproduction method: There is disclosed a stream data reception/reproduction device capable of suppressing deterioration of quality of stream data reproduced even when the stream data is received via an IP network or the like in which the packet arrival timing and the order are not guaranteed. In this device, a reproduction speed... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070237496 - Method and apparatus to conduct a contest via remote booth by providing contestant with ownership of and control of confidentiality of recorded performance: Apparatus to conduct a contest in which recorded performances of different individuals are reviewed to select a winner. The apparatus comprises at least one recording booth. The booth includes recording equipment comprising at least one camera for photographing the video portion of at least one individual's performance and generating video... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070230894 - Video recording/reproducing apparatus and a television receiver including the same therein: In a television receiver including a video recording/reproducing apparatus therein, since reduction is quick in a recording space thereof if recording the high-definition television broadcast signal as it is, even including a recording medium, such as, a HDD of large capacity, for example, video, audio and caption data are extracted... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070230895 - Processing of scalable compressed video data formats for nonlinear video editing systems: If motion video data is stored in a scalable format, such as motion JPEG 2000, in computer files on disk drives, then access to only the lower bandwidth data requires skipping around within a data file to locate only the desired data for a specified progression dimension for each image.... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070230897 - Decoder for fast feed and rewind: The decoder includes a memory to store the jump time for a seek operation. The decoder affords frame numbers to the frames and saves in the memory the current frame number of a frame being read out. The decoder saves a frame number of a jump destination calculated on the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070230898 - Random access searching with frame accuracy and without indexing within windows media video: The present disclosure is directed to a process for generating a random access, frame accurate searchable file from a non-indexed video content file having an inconsistent frame rate. The process includes generating a fixed frame rate into the settings of the non-indexed video content file such as preprocessing video frame... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070230902 - Dynamic disaster recovery: The disclosure is directed to a system and method for recovery of a broadcast source. Television data is received from the source and encoded. The encoded television data is stored by either (1) appending the encoded television data to programs on a data storage or (2) overwriting an oldest program... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070230907 - Image processing apparatus and file reproducing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an image processing apparatus including: a signal reception unit that receives an external video signal; a storage medium that stores the video signal as a video file; a type determination unit that analyzes the video file and determines a type of each video... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070230908 - Information recording medium playback apparatus, information recording medium playback method, and information recording medium: According to one embodiment, an information recording medium playback apparatus of the invention comprises an interrupt specifying section, an interrupt position information holding section, a playback resume specifying section which gives a playback resume instruction after the interruption, an interrupt position read control section which, when the playback resume instruction... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070230909 - Audiovisual (av) device and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, video image and audio signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and an audio reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and audio has been set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070230912 - Picture and audio recording apparatus and hard disk recorder: A picture and audio recording apparatus that manages record positions of contents by using a management table, saves only one contents among overlapping contents recorded on a recording medium and erases other overlapping contents; stores information about which one of saved contents is the same as the erased contents in... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070230913 - Video and audio processing system, video processing apparatus, audio processing apparatus, output apparatus, and method of controlling the system: A video and audio processing system includes an output apparatus that outputs video data and audio data to be synchronized and reproduced; an audio processing apparatus that receives the video data and the audio data from the output apparatus, supplies at least the video data to a downstream apparatus, and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070230893 - System and method for displaying an image stream: A system and method may display an image stream (200), where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously in each time slot (210A-240D) may be variably adjusted based on a predetermined criterion. The... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070230896 - Techniques for effective trick mode transitions: A system, apparatus, method and article to provide effective output of trick mode content are described. The apparatus may include a decoding module to produce a decoded content stream in accordance with a trick mode. This decoded content stream is based on a portion of a first encoded content stream... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070230899 - Moving image playback apparatus, moving image playback method, and computer program thereof: In a moving image playback apparatus, periods A which represent human utterance periods, and other periods B are determined on the basis of sub-information contained in moving image data. Based on the moving image data, periods A undergo high-speed moving image playback with playback voice within the speed range from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070230900 - Content copy control apparatus and content copy control method: A picture record data control device 101a converts picture record data stored in a picture record data memory device 101c in format and writes the converted picture record data into a removable medium 102. Then, the picture record data control device 101a updates output status information 24 in a picture... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070230901 - Information output apparatus and program: An information output apparatus is provided, which is capable of displaying past contents, current contents and future contents so that these past contents, current contents and future contents are seamlessly handled and clearly distinguished from each other for easy viewing. An information output apparatus (12) includes an output unit (1209)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070230903 - Data processing apparatus: To record both of two digital broadcasts and/or a digital broadcast and an analog broadcast to be delivered by mutually different broadcasting systems even if they are scheduled to be transmitted in mutually overlapping time frames. A data processing apparatus receives a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070230904 - System and methodology for utilizing a portable video player: A low-cost portable digital video player receives proprietary compressed data from a source such as a personal video recorder (PVR), and displays the data on an integral display. A rewritable non-volatile memory of the player stores the data and a media decoder of the player transforms and decompresses the data.... Agent: Sitrick & Sitrick

20070230905 - Video signal recording apparatus, video signal reproducing apparatus and video signal recording and reproducing apparatus: An information signal is received, which includes a main information content signal carrying the contents of the information, a CM portion signal carrying commercial messages (CM) and an information mode discriminating signal used for discriminating information modes of the main information content signal and the CM signal from each other... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber Fourth Floor

20070230906 - 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.

20070230910 - Apparatus and method for two-way remote control and cradle or adaptor to control an a/v media player: A hand-help Remote Control and an associated Cradle or Host Adapter communicate to send and receive data. The Remote is battery powered, has an LCD screen and buttons and is intended for thumb operation in either hand. The Cradle unit is attached to a portable Music Player (or video player)... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20070230911 - Video/audio reproducing device and video/audio reproducing method: A video/audio reproducing device has a contents discriminating section which discriminates whether contents of data recorded in a first recording medium and contents of data stored in a second storage medium are still image data, moving image data, or audio data; a contents display section which displays contents of data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070230914 - Classifying image areas of a video signal: A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving base layer images of standard definition pictures from a base layer decoder; defining image areas of the standard definition pictures; classifying image areas into image types by assigning a class number;... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20070230916 - Digital camcorder having display unit: The digital camcorder of the present invention is a digital camcorder which records an image of an object as a moving image on a recording medium, and displays an image corresponding to a period from start of image taking to a predetermined time on a screen while recording a currently... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070230915 - Recording device: A microprocessor-based video and audio data recorder configured to store vehicular related data arising from a vehicular accident or incident in a format retrievable from the device.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070230917 - Recording medium, playback apparatus, recording method, program, and playback method: On a BD-ROM, an AVClip and a plurality of playback section information (PlayItems) are recorded. The AVClip includes a video stream multiplexed with a plurality of elementary streams. The playback section information Playable_PID_entries showing the playback start point and the playback end point in the video stream correlated with the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070230919 - Method of storing pictures in a memory using compression coding and cost function including power consumption: The present invention relates to a method of storing pictures in a memory, a picture being divided into data blocks, said method comprising the step of: computing a transform of an input data block for producing a transformed data block comprising a set of n transformed elements, where n is... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070230918 - Video quality enhancement and/or artifact reduction using coding information from a compressed bitstream: A system and method of processing a digital video signal for display on a display device, includes decoding an encoded digital video signal to produce a decoded digital video signal having a video source format; extracting coding information from the encoded digital video signal; executing a video quality improvement algorithm... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070230920 - Conversion of video data to playable format: The present invention provides for a method for converting a video data file into a format usable by a portable video player that comprises, in a single selection on the video data file, ripping and deCSS the video data file if necessary 8, converting the video data file 10 into... Agent: Tips Group

20070230921 - Multimedia time warping system: A multimedia time warping system allows a user to store selected multimedia data streams while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing other multimedia data. Data streams are converted to digital streams for internal transfer and manipulation. A parser and event buffer decouple the CPU from having to parse the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070230922 - Optical storage medium for real-time recording avi-format file and method thereof: A method of real-time recording a file with an AVI format on an optical storage medium is provided, in which the optical storage medium is a write-once type medium and employs a file system without multi-section record. According to the method, in the AVI format, a dummy chunk is used... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070230924 - Method and apparatus for recording manufacturer information on a recording medium and for determining whether the manufacturer information is effective: A recording medium and a recording apparatus store manufacturer information to support specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefore. A reproducing apparatus reproduces the manufacturer information to support specific functions. When the recording apparatus modifies the contents of the recording medium, the manufacturer's identification code is recorded. The... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070230923 - Optical disc recording/reproducing device and visible image recording control method: An optical disc recording/reproducing device includes visible information recording control means (109D) for successively moving (S203) an optical pickup (102) from the recording start position at the inner circumference side by a traverse drive circuit (105) and a DC motor (118), and controlling laser light power to start write (S205)... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP