Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 11/07

20070274673 - Digital video recording device having detachable user interface: A digital video recording device including a body and a user interface detachably disposed on the body is provided. When the body is combined with the user interface, control members on the user interface use a connection interface to control the video recording function of a video recording module on... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070274682 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus, comprising: a reproducing portion, which is configured to reproduce a picture compressed with a first format; an obtain instructing portion, which is configured to instruct an obtaining of the picture reproduced by the reproducing portion; and a recording portion, which is configured to record the picture,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070274683 - Method and apparatus for creating a custom track: A method and system for creating and editing video and/or audio tracks is described. The method includes providing at least one artist, venue, and track available for selection and providing at least one clip associated with the at least one artist, venue, and track. The method also includes allowing a... Agent: Ashley N. Moore

20070274672 - Broadcast video/audio data recording method and apparatus and recording medium: Along with a first file (501) for recording management data (506), a second file (503) for recording ordinary digital broadcast (508), ordinary broadcast with program-link-type data broadcast (509), independent-type data broadcast (510), audio broadcast (511) and so on, there are provided a third file (504) for recording analog broadcast video/audio... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070274674 - Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus, signal processing system, and machine readable storage medium storing control information of signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus capable of easily linking video data of a DVCR connected by an i-Link or the like and utilizing the same in a desired format is disclosed. Streaming data such as video data is defined, managed, and controlled in usage by an “optional-media” link tag linked to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070274675 - Method and apparatus for transcoding digital audio/video streams: A device and method for transcoding digital audio/video streams. Only the video data, from among audio/video data provided in the form of compressed digital streams such as TV broadcast streams, is transcoded, and then the transcoded video data is synchronized with the audio data. To synchronize the transcoded video data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070274676 - Method and apparatus for unified management of different type of communications over lanwan and internet networks, using a web browser: A BD-ROM stores PlayList information. The PlayList information defines a playback section of each of a plurality of AV clips and includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information designates one of the AV clips as a Main Clip and defines a portion of the Main Clip as a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070274677 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070274678 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070274679 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program: A BD-ROM has a video stream and an entry map recorded thereon. The entry map indicates a plurality of entry points (SPN_EP_start) in the video stream, in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of entry times (PTS_EP_start) and flags (is_angle_change_point). Each flag (is_angle_change_point) indicates whether a picture located at a corresponding... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070274680 - Recording medium, playback apparatus, program, and playback method: A BD-ROM contains a plurality of titles which can be branched among, and a Java application. The Java application is a program described in a programming language for a virtual machine. A life cycle where execution by the virtual machine is enabled is predetermined. Each of the titles contains an... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070274681 - Method for controlling an optical pick-up for reading data streams for simultaneous reproduction: A method for optimizing a scheduler for an optical pick-up reduces the pick-up jump frequency and the initial start-up time for reproduction. The pick-up reads data streams from different files on an optical storage medium, e.g. Blu-Ray disc, and buffers the data streams in separate buffers, e.g. for video, audio... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070274684 - Reproduction apparatus and system: The present invention provides a reproduction apparatus capable of automatically switching an input of a television to an output from a broadcast receiver such as an STB. A television, upon receiving a notification command notifying that output of video or audio is to start, switches its input to an output... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070274685 - System and method of wirelessly triggering portable devices: The present invention provides for a system and method of wirelessly triggering portable devices to provide a user with audio and/or visual information related to a show or attraction, for example, or for the purposes of captioning, language translation, assistive listening, and descriptive audio. As a person moves about a... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070274686 - Method and device for storing data: A method and a device for storing data on a storage device, such as a hard disc or DVD, representing video and/or audio signals and program information for broadcast channels. After a change of channel, the current program information of the new channel is displayed on the monitor. If a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274687 - Video signal encoder, a video signal processor, a video signal distribution system and methods of operation therefor: A video encoder (100) comprises a receiver (101) which receives an uncompressed video signal. An encoding element (103) generates a compressed video signal in accordance with a compression algorithm, such as an MPEG-2 encoding algorithm. In addition, a feature point processor (105) generates feature point data (105) in response to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274688 - Moving image playback apparatus, moving image playback method, and moving image recording medium: According to one embodiment, a moving image playback apparatus has a structure wherein a decoder is initialized when a CPU first detects an SPS-equipped I-picture in playback of a video stream of an HD DVD, and the decoder decodes the video stream.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070274689 - Method and apparatus for establishing audio/video formats for sink devices: Method and apparatus for establishing audio/video (AV) formats for sink devices is described. In one example, a connection event is detected on a link between a source device and a sink device. AV capability data is received at the source device from the sink device in response to the connection... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070274691 - Data reproducing apparatus, data presentation method and data presentation system: According to one embodiment, a data reproducing apparatus generates content display data to display a content table in which a media identification code specific to a recording medium and a content code identifiable a content recorded on the recording medium are associated. Besides, the data reproducing apparatus controls so that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070274690 - Entry point registering method and recording and reproducing apparatus using the same: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium having an area in which ESOB type A/ESOB type B is recorded and an area in which HDVR_MG (or VMG) for managing ESOB type A/ESOB type B is recorded is used. HDVR_MG includes identification data (SFI_ID/C_TY) for determining whether an object to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070269181 - Device and method for mpeg video playback: An MPEG video playback device for playing back MPEG video streams in the reverse direction, the playback device including MPEG video decoding devices including: a stream buffer configured to have a capacity to store MPEG video streams; an MPEG video stream decoding unit; and frame buffers for receiving picture data;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070269182 - Moving picture data processing apparatus, stream generating apparatus, imaging apparatus, and moving picture data processing method: The present invention provides a moving picture data processing apparatus for outputting moving picture data by adding time information thereto, which includes: a moving picture input section which receives an input of the moving picture data for which a standard screen rate and one or more screen rates are switchable... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070269183 - Time reconciliation for image recording devices: Time reconciliation, in which images that each are associated with a recording device system time are received, the recording device records the images at an original rate, a reference time is determined, and a difference time D representing an amount of time that the recording device system time is ahead... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070269185 - Method, apparatus, and recording medium for recording multimedia content: The invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for recording multimedia content, which allow a controlled access to the multimedia content. According to the invention, the recording medium for recording multimedia content has a content limitation indicator for indicating which multimedia content is allowed to be... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070269186 - Recording and replay device: This recording and replay device includes a replay means which reads in and replays binary data from a medium upon which a binary file which includes binary data and index data is stored. This medium also stores a table in which representative time points and second addresses are held in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070269187 - Recording apparatus, recording method, recording program, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording/reproducing method, recording/reproducing program, editing apparatus, editing method, and editing program: A recording apparatus for compression-coding video data and recording the compression-coded video data, including an encoder compression-coding video data using interframe compression based on predictive coding for each of groups each including a plurality of pictures, a plurality of pictures including at least one independently-decodable picture; a mark information generator... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070269179 - Recording and accessing metadata: Apparatus uniquely identifies material recorded on an example of a recording medium. The medium has distinguishing data, a tape ID, distinguishing that example from other examples thereof recorded thereon. A generator generates data, e.g. IN and OUT time codes, identifying the or each piece of material recorded on the medium.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070269180 - Recording control device, recording control method, and program: A recording control device for controlling a recording operation on a first recording medium on which first identification information for identifying the recording medium, first data, and data editing information which is information on an editing result of the first data are recorded includes a reading unit for reading second... Agent: Williams S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070269184 - Recording/playback device, recording/playback method and digital broadcast viewing history recording system: A recorded data storing unit previously stores recorded content data. An index information storing unit stores index information corresponding to portions being grouped depending on attributes of the recorded content from the outside. A playlist creating unit creates a playlist presenting editing targets for the attributes according to specified information... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070269188 - Image correction method for drive recorder, drive recorder, and drive recorder system: A drive recorder has: a camera; an image recording section that records an image captured by the camera; a sensor that is installed with its relative posture with respect to the camera being fixed, detects an acceleration, and outputs an acceleration signal; and an image correcting section that corrects a... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070269189 - Digital video disc (dvd) player or digital video recorder (dvr) playback with memory: The present invention is directed towards providing a viewer an option of beginning a previously-viewed DVD or DVR from its last viewed position. A processor determines a unique identifier of the DVD or DVR and stores the unique identifier in a presentation table in either an internal hard drive or... Agent: Wm. Brook Lafferty Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20070269190 - Disk recording device: A disk recording device includes an encoding unit, a control unit, and a structure which encodes a video signal in analog format and records it upon a DVD. Furthermore, the control unit includes a bit rate control unit which controls the bit rate during encoding by the encoding unit to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070269192 - Stream generating apparatus, imaging apparatus, data processing apparatus and stream generating method: There is provided stream generating apparatus which generates a multiplexed stream including moving picture data. The apparatus includes a moving picture encoding processing section for generating a moving picture stream by encoding the moving picture data allowing switching between a reference frame rate and more than one frame rate different... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070269191 - Stream data recording method and stream data recording apparatus: A stream data recording apparatus includes a data object generation section for receiving video/audio data and generating from the video/audio data a data object complying with a standard with respect to the recording, a buffer for temporarily accumulating the generated data object by the data object generation section, and an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070263978 - System, method and medium editing moving pictures using biometric signals: A system, method and medium editing a moving picture using biometric signals is provided. The system includes a biometric signal generation module to measure signals that reflect an emotional state of a user while capturing a moving picture, and to generate a first and a second biometric signal based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263980 - Method of transitioning from time shifted multimedia playback to live multimedia playback and multimedia playback device thereof: A method of transitioning from playback of time shifted multimedia data in a time shifted playback mode to playback of live multimedia data in a live playback mode includes buffering data corresponding to the live multimedia data in a buffer; storing data corresponding to the live multimedia data to a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070263983 - Information reproducing system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes reading, from an information storage medium, management information indicative of a playback procedure of video and/or audio information and screen information, acquiring drive software which realizes a specific function required when performing playback based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263986 - Video/sound player, video/sound reproducing method, computer readable recording medium, and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave: A video/sound player monitors if the video/sound player is folded by using a sensor unit. When the video/sound player is folded while reproducing a digital content including a video image and a sound, the video/sound player stops reproducing the digital content including the video image and sound, and reproduces digital... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070263977 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus reads image data written in a video memory, performs an expansion or reduction process of the image data by filter computation, and sequentially outputs the image data to a display device in synchronization with a display clock. In the image processing apparatus, a primary buffer stores... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070263976 - Method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback between data streams, recording medium storing the information, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same: A method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback of data streams includes generating data stream information for each of two or more data streams, which includes packet data to which information on an arrival time of the respective packet data is added. The data stream information includes seamless... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070263979 - File recording apparatus and editing method for video effect: The present invention is directed to a video Effect editing method of automatically preparing/editing Movie Atom having Effect track by an instruction such that user pushes down a button for a time period during which he desires to implement Effect during Movie recording and/or reproducing, etc., the video Effect editing... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070263981 - Imaging device, gps control method, and computer program: An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture image data, a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite, and a main controller configured to measure an imaging frequency of the imaging unit, to determine... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070263984 - Methods and systems for handling montage video data: Video data may be extremely useful in online property commerce. However, the current methods of handling this video data fail to provide users of the data with effective and convenient ways of consolidating footage from multiple videos or portions thereof and conveying their particular viewpoints and other property features. Among... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070263982 - Resume reproduction system: A terminal for performing synchronized reproductions related to data of different data formats such as image, audio and text, comprising a GUI part (11) for allowing an operator to edit; an operation managing part (12) for controlling processings related to a resume reproduction operation; an moving image file processing part... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263985 - Reproduction apparatus, program and reproduction method: The Procedure executing unit 42 makes a judgment on which among three conditions are satisfied by each of a plurality of audio streams. The BD-ROM reproduction apparatus selects an audio stream to be reproduced in accordance with each combination of conditions that are satisfied by each audio stream. One of... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070263987 - Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium: An information recording medium achieves high speed conversion of a signal input externally from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with the DVD standard. An apparatus and a method are used to record information to the information recording medium. A constrained format which enables conversion from a first stream (for example, MPEG... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070263988 - Recording apparatus and recording method: A recording apparatus includes a recording format selection unit configured to select one of a plurality of recording formats, an initialization unit configured to initialize a loaded recording medium, a recording unit configured to record image data on the loaded recording medium, and a mode switching unit configured to switch... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070263990 - Apparatus and method for indexing mpeg video data to perform special mode playback in a digital video recorder and indexed signal associated therewith: There is disclosed an apparatus for implementing special mode playback operations in a digital video recorder. The apparatus comprises an Intra frame indexing device capable of receiving an incoming MPEG video stream and identifying therein data packets associated with Intra frames, wherein the Intra frame indexing device modifies header information... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070263989 - Digital convergent recorder: The invention generally relates to a digital convergent recorder. The digital convergent recorder may generate and record into a storage device (e.g. HDD) a first digital data in a first compress format (e.g. MPEG2) out of an external input analog AV signal or a digital broadcasting signal, may generate and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070263991 - Systems and methods for writing data to an optical disc: Systems and methods are disclosed for writing data to an optical disc. In one example, a method includes the steps of receiving data to be written to an optical disc, determining the size of the data to be written to the optical disc, generating a file system image for the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070258695 - Image reproduction method, image reproduction device and digital camera: An image reproduction method includes: a reduced-size image reading step of reading a plurality of reduced-size images from a recording medium and storing the reduced-size images in a memory; a display step of multi-displaying the plurality of reduced-size images on a monitor; a cursor movement detection step of detecting a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070258696 - Digital video recorder (dvr) filtering of on-screen graphics: A method and digital video recorder (DVR) mechanism that (1) filters out added graphical content that a user/viewer does not wish to view during live feed and/or playback of a recorded program, (2) adds graphical content to a live feed and/or recorded program, and (3) enables manipulation of graphical content... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070258697 - Distributed storage of audio/video content: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for playing an audio/video program. One such system includes an audio/video player, a first storage device connected to the audio/video player and storing a first portion of an audio/video program, and a second storage device storing a second portion of the... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20070258698 - 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)

20070258699 - Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method for recording data into recording medium, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing data from recording medium: Data is recorded in a data area of a disk in a hierarchical structure of program chains, programs, cells and packs, each pack is constructed by a pack header for identifying the pack and a packet having a data stream recorded therein, the packet has a packet header having a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070258701 - Apparatus and method for processing multimodal data broadcasting and system and method for receiving multimodal data broadcasting: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for processing multimodal data broadcasting and a system and a method for receiving multimodal data broadcasting. The multimodal data broadcasting processing apparatus includes: at least one interfacing unit for receiving contents transferred from a data broadcasting server and storing the contents; a multimodal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070258700 - Delay profiling in a communication system: A method for a communication system comprising a plurality of communication modules passing an audio stream comprising frames of audio data comprises receiving the audio stream at one of the communication modules; selecting one of the frames; identifying second data; replacing a portion of the audio data in the one... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070258702 - Encoding or decoding device and recording/reproduction terminal: a removable coding device 100 has: a terminal information obtainment unit 101 which obtains the terminal information from the recording/reproduction terminal 103 when the removable coding device 100 is connected to the recording/reproduction terminal 103; and a signal conversion unit 102 which encodes or decodes the signals representing audio or... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070258703 - Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus: The present invention provides an apparatus capable of retrieving a moving image file and a still picture file associated therewith efficiently. The apparatus produces a still picture file including still picture data extracted from moving image data, produces a moving image file including the moving image data and information (for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070258704 - Pausing media playback at appropriate intervals: A pause soon feature calls for providing media tags and pause points for pausing playback of media at appropriate intervals. The media tags and pause points may be resident in the media, the media player or in any combination thereof.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070253675 - Methods, systems, and products for recording media: Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for recording media. A network command message is received that identifies media to be recorded by a user's device. The network command message was sent on behalf of a provider and comprises the provider's instruction to have the user's device record the media. An... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070253680 - Caption display control apparatus: The entire caption is displayed within a display frame area through reducing the font size of the caption character string, scrolling the caption character string, or dividing the caption by a paragraph unit to be displayed separating more than once. When the entire character string cannot be displayed in a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070253681 - Optical disk reproducing apparatus having content editing function: To enable editing of contents even in a play-only optical disk reproducing apparatus. An optical disk reproducing apparatus includes a data editing means and a nonvolatile memory, wherein editing of a reproducing order of a video object of an optical disk medium is stored in the nonvolatile memory, so that... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070253677 - System for simultaneous playback of multiple video angles from multimedia content onto a display device and method thereof: A method and system for simultaneously displaying multiple video angles of multimedia content onto a single display device includes: reading a video source signal from the multimedia content; demultiplexing the video source signal into a plurality of video angles; decoding at least two of the plurality of video angles according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070253676 - Method of controlling recording of program: Disclosed herein are a method of controlling the recording of a program and a program playing and recording apparatus. In an embodiment of the present invention, a program recording/playing apparatus is assigned a right to record an anti-copy program after performing user authentication, changes the anti-copy program to a copy-once... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070253679 - Reproducer, program, and reproducing method: When a plurality of AVClips recorded on a BD-ROM and Local Storage 18 constitute one stream sequence, a Playback Control Engine 32 starts playback if at least one AVClip of the stream sequence is in an enable status, even when the stream sequence also includes an AVClip which is in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070253678 - Systems and methods for indexing and searching digital video content: The present invention relates to systems and methods for indexing digital video content maintained on a storage media item. The method of the present invention comprises extracting caption and subtitle content from one or more video object (“VOB”) files maintained on the storage media item. The extracted caption and subtitle... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070253683 - Information recording apparatus: In a medium such as a DVD+RW disk in which recording is performed with cell numbers changed, when a recording operation is performed and stopped repetitively at a short interval like shooting with a video camera, the number of used cells reaches the limit value before a capacity of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070253682 - Video recording and playing system and signal pickup method for the same: In a signal pickup method for a video recording and playing system, a signal is continuously received and stored in a data buffer of the video recording and playing system. Then, in response to an operation of a control device of the video recording and playing system, a pickup start... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070253684 - System to process automatically in a remote studio booth a recorded performance and an associated scenic environmental backdrop to produce integrated media: A system to receive and automatically process audio and visual data and integrate said data with a selected scenic background to produce an integrated recording that is written on a DVD.... Agent: Tod R Nissle