Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 03/08

20080069514 - Method and apparatus for controlling time-shifting storage space and television receiver using the same: A method and apparatus for controlling a time-shifting storage space, whereby the time-shifting storage space can be changed according to a size of a broadcasting program to be time shifted, and a television (TV) receiver using the same are provided. The method includes: determining whether a size change of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069517 - Broadcast program recording/playback apparatus, broadcast program playback position control method, and broadcast program information providing apparatus: There is provided a broadcast program recording/playback apparatus that starts playback of a recorded broadcast program from a desired scene, so that a user can specify a precise position of a desired scene in a recorded broadcast program and start playback. The apparatus comprises a recording control unit and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080069520 - Method of caching teletext page data, teletext receiver system and electronic video appliance: Method of caching teletext page data received from an arrangement of a channel selection circuit, arranged to retrieve a signal comprising video information and embedded teletext page data and belonging to a channel selected in accordance with a user command, and a teletext retrieval circuit, arranged to extract the teletext... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080069521 - Broadcast system, and its distribution device and terminal device: A broadcast signal received by a broadcast signal reception unit is separated into program contents and program information by a broadcast signal separation unit. The separated program contents is converted into Internet Protocol (IP) packets by a contents transmission unit then distributed to an IP network. A program information transmission... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080069515 - Identifying, recording and reproducing information: A method and apparatus of recording video and/or audio material on a recording medium, the method including an identifier for identifying a piece of video and/or audio material recorded on the recording medium, an activity indicator representative of relative activity within a content of the video and/or audio material, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069516 - Moving picture image reproduction method and moving picture image reproduction apparatus: According to a conventional technique for reproducing a frame of a small image change amount at a high speed and a frame of a large image change amount at a low speed, there are cases in which a proper high-speed reproduction representing the outline of the moving picture image data... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080069519 - Multi-channel playback of audio/video content: A system and method for time-shifted viewing of broadcast television programs is disclosed. Simultaneous recording and playback are provided by using buffer storage as the source and destination of compressed or uncompressed digital video/audio programs. Full VCR-like control is provided for all playback within the buffer storage. Playback and control... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080069518 - Multimedia data receiver and driving method thereof: A multimedia data receiver according to the present invention is characterized in including a blocking setting decision unit deciding whether a record-requested multimedia data is a blocking target, a user authentication processing unit processing user authentication if the record requested multimedia data is the blocking target, and a record processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069522 - Apparatus, method and computer program for processing information: An information processing apparatus for recording data in a file by first unit on a recording medium in accordance with a predetermined file system, which may include a recording control unit performing a recording control operation to record a predetermined file on the recording medium, the recording control operation including... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080069523 - Coded data control device: Necessary coded data only can be read out at random accessing even with recording medium having coded data recorded thereon but whose code quantity is out of proportion to time. Once a recording medium was loaded into a recorder-player connected with a coded-data control device, the device reads control data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080069528 - High-density recording medium having data format acceptable to a digital television and a data reproducing apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a high-density recording medium and a data reproducing apparatus thereof. A high-density recording medium of the present invention includes audio and video data which has been recorded thereon in the format of TS (Transport Stream) which is specified as an acceptable input format in the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080069524 - Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc: A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080069525 - Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc: A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080069526 - Optical disc storing both video titles provided with av function and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc: A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080069533 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069529 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069530 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069531 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069532 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture-type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069534 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069535 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069536 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069537 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069527 - Recording medium and method for reproducing information therefrom: A recording medium having recorded thereon, a plurality of picture information sets, presentation time values each of which is associated with the corresponding one of the picture information sets, picture information record marks each of which is associated with the corresponding one of said presentation time values, clip information specifying... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080069538 - Digital information recording/reproducing apparatus: An apparatus for receiving digital information including at least one of digital video information and digital audio information The apparatus includes a receiver which receives the digital information that has digital video information bit-compressed, digital audio information bit-compressed, and error-detection information added to both the digital video information and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080069539 - Method of recording video which parses video stream in units of group of picture (gop) and video recording apparatus thereof: A method of recording a video by parsing a video stream in units of Group of Pictures (GOP), and a video apparatus incorporating the same are provided. The video recording method includes generating a predetermined number of Group of Pictures (GOP) into a single file, and storing the generated file,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069540 - Image reproducing apparatus, image reproducing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An apparatus has a reproducing unit configured to reproduce, when attribute information is designated, an image having the designated attribute information. When attribute information is newly designated during reproduction performed by the reproducing unit, the image reproducing apparatus determines whether to cancel the reproduction according to a relationship between already... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080069541 - Data recording apparatus, data recording method, and data recording program: A data recording apparatus may include a recording section for recording a plurality of record data onto a recording medium; a section for generating first playback existence/non-existence information of the record data, respectively, recorded on the recording medium; a section for generating first reference order information of the first playback... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080069542 - Still image extracton apparatus, method, and program: In order to extract a still image from a motion image in relation to music included in the motion image, structural information indicating a structure of music included in a motion image read in by an image read-in unit is obtained by a structural information obtaining unit. A timing for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069544 - Apparatus and method of recording/reproducing digital broadcast data: The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording/reproducing a non-MPEG formatted digital TV broadcast signal on/from a writable medium. The present recording method, when a digital TV broadcast signal composed of DirecTV transport packets is received, extracts data contained in DirecTV transport packets to form an A/V elementary... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080069545 - Home digital audiovisual information recording and playback system: A method for operating a home digital audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus. The method includes: displaying menus with user-selectable system operation options; enabling a selection of desired audiovisual information for reproduction; effecting payment for the desired audiovisual information; inputting a user personal identification number; and downloading, from a main... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080069543 - Video/audio recording and reproducing apparatus: An object of the present invention is to display, during data recording, the number of recording media that are required to store all of recorded data in the case where the recorded data is copied to the recording media, and to display a ratio of a recorded area to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080069546 - Information recording apparatus and imaging device: An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a portable power source; a recording unit for recording information in a loadable/unloadable recording medium or the built-in recording medium; a dubbing unit for copying and transferring data between the loadable/unloadable recording medium and the built-in recording medium; and a detecting unit for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063352 - Method and apparatus for increasing the resolution of a data sequence: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for increasing the resolution of a data sequence, such as for example a video data sequence. Between two data values of a given data sequence at least one intermediate value is interpolated by applying low-pass filtering and at least one first... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20080063355 - Data broadcast content reproduction apparatus and data broadcast content reproduction method: According to one embodiment, a data broadcast content reproduction apparatus includes an acquiring section which is configured to acquire a digital signal corresponding to data broadcast from a received digital broadcast signal, a decoding section which is configured to decode data corresponding to characters and graphics of data broadcast content... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080063353 - Hand-held mixed media recorder/player: A mixed media recorder and player that stores video and/or audio data on a small sized, large capacity, removable, flash memory card, such as an SD card, is disclosed. The mixed media recorder and player is flat and pocket sized. Controls and connector terminals are located around the periphery of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080063354 - Method for controlling autostart of data application and video playback apparatus thereof: A method for controlling an autostart of a data application and a video playback apparatus thereof are provided. The method for controlling an autostart of a data application includes determining stored setup information of a start procedure of the data application, and executing the data application according to the determined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080063356 - Time shift reproduction time controlling method and information reproduction apparatus: A time shift reproduction time controlling method and an information reproduction apparatus are disclosed wherein reproduction of data at time which is beyond time shift reproduction possible time is prevented with certainty. An input PCR extraction section extracts a PCR from a reception transport stream and outputs the extracted PCR... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080063357 - Moving picture data edition device and moving picture data edition method: There is provided a video data editing apparatus for making video data edition to set a frame as a predetermined edit point in video data including a plurality of picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames. The apparatus includes an operation command input unit (40) to accept... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063358 - Method and apparatus for converting and optimizing editing files: A method and apparatus for generating a converted edit file based on an original editing file, by correlating the various entries of the original edit file and calculating new editing data to be used in the converted edit file. The method further optimizes the HDTV-TL by systematically merging adjacent film... Agent: Manuel F. De La Cerra

20080063359 - Apparatus and method of storing video data: An apparatus for and method of storing video data comprising receiving an MPEG video stream comprising I-frames and P-frames, separating the I-frames from the P-frames, storing the I-frames and the P-frames separately, and providing information so that the I-frames and the P-frames can be combined to produce a full-motion video.... Agent: Pelco

20080063360 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063361 - Recording/reproduction apparatus, display control method, and program: A recording/reproduction apparatus includes an acquisition section and a display control section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire the time necessary for reproducing the entire target content. The display control section is configured to display a bar that indicates the time acquired by the acquisition section, and exercise control... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080063362 - Apparatus and method of storing video data: An apparatus for and method of storing video data comprising receiving an MPEG video stream comprising I-frames and P-frames, separating the I-frames from the P-frames, storing the I-frames and the P-frames separately, and providing information so that the I-frames and the P-frames can be combined to produce a full-motion video.... Agent: Pelco

20080063364 - reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method for video objects received by digital broadcast: A multimedia optical disc for recording main video data which is composed of sets of frame data that is processed beforehand to allow compatibility with displays of a plurality of aspect ratios. The disc has a stream area storing streams made up of the main video data and a plurality... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080063366 - Data recording method and recording apparatus, and data outputting method: When packeting content data and recording the packeted content data to a recording medium having a plurality of sectors made up of at least a header and packet data, if a remaining data length of the last sector of the plurality of sectors to which the packeted content data is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063369 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data, recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording data: In one embodiment, the method includes reproducing management information for managing reproduction of at least one secondary video stream and at least one secondary audio stream. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a primary presentation path represented by a primary video stream. The management... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063363 - Method and computer program product for synchronizing, displaying, and providing access to data collected from various media: A method and computer program product for synchronizing, displaying and providing access to data collected from various media. The method for processing and displaying data from a plurality of media comprises obtaining handwriting data using an electronic writing instrument, recording video data, synchronizing the video data and the handwriting data,... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080063370 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063371 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063372 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063367 - Recording medium and method for reproducing information therefrom: A recording medium having recorded thereon, a plurality of picture information sets, presentation time values each of which is associated with the corresponding one of the picture information sets, picture information record marks each of which is associated with the corresponding one of said presentation time values, clip information specifying... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063365 - Reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method for video objects received by digital broadcast: A multimedia optical disc for recording main video data which is composed of sets of frame data that is processed beforehand to allow compatibility with displays of a plurality of aspect ratios. The disc has a stream area storing streams made up of the main video data and a plurality... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080063368 - System and method for producing medical image data onto portable digital recording media: This application discloses a system for recording medical image data for production on a portable digital recording medium such as CDs and DVDs. This system includes a receiving module, a processing module and an output module, with viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080063373 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, reproduction program, recording medium, and data structure: When content is reproduced from a disc, audio and a subtitle can be properly and automatically selected. An original language can be set as a language of an audio stream to be reproduced on a player side. An audio stream of the original language is described at a position that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063374 - Data recording method, data editing method, data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor: A system records an AV stream composed of a plurality of record units (RUs) containing independently reproducible video units (VUs) of at least video or audio and program information (Movie atom) managing the AV stream, onto a recording medium. The program information contains a piece of information (Edit list atom)... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080063375 - Data-file storage, particularly for mpeg format files: A method of storing a data file, particularly in the MPEG format and including a flow of different frames, comprises a protection system for the data file based on a parameter stored in the data file. Advantageously, the storage method comprises selectively protecting the frames by storing parameters that are... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080063376 - Video signal recording and reproducing apparatus: The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video signal; a writing section for intermittently writing a compressed video signal, obtained as... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080063377 - Video signal recording and reproducing apparatus: The video signal recording and reproducing apparatus of the invention includes: a receiving section for receiving a television signal; an image compression section for compressing an amount of information per unit time of the received continuous video signal; a writing section for intermittently writing a compressed video signal, obtained as... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080063378 - Moving image data editing apparatus, moving image data reproducing apparatus, moving image data editing method, and moving image data reproducing method: This invention is directed to the provision of a moving image data editing apparatus 1 for applying masking to a portion of an image by editing moving image data in which each frame is divided into pixel blocks of a predetermined size and encoded on a pixel block basis. Moving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080063379 - Recording medium and method for reproducing information therefrom: A recording medium having recorded thereon, a plurality of picture information sets, presentation time values each of which is associated with the corresponding one of the picture information sets, picture information record marks each of which is associated with the corresponding one of said presentation time values, clip information specifying... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063382 - Apparatus and method of recording/reproducing digital broadcast data: The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording/reproducing a non-MPEG formatted digital TV broadcast signal on/from a writable medium. The present recording method, when a digital TV broadcast signal composed of DirecTV transport packets is received, collects DirecTV transport packets as adding receiving time information to each packet... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080063380 - Recording/reproduction device: A recording/reproduction device (110) includes a recording area (115), a communication processing unit (119) capable of outputting the related content having details identical to details of the content recorded in the recording area (115) into an external recording medium (160), and an encoding/decoding processing unit (117) capable of obtaining unique... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063381 - Visual dvr television interface: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a user interface for digital video recording (DVR) functionality.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080063384 - Recording device, printing system, and disc medium: A recording device for a disc medium having a recording side and a label side has a receiving mechanism adapted to receive the disc medium, a recording part adapted to record data into the recording side of the disc medium received by the receiving mechanism, a printing part adapted to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080063383 - Data recording apparatus: Related arts have failed to realize a data recording/reproducing apparatus having the ability to, while video-audio data is being recorded in a first recording medium, notify a user of the number of second recording media to which the recorded video-audio data is equivalent. For breaking through the situation, a data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063385 - Optical disk for high resolution and three-dimensional video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus and optical disk recording apparatus: The present invention has an objective of providing an optical disk having a high resolution picture and a system for reproducing data on the optical disk, which are compatible with a conventional system for reproducing an ordinary resolution picture. A high resolution signal is divided into a main signal and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080063386 - Optical disk for high resolution and three-dimensional video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus and optical disk recording apparatus: The present invention has an objective of providing an optical disk having a high resolution picture and a system for reproducing data on the optical disk, which are compatible with a conventional system for reproducing an ordinary resolution picture. A high resolution signal is divided into a main signal and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080063388 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit recording moving image data on a recording medium, a management information generation unit generating management information for first moving image data in response to recording the first moving image data on the recording medium, a consecutive reproduction information generation unit configured to generate... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080063387 - Data processor: To provide means for accessing a content data stream efficiently even when the data stream is stored on multiple files. A data processor according to the present invention can write a content data stream on a medium. The data stream includes a plurality of pictures and a playback unit with... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080056665 - Editing apparatus, editing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an editing apparatus including: a recording control section, which, when a predetermined command is received, exercises recording control as a process for the received command; and a recording section configured to record data on a predetermined recording medium under control of the recording control section, wherein the... Agent: William S. Frommer,esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080056663 - File recording apparatus, file recording method, program of file recording process, storage medium in which a program of file recording processing in stored, file playback apparatus file playback method program of file playback process: The present invention is applicable when video data obtained by taking a movie picture is recorded as a file in a QT format or the like, and the file is edited. At least an alternate track AT2 including video data is formed, and the processing priority for the alternate track... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080056664 - Moving image editing device and method, and storage medium: A moving image editing device which uses a smart rendering scheme whereby the variation of playback time is minimized even when editing material data with a minimum time unit that does not match that of the save format. A material format which is a moving image format of the material... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080056666 - Receiver and information processing method: An object of this invention is to provide a receiver that downloads a transport stream at a bit rate different from the normal playback rate, attaches to the transport stream timestamps representing a playback timing for playback at the normal rate and then stores the time-stamped stream. When the receiver... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080056667 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus: During recording, recorded images are grouped such that when a system time at the time of input of an image intended to be recorded this time is later than a recorded time of an image recorded last time, the image that is recorded this time is included in a current... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080056669 - Audio-video receiving device with a built-in memory: An audio-video (AV) receiving device according to this invention, particularly the AV receiving device with the built-in memory, is disclosed, comprising an AV receiving device body in which a wireless receiver is provided to receive wireless AV signals; a video converter provided in the AV receiving device body to convert... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080056670 - Recording/reproducing apparatus: There is provided an inexpensive recording/reproducing apparatus that enables a user, without using a conventional video signal switching device, to view and listen to distortion-free video and audio in various applications, such as recording or reproducing of digital or analog broadcasts, broadcast viewing, etc. The apparatus includes a digital TV... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080056674 - Data recording and recovery method for an optical storage medium and computer-readable storage medium using the method: A data recording method for an optical storage medium is provided. Audio and video data for a title is first written to an optical storage medium. Next, backup management data is then written to the optical storage medium, a backup mark is written to the optical storage medium, management data... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080056673 - Method for creating a customized tv/radio service from user-selected contents and playback device using the same: A method for creating a customized TV/radio service from user-selected contents is disclosed. The method is applied to a playback device for receiving a number of digital audio/video services. The method includes decoding the received digital audio/video services to obtain a plurality of content elements and metadata corresponding to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080056672 - Method, system, and apparatus for transforming a multimedia data format: A method for transforming a multimedia data format is provided, applied for transformation of multimedia data in a first format to multimedia data in a second format. The multimedia data comprises a plurality of video object units (VOBUs). The first format may be the DVD-VR format or the DVD+VR/-VIDEO format,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080056662 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus contains a local area network interface for communication, a signal-processing device that decodes program information received by the local area network interface, and an encoding device that encodes the decoded program information to reconstitute program information to which a synchronizing signal is added and to generate any... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056668 - Moving picture information recording apparatus, moving picture information recording method, moving picture information recording program, and recording medium on which the moving picture information recording program is recorded: r

20080056671 - System and method for embedding additional information in video data: A method and system for embedding an electronic watermark directly in an MPEG stream is provided. An intra-macroblock of an I-frame or of a P or B-frame is detected in an MPEG stream, and following the detection of an intra-macroblock of the I-frame or of the P or B-frame, data... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080056676 - Apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for recording the same, method thereof and recording medium: In one embodiment, the method includes determining which one of a primary subtitle associated with a primary video stream and a secondary subtitle associated with a secondary video stream to display based on management information stored in a memory. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080056678 - Apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for recording the same, method thereof and recording medium: In one embodiment, the method includes determining a secondary video stream to reproduce with a primary video stream based on management information stored in a memory. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a primary presentation path represented by a primary video stream. The management... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080056675 - Methods and apparatus for detecting space-shifted media content associated with a digital recording/playback device: Methods and apparatus for detecting space-shifted media content associated with a digital recording/playback device are disclosed. An example method for detecting space-shifted media content includes receiving media content at a first recording/playback device at a first viewing site at a monitored location, requesting data associated with the media content from... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080056677 - Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080056679 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data, and method and apparatus for recording data: In one embodiment, a primary video stream and a secondary video stream are stored in a data area of the recording medium. The primary video stream represents a primary presentation path, and the secondary video stream represents a picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to the primary presentation path. Management information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080056680 - Recorder and recording method: To provide a recorder that can change its video recording modes automatically according to the type of a signal received without having the user pay his or her attention to the signal type even in a situation where HD and SD video signals having mutually different transfer rates are broadcast... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080056681 - Recorder and recording method: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080056682 - Method and apparatus for receiving, storing, and presenting multimedia programming without indexing prior to storage: A method and apparatus for improved digital recording and presentation of broadcast information is disclosed. Received broadcast data, which may include video, audio, private, or other data, relating to one or more particular content programs, is presented from an input section to a buffer and recorded directly onto a storage... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080056684 - Digital stream recording medium, recording method, and reproducing method: According to one embodiment, in order to add, to a standard, a mode that can generate management information in a manufacturer unique format, a data area of an information medium that records a digital stream signal using a format of the predetermined standard separately records data as a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056683 - Multimedia three-dimensional memory module (m3dmm) system: Multimedia three-dimensional memory module (M3DMM) is an ideal storage for pre-recorded multimedia library (PML). Among all semiconductor storage technologies, (3D)2-MM (i.e. three-dimensional memory-based M3DMM), particularly mask-programmable (3D)2-MM, has the largest storage capacity and is the only one that can store a pre-recorded movie library (PmL) at a reasonable price.... Agent: Guobiao Zhang

20080056685 - Method and apparatus for transmitting information, and reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and recording medium for the information, and transmission data thereof: An output control (OPC) information is recorded on the magnetic tape 1 in conjunction with an MPEG stream. The OPC information is composed of two bits and is extracted from a reproduced signal by the output control circuit 9 and controls the digital interface (D. I/F) 7 and the switch... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080056686 - High-resolution optical disk for recording stereoscopic video, optical disk reproducing device, and optical disk recording device: An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or... Agent: Ratnerprestia