Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 05/08

20080124040 - Vehicular audio/video expansion device provided with learning function and vehicular audio/video system: A vehicular audio/video expansion device provided with learning function, a vehicular audio/video system using the same and its learning method have been disclosed. According to the present invention, the vehicular A/V system comprises: a playback device having a remote control provided with a first button associated with a first control... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080124041 - Adding video effects for video enabled applications: A streaming video interface component receives video frames from a streaming driver before the frames are received by a consuming application. The streaming video interface component provides the video frames to a video effect rendering component which renders video effects selected by a user. The video frames with the rendered... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080124042 - Method and system for video segmentation: A method segments a video. Audio frames of the video are classified with labels. Dominant labels are assigned to successive time intervals of consecutive labels. A semantic description is constructed for sliding time windows of the successive time intervals, in which the sliding time windows overlap in time, and the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080124043 - Multiplexing apparatus, multiplexing method, and computer product: A multiplexing apparatus includes a DEMUX that divides input content data into compressed video data and compressed audio data, a VIDEO DEC that expands the compressed video data, a VIDEO ENC that converts the video data expanded by the VIDEO DEC into a predetermined data format, an ASIN that writes... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080124044 - Digital video recorder and control method therefor: Disclosed herein is a control method for a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In the method, a protocol script map table, including command packet information and management information for parsing the command packet information, is newly defined. Whenever a camera using a new protocol is added to the DVR system, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080124045 - System, method and medium generating frame information for moving images: A system, method and medium playing a moving image, which includes various content objects is described. The system includes a script parser identifying a plurality of objects which form the moving image, a play-time calculation unit determining a framing time position, from among a total play time of the moving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080124046 - Video recording/playing apparatus: A video recording/playing apparatus, for recording or playing video data comprises a contents information extraction unit for extracting content information displaying contents from video data under reception or playback thereof, differing from the video data, and a recording/playing control unit for controlling recording or playing of a first contents corresponding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080124047 - Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information: A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information recording and/or playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium such as a digital versatile disk (DVD), which is an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080124048 - Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information: A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information recording and/or playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium such as a digital versatile disk (DVD), which is an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080124049 - Method for eliminating noise of a motor: The method is used to eliminate the sound of a motor when a digital image capturing device is recording. The method includes the steps of: inputting a simulated control signal; simulating a motor operational status and recording a simulated sound wave of the motor to establish a simulated sound wave... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080124050 - Method and apparatus for processing digital program segments: A digital processor in a network ingests encoded media programs and determines conformance with variable test criteria. A storage medium or a network provides the media data as files or as streamed data. Various coding and compression formats can be served at the input or output. A scalable hierarchy of... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (harris Corp.)

20080124051 - Method and system for fast format transformation: Methods for fast format transformation. When a data recording is implemented to generate multimedia data in a data format, it is determined whether the multimedia data in the data format is multimedia data in DVD+VR/DVD-VIDEO format. If the multimedia data in the data format is the multimedia data in DVD+VR/DVD-VIDEO... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080124057 - Data transmitting method and apparatus for simultaneously reproducing multiple moving picture contents, and method and apparatus for simultaneously reproducing multiple moving picture contents: A data transmitting method of simultaneously reproducing a plurality of moving picture contents includes: encoding a plurality of moving picture contents into a single moving picture content; and transmitting the encoded moving picture content. The data transmitting method further includes receiving play list information for specifying the plurality of moving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080124055 - Index of locally recorded content: A method to index locally recorded content at a media device includes extracting, at a remote service provider, event index data from an event being locally recorded at a media device and associating the event index data with locator code data of the event. The method further includes storing, at... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080124056 - Media playback system: Described is a system and method for assigning, controlling and triggering playback of multiple media streams in a manner so that the media streams perform in sync, as defined by parameters specified by the user. The system allows users to generate and acquire new content for playback with an original... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080124053 - Method for using a video content recording apparatus with syntax for video content recording parameters: A method for using a video content recording apparatus with syntax for video content recording parameters is disclosed. In one preferred embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising the acts of receiving video content, receiving a removable memory device, receiving a code formatted in accordance with a syntax in which values... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080124054 - Portable media player: The invention provides a portable media player of the type used in in-flight entertainment systems on flights and the like. By providing an activation code that is available to a user on purchase of a card, the user may enter the code and then select and view appropriate media content... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080124058 - Reproducing apparatus, updating control program and server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a reproducing apparatus includes: a storage device storing a reproducing program reproducing coded video data or sound data by decoding the data using key data; an acquisition unit acquiring key data for updating to be used to update the key data and a reproducing program for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080124052 - Systems and methods to modify playout or playback: Systems and methods to modify playout or playback include a first and second approach to respond to a trick mode request (e.g., fast forward, rewind). First, a trick mode request may be responded to by associating primary content to secondary content and playing out the secondary content on a receiving... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/open Tv

20080118218 - Moving picture stream generation apparatus, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture multiplexing apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus: A moving picture stream generation apparatus includes: a trick-play information generation unit TricPlay for generating supplemental information on a random access unit basis, the supplemental information being referred to at the time of playback of each random access unit and each random access unit including one or more pictures; and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080118219 - Method of guiding current reproduction point during integrated reproduction and video device adopting the same: A method of guiding a current reproduction point and a video device adopting the same are provided. The video device includes a reproduction unit; a visual information combining unit; and a control unit which controls the reproduction unit so that a second video file is reproduced after reproduction of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080118220 - Method of capturing still image during reproduction of moving picture: A method of capturing a still image during reproduction of a moving picture is provided. The method includes reproducing the moving picture at a slow speed when a first input signal is received during reproduction of the moving picture; and capturing a still image from the moving picture, which is... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080118222 - Digital broadcast reception terminal and method for reserved recording of digital broadcast programs: An apparatus and method for performing reserved-recording of a digital broadcast program are provided. The method includes setting a reservation to record a digital broadcast program, activating a timer to determine a start time of the program when the terminal is turned off, turning on the terminal to record the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080118223 - Video-recording reservation management apparatus, method, program and system: A plurality of video-recording devices having video-recording functions and communication functions are connected via a network. A video-recording reservation processing unit registers video-recording reservation information in a video-recording reservation management table of a storage unit and notifies the other devices and of the video-recording reservation registration via the network when... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080118224 - Moving picture stream generation apparatus, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture multiplexing apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus: A moving picture stream generation apparatus includes: a trick-play information generation unit TricPlay for generating supplemental information on a random access unit basis, the supplemental information being referred to at the time of playback of each random access unit and each random access unit including one or more pictures; and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080118225 - Audio and video recording and playing apparatus: An audio and video recording and playing apparatus includes a container-like body and a lid. The container-like body has an audio and video recording and playing module. The audio and video recording and playing module receives and plays an audio and video signal. The lid is provided at an opening... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118221 - Information recording apparatus: An information recording apparatus has a stop mode in which only recording means comprised of a rotatable drum on which a recording head is mounted and recording medium driving means comprised of a capstan/pinch roller are stopped, which stop mode can be changed from a record temporary stop mode. During... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080118226 - Pvr-support video decoding system: An MPEG video decoding system with a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) function is disclosed. By applying the PVR function to an MPEG-2 decoder chip, which is the standard recommendation of the digital video transmission field, diverse high-performance PVR services such as video storage and search using an HDD application in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118227 - Personal content distribution network: Techniques for making content available to a DVR are described. Content encoded in any encoding format may be automatically transcoded, on a computer, into an encoding format that a DVR is configured to decode. The transcoded content is automatically sent over a LAN from the computer to the DVR. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080118228 - Information recording device and method, information reproducing device and method, information recording/reproducing device and method, and computer program: An information device (300) includes: first judgment elements (304) for judging whether an information recording device specified by circumstances information (400a) recorded on a second recording medium (100) coincides with the information recording device which has performed MOVE process; and control elements (307) for controlling display elements (305, etc.) so... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080118229 - Iterative code system for streaming hdds: Iterative code system for streaming hard disk drives (HDDs). A novel approach is presented by which any of a wide variety of error correcting codes can be applied within devices that include or interface to HDDs or other memory storage devices that provide streaming information. A means is provided by... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080118230 - Media recording element: A media recording element having capabilities to facilitate recording media for subsequent playback. The recording element further including features associated with limiting operations of a hard drive or other similarly mechanical memory under certain operating conditions so as to limit power consumption and/or memory degradation.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080118231 - Method and system for providing content to a portable media player device and maintaining licensing rights: A method and system for storing a file on a portable device 36 includes a display 30, a digital video recorder 32, a first control device 80 and a controller 200 coupled to the digital video recorder. The controller generates a screen display having a selector for selecting a file... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080118233 - Video player: A telop recognition method is provided which, during a telop recognition operation, can correct an error, if any, in the recognition operation without loading dictionaries of unnecessary character type into memory and which, when the telop recognition is performed again, does not have to initiate the telop recognition operation from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080118232 - Video reproducing device and method, recording medium and video reproducing program: To implement a continue play in a manner intended by contents creators. A reproduction control unit reproduces picture contents prerecorded on a recording medium. A script control unit interprets and executes a script program prerecorded on a recording medium, the script program including an event handler to be executed when... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080112684 - Space-time video montage: Systems and methods for space-time video montage are described. In one aspect, one or more arbitrary space-time volumes representing informative video portion(s) of at least one input video data sequence are identified. A video summary representing a montage of the at least one input video data sequence is generated for... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080112683 - System and methods for remote manipulation of video over a network: A remote video editing system is provided for editing a video from a remote location without the need to locally save the video every time an edit is made. Briefly described, one embodiment, among others, includes the steps of analyzing characteristics of the video and embedding the information into the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080112685 - Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method: The present invention is related to a data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method for properly managing the contents of data and reproducing information recorded to a recording medium. A recording medium of the copy source records a Clip (Clip Information file and Clip AV stream file) and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080112686 - Automatic completion of media recording: A method and system are provided in which metadata associated with programs selected to be recorded are monitored in real time and the recording begins and ends when the selected title is detected from actual video header information regardless of the time slot within which the program is scheduled to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080112687 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method: An information recording medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and a recording/reproducing method for the recording medium. Original data is sequentially updated by replacing an original recording block with one or more replacement recording blocks. A replacement recording block includes at least one of an original address field indicating a location... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112688 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method: An information recording medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and a recording/reproducing method for the recording medium. Original data is sequentially updated by replacing an original recording block with one or more replacement recording blocks. A replacement recording block includes at least one of an original address field indicating a location... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112689 - Image pickup device with still picture pickup function during moving picture pickup operation: An image pickup device is equipped with a function to a pickup still picture during a moving picture pickup operation with voices. After a moving picture pickup processing with voices is started (YES in S2), a moving picture recording processing and a voice recording processing are started (S14). Subsequently, when... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080112690 - Personalized local recorded content: A system to personalize a display of content locally recorded at a media device is described herein. A segment having an associated segment identifier is extracted from a broadcast event recorded at the remote media device. Each segment identifier is searched for a match with the user profile data to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080112691 - Recording device: The present invention prevents a recording failure that may arise out of insufficient free disk space in a hard disk based video recorder. If disk space insufficiency occurs in a redundant recording device or video recorder that is equipped with a redundant hard disk array to provide against failure, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080112692 - Method and apparatus for converting digital pictures for storage and playback from optical discs: Digital image conversion for storage on an optical disc and corresponding playback on an optical disc player is disclosed. Digital image conversion may convert images from external devices in an environment where the internal memory is insufficient to support retention of an entire optical disc image to be written onto... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080112693 - Method and apparatus for recording a digital information signal: Method of contiguously recording a sequence of ordered A/V information signals, such as video/audio information, and corresponding management information signals, such as video management, menu information or file information, on a disc-like recording medium of the write-once type, such as an optically recordable and readable disc. The recorded information complies... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080107390 - Method for integrating a plurality of multimedia data to present a corresponding audio-visual playback completely and audio-visual playback system thereof: A method for integrating a plurality of multimedia data to present a corresponding audio-visual playback completely is disclosed. The method includes: (a) providing a first multimedia datum including video information; (b) retrieving a second multimedia datum via a network transmission; (c) integrating the first multimedia datum and the second multimedia... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107391 - Playback lock method and image device thereof: A playback lock method and an image device thereof are provided. The image device includes an image provider which provides an image, and a controller which locks a playback lock interval of the image provided from the image provider, which is set by a user, if it is determined that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080107395 - Broadcast reception apparatus and digital broadcast receiver: An MPU 11 in a digital broadcast receiver includes a program reservation portion 111 which accepts manipulations from a user, through a remotecontroller 2, and which sets start date and hour information and end date and hour information of a program on the basis of the accepted manipulations; a date... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080107392 - Digital video recorder (dvr) scheduling: Provided are a method and a system for recording a video broadcast using a video recording device. A scheduling update is obtained for the video broadcast over a network. A recording schedule is updated for the video broadcast in response to the obtained scheduling update. The video broadcast is recorded... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080107393 - Method and apparatus to reproduce audio visual data comprising application having indeterminate start time: A method and apparatus to reproduce audio visual (AV) data, including an application having an indeterminate start time, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute the method are provided. The method of reproducing AV data includes: reading the reproduction sequence information of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107394 - Playback device capable of establishing a program at a standby mode and method thereof: A method for establishing a program of a playback device includes: (a) setting a predetermined time of the playback device; (b) running a channel scan for a signal source at a standby mode of the playback device according to the predetermined time set in step (a); and (c) establishing the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107396 - Systems and methods for playing back data from a circular buffer by utilizing embedded timestamp information: A system for playing back data from a circular buffer is disclosed. The system includes: a buffer, for buffering data, wherein the data is encoded and grouped into Data Units (DUs), each containing an embedded timestamp; a buffer access module, for utilizing a write pointer to record data to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107400 - Method and apparatus for reproducing discontinuous av data: A method and apparatus for continuously reproducing pieces of audio-video (AV) data includes selecting the pieces of AV data by searching a continuous sequence of AV data for the pieces of AV data matching an input keyword with metadata contained in the continuous sequence of AV data, and fading out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107389 - Sync separator for separating sync signal to follow fluctuations in video signal: In a sync separator, a comparator extracts two composite sync signals, based on two reference levels for a composite video signal. Two sync separation determiners separate sync signals from each extracted composite sync signal, and determine whether or not the separated sync signals include dropout. The results of determination are... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080107397 - Information storage medium storing text-based subtitle, and apparatus and method for processing text-based subtitle: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle. The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107398 - Information storage medium storing text-based subtitle, and apparatus and method for processing text-based subtitle: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle. The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107399 - Upgradable on screen display system: The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on screen display of recorder player status messages. A first embodiment returns a reproduced decoded, analog video signal to the digital recorder player... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080107401 - Performing trick play functions in a digital video recorder with efficient use of resources: Techniques for selecting a picture of a video program for display in accordance with a selected trick play mode of a DVR are described herein. Sometimes, when desired playback speed is faster than normal, a DVR is forced to select some pictures to play and some pictures to skip. Ideally,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080107402 - Method and system for customizable video playback controls: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and system comprising a remote control device, an output device, and a media control station that receives an initiating command from the remote control device to initiate a forward function or a backward function, provides a display at the output... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107405 - Method for playing audio-video file and playing system using the same: A method for playing an audio-video (AV) file is provided. The first AV file is played in a first or a second player. The first and the second players are coupled to one first digital media server. First, the first digital media server outputs a first AV file to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080107406 - Reproduction apparatus and data transfer system: A reproduction apparatus which transfers data is disclosed. The reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction unit which reproduces information data stored in a storage medium, a management unit which manages pieces of information data stored in the storage medium by classifying them into a plurality of groups corresponding to types of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080107404 - System, apparatus, and method for processing information, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit for detecting a commercial message contained in a broadcast television program, a feature quantity calculating unit for calculating a feature quantity of the detected commercial message, a recording unit for recording incidental information relating to the commercial message and the feature quantity... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080107403 - Video decoding apparatus, video playback apparatus, video decoding method, and video playback method: When zoom playback is performed using a three-plane structure frame buffer in a video playback apparatus, decoding of a zoom target portion is sometimes not completed by a display start time, leading to deterioration in displayed video. In order to solve this problem, only a portion of a coded video... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101760 - Recording apparatus: A digital broadcast media recording apparatus has means for determining if a program which is scheduled to be broadcast has already been recorded, and, if it has been, for deciding if the program which is scheduled to be broadcast should be recorded based on a comparison of the attributes of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080101762 - Method of automatically editing media recordings: A method (100) of automatically editing audio and visual recordings to produce an audio-visual production using computer processing means. The method (100) involves a first step (101) of setting production criteria in which the desired production duration, target device, maximum execution time and location of media files are specified. In... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080101761 - Weighted occlusion costing: In a method for determining a weighted occlusion cost for presenting an image within a non-uniform viewing region image, saliency data for an image to be displayed in a non-uniform viewing region is received. A layout orientation for presenting the image in the non-uniform viewing region is received. A weighted... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101764 - Method and apparatus for managing multimedia content recording assets: A device (10) and method (30) for managing multimedia content recording assets, e.g., within a video processing device, such as a video signal convert/decoder (set-top box) device. The method includes receiving multimedia content, storing at least a portion of the multimedia content requested by one or more content assets, and... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080101765 - Method for playback of broadcast data in receiver: The present invention is related to playback of broadcast data in a receiver. Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving first data through a first broadcast channel in the receiver, performing playback of the first data, receiving second data through a second broadcast channel in the receiver, storing a segment of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080101763 - Viewing pattern data collection: A method and system are provided in which DVR viewer metrics are collected and saved in a “Watched Log” data base including identifying titles and other features of recorded DVR programs. User viewing metrics are collected and saved for use in determining whether or not future shows are recorded. After... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080101766 - Recording device and method: To enable a recording device recording a video/audio signal and information necessary for utilizing the video/audio signal to copy the video/audio signal with the converted bit rate, encoding format, etc., to another recording device when utilizing the video/audio signal by the another recording device, and to move only the information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101767 - 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

20080101768 - Media build for multi-channel distribution: According to one embodiment, methods and systems are disclosed for converting multi-media content to multiple deliverable formats using a conversion workflow. For example, a single source content file can be captured and a plurality of deliverable content files can be derived from the single source content file. Each of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080101773 - Apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content. In digital contents management, the apparatus for providing additional information of media content includes a media source, a media renderer, an additional information analyzer, a smart progress bar, and an additional information renderer. The media source receives... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080101769 - Method and apparatus for reproducing motion picture files: A reproduction method is disclosed that creates an index file including start point and termination point information connected with user designated specified section of a motion picture file (MPF), and MPF storage location. According to index file selection and related reproduction request, the specified section of the corresponding MPF is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101771 - Accelerated access to frames from a compressed digital video stream without keyframes: A digital video recorder stores digital video streams having sequences of encoded frames that are predominantly non-keyframes. The digital video recorder synthesizes keyframes for the digital video stream by decoding the frames in sequence and occasionally capturing the state of the decoder as it decodes the frames. The decoder states... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101772 - Accelerated access to frames from a compressed digital video stream without keyframes: A digital video recorder stores digital video streams having sequences of encoded frames that are predominantly non-keyframes. The digital video recorder synthesizes keyframes for the digital video stream by decoding the frames in sequence and occasionally capturing the state of the decoder as it decodes the frames. The decoder states... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101770 - Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a receiver according to content and user selection: System and method for automatically controlling a media receiver by instructing the media receiver to use a particular receiver connection and to play a selected media unit using one of a plurality of play modes according to characteristics of the media unit. Media units may be encoded using any of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080101774 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus comprises: a data reading unit for reading VTS_TMAPT and TMU; a preliminary search address calculating unit for calculating, based on the read data and a search time designated by a user, address of a destination VOBU to which an optical pickup is to be moved; a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group