Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 07/08

20080181573 - Limited use media player: A limited use media player is provided which comes preloaded with media content that is stored in memory. The preloaded media content can be accessed for a limited amount of time determined by at least one of expiration of the allotted time, depletion of the power source and/or opening of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080181574 - Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features: Methods and systems that provide enhanced personal video recorder (“PVR”) and interactive television program guide (“IPG”) functionality are provided. An interactive television application (“application”) may be implemented to provide such functionality. The application may be used to display a list of PVR recordings, to schedule recordings to a PVR, to... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080181575 - Video player for use over communications network, such as streaming internet video player with unobtrusive advertising: A system for displaying educational, informational, commercial, and other types of video and other content via a communications network is disclosed. In some examples, the system comprises displaying via a client video player a digital video programme and related digital media content. The related digital media content is relevant to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080181576 - Additional subtitle providing method and additional subtitle reproducing apparatus: A method of providing an additional subtitle to reproduce an externally input subtitle and AV data and an additional subtitle reproducing apparatus. The method includes linking information on at least one external subtitle data and reproduction control information of audio video (AV) data and adding the linked information to navigation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181577 - 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)

20080181572 - Streaming content receiving apparatus and playback apparatus with stopping of reception of second streaming data during period in which first streaming program is selected: A receiving apparatus includes a receiver that receives a signal for playing back a program, a storage device that stores the signal received by the receiver, and a controller that, during a period in which a first program is selected, starts control for starting reception of a signal for playing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181582 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, and information storage medium in which video data is recorded by the same: A method of recording and reproducing video data is provided. The method of recording video data in an information storage medium includes the steps of (a) decoding originally encoded video data, (b) re-encoding the decoded video data in a different way to the originally encoded video data, (c) generating video... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181583 - Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, and information storage medium in which video data is recorded by the same: A method of recording and reproducing video data is provided. The method of recording video data in an information storage medium includes the steps of (a) decoding originally encoded video data, (b) re-encoding the decoded video data in a different way to the originally encoded video data, (c) generating video... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181580 - Playback control device, method and program: A playback control device includes a selection means for selecting a moving picture of a moving picture file having a file name satisfying prescribed conditions or a moving picture of a moving picture file having a prescribed file format and a still picture in still pictures and moving pictures, and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080181584 - System and method for recording broadcasting programs: The invention is directed to a broadcasting program recording system having a key input unit configured to receive a control signal from a user, the control signal including at least one of recording, reproducing, displaying and clipping signals, a display device configured to display a broadcasting program and a guide... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181578 - Transcoding of media content: A method comprises digitally recording media content to a first format compatible with a first playback device. The method then comprises transcoding the media content from the first format to a second format compatible with a second playback device based on at least one user-provided attribute of the second playback... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181581 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus, and control method: An apparatus configured to acquire video content data and record the data in a storage unit and play back video based on the video content data includes: an upconverting processing unit configured to perform upconverting of the video content data recorded in the storage unit; an estimation unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080181579 - Video reproducing apparatus and video reproducing method: an update cycle adjusting device making an update cycle in which the reproduction control video data is updated longer than the constant cycle, within a range in which all the reproduction control images which should be displayed by the reproduction control video data are displayed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080181585 - System and method for allocating excess capacity on a storage medium: A system and method is provided for identifying and allocating excess storage capacity on a storage media. Primary content is identified to be stored on the storage medium, whereby secondary content is allocated to be stored in the excess capacity of the storage medium that is not required for the... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20080175557 - Information storage medium including markup document and av data, recording and reproducing method, and reproducing apparatus therefore: An information storage medium including a markup document and AV data for use in a reproducing apparatus includes AV data including audio data and video data, a markup document, and scene synthesis information which describes one of at least two display modes for displaying a markup document scene obtained from... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080175556 - System and method for semantic video segmentation based on joint audiovisual and text analysis: System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080175558 - Hardware apparatus and method having video/audio encoding and multiplexing functionality: The apparatus includes a video signal acquisition device, an audio signal acquisition device, a time information processing device, a video signal encoding device, an audio signal encoding device, a multiplexing device and an output device. The video signal acquisition device receives the video signals and converts them into digital video... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20080175559 - Image process apparatus and method thereof: An image process apparatus and an image process method. The image process apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive moving picture data; and a buffering unit to preferentially buffer a predetermined number of frames by each frame group composing the moving picture data, thereby providing a continuous streaming picture.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080175560 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information: A recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes grouping data of a digital stream into a plurality of object units, and grouping one or more object units into an object; and creating management information for accessing the data, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175561 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information: A recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes grouping data of a digital stream into a plurality of object units, and grouping one or more object units into an object; and creating management information for accessing the data, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175562 - Signal compressing apparatus: An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital recording disc. The formatting-resultant signal includes segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080175563 - Information storage medium storing contents, and method and apparatus for reproducing the contents: An information storage medium storing contents, and a method and apparatus for reproducing the contents which can control a trick play initiated by a user while reproducing the contents are provided. The information storage medium storing contents includes contents data formed of a plurality of sections, and contents information including... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175566 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080175565 - Data processing system, apparatus and method for processing information, recording and playback apparatus, and computer program: A recording/playback apparatus including first and second recorders is connected to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transfers a first data stream file and a first management file used for managing the first stream file to the recording/playback apparatus. The first recorder records a second stream file and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080175568 - System and method for associating presented digital content within recorded digital stream and method for its playback from precise location: To avoid discontinuities when resuming play of a digital stream that was paused while being viewed live and being simultaneously recorded, the timestamp and digital stream time base discontinuity count associated with the last-viewed frame are used to access the frame in storage that has the same discontinuity count (indicating... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080175564 - System and method for presenting supplementary program data utilizing pre-processing scheme: A system for pre-processing supplementary program data is provided. The system includes: a storage device, for storing at least one supplementary program data unit; a parser, coupled to the storage device, for storing the supplementary program data unit in the storage device, and determining a presentation timing corresponding to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080175567 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus and data control method thereof: In a video recording and reproducing apparatus, data is divided into a plurality of data blocks encrypted with corresponding encryption keys and is recorded in a recording medium such as a HDD. The recorded data is copied from a data source to a move destination in the recording medium. Then,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080175569 - Extension of media player environments: The systems and methods of extending the capabilities of media players included in or with a computing device are disclosed. The systems and methods provide a way for content that fully complies with a given media format specification to utilize network capabilities defined by that specification to create a bridge... Agent: Socal Ip Law Group LLP

20080170834 - Video signal generating apparatus, video signal receiving apparatus, and video signal generating and receiving system: A video signal generating apparatus is disclosed which includes: a camera configured to generate a video signal; an operating device configured to operate at least either the camera or an apparatus configured to receive the video signal; a text data generating device configured to generate text data including a meaningful... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170835 - Information storage medium storing a plurality of titles, reproducing apparatus and method thereof: An information storage medium on which a plurality of titles are recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and method thereof. The information storage medium includes a plurality of titles which are reproduced as motion pictures and a plurality of units of attribute information that correspond to the titles and indicate whether... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170836 - Network system, terminal apparatus, recording apparatus, method of displaying record scheduling state, computer program for terminal apparatus, computer program for recording apparatus: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170837 - Information processing system: Aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to copy protection of media products. Exemplary media products are DVD products and the like. According to some embodiments, such media products (745) may carry, in a data area (740), presentation data (325), navigation data (330) and read barriers (AV3), the navigation... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080170838 - Head-mounted video recording system: A helmet- or head-mounted video recording system is provided for mounting on a piece of head gear such as a head-protective helmet. The system includes a camera module attachable to the head gear, including a first video camera integrated into the camera module for generating a video signal. A recording... Agent: Scott C. Rand, Esq. Mclane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Pa

20080170839 - Apparatus for receiving digital contents and method thereof: An apparatus for receiving a digital content, and a method having the same are provided. The apparatus for receiving the digital content includes a plurality of receivers which receive identification information and data from a plurality of transmitting apparatus; a plurality of authenticators which generate authentication keys by using the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170840 - Information storage medium, information playback apparatus, and information playback method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium includes a first area which stores playback control information used to control playback of contents, and a second area which stores a region flag indicating whether to enable or disable playback control based on a region code held in a player.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080166100 - Accurate fast forward rate when performing trick play with variable distance between frames: The present invention is directed to system(s), method(s), and apparatus for accurate fast forward rate when performing trick play with variable distance between frames. In one embodiment, there is presented a circuit for providing a fast forward video sequence. The circuit comprises a system time clock for providing a time... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080166101 - Information storage medium storing a plurality of titles, reproducing apparatus and method thereof: An information storage medium on which a plurality of titles are recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and method thereof. The information storage medium includes a plurality of titles which are reproduced as motion pictures and a plurality of units of attribute information that correspond to the titles and indicate whether... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080166102 - Image digital processing based on edit status: In a method for producing output from an image record, the type of input unit supplying the image record is determined. The image record is classified into one of a predetermined plurality of different edit statuses. The classifying utilizes as input the determined type of input unit. The edit statuses... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080166103 - Video/audio recording system, video/audio recording device, receiving device, video/audio recording method, and video/audio management program: Even if a content is under copy restriction for copyright protection, the content can be recorded by effectively using a recording area. Tuner control sections (11, 21) update use information (11a, 21a) in response to a request of use reservation and set a tuner use right. When a recording managing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080166104 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus: An information recording and reproducing apparatus in which when dubbing of audio/video information has been executed, by storing information showing that the audio/video information has been dubbed into a memory, a hard disk apparatus, or the like in a video camera, when the user intends to erroneously delete the audio/video... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080166105 - Apparatus for remotely controlling set-top boxes and an associated method and computer program product: An apparatus is provided for remotely controlling set-top boxes. In general, a virtual remote controller is described including a memory device and a processor. The memory device is configured to store an image file and more than one signal file. The image file defines an image of a set-top box... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080166107 - Enhanced program viewing method: A user is provided with the capability to view only those segments of TV broadcast programs and/or pre-recorded digital programs that are identified by the user (or other persons, e.g., parents) as acceptable. Preferences for the types of material that is desired for viewing are provided. The provider analyzes a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080166106 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a display control section configured to display on a display section a picture based on a video signal and a caption synchronized with the picture and based on caption information attached to the video signal; and a character string information acquisition section... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080166108 - Optical record/playback apparatus and control method thereof: An optical record/playback apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed. The optical record/playback apparatus has an easy mode to automatically initialize an optical disk loaded on the optical record/playback apparatus, regardless of a type of an optical disk, when the optical disk has not been initialized, and the easy... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159708 - Video contents display apparatus, video contents display method, and program therefor: A video contents display apparatus include a display generation unit for: generating a predetermined number of static images by considering a time of lapse from information about recorded video contents; converting a static image other than at least one specified static image into an image reduced in a predetermined format... Agent: Sprinkle Ip Law Group

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20080159709 - Recording apparatus, recording/reproducing system, recording method: The recording apparatus includes: first and second area generating units generating, in a recording medium, first and second recording areas, respectively, for recording first stream data and for repeatedly overwrite-recording second stream data different from the first stream data and taken as an object of reproduction for a predetermined period;... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080159712 - Imaging apparatus: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus that includes a table rotating device rotationally drives a disc-shaped recording medium; a pickup device capable of recording an information signal of an image corresponding to light from a subject; and an external case having a disc enclosure portion and the pickup device. The imaging... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080159719 - Apparatus for and method of recording information, apparatus for and method of reproducing information, recording medium, and information recording medium: Provided is an information recording apparatus which, in a state where the content of moving picture image information, etc. can be prevented from being inadvertently recognized by the user due to inadvertent presentation to the user of a relevant representative picture image, enables recording the respective information into a recording... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080159720 - Apparatus for and method of recording information, apparatus for and method of reproducing information, recording medium, and information recording medium: Provided is an information recording apparatus which, in a state where the content of moving picture image information, etc. can be prevented from being inadvertently recognized by the user due to inadvertent presentation to the user of a relevant representative picture image, enables recording the respective information into a recording... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080159721 - Av information reproducing system and a reproducing method applied to the same system: In a system for reproducing AV information from a recording medium, such as a DVD, not only are usual titles reproduced, but also related information relevant to specific stream information is acquired easily by making use of resources on a computer network. In a reproducing system with the function of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080159715 - Contextual linking and out-of-band delivery of related online content: Content availability online is declaratively or dynamically associated with the presentation of media from a primary media source. The online content is delivered out-of-band with respect to the primary media source for seamless playback alongside the primary content. Traditional media presentation through broadcast television or prerecorded music or video may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080159717 - Digital image reproducing apparatus and method of forward/reverse searching digital images: A digital image reproducing apparatus and a digital image forward/reverse searching method, in which the digital image reproducing apparatus includes: a decoder decoding digital video images; and a searching parameter setting unit for setting the searching parameters used to search the digital video images. The decoder decodes an essential frame... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080159713 - Digital video recorder, multimedia storage apparatus, and method thereof: A multimedia storage apparatus comprises a demultiplexer, a stream converter, and a memory. The demultiplexer separates A/V data and auxiliary data from a first stream, while the stream converter converts the A/V data into a second stream. The memory then stores the auxiliary data. A multimedia storage method comprises the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080159718 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159714 - Limiting recording demands: A method and system of limiting recording demands on digital video recorders and other media records. The limiting being facilitated through analysis of programs and other media available from one or more network resources associated with and/or having capabilities to provide media to the recording element. The network resources may... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080159716 - Storage medium storing information for automatic reproduction of playlist, and apparatus and method for reproducing the storage medium: A storage medium that stores multimedia data for video reproduction and programming, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multimedia data. The storage medium includes reproduction mode data having video data; program data having a plurality of program applications that provide interactions with a user and/or additional functions, using... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080159722 - Three-dimensional memory-based three-dimensional memory module: Three-dimensional-memory-based three-dimensional memory module (3D2-M2) is a three-dimensional memory module (3D-MM) comprising a plurality of three-dimensional mask-programmable memory (3D-mM) chips. It is an ultra-low-cost, ultra-large-capacity and small-form-factor memory module. By further incorporating a usage-control (UC) block, 3D2-M2 enables a pricing model more acceptable to consumers, i.e. the hardware is sold... Agent: Guobiao Zhang

20080159723 - Recording apparatus, recording method and record medium: A recording apparatus for recording video data to a record medium is disclosed, that comprises an encoding means for encoding video data in a group structure of a plurality of frames corresponding to a compression-encoding process in a combination of an inter-frame predictive encoding process and a motion compensative process,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080159725 - Dvd player and display control method therefor: A DVD player includes a DVD player body that outputs a first image to a main display device, and a remote controller having a sub-display device. Herein, the DVD player body includes image data conversion unit that reduces the data amount of the first image and that converts the reduced... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080159724 - Method and system for inputting and displaying commentary information with content: There is provided a method for use by a media processing device to provide commentary information in conjunction with content stored in media. In one embodiment, playback of the content by the media processing device is begun. The playback is then stopped at a first time to receive commentary information.... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP