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

20080205846 - Method and system for presenting information relating to recorded content: A method for presenting information includes receiving an instruction to present recorded content and presenting the recorded content on a display. The method includes monitoring data associated with the recorded content and receiving an instruction to present the recorded content at a fast forward speed. The method also includes presenting... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080205847 - Program ancillary data producing device, picture program editing device and picture program producing device: An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an object of preparation, and a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080205848 - Imaging apparatus and reproducing apparatus: An imaging unit takes an image and converts the image into a video signal. A display unit displays the image carried the by the video signal. An average luminance calculating unit calculates average luminance of the image per first predetermined period. A detecting unit calculates a ratio of maximum to... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20080205849 - Systems for controlling access to locked content contained in a recording medium: A communication apparatus located remotely from an individual entering into communication with said apparatus, includes a module for: receiving a key signal uniquely representative of an individual at a remote communication apparatus; further receiving a signal representative of a specific recording medium; determining a signal representative of one or more... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080205850 - Title materials embedded within media formats and related applications: Methods and apparatus are described for enabling actionable content by embedding title materials corresponding to digital bearer instruments in digital media.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080205851 - Video playback apparatus and method: A video playback apparatus includes a data-storage unit storing video data and a first video-time stamp, an information-storage unit storing first-associated information and a first-associated-time stamp, a unit acquiring plural playback-video data and plural second-video-time stamps of the plural playback-video data from the data-storage unit, and acquiring second-associated information of... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080205852 - Encoded data recording apparatus and mobile terminal: In a mobile terminal provided with an encoded data recording function, there is assumed a condition in which a picture frame transmitted from the terminal of a communication partner is reproduced by means of decoding processing and is displayed on a LCD (34) during wireless TV phone communication. In this... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080205853 - Method of monitoring the control of image representations, particularly from safety-relevant raw data: In order to check the operation of graphics generation carried out with safety-relevant raw data, in particular sensor data, for instance by geometric transformation and image filtering, test vectors are also processed in addition to the preprocessed raw data. The resulting video data are compared with the expected values in... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080205854 - System and method for video noise reduction using a unified three-dimensional non-linear filtering: The system described herein is a unified approach to three-dimensional filtering for the reduction of video noise. The technique is based on weight averaging pixels of the filter's output value in a three-dimensional neighborhood, in space and time, of the filter's output value. The weights can be computed for individual... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080205855 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for changing setting language of the same: An HDMI connector is adapted to be connected to a display device conforming to an HDMI standard A signal processor is operable to decode a digital signal received through the HDMI connector and extract first language information which indicates a setting language of the display device when the digital signal... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080205856 - Adaptive media playout method and apparatus for intra-media synchronization: Disclosed is a buffer-based adaptive media playout method in a receiver side of a network media streaming system. The method includes: calculating a playout interval for playing out a current j-th frame (where j is a natural number) of a received media stream; and playing out the current j-th frame... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080205858 - Memory structures and methods for video codec: A memory device for storing a plurality of macroblocks may include a plurality of memory banks. Each macroblock may include m*n pixel data, wherein m is a positive integer, and wherein n also is a positive integer. The plurality of memory banks is adapted to store the pixel data, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205857 - Recording control apparatus and control method for the same: To select a recording device for recording a program in a digital television receiver to which a plurality of recorders (recording devices) are connected, control is performed to acquire image quality information about the program to be recorded and to compare the program image quality to be recorded with the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080205859 - Recording medium, playback apparatus, recording method, and playback method: A BD-ROM playback apparatus simultaneously executes reproduction of a title including an AVClip and executes an application. The BD-ROM playback apparatus includes a BD-J module (35) executing an application, a playback control engine (32) for playing the AVClip belonging to one title, and a module manager (34) for controlling branching... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (matsushita)

20080205860 - Method of live submitting a digital signal: A method of generating in real-time an audio-video transport stream from a sequence of audio-video data fragments, the audio-video data fragments from the sequence having a variable bit length and a predetermined presentation time length, the method comprising steps of generating or receiving in real time the audio-video data fragments;... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205861 - Method and apparatus for recording optical disc: Provided are an apparatus and method of recording an optical disc. The apparatus includes a reader which reads image files defined by a user from a storage medium, in which the image files are stored, a screen information generator which generates title menu screen information using the read image files,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080199144 - System and method for processing and decoding mpeg compatible data and internet information: A program guide is displayed which lists the availability of information for a program listed in the guide, where such information is obtained from a source accessible through the Internet, where the guide uses first color to indicate the availability of such information and a second color when such information... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080199145 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: By adopting a division processing procedure of a play item, rearrangement processing of a stream for each chapter is achieved. In a product specification, a plurality of real play lists are put together into a series of chapter groups to be presented to the user, and thus there are cases... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080199146 - Stream reproduction apparatus and stream reproduction method: In order to accurately reproduce an operation performed by a user when debugging a data stream reproduction apparatus, a stream reproduction method according to the present invention obtains, during reproduction processing carried out by a reproduction apparatus with respect to a data stream, each time an instruction relating to the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080199147 - Apparatus for reproducing moving image stream with speed change and method thereof: An apparatus and method for reproducing moving image stream with speed change, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a compressed moving image stream, a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct an image from the compressed moving image stream, a generation unit configured... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080199148 - Information recording and reproducing device: A skipping unit performs a skipping process of skip reading information when reading out and reproducing the information from a recording medium. A reproducing section list generator generates and records a reproducing section list, which is a section list of a reproduction process of reading out and reproducing the information.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080199149 - Digital broadcasting receiver for programming recording of broadcasting program and method thereof: A digital broadcasting receiver, programming a recording a broadcast program, and a method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcasting receiver can register a programmed channel including one or more channels, stores broadcast data received from the programmed channel as a programmed-recording program in accordance with a predetermined criterion, and stores... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080199150 - Transfer of metadata using video frames: An automated method of attaching metadata to a segment of content using a programmed processor consistent with certain embodiments involves retrieving metadata relating to the segment of content; rendering the metadata as visually perceptible text in one or more frames of video; appending the one or more frames of video... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080199152 - Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method and program: A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080199151 - System and method of avoiding connection change while recording: A personal video recorder (PVR) may be designed to capture a recording source which matches the view source displayed on a television, thereby allowing a user to pause and rewind “live TV.” However, during recording, the user may inadvertently change the view source by, for example, accessing an autotune feature... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080199153 - Coding and decoding method and device for improving video error concealment: A coding and decoding method and device for improving video error concealment is disclosed in the present invention. The coding method includes the steps of: obtaining a macro block smoothness information of a macro block in a video stream, which indicates whether the boundaries of the macro block are smooth... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199154 - Apparatus and method with frame-by-frame display control: In recording the positional information of a video frame in a program stored in a removable hard disk unit in which MPEG transport data stream is recorded, there are recorded information indicating the position in the removable hard disk unit at which the video frame is recorded; a packet identifier... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080199156 - Apparatuses and methods for processing video signals: Conversion information regarding a method of frame-rate conversion executed in an image pickup apparatus is attached to video data, and the video data with the attached conversion information is passed to a playback apparatus. In the playback apparatus, an optimal image processing method is selected according to the conversion information.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080199158 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus is provided. The data processing apparatus includes a plurality of ports, a memory, a determining unit, and a processing unit. The plurality of ports are configured to input and output video data. The memory is configured to store the video data when the video data is... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq.

20080199157 - Digital content reproducing and storing apparatus, digital content reproducing and storing method, digital content storing apparatus, digital content reproducing apparatus, and computer readable medium storing digital content reproducing and storing progr: A digital content reproducing and storing apparatus according to one aspect of the invention is configured to perform a storing operation while receiving TS packet constituting digital content and configured to perform a reproducing operation through a PES (Packetized Elementary Stream) obtained by demultiplexing the received TS packet or a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080199155 - System and method for video recording, management and access: A server-based hosted application used to transmit and manage multiple media across the Internet. Digital video recorders (DVRs) collect media (such as video with or without audio) and record it to a local disk. DVRs are located in sites or stores where they are attached to cameras, microphones and point-of-sale... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd PC

20080193098 - Recording apparatus and record medium: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. A recording apparatus of the present invention is a recoding apparatus for recording data to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080193097 - Recording apparatus and recording medium: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. A recording apparatus of the present invention is a recoding apparatus for recording data to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080193100 - Methods and apparatus for processing edits to online video: An online media player provides mechanisms and techniques that allow for real-time edit decision list execution on streaming video to play back an edited video in an online environment. The online media player can request a digital media presentation from at least one server. The online media player can receive... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080193101 - Synthesis of composite news stories: A method and system characterizes (220) individual news stories and identifies (230) a common news story among a variety of stories based on this characterization. A composite story is created (240-280) for the common news story, preferably using a structure that is based on a common structure of the different... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080193099 - Video edition device and method: A video editing device 100 includes: a partial digest generation unit 102 operable to acquire first scene specification information, select, from a selection table stored in a storage medium, one or more pieces of identification information in correspondence with a piece of situation information included in the acquired first scene... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080193102 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing alternative media content: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the display of overlying alternative media content in real time upon the initiation of a fast-forwarding action associated with underlying media content. According to implementations, a method includes displaying underlying media content at a first playback rate. A modification of the playback rate,... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080193103 - Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method: The reproducing apparatus includes: a table size obtaining unit (S40) which obtains, from a recording medium, size information of a table which holds index information for the moving image file; a memory for storing index information; a memory size obtaining unit (S42) which obtains size information of the memory; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080193104 - Prevention of trick modes during digital video recorder (dvr) and network digital video recorder (ndvr) content: Trick modes are substantially prevented during DVR and NDVR content by obtaining an audiovisual asset that is digitally compressed in accordance with a compression technique employing at least a plurality of substantially complete frames and a plurality of substantially intermediate frames, substantially removing the plurality of substantially complete frames from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080193105 - Machine-implemented authoring method for a high definition digital versatile disc, and a computer readable storage medium for implementing the same: A machine-implemented authoring method for a high definition digital versatile disc includes: receiving a user-specified title; enabling a user to specify an initial playlist file and at least one application, the initial playlist file being one of a template-generated raw playlist file and a user-authored raw playlist file; and in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080193108 - Digital broadcast recording device: A digital broadcast recording device includes a receiving component, a program information memory component, a first setting component, a second setting component, an extraction component and a recording execution component. The first setting component sets a recording condition based on a first operation input. The recording condition indicates whether to... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080193106 - Information carrier with improved file structure, apparatus and method for recording and playback: The invention relates to an information carrier which is adapted to record and play back digital video information, wherein the information carrier comprises stream files containing video information and content files containing information relating to the contents of the stream files, and wherein the information required to display a table... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080193107 - Method and apparatus for reproducing digital broadcast and method of recording digital broadcast: Provided are a method and apparatus for reproducing a digital broadcast having different compression formats and a method of recording the digital broadcast so that the digital broadcast may be consistently stored and reproduced regardless of a compression format of the digital broadcast. The method of reproducing a digital broadcast... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080193109 - Video reproducing device and method, recording medium and video reproducing program: To facilitate implementing a user operation control in a picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on a disk or the like. A picture reproducing apparatus selects and reproduces a plurality of prerecorded picture streams in the disk. A reproduction control unit is configured to reproduce the picture streams in... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080187281 - Editing apparatus and editing method: An editing apparatus for video data creates a bridge file for connecting a first file and a second file to be edited based on designation of an IN point of the first file, an OUT point of the second file, and connection points of the both files, a frame preceding... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080187279 - Movie advertising playback techniques: An ad in a movie can be a static ad having a position in the movie that cannot be moved, or a dynamic ad having a position in the movie that can be changed. When a viewer of the movie wishes to skip a portion of the movie containing the... Agent: Brenda Pomerance Law Office Of Brenda Pomerance

20080187280 - Television program guide with a digital storage device: An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to select a program for recording onto the digital storage device. The program guide may then provide the user a list of programs that includes at least one listing for a recorded... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080187282 - System and method for synchronizing playback of audio and video: A system and method for providing a digital In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system in a vehicle, such as an aircraft, that is capable of presenting a video program and associated audio in a synchronized manner to a large number of individual video monitors and speakers. The system and method employ processing... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080187283 - Source optimized dynamic trickplay: At least one trickplay source file is generated from original media content. Trickplay view files for rendering particular trickplay view rates are then generated from the trickplay source file.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080187284 - Recording medium, recording device, program, and recording method: A BD-ROM on which a VC-1 video stream and an entry map (EP_map) are recorded. The VC-1 video stream includes: (a) picture data (I/P picture) whose first fields are the intra frame coding format and whose second fields are the inter frame predictive coding format; and (b) picture data (P/I... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080187285 - Electro-mechanical system for non-duplication of video files: An electromechanical system consists of a memory storage unit in which the licensed video files are stored. The function of this device is to recognize the requested data and thereby allow the video file contents from the memory storage unit according to the instructions set to this device. It is... Agent: Intellectual Property Dept. Dewitt Ross & Stevens Sc

20080187289 - Method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback between data streams, recording medium storing the inforamtion, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same: A method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback of data streams, a recording medium for storing the information, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same are provided. The method generates additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback. The method includes a step of generating data stream information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187290 - Method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback between data streams, recording medium storing the information, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same: A method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback of data streams, a recording medium for storing the information, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same are provided. The method generates additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback. The method includes a step of generating data stream information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187287 - Reproducing device: Arrangements for playing back data from a recording medium, including: first playback circuits for reading first stream data which includes first video data, first audio data, and first sub-picture data, from a first recording medium; second playback circuits for reading second stream data which includes at least one of second... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080187288 - Reproducing device: A reproducing device for playing back data from a recording medium, including: playback circuits for playing back at least two stream data in a time division multiplexing manner from a recording medium that records: first stream data which includes first video data, first audio data, and first sub-picture data, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080187286 - Storage medium for recording subtitle information based on test corresponding to av data having multiple playback routes, reproducing apparatus and method therefor: A storage medium for recording subtitle information based on text corresponding to moving picture data having a plurality of playback routes and an apparatus for and a method of reproducing an image including subtitles corresponding to the data. The storage medium includes moving picture data having a plurality of playback... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187292 - Device for and method of providing operating data and/or data associated with playback data to a remote device: The invention is related to a device (DEV) for applying operating data (OPDAT) of said device (DEV) and/or data associated (ASDAT) with playback data (PLDAT) played by said device (DEV) to a remote device (RD). The device (DEV) comprises a memory (MEM) and a power supply (POW, BAT) arranged to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080187293 - Method and apparatus for processing data: A method and an apparatus for processing data are provided. A first memory stores data input from a source; a message processor displays a message asking whether to connect to a second memory capable of storing data, if space left on the first memory, which is available for storing data,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080187295 - 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

20080187296 - Method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback between data streams, recording medium storing the inforamtion, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same: A method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback of data streams, a recording medium for storing the information, and recording, editing and/or playback apparatus using the same are provided. The method generates additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback. The method includes a step of generating data stream information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187294 - Playback apparatus, playback method, and program: A playback apparatus plays back content according to a predetermined playback order by sequentially selecting chapters. The playback apparatus includes a checking unit configured to check, according to a user's operation specifying, as a new playback target, a chapter in either a backward direction or a forward direction of a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080187291 - Prioritization for video acquisition: Described herein is technology for, among other things, prioritizing video acquisition. The video acquisition may be prioritized implicitly, explicitly or a combination of both. Implicit prioritization involves receiving a request to acquire a video program. An attribute of the program is then analyzed to determine its value. The acquisition prioritization... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080187297 - Methid, end user system, signal and transmission system for combining broadcasted audio-video content with locally available information: Method, end user system, transmission system, computer software product and broadcasted signal for enhancing the user experience of a broadcast via an interactive playback combining a broadcasted signal with a signal comprising additional information stored locally. A broadcasted software application detects the presence in the end user system (for example... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards