Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 10/08

20080260346 - Video recording apparatus: A video recording apparatus includes a receiver for receiving video information from an external device, a recorder for recording video information received by the receiver, and a controller for separating a thumbnail image from the video information. The video information includes first additional information including frame time information and priority... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080260347 - Temporal occlusion costing applied to video editing: In a method for determining a temporal occlusion cost for a video crop, video image saliency data for a video is received. A video crop is received for a presenting an edited version of the video within a viewing region. The video image saliency data is used to determine a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080260348 - Video record/playback apparatus and control method for same: In a video record/playback apparatus, interrupting a dubbing process that records video data recorded on one recording medium onto another recording medium in a case in which there is a request during the dubbing process to execute a priority process of higher priority than a dubbing process. In addition, at... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080260349 - Digital video recording system with extended program content recording: Systems, methods and media for managing extended program content for a digital video recorder (DVR) are disclosed. Embodiments of a method may include determining an amount of extended program content to record in addition to the program to be recorded, where the extended program content is associated with the program... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080260350 - Audio video synchronization stimulus and measurement: The present invention uses artificially generated unobtrusive audio and video synchronization events, which are essentially undetectable by normal human viewers, to send audio and video synchronization information by encoding audio and video events in normal program audio and video datastreams. By proper generation of unobtrusive audio and video synchronization events,... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080260351 - Recording of protected broadcast content with selectable user rights: An apparatus for recording a signal having a signal content, where the apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving the signal, a processor configured to determine rights to the signal content received with the received signal, and a recorder for recording the received signal and a signal representing the determined rights... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260352 - Recorded advertisement enhancement: Methods, and apparatuses for providing enhanced advertisements during playback of a recorded advertisement are provided. More specifically, when a recorded advertisement segment is being played and/or fast-forwarded an enhancement to the originally recorded advertisement is presented to the user thereby increasing user awareness of the product displayed during playback of... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080260354 - Recording apparatus and method with automatic chapter making capability: A chapter is made automatically, using a location at which recording is paused and then resumed, as a chapter border.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080260353 - Video recorder and printing system including video recorder: A video recorder connected to an external device such as a printer or a personal computer. The video recorder comprises a tuner for receiving a television program and program information corresponding to the television program, a recording medium for recording the television program and the program information received by the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080260355 - Method for providing data application based on disk media reproduction apparatus: A data application based on a reproduction apparatus of a disk media is disclosed. In accordance with method, a scene resource data corresponding to each scene of a data application based on a base data application of the disk media or the reproduction apparatus to execute the data application on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260357 - Optical disc drive and optical disc recording method: According to one embodiment, an optical disk reproducing apparatus which reproduces an optical disk by using an optical disk device which reads data from an optical disk which stores discrete items of data to be read at a specific or higher rate, wherein after start of jumping, regardless of transfer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260356 - Recording device and recording method allowing recording over time limit: A recording control unit records program data for a second time period, from the time point the second time period before the lapse of a first time period from the start of recording, not only under a first title but also at a start portion of a second title. A... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080260358 - Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play: Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play. A content viewing system is provided including a content player operative to receive a content stream from a content source, a content viewer operative to receive the content from the content player, and a buffer into which the content player may... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080260359 - Recording apparatus for dual-layer recording disk, and method of recording video information onto dual-layer recording disk: While video information is recorded onto a dual-layer recording disk (2) in real time, it is judged whether or not a layer-change is necessary. If it is judged that the layer-change is necessary, a video data string (21C) in which a closed GOP (22) is disposed at the head is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080260360 - Video recording apparatus: A main microcomputer of the DVD recorder includes a first transmission portion for transmitting set information of a VCR recording part to a sub microcomputer if the VCR recording part is connected. The sub microcomputer includes a judgment portion for checking whether or not the set information of the VCR... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080260346 - Video recording apparatus: A video recording apparatus includes a receiver for receiving video information from an external device, a recorder for recording video information received by the receiver, and a controller for separating a thumbnail image from the video information. The video information includes first additional information including frame time information and priority... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080260347 - Temporal occlusion costing applied to video editing: In a method for determining a temporal occlusion cost for a video crop, video image saliency data for a video is received. A video crop is received for a presenting an edited version of the video within a viewing region. The video image saliency data is used to determine a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080260348 - Video record/playback apparatus and control method for same: In a video record/playback apparatus, interrupting a dubbing process that records video data recorded on one recording medium onto another recording medium in a case in which there is a request during the dubbing process to execute a priority process of higher priority than a dubbing process. In addition, at... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080260349 - Digital video recording system with extended program content recording: Systems, methods and media for managing extended program content for a digital video recorder (DVR) are disclosed. Embodiments of a method may include determining an amount of extended program content to record in addition to the program to be recorded, where the extended program content is associated with the program... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080260350 - Audio video synchronization stimulus and measurement: The present invention uses artificially generated unobtrusive audio and video synchronization events, which are essentially undetectable by normal human viewers, to send audio and video synchronization information by encoding audio and video events in normal program audio and video datastreams. By proper generation of unobtrusive audio and video synchronization events,... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080260351 - Recording of protected broadcast content with selectable user rights: An apparatus for recording a signal having a signal content, where the apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving the signal, a processor configured to determine rights to the signal content received with the received signal, and a recorder for recording the received signal and a signal representing the determined rights... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260352 - Recorded advertisement enhancement: Methods, and apparatuses for providing enhanced advertisements during playback of a recorded advertisement are provided. More specifically, when a recorded advertisement segment is being played and/or fast-forwarded an enhancement to the originally recorded advertisement is presented to the user thereby increasing user awareness of the product displayed during playback of... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080260354 - Recording apparatus and method with automatic chapter making capability: A chapter is made automatically, using a location at which recording is paused and then resumed, as a chapter border.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080260353 - Video recorder and printing system including video recorder: A video recorder connected to an external device such as a printer or a personal computer. The video recorder comprises a tuner for receiving a television program and program information corresponding to the television program, a recording medium for recording the television program and the program information received by the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080260355 - Method for providing data application based on disk media reproduction apparatus: A data application based on a reproduction apparatus of a disk media is disclosed. In accordance with method, a scene resource data corresponding to each scene of a data application based on a base data application of the disk media or the reproduction apparatus to execute the data application on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260357 - Optical disc drive and optical disc recording method: According to one embodiment, an optical disk reproducing apparatus which reproduces an optical disk by using an optical disk device which reads data from an optical disk which stores discrete items of data to be read at a specific or higher rate, wherein after start of jumping, regardless of transfer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260356 - Recording device and recording method allowing recording over time limit: A recording control unit records program data for a second time period, from the time point the second time period before the lapse of a first time period from the start of recording, not only under a first title but also at a start portion of a second title. A... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080260358 - Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play: Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play. A content viewing system is provided including a content player operative to receive a content stream from a content source, a content viewer operative to receive the content from the content player, and a buffer into which the content player may... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080260359 - Recording apparatus for dual-layer recording disk, and method of recording video information onto dual-layer recording disk: While video information is recorded onto a dual-layer recording disk (2) in real time, it is judged whether or not a layer-change is necessary. If it is judged that the layer-change is necessary, a video data string (21C) in which a closed GOP (22) is disposed at the head is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080260360 - Video recording apparatus: A main microcomputer of the DVD recorder includes a first transmission portion for transmitting set information of a VCR recording part to a sub microcomputer if the VCR recording part is connected. The sub microcomputer includes a judgment portion for checking whether or not the set information of the VCR... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080253732 - Information storage medium containing multi-path data, and storage apparatus and player thereof: A data recording and reproducing apparatus supporting multi-path recording reproduction, and an information storage medium on which multi-path data is recorded. The information storage medium includes at least one clip that is a recording unit containing presentation data for respective paths, wherein presentation data in a selected path is continuously... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080253733 - Information storage medium containing multi-path data, and storage apparatus and player thereof: A data recording and reproducing apparatus supporting multi-path recording reproduction, and an information storage medium on which multi-path data is recorded. The information storage medium includes at least one clip that is a recording unit containing presentation data for respective paths, wherein presentation data in a selected path is continuously... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080253734 - Information storage medium containing multi-path data, and storage apparatus and player thereof: A data recording and reproducing apparatus supporting multi-path recording reproduction, and an information storage medium on which multi-path data is recorded. The information storage medium includes at least one clip that is a recording unit containing presentation data for respective paths, wherein presentation data in a selected path is continuously... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080253735 - Changing video playback rate: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to changing video playback rate. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes providing a user interface for a digital video editing system, the user interface including a graphical representation... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080253736 - Interconnected multimedia systems with synchronized playback: One or more digital audio systems, such as a digital audio workstation, and one or more digital video systems, such as a video server, are interconnected by a computer network. A communication protocol among the systems using the computer network enables the systems to play back in synchronization. The communication... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel Avid Technology, Inc.

20080253737 - Video player and video playback control method: A video player and a video-playback control method which are capable of easily performing a selection operation on a display object in a moving image are disclosed. The video player predicts the occurrence of the selection operation of the display object, which is an area for which an action is... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080253740 - Apparatus and methods to process video or audio: The presently claimed invention relates generally to video or audio data. One claim recites an apparatus. The apparatus includes an input to receive data associated with video or audio; a decoder to analyze the data associated with video or audio for a steganographic signal hidden therein, the steganographic signal hidden... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080253738 - Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av function and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc: A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080253739 - Product information display and purchasing: A method of providing additional information to a viewer of a moving image file is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing one or more tags within the moving image file indicating the existence of additional product information; visually indicating the existence of the tags alongside or over the... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20080253741 - Recording medium, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus: A recording medium is provided recorded with a plurality of digital data and a plurality of reproduction path information defining a reproduction order of the plurality of digital data. The plurality of reproduction path information includes first reproduction path information defining a reproduction order of all of the plurality of... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080253742 - Recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as recording medium: The invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as a recording medium wherein, when nondestructive editing is executed for an AV signal, the AV signal can be reproduced seamlessly without suffering from any interruption. Information representative of states (an A type, a C type, a D type, or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253743 - Digital information recording/reproducing apparatus: An apparatus for processing a transmitted digital signal including at least one of a video signal and an audio signal. The apparatus includes a receiver which receives the transmitted digital signal, wherein the transmitted digital signal includes a video signal which is bit-compressed, an audio signal which is bit-compressed, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080253744 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus and method for controlling the same: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a video recording and reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining a video content, recording the video content in a recording unit, and executing an up-converting process on the recorded video content, the video recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a selecting unit configured to select... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080253745 - Decoding and encoding method for deinterleaver: A decoding method implemented in a deinterleaver is provided, converting a television signal to image data. A preset mechanism is provided for converting the television signal to the image data. The preset mechanism comprises a plurality of multiplication and addition operations performed using a database and an adder.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080253748 - Apparatus and methods for tracking and analyzing digital recording device event sequences: Methods and apparatus for tracking a sequence of events associated with a digital recording device are disclosed. An example method involves monitoring data conveyed via a data bus communicatively coupled to a processor and a data storage device associated with the digital media device. The example method also involves identifying... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080253747 - Recording apparatus and recording method: A recording apparatus comprises: a removable recording medium; a processor; and a receiving unit that receives an operation command for demounting the removable recording medium, wherein, when the receiving unit receives the operation command, the processor demounts the removable recording medium from a file system; and wherein the processor automatically... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080253746 - Storage capacity configuration: A method for configuring the storage capacity of a recording apparatus. An AV content item is recorded (104) preferably on a random access media, for example a hard disk based personal video recorder. It is then reproduced (106) for review by a user, possibly contemporaneously with the recording. During reproduction,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253749 - Recording apparatus and method for optimized overwriting: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a corresponding method for recording information in an information layer of a record carrier (10) by irradiating the information layer (101) by means of a radiation beam (12), said information layer (101) having a phase reversibly changeable between a crystalline phase... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247725 - Information storage medium containing multi-path data, and storage apparatus and player thereof: A data recording and reproducing apparatus supporting multi-path recording reproduction, and an information storage medium on which multi-path data is recorded. The information storage medium includes at least one clip that is a recording unit containing presentation data for respective paths, wherein presentation data in a selected path is continuously... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080247724 - Recorded content management: A recorded content management system determines when recorded content maintained in a television-based entertainment and information system has been watched by a viewer. When a segment or percentage of the recorded content for a particular program is displayed for viewing, it is determined whether the program has been watched so... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080247727 - System for creating content for video based illumination systems: A method for generating lighting includes selecting a video clip from a database of generic video clips, processing at least a portion of the video clip to create a customized video clip, sending the customized video clip to a light emitting array, and generating lighting from the light emitting array... Agent: Element Labs, Inc.

20080247726 - Video editor and method of editing videos: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing and uploading a video file The method of processing the video file comprises: providing an image editor comprising an integrated user interface, which comprises a preview monitor and an editing board, wherein a plurality of thumbnail images of a plurality of videos... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080247729 - Method and apparatus for normal reverse playback: Provided are a method and apparatus for normal reverse playback of GOPs of a bitstream stored in a storage medium from an Xth GOP. The apparatus includes an MPEG decoder which reads a first bitstream corresponding to the Xth GOP and an (X−1)th GOP from the storage medium and which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247728 - Video player for digital video server: A system for playing digital video at varying playback speeds can include a fetcher module configured to retrieve encoded pictures from a data store and an allocator module configured to selectively delete encoded pictures from an input cache. The system further can include a decoder module and an output cache... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080247730 - System and method for internet access to a personal television service: A communication system and a family of methods for remote access to personal television service are disclosed. According to this invention, a remote personal TV service center provides centralized program guide information. A user may access to the personal TV service center through a digital video recorder which is connected... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080247731 - Contents reproduction device, contents reproduction control method, program: A content reproduction apparatus 20 includes: a storage section 230 for storing a source-ID list L and method identification information 232; a reproduction control method determination section 240 for determining a method to control reproduction of a content on the basis of the method identification information 232; a first reproducibility... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247732 - Recording apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program for reproducing a video stream in a simpler method. A VOBU of an AV stream recorded on a recording medium includes, from the beginning thereof, navigation information, and then... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080247733 - Data entry via on-screen display: A recording playback device having a database of recordings with titles, automatically enters a title input mode upon receiving character input from a user while a recording is being played if the there is not title in the database for the recording. Playback of the recording is not interrupted in... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080240669 - Mpeg-based user interface device and method of controlling function using the same: An MPEG-based user interface (UI) device and a method of controlling a function using the same are provided. The MPEG-based user interface (UI) device includes an output unit which outputs an MPEG-based UI to a screen of an apparatus, and a processing unit which controls a function corresponding to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080240670 - Picture recording system and picture recording and reproducing method: The present invention makes it possible to provide a reproduction resource even in an HDD recorder in which a plurality of storage processes is performed and no resource for providing the reproduction service exists. In order for realizing the above advantage, when the shortage of the reproduction resource occurs in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080240671 - Explanatory-description adding apparatus, computer program product, and explanatory-description adding method: When a scene group including plural scenes, for example a group of scenes bookmarked during viewing of video contents is inputted, a combination of a scene and metadata in a group of metadata that represents characteristics of the scene, corresponding to the respective scenes in the scene group, which combination... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080240672 - Image reproduction apparatus: An image reproduction apparatus sequences and reproduces multiple moving pictures while eliminating linking and editing operations. A list display unit lists on a screen thumbnails corresponding to each of multiple moving pictures recorded on recording media. A selection unit selects and orders, according to selection operations, multiple thumbnails displayed by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080240673 - Playback apparatus, playback method, distribution server, distribution method, recording medium and integrated circuit: In the case of having failed in reading of content data from the recording medium, as well as in the case of determining the necessity of content data replacement, the playback apparatus of the present invention acquires, from the distribution server, pieces of partial content data corresponding to locations at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080240674 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus 1 capable of recording television signals has a classifier system 20 operable to process television signals recorded by the recording apparatus 1 and to classify scenes of the television signal as significant or not significant. The recording apparatus allows a user to input scenes 33 associated with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080240675 - Coordinating audio/video items stored on devices: Among other things, at a portable device associated with a user, running a synchronization process to request from a network server synchronization of stored AV items on the portable device with AV items stored on a digital AV recorder also associated with the user, receive one or more files from... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080240676 - Method of updating additional data and apparatus for reproducing the same: A method of updating additional data, and an apparatus for reproducing the same, the method includes: downloading the additional data, which includes clip information and a clip stream that can be reproduced concurrently with a play item of the Audio Visual (AV) data; referring to the clip information and updating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080240677 - Playback apparatus, broadcast receiving device, and computer-readable recording medium: A television broadcast received by a television broadcast receiving device is recorded as a recording file, and a central control device identifies specific recording portions (for example, commercial portions) within the recording file, and then calculates the remaining playback time (the total remaining time without the specific recording portions) that... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080240678 - Data recording method: In the case in which there are a plurality of image streams in one program, as information which indicates which stream the logic table of the I picture, for carrying out the fast forwarding and rewinding operations quickly, corresponds to, a component tag fixed by a European or Japanese digital... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080240680 - Information communication terminal: An information communication terminal has a download function portion (20) for downloading a moving image as a downloaded moving image, a size acquiring function portion (70) for acquiring vertical and horizontal sizes of the downloaded moving image, a controlling portion (40) for determining whether or not the downloaded moving image... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080240679 - Recording method, reproducing method, recording apparatus, and reproducing apparatus of digital stream: According to one embodiment, this invention allows to acquire attribute information of a stream object and to generate it as management information upon recording a digital stream when an MPEG-TS that uses H.264 as a moving picture encoding format is to be recorded. Information is acquired from a component descriptor,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080240681 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus: A portable telephone 100 with broadcast receiving function has a portable telephone device and a digital broadcast receiving apparatus . A recording format selection section 116 in the digital broadcast receiving apparatus records, in a recording section 117 such as nonvolatile semiconductor memory, any of a video signal, an audio... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080240683 - Method and system to reproduce contents, and recording medium including program to reproduce contents: A contents reproduction system includes a display unit, a processor configured to simultaneously reproduce video contents and non-video visual contents on the display unit, an input unit through which an instruction is sent to the processor, and a storage unit storing the video contents, the non-video visual contents, reproduction synchronization... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080240682 - Sound playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, a sound playback apparatus includes receiving mechanism for obtaining a sound packet including sound data about outputs of a predetermined number of channels, downmix information receiving mechanism for obtaining downmix coefficient information, control mechanism for determining whether downmix processing is to be performed for the sound... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080240684 - Data transmission method and audio/video system capable of splitting and synchronizing audio/video data: Data transmission first initializes a transmitter system and a receiver system. The transmitter system processes audio/video data, and transmits the processed audio/video data based on information received from the receiver system. The receiver system receives and processes the audio/video data sent by the transmitter system for generating corresponding audio output... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080240685 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A recording and reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing the signals of both a digital broadcast system and an analog broadcast system is disclosed. By utilizing the existing configuration efficiently, the cost increase due to the system change is minimized. Both the digital broadcast system and the analog broadcast... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080240686 - Recording and reproducing system for image data with recording position information and a recording and reproducing method therefor: An image data recording and reproducing system comprises an image data input unit, an ID generator generating an ID inserted to image data from the image data input unit, a plurality of image data recorders for recording the image data, and an output unit for outputting the image data recorded... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080240687 - Apparatus and method for reproducing audio/video data of information storage medium: An apparatus and method of reproducing audio/video (A/V) data of an information storage medium, by which various reproduction modes can be provided. The apparatus includes a controller to download, via a network, data used to reproduce the A/V data and to generate as update information file information used to reproduce... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP