Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 11/08

20080292263 - Accessibility of graphics during and after trick play: A method is disclosed of authoring a digital video signal comprising graphics content in a multiplex stream. The method comprises constructing the signal during authoring, the graphics content being exclusively multiplexed into the frame of a first type of image multiplexed into the stream. This enables improved trick play of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080292264 - Authoring device, authoring method, authoring program, and recording medium containing the program: An authoring device includes: a separator for separating a video stream and an audio stream from the input stream; a multiplexer for multiplexing the video stream and the audio stream to generate content information and further generating control information for managing stream reproduction, generating, from content information and control information,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080292265 - High quality semi-automatic production of customized rich media video clips: A method and system for the high quality semi-automatic production of customized rich media video clips is disclosed. Media source material, such as text, graphics, pictures, and video clips can be submitted by a customer. A computerized content aggregator utilizing an automated production assistant can locate additional source material by... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080292266 - Method for managing image files and image apparatus employing the same: A method for managing image files to delete a partially played-back image file and an image apparatus employing the same are provided. Based on a playback time information, a part of the partially played-back image file is deleted from stored image files. Accordingly, the part a user has watched can... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080292267 - Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction section 51 extracts one picture from each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080292268 - Content reproducing apparatus, content reproducing method, content reproducing system, content providing apparatus, content data structure, content reproducing program, and storage medium: The content reproducing apparatus comprises a control section which includes: a content reproduction section for reproducing a content; and a content management section for acquiring an acquisition target content in accordance with acquisition instruction information included in the content reproduced by the content reproduction section, wherein the content which is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080292269 - Mehtod and apparatus for storing copy protection information separately from protected content: A copy protection apparatus and method enabling storage of copy protection information separately from protected content is disclosed. One embodiment includes a digital data signal receiver to receive a digital data signal, the digital data signal receiver also to receive a copy protection signal produced from a copy protection information... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/macrovision

20080292272 - Captioned video playback apparatus and recording medium: Disclosed is a captioned video playback apparatus comprising a storage unit that stores a caption signal defining a plurality of caption lines and a video signal defining a plurality of video images in association with a playback timing; a caption select unit that selects one of the plurality of caption... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080292270 - Reading device, program, and reading method: The application manager 37 conducts “application signaling” when a first disc is replaced with a second disc. At this point, an application is continued if it is written in an application management table assigned to a Title played last on a first disc and also written in an application management... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080292271 - Visual and audio data recording and reproducing apparatus: When external input data is recorded on a HD and an optical disc, recording on both discs is executed in intermittent recording fashion or recording on the optical disc is executed in low speed continuous recording fashion. During recording on both the HD and the optical disc, the residual amount... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080292274 - Transmission system, recording apparatus, transmission method, recording method and program: A transmission system including a first recording apparatus and a second recording apparatus connected to each other through a network is disclosed. The first recording apparatus includes a recording means for recording an AV stream, a generating means for analyzing picture types of respective pictures and generating trick play information,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080292273 - Uniform program indexing method with simple and robust audio feature and related enhancing methods: Simple, computational efficient, and robust audio features are applied in a uniform program indexing method for picking up video segments relating to highlight plays in a recorded program worthy of being reviewed. By focusing on certain frequencies in an audio sequence of the program, a computational complexity of the uniform... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080292275 - Detecting method and system of compression-related noise levels: A detecting system and method of compression-related noise levels is provided to produce a compressed index of an image. A line buffer temporarily stores a pixel (i, j) and neighboring pixels. An edge filter calculates an edge index for the pixel (i, j). A line filter calculates a line index... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080292276 - Two dimensional memory caching apparatus for high definition video: A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for caching video data in a two-dimensional cache. The method includes storing the video data in the two-dimensional cache, addressing stored video data in the two-dimensional cache using a first tag for referencing video... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080292277 - Apparatus and method for activating an interactive application: An extracting apparatus (200) is arranged to extract a certain version of an object from an interactive application associated with a digital program, the extracting apparatus (200) comprises a receiving means (210) for receiving information regarding the version of the objet, an obtaining means (220) for obtaining a version type... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080292279 - Digest playback apparatus and method: A character identification section identifies characters to specify one or more characters in each of scenes in video content according to video data in the video content, and generates images of the identified characters. A speaker identification section identifies speakers to specify one or more speakers in each of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080292282 - Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal: A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080292283 - Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal: A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a packet signal containing the clock reference and a digitally compressed... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080292281 - Process for placing a multimedia object in memory, data structure and associated terminal: Process for placing a multimedia object comprising at least one elemental data stream in memory by a terminal receiving the said elemental stream or streams, the said stream or streams being received by the terminal in the form of data packets comprising a data part and a header comprising serial... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080292280 - Recording apparatus and recording method: The present invention is applied to a video data recording apparatus having an interface with a computer. The buffer size of a recording buffer 17A for temporarily storing data and recording the data on a recording medium 18 is switched between a mode for recording data through an interface 24... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080292278 - Video/audio recording/reproducing device: To achieve simultaneous recording of a plurality of programs, first and second system LSIs (10, 20) both having compression and decompression functions for video/audio information are connected to each other via a data bus (30). To attain synchronization of real-time display and chasing playback display of a program under recording,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080292288 - Cyclic video recording method for an optical storage medium: In a cyclic video recording method for an optical storage medium, the optical storage medium is divided into a set of forward seeking sub-zones and a set of backward seeking sub-zones. Initial values of a current sub-zone and a flag are set. The flag indicates a direction to seek the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080292285 - Data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure: The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, a program, a prgram recording medium, a data recording medium, and a data structure that enable reading of coded video data in access units withour analyyzing the coded video data. In step S211, a privatie _stream—2 packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080292287 - 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

20080292284 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information recording/reproducing device and method, and computer program: An information recording apparatus (1) is provided with: a recording device (310) for recording record information onto an information recording medium by irradiating the information recording medium (100) with laser light with a recording power according to a set value; a calculating device (340) for preparing correlation information which represents... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080292289 - Still picture information recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing still picture information therefrom: A technique is provided for reproducing information from a recording medium, on which there are recorded a plurality of picture information sets; presentation time values, each associated with a corresponding one of the picture information sets; picture information record marks, each of which is associated with a corresponding one of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080292286 - Video information recording and outputting method, recording media and recording and playback system: As for high image quality video information that the copyright holder wants to keep in a copy prohibited condition or the like, a copyright control such as copy prohibited condition is performed as is done with DVDs. In addition to the high image quality video information, a medium is recorded... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080285936 - System and method of deferring multimedia content delivery: Systems and methods of deferred multimedia content delivery are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a first customer premises equipment (CPE) device to receive multimedia content. The method also includes selectively recording the multimedia content at a server based on a comparison... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080285937 - Video/audio display system and method: A video/audio display system includes a buffering module, a playing module and a controlling module. The buffering module temporarily stores video/audio data, which occupy a storage capacity of the buffering module. The playing module is electrically connected with the buffering module to play the video/audio data at a playing speed.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080285939 - Proxy editing and rendering for various delivery outlets: A method, apparatus and computer program product provides for a proxy media editor to combine editing, rendering, and a plurality of output specifications via a unified platform. The proxy media editor accesses at least one output specification and an edit decision list stored on a server system. The proxy media... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080285938 - Recording/replaying/editing device: A recording/replaying/editing device capable of randomly accessing moving picture data compressed by inter-frame coding even when only a low signal processing capability is available. The recording/replaying/editing device includes: an image data input unit for entering image data compressed by inter-frame prediction; a reference image frame sequence creation determination unit for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080285940 - Video player user interface: A video playback user interface includes display of tags or other information outside of a video play area. Tags can be visually associated with items in the video by using connectors such as lines, arrows, etc. that bridge between a tag and an item. Tag and other information can be... Agent: Charles J. Kulas

20080285941 - Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording apparatus, recording method, av data switching method, output apparatus, and input apparatus: Provided are: a hard disk section 208 of reading and reproducing AV data recorded as an MPEG transport stream in a recording medium; and an AV transfer control block 211 of controlling the hard disk section 208 in such a manner that during the reproduction of the AV data, when... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080285942 - Home network apparatus: A home network system includes a home network apparatus, and a recording reservation information-sending apparatus and recording/reproducing apparatuses which are connected to the home network apparatus. The home network apparatus has an interface circuit through which the auto-home network apparatus is connected to an Internet having a mail server and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080285944 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus for controlling programming of a timer recording of a specific television broadcast program includes the following elements: an extracting unit configured to extract program specifying information from audio data or video data of a program; a specifying unit configured to specify a program to be timer-recorded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285943 - Management of dynamic program changes in dvb systems: A method for managing dynamic program changes in a digital video broadcasting (DVB) system, the method including detecting a dynamic program change in a DVB transmission received at a set-top box (STB), and changing a digital video recorder (DVR) recording instruction associated with the program to record the program in... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080285945 - System and method for simultaneous network recording and playback of digital television programs: A method of playing back a television program on a playback device connected to a local area network while simultaneously storing a television program on a storage device connected to the network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a television broadcast that includes at least one program at a first... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080285946 - Method and arrangement for retransmitting and processing and/or displaying and/or storing of sound and/or picture contents: A special instruction for not encoding a content is incorporated into access authorization data contained in the received signal, so that within a unified system for transmitting and receiving of encoded or non-encoded sound and/or picture contents, it is possible to meet the requirement of public broadcasting and “free-to-air” program... Agent: Venable LLP

20080285948 - Reproducing device and method, program, recording medium, data structure, and recording medium manufacturing method: The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, a program, a recording medium, a data structure, and a manufacturing method for a recording medium in which content to be played back can be switched between streams different from a main stream. A PlayList includes Main path for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285947 - Reproduction device: A playback apparatus has a platform 1410 that is a program execution environment of an application 1400. When the platform 1410 initiates the application 1400, a graphics information transmission unit 1403, which corresponds to an API function, obtains graphics information and stores the graphics information in a graphics information storage... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080285950 - Still picture information recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing still picture information therefrom: A technique is provided for reproducing information from a recording medium, on which there are recorded a plurality of picture information sets; presentation time values, each associated with a corresponding one of the picture information sets; picture information record marks, each of which is associated with a corresponding one of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080285949 - Video motion menu generation in a low memory environment: A method of generating a motion menu in a low memory environment is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of encoded streams in a buffer by encoding a fixed duration from each of a plurality of title streams received in a video program, (B)... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20080285951 - Video/audio reproducing apparatus and method for outputting signal in video/audio reproducing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a video/audio reproducing apparatus includes a detection/determination part, a setting processing part, and an output signal processing part. The detection/determination part obtains a format of reproducible audio data and video data. The setting processing part receives bit stream data in a reproducing apparatus from among the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080285952 - Internet-based digital content recording system and method: An Internet-based digital content recording system and method which obviates the need to utilize an analog system or to address the logistical demands of physically preparing a recording medium and ensuring that it is adequate to the task and set to commence recording at the appropriate time. The invention system... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080285954 - Replay apparatus: Disclosed is a replay apparatus including a reading unit, a display control unit, a storage unit to store a predetermined display limited letter string and a judging unit to judge whether the predetermined display limited letter string stored in the storage unit exists in the letter string which is based... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080285953 - Reproduction apparatus, reproduction processing circuit, reproduction method, reproduction program, and computer-readable record medium with reproduction program: An optical pick-up 101 reads audio information from an optical-disk medium 120 and reads, from the optical-disk medium 120, image information recorded in a position different from the audio information; a first audio compression section 104 lowers the capacity of the read audio information; a first audio storage section 105... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080285955 - Method for low data rate video image storage: A method for low data rate video image storage is disclosed in the present invention, comprising following steps: capturing a video image; comparing the video image with a specific video image by a specific comparison solution, to generate a comparison result; based on the comparison result keeping stable without change... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080285960 - Information processing apparatus, information managing method and medium: This invention relate to an information processing apparatus comprising first recording means for recording one moving picture in at least one recording increment; second recording means for recording a still picture corresponding to the moving picture in keeping with the recording increment of the moving picture; and third recording means... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285957 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: accepting means for accepting user's input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; setting means for setting a scene corresponding to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285956 - Multimedia digital video recorder and player: A multimedia digital video recorder and player capable of recording/playing audio and video while detecting a place is disclosed comprising a display on the outside wall for audio and video output, a digital video recorder and player module, which comprises a memory unit for storing data, a control interface for... Agent: Taiwan Video Systems Co., Ltd

20080285959 - Portable reception device: A portable reception device that is portably designed, and that receives television broadcast and feeds the received video information to a monitor so that video is viewed from outside, the portable reception device includes: a reception section receiving television broadcast; a video display section feeding the video information received through... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080285958 - Storage apparatus for digital/analog tv audio/video media: Disclosed is a storage apparatus for digital TV video/analog TV video/digital audio broadcasting/analog audio broadcasting media (DTV/ATV/DAB/AAB). The storage apparatus comprises a controller, a DTV/ATV/DAB/AAB interface converter and at least one storage media interfaces. The controller has a plurality of terminals for controlling the storage apparatus. The DTV/ATV/DAB/AAB interface converter... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080285961 - Dvd player with external connection for increased functionality: The present invention pertains to an optical disc player with a standard digital port, such as a USB port, coupled to an external storage, such as a thumb drive, coupled to a standard digital port such as a USB port. The external storage, may also he used to provide content,... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080285962 - Vehicle headrest cover: A vehicle headrest cover for covering a vehicle headrest having a display mounted therein includes a material designed to correspond with the shape and dimensions of the vehicle headrest and fit over the vehicle headrest for covering the vehicle headrest. The material has a cut-out in a face thereof which... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080279524 - Method and apparatus for editing a program on an optical disc: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing a program on a re-writable compact disc. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the description information of two program segments of said program, said program segments being in sequence in playing-back order, said description information comprising the ending point... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279525 - Method for managing recorded streams in a rewritable recording medium: A method and apparatus for managing digital content are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving digital content and protection information for protecting the digital content; obtaining flag information associated with time information; obtaining the time information indicating one of a relative time and an absolute time based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080279526 - Record/playback apparatus and control method therefor: In a record/playback apparatus, if playback of image data is stopped, recording information relating to a stop point at which the playback of the image data is stopped and generating image data playback control information that specifies a playback resume point based on the stop point at which the playback... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080279527 - Method of high speed video playback and video playback apparatus using the same: A method of high speed video playback and a video apparatus using the same sets skip durations of a number of video frames to skip and frame playback durations of a number of video frames to play back, such that different frames of the same video are displayed in each... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080279528 - Reproducing apparatus: Disclosed is a reproducing apparatus to reproduce reproduction data at a speed different from a speed at a time of recording of the reproduction data, the recording apparatus including: a storage section to store the reproduction data; a primary reproducing plan producing section to produce a primary reproducing plan ranging... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080279529 - Digital vtr: A playback device for replaying a bit stream digitally transmitted which includes detecting means for detecting only intra-picture data in the bit stream that is replayed; extracting means for extracting the detected intra-picture data from the replayed bit stream, according to the result of the detection at the detecting means;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080279530 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and recording and reproducing method: A recording and reproducing apparatus has a tuner unit channel-selects and decodes a broadcast signal and outputs picture information, a recording unit records the picture information, a reservation image recording management unit stores given day of the week information, time information, channel selection information, and continuous mode information for repeatedly... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080279531 - Transmitting signals to cause replays to be recorded at a plurality of receivers: A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being read out of the... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080279533 - Process and apparatus for securing and retrieving digital data with a portable data storage device (pdsd) and playback device (pd): The invention is a process and apparatus for securing and retrieving digital data with a Portable Data Storage Device (PDSD) and Playback Device (PD). The PDSD-PD employs software and hardware security and encryption as barriers to those desiring illicit access to the stored data. Data is prepared with a Digital... Agent: David B. Buttars

20080279532 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: To provide a recording and reproducing apparatus that recovers contents having approximately the same quality as the original contents in a short time and requiring only light processing load, at the time of (a) moving the contents from the first recording medium to the second recording medium, (b) rewriting the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080279534 - Storage device for storing media and a playback device for playing back media: The PD may be embedded in a viewing device, or another PD, or be a stand-alone PD. The License Objects for Content stored on the PDSD are also backed up to ensure that if the user loses/damages the PDSD, the lost PDSD can be disabled in the system, and a... Agent: David B. Buttars

20080279535 - Subtitle data customization and exposure: Techniques to customize and expose subtitle data are described. In an implementation, a client includes a network connection device, a processor and memory. The memory is configured to maintain one or more user preferences and one or more modules that are executable on the processor to receive subtitle data via... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080279536 - Transmarking of multimedia signals: The presently claimed invention relates generally to digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites a method including: receiving data representing video, the data comprising at least first digital watermarking embedded therein; decoding the first digital watermarking embedded in the data to obtain a first identifier; and then converting the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080279537 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus: The present invention provides a hybrid video camera that can be downsized while restraining heat generation during operation. The hybrid video camera comprises: a camera block which shoots a subject and generates image data; a hard disk drive which records and reproduces the image data in relation to the hard... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080279538 - Dvd reading apparatus: A DVD reading apparatus has a plurality of photodiodes 201 operable to detect light of a specific wavelength reflected from the surface of a DVD. Each photodiode 201 is connected between a positive supply rail and a current mirror arrangement comprising transistors 204, 205, 207 and amplifier 202. The current... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080273856 - Systems and methods for recording overlapping media content during scheduling conflicts: In many aspects, systems and methods for recording overlapping media content using interactive media guidance applications are provided. The systems and methods for recording overlapping media content generally relate to cropping overlapping portions of the media content thereby allowing a user to enjoy most of the recording while only forgoing... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080273857 - Image playback apparatus, image recording apparatus, and methods thereof: An image playback apparatus and in image recording apparatus are designed to permit image playback from a selected position in an image file recorded to a directly accessible memory, such as a magnetic disk. During recording of an image file, the user can designate one or more candidate playback start... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080273858 - Video trick mode system: A method for producing an auxiliary video stream arranged for reverse trick mode playback from a video stream including a plurality of uni-directional predicted frames, the method including producing the auxiliary video stream by performing the following steps copying each uni-directional predicted frame included in the video stream into a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080273860 - Automatic recording/reproducing method and automatic recording/reproducing apparatus: Recording reservation information of a plurality of programs is grouped and at least the latest program among the programs recorded on the basis of the reservation information is left on a recording medium. Therefore, a program information registration unit to register a plurality of items of recording reservation information as... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080273859 - Marking program boundaries in a personal video recording device: The present invention is directed to a method of recording an audio and video input signal. The method includes the input signal being received. The input signal being stored in a buffer. A program change being detected in the input signal. A program marker being inserted into the buffer corresponding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273861 - Method for measuring multimedia video communication quality: A method for measuring multimedia communication quality is disclosed. The multimedia video communication quality may be objectively reflected through the embedment and extraction of digital watermark under a precondition that the quality of the multimedia video data is not obviously affected. In the invention, each frame of the multimedia video... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080273862 - Recording apparatus, editing apparatus, digital video recording system, and file format: Provided is a digital video recording system which can properly maintain a corresponding relationship between recorded data in two different kinds of formats which are generated from the same inputted video-audio data, even if those data are managed separately. In a case where the first file is generated as a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080273863 - Apparatus for recording or reproducing multimedia data using hierarchical information structure and information storage medium thereof: A multimedia data recording apparatus, a multimedia data reproducing apparatus, and multimedia data storage include a first layer storing multimedia data; and a second layer in which, when the multimedia data is divided into a record unit and a reproduction unit, information of attributes of the record unit and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080273864 - Controlling device of a liquid crystal display: A controlling device of a liquid crystal display is provided. The controlling device includes an A/D interface, a sampler, and a shift error correction circuit. An input end of the A/D interface receives an analog video signal for being converted, so as to output a digital video color level. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office