Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions 12/08

20080317430 - Method for controlling recorder and apparatus for controlling recorder: A method and apparatus for controlling a video camera recorder or the like, capable of flexibly meeting user demands for image quality, recording time, etc. When recording information on a rewritable optical recording medium, the recording mode for the optical recording medium is selected at least from between write-once and... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay & Bruneau, P.A.

20080317431 - Remote edition system, main edition device, remote edition device, edition method, edition program, and storage medium: m

20080317432 - System and method for portrayal of object or character target features in an at least partially computer-generated video: Consumers may appear to be featured in videos by being appropriately photographed and their image mapped onto a character in a video. A pre-existing video file has a computer-generated (“CG”) actor rendered throughout, except in, e.g., a head region, where a consumer's image data will be mapped. The consumer's image... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080317433 - Playback apparatus, playback method, storage apparatus, storage method, program, storage medium, data structure, and method of producing a storage medium: The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, playback method, a storage apparatus, a storage method, a program, a storage medium, a data structure, and a method of producing a storage medium, capable of controlling non-normal playback operations. In a state in which PlayItem_random_access_flag is set to 0 for PlayItem(1)... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080317434 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus: In increasing multi-channel broadcast situations, user friendliness is insufficient in that digest information can not be generated to satisfy users' demands to record two contents which are broadcast at the same time. In a reproduction apparatus which simultaneously records a plurality of digital video signals and creates a digest of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080317435 - Apparatus capable of executing at least reproducing process on content, recording and reproducing system, and title information managing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an apparatus capable of executing at least a reproducing process on content. The apparatus includes a title information acquiring unit configured to acquire title information on content subjected at least to the reproducing process for each of content obtained via a network and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080317436 - Digital signal recorder with selective encryption and key generation: A digital signal recorder for recording a digital signal on a recording medium, including: an input circuit which receives a transmitted digital signal encrypted for protecting said transmitted digital signal using a first encryption method; a decrypting circuit which decrypts said transmitted digital signal into an original data; a key... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080317437 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus: When recording data are saved and then deleted from a local storage medium to secure recordable time in a video camera, scenes of the data cannot be reproduced if network environment or a recording medium does not exist, in addition, if saved recording data are not deleted from the local... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080317438 - Video and audio reproduction apparatus and method thereof: The video and audio reproduction apparatus according to the present invention is a video and audio reproduction apparatus that decodes a video and audio stream and reproduces the decoded video and audio stream and that includes a reconstructing unit which reconstructs a packet in an inputted video and audio stream;... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080317442 - Method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals: A method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals.... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080317439 - Social network based recording: The disclosure relates to an enhanced user media viewing experience in a shared viewing environment. A content sharing system is provided in which one digital video recording device controls the presentation of the same video content and optionally the acquiring of that video content on disparately located digital video recording... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080317441 - Systems and methods for receiving, storing, and rendering digital video, music, and pictures on a personal media player: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080317440 - Video receiving apparatus and video receiving method: A video receiving apparatus having an input terminal to receive pixel-based video data transmitted with pixel clock synchronized with the video data is provided. The video receiving apparatus may include a separation unit, an information acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The separation unit may be configured to separate auxiliary... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080317443 - Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures: An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plurality of pieces of still picture information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310815 - Method and apparatus for playing video: The present invention relates to the field of video playing. The method of playing video according to the invention comprises: receiving an event; looking up the PlayItems that simulate the event according to this event; and playing the play clips that correspond to said PlayItems.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310814 - Multi-location buffering of streaming media data: The multi-location buffering of streaming media data is disclosed. One embodiment comprises buffering a first segment of media data associated with a current playback location, and buffering a second segment of media data associated with a seek point separated from the first segment of media data by a segment of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080310816 - System and method for transmission, online editing, storage and retrieval, collaboration and sharing of digital medical video and image data: Medical video clips are accepted, customized, and a video or image is created from the video clip. In one embodiment, the video clip is a prenatal ultrasound and the customization includes specifying biographical information for the baby and selecting border and audio. In another embodiment, video clips or images are... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080310817 - Information recording apparatus, information recording program, recording medium recording information recording program, recording medium, information recording method, information reproducing apparatus, information reproducing method, information reprod: A recording control section controls recording, on an optical disc, of a video TS and an audio TS, each of which is composed of plural pieces of partial data, and a ClipInfo creating section creates a time-address conversion table for the video TS and a time-address conversion table for the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080310818 - Apparatus and method for generating/playing multimedia data and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions recored with time-series data structure: r

20080310819 - Recording/reproducing device and recording/reproducing method: A recording/reproducing device, enabling transfer (move process) of a content any number of times between devices while keeping the most appropriate high image quality for each device in compliance with copyright protection, includes a content management unit (13) for managing the content data so as to make reproduction of the... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080310820 - Optimizing digital video recorder storage space by commercial skip management: A method for storing a program for subsequent playback, includes: receiving an input signal including the program; parsing the input signal to provide at least one segment of commercial content and at least one segment of program content; indexing a segment list with segment information related to each segment; and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080310821 - Audiovisual recording apparatus: In response to an instruction to duplicate audio-video data recorded on a recording medium, duplication history information and unduplicated audio-video data that is indicated by the duplication history information are transmitted. Upon receipt of an instruction to generate duplication history information, an apparatus configured to record onto the recording medium,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080310822 - Recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus and file management method: A recording apparatus, a reproduction apparatus and a file management method are disclosed wherein, even if one of files recorded on a recording medium cannot be reproduced regularly, another file selected by the user can be reproduced normally. A file having a hierarchical structure formed from video data and audio... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080310823 - Video processing apparatus and control method thereof: A video processing apparatus, includes: a signal input unit which receives a broadcasting signal; a signal processing unit which processes the broadcasting signal received by the signal input unit; and a control unit which determines whether a virtual channel table which comprises language information exists in additional information which is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310824 - Method and device for encoding video levels into subfield code words: The invention relates to a method and a device for encoding the video level of a pixel of a picture into a subfield code word in a display device. It can be applied to every display device using a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) technology and subfields for displaying video picture.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080310826 - Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus: A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copies is reached, if additional copies are to be made, then the source copy... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080310827 - Information reproduction device, reproduction starting method and reproduction starting program: An information reproduction device sets, from among a plurality of estimated rotation speeds previously estimated, a set rotation speed in accordance with request-specification information specifying a piece of data requested by an external device and a specified rotation speed specified by the external device for a disc-shaped storage medium storing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310825 - Record quality based upon network and playback device capabilities: The recording of digital media according to one or more of playback device capabilities, network performance and user preference is disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for recording digital video comprising determining a first set of capabilities of a first networked playback device, receiving media in at least one of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080310828 - Television signal recording: A television signal recording apparatus comprises a recording unit capable of making recordings of television signals and stores metadata representing information in respect of the recordings including the channel and the recording time. A graphical display of made recordings and scheduled recordings is produced. In the graphical display, graphical objects... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304805 - Preparing and presenting a preview of video placement advertisements: A method and system for preparing a video advertising insertion clip that utilizes an existing video presentation that currently features and/or will feature virtual product placement. The advertising insertion clip is obtained with minimal additional production resources and overhead in conjunction with a virtual product placement process. By the use... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080304807 - Assembling video content: A computer-implemented method involves accessing a library of video segments, receiving a user instruction to assemble a movie related to an organizing element that includes a video segment from the library of video segments, relating the organizing element to a video segment in the library of video segments, determining, based... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080304808 - Automatic story creation using semantic classifiers for digital assets and associated metadata: A method and system for automatically creating an image product based on media assets stored in a database. A number of stored digital media files are analyzed to determine their semantic relationship to an event and are classified according to requirements and semantic rules for generating an image product. Rule... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080304806 - System and method for video editing based on semantic data: Systems and methods for video editing are described. At least one embodiment includes a method for editing a video comprising: extracting semantic data from the video, searching the extracted semantic data to identify characteristics that match a pre-defined set of characteristics, identifying a pre-defined event based on the matched characteristics... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080304810 - Device for and a method of processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames: A device (1800) for processing an input data stream comprising a sequence of input frames, wherein the device (1800) comprises a processing unit (1802) for generating an output data stream as a trick-play stream comprising a sequence of output frames based on the input data stream and based on a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304809 - Systems and methods for modifying commercials: Methods and products to deliver at least a portion of an advertisement to a viewer at normal playback speeds after receiving a command from the viewer to fast-forward through an advertisement faster than normal playback speeds is described. In certain embodiments, the invention delivers a portion of the advertisement to... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20080304811 - 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. (panasonic)

20080304813 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, data processing program, recording apparatus, recording method, and recording program: A data processing apparatus which divides stream data into portions is disclosed. An evaluation value calculating section calculates an evaluation value at a dividing candidate position of the stream data based on an evaluation function. A comparing section compares the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculating section with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304812 - Detailed information providing method and apparatus of personal video recorder: Provided are a detailed information providing method and apparatus in content storage apparatus that automatically provide a user with desired broadcast information in synchronization with the Internet. The detailed information providing method includes: when a recording operation that records content to the content storage apparatus starts, requesting an information search... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304814 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method and reproducing computer program product: An apparatus, computer program product and method provide a mechanism for independently allow a user to pause the display of a video stream from a given source, while also enabling the user to operate a menu function from a data stream from the same source.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298766 - Interactive photo annotation based on face clustering: An interactive photo annotation method uses clustering based on facial similarities to improve annotation experience. The method uses a face recognition algorithm to extract facial features of a photo album and cluster the photos into multiple face groups based on facial similarity. The method annotates a face group collectively using... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080298768 - Editing device, editing method and editing program, and data processing device, data processing method and data processing program: An editing device dubbing stream data stored in a second recording medium to a first recording medium includes: a recording unit recording in the first recording medium; a recording control unit controlling the recording unit to record the specified range of stream data in a stream file in the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298767 - Method, medium and apparatus summarizing moving pictures of sports games: Provided is a method and apparatus for summarizing a moving picture of a sports game. The method includes detecting play sections of the moving picture; calculating a degree of importance of each play section; and summarizing the moving picture including each play section using the degree of importance of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080298769 - Method and system for generating compressed video to improve reverse playback: The disclosed systems and methods achieve improved quality reverse playback of video though techniques for modifying the way in which video is encoded and stored. The methods and systems may be used, for example, in conjunction with a wide variety of media playing and recording devices, such as DVD recorders,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080298772 - Interactive device: This invention concerns an interactive data storage device and in particular the arrangement of information containing media items and menus stored on media or in servers. The data storage device contains interactive material comprising media items about particular goods or services together with plural menus. Each of the menus enables... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080298773 - Method and apparatus for recording/reproduction: The present invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus which can record AV data at a variable rate as well as so as to enable trick plays. This recording/reproduction apparatus reads data from an HDD 8 and carries out a recording/reproduction process for the read data, and it comprises a reproduction means... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080298771 - Method for acquiring reduced image and video apparatus using the same: A method and apparatus for acquiring a reduced image are provided. A reduced image is acquired by starting receiving video data corresponding to a video from an external apparatus, determining whether reduced image data in the video data is completely received while the video data is being received, and stopping... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080298770 - Playback apparatus and playback control means: A playback apparatus adapted to play back a content includes a first input unit via which to input a first content to be played back from a first apparatus, a second input unit via which to input a second content to be played back, and a storage unit adapted to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080298774 - Storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information: A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium includes: multimedia image data; and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080298775 - Storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information: A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium includes: multimedia image data; and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080298776 - Storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information: A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium includes: multimedia image data; and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080298777 - Storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information: A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium includes: multimedia image data; and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080298778 - Method and system of implementing multimedia recording and media resource handling device: A method of implementing multimedia recording, comprises the following steps of: (1) establishing a multimedia channel between a media resource handling device and a recording data source; (2) a media resource controller including media controlling parameters, and indicating the media resource handling device to start a multimedia recording operation via... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080298779 - Moving image communication device, semiconductor integrated circuit and moving image communication method used for communication of moving image: A transmitter transmits moving image data generated by an image generator to a communication line. A controller judges whether or not the moving image data can be transmitted based on communication status in the communication line. An image analyzer analyzes the moving image data and calculates an information volume thereof... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080298780 - Program recording and playing apparatus and portable terminal for recording and playing programs: A broadcast program recording and playing apparatus includes a program management unit that manages a database storing program information for broadcast programs. A transmission unit transmits the program information stored in the database to an electronic apparatus using wireless communication. Under the control of the electronic apparatus, a control unit... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080298781 - Apparatus for recording audio-video data and method of recording audio-video data: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for recording audio-video information includes a storage device configure to store audio-video information containing video data and audio data, an optical disc drive configured to record the audio-video information in a recoding-type optical disc, detecting section configure to detect a free space available in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298783 - Information storage medium storing management information of application executable from a plurality of storage media, and method and apparatus for executing the application: An information storage medium storing management information of an application executable from a plurality of information storage media, and a method and apparatus for executing the application based on the management information are provided. The method includes: if a new information storage medium is inserted into a reproducing apparatus during... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080298782 - Tablet-style dvd viewer: A device, comprising: a DVD reader; and a pivotably and rotatably display attached to said reader, wherein the display may be pivoted between a protected mode and a viewing mode wherein the reader and display occupy essentially the same amount of space in both modes. the DVD reader comprising a... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP