Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing inventions

20080107390 - Method for integrating a plurality of multimedia data to present a corresponding audio-visual playback completely and audio-visual playback system thereof: A method for integrating a plurality of multimedia data to present a corresponding audio-visual playback completely is disclosed. The method includes: (a) providing a first multimedia datum including video information; (b) retrieving a second multimedia datum via a network transmission; (c) integrating the first multimedia datum and the second multimedia... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107391 - Playback lock method and image device thereof: A playback lock method and an image device thereof are provided. The image device includes an image provider which provides an image, and a controller which locks a playback lock interval of the image provided from the image provider, which is set by a user, if it is determined that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080107395 - Broadcast reception apparatus and digital broadcast receiver: An MPU 11 in a digital broadcast receiver includes a program reservation portion 111 which accepts manipulations from a user, through a remotecontroller 2, and which sets start date and hour information and end date and hour information of a program on the basis of the accepted manipulations; a date... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080107392 - Digital video recorder (dvr) scheduling: Provided are a method and a system for recording a video broadcast using a video recording device. A scheduling update is obtained for the video broadcast over a network. A recording schedule is updated for the video broadcast in response to the obtained scheduling update. The video broadcast is recorded... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080107393 - Method and apparatus to reproduce audio visual data comprising application having indeterminate start time: A method and apparatus to reproduce audio visual (AV) data, including an application having an indeterminate start time, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute the method are provided. The method of reproducing AV data includes: reading the reproduction sequence information of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107394 - Playback device capable of establishing a program at a standby mode and method thereof: A method for establishing a program of a playback device includes: (a) setting a predetermined time of the playback device; (b) running a channel scan for a signal source at a standby mode of the playback device according to the predetermined time set in step (a); and (c) establishing the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107396 - Systems and methods for playing back data from a circular buffer by utilizing embedded timestamp information: A system for playing back data from a circular buffer is disclosed. The system includes: a buffer, for buffering data, wherein the data is encoded and grouped into Data Units (DUs), each containing an embedded timestamp; a buffer access module, for utilizing a write pointer to record data to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107400 - Method and apparatus for reproducing discontinuous av data: A method and apparatus for continuously reproducing pieces of audio-video (AV) data includes selecting the pieces of AV data by searching a continuous sequence of AV data for the pieces of AV data matching an input keyword with metadata contained in the continuous sequence of AV data, and fading out... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107389 - Sync separator for separating sync signal to follow fluctuations in video signal: In a sync separator, a comparator extracts two composite sync signals, based on two reference levels for a composite video signal. Two sync separation determiners separate sync signals from each extracted composite sync signal, and determine whether or not the separated sync signals include dropout. The results of determination are... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080107397 - Information storage medium storing text-based subtitle, and apparatus and method for processing text-based subtitle: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle. The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107398 - Information storage medium storing text-based subtitle, and apparatus and method for processing text-based subtitle: An information storage medium storing subtitle text-based information, and a method and apparatus utilizing same, process a subtitle. The information storage medium includes: dialog information which contains script text information of the subtitle and information specifying an output type of the script text; and presentation information which contains style information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080107399 - Upgradable on screen display system: The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on screen display of recorder player status messages. A first embodiment returns a reproduced decoded, analog video signal to the digital recorder player... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080107401 - Performing trick play functions in a digital video recorder with efficient use of resources: Techniques for selecting a picture of a video program for display in accordance with a selected trick play mode of a DVR are described herein. Sometimes, when desired playback speed is faster than normal, a DVR is forced to select some pictures to play and some pictures to skip. Ideally,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080107402 - Method and system for customizable video playback controls: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and system comprising a remote control device, an output device, and a media control station that receives an initiating command from the remote control device to initiate a forward function or a backward function, provides a display at the output... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107405 - Method for playing audio-video file and playing system using the same: A method for playing an audio-video (AV) file is provided. The first AV file is played in a first or a second player. The first and the second players are coupled to one first digital media server. First, the first digital media server outputs a first AV file to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080107406 - Reproduction apparatus and data transfer system: A reproduction apparatus which transfers data is disclosed. The reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction unit which reproduces information data stored in a storage medium, a management unit which manages pieces of information data stored in the storage medium by classifying them into a plurality of groups corresponding to types of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080107404 - System, apparatus, and method for processing information, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit for detecting a commercial message contained in a broadcast television program, a feature quantity calculating unit for calculating a feature quantity of the detected commercial message, a recording unit for recording incidental information relating to the commercial message and the feature quantity... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080107403 - Video decoding apparatus, video playback apparatus, video decoding method, and video playback method: When zoom playback is performed using a three-plane structure frame buffer in a video playback apparatus, decoding of a zoom target portion is sometimes not completed by a display start time, leading to deterioration in displayed video. In order to solve this problem, only a portion of a coded video... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101760 - Recording apparatus: A digital broadcast media recording apparatus has means for determining if a program which is scheduled to be broadcast has already been recorded, and, if it has been, for deciding if the program which is scheduled to be broadcast should be recorded based on a comparison of the attributes of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080101762 - Method of automatically editing media recordings: A method (100) of automatically editing audio and visual recordings to produce an audio-visual production using computer processing means. The method (100) involves a first step (101) of setting production criteria in which the desired production duration, target device, maximum execution time and location of media files are specified. In... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080101761 - Weighted occlusion costing: In a method for determining a weighted occlusion cost for presenting an image within a non-uniform viewing region image, saliency data for an image to be displayed in a non-uniform viewing region is received. A layout orientation for presenting the image in the non-uniform viewing region is received. A weighted... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101764 - Method and apparatus for managing multimedia content recording assets: A device (10) and method (30) for managing multimedia content recording assets, e.g., within a video processing device, such as a video signal convert/decoder (set-top box) device. The method includes receiving multimedia content, storing at least a portion of the multimedia content requested by one or more content assets, and... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080101765 - Method for playback of broadcast data in receiver: The present invention is related to playback of broadcast data in a receiver. Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving first data through a first broadcast channel in the receiver, performing playback of the first data, receiving second data through a second broadcast channel in the receiver, storing a segment of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080101763 - Viewing pattern data collection: A method and system are provided in which DVR viewer metrics are collected and saved in a “Watched Log” data base including identifying titles and other features of recorded DVR programs. User viewing metrics are collected and saved for use in determining whether or not future shows are recorded. After... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080101766 - Recording device and method: To enable a recording device recording a video/audio signal and information necessary for utilizing the video/audio signal to copy the video/audio signal with the converted bit rate, encoding format, etc., to another recording device when utilizing the video/audio signal by the another recording device, and to move only the information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101767 - 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

20080101768 - Media build for multi-channel distribution: According to one embodiment, methods and systems are disclosed for converting multi-media content to multiple deliverable formats using a conversion workflow. For example, a single source content file can be captured and a plurality of deliverable content files can be derived from the single source content file. Each of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080101773 - Apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content. In digital contents management, the apparatus for providing additional information of media content includes a media source, a media renderer, an additional information analyzer, a smart progress bar, and an additional information renderer. The media source receives... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080101769 - Method and apparatus for reproducing motion picture files: A reproduction method is disclosed that creates an index file including start point and termination point information connected with user designated specified section of a motion picture file (MPF), and MPF storage location. According to index file selection and related reproduction request, the specified section of the corresponding MPF is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101771 - Accelerated access to frames from a compressed digital video stream without keyframes: A digital video recorder stores digital video streams having sequences of encoded frames that are predominantly non-keyframes. The digital video recorder synthesizes keyframes for the digital video stream by decoding the frames in sequence and occasionally capturing the state of the decoder as it decodes the frames. The decoder states... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101772 - Accelerated access to frames from a compressed digital video stream without keyframes: A digital video recorder stores digital video streams having sequences of encoded frames that are predominantly non-keyframes. The digital video recorder synthesizes keyframes for the digital video stream by decoding the frames in sequence and occasionally capturing the state of the decoder as it decodes the frames. The decoder states... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101770 - Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a receiver according to content and user selection: System and method for automatically controlling a media receiver by instructing the media receiver to use a particular receiver connection and to play a selected media unit using one of a plurality of play modes according to characteristics of the media unit. Media units may be encoded using any of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080101774 - Optical disc apparatus: An optical disc apparatus comprises: a data reading unit for reading VTS_TMAPT and TMU; a preliminary search address calculating unit for calculating, based on the read data and a search time designated by a user, address of a destination VOBU to which an optical pickup is to be moved; a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080095517 - Audio visual recording and reproducing apparatus: A combination apparatus incorporating a hard disk drive and an optical disc drive (audio-visual recording and reproducing apparatus) stores one or more keywords inputted as a result of user operation in a memory and monitors whether or not a closed caption signal contains any of the keywords. When the closed... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080095515 - Contents character information acquisition method, contents character information acquisition program, contents character information acquisition apparatus, and video content recording apparatus: The present invention provides a contents character information acquisition method including the steps of extracting content feature information indicative of an image making up video content in accordance with a predetermined extraction algorithm, detecting, from a database in which given-image feature information extracted from a given image in accordance with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080095514 - Information recording medium wherein stream convertible at high-speed is recorded, and recording apparatus and recording method therefor: An information recording medium capable of converting a stream including seamless connection, which is recorded in a constrained format allowing format conversion from a first format (MPEG-TS) to a second format (MPEG-PS), into a second stream, and an apparatus and method for recording information in the information recording medium. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080095518 - Method of transmitting data having insertion of audio information: A method of transmitting data by inserting audio information for use within a video editing apparatus includes encoding at least one analog audio signal into digital audio channel information according to an encoding format, the digital audio channel information including a length element and an audio encoded element; utilizing at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080095512 - Information signal processing method and apparatus, and computer program product: There is provided an information signal processing method used when performing a special reproduction operation for digest reproduction of a video/audio information signal of a broadcast program. The method includes: a step for reading data from the video/audio characteristic data of each predetermined section of a predetermined video/audio information signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080095513 - Information recording apparatus, information copying system, method for copying information, program and computer readable recording medium: A first information recorder comprises a limited number-of-times of copying information setting unit for setting information on the limited number-of-times of copying electronic data, a first limited number-of-times of copying information updating unit for reading out the electronic data from a first information recording medium containing electronic data set with... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080095516 - Personal digital assistant apparatus: A personal digital assistant (PDA) apparatus and a recording and reproduction apparatus improved in convenience in use by reflecting the viewing situation in the PDA into the recording and reproduction apparatus are provided. The PDA includes a reception unit for perceiving a broadcast signal including program information, a communication unit... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080095519 - Image playback apparatus providing smart search for motion and method of using the same: An image playback apparatus for playing an input image data from at lest one camera includes: an input image encoding unit encoding the input image data and extracting a plurality of motion vectors corresponding to a plurality of frames of the encoded input image data; a storage unit storing the... Agent: Lewis F. Gould, Jr. Duane Morris LLP

20080095520 - Mapping udf and bdfs extents: The present invention relates to a method of ensuring seamless playback of video files stored as a BDFS (Blu-ray Disc File System) file in a UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system using a UDF and BDFS combination format, said method of seamlessly playing back the video files comprising the step... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080089658 - Interface systems for portable digital media storage and playback devices: A docking assembly serves as an interface between (1) a portable digital media storage and playback (PDMSP) device, and (2) a media reproduction system. A remote controller preferably controls the docking assembly and PDMSP device, which may receive electric charge from the assembly. Media reproduction systems may reproduce audio and... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080089661 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus: In the event that a chapter setting mode is effective, for example, when pausing takes place at a time (t1) during reproduction, a chapter (c1) is set to the location of the pause. When a commercial then appears at a time (t2) and a skip commercial operation takes place, a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080089663 - Apparatus and method for controlling automatic reserved recording in broadcasting receiving terminal: An apparatus and method for controlling automatic reserved recording in a broadcast-receiving terminal, in which a reserved recording function can be performed at accurate time based on a time difference between communication time for communication and broadcasting time, is provided. The apparatus includes a broadcasting part for receiving broadcasting program... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080089665 - Embedding content-based searchable indexes in multimedia files: Content-based analysis is performed on multimedia content prior to encoding the multimedia content in the rendering chain of processing. A content-based index stream is generated based on the content-based analysis and the content-based index stream is embedded in the multimedia file during rendering. The content-based index stream can be used... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080089667 - Interface systems for portable digital media storage and playback devices: A docking assembly serves as an interface between (1) a portable digital media storage and playback (PDMSP) device, and (2) a media reproduction system. A remote controller preferably controls the docking assembly and PDMSP device, which may receive electric charge from the assembly. Media reproduction systems may reproduce audio and... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080089669 - Information recording medium wherein stream convertible at high-speed is recorded, and recording apparatus and recording method therefor: An information recording medium capable of converting a stream including seamless connection, which is recorded in a constrained format allowing format conversion from a first format (MPEG-TS) to a second format (MPEG-PS), into a second stream, and an apparatus and method for recording information in the information recording medium. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080089657 - Recording apparatus, recording method, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording and reproduction apparatus, recording and reproduction method, image capturing and recording apparatus, and image capturing and recording method.: A recording apparatus is provided. The recording apparatus divides a material including video and/or audio information and records divided materials onto a plurality of recording media. The recording apparatus includes a control unit configured to divide the material into a plurality of divided materials and to prepare, for each of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080089659 - Linking to video information: A system enables dynamic linking between a variety of video formats including television broadcasts, web pages, and video displays which are stored on magnetic or optical media. Each frame of the video information is identified together with a plurality of locations within that frame. The locations selected by the user... Agent: Timothy N. Trop Trop, Pruner, Hu & Miles, P.C.

20080089660 - Reproduction device, image synthesis method, image synthesis program, and integrated circuit: In a playback device for playing back a moving image recorded on a recording medium while executing an application recorded on the recording medium, to improve the use efficiency of a memory bus when combining the moving image with an image relating to the application. Whether or not to combine... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080089662 - Recording medium, reproduction device program, and reproduction method: Video streams and an entry map are recorded on a BD-ROM in association with each other. The video stream constituting a slide show includes a plurality of IDR pictures. The entry map (EP_map) associated with the IDR pictures indicates an entry time (PTS_EP_start) of each IDR picture included in the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080089664 - Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data: Copying, dubbing or reproducing copyrighted digital data can be inhibited or restricted to properly protect a copyright. AV data recorded on a pre-recorded tape is output from a reproducing unit of a first digital VCR with protective information indicating whether the copy of the AV data is inhibited or not.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080089666 - System for relating scoreboard information with event video: A system for automatically relating the changing information posted on an electronic display 10a, in regard to some ongoing event, to the recorded information, such as video, captured and corresponding to that same ongoing event. Posted information is remotely detected using master camera 50a that is aligned to capture images... Agent: James A. Aman

20080089668 - Recording apparatus: A video/audio recording apparatus comprises an audio encoding section 101 and a video encoding section 102 for encoding an audio signal or a video signal which is video/audio broadcast and input, and a code multiplexing section 103 for multiplexing the encoded audio signal and video signal. Based on an audio... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080089670 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a first encoding unit for encoding a video signal under a first encoding system and generating first encoded data; a recording unit for recording the first encoded data onto a recording medium in a first record format; a second encoding unit for encoding the video signal... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080089671 - Simultaneous recording and playback of audio/video programs: A system and method for time-shifted viewing of broadcast television programs is disclosed. Simultaneous recording and playback are provided by using buffer storage as the source and destination of compressed or uncompressed digital video/audio programs. Full VCR-like control is provided for all playback within the buffer storage. Playback and control... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080089672 - Player for audiovisual system with interactive seamless branching and/or telescopic advertising: One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law