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Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing

20130114938 - Image-capturing apparatus: An image-capturing apparatus includes: a storage unit into which a plurality of image frames, generated based upon imaging signals provided from an image sensor that captures a subject image via a photographic optical system, are sequentially stored; an optical system drive unit that drives the photographic optical system in response... Agent: Nikon Corporation

20130114939 - Invention title is a digital multi-media keepsake. it is a handheld case with a built in lcd video screen which displays digital photos and plays digital video and audio, with a removable storage container in the center of the case that stores memorabilia: It is a handheld digital keepsake case with a built-in video screen which plays video, photos, and audio, with a removable storage container. The exterior case displays digital photos, plays video and audio automatically when opened and shuts off when closed. It is a keepsake within a case that plays... Agent:

20130114940 - Presenting linear and nonlinear content via dvr: Embodiments related to the presentation of linear content and non-linear content in an integrated user experience are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of identifying linear content and non-linear content for presentation via a video recording device. The method includes detecting a trigger to perform a search for content items,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130114941 - Method and arrangement for retransmitting as well as processing and/or displaying and/or storing of sound and/or picture contents, and device for 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:

20130114943 - Apparatus for recording and reproducing plural types of information, method and recording medium for controlling same: Various processes effectively execute updating of related information that is correlated to user selected information. For example, when a selected screen is touched by a pen or the like while an image corresponding to the selected image data is displayed on the screen, existing line drawing data (for example, a... Agent: Nikon Corporation

20130114942 - Automatic surveillance video matting using a shape prior: A novel technique for performing video matting, which is built upon a proposed image matting algorithm that is fully automatic is disclosed. The disclosed methods utilize a PCA-based shape model as a prior for guiding the matting process, so that manual interactions required by most existing image matting methods are... Agent: General Electric Company

20130114944 - Chunck header incorporating binary flags and correlated variable-length fields: Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.... Agent: Divx, LLC

20130108234 - Content management apparatus, recording apparatus, operation apparatus, content management system, and control methods thereof: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130108235 - System and method for tracking moving objects: A method for tracking an object that is embedded within images of a scene, including: in a sensor unit, generating, storing and transmitting over a communication link a succession of images of a scene. In a remote control unit, receiving the images, receiving a command for selecting an object of... Agent: Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.

20130108236 - Filtering source video data via independent component selection: What is disclosed is a system and method for reconstructing a video signal such that selected signal components have been emphasized. Methods are disclosed for reducing the source video data to its independent signal components for selection. The source video is reconstructed, in a manner more fully disclosed herein, such... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130108238 - Network system, terminal apparatus, recording apparatus, method of displaying record scheduling state, computer program for terminal apparatus, computer program for recording apparatus: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130108237 - Video purchasing method, video playing method, server and video playing device: The present invention relates to a video purchasing method, a video playing method, a server and a video playing device. The video purchasing method comprises: receiving a request of a user for purchasing a video file, the request including starting time and ending time of part of the video contents... Agent: Sony Mobile Communications Ab

20130108240 - Disc reproduction apparatus, disc reproduction method and program: A reproduction control unit starts to monitor a reproduction state of a title being reproduced by a reproduction unit. If a specific navigation command added to the title being reproduced is executed, the reproduction state at a timing of the execution of this command is stored into a local storage.... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130108241 - Information processing device, information processing method, program, recording medium, and integrated circuit: An information processing device is provided with a specification unit that specifies a plurality of playback positions in a video content, an extraction unit that extracts, in accordance with the specified playback positions, a plurality of scenes each including at least one of the specified playback positions and each indicating... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130108239 - Time-based video metadata system: A video display device comprising a video source and a video playback mechanism. The video source comprises a plurality of time-based metadata. The video playback mechanism uses at least one of the plurality of time-based metadata to display at least one of the video source, and one or more menu... Agent: Front Porch Digital, Inc.

20130108242 - Closed captioning content based digital video recording systems and methods: An exemplary method includes a digital video recording system receiving input representative of one or more keywords from a user of a media content service, detecting the one or more keywords within closed captioning content associated with a media content instance available for access by the user by way of... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130108243 - 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: Sony Corporation

20130108244 - Region of interest identification device, region of interest identification method, region of interest identification program, and region of interest identification integrated circuit: An interesting section identifying device for identifying an interesting section of a video file based on an audio signal included in the video file, the interesting section being a section in which a user is estimated to express interest, includes an interesting section candidate extracting unit that extracts an interesting... Agent:

20130108245 - Media content recording, management, and distribution systems and methods: Exemplary media content recording, management, and distribution systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a media content provider subsystem providing an online recording manager service for access by a user, providing an online content management service for access by the user, receiving, through the online recording manager service,... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130108246 - Video services receiver that manages incomplete program recordings, and related operating methods: A video services receiver and related operating method relate to the recording and presentation of program content. A disclosed operating method records at least a portion of a program event that is identified by program-designating information, resulting in a first recording. The method continues by determining that the first recording... Agent: Eldon Technology Limited

20130108247 - Storage system: In a storage system, client devices and storage devices are connected to a network. An application for controlling the recording function of the storage device is installed on the client device. The client device, which accesses the storage device, is provided with a user interface with which a user operates... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20130108248 - Implementing channel start and file seek for decoder: A video bit stream with pictures comprising inter-coded content can be decoded upon receiving a channel start or file seek instruction. Pictures for beginning decoding and display of the bit stream can be selected based at least in part on one or more tuning parameters that set a preference between... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130101263 - Image capture device, player, system, and image processing method: A system of the present disclosure comprises a shooting system and a playback system. The shooting system includes first and second shooting sections and a disparity calculating section that generates a differential image representing a difference between first and second images that have been shot by the first and second... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130101264 - Methods and apparatus for capturing ambience: A mobile ambience capturing device (100, 200) and ambience capturing method (300) is described. The mobile ambience capturing device includes at least one sensing device (202) for sensing at least one stimulus in an environment (610), and an activity-determining device (206) for determining an activity carried out in the environment.... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130101267 - Electoronic device, playback device and server device: The present invention discloses an electronic device having a recording section that records a content extracted from broadcasting, an acquiring section that acquires information related to the content from a network, and a chapter making section that specifies chapters to the content recorded in the recording section based on hourly... Agent: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.

20130101268 - Image playback apparatus and image display control method: An image playback apparatus has a recording section which records shot images, and a display section which displays the images. The apparatus includes a motion detection section which detects a motion applied to the image playback apparatus in a state where hold of the image playback apparatus is detected, and... Agent: Olympus Imaging Corp.

20130101266 - Multimedia device and a method for controlling the same: A method for controlling a multimedia device includes the steps of outputting a recorded broadcast program, parsing information related to the recorded broadcast program by using broadcast program information, searching for a broadcast program matching with the recorded broadcast program by using the parsed information, comparing a broadcast starting time... Agent:

20130101265 - Repeater device: A repeater device comprises a determining section for determining whether the authentication with the sink device fails continuously for a predetermined time or more; a repeater information rewriting section for, when the determination is made that the authentication with the sink device has failed continuously for the predetermined time or... Agent: Onkyo Corporation

20130101269 - Video recording method and video recording device: Recording arrangements that records a picture on a recording medium in a file format, the arrangements including: forming the format so as to produce one Play Item in each of acquired pictures, and to arrange one or a plurality of Play Items in one Play List; and recording a picture... Agent:

20130101270 - Method of storing status information about content reproducing device, and method and apparatus for allowing content to be automatically reproduced using the status information: Provided are a method of storing status information in a first content reproducing device, and a method of allowing content to be automatically reproduced in a second content reproducing device based on the status information stored in the first content reproducing device. The method of storing status information includes: monitoring... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130101271 - Video processing apparatus and method: A video processing apparatus is disclosed. An acquisition part acquires category information of video data of a process target. A storage part stores each set of category information by associating extraction information indicating a location in a portion of the video data. A creation part specifies a location used for... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130101272 - Alternative advertising in prerecorded media: Presenting viewers with an alternative brief version of a recorded advertisement when they choose to fast-forward through or skip (or any other trick play event) the recorded advertisement. The alternative advertisement may be displayed instead of or in conjunction with the recorded advertisement (i.e., fast-forwarding advertisement is displayed in one... Agent: Prime Resource Alliance E., Inc.

20130101273 - Reproducing device, recording device, recording medium, data processing method, data processing program, data recording method, data recording program, and integrated circuit: A data generating is device capable of preventing unauthorized extraction of plaintext content between decryption processing and digital watermark embedment processing. A content reproducing device obtains restoration information and, in accordance with the restoration information, selectively performs predetermined restoration processing and processing of embedding device unique information, on content data... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130101274 - Systems and methods for reducing disruptions in recorded programming: Various embodiments reduce disruptions in recorded programming, by automatically recording retransmissions of prior programming. In one embodiment, a recording manager is provided for execution on a receiving device, such as a set-top box. The recording manager detects a disruption in a recorded program. In response, the recording manager automatically records,... Agent: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

20130101275 - Video memory having internal programmable scanning element: A data storage element, which includes an interface module configured to receive at least some image data, and includes video memory configured to store the image data, and also includes a scanning element configured to continuously scan the image data and to internally reorganize the image data stored in the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130094831 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit displaying a segment map, in which segment-representing images representing video segments obtained by dividing content into video segments which are collections of frames of one or more temporally continuous frames, are arranged on a display apparatus and a reproduction control unit... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130094830 - Interactive video program providing linear viewing experience: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to creating and providing an interactive video program. One disclosed embodiment includes combining a first interactive video segment of a first type and a second interactive video segment of a second, different type than the first segment. The first interactive video segment includes a first... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130094829 - Real-time image editing method and electronic device: An embodiment of the invention provides a real-time image editing method for an electronic device having a touch panel. The method includes the steps of executing a recording program, a timing program and an image editing program, showing an image editing option menu when detecting an input signal, receiving at... Agent: Acer Incorporated

20130094832 - Recording apparatus for simultaneously recording the same moving image to a plurality of recording media: A recording apparatus includes an input unit configured to input moving image data, a recording unit configured to record the moving image data input by the input unit to a plurality of recording media, an output unit configured to output information to a display device, a selection unit configured to... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130094833 - Stereoscopic image playback device, stereoscopic image playback system, and stereoscopic image playback method: In the case where a parallax of left and right images is not appropriate, an influence on the health caused by stereoscopic viewing is preliminarily prevented. A camera and a television are connected (step S1) and a television size is input from the camera (step S2). A parallax adjustment amount... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130094834 - Video processing device for embedding authored metadata and methods for use therewith: A video processing device includes a metadata authoring device, that generates time-coded metadata in response to content recognition data and in accordance with at least one time stamp of a video signal. A metadata association device generates a processed video signal from the video signal, wherein the processed video signal... Agent: Vixs Systems, Inc.

20130094835 - Recording/reading apparatus, method of generating tag list for recording/reading apparatus, and control unit for recording/reading apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided a control block including a read control processor for reading designated content, a time information processor for processing time information. A controller returns, to a user terminal, a response signal, and information indicating a second absolute time point when an operation is executed... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130094836 - Embedded ancillary data processing method and system with program duration alteration: The total running time of an original program signal, with related embedded ancillary data is altered to generate a time-shortened (or time-lengthened) program signal. The video signal embedded ancillary data packets are subject to separate processing without decoding payload text strings and caption information. The video portion of the original... Agent:

20130094837 - Digital information recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus and transmitting: A digital information recording apparatus includes a recording circuit for recording information of a retention period included in the digital information and indicating a period for permitting the digital information to be held in the recording medium, starting with a time at which the digital information is recorded on the... Agent:

20130094838 - Optical disc player with improved content playback: A method for managing playback of special feature content on an optical disc, comprising the steps of (A) storing a first disc specific information set for a particular disc in the memory of an optical disc player and (B) prior to playback of a main feature content, comparing a previously... Agent:

20130094839 - Automatic selection, recording and meaningful labeling of clipped tracks from media without an advance schedule: Automatic selection, recording and meaningful labeling of tracks from media streams is provided. Content information which relates to tracks currently being played and/or to previously played tracks is used to guide selection of tracks to be recorded and to provide meaningful labels for recorded tracks. This content information does not... Agent: