Having Another Signal

Having Another Signal patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

10/11/07 - 20070237493 - Providing user access to digital content data
Providing user access to digital content data involves maintaining a database having contents including plural records, each associated with a channel. Each record relates to a different item of digital content, and includes: a displayable icon; a record date; a channel identifier, and a resource locator. A current view is ...

10/04/07 - 20070230906 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in ...

09/27/07 - 20070223880 - Video playback apparatus
A video playback apparatus informs a user of scene change. The video playback apparatus includes a feature extraction unit to extract feature scenes having audio/video content and a playback unit to replay feature scenes that have been extracted by the feature extraction unit. The playback unit further includes an identification ...

09/27/07 - 20070223879 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing information
An information processing apparatus may include a recording controller for controlling recording of management information containing access information corresponding to recording information for an information recording medium. The recording controller may record backup management information on a non-volatile recording medium prior to the recording of master management information on the ...

09/27/07 - 20070223878 - Image displaying method and video playback apparatus
A video playback apparatus includes a thumbnail creating unit for creating thumbnail image data for a video file, and a user operation unit for receiving an instruction from a user. The thumbnail creating unit divides a total playback duration time T of the video file into 2ˆn intervals and creates ...

09/27/07 - 20070223876 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program, reproduction method, and integrated circuit
A BD-ROM on which an AVClip and a Java™ application are recorded. The AVClip includes a video stream and an audio stream multiplexed therein. On the BD-ROM recorded further are management information and the Mixing_On flag corresponding to the management information. The management information indicates a playback control of the ...

09/27/07 - 20070223875 - Storage device and method of accessing storage device
The present embodiments provide a storage device and a method of accessing the storage device. The storage device is utilized for storing a plurality of first data and a plurality of second data. Each first data correlates respectively to a second data. The storage device includes a first storage segment ...

09/13/07 - 20070212028 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method
A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A reproduction section reproduces video data from a record medium, the video data being managed in a unit of a clip composed of a plurality of frames which are chronologically successive. A first decode section decodes a first clip which is currently being output and ...

09/13/07 - 20070212026 - Removable storage medium for audio-visual data
Playback devices, e.g. DVD players, for removable mass storage media used for the distribution of multimedia content contain a lot of firmware to control its functions. Typically, such firmware may be updated several times during the lifetime of the device. For playback devices that are already at a consumer's site ...

09/06/07 - 20070206927 - Method for managing recording and reproduction of multi-dubbed audio stream
In one embodiment, a first play list is generated if a first additional data stream is provided, and a second play list is generated if a second additional data stream is provided. The first play list links the main video data stream with the first additional data stream such that ...

09/06/07 - 20070206926 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in ...

09/06/07 - 20070206925 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in ...

09/06/07 - 20070206924 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in ...

09/06/07 - 20070206923 - Information processing apparatus, display method thereof, and program thereof
An information processing apparatus includes a first display control section, a first input section, and a second display control section. The first display control section controls displaying of a plurality of content representative pictures so that the content representative pictures are displayed and arranged in a first direction. The content ...

09/06/07 - 20070206921 - Recording apparatus for supporting titling image, and method and control program for the same
A recording apparatus such as a DVD recorder for supporting titling an image shot by a DV camera or the like, sparing a user the trouble of inputting the title with a remote controller. The DVD recorder prestores information on the schedule of persons who may be objects of shooting, ...

09/06/07 - 20070206920 - Information process apparatus and method, program, and record medium
To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an index file management section ...

08/30/07 - 20070201832 - Recording apparatus, recording method, program for recording method, recording medium recording program for recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproduction method, program for reproduction method, and recording medium recording program for reproduct
A recording apparatus which may include a moving-picture recording control device configured to record a moving picture as a moving picture file into a recording medium, a representative image creating device configured to create a representative image creating a predetermined group of frame images forming the moving picture, and a ...

08/30/07 - 20070201831 - Method and apparatus for reproducing/recording a text subtitle stream
In one embodiment, a method of reproducing text subtitle streams. The method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source. Each text subtitle stream including a style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of presentation segments. Each presentation segment having at least ...

08/30/07 - 20070201830 - Systems and methods for production, delivery, recording, and viewing of video and similar content primarily intended to be viewed in step-frame/frame-advance mode
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a video data streams having an input adapted for receiving and processing the video signal and rendering an output signal in a digital format, detecting a particular code within an individual frame of the processed signal that identifies the type of frame that ...

08/30/07 - 20070201829 - System and method of providing advertisements during dvd playback
A method wherein contents of DVDs may be restricted based upon purchased certificates is provided. The certificates allow for secured information on playback. Specifically, whenever a DVD is to be played, a certificate is consulted to determine whether the content of the DVD should be played with or without commercial ...

08/30/07 - 20070201828 - Method and device for generating a menu
The invention relates to method and device for generating a menu for video recording, and to recording medium carrying such menu; wherein the menu is coded according to an MPEG like standard, and a menu is divided into an I-picture for the menu background and a P-picture for only the ...

08/16/07 - 20070189722 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, and recording medium
For a large capacity recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility and enriched representation is accomplished. A flag that represents whether a play item has a multiple angle structure of which the play item is reproduced with a plurality of angles is described. In addition, a flag that represents ...

08/16/07 - 20070189720 - Content playback apparatus, content playback method and storage medium
A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by ...

08/16/07 - 20070189718 - Reproduction device and reproduction method, program and program storage medium, data distribution system, data structure, and method for manufacturing recording medium
The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing method, a program, a program storage medium, a data delivery system, a data structure, and a manufacturing method of a recording medium for easily handling a content file recorded on a disk and an update file recorded on a local ...

08/16/07 - 20070189716 - Disk device, control circuit, disk controlling method, and command controlling method
A multiplexing specification command that includes information indicative of a method of multiplexing and a degree of multiplexing is stored in a command register. Multiplexing of data is performed based on the method of multiplexing and the degree of multiplexing set in the multiplexing specification command. The method of multiplexing ...

08/09/07 - 20070183751 - Method and apparatus for recording manufacturer information on a recording medium and for determining whether the manufacturer information is effective
A recording medium and a recording apparatus store manufacturer information to support specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefore. A reproducing apparatus reproduces the manufacturer information to support specific functions. When the recording apparatus modifies the contents of the recording medium, the manufacturer's identification code is recorded. The ...

08/09/07 - 20070183750 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, and recording medium
For a large capacity recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility and enriched representation is accomplished. A flag that represents whether a play item has a multiple angle structure of which the play item is reproduced with a plurality of angles is described. In addition, a flag that represents ...

08/09/07 - 20070183749 - Content reproduction apparatus, content reproduction method, content reproduction system, and computer program therefor
Disclosed is a content reproduction apparatus that is capable of reducing the processing time required between when the viewer's intention to start reproduction is indicated and when a reproduction image is actually displayed, and obliterates the reproduction start time difference between pieces of content. The content reproduction apparatus includes: selection ...

07/26/07 - 20070172209 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for recording on recordable recording medium, and method for managing backup files of the same
A method of recording data on a recording medium by a recording apparatus which is unable to create a backup file. The method includes deleting a backup file corresponding to an original file from the recording medium when the original file on the recording medium is modified or deleted. ...

07/26/07 - 20070172208 - Optical disc, video data editing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium storing an editing program, reproduction apparatus for the optical disc, and computer-readable recording medium storing an reproduction program
An optical disc includes a data area for recording a plurality of video segments and an index area from recording original type chain information and user-defined type chain information. The original type chain information defines an original type chain including first ones of the video segments by describing a reproduction ...

07/26/07 - 20070172207 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing the recording medium
In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a data area storing moving picture data, and a navigation area storing navigation information for managing reproduction of the moving picture data. The navigation information includes a metadata indicator indicating whether metadata associated with the moving picture data exists. The metadata is additional ...

07/26/07 - 20070172206 - Moving image recording apparatus and method, moving image reproducing apparatus, moving image recording and reproducing method, and programs and storage media
A moving image recording apparatus is provided, which allows a user to enjoy reproducing a moving image by easily finding a corresponding desired scene from moving images. A moving image is recorded together with attribute information therefor. Division points at which the moving image breaks on a time base are ...

07/26/07 - 20070172204 - Information reproducing apparatus and method of displaying the status of the information reproducing apparatus
When objects are reproduced according to a playlist, its playback state is displayed live in such a manner that the user can understand the disc easily. This invention comprises a navigation manger which manages a playlist that specifies a playback time arbitrarily for a plurality of objects separately or in ...

07/26/07 - 20070172203 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first ...

07/26/07 - 20070172202 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording, method, program, and reproduction method
A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each ...

07/26/07 - 20070172201 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in ...

07/26/07 - 20070172200 - Playback apparatus, playback method, and program
A playback apparatus includes a classified region selecting section that selects a classified region at random from among a plurality of classified regions on a recording medium, the recording medium including recorded data managed such that a plurality of pieces of unit data belong to corresponding classified regions serving as ...

07/26/07 - 20070172199 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, program storage medium, and program
The present invention displays subtitles in a language desired by a user in a desired format. A text data decoder 121 decodes text subtitle data, supplies a character object to a character object buffer 122, and supplies attribute data to an attribute data buffer 123. The attribute data stored in ...

07/19/07 - 20070166009 - Dvd menu authoring system and method
A DVD authoring system in a processor-based system removes an author from consideration of the DVD Specification during authoring. According to a preferred embodiment, the authoring system provides an authoring engine having an interactive graphical authoring interface, a data management engine, an emulator, a compiler, a multiplexer and a simulator. ...

07/19/07 - 20070166007 - Recording apparatus, recording method, program, encoding apparatus, and encoding method
A recording apparatus is disclosed which includes: a linking section configured to link one of a plurality of modes either to an input terminal through which to input a content or to an input encoding format for encoding the input content in accordance with a command from a user, each ...

07/19/07 - 20070166006 - Video recording apparatus and method, video transmission method, program for video recording method, and storage medium having stored program for video recording method
A video recording apparatus includes a data acquisition section, an encoding section, and a recording section. With a plurality of groups of pictures corresponding to a cell in an optical disk format set as a recording unit, the encoding section generates streaming data by time division multiplexing of encoded data ...

07/19/07 - 20070166005 - Method for controlling movie subtitles and captions
A method for controlling subtitles and captions information in video is described. The method includes determining at least one subtitle or caption within a video data stream, pausing the video data stream based on the determination and resuming play of the video data stream after a determined time period. The ...

07/12/07 - 20070160347 - Image recording/reproducing apparatus
A video recording/reproducing apparatus capable of discriminating commercial message portions even when a broadcasting mode is the same. A magnetic head records television broadcasting signals to a magnetic tape and reproduces the television broadcasting signals from this magnetic tape. When the television broadcasting signals are reduced by recording/reproducing apparatus, an ...

07/12/07 - 20070160346 - Reading apparatus, reading method, program, and program recording medium
A reading apparatus for reading data from a digital versatile disc (DVD) generates information indicating a plurality of predetermined portions of content stored on the digital versatile disc, based on navigation information of the DVD on which the content is recorded. A storage reads the predetermined portions from the DVD ...

07/12/07 - 20070160345 - Multimedia reproduction device and menu screen display method
A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and user-friendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content ...

07/12/07 - 20070160344 - Recording medium, reproduction device, program, and reproduction method
An AV Clip formed by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream and recorded on a BD-ROM as a recording medium. The video stream constitutes a moving picture while the graphics stream enables graphics to be overlaid on the moving picture, and includes pieces of control information called a ...

07/05/07 - 20070154181 - Recording medium, apparatus and method related to information representing tunes
An information recording medium includes a recording area for an auxiliary signal, and a recording area for a main signal. The auxiliary-signal recording area and the main-signal recording area are successively arranged. The main-signal recording area stores first information, second information, and third information. The first information represents plural tunes. ...

07/05/07 - 20070154180 - Recording medium having a data structure for backing up management files and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In one embodiment, the data structure includes original management data managing reproduction of stream data. The original management data includes at least one stream information file managing at least one stream file, which includes the stream data; at least one playlist file, which manages the stream information; and at least ...

07/05/07 - 20070154179 - Information playback apparatus
According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus plays back content of an optical disk and hard disk, and displays the content on a display device. The information playback apparatus has a menu window display processing unit which stops playback of the content upon pressing a menu key during playback ...

07/05/07 - 20070154178 - Video recording/reproducing apparatus having commercial view control function
Within a television broadcast recording/reproducing apparatus, for preventing a commercial message (CM) from being cut when viewing an abridgement (digest), and for presenting the CM to a viewer without losing an advantage of viewing the abridgement, a ranking value of a CM portion is changed, with using a means for ...

07/05/07 - 20070154177 - Apparatus and method of recording or reproducing content selection menu
A data processing apparatus includes a recording unit operable to record content including video stream and/or audio stream to a recording medium, and a menu recording unit operable to generate control information for displaying a first menu (“Treasure Menu”) and a second menu (“Pleasure Menu”). The first menu allows selection ...

07/05/07 - 20070154176 - Navigating recorded video using captioning, dialogue and sound effects
Video navigation is provided where a video stream encoded with captioning is processed to locate captions that match a search string. Video playback is implemented from a point in the video stream near the located caption to thereby navigate to a scene in a program containing dialogue or descriptive sounds ...

06/28/07 - 20070147784 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data using management data
A method and apparatus are provided for creating and recording management information for digital data streams, and for reproducing data using the management information. According to an embodiment, the method for recording a digital data stream being received, comprising: (a) recording received stream units of a digital data stream along ...

06/28/07 - 20070147783 - Combination system and copy error preventing method thereof
A combo system and method having a play unit to play a signal recorded on a first recording medium and a recording unit to record the signal played by the play unit on a second recording medium. A detector detects whether a predetermined copy preventing signal exists within the signal ...

06/28/07 - 20070147782 - Information reproducing apparatus and method of displaying the status of the information reproducing apparatus
When an object is reproduced according to a playlist, the reproducing status is lively displayed. An information reproducing apparatus includes a navigation manager which manages a playlist used to arbitrarily specify reproducing times of a plurality of objects in a singular form and/or multiplexed from, a data access manager, a ...

06/28/07 - 20070147781 - Information playback apparatus and operation key control method
Operation keys are selectively invalidated according to the type of an information medium or recorded contents. The medium type of an information medium to be played back is discriminated in addition to detection as to whether or not the information medium to be played back includes information (ADV_OBJ file, etc.) ...

06/28/07 - 20070147780 - Recorder and recording method
According to one embodiment, a recorder comprises: a first area generation unit configured to generate a first recording area used for recording first data in the storage medium; a second area generation unit configured to generate a second recording area in the storage medium, the second recording area used for ...

06/21/07 - 20070140659 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for storing, reproducing and decoding a text subtitle stream
In one embodiment, the invention relates to a recording medium for storing a data structure. The data structure has at least one text subtitle stream. Each text subtitle stream includes a style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of presentation segments. Each presentation segment has at ...

06/21/07 - 20070140657 - Information recording method and information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

06/21/07 - 20070140656 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing subtitles with a video
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronising subtitles with a video, the method comprising, upon receipt of a user input indicative of a synchronisation error between the video and the subtitles displayed on the display, modifying the relative timing of the subtitle and video displays in accordance ...

06/21/07 - 20070140655 - Medium for storing subtitle data structure of an audio/ video program and method for display the same
The present invention provides a medium for storing a subtitle data structure of an audio/video program and a method for displaying the same. The subtitle data structure of the audio/video program includes a plurality of character packages and a background image package, wherein each character package further has a header ...

06/21/07 - 20070140654 - Recording content on a record medium that contains a desired content descriptor
The invention relates to a method for recording content on a record medium (2) that contains a desired content descriptor (3), comprising the steps of reading said desired content descriptor (3) from said record medium (2), scanning the content (10, 12) of at least one multimedia source (6, 7) for ...

06/21/07 - 20070140653 - Recording medium, playback device, recording method, playback method, and computer program
A recording medium capable of executing menu calls based on the particular characteristics of different versions of the same movie work when these different versions are recorded on a single recording medium. An AV clip and a dynamic scenario are recorded on a BD-ROM 100 (recording medium). The dynamic scenario ...

06/14/07 - 20070133948 - Digital video system
The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playback management information of ...

06/14/07 - 20070133947 - Systems and methods for image search
The invention relates to systems and methods for searching using images as the search criteria. In one aspect, video is searched using images as search criteria. In another aspect, images are used to search for items for purchase, for example, in a store or in an auction context. ...

06/14/07 - 20070133946 - Dvd changer ux
A user experience for displaying and organizing content available on discs in an external media changer is provided. A media content organizer for identifying discs, retrieving supplemental information, and presenting a display of the discs and disc information is also provided. ...

06/14/07 - 20070133945 - Recording/reproducing device
The present invention provides a recording/reproducing device which shortens time required for dubbing, when a user performs the dubbing of program data. The recording/reproducing device of the present invention is a recording/reproducing device which records and reproduces information, including: a tuner control unit 4 which obtains first information; a recording/reproduction ...

06/07/07 - 20070127887 - Digital video recorder enhanced features
A method and device for performing enhanced recording, editing and management features for content in a communication system. The device may be a set top box (STB) for example, and preferably a STB equipped with digital video recording (DVR) capabilities. The method offers users an ability to select, record and ...

06/07/07 - 20070127886 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for decoding text subtitle streams
At least one text subtitle stream is recorded on a recording medium. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog presentation segment contains at least one region of dialog text and being linked to ...

06/07/07 - 20070127885 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. The text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog style segment contains at least one region of dialog text, ...

06/07/07 - 20070127884 - Reproduction device, reproduction method, program, recording medium, and data structure
The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, a program, a recording medium, and a data structure that enable interactive operations when playing back AV content. A controller 34 obtains an order list of audio stream numbers in advance. In response to an instruction to switch audio ...

05/31/07 - 20070122119 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
In one embodiment, a data structure recorded on the recording medium includes a text subtitle stream including one or more presentation segments. Each of the presentation segments specifies its own presentation start and end times. An initial value of a system time clock of the text subtitle stream is a ...

05/31/07 - 20070122118 - Method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data
A method for reproducing data recorded on an interactive recording medium in conjunction with associated auxiliary data is disclosed. An interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces A/V data recorded on an interactive recording medium such as an interactive DVD in conjunction with contents data provided by a contents providing server ...

05/31/07 - 20070122117 - Dvd video playback system and dvd disk playback method
In a DVD video playback system adapted to transmit data in the form of a PS (program stream) from a source device to each sink device, a navigation manager of the source device stores system parameters, which are necessary for each sink device to decode the PS, in an unused ...

05/31/07 - 20070122116 - Recording medium containing supplementary service information for audio/video contents, and method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information of the recording medium
The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital television signal for supplementary service information in accordance with ...

05/31/07 - 20070122115 - Multi-av stream playback method and playback apparatus
According to one embodiment, primary object data and secondary object data which include data unit groups having playback time information and which are temporally independent and are different from each other are synchronously played back. Playback time information is acquired from the played-back primary object data, and playback time information ...

05/31/07 - 20070122114 - Recording apparatus for initializing recording media
In a recording apparatus equipped with a drive apparatus for recording data on a recording medium such as an optical disk, and a function capable of initializing a management information area of the recording medium, a storage unit is further provided. The storage unit stores thereinto initializing data which is ...

05/31/07 - 20070122113 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an offset between time bases of first and second digital offset data series is calculated on the basis of a reproduction start time included in the first digital data series, a reproduction start time included in the second digital data series, and a playlist for specifying ...

05/31/07 - 20070122112 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

05/31/07 - 20070122111 - Content use device and recording medium
To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unit 102 extracts a content name from playback control information in a playback path information table 210, and inquires of a rights ...

05/24/07 - 20070116434 - Information record medium, and apparatus for and method of reproducing the same
An information record medium is provided with: substantial information including video information and audio information which are related to each other; first reproduction control information to simultaneously reproduce the video information and the audio information out of the substantial information; and second reproduction control information to reproduce only the audio ...

05/24/07 - 20070116433 - Software and system for customizing a presentation of digital images
A method for customizing a presentation of a set of digital images provided by a user is disclosed, comprising the steps of selecting an initial presentation format criteria for the set of digital images by the user; analyzing the digital images for additional information; providing to the user a first ...

05/24/07 - 20070116432 - Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, and digital still camera
A digital still camera includes a vibration detector for detecting vibrations. In accordance with certain conditions, a control unit controls finalization (session closing) which enables a CD-ROM drive to read data recorded on a recording medium. The control of session closing includes starting session closing after a predetermined period of ...

05/24/07 - 20070116431 - Information recording/playback method and recording/playback apparatus
An apparatus is provided in which a recording area is effectively utilized even when information-deleted portions and/or information-moved portions are provided on an information recording medium. The apparatus includes a space extent management section which recognizes and manages space extents, an optimization processing section which creates a coupled extent by ...

05/24/07 - 20070116430 - Viewing program control method and video recording apparatus
In the content automatic recording and playback, if the recording and the playback are conducted according to a taste, the user's taste takes precedence and is emphasized. To cope with this situation, a scenario is disposed as a condition to restrict the taste. In the recording and the playback, the ...

05/17/07 - 20070110402 - Reproduction apparatus
In a reproduction apparatus (100A), an information signal generation unit (Pa) generates a first information signal (Sav) from a recording medium (11). An information signal input unit (1, 8a) inputs a second information signal (Stv) which is provided from an external information source via a requested channel. When switching between ...

05/17/07 - 20070110401 - Searching system, searching unit, searching method, displaying method for search results, terminal unit, inputting unit, and record medium
A searching system for searching contents that were broadcast, the searching system having an inputting unit, a searching unit, and a terminal unit is disclosed, wherein the inputting unit comprises a first storing means for storing information representing at least time at which contents were broadcast corresponding to a predetermined ...

05/17/07 - 20070110400 - Apparatus for reproducing data and method thereof
In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder and a memory. The decoder is configured to decode a text subtitle reproduced from the recording medium. The memory is configured to store text subtitle capability information indicating whether the apparatus has at least one text subtitle capability. ...

05/17/07 - 20070110399 - Device and method for displaying images
A device and a method for displaying images are provided. The device includes an input unit, a frame searching unit, a thumbnail selection unit, and a video processing unit. The input unit receives a signal for moving an image playback location along a time axis by an interval from a ...

05/17/07 - 20070110398 - Graphical representation of programs stored in a personal video recording device
A graphical display (FIG. 3) for a personal recording device. The display including a bar (38) extending in a predetermined direction. Markers (50) dividing the bar into at least two program sections and a program pointer (44). ...

05/17/07 - 20070110397 - Playback apparatus and bookmark system
A playback apparatus that enables a user to acquire a desired partial content from a content. When it receives type information indicating a type of an object, the playback apparatus acquires position information indicating a playback position, which corresponds to a time at which the type information was received, in ...

05/17/07 - 20070110396 - Data processor
A player reads content data from a continuous area on a storage medium and plays back video and/or audio based on the content data. The continuous area includes a data area, in which the content data is stored, and a non-content-data area, in which the content data is not stored. ...

05/17/07 - 20070110395 - Apparatus and method of content recording/playback
A content recording/playback apparatus includes: a first medium management section for reading the encoded content from the first medium; a decoder for decoding the encoded content having been read, and outputting a decoded content; a control section for receiving and outputting at least the decoded content having been output from ...

05/10/07 - 20070104460 - Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing digital video signal on audio signal, and optical disk apparatus
A disk-like recording medium recording/reproducing method or apparatus for performing a data recording operation and a data reproducing operation to the disk-like recording medium alternately. The recording operation is performed at a constant linear velocity, and whether a recording area at an ending point of an n-th recording operation on ...

05/10/07 - 20070104459 - Video-signal recording and playback apparatus, video-signal recording and playback method, and recording medium
Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or ...

05/03/07 - 20070098367 - Recording medium and recording and reproducing method and apparatuses
In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source. Each text subtitle stream includes text data to be displayed within a region of a display screen, first information specifying a global style of the region, and second information specifying a local style ...

05/03/07 - 20070098366 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

05/03/07 - 20070098365 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

05/03/07 - 20070098364 - System for making a personalized digital recording
The invention is a system for producing a production run of recordings on digital media, in which each recording of the run is unique and each contains personal information of some type relating to an individual in a group. The personal information can be a photo of an individual imprinted ...

05/03/07 - 20070098363 - Recording medium, playback apparatus and method, recording method, and computer-readable program
A BD-ROM stores a video stream and a graphics stream. The video stream represents a moving picture. The graphics stream is used for overlaying one or more menus on the moving picture, and includes interactive control information (ICS) and a plurality of pieces of graphics data (ODSs). The graphics data ...

04/26/07 - 20070092223 - Method and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle stream files
In one embodiment, the method includes downloading at least one test subtitle stream associated with the recording medium to a storage in a reproducing apparatus. A virtual package including the downloaded test subtitle is created, and it is determined whether to reproduce the downloaded test subtitle in the virtual package ...

04/26/07 - 20070092222 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In one embodiment, the data structure includes at least one graphic information of first type graphic information and second type graphic information. The first type graphic information is for always on display and the second type graphic information is for display in response to user request. ...

04/26/07 - 20070092221 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In one embodiment, the method includes reading a play list including at least one subplayitem, the subplayitem including navigation information for a clip file including the graphic information. The graphic information is preloaded before starting reproduction of the playlist, and the graphic information is reproduced on the basis of the ...

04/26/07 - 20070092220 - System for reproducing video
A system is provided in which a plurality of video display devices can reproduce the same contents without skip. A viewing system includes a plurality of televisions and a media server connected to a network. A first television includes an image pickup unit, a face image extraction unit extracting face ...

04/26/07 - 20070092219 - Video and audio reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing the same
The designated double speed number n is corrected by a ratio of a reproducing time of a VOBU calculated from the difference between VOBU_E_PTM and VOBU_S_PTM included in management information NV_PCK (navigation back) of the VOBU and a standard reproducing time (0.5 second) (S104), and an address of VOBU_SRI included ...

04/26/07 - 20070092218 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/26/07 - 20070092217 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information recording apparatus, information playback method, and information playback apparatus
A type of a broadcasting system of a digital stream signal to be recorded is checked. When a recorded digital stream signal is present, the broadcasting system of the recorded signal is determined from APP_NAME, and the broadcasting system of the recorded signal is compared with the broadcasting system of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092216 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/26/07 - 20070092215 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/26/07 - 20070092214 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092213 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading ...

04/26/07 - 20070092212 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the ...

04/26/07 - 20070092211 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092210 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092209 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

04/26/07 - 20070092208 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092207 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/26/07 - 20070092206 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method and storage medium
An image recording apparatus in which recording preset information, constituted by a recording start time and a recording end time, is stored for each preset program to be unattended recorded. If there is any overlap between the recording start times and the recording end times of the preset programs that ...

04/26/07 - 20070092205 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

04/19/07 - 20070086749 - Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing information
When recording operation is stopped due to, for example, unexpected interruption of electric power supply in the course of the recording operation on a real time basis, a technique of repairing a moving picture and sound data recorded on a recording medium until the recording is stopped, to thereby restore ...

04/19/07 - 20070086748 - Searching system, searching unit, searching method, displaying method for search results, terminal unit, inputting unit, and record medium
A searching system for searching contents that were broadcast, the searching system having an inputting unit, a searching unit, and a terminal unit is disclosed, wherein the inputting unit comprises a first storing means for storing information representing at least time at which contents were broadcast corresponding to a predetermined ...

04/19/07 - 20070086747 - Reproducing apparatus and video data storing method
A reproducing apparatus and a video data storage method, which are capable of seamlessly reproducing video data read from an additional storage medium, by providing profile information regarding a data transmission speed of the additional storage medium included in the reproducing apparatus. The reproducing apparatus includes an additional storage medium ...

04/19/07 - 20070086746 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first ...

04/19/07 - 20070086745 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/19/07 - 20070086744 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first ...

04/19/07 - 20070086743 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/19/07 - 20070086742 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

04/19/07 - 20070086741 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

04/19/07 - 20070086740 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on ...

04/19/07 - 20070086739 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on ...

04/19/07 - 20070086738 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/19/07 - 20070086737 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/19/07 - 20070086736 - Information recording medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on ...

04/19/07 - 20070086735 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/19/07 - 20070086734 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

04/19/07 - 20070086733 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the ...

04/19/07 - 20070086732 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the ...

04/19/07 - 20070086731 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the ...

04/19/07 - 20070086730 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading ...

04/19/07 - 20070086729 - Method for reproducing data of optical disc
A method of reproducing data of an optical disc. The method corrects time information of an optical disc unsuitable for a prescribed standard using a Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) value of a predetermined area of the optical disc in which data is recorded according to other than a predetermined standard, ...

04/19/07 - 20070086728 - Digital video recording device ticker playback system and method
The present invention is a system and method of controlling the playback of the event steam information of a particular television channel by a digital video recorder (DVR). The DVR is a computer system configured with a hard drive and video decoder/encoder devices. The hardware environment of DVR (100) further ...

04/19/07 - 20070086727 - Playback apparatus for performing application-synchronized playback
A playback apparatus for playing a digital stream in conjunction with an application includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information, and a selection unit operable to detect ...

04/19/07 - 20070086726 - Method of creating playback control file for recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playlist control file
A method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file are disclosed. The method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium includes reading a virtual PlayList identifying a download list from the recording ...

04/12/07 - 20070081793 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/12/07 - 20070081792 - Information recording medium, information recording/playback method, and information recording/playback apparatus
A digital stream signal complying with MPEG-TS is handled as stream object ESOB. The ESOB is recorded in unit of stream object unit ESOBU which includes one or more pack/packet groups. Each pack/packet group has a pack/packet group header at its head position, and stores one or more TS packets ...

04/12/07 - 20070081791 - Reproducing method and apparatus to simultaneously reproduce a plurality of pieces of data
A method and an apparatus to reproduce at least one piece of data. The apparatus includes a data reproducing unit to reproduce the at least one piece of video data, an additional data reproducing unit to reproduce one of a plurality of pieces of additional data, each being related to ...

04/12/07 - 20070081790 - Method for converting data format
A method for converting the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format is provided. The method includes reading and mapping the MPEG 1 data format to the MPEG 2 data format to generate a first title file and a second title file. Sequential playback functions defined in ...

04/12/07 - 20070081789 - Time shifting for video
A method of time shifting in a video recording is provided. The method includes dividing the video recording into one or more partitions, indexing each of the one or more partitions, and combining the one or more partitions to produce a second video recording that is used in retrieval of ...

04/05/07 - 20070077032 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each ...

04/05/07 - 20070077031 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each ...

04/05/07 - 20070077030 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method
A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive display to be overlayed on the motion picture, where the ...

04/05/07 - 20070077029 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method
A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive display to be overlayed on the motion picture, where the ...

04/05/07 - 20070077028 - Receivers for television signals
A Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) receives signals defining television programmes and programme schedule data. The HDR receives updated programme schedule data substantially constantly in a dedicated programme schedule data channel and outputs this data for display on a television screen. The HDR comprises a hard disk for recording programmes. A ...

04/05/07 - 20070077027 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus
An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a ...

04/05/07 - 20070077026 - Method of replaying dmb data during dmb service and dmb terminal implementing the same
A method for replaying DMB data and a DMB terminal implementing the same are provided. Part of the DMB data of a real-time DMB service is buffered in a replay buffer. Upon request for a replay during the DMB service, broadcasting data played from a predetermined time granule to a ...

04/05/07 - 20070077025 - Apparatus, method and program for image search
One or more representative images extracted from an image group comprising a plurality of images is/are displayed. A part or all of the representative image or images, such as a main subject region or a background region including a search target, is/are selected from the representative image or images, and ...

03/29/07 - 20070071412 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In one embodiment the data structure includes at least one stream file for the graphic information, and at least one playlist file including at least one subplayitem. The subplayitem includes navigation information for reproducing the stream file. ...

03/29/07 - 20070071411 - Recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In one embodiment, the data structure includes at least one text subtitle stream including text data for a text subtitle and style information containing user selectable style information. The style information includes at least one set of display properties of the text subtitle and the user selectable style information specifies ...

03/29/07 - 20070071410 - Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium
Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input from external from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also provided. A constrained format which enables conversion from a first ...

03/29/07 - 20070071409 - Method of presenting auxiliary data for an interactive recording medium
A method of presenting auxiliary data for an interactive recording medium is disclosed. In an interactive recording medium reproducing apparatus that reproduces A/V data and contents data recorded on an interactive recording medium and contents data provided by a contents providing server, the contents data provided by the contents providing ...

03/29/07 - 20070071408 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

03/29/07 - 20070071407 - Information playback system using information storage medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at ...

03/29/07 - 20070071406 - Video recording and reproducing apparatus and video reproducing apparatus
A video recording and reproducing apparatus includes: an audio signal decoder configured to acquire an audio signal from an inputted audio-video signal; a recording section configured to record the inputted audio-video signal; a peak time point detecting section configured to detect, as a peak time point, a time point having ...

03/29/07 - 20070071405 - System for playing digest of moving image and mobile communication terminal having the same
A system for playing a digest of a moving image file is provided, including: a header parsing part that parses a header of the moving image file and acquires information concerning the playback length M and random access point of the moving image file; a section dividing part that divides ...

03/29/07 - 20070071404 - Controlled video event presentation
The present invention pertains to video playback systems, devices and methods for searching events contained within a video image sequence. A video playback system in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention includes a video playback device adapted to run a sequential searching algorithm for sequentially presenting video ...

03/22/07 - 20070065110 - Image reproduction apparatus for reproducing multiple image files
An image reproduction device reproduces image files, which may include sound information, for example, from recording media. The image reproduction device can reproduce a group of image files following various types of editing formats within the scope of the recording capacity limited by the recording media. The recording media is ...

03/22/07 - 20070065109 - Method of reproducing a still picture from a recording medium, method of decoding the still picture and the recording medium
In one embodiment, the method includes writing, in a data area of the recording medium, a stream including at least one still picture and at least one presentation information. The presentation information includes presentation timing information for the still picture. The embodiment further includes writing, in a navigation area of ...

03/22/07 - 20070065108 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
Data management information includes: recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recording data, first data recording time information indicating a recording time of data first recorded on the data group; second data recording time information indicating a recording time of data last recorded on the data group; and ...

03/22/07 - 20070065107 - Method of synchronizing broadcast content between broadcast recorder and portable content player and apparatus for the same
A method of synchronizing broadcast contents between a broadcast recorder and a portable content player and an apparatus for the same are disclosed. The broadcast content synchronizing method includes obtaining metadata about broadcast contents stored in a portable content player from the portable content player; confirming a broadcast content that ...

03/22/07 - 20070065106 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

03/22/07 - 20070065105 - Data recovery method and system for a data recording
Data recovery methods for data recording applied to a storage medium. It is determined whether multimedia data is detected on the storage medium. If the multimedia data is detected, determining whether reconstruction of management information associated with the multimedia data is required for the storage medium according to the checking ...

03/22/07 - 20070065104 - Recordable dvd structure
A structure of a recordable DVD disc is disclosed that permits a second recording event to be recorded and accessed by DVD players that do not recognize multisession media and utilize the ISO 9660 file structure by modifying the value of the Location of Extent within the Directory Record of ...

03/22/07 - 20070065103 - Recordable dvd structure
A structure of a recordable DVD disc is disclosed that permits a second session to be recorded and accessed by DVD players that do not recognize multisession media by modifying the value of the Extent Location within the Information Control Block in the VIDEO_TS directory File Identifier Descriptor located in ...

03/22/07 - 20070065102 - System and method for detecting real-time change in an image
A video processing and display system and a method of capturing and displaying video. In one embodiment, the video processing and display system comprising a processor configured to: (1) compare a frame of a digital video stream at one point in time with a frame of the digital video stream ...

03/15/07 - 20070058942 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
Total management information includes time zone information (TM_ZONE) indicating a time difference between a world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a predetermined location, wherein the data management information includes recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recoding the data, indicating a time difference ...

03/15/07 - 20070058941 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
Data management information includes recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recoding the data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data has been recorded; and data recording time information (REC_TM) indicating a recording ...

03/15/07 - 20070058940 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
Arrangements including a specifying unit for specifying a local recording time in a location where the data has been recorded, in accordance with in accordance with the data recording time information (REC_TM), the time zone information (TM_ZONE), and the recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at the data recording time, and ...

03/15/07 - 20070058939 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
A reproduction apparatus includes a specifying unit for specifying a local recording time in a location where the data first or last recorded on the data group has been recorded while the data is reproduced, and wherein the specifying means calculates, by (REC_TM)−(TM_ZONE)+(REC_TM_ZONE), a recording time at the local time ...

03/15/07 - 20070058938 - Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium
Data management information includes: recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recording data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data of the group data for managing the data management information; first data recording ...

03/15/07 - 20070058937 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method
An information storage medium of this invention comprises a first representation object, and a first time map wherein playback management information which controls simultaneous reproduction of the first representation object and a second representation object in at least a specific period includes first reference information to refer to the first ...

03/15/07 - 20070058936 - Information processing apparatus and method
An information processing method and apparatus reproduces predetermined information from a variety of information recorded by, for example, an electronic camera. The information may be reproduced in a predetermined order and with predetermined reproduction time. Reproduction information is generated based on recording information. Reproduction time may be changed by changing ...

03/15/07 - 20070058935 - Optical disc apparatus
To improve operability of figure key input in a title search, a chapter search, a track search, and a time search mode in an optical disc apparatus, for example, the quantity number of titles and the quantity number of digits thereof are detected from an optical disc. When a figure ...

03/15/07 - 20070058934 - Decoding/reproducing apparatus
A decoding/reproducing apparatus is equipped with: a time period setting apparatus 13 for previously setting a time period related to a synchronous control operation; a reproducing time instant detecting means 6 for detecting synchronous reproduction-purpose reproducing time instant information from stored stream data in the time period; a synchronous control ...

03/15/07 - 20070058933 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, program, and program storage medium
A reproducing apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring playback management information containing first information containing a main playback path indicating a location of a main stream, a read out unit for reading the main stream to be reproduced and video data that is to be reproduced in synchronization with ...

03/15/07 - 20070058932 - Method for selection and display of images
A method for efficiently allowing users to select or view images from a large quantity of images that are stored on various medias. The method groups images according to specific parameters and displays a sub set of these parameters allowing users to quickly select or determine if the image that ...

03/08/07 - 20070053663 - Information recording medium, and apparatus and method for recording information to information recording medium
Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input externally from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also provided. A constrained format which enables conversion from a first stream ...

03/08/07 - 20070053662 - Playback apparatus and playback method
According to one embodiment, a playback apparatus includes a unit which determines whether a value of a pointer included in each of video object units read out of a storage media is larger than the total number of hash values in a content hash table stored in the storage media, ...

03/08/07 - 20070053661 - Video signal recording apparatus
To perform a seamless recording on a tape recording medium, additional information included in a predetermined unit of data in recording data is detected. An editing point for the seamless recording is determined based on information indicating at least presence of an editing point where the seamless recording can be ...

03/08/07 - 20070053660 - Video processing apparatus
A video processing apparatus includes: face-area detection means for detecting a face area included in a frame forming video data; trace-generation means for generating a frame identification corresponding to a start and an end of a trace including, as a unit, a set of frames from an appearance of the ...

03/08/07 - 20070053659 - Reproducing apparatus, method for controlling reproducing apparatus, content recording medium, data structure, control program, computer-readable recording medium storing control program
A video disk player includes (i) a disk reading section for reading out video data, a program, synchronization timing information from an optical disk; (ii) a clock for generating a clock signal; (iii) a decoder for converting, in accordance with the clock signal, the video data into decompressed video data ...

03/08/07 - 20070053658 - File reproduction apparatus, file reproduction method, file reproduction method program and recording medium for recording file reproduction method program
The present invention is applied to reproduction of typically a fragment movie file having a QT format. In accordance with the present invention, management information associated with each block following a first block of the fragment movie file is modified to information compatible with management information associated with the first ...

03/08/07 - 20070053657 - Video playback device, playback method and video playback program
When an album mode is selected by a predetermined operation, thumbnail image data is acquired corresponding to saved video files which are retrieved from a thumbnail image data storage area (1495) and a list display of the thumbnail images is shown in the main display section (102) based on the ...

03/01/07 - 20070047914 - Apparatus and method of managing data
An apparatus and method of managing data stored in a data storage unit is provided. Data stored in the storage unit is classified into data to be preserved and deletable data. The data is preserved or deleted on the basis of preservation setting and a preservation period of the data ...

03/01/07 - 20070047913 - Playback system, apparatus, and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program therefor
A playback instruction data generator determines, for each type of exceptional and special playback, a portion of target content with specific details to be played back in exceptional and special playback of the target content, on the basis of a playback rule for the category of the target content, among ...

03/01/07 - 20070047912 - Playback apparatus and method, program, recording medium, data structure, and manufacturing method for recording medium
A playback apparatus includes an obtaining unit obtaining playback management information including a main playback path of a main stream set, a first sub playback path of a first sub-stream set, and a second sub playback path of a second sub-stream set. The first and second sub playback paths are ...

03/01/07 - 20070047911 - Information editing apparatus, information editing method, and information editing program
An information editing apparatus comprises a reproducing unit configured to reproduce audio-video information, a boundary detecting unit configured to analyze the audio-video information reproduced by the reproducing unit and detect a boundary point in the audio-video information, a chapter division specifying unit configured to specify chapter division according to the ...

03/01/07 - 20070047910 - Image replay apparatus and method for moving-picture streams
According to one embodiment, a moving-picture-stream replay apparatus includes a first-replay-start time acquisition section which acquires, in accordance with a replay speed N, a replay start time that indicates a time elapsing from a leading portion of the moving-picture stream data, a transmission section which transmits, to a server, a ...

03/01/07 - 20070047909 - Information processing apparatus and method of reproducing content provided by said apparatus
Content managed as a content directory is allowed to be selected from a playback apparatus on a network and the playback apparatus is allowed to play back the content. If playback of the content is suspended, the position at which playback was suspended is stored. This content is set in ...

03/01/07 - 20070047908 - Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit which records image data to a recording medium or reproduces image data from the recording medium, and a control unit which enables a first control mode for controlling the recording unit in response to a request from an external device if the apparatus ...

02/22/07 - 20070041714 - Image and audio reproducing apparatus and method
At least one of a recorded image signal data, recorded audio signal data, and recorded image signal multiplex data, and reproduction information data describing the information about reproduction of at least one of the recorded image signal data, the recorded audio signal data, and the recorded image signal multiplex data ...

02/22/07 - 20070041713 - Apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for recording the same, method thereof and recording medium
In one embodiment, the method includes reproducing a management table from a recording medium. The management table includes combination information, and the combination information indicates secondary subtitles that are combinable with at least one secondary video stream. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a ...

02/22/07 - 20070041712 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data, recording medium, and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, the method includes reproducing management information for managing reproduction of at least one secondary video stream and at least one secondary audio stream. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a primary presentation path represented by a primary video stream. The management ...

02/22/07 - 20070041711 - Apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for recording the same, method thereof and recording medium
In one embodiment, the method includes determining which one of a primary subtitle associated with a primary video stream and a secondary subtitle associated with a secondary video stream to display based on management information stored in a memory. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect ...

02/22/07 - 20070041710 - Apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof, apparatus for recording the same, method thereof and recording medium
In one embodiment, the method includes determining a secondary video stream to reproduce with a primary video stream based on management information stored in a memory. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a primary presentation path represented by a primary video stream. The management ...

02/22/07 - 20070041709 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data, and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, management data is read from a recording medium, and a secondary video stream is selectively displayed with a primary video stream based on the management data. The secondary video stream represents the picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to a primary presentation path represented by the primary video ...

02/22/07 - 20070041708 - Recording medium including user operation information on button, playback device, and playback method
A recording medium including menu stream data including menu information provided such that a button displayed on a screen can be selected. The menu stream data includes user operation (UPO) information for determining a user operation of the button. Accordingly, a button selection UOP or a selection button execution UOP ...

02/22/07 - 20070041707 - Video receiver, transmission apparatus and method of providing a representative image
There is provided a method of providing a receiver of a transmitted stream of video data for an ongoing succession of video frames with one or more images representing that stream of video data. Indicator data is created which identifies individual frames in the stream of video data for use ...

02/22/07 - 20070041706 - Systems and methods for generating multimedia highlight content
User-defined parameters and/or default parameters are used to detect the presence of potential highlights within a recorded version of a full-length broadcast program, according to one embodiment. Locations within the recorded program which satisfy any of the user or default parameters may then be added to a highlight list, which ...

02/15/07 - 20070036521 - Storage medium, recording apparatus, playback apparatus, recording method, and computer-readable storage medium
A method of recording data of one or more still pictures and still picture group management information for managing said one or more still pictures as a still picture group onto a storage medium, wherein said still picture group management information includes a first recording time at which the still ...

02/15/07 - 20070036520 - Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method for recording data into recording medium, and reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing data from recording medium
Data is recorded in a data area of a disk in a hierarchical structure of program chains, programs, cells and packs, each pack is constructed by a pack header for identifying the pack and a packet having a data stream recorded therein, the packet has a packet header having a ...

02/15/07 - 20070036519 - Digital video recorder having skip-to-interval-from-end button
A user interface for a digital video recorder (DVR) comprises a graphical button that is user-selectable to cause the DVR to skip to a particular point in a program recorded by the DVR. The particular point is at a particular time interval before an end of the program. If the ...

02/15/07 - 20070036518 - Apparatus and method for extracting representative still images from mpeg video
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for extracting representative still images from Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video. The apparatus includes a video curve generation unit for calculating the distances between the adjacent frames of all intra frames of input video and generating a video curve that ...

02/15/07 - 20070036517 - Reproducing apparatus, program and reproducing method
An Interactive Graphics Decoder 13 decodes a graphics stream, and overlays a Page including a plurality of Buttons on a moving picture. The Interactive Graphics Decoder 13 then executes a command corresponding to one of the plurality of Buttons on the Page, to thereby perform (1) a control of switching ...

02/08/07 - 20070031123 - Signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus, signal record medium and signal transmission/reception method and apparatus
A signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus, signal record medium and signal transmission/reception method and apparatus, whereby a signal recorded on a signal record medium can be identified as being an original signal or a copied signal. A CPU 11 generates, at a pe-set time interval, an identification signal having a ...

02/08/07 - 20070031122 - Information storage medium, information playback method, information decode method, and information playback apparatus
In content recorded in a playback only information storage medium, a video object for playing back a video in a method different from the conventional playback sequence and its playback order are controlled. To achieve the control, the data area stores a primary object set which is a group of ...

02/08/07 - 20070031121 - Information storage medium, information playback apparatus, information playback method, and information playback program
According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus includes an advanced content playback unit configured to play back an advanced content, and the advanced content playback unit includes a navigation manager unit configured to manage playback of video information and audio information which form the advanced content, and an AV ...

02/08/07 - 20070031120 - Record/playback apparatus
A record/playback apparatus includes a recording unit that records a televised program being received by a receiving unit to a disk-shaped recording medium such as a DVD or HD. Also, a commercial message detecting unit detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message ...

02/08/07 - 20070031119 - Playback apparatus
A playback apparatus includes a scene change position detecting unit that detects a scene change position closest in a playback direction to a playback position at the time that a scene skip request was input during playback of a program recorded on a recording medium, and a scene skipping unit ...

02/08/07 - 20070031118 - Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records a televised program being received by a receiving unit to a disk-shaped recording medium. The recording apparatus also includes a commercial message detecting unit that detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to ...

02/08/07 - 20070031117 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program
An information processing apparatus includes an image input section configured to input an edit target image, an edit target image attribute input section configured to input attribute information of the edit target image, a display control section configured to display the edit target image displayed on a display screen, a ...

02/08/07 - 20070031116 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and content reproducing system
A reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus has a recording section, a reproducing section, a time information generating section, and a controlling section. The recording section records content data. The reproducing section reproduces the content data. The time information generating section generates time information. The controlling section checks whether ...

02/08/07 - 20070031115 - Video reproducing device
The present invention provides a video reproducing device which provides a function of reproducing a still image file and a moving image file recorded onto a recording medium in plural formats so that a user can easily identify a matched statuses of the files in the video reproducing device and ...

02/08/07 - 20070031114 - Method for selectively reproducing main title in optical disc device
A method and apparatus for reproducing data, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes determining, by a recording medium device, whether or not there is a reproduction history of an inserted recording medium in the recording medium device, and directly accessing and reproducing at least one main title ...

02/08/07 - 20070031113 - Content media with format identification
A content media such as a disc is disclosed having a portion with content in one format and a second portion with information in a second format. Typically, the first format may not be compatible with some (usually early) disc players. If a user inserts the disc into an incompatible ...

02/08/07 - 20070031112 - Fast generation of a personalized dvd from a common template
The invention prepares real-time audio and video contents for generating a personalized multimedia data structure and content from a pre-authored data structure and content. The invention can produce a DVD-compatible template folder with a placeholder video file as an input of the process. The template folder is modified with insertion ...

02/01/07 - 20070025701 - Information-processing apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, information-processing method, event-log creation method and computer programs
Disclosed herein is an information-processing apparatus including an event-log acquisition section acquiring an event log provided by a content reproduction apparatus capable of reproducing a content as an event log including at least information identifying the content and information indicating a reproduction start date/time and reproduction end date/time of the ...

02/01/07 - 20070025700 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, management information for managing reproduction of at least a picture-in-picture presentation path is reproduced. The management information includes luma-keying information on a luma-keying function, and the luma-keying function manages transparency of a secondary video stream. The luma-keying information indicates whether the luma-keying function is applicable to the ...

02/01/07 - 20070025699 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data, and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, a primary video stream and a secondary video stream are stored in a data area of the recording medium. The primary video stream represents a primary presentation path, and the secondary video stream represents a picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to the primary presentation path. Management information ...

02/01/07 - 20070025698 - Information playback method using information recording medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback apparatus capable of playing back video data as a stream and playing back an application relating to the video data during playback of the video data. The apparatus includes a buffer portion configured to operate to, after completion of fetching ...

02/01/07 - 20070025697 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data, and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, a primary video stream and a secondary video stream are stored in a data area of the recording medium. The primary video stream represents a primary presentation path, and the secondary video stream represents a picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to the primary presentation path. Management information ...

02/01/07 - 20070025696 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for reproducing data, and method and apparatus for recording data
In one embodiment, a primary video stream and a secondary video stream are stored in a data area of the recording medium. The primary video stream represents a primary presentation path, and the secondary video stream represents a picture-in-picture presentation path with respect to the primary presentation path. Management information ...

02/01/07 - 20070025695 - Method and apparatus for making a recording space for video signals on a recording medium
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for securing a space for recording video, e.g., a broadcast program on a recording medium. When distribution of empty spaces scattered in a recording medium satisfies a particular condition, e.g., whether the size of a deleted program or the size of ...

02/01/07 - 20070025694 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information recording medium, and computer program
An information processing apparatus plays back content including a plurality of divided playback zones, a playlist being associated with each of the divided playback zones. The information processing apparatus includes a playlist selection information obtaining unit obtaining a plurality of pieces of playlist selection information including information concerning a playback ...

02/01/07 - 20070025693 - Video signal processor, video signal recorder, video signal reproducer, video signal processor processing method, video signal recorder processing method, video signal reproducer processing method, recording medium
A video signal processing apparatus for processing video signals is provided. The video signal processing apparatus has metadata notation format identification block 432 for identifying a metadata notation format written in a predetermined language; a conversion table selection block 434 for selecting a conversion table corresponding to the identified metadata ...

01/25/07 - 20070019930 - Image display device and method of recording broadcasting program
An image display device and a method of recording broadcasting program are provided. The image display device includes a signal processing unit receiving and processing a broadcasting signal, a storage unit storing the broadcasting signal, an outputting unit decoding and outputting the broadcasting signal, and a control unit analyzing PID ...

01/25/07 - 20070019929 - Method for selectively reproducing title
A method and apparatus for reproducing titles are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes determining if at least one title satisfies a criterion, using an average length information of a plurality of titles recorded on a recoding medium; and reproducing the at least one title if the determining ...

01/25/07 - 20070019928 - Image playback apparatus and playback method
When the recording format of an image recorded on a magnetic tape (709) is changed, a playback time period of an image signal by a REC review function is extended. Even when the recording format is changed during playback of an image signal by the REC review function, an image ...

01/25/07 - 20070019927 - Rewritable record carrier
The present application relates to a rewritable record carrier of a predetermined format storing one or more directories of user data in a predetermined data format. In particular, its invention relates to the storage of DVD-Video data on a Mount Rainier formatted optical disc, such as a DVD+RW disc. In ...

01/18/07 - 20070014538 - Image data processing system, control apparatus, image converting program and method
An image data processing system comprises: a first storing unit that previously stores an apparatus information corresponding to an image recording apparatus; a determining unit that determines whether or not the apparatus information stored in the first storing unit is in a predetermined range of values; a notifying unit that ...

01/18/07 - 20070014537 - Collecting and analyzing data from subject matter experts
Collecting content from subject matter experts. A knowledge base includes common content that can be used by SMEs to define a philosophy. A user interface present filtered portions of the common content and provides for direct entry. The content input by the SME is stored in the knowledge base. Individualized ...

01/11/07 - 20070009233 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal
In one embodiment, random access unit information is added to an audio signal including a plurality of random access units. Each random access unit includes a number of frames and at least one of the frames being a random access frame. Each random access frame is a frame encoded such ...

01/11/07 - 20070009232 - Information processing system, information processing method, computer program executed in information processing system
An information processing system includes a stream getting section for getting a data stream representing a content and a recording processing section for generating output control information and writing the data stream and the output control information on a medium. The output control information defines an appropriate output method, which ...

01/11/07 - 20070009231 - Reproducing apparatus, method, method and program
The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, and a program for the same that increase the level of convenience of a recording medium and thereby, for example, enable a user to perform playback control processing and the like more easily. An information acquisition unit 353 in ...

01/04/07 - 20070003250 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003249 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003248 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003247 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003246 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003245 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003244 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003243 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003242 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003241 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003240 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003239 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003238 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003237 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003236 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003235 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003234 - Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital image and speech
An imaging apparatus and method includes an input device to which image data is inputted, a recorder which records the inputted image data into a recording medium, an eraser which erases the recorded image data in the recording medium, a protector which protects from an erasure setting so as to ...

01/04/07 - 20070003233 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003232 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003231 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on ...

01/04/07 - 20070003230 - Image display device and recording medium reproducing apparatus and recording medium reproducing method
An image display device includes: a tuner for receiving a broadcasting signal; a control unit for setting an OSD language or a caption language by extracting language information from the received image display device, and outputting the received broadcasting signal and multimedia data inputted from an external device; a storage ...

01/04/07 - 20070003229 - Content recording apparatus, content reproducing apparatus, and method for recording parameter information
A recording apparatus records video data in an SD memory card in which a parameter information file is pre-recorded, the parameter information file containing a codec for videos that can be reproduced by a predetermined motion picture reproducing apparatus and recording parameter information on the codec. The recording apparatus includes ...

01/04/07 - 20070003228 - Video image recording/playback apparatus
To provide a video image recording/playback apparatus configured to change a SKIN design interlocking with setting and states of an apparatus, and a method of changing an image pattern display, having a signal processor which superposes a signal of image pattern peculiar to an application and user interface on a ...

01/04/07 - 20070003227 - Video display processing apparatus and method of checking recording/reproducing device provided in the video display processing apparatus
There are provided a reception section, a signal processing section, a display section, a recording/reproducing device, a checking section which subjects the recording/reproducing device to a check processing regarding factors, a management section which causes the recording/reproducing device to start recording/reproducing information or readies the recording/reproducing device to start recording/reproducing ...

01/04/07 - 20070003226 - Audio/image playback apparatus and operation control method
According to one embodiment, an audio/image playback apparatus includes a storage unit which stores audio/image data containing encoded image data and encoded audio data, a separation unit which separates the image data and the audio data contained in the audio/image data, a first data processing unit which decodes the separated ...

01/04/07 - 20070003225 - Method and apparatus for recording information and playback information
To provide an information recording/playback apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention has a function of writing and reading in/from a recording medium with a data structure configured to include a main first management information group and a subsidiary second management information group, a function of checking whether management ...

01/04/07 - 20070003224 - Screen management system for media player
A screen management system for a media player allows a viewing area of the media player to be docked in an area of the screen and undocked from a docked position. When docked, the viewing area can be moved and/or resized so that the viewing area takes up a different ...

01/04/07 - 20070003223 - User initiated access to secondary content from primary video/audio content
Embodiments of the invention allow viewers of video content to access more information about specific items in a video segment are disclosed. The video content can be movies, video advertisements, TV programs, instructional videos, home videos, surveillance videos, or other video content. The embodiments pertain to content distributed by a ...

01/04/07 - 20070003222 - Printing based on motion picture
A technology is provided by which images can be specified in a moving picture and printed easily. First, a plurality of first still images are displayed on a display unit based on a plurality of images which are to be displayed at mutually differing times in a single moving picture. ...

01/04/07 - 20070003221 - Reproducing device, reproducing method, reproducing program and recording medium
For a BD-ROM, a picture-in-picture function and a wallpaper display function are accomplished. A second video plane 50 for displaying a moving picture is added to planes 10, 11, and 12 for displaying a moving picture, a subtitle, and graphics, respectively. One of the outputs of the second video plane ...

01/04/07 - 20070003220 - Reproduction device, system integration circuit, program, reproduction method, and information recording medium
A playback apparatus that plays back a plurality of AV Clips recorded on a BD-ROM. The playback apparatus judges whether there is a playback control that becomes enabled or disabled when a current playback point of the digital stream reaches a predetermined point in a playback timeline. When there is ...

01/04/07 - 20070003219 - Recording medium, reproducing apparatus, recording method, reproducing program, and reproducing method
An AVClip, and a PLMark specifying a playback start position in the AVCLip, are recorded on a BD-ROM. A cue-up operation for choosing a playback start position in the AVClip is performed by three types of instructions, namely a user-skip operation, a chapter search operation, and a Link command. Among ...

12/28/06 - 20060291815 - Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure
A transport stream recording device, method thereof, transport stream reproduction device, method thereof, and recording medium for efficiently recording and reproducing transport streams. A source packet having a four byte TP_extra_Header attached to a 188 byte transport packet is generated, 32 source packets of 192 bytes each are collected, and ...

12/28/06 - 20060291814 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program
An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream is a sequence of PES packets. The PES packets include ODSs (Object Definition Segments) carrying graphics data and PCSs (Presentation Control Segments) carrying control information. A PCS indicates that graphics data in ...

12/28/06 - 20060291813 - Information playback system using storage information medium
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of ...

12/28/06 - 20060291812 - Apparatus and method for reproducing moving image data
According to one embodiment, a memory stores a plurality of application programs including a moving image reproducing application program. The moving image reproducing application program includes an image-quality improving routine capable of selecting an amount of data processing for an image-quality process of improving image quality of a moving image. ...

12/28/06 - 20060291811 - Moving picture distribution system
When a server device records a portion of a movie after a client device has started a streaming playback, the client device is allowed to make a special playback of that movie. The server device includes: a video recording processing section for recording a movie and generating movie data, made ...

12/28/06 - 20060291810 - Recording medium, playback apparatus and method, recording method, and computer-readable program
A BD-ROM stores a video stream and a graphics stream. The video stream represents a moving picture. The graphics stream is used for overlaying a multi-page menu on the moving picture, and includes interactive control information (ICS) and graphics data (ODS) used for generating the multi page menu. A PTS ...

12/28/06 - 20060291809 - Hdd control apparatus
A hard disk drive (HDD) included in an HDD navigation system is shared with the second system without the necessity of modifying the navigation system. An HDD control unit 1 is connected to each of a navigation system 2, an HDD 3, and the second system 4. Data read from ...

12/28/06 - 20060291808 - Recording medium, method and apparatus of controlling data reproduce from recording medium
A recording medium, method and apparatus of controlling data reproduce from recording medium are disclosed. In an optical recording and reproducing apparatus controlling display of an external input signal and an internal optical disc reproducing signal, when a plurality of active programs corresponding to each signal attribute is provided, and ...

12/28/06 - 20060291807 - Video information recording medium which can be accessed at random, recording method, reproduction device, and reproducing method
Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or ...

12/28/06 - 20060291806 - Reproduction device, recording medium, program, and reproduction method
When reading an AV Clip which is formed by multiplexing a plurality of elementary streams from a BD-ROM and playing back the AV Clip, an STN_table that lists an entry of each elementary stream is acquired from PlayList information on the BD-ROM. For each elementary stream shown in the STN_table, ...

12/28/06 - 20060291805 - Recording/reproduction device and recording/reproduction method
According to the embodiment, there is provided a recording apparatus which time-divides a stream of continuous video or audio signals into a first stream and a second stream, records the first stream on a first recording medium as a first file, and records the second stream on a second recording ...

12/28/06 - 20060291804 - Recording device, program and integrated circuit
When receiving a record presetting from the record presetting unit 8, the detection unit 10 compares the received record presetting with a record presetting that has been received earlier, to detect, if time periods indicated by the record presettings overlap, an overlapping time portion and one or more non-overlapping time ...

12/21/06 - 20060285830 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/21/06 - 20060285829 - Information recording method,information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/21/06 - 20060285828 - Video recording apparatus and video recording method
To provide a video recorder and video recording method according to an embodiment is setting a management information recording area for writing management information of optional number of files defined based on a data size of a recording image, in a recording medium configured to hold file data, and securing ...

12/21/06 - 20060285827 - Method for playing back digital multimedia broadcasting and digital multimedia broadcasting receiver therefor
Provided are a method for playing back stored Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) and a DMB receiver using the method. In the method, at least one playback start point is set during storage of DMB, and when a playback start point is selected from the set playback start points during playback ...

12/21/06 - 20060285826 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and video and audio signal editing method therefor
A plurality of standard television broadcast programs recorded on a recording medium are selected. Video and audio signals of one of the selected plurality of standard television broadcast programs are reproduced. Markers are attached to a standard video-and-audio part of the reproduced video and audio signals of the one of ...

12/21/06 - 20060285825 - Recording device and method, reproduction device and method, and recording medium
A disc (1) has formed therein a header area (21) in which management information is recorded, and a data area (22) in which content information is recorded. Content information is recorded in units of an access block each including a succession of frames into the data area (22). The leading ...

12/14/06 - 20060280478 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280477 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280476 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280475 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280474 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280473 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280472 - Information recoding method, information recording medium and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280471 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280470 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280469 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280468 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280467 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280466 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280465 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280464 - Information recording apparatus, information recording method and information recording medium in which recording controlling program is recorded
In the case of recording information in a DVD-R 1R as complying with a DVD video standard, which is configured with including at least of a VTS including a VOBS to be reproduced and VTSI and VMGI for controlling the reproduction of one or plural VTSs, the VTS is recorded ...

12/14/06 - 20060280463 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280462 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280461 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280460 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280459 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280458 - Information reproducing method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280457 - Information recording method, informatin recording medium, and informatin reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording poriong and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280456 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280455 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

12/14/06 - 20060280454 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

12/14/06 - 20060280453 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

12/14/06 - 20060280452 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280451 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

12/14/06 - 20060280450 - Image data recording apparatus
An apparatus for generating reproduction list data which designates reproduction of modified image data generated using first image data recorded in a recording medium, in response to an instruction for stopping the recording of the first image data with respect to the recording medium, and for recording the reproduction list ...

12/14/06 - 20060280449 - Video display device and video display system
A central processing unit of a video display device displaying a thumbnail image formed based on a content executes a program including the steps of: deleting all thumbnail images corresponding to copy-never contents if a prescribed time period passed from the time when a thumbnail image transmitted from a video ...

12/14/06 - 20060280448 - Image capturing apparatus, display apparatus, image capturing method, displaying method and program therefor
It is possible to appropriately select an image important for a user than ever before among various images taken by an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing apparatus that records a plurality of captured images and an album information file for designating a display order making a display apparatus display ...

12/14/06 - 20060280447 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling same
A device connected via a network is queried with regard to its status, a thumbnail image of content data possessed by the device is displayed and an image indicative of the device is displayed in association with the thumbnail image. Based upon a response to the inquiry, it is determined ...

12/14/06 - 20060280446 - Receiving apparatus and its control method, computer program, and storage medium
This invention has as its object to allow playback for confirmation of received contents even when the transfer rate of moving image data for normal playback is high and when the processing capability and displaying capability of an external apparatus on the receiving side are low. To this end, when ...

12/14/06 - 20060280445 - Image reproducing apparatus
In a control unit, in a case where a person authentication unit cannot detect a face image from an image picked up by a camera unit in a predetermined time or more, reproducing situation data including person specifying information stored in an internal memory at the time thereof, a recording-medium ...

12/14/06 - 20060280444 - Recording and reproduction apparatus and recording and reproduction method
In the case where plural applications are executed at the same time, if each application instructs for different trick play to the same content, a difference is caused between an ideal reproduction state expected by each application and an actual reproduction state. The present invention makes it possible to keep ...

12/14/06 - 20060280443 - Broadcast recording and reproduction apparatus and method thereof
A setup (a service manager 1704f or the like) for notifying a user that an application program is not executed due to a trick play in the case where the application is not executed for some reasons, during the trick play, in a synchronization interval during which the application is ...

12/07/06 - 20060275021 - Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method for recording data into recording medium, and reproducing apparatus, and reproducing method for reproducing data from recording medium
Data is recorded in a data area of a disk in a hierarchical structure of program chains, programs, cells and packs, each pack is constructed by a pack header for identifying the pack and a packet having a data stream recorded therein, the packet has a packet header having a ...

11/30/06 - 20060269250 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269249 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269248 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269247 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269246 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269245 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/30/06 - 20060269244 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
with this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269243 - Information recording method, information recording method, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269242 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269241 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269240 - Information recording method information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269239 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269238 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio-file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information ...

11/30/06 - 20060269237 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269236 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269235 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269234 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269233 - Information recording method,information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269232 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/30/06 - 20060269231 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management-file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information ...

11/30/06 - 20060269230 - Method for randomly reproducing audio files
A random play method including selecting an arbitrary file to be played from a playlist, playing the arbitrary file, and selecting a next arbitrary file to be played from the playlist while skipping the played arbitrary file until all files in the playlist have been played. ...

11/30/06 - 20060269229 - Reproducing apparatus, data processing method, and reproduction system
A content data recording and reproducing apparatus including a content data output device, enabling the content to be reproduced to be determined while displaying a content list on an external output device, communicates with the output device, and controls the output device to output data. The apparatus has a data ...

11/30/06 - 20060269228 - Information playing apparatus, information playing method, and information recording medium
According to one embodiment, in the case where information for displaying a menu screen for playing a title is included in management information contained in an information recording medium mounted on a mount unit, information corresponding to a preset title is directly played from an information recording medium without playing ...

11/30/06 - 20060269227 - Subpicture display device utilizing micro-processor created subpicture address table and related method
A method and system for decoding subpicture data. An exemplary method comprises (a) receiving a subpicture data stream; (b) pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain address information containing the starting and ending address of each line of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and ...

11/30/06 - 20060269226 - Image receiving apparatus and image reproducing apparatus
The present invention relates to a video receiving apparatus receiving, from a communication channel, video data of three-dimensional video taken using binocular parallax and added information for the video data, or to a video reproducing apparatus reading such from a recording medium. The video receiving apparatus or video reproducing apparatus ...

11/30/06 - 20060269225 - Information recording device, information output device, information recording program, information output program, recording medium, and information recording medium
When a partial TS as a part of TS is recorded in a hard disc HD, a microcomputer section 14 structures the partial TS essentially including only a partial TS descriptor and a network identification descriptor as SIT in descriptors to be included as SIT for the partial TS, the ...

11/23/06 - 20060263059 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263058 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263057 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263056 - Digital video processing and storage system for video, audio and ancillary data
A video processing system adaptively generates and processes volume/file structure and navigation data of different data format and converts data between different formats for decoding, recording and other applications. The system processes the volume/file structure and navigation data in distinct modes including (a) pre-processing, (b) contemporaneous and (c) post-processing modes. ...

11/23/06 - 20060263055 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263054 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263053 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263052 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263051 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263050 - Information recording method, information reproducing medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263049 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/23/06 - 20060263048 - Content display-playback system, content display-playback method, recording medium having content display-playback program recorded thereon, and operation control apparatus
In a content display-playback system, an operation control apparatus controls operations of a content providing apparatus and display-playback apparatus connected to a network so that content can be transmitted and received among the content providing apparatus, the display-playback apparatus, and the operation control apparatus and that the content can be ...

11/23/06 - 20060263047 - Recording apparatus and recording method
A recording apparatus includes a screen information generation unit and a recording control unit. When again generating screen information of a recording medium recorded with plural image data, the screen information on which a screen for selecting the plural image data is based, and a recording state of the image ...

11/16/06 - 20060257120 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257119 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257118 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257117 - Method of choosing the first candidate to be loaded from a series of job requests for a mix mode multimedia player
A method for choosing the first candidate to be loaded from a series of job requests for a mix mode multimedia player is disclosed. A job table having a plurality of rows is provided. Each row for a job has a job message with a “Priority” status, a “Usage status” ...

11/16/06 - 20060257116 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information reconrding portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257115 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257114 - Optical disc recording apparatus, computer-readable recording medium recording a file management program, and optical disc
An optical disc recording apparatus for recording a video object onto an optical disc. A recording area of the optical disc is divided into a plurality of zones which each include a plurality of adjacent tracks. The optical disc recording apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading from the optical ...

11/16/06 - 20060257113 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257112 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257111 - Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257110 - Information recording method and information reproducing method
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an ...

11/16/06 - 20060257109 - Multi-video display system
A multi-video display system includes a multi-video display unit, a caption mode designating unit, a caption adding unit, a sound mode designating unit, and a sound adding unit. The multi-video display is capable of displaying videos, which are respectively viewable from mutually different positions. The caption mode designating unit designates ...

11/16/06 - 20060257108 - Multimedia reproduction apparatus
A mutlimedia reproduction apparatus comprises an input processor and a storing section. The input processor receives encoded data, successively separates video data and audio data from the encoded data, extracts time information related to the separated data, thins the extracted time information, and stores the thinned time information into the ...

11/16/06 - 20060257107 - Recording medium and audiovisual data reproduction method
The present invention provides driver software for controlling external devices. There is provided a recording medium to be removably loaded in and used by a reproduction apparatus for reproducing audiovisual data including those of sounds and/or images, which stores audiovisual data to be reproduced by the reproduction apparatus, an application ...

11/16/06 - 20060257106 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
Systems and methods for selecting information associated with a removable storage medium are disclosed. A multimedia presentation, such as a movie, is stored on the removable storage medium. A provider key is used to identify a particular content provider, such as a film studio, with the removable storage medium. Other ...

11/16/06 - 20060257105 - Data recording apparatus
A data recording apparatus automatically displays a GUI for suggesting the finalization process when the apparatus ejects a disk which has not been finalized. Since the user can eject the disk after he determines if he will make the apparatus perform the finalization process, the user, who does not fully ...

11/16/06 - 20060257104 - Information reproducing method and information reproducing apparatus
According to one embodiment, the contents of a DVD video disc can be reproduced by use of reproduction control information realized by a Markup language. It is possible to hold a resource whose life period has elapsed in a cache memory and use the resource again. Therefore, a data access ...

11/16/06 - 20060257103 - Digital video recording apparatus and method thereof
A digital video recording apparatus is provided with the ability to permit a user to record images while watching those images without any time delay. The digital video recording apparatus includes an ADC for analog-to-digital converting and outputting either demodulated analog broadcast signals of a selected channel or analog AV ...

11/09/06 - 20060251404 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251403 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251402 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251401 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251400 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251399 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251398 - Medium for storing audio/image information and management system thereof
In a memory card having editable audio information and image information recorded therein, a music unit for audio reproduction and a cell as the reproduction unit of less than the music unit are defined. In the memory card, cell information CI having a reproduction relationship between a music number and ...

11/09/06 - 20060251397 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251396 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251395 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251394 - Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060251393 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information
According to one embodiment, a method of recording a digital stream on a recording medium, includes checking an existence of entry point information in a received digital transport stream, the entry point information associated with entry points in the digital transport stream, the digital transport stream comprising a plurality of ...

11/09/06 - 20060251392 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information
According to an embodiment, a method of recording a digital stream on a recording medium, includes determining one of at least two recording modes to record a transmitted digital stream, wherein a first recording mode is to record data based on entry point information present in the digital stream and ...

11/09/06 - 20060251391 - Optical disc, recording apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium
An optical disc including: a data area storing one or more video objects; and a time map area storing time map information. Each video object includes a plurality of video object units. The time map information includes a first time table and a second time table for each video object. ...

11/09/06 - 20060251390 - Digital broadcast recorder and method for recording title using the same
A title record method to be used with a digital broadcast recorder including recording a received digital broadcast signal, and, substantially simultaneously, reading broadcast information contained in the digital broadcast signal, determining the presence or absence of a program title in the broadcast information, continuously reading the broadcast information of ...

11/02/06 - 20060245727 - Subtitle generating apparatus and method
For generation of a subtitle in a digital movie screening system, it is essential to reduce the burden of processing the subtitle when screening a movie. There is provided a subtitle generating apparatus destined for use in a digital movie screening system, the subtitle generating apparatus, which includes a storage ...

11/02/06 - 20060245726 - Video reproduction apparatus
Disclosed is a video reproduction apparatus which sequentially reads out video information from information storage unit for reproduction and which is capable of determining from which position in which file reproduction is resumed at the time when a system is recovered from unexpected power interruption. The present invention provides a ...

11/02/06 - 20060245725 - Apparatus and method for providing content list of portable device
Apparatus for providing a content list of a portable device includes: a port sensing unit sensing a connected port by detecting a connection state between a portable device and an external device; a controller providing a list of content reproducible in the external device to the portable device based on ...

11/02/06 - 20060245724 - Apparatus and method of detecting advertisement from moving-picture and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program to perform the method
A method of detecting an advertisement in a moving-picture, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including detecting a component of a visual event from a visual component of the moving-picture, combining or dividing shots based on the component of the visual event, and determining a result obtained ...

11/02/06 - 20060245723 - Recording medium, reproduction device, recording method, program, and reproduction method
An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream is a sequence of PES packets. The PES packets include ODSs (Object Definition Segments) carrying graphics data and PCSs (Presentation Control Segments) carrying control information. A PCS indicates that graphics data in ...

10/26/06 - 20060239650 - Apparatus, method and database for control of audio/video equipment
Control of audio/video equipment is provided by an apparatus constructed like a computer, with audio and video subsystems. The audio subsystem includes a programmable analog mixer and several analog and digital multiplexers to route and mix multiple inputs to multiple outputs. Databases are stored in computer mass storage to record ...

10/26/06 - 20060239649 - Recording/reproducing apparatus
When a program (title) is divided into a plurality of chapters, an actual program is reproduced in a moving picture reproduction region. When a chapter boundary is determined, and an Enter key of a remote controller is operated by pointing a cursor to “divide” in a button region, a thumb ...

10/26/06 - 20060239648 - System and method for marking and tagging wireless audio and video recordings
A system and method for audio/visual (A/V) recording in which A/V data is continuously recorded and selected segments of A/V data are marked, tagged, categorized, and archived. Archived segments of A/V data may be shared among users using a social networking scheme over a communications network, such as the Internet. ...

10/26/06 - 20060239647 - Data storage medium and apparatus and method for reproducing the data from the same
A data storage medium having stored thereon includes an audio sequence including at least one audio stream; at least one video stream; and reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the at least one audio stream and the at least one video stream. The reproduction control information includes reproduction order ...

10/26/06 - 20060239646 - Device and method of storing an searching broadcast contents
A device and a method of storing and searching broadcast contents are provided. A video storing and searching system extracts a representation image and feature information of the representation image from video contents to be stored and stores the extracted representation image and the feature information together with the video ...

10/26/06 - 20060239645 - Event packaged video sequence
Methods and systems for packaging video sequences based on user-specified events are described herein. An illustrative method of event-packaging a video sequence may include the steps of acquiring a video stream containing an event of interest, extracting various event information from the video stream and storing one or more event ...

10/26/06 - 20060239644 - Video abstracting
A method of creating a collection of relevant video segments (201,203) by selecting respective portions (222-234, 242-254) from a video stream (200) which corresponds to a program is disclosed. The collection of relevant video segments (201,203) can be applied as video trailer or as video abstract. Hence the duration of ...

10/26/06 - 20060239643 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for recording or reproduction control, and data structure containing c
An information recording medium (100) includes: content information; and button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the content information, for each reproduction capability which is necessary to reproduce the content information. ...

10/19/06 - 20060233531 - Content reproduction apparatus and subtitle reproduction method
A content reproduction apparatus includes a content reproduction unit which reproduces a content data item from a recording medium, the recording medium storing the content data item and a plurality of segment data items which are described in a structured document description language, the segment data items corresponding, respectively, to ...

10/19/06 - 20060233530 - Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same
A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen at a designated time. ...

10/19/06 - 20060233529 - Contents recording system and contents recording method
A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with low resolution proxy AV data ...

10/19/06 - 20060233528 - Program, information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium
With an information processing method for generating information utilizable for decoding a bit stream, a forward prediction encoded frame of the bit stream is decoded, the decoded forward prediction encoded frame is subjected to intra-frame encoding, the bit stream is analyzed, and attribute information is generated that is utilizable for ...

10/19/06 - 20060233527 - Information management system, information management apparatus and information management method
An information management system has an information management apparatus that receives a data stream with a general-purpose format, which is constituted of data and additional information, from a data-supplying system and separates the additional information from the data stream to hold and manage the data obtained by separating the additional ...

10/19/06 - 20060233526 - Contents recording system and contents recording method
A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with low resolution proxy AV data ...

10/19/06 - 20060233525 - Encoding apparatus and method, and decoding apparatus and method
An encoding method includes controlling recording of frame-position information representing the position of a frame in a video stream, and controlling recording of unit-region-position information representing the position of a unit region serving as a processing unit used when the video stream is decoded. ...

10/19/06 - 20060233524 - Information management apparatus and information management method
According to one embodiment, in a system in which a server which delivers contents and receiving terminals of respective users are connected via a network, the server is configured to manage contents obtained from various media, individually for the receiving terminals of respective users. Consequently, it is possible to respond ...

10/19/06 - 20060233523 - Information recording medium, and information recording apparatus and method
There is provided an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) for recording information. At least one of the recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) has a management information area where recording speed management information defining the maximum possible recording speed when recording information ...

10/19/06 - 20060233522 - Video processing apparatus
A video processing technique which enables users to effectively watch highlight scenes while listening to audio part thereof in a short period of time is disclosed. Upon input of video data, highlight scene data describing therein a highlight scene(s) in the video data is input or generated. Then, based this ...

10/19/06 - 20060233521 - Content playback method and content player
A content playback method in a content player which searches for content data by a hierarchical structure defined based on a plurality of attributes, comprising a display step of displaying a plurality of classification items for classifying the content data on a screen, a classification item specification step of specifying ...

10/19/06 - 20060233520 - Method for transmitting and receiving graphic data between an image display apparatus and an external apparatus, and information frame structure including information on the graphic data
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving graphic data between an external apparatus and an image display apparatus and an information frame structure including information on the graphic data. The image display apparatus receives a predetermined graphic data such an OSD data, which is displayed by overlapping on a ...

10/19/06 - 20060233519 - Content playback system, content playback apparatus, and content playback method
A content playback system includes a content server providing content, a plurality of content playback apparatuses playing back the content, and a portable terminal capable of communicating with each of the plurality of content playback apparatuses at least in accordance with a short-distance communication method. The content playback apparatuses each ...

10/19/06 - 20060233518 - Method of scaling subpicture data and related apparatus
A method for scaling subpicture data comprises receiving a video data stream and a subpicture data stream; pre-parsing the subpicture data stream to obtain line information of subpicture data, the subpicture data containing both top field pixel data and bottom field pixel data; calculating the number of lines contained in ...

10/19/06 - 20060233517 - Reproduction device and program
The playback apparatus that plays contents recorded on the package medium 2 according to sequence information. Pieces of the sequence information are detected from a recordable medium such as a HD 3 and a memory card. A dynamic menu is generated so as to display the detected pieces of the ...

10/05/06 - 20060222340 - Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc
A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding ...

10/05/06 - 20060222339 - Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information
An optical disc and a method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information on the disc, are provided. The method includes receiving a digital data stream including a plurality of packets; and recording the digital data stream while grouping the data packets into a packet group, one ...

10/05/06 - 20060222338 - Recording/playback control device, contents management method and recording/playback apparatus
A decision section decides whether or not contents recorded on a HDD satisfy a predetermined condition based on contents management information indicating an attribute of the contents and an operation exerted on the contents. If contents satisfying the condition have not been compressed by a contents compress processing section, the ...

10/05/06 - 20060222337 - Digest reproducing apparatus and digest reproducing apparatus control method
A digest reproducing apparatus which creates and shows a digest which gives an overview of a whole motion video content regardless of the number of scenes included in an original content. To achieve the above technique, for example, we need to record data on plural still images obtained by encoding ...

10/05/06 - 20060222336 - Method and apparatus for displaying multiple subtitles using sub-picture processing
The mechanism of a sub-picture processing method for displaying multiple subtitles in a video/audio playing apparatus is provided. The purpose for displaying multiple subtitles in different languages simultaneously can be achieved under a user's control. Due to the unique control procedures and the concept of time division multiplexing, the present ...

10/05/06 - 20060222335 - Dvd recording of tuned source with ad inwertion
DVD recording of tuned source with ad insertion. Additional material, such as commercials, previews, and computer files can be inserted into a presentation that has been saved on a storage device. The presentation originates from a recording of a tuned signal. The additional information can replace the original ads of ...

10/05/06 - 20060222334 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program
An AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) each of which is used for graphics display and includes a control segment and graphics data. When an active period of the ...

10/05/06 - 20060222333 - Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program
An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) which are each used for graphics display. The DS includes graphics data and a control segment that includes time stamps (DTS and PTS) for designating ...

10/05/06 - 20060222332 - Device and method for recording information
A device for recording records digitally encoded video information on a record carrier according to a predefined recording format, such as BD. The device has an input unit (91) for receiving a data stream comprising the video information and application data objects contained in messages, such as DVB-MHP. The device ...

09/28/06 - 20060216000 - Method of reproducing from storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command
A method of reproducing from a storage medium video data and graphics data for displaying a menu screen. The method includes: decoding graphics data; and outputting, on the basis of the decoded graphics data, the decoded graphics data when an activation command is generated by a user or displaying the ...

09/28/06 - 20060215999 - Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same
A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen at a designated time. ...

09/28/06 - 20060215998 - Content playback unit and electronic device
A content playback unit includes a content management mechanism that plays back a plurality of contents in a predetermined order to display their images on an image display device. The content management mechanism manages the contents by adding numerical information indicative of scheduled playback time to the contents. ...

09/28/06 - 20060215997 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
In an embodiment, a PATS counter synchronized with an SCR superposed on an MPEG-TS is used. When recording the MPEG-TS, a pair of the value of time stamp information (PTS/DTS) of a previously detected picture and the value of the PATS counter are stored (ST500-ST510). When detecting the next time ...

09/28/06 - 20060215996 - System, method, and apparatus for embedding personal video recording functions at picture level
Described herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions at the picture level. In one embodiment, there is presented a computer readable medium for storing a data structure. The data structure comprises a picture header and at least one command following the picture header. ...

09/28/06 - 20060215995 - Information recording device information recording method information reproduction device information reproduction method information recording program information reproduction program information recording medium and recording medium
This invention provides a information-recording medium that makes it possible to execute smooth processing without having to continuously calculate when the applicable changing point of the encoding key. AV stream information 3 in which encoding information is recorded that is obtained by encoding an MPEG2-standard transport stream comprising an application ...

09/28/06 - 20060215994 - Data reproduction device, video display apparatus and software update system and software update method which use them
An MPEG decoder IC in a DVD reproduction apparatus decodes update software read from a CD-ROM, and a transmission signal conversion IC transmits the decoded update software to a television receiver via data lines, utilizing InfoFrames in supplemental data. A microprocessor in the DVD reproduction apparatus indicates a software update ...

09/21/06 - 20060210253 - Recording medium containing thumbnail recorded thereon, recording apparatus and method therefor, and reproducing apparatus and method therefor
A recording medium includes a program containing video data and/or audio data and navigation information which defines a thumbnail, wherein the thumbnail relates to the program and is reproduceable as moving pictures. The recording medium may include a plurality of programs and the thumbnail may identify or represent one or ...

09/21/06 - 20060210252 - Information storage medium having multi-angle data
An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information ...

09/21/06 - 20060210251 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure contain
An information recording medium (100) on which there are recorded: a series of content information which includes an image portion which can be a background image; button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the content information and which is displayed during the reproduction ...

09/21/06 - 20060210250 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure contain
An information recording medium (100) on which there are recorded: a series of content information which includes an image portion which can be a background image; button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the content information and which is displayed during the reproduction ...

09/21/06 - 20060210249 - Recording/reproduction apparatus, and recording/reproduction method as well as stereoscopic image visual effects confirmation apparatus and stereoscopic image visual effects confirmation method
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for recording/reproduction of images with which the visual effects of a plurality of images can be visually confirmed with ease. The apparatus includes a recording/reproduction section that records a plurality of input sets of video data and reads them from ...

09/21/06 - 20060210248 - Information recording apparatus and information
According to one embodiment, an information recording method acquires a recording target video/audio content, divides the acquired recording target video/audio content into a plurality of data units, compares the obtained plurality of data units with a plurality of data units included in a video/audio content stored in a storage unit ...

09/21/06 - 20060210247 - Digital versatile disc recording apparatus and cell-by-cell edition method using the same
A digital versatile disc (DVD) recording apparatus and a cell-by-cell edition method using the same are provided. The DVD recording apparatus records images on a DVD in video format when the DVD is loaded on a DVD drive. The cell-by-cell edition method comprises recording the image on the DVD and ...

09/21/06 - 20060210246 - Data processing apparatus
A data processor includes: a first receiving section for receiving a first signal to acquire a first data file including a first data and a first piece of related information showing contents thereof; a second receiving section for receiving a second signal; a data generating section for generating a second ...

09/21/06 - 20060210245 - Apparatus and method for simultaneously utilizing audio visual data
An Audio Visual reproduction system for reproducing data from a composite media stream with various stream types including video, audio, and subtitle stream. The audio stream may include a plurality of interchangeable audio substreams and the subtitle stream may include a plurality of interchangeable subtitle substreams. Selected substreams may be ...

09/14/06 - 20060204227 - Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams
A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading ...

09/14/06 - 20060204226 - Data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams, and apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams
A data storage medium in which multiple bitstreams are recorded, an apparatus and method for recording the multiple bitstreams, and an apparatus and method for reproducing the multiple bitstreams are provided. The reproducing apparatus includes: a reading unit for reading main data including audio data and/or video data, and reading ...

09/14/06 - 20060204225 - Recording medium for storing real time recording/reproduction information, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing in real time, and file operating method using the same
A recording medium for storing real time recording/reproduction information, a real time recording and reproducing method and apparatus, and a file operating method using the information. Real time recording/reproduction information for ensuring real time recording/reproduction is stored in a file control information area, in each real time file, or in ...

09/14/06 - 20060204224 - Recording medium containing thumbnail recorded thereon, recording apparatus and method therefor, and reproducing apparatus and method therefor
A recording medium includes a program containing video data and/or audio data and navigation information which defines a thumbnail, wherein the thumbnail relates to the program and is reproducible as moving pictures. The recording medium may include a plurality of programs and the thumbnail may identify or represent one or ...

09/14/06 - 20060204223 - Information storage medium having multi-angle data structure and method therefor
An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information ...

09/14/06 - 20060204222 - Information storage medium having multi-angle data structure and method therefor
An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information ...

09/14/06 - 20060204221 - Information processing apparatus and information processing program
A video reproduction application program monitors whether or not blend processing for superimposing one of two images on the other is executed, and executes all decode processings (normal decode processings), when the blend processing is not executed. On the other hand, when the blend processing is executed, a specific processing ...

09/14/06 - 20060204220 - Image recording and playing apparatus for automatically generating playlist using bookmark to-video recording format and playlist generating method thereof
An image recording and playing apparatus automatically generating a playlist using a bookmark to—video recording format and playlist generating method thereof in which if a bookmark is designated, a playlist is automatically generated to thereby provide an editing mode. The image recording and playing apparatus includes a recording medium having ...

09/14/06 - 20060204219 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus and information playback apparatus
When one or more stream object units that form a stream object are not the ones which include normal information of a digital stream signal (in case of rain-attenuated, noisy signal information or the like), in an embodiment, management information (ESOBU_ENT in HR_SFIx.IFO) is configured to store information (1st_Ref_PIC_SZ set ...

09/07/06 - 20060198610 - Audio playback device
An audio playback device is provided which can play back recorded audio data in an operational mode that is more convenient for the user. With a DVD-Audio disk 1 mounted, a navigation manager examines whether or not the DVD-Audio disk 1 includes an ASVSI file, that is, whether or not ...

09/07/06 - 20060198609 - Audio/video format reproduction apparatus providing superior usability, and audio/video format reproduction method and program therefor
For the reproduction of data recorded on an information recording medium using an audio/video format that includes a plurality of audio streams, arranged so they may be performed during the same period of time, and an audio menu by which user selection of these audio streams is enabled, the state ...

09/07/06 - 20060198608 - Method and apparatus for coaching athletic teams
In a computer program, a video input file and data input is segmented into individual play records so that each individual play can be displayed and manipulated by a user interface. If the video input file is digital, time stamps within the input file are used to segment the input ...

09/07/06 - 20060198607 - Method of reserving space on a storage medium for recording audio and video content and recording device thereof
A method of recording audio and video content on a storage medium includes performing recording operations to record audio and video content on the storage medium; classifying the recording operations into a plurality of priority levels; and reserving space on the storage medium for recording operations being classified at a ...

08/31/06 - 20060193606 - Two navigation
Some embodiments provide a computer readable portable storage media that includes audio/video content, a code segment to determine whether a network connection is active, a code segment to initiate a determination of whether a network connection can be established, a code segment to establish a connection in response to determining ...

08/24/06 - 20060188233 - Digital signal recording/reproducing apparatus, receiving apparatus and transmitting method
The digital signal recording/reproducing apparatus inputs a digital signal having a control flag as to a temporary copy permission, and records the digital signal temporarily into a recording medium in accordance with conditions in the control flag, then reproducing the digital signal temporarily from the recording medium in accordance with ...

08/24/06 - 20060188232 - Information recording medium, information recording device, and information reproducing method
According to one embodiment, an information recording medium includes a video object area for recording a video object formed of video object units which is a minimum unit for reproduction, and a highlight information pack which is included in the video object unit. ...

08/24/06 - 20060188231 - Information recording medium, apparatus and method for recording or reproducing data thereof
An information recording medium suitable for optical discs such as DVD-RAM is provided for integrated management of data as objects in different kinds of AV formats. Also, an apparatus is provided for data recording and playing to the medium. The medium stores management information including program chain information (PGC information) ...

08/24/06 - 20060188230 - Method, system and portable device for real-time provision of gallery guide and exhibit information
A method and apparatus are provided for real-time provision of guide information and exhibit information. The method includes storing guide information and work information, transmitting the stored tour and work information to a portable information providing device, sensing, by the portable information providing device, identification information of an exhibition room ...

08/24/06 - 20060188229 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information playback method
According to one embodiment, to implement video objects to be played back by a method different from an existing playback sequence, playlist information which is played back first is recorded when the medium stores an advanced content. The playlist information may be configured to include object mapping information which is ...

08/24/06 - 20060188228 - Cm searching method and apparatus, and cm-appendant information supplying method and apparatus
Inquiry about information on a CM can be made based on a feature of that CM, and a server can be inquired about a CM which meets a condition such as keyword, thereby permitting the user to view his desired CM. Detecting a commercial message from a television broadcast, calculating ...

08/24/06 - 20060188227 - Encoded digital audio reproducing apparatus
There is provided with an encoded digital audio reproducing apparatus including: a reading control portion which reads an encoded audio file having a data part including audio data as a sequence of frames and a size part including size information on each of the frames; a table generating portion which ...

08/24/06 - 20060188226 - Method and apparatus for setting marks on content recorded on a recording medium and conducting operations in accordance with the marks
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting marks on the content recorded on a data recording medium and carrying out operations in accordance with the marks. The apparatus according to the present invention includes a playback unit and an advanced content processor. The playback unit reads ...

08/24/06 - 20060188225 - Information storage medium, method and apparatus for reproducing information from the information storage medium and a recording apparatus and recording method for recording video data on the information storage medium
In an optical disk, a number of video object units arranged consecutively are recorded. The video object unit contains a navigation pack and video packs following the navigation pack, the navigation pack having address information and a picture category relating to a reference picture, the picture category being determined in ...

08/24/06 - 20060188224 - Method and apparatus for recording information on a recording disc
A program stream is generated from input video data. A recording area is secured in a first track on a recording disc. Video object sets are generated from the program stream. The video object sets are recorded on a second track on the recording disc. The second track is separate ...

08/24/06 - 20060188223 - Recording medium, reproduction device, recording method, program, and reproduction method
On a BD-ROM, there is recorded is a digital stream into which video and audio streams are multiplexed. The video stream is composed of a plurality of pictures that together represent video. The graphics stream includes a PES packet storing state control information (ICS) and PES packets containing graphics data ...

08/17/06 - 20060182421 - Universal multimedia optic disc player and its application for revocable copy protection
The media player employs an operating system that supports a virtual machine into which auto-run playback programs may be loaded and run. The auto run playback program is stored on the media containing the program content, such as on an optical disc medium. When the medium is inserted in the ...

08/17/06 - 20060182420 - Universal multimedia optic disc player and its application for revocable copy protection
The media player employs an operating system that supports a virtual machine into which auto-run playback programs may be loaded and run. The auto run playback program is stored on the media containing the program content, such as on an optical disc medium. When the medium is inserted in the ...

08/17/06 - 20060182419 - Dvd reproducing apparatus
A DVD reproducing apparatus having an A-B repeat function of repeating reproduction between point A set on a VOBU of plural VOBUs and point B set on a VOBU behind the point A, includes an NV_PCK storage unit that stores an address data stored in an NV_PCK of the VOBU ...

08/17/06 - 20060182418 - Information storage medium, information recording method, and information playback method
According to one embodiment, video objects to be played back by a method different from an existing playback sequence with respect to contents recorded on a read-only information storage medium are implemented. The medium is configured to store startup information including one or more pieces of playlist information to be ...

08/17/06 - 20060182417 - Image processor and file data management therein
An image processor, whose processing function is extended by executing a program of a file stored in externally attachable nonvolatile storage media to and from which data are writable and erasable, is disclosed. The image processor includes multiple attachment parts to which the storage media are attached, a duplication part ...

08/17/06 - 20060182416 - Subtitle scrolling detecting device and method
The real time scrolling subtitle detecting device and method which includes a subtitle decoding unit to decode a subtitle stream for obtaining a first compressed subtitle data and a second compressed subtitle data and generating a first subtitle data and a second subtitle data corresponding to the first and the ...

08/10/06 - 20060177199 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, information recording method and reproducing method
A design is made for recording and arrangement of application data so as to stably control the behavior of moving picture data based on application data and easily achieve special reproduction of moving picture data. Therefore, moving picture data encoded in a preset format is multiplexed with application data used ...

08/10/06 - 20060177198 - Media player configured to receive playback filters from alternative storage mediums
A media player configured with a first removable memory reader, such as a DVD drive, and a second removable memory reader, such as a flash memory reader, adapted to communicate with a removable memory containing filter data. The media player is configured to allow filtered playback of a multimedia presentation, ...

08/03/06 - 20060171680 - Image processing apparatus and method
This invention provides a coding method and apparatus capable of increasing the coding efficiency. According to this invention, an image processing apparatus which performs predictive coding using image data of a different frame as a reference picture includes a prediction unit which performs motion compensated prediction for each reference picture ...

08/03/06 - 20060171679 - Apparatus for recording/reproducing digital broadcast and method of browsing record information thereof
An apparatus for recording/reproducing a digital broadcast and method thereof are disclosed, by which a user is provided with record information for the corresponding program and by which a data structure enabling an implicative representation of a recorded broadcast stream is proposed. The present invention includes a storage unit having ...

08/03/06 - 20060171678 - Dvd reproducing apparatus
A DVD reproducing apparatus includes a key information storing unit that stores key information for decoding and reproducing a coded data recorded in the DVD, a reproducing unit that reproduces the data recorded in the DVD, a coding determining unit that determines whether the data recorded in the DVD is ...

08/03/06 - 20060171677 - Recording/reproducing apparatus
A recording/reproducing apparatus comprises recording means for receiving a broadcast and recording on a recording medium such as a DVD and HDD, segmentation means for storing a position, at which a recording start position and a recording end position are switched and a program and a CM are switched, as ...

08/03/06 - 20060171676 - Image display apparatus having standard compatibility function and method thereof
An image display apparatus having a standard compatibility function and method thereof. The image display apparatus includes a communication interface for communicating data with an audio and video (AV) device, a converter for converting YCbCr data received from the AV device to αRGB data, an image creator for creating an ...

08/03/06 - 20060171675 - Vehicle multimedia system
A vehicle multimedia system includes a display that displays a hierarchically structured menu. The hierarchically structured menu may have a main menu and a plurality of submenus. Each menu has at least one menu item. Upon selection and activation of the menu item, a next level of a submenu is ...

08/03/06 - 20060171674 - Editing method and recording and reproducing device
In order to provide a recording and reproducing device that allows a user to select and manage arbitrary play lists, a unit of management for managing all registered play list information and an upper management hierarchical level are added. The unit of management is adapted to be handled on the ...

08/03/06 - 20060171673 - Playback of video file in accordance with previously generated playback settings file
A method retrieves a playback settings file for a video file. The playback settings file is previously generated based at least on analysis of the video file without alteration of the video file. The playback settings file contains information for playback of the video file other than information for decoding ...

07/27/06 - 20060165384 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium
A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium are disclosed. The apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium includes: a playback system which includes a memory unit equipped with network configuration information, and reproduces data downloaded over a network and data recorded ...

07/27/06 - 20060165383 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium
A method for downloading data associated with a recording medium from an external source, and reproducing data recorded in the recording medium is disclosed. A method for reproducing data from a recording medium in a player equipped with a network device (i.e., a Network Equipped Player) includes the steps of: ...

07/27/06 - 20060165382 - Extracting key frames from video using a triangle model of motion based on perceived motion energy
A key frame extraction system and method for extracting key frames from a video based on motion analysis of frames within the video. Key frames are highlight frames that are effective in summarizing a video sequence. This allows a user to quickly find a desired spot in a video is ...

07/27/06 - 20060165381 - Method of preparing dvd-video formatted data, method for reconstructing dvd-video data and dvd-video data structure
For converting a first representation of a media content into a second representation of the media content, a data entity builder is used, which generates a data entity being the second representation of the media content. The data entity builder generates a second representation indicator, at least one regenerated media ...

07/27/06 - 20060165380 - Ti e:image display control device and image display control method
Disclosed herein is a picture display controlling apparatus capable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting picture data on a small-size screen of digital cameras or the like. Picture data items held in a data holding unit (310) are sorted into picture groups. The location of the picture ...

07/27/06 - 20060165379 - System and method for generating a multimedia summary of multimedia streams
A system facilitates and enhances review of one or more multimedia input streams that includes some combination of video, audio and text information, generating a multimedia summary, thereby enabling a user to better browse and/or decide on viewing the multimedia input streams in their entirety. The multimedia summary is constructed ...

07/27/06 - 20060165378 - Magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus
The video audio signal and its relevant auxiliary information (time code, metadata, CUE audio signal, and the like) can be thereby recorded on the recording medium 500 with no time delay relative to each other. ...

07/20/06 - 20060159431 - Optical disc for storing moving pictures with text information and apparatus using the disc
When moving pictures are recorded onto an optical disc, not only is text data recorded, but also video-recording start date and time, video-recording end date and time, and source name or channel number serving as primary text data are recorded in alphanumeric characters program by program or cell by cell, ...

07/20/06 - 20060159430 - Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and related computer programs
Pictures are captured, and thereby moving-picture data is generated which represents a sequence of moving-picture fields. At least one picture is captured, and thereby still-picture data is generated which represents at least one still-picture frame corresponding in picture capture timing to one of the moving-picture fields represented by the moving-picture ...

07/20/06 - 20060159429 - Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and related computer programs
Pictures are successively captured, and thereby moving-picture data representing a stream of moving pictures is generated. At least one picture is captured, and thereby still-picture data representing at least one still picture is generated. The still picture corresponds in picture capture timing to first one of the moving pictures. Link ...

07/20/06 - 20060159428 - Method and apparatus for managing time information for recorded programs
A method and apparatus can manage time information for programs recorded on a recording medium such as by a DVD player or recorder. When an input content is recorded on the recording medium, the time at which the content was captured as well as the recording time can be recorded ...

07/20/06 - 20060159427 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing cont
An information record medium comprises video information for indicating a main-video, sub-video information for indicating a sub-video which can be displayed at least partially over the main-video, and sub-video control information including (i) a plurality of types of control information elements for display control of the sub-video information in various ...

07/13/06 - 20060153537 - Data structure of meta data stream on object in moving picture, and search method and playback method therefore
When the same object appearing in a moving picture is divided into a plurality of items of data (access units), search results using meta data is easily displayed. A meta data stream includes two or more access units AUs having an object_id for specifying whether or not objects designated by ...

07/13/06 - 20060153536 - Optical disc apparatus capable of time search function and time search playback method thereof
An optical disc apparatus capable of time search function and a time search playback method thereof are disclosed, wherein the method comprises: searching for a playback area corresponding to a particular time using C_PBIT (Cell Playback Information Table) and VTS_VOBU_ADMAP (Video Title Set Video Object Unit Address Map) included in ...

07/13/06 - 20060153535 - Apparatus and method for reproducing storage medium that stores metadata for providing enhanced search function
An apparatus and method for reproducing a storage medium that stores metadata are provided for an enhanced search function using various search keywords of audio-visual (AV) data. The apparatus includes: a search unit for searching for scenes matching a search keyword by conducting an enhanced search function on the AV ...

07/13/06 - 20060153534 - Magnetic tape recording apparatus and method, magnetic tape format, and recording medium therefor
139 sync blocks, each having 111 bytes, are disposed on each track of a magnetic tape. Among the 139 sync blocks, 121 sync blocks each consist of a two-byte detection pattern for detecting the sync block, three-byte identification information for identifying the sync block, 96-byte main data, and 10-byte inner ...

07/13/06 - 20060153533 - Disc content enhancement systems and methods
Various disc enhancement systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods comprise retrieving information from a master optical disc; retrieving a data structure from a slave optical disc; using the information from the master optical disc to modify the data structure; and playing content from the slave optical disc ...

07/13/06 - 20060153532 - Recording medium, reporduction apparatus, recording method, integrated circuit, program and reporduction method
AVClip recorded in BD-ROM is obtained by multiplexing a graphics stream and a video stream. The graphics stream is a PES packet sequence that includes 1) PES packets storing graphics data (ODS) and 2) PES packets storing control information (PCS). In each ODS, values of DTS and PTS indicate a ...

07/13/06 - 20060153531 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, information recording program, and information reproduction program
On an information record medium, there are recorded a plurality of still picture information and information on a transition effect during successive reproduction of the plurality of still picture information. As the transition between still pictures reproduced successively, it is possible not only to perform a normal transition in which ...

07/06/06 - 20060147184 - Motion picture recording/reproducing apparatus
A motion picture recording/reproducing apparatus for embodying the technique includes, at least, a motion picture data input unit which inputs the motion picture data, a storage unit which stores the motion picture data, a recording unit which stores the motion picture data in the storage unit, a feature generating unit ...

07/06/06 - 20060147183 - Recording apparatus and method, program, and recording medium
A recording apparatus includes the following elements. A reader reads out, to a memory, image data of each representative image of a single or a plurality of playback units recorded on the disc and encoded by a predetermined encoding method. A generator decodes the image data read by the reader ...

06/29/06 - 20060140588 - Apparatus and method of inserting personal data using digital caption
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of inserting personal data using digital caption. A digital receiver, which has a function of separating an analog caption from an input digital stream, inserts a user edited data to the analog caption, and outputs the analog caption carrying the user edited data to ...

06/29/06 - 20060140587 - Information recording device and information recording method
A top menu is configured to provide information about chapters contained in a recording medium when it is finalized. From an optical disk as a recording medium, a title retrieval section 310 reads title information about each title of motion picture data recorded on the optical disk. A chapter retrieval ...

06/22/06 - 20060133775 - Method of storage medium management and video recording system and storage system thereof
A method of storage medium management includes providing a storage medium; storing a plurality of encoded bit streams within the storage medium; monitoring a remaining storage space available within the storage medium; and if the remaining storage space is below a threshold, transcoding a stored bit stream within the storage ...

06/15/06 - 20060127051 - Information recording medium, information playback method, and information playback apparatus
This invention has as its object to provide more colorful menus and to improve interactiveness in contents playback from a recording medium. In an information recording medium having a data area including a management area and object area, the object area stores expanded video objects which undergo playback management for ...

06/15/06 - 20060127050 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127049 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127048 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127047 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127046 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127045 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127044 - 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 ...

06/15/06 - 20060127043 - Information storage medium including meta data for multi-angle title, and apparatus and method for reproducing the same
A storage medium including meta data for providing an enhanced search function on AV data supporting multi-angle, and a reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing AV data from the storage medium are provided. The storage medium comprises moving picture data for supporting multi-angle; and meta data for providing an enhanced ...

06/15/06 - 20060127042 - Structure of navigation information for video data recorded on a recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses using the structure
A structure of navigation information for video data recorded on a recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses using the structure. The method of recording video data in accordance with the present invention records video data on a recording medium with organizing the video data into navigation units ...

06/15/06 - 20060127041 - Recording and reproducing apparatus
A recording and reproducing apparatus is provided which can easily record and reproduce recorded content information that is displayable irrespective of the type of a reproducing apparatus, which can record and display the recorded content information by detecting it also from data other than EPG data, and which can cope ...

06/15/06 - 20060127040 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, imormation reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure includin
Video information indicating a main video, sub-video information indicating a sub-video at least part of which can be displayed superimposedly over the main video, predetermined part coordinate information specifying the coordinates of a predetermined part included in the sub-video in the coordinate system defined with respect to the sub-video, and ...

06/08/06 - 20060120696 - 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 ...

06/08/06 - 20060120695 - 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 ...

06/08/06 - 20060120694 - 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 ...

06/08/06 - 20060120693 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading ...

06/08/06 - 20060120692 - Playback apparatus, method for the same, recording medium, and program
A playback apparatus loaded with a data recording medium including image data includes a first determining unit configured to determine whether a user stopped playing back the image data, a storage control unit configured to control a storage process so that a first set of information indicating a position where ...

06/08/06 - 20060120691 - Content use system, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus and system control method
The present invention makes it possible to carry and use the user's favorite, up-to-date information without having to perform any complicated procedure. A portable information terminal can receive, via a parent apparatus interface, content data that is extracted from a HDD in accordance with a control operation performed by a ...

06/08/06 - 20060120690 - Method for offering selection point number to recording image and image reproducing apparatus thereof
Provided are a method for offering a selection point number to a recording image and an image reproducing apparatus thereof. The method includes: respectively assigning selection point numbers to the selection points of the recorded image; and displaying information as to the selection points and the selection point numbers assigned ...

06/01/06 - 20060115239 - Recording and reproducing apparatus
The present invention provides a recording and reproducing apparatus by which a user can specify to which recording medium a portion of content is transferred, even when the portion of the content is transferred from a source recording medium to another recording medium. A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a ...

05/25/06 - 20060110136 - Video playing responsive to usage restriction
This invention relates to an automated control system and method that furnishes viewers with individualized automated editing and retrieval capabilities over the contents and length of a variable content video program in order to produce a transparently continuous and complete show. The system capabilities include an automated flexible control system ...

05/25/06 - 20060110135 - Information storage medium, information playback method, and information playback apparatus
A data area of an information storage medium according to an embodiment of the invention has a video data recording area including an area for recording expanded video objects in addition to a management area, and an advanced content recording area including information different from the recording content of this ...

05/25/06 - 20060110134 - Multimedia data playback device and driving method thereof
A multimedia data playback device includes a recording media for storing multimedia data, a reserved replay setting unit for selecting multimedia data for a reserved replay among the stored multimedia data and setting a reserved replay list, a reserved replay list unit in which the reserved replay list set by ...

05/25/06 - 20060110133 - Information recording medium, playback apparatus, and recording apparatus
An information recording medium to be played back by an apparatus for playing back first object data recorded in accordance with a first standard, the information recording medium comprises a management area, and a data area, wherein the data area is configured to store second object data recorded in accordance ...

05/25/06 - 20060110132 - Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing cont
An information record medium is provided with: a content space in which a plurality of content domains are recorded, each content domain being constructed from a series of content information; and a system space in which a plurality of menu domains corresponding to the plurality of content domains are recorded, ...

05/25/06 - 20060110131 - Data processing device
A data processor (10) according to the present invention includes: a video signal receiving section (100) for receiving a video signal representing video and aspect information to control aspect ratio of the video; an audio signal receiving section (102) for receiving an audio signal representing audio; a detecting section (104) ...

05/18/06 - 20060104614 - Method and apparatus for writing information on picture data sections in a data stream and for using the information
When recording video data in a plurality of recording blocks on a recording medium while organizing the video data into navigation units, the present invention records the size of the first picture data in each of the navigation units expressed in terms of the number of transport packets carrying the ...

05/11/06 - 20060098944 - Information storage medium, information playback method, and information playback apparatus
This invention has as its object to provide colorful menus, and improve interactiveness in content playback from an information storage medium. In an information storage medium including a management area and object areas, the object area stores an expanded video object (in HDVTS) which undergoes playback management by a logical ...

05/04/06 - 20060093329 - Information record/playback apparatus
When instructed by an input part 18 to perform CM skip, which is to skip CMs during a playback, based on mode change recording positions (addresses) recorded in a RAM 14b, a controller 14 confirms whether there is any recording position corresponding to a mode change in a 3-minute section, ...

05/04/06 - 20060093328 - Optical disk apparatus
An optical disk apparatus for recording information on an optical disk or for reproducing information recorded on an optical disk, wherein previews corresponding to respective titles or chapters of information recorded on an optical disk are displayed and reproduced on a display device. The apparatus includes: a system controller which ...

05/04/06 - 20060093327 - Video playback apparatus and video playback method
According to this invention, a video playback apparatus includes a first decoding unit configured to decode first content, a second decoding unit configured to decode second content, a comparison unit configured to compare the first and second content decoded by the first and second decoding units, a control unit configured ...

04/27/06 - 20060088291 - Method and device of automatic detection and modification of subtitle position
A method and device of automatic detection and modification of subtitle position comprises the steps of comparing an active display area parameter of a displaying device to an original subtitle control signal to generate a comparison result, and outputting a targeted subtitle control signal to modify the position of the ...

04/20/06 - 20060083485 - Information medium, recording method, playback method, recording apparatus, and playback apparatus for digital stream signal
A disc configured to record a digital stream signal including multi-view video picture data and the like is used. This disc has a management area and data area. The data area is configured to store the multi-view video picture data and the like as multi-angle data, and the management area ...

04/13/06 - 20060078304 - Recording medium for storing information for still picture, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor
A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor, stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a space having a logically one-dimensional order, rather than in each file, and still picture group information ...

04/13/06 - 20060078303 - Recording medium for storing virtually deleted still picture information, recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor
A recording medium for storing virtual deletion information, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor are provided. The recording medium includes a first region having a plurality of still pictures, and a second region having first virtual deletion information for the still pictures, and still picture group information for ...

04/13/06 - 20060078302 - Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium
A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium are disclosed. A method for reproducing data of a recording medium in which a first title and a second title having different attributes are recorded, includes the steps of reproducing the first title using a ...

04/13/06 - 20060078301 - Playback apparatus, program, playback method
The set-up unit 32 inquires of a user whether the user wishes to increase the number of languages in which subtitles are displayable even if inconvenience may be caused during the display. In the case where the user performs an affirmative operation in response to the inquiry, the stream selection ...

04/06/06 - 20060072903 - Method and system for storing calibration data within image files
A system and method for storing, within an image transfer medium, an image and image-specific data associated with the image includes obtaining the image-specific data from a probe such as a borescope or endoscope, obtaining the corresponding image, choosing a specific image transfer medium, writing the image to the medium, ...

03/23/06 - 20060062553 - Method and apparatus for recording manufacturer information on a recording medium and for determining whether the manufacturer information is effective
A recording medium and a recording apparatus store manufacturer information to support specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefore. A reproducing apparatus reproduces the manufacturer information to support specific functions. When the recording apparatus modifies the contents of the recording medium, the manufacturer's identification code is recorded. The ...

03/23/06 - 20060062552 - System and method of adapting sub-picture data for being displayed on mini-screens
A computer system and method for adapting subpicture data for being displayed on a user device having a small screen, the subpicture data being temporally correlated with associated video data, the method comprising the steps of: reading subpicture data from a source; determining a subpicture data portion from the read ...

03/23/06 - 20060062551 - Method for converting dvd captions
A method for converting DVD captions while playing DVD films aims to convert the text of the captions to a language set by users. The method includes: accessing the captions of the film; recognizing and converting the text of the captions; translating the text; accessing the translated text file and ...

03/16/06 - 20060056810 - Apparatus for receiving a digital information signal
The invention relates to an apparatus for receiving a first and second video signal. The first video signal represents a sequence of images having a first size, and the second video signal representing a sequence of images having a second size, the second size being smaller then the first size ...

03/09/06 - 20060051064 - Video control system for displaying user-selected scenarios
A method and apparatus for controlling the presentation of video information previously recorded on a digital video disc enables a user to simply select for playback specified segments of the information prerecorded on the video disc with avoidance of objectionable material such as violence, profanity, vulgarity and nudity as identified ...

03/09/06 - 20060051063 - Storage medium storing multimedia data for reproduction of av data and programming function, and reproducing apparatus and method thereof
A storage medium storing multimedia data for the reproduction of audio-visual (AV) data and a programming function, and a reproducing apparatus and method thereof. The storage medium includes: reproduction mode data for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program data including a plurality of program applications for providing interactive functions with a ...

03/09/06 - 20060051062 - Intergrated video data file intergration device and method therefor and intergrated video data file reproduction device and method
Directory file structure information in units of recording media before consolidation is converted into reproduction control information in a data format of a management information file after consolidation and is recorded in the management information file after consolidation, enabling view and edit of the video materials, and further enabling to ...

03/02/06 - 20060045489 - Playback control methods and arrangements for a dvd player
In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of a generic DVD navigator. The methods and arrangements herein provide a mechanism that allows a player application to precisely ‘bookmark’ locations during playback, and later resume playback at the selected bookmarked ...

03/02/06 - 20060045488 - Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a plurality of content files on a recording medium, each containing an image signal, a first management file creating unit configured to, in association with a recording operation by the recording unit, create a first management file managing the plurality ...

03/02/06 - 20060045487 - Recording and reproducing device and recording and reproducing method
A portable type recording and reproducing device including recording means for converting sound information output from sound collecting means to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording image information output from photographing means on the recording medium in association with a corresponding ...

03/02/06 - 20060045486 - Recording and reproducing device and recording and reproducing method
A portable type recording and reproducing device including recording means for converting sound information obtained by collecting external sound to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording image information obtained by photographing an outside on the recording medium in association with a ...

03/02/06 - 20060045485 - Recording and reproducing device
A switch for changing the mode of a device main body accompanied with the rotation of an image capture unit and an operation section provided in the device main body and performing inputting or-outputting operations of the external information are included, and the external information outputting unit and the operation ...

03/02/06 - 20060045484 - Recording and reproducing device and recording and reproducing method
A recording and reproducing device including sound collecting means for collecting external sound, and outputting sound information corresponding to a result of sound collection, photographing means for photographing an outside, and outputting image information corresponding to a result of photographing, recording means for converting the sound information to files in ...

03/02/06 - 20060045483 - Reproduction control method and reproducing apparatus
The present invention has been made to reproduce data such as video or sound while preventing a video image from being reproduced in a discontinuous manner with respect to a previously reproduced still image in a reproducing apparatus that reproduces a video image and still image that operate in accordance ...

03/02/06 - 20060045482 - Optical disk playing apparatus
An optical disk playing apparatus capable of reproducing information recorded on an optical disk includes a system controller. The system controller obtains an address of a navigation pack corresponding to a user's request with respect to a data having video data of still picture and audio data recorded on the ...

03/02/06 - 20060045481 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method
A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and an interactive graphics stream. The video stream representing a motion picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the interactive graphics stream representing an interactive display to be overlayed on the motion picture, where the ...

02/23/06 - 20060039681 - Playback control methods and arrangements for a dvd player
In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of a generic DVD navigator. The methods and arrangements herein provide a mechanism that allows a player application to precisely ‘bookmark’ locations during playback, and later resume playback at the selected bookmarked ...

02/23/06 - 20060039680 - Playback control methods and arrangements for a dvd player
In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of a generic DVD navigator. The methods and arrangements herein provide a mechanism that allows a player application to precisely ‘bookmark’ locations during playback, and later resume playback at the selected bookmarked ...

02/23/06 - 20060039679 - Recording medium and method for reproducing information therefrom
A recording medium having recorded thereon, a plurality of picture information sets, presentation time values each of which is associated with the corresponding one of the picture information sets, picture information record marks each of which is associated with the corresponding one of said presentation time values, clip information specifying ...

02/23/06 - 20060039678 - Recording apparatus for recording data to recording medium with a plurality of clusters
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record moving image data including a plurality of frames on a recording medium. The recording medium includes a plurality of clusters. The apparatus also includes an editing unit of the moving image data, a setting unit configured to optionally set the ...

02/16/06 - 20060034591 - Recording medium of stream data, and recording method and playback method of the same
Upon playback of stream data which is recorded while being appended with time stamp information in units of packets, time management is made using the time stamp information. A video playback time viewed from the user, which may be indicated by I-, B-, and P-picture display times, is different from ...

02/16/06 - 20060034590 - Disc reproducing apparatus
A disc reproducing apparatus includes: a language setting section setting and storing a subtitle language; a menu language setting section setting and storing a menu language to be displayed in the menu screen in the first memory; and a second memory storing the subtitle language and the audio language used ...

02/16/06 - 20060034589 - Dtv data stream, dtv broadcast system, and methods of generating and processing dtv data stream
A digital television (DTV) data stream contains a plurality of subtitle streams having different subtitle sizes and a program map table (PMT) associated with the subtitle streams. The PMT includes a subtitle scale information descriptor which includes a plurality of subtitle scale information sets specifying the subtitle sizes of the ...

02/16/06 - 20060034588 - Method and system of format converting and recording for optical storage media
A format converting and recording method and system for optical storage media including the steps of converting several first optical storage medium information files into the second optical storage medium through generating corresponding navigation tables which gather at a management file, transmitting image of the first optical storage medium to ...

02/02/06 - 20060024031 - Information playback apparatus and information playback method
There are provided a first image information output unit which overlaps first sub-picture information having high resolution HD onto main image information having high resolution HD to be outputted in accordance with a required image output format, and a second image information output unit which overlaps second sub-picture information having ...

02/02/06 - 20060024030 - Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and recording/reproducing method
An information recording medium, and a recording/reproducing apparatus and a recording/reproducing method for the recording medium. Original data is sequentially updated by replacing an original recording block with one or more replacement recording blocks. A replacement recording block includes at least one of an original address field indicating a location ...

01/19/06 - 20060013564 - Recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as recording medium
The invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as a recording medium wherein, when nondestructive editing is executed for an AV signal, the AV signal can be reproduced seamlessly without suffering from any interruption. Information representative of states (an A type, a C type, a D type, or ...

01/19/06 - 20060013563 - Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles
The gist of the invention is a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be ...

01/19/06 - 20060013562 - Recording method, recording device, and recording medium
In the case where recording start of moving picture is instructed, whether or not operation mode at the last recording time is moving picture mode is judged with reference to information within memory. In the case where the operation mode at the time of last recording time is still picture ...

01/12/06 - 20060008251 - Synchronized streaming layer with presentation layer
A “tag” is attached to streaming video data as it is streamed from the streaming layer to the presentation engine. Each frame containing a button or other user feature also has a “tag” associated with it. When the presentation engine processes a packet of data, it updates a state variable ...

01/12/06 - 20060008250 - Recovery of real-time video data after power loss
A number of different subroutines or algorithms are provided for locating lost video data, reconstructing navigation data, and creating new navigation files or the like so that the DVD may be made readable by an ordinary DVD player. The present invention provides algorithms to recover video data for each of ...

12/29/05 - 20050286872 - Data recording and reproducing apparatus with recording reservation capability
A menu screen in an information recording and reproducing apparatus displays a plurality of rectangular regions in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A plurality of dates are allocated to the plurality of rows, respectively. A plurality of terms equally divided, corresponding to a selected time frame ...

12/29/05 - 20050286871 - Information storage medium, information recording method, information playback method, information recording apparatus, and information playback apparatus
A recordable/reproducible disc has a management area and data area. This data area separately records data of a digital stream signal as one or more objects. The management area is configured to record prescribed management information, which includes object management information and playback order management information. In this configuration, the ...

12/29/05 - 20050286870 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a converting unit for converting a level range of an input image signal into a predetermined level range, and an outputting unit for outputting the converted image signal and first identification information which indicates the predetermined level range, the first identification information ...

12/29/05 - 20050286869 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, computer program product, and data structure including control signal
An information recording medium complies with a predetermined file system, and is provided with: a logical first recording area to record therein a first file which is recorded and reproduced by a first application; and a logical second recording area to record therein a second file which is recorded and ...

12/15/05 - 20050276577 - Recording medium, image recording apparatus, image recording method, and image recording program
Various kinds of information including information such as image data can be recorded in a recording medium without substantially lowering production efficiency. A DVD-R storing image data, meta-data of the image data, and DVD-Video files has a dual layer structure comprising a first recording layer and a second recording layer. ...

12/08/05 - 20050271366 - Picture sequences coded for horizontal motion on a display and corresponding data storage media
The present invention provides a picture sequence coded for horizontally moving objects such as running scripts, while complying with the rules and instructions specified in the DVD Standard, and optimizing the memory requirement. In one embodiment of the present invention, the horizontal motion is achieved by implementing a specific type ...

12/01/05 - 20050265696 - Recording medium, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus
A recording medium is provided recorded with a plurality of digital data and a plurality of reproduction path information defining a reproduction order of the plurality of digital data. The plurality of reproduction path information includes first reproduction path information defining a reproduction order of all of the plurality of ...

11/24/05 - 20050259971 - Recording medium for storing version information for maintaining recording and/or reproducing compatibility, and method and apparatus for managing the same
A method of recording read/write compatibility information on an optical disc and a recording medium employing the method. Extended part version information, latest part version having recording capability, and latest part version having reproducing capability are stored in n.xy form on 6 bytes of a reserved zone of a physical ...

11/24/05 - 20050259970 - Recording and reproducing apparatus
A recording and reproducing apparatus for recording a video signal on an optical disc using a video recording (VR) format and for reproducing the optical disc in which the video signal is recorded in the VR format, the recording and reproducing apparatus includes an extension information recording means for generating ...

11/24/05 - 20050259969 - Recording and reproducing apparatus
A recording and reproducing apparatus includes an information recording unit that generates reproduction range information indicating the range of image signals to be reproduced as moving picture and that records it on an optical disk. When representative images representing contents of the image signals recorded on the optical disk are ...

11/24/05 - 20050259968 - Information recording medium, methods of recording/playback information onto/from recording medium
An information playback method includes playing back a playback sequence from an information recording medium having a data area including a management area storing management information and an object area storing an object managed by the management information, and a file information area which stores file information corresponding to a ...

11/24/05 - 20050259967 - Data loading method and chip
A data loading method is for an audio/video playback system. The method is used for playing an audio/video data stored in a storage medium. The audio/video data comprises a plurality of audio/video segments and a plurality of navigation data corresponding to the audio/video segments. The method comprises loading only a ...

11/17/05 - 20050254790 - Information storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproduction apparatus
An information storage medium according to an embodiment of this invention has an area for storing predetermined data modulated according to the (d, k; m, n) modulation rule. The predetermined data includes at least one SYNC code in a predetermined recording unit, and the number of “1”s included in a ...

11/17/05 - 20050254789 - Video audio recording system
A video audio recording system includes an inputting means for inputting video audio information, a video audio coding means for converting the input video audio information into digital information to write into a buffer means once and reading the written video audio information sequentially to output, a signal processing means ...

11/03/05 - 20050244139 - Method of creating and recording presentation order information management information for a rewritable recording medium
This invention provides a method of creating and recording presentation order management information for a rewritable recording medium, which enables effective control of the amount of the presentation order management information needed when a user edits preferred play lists of recorded data. In the present invention, each time a new ...

10/27/05 - 20050238328 - Optical disk playback apparatus
An optical disk playback apparatus that can play a first optical disk in which audio data are recorded and output audio to a speaker, can play a second optical disk in which at least video data are recorded and output video to an external display device, and includes a display ...

10/27/05 - 20050238327 - Recording apparatus, visible image forming method, recording medium and computer data signal
A recoding apparatus includes an optical recording device that optically records information on an optical disk and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk. When a moving image of a TV broadcast program is recorded on the optical disk by ...

10/27/05 - 20050238326 - Recording device, playback device and program
After sizes of Intra pictures included in a digital stream are detected, an analysis unit 6 totals numbers of occurrences of the Intra pictures for each size to obtain an occurrence distribution of the sizes of the Intra pictures. Values “000b” to “111b” are respectively assigned to distribution ranges of ...

10/27/05 - 20050238325 - Content reproduction apparatus, program, and content reproduction control method
A copyright management system that manages the time limits of the reproduction of a plurality of pieces of content in a batch manner. A content reproduction apparatus has a storage unit storing a reproduction permission ID list and the valid period information of each group ID and a reproduction control ...

10/20/05 - 20050232600 - Recording and / or reproducing apparatus and editing method
A portable recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data to and/or from a storage medium are provided. The medium has a data area and a management area. The data area stores data and the management area stores management information for managing the data. The apparatus includes stopping means ...

10/20/05 - 20050232599 - Video recording/reproducing device
A time information reading section 26 detects a total reproduction time of a video stored in a recording/reproducing medium. A time information division processing section 27 divides a total reproduction time into 10 parts. Numeric keys (ten keys) of a remote control device 30 for tuning a channel are sequentially ...

10/20/05 - 20050232598 - Method, apparatus, and program for extracting thumbnail picture
It is an object of the invention to extract thumbnail picture having a higher index function, to arrange thumbnail pictures of the respective titles recorded in recording medium onto an easily understandable picture such as title picture of entertainment program. When one of a plurality of titles is selected and ...

10/20/05 - 20050232597 - Video recording apparatus, multiplexing method, picture encoding method, program, and recording medium for variable frame-rate recording
A video recording apparatus provides a slow motion effect or a quick motion effect by digitally converting the frame-rate instead of by changing the playback speed of the film, and using few recording media without requiring any special device at playing. A picture encoding part encodes only valid frames by ...

10/20/05 - 20050232596 - Image data processing device and method
An image data processing method is provided to process image data encoded with the MPEG technique and including data groups (Pack_V) each having an auxiliary recording area (AUX_V) provided therein, led by an I or P picture and including a B picture. In the case of a recording medium having ...

10/13/05 - 20050226604 - Data recording method and apparatus, data recording medium, and data reproducing method and apparatus
The present invention provides remarkably improved availability in a data recording method and apparatus, a data recording medium, and a data reproducing method and apparatus. By recording additional information for data reproduction in each sector on a data reproducing medium as a subcode separately from data when the data is ...

10/13/05 - 20050226603 - Recording apparatus, recording method, and recording medium
A recording apparatus, a recording method, a recording medium, and an electronic camera which create an index file (IF) for holding index information of a file separately as a fixed data length portion and a variable data length portion and record the index file on the recording medium. The recording ...

10/06/05 - 20050220442 - Data recording and reproducing apparatus, data recording and reproducing method and recording medium
To record video data or audio data on an optical disc on which a defective area exists, there is a method of determining an allowable number of defects in proportion to a recording size and skipping the defective area to use an adjacent area thereto. This method has a problem ...

09/29/05 - 20050213942 - Recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams
A recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams are disclosed. A buffer initially preloads a text subtitle stream including a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and first and second dialog presentation segments. A text subtitle decoder initially presents a first region of dialog ...

09/29/05 - 20050213941 - Information recording medium, methods of recording/playback information onto/from recording medium
An information playback method includes playing back a playback sequence from an information recording medium storing a first object configured to be played back based on a program chain as a logical unit, a second object recorded independently of the first object and configured to be played back, and the ...

09/29/05 - 20050213940 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each ...

09/22/05 - 20050207738 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle stream recorded on the recording medium
A buffer initially preloads a text subtitle stream recorded on a recording medium. The preloaded text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of dialog presentation segments, each of which contains at least one region of dialog text. Each region of ...

09/22/05 - 20050207737 - Recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams
A recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams are disclosed. A microcomputer initially reads a set of PlayItems and a SubPlayItem included in a PlayList which is recorded on a recording medium, and it further reads synchronization information included in the SubPlayItem. Each PlayItem is configured to ...

09/22/05 - 20050207736 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for decoding text subtitle streams
At least one text subtitle stream is recorded on a recording medium. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog presentation segment contains at least one region of dialog text and being linked to ...

09/15/05 - 20050201732 - Optical disk, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, and recording medium
An optical disk includes an audio data storage area for storing audio data; a still picture data storage area for storing a plurality of pieces of still picture data; and a management area for storing reproduction control information for controlling reproduction of the audio data and the plurality of pieces ...

09/15/05 - 20050201731 - Recording medium, method and apparatus for recording on recordable recording medium, and method for managing backup files of the same
A recording medium, a method and apparatus for recording on a recordable recording medium, and a method for managing backup files of the same are disclosed. The method for recording on a recordable recording medium includes recording original stream files and original management files in a specific area on the ...

09/15/05 - 20050201730 - Digital versatile disc playback device
A digital versatile disc (DVD) playback device capable of recognizing characters comprises a character recognition unit to converse subtitle pictures recorded in a DVD into character codes. Therefore, the DVD playback device may provide useful information by analyzing the conversed character codes by means of a post process unit thereof ...

09/08/05 - 20050196149 - Method and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle stream files
Text subtitle streams are reproduced based on register values contained in one or more player status registers included in a player. A SubPlayItem, which designates at least one text subtitle stream and is included in a PlayList recorded on a recording medium, is read. A first register value specifying one ...

09/08/05 - 20050196148 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing font information for text subtitles and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In the data structure for managing font information for text subtitles, a clip information file for a text subtitle stream is provided. The clip information file includes a font file name field for each font file associated with the text subtitle stream. The font file name fields are indexed by ...

09/08/05 - 20050196147 - Text subtitle decoder and method for decoding text subtitle streams
A method and a text subtitle decoder for decoding a text subtitle stream recorded on a recording medium are disclosed. A subtitle loading buffer initially loads a text subtitle stream including a dialog style segment defining a group of region styles and a dialog presentation segment having dialog presentation information ...

09/08/05 - 20050196146 - Method for reproducing text subtitle and text subtitle decoding system
A method for reproducing text subtitle streams and a text subtitle decoding system are disclosed. An entire subtitle text subtitle file designated in a playlist file and font files related to the subtitle text subtitle file are initially preloaded into a subtitle preloading buffer and a font preloading buffer, respectively, ...

09/01/05 - 20050191035 - Storage medium recording text-based subtitle stream, reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing text-based subtitle stream recorded on the storage medium
A storage medium storing a multimedia image stream and a text-based subtitle stream, and a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method therefor are provided to reproduce the text-based subtitle data stream recorded separately from the multimedia image stream such that the subtitle data can be easily produced and edited and ...

09/01/05 - 20050191034 - Dvd reproducing apparatus including language setting apparatus and language setting method executed by dvd reproducing apparatus
This invention provides a language setting method and a language setting apparatus capable of easily resetting a subtitle language or voice language to a user's desired language if a DVD player reproduces content data using the subtitle language or the voice language different from the initially set and user's desired ...

08/25/05 - 20050185933 - Television and multimedia viewing paradigm
Improved methods and arrangements are provided for use in selecting candidate television and multimedia programs for recording, recording the candidate programs, viewing the recorded programs, and archiving the recorded programs. At the center of this capability is a time-dependent content buffering arrangement that allows candidate programs to be selected by ...

08/25/05 - 20050185932 - Device and method for editing video and/or audio data recorded in a disc storage medium
Management data such as title files of the contents like stored video programs, contracted video files (thumbnail index files) showing the contents, position data of the data of contents, etc. are stored at one time in a particular region of a disc storage medium. Position data of I-Pictures are stored ...

08/25/05 - 20050185931 - Information processing system, information processing method, and computer program
A system and method is disclosed by which two or more information processing apparatus having a recording reservation function are linked in recording reservation setting to each other. The information processing apparatus exchange schedule information such as recording reservations with each other. The recording reservation program information of all of ...

08/25/05 - 20050185930 - 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 ...

08/25/05 - 20050185929 - Information storage medium having recorded thereon text subtitle data synchronized with av data, and reproducing method and apparatus therefor
An information storage medium having recorded thereon text subtitle data that is rendered to be output in synchronization with reproduction of audio/video (AV) data, and a method and apparatus for reproducing the text subtitle data and AV data. The information storage medium includes subtitle data that is output in synchronization ...

08/25/05 - 20050185928 - Storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in response to user's command, and reproducing apparatus for reproducing from the same
A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen at a designated time. ...

08/25/05 - 20050185927 - Recording/ reproduction device and recording/reproduction method
Recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a reproducing element for reproducing main data and TOC data for managing the main data that are recorded in a CD; a recording and reproducing element for recording in and reproducing from an HDD the main data reproduced from the CD 1 and a playback ...

08/11/05 - 20050175322 - System and method for providing picture-in-picture timebase management
Systems and methods that provide picture-in-picture timebase management are provided. In one example, a method may include the steps of sending a first video signal and a second video signal to a video decoder; sending a first audio signal to the audio decoder, the first audio signal being associated with ...

08/11/05 - 20050175321 - Recording method, recording apparatus, recording medium, reproduction method, reproduction apparatus and image pickup apparatus
The present invention provides a recording method capable of reliably associating additional information for data of a decoding/reproduction unit with the decoding/reproduction unit for a case in which data of a read/write unit for a recording medium includes a plurality of aforementioned decoding/reproduction units. Time-series information is compressed before being ...

08/04/05 - 20050169609 - Information recording apparatus, information reprodicing apparatus, information recording method, information reproducing method, recording medium, information recording medium in which recording control program is stored, information recoriding medium in
A system controller is provided so as to record the second disk type information having the same content as that of the first disk type information, which is recorded in a DVD-R in advance, in a DVD-R in which the first disk type information is recorded as well as to ...

08/04/05 - 20050169608 - Method for adjusting display of sub-picture in audio/video playback device
A method for adjusting a display of a sub-picture in an audio/video (AV) playback device is disclosed. The method provides a set of sub-picture adjusting parameter for adjusting display format of the sub-picture. The set of sub-picture adjusting parameter includes a sub-picture location adjusting parameter for adjusting display location of ...

08/04/05 - 20050169607 - Recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
A recording medium includes a data area which stores at least one text subtitle stream. Each text subtitle stream includes text data to be displayed within a text subtitle region, region style information specifying a region style of the text subtitle region including an overall style of the text data, ...

08/04/05 - 20050169606 - Text subtitle decoder and method for decoding text subtitle streams
A text subtitle decoder includes a text subtitle processor, a text renderer, and a presentation controller. The text subtitle processor parses a text subtitle stream into text data and reproduction control information, where the text data represent a subtitle text to be displayed within a text subtitle region. After the ...

08/04/05 - 20050169605 - Information recording method, information recording terminal, information recording system,and recording medium
An information recording method, including steps of: creating an identification information specifically in either one of an image information containing one or more set of image data or a recording medium; and corresponding the image information and the identification information to each other and recording the image information and the ...

07/28/05 - 20050163489 - Information recording apparatus
An information recording apparatus includes: a transferring device that separately and simultaneously receives at least two information supplied through at least two channels, and separately and simultaneously transfers the at least two information to a storing device at separate transfer rates, thereby storing the at least two information into the ...

07/28/05 - 20050163488 - Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and record medium
A recording apparatus for recoding digital data to a record medium that is removable and assigned unique medium identification information is disclosed, that comprises a converting means for converting data to be recorded into a file structure that allows a first file format and a second file format to be ...

07/28/05 - 20050163487 - Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, and record medium
A recording apparatus for recoding digital data to a record medium that is removable and assigned unique medium identification information is disclosed, that comprises a converting means for converting data to be recorded into a file structure that allows a first file format and a second file format to be ...

07/28/05 - 20050163486 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, information recording/reproducing apparatus and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproducing, and data structure c
On an information recording medium, an entire stream including a plurality of portion streams, each of which is provided with a series of content information, such as picture information or video information and audio information, is multiplexed-and-recorded by a unit of packet. In the first area of the information recording ...

07/21/05 - 20050158036 - Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source
An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information for identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply source and recorded in a recording medium. When editing of the ...

07/21/05 - 20050158035 - Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source
An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information for identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply source and recorded in the recording medium. When editing of the ...

07/21/05 - 20050158034 - Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source
An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information for identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply source and recorded in the recording medium. When editing of the ...

07/21/05 - 20050158033 - Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source
An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply source and recorded in the recording medium. When editing of the content ...

07/21/05 - 20050158032 - Information storage medium containing subtitles and processing apparatus therefor
An information storage medium containing subtitles and a subtitle processing apparatus, where the information storage medium includes: audio-visual (AV) data; and subtitle data in which at least one subtitle text data and output style information designating an output form of the subtitle texts are stored with a text format. With ...

07/14/05 - 20050152684 - System and method of dvd player for displaying multiple subtitles
A system and method of a DVD player for displaying multiple subtitles includes a loading platform for reading digital data of DVD storage media; an interface management platform of receiving end for transmitting a decoded message of a first subtitle set image to a comparison platform. The comparison platform is ...

07/14/05 - 20050152683 - Method and apparatus for repetitive playback of a video section based on subtitles
A method and apparatus for repetitive playback of video sections on the basis of subtitles are provided. The method includes receiving a request for a repetitive playback of a certain video section of the video data; retrieving at least one subtitle data block associated with at least one video data ...

07/14/05 - 20050152682 - Method of reproducing from storage medium storing interactive graphics stream activated in reponse to user's command
A method of reproducing from a storage medium video data and graphics data for displaying a menu screen. The method includes: decoding graphics data; and outputting, on the basis of the decoded graphics data, the decoded graphics data when an activation command is generated by a user or displaying the ...

07/14/05 - 20050152681 - Information storage medium including event occurrence information, apparatus and method for reproducing the same
An information storage medium storing event information for generating an event with reference to an audio/video data structure and an apparatus and method thereof. The information storage medium includes: core data, that includes audio/video data and navigation data for reproducing the audio/video data; and program data that is used for ...

07/14/05 - 20050152680 - Video player system and method of playback control using subtitle information
A system for playing video data and audio data and displaying subtitles includes a subtitle analyzer for analyzing the subtitles and providing subtitle display time, a controller for providing playback control signals based on the subtitle display time from the subtitle analyzer, a video decoder decoding the video data, an ...

07/14/05 - 20050152679 - Optical disc recording apparatus and method thereof
There are provided: a unit data group formation section for forming a unit data group comprising at least one piece of unit data; a thumbnail image generation section for generating a thumbnail image for unit data; a link information generation section for generating unit data link information to link with ...

07/07/05 - 20050147394 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147393 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147392 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147391 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147390 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147389 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147388 - Av data recording apparatus and method, and disk recorded by the same
An AV data recording apparatus and an AV data recording method are provided, in which even in the case of using the UDF file system, seeking can be minimized. The AV data recording method has file management information for managing continuous blocks on a disk as an extent, and dividing ...

07/07/05 - 20050147387 - Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. The text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment. Each dialog style segment contains at least one region of dialog text, ...

07/07/05 - 20050147386 - Data storage medium storing multiple video data with different formats and apparatus for reproducing data from data storage medium
A data storage medium in which multiple video data having different formats are recorded, an apparatus for reproducing the multiple video data from a data storage medium, and a method of reproducing the multiple video data from a data storage medium. The data storage medium on which video data is ...

06/30/05 - 20050141881 - Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same
On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged Management information of ...

06/30/05 - 20050141880 - Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit that records information data on a mounted recording medium; a detecting unit that detects first identification information for identifying a mounted first recording medium; and a generating unit that generates second identification information related to the first identification information detected by the detecting ...

06/30/05 - 20050141879 - Apparatus and method for reproducing av data based on updated reproduction control information
An apparatus and method reproduce AV data, wherein reproduction control information of AV data is downloaded via a network or using other methods, and current reproduction control information is updated, so that the AV data is reproduced based on the updated reproduction control information. The apparatus includes a primary information ...

06/30/05 - 20050141878 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In the data structure for managing reproduction of graphic information, graphic information and an indicator associated with the graphic information is stored on the recording medium. The indicator indicates whether the graphic information is for display in response to user request. ...

06/30/05 - 20050141877 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In the data structure for managing reproduction of graphic information, first graphic information is stored multiplexed with main data in a first clip file and second graphic information is stored in a second clip file separate from the first clip file. ...

06/23/05 - 20050135787 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing graphic information and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
In the data structure for managing reproduction of text subtitle data, a recording area stores graphic control information indicating whether to still a display of main data when a display of graphic information is activated. ...

06/09/05 - 20050123280 - Information storage medium, information reproduction device, information reproduction method
An information storage medium stores a graphic unit capable of being superimposed upon a main picture and output/displayed. ...

06/09/05 - 20050123279 - Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproduction apparatus and method, information recording/reproduction apparatus and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structur
An entire stream containing a plurality of partial streams each consisting of content information is multiple-recorded on packet basis on an information recording medium. The information recording medium includes a file for storing object data consisting of a plurality of packets each containing a content information piece and further includes ...

06/02/05 - 20050117889 - Video reproducing apparatus and video reproducing method
When character information is added to a video signal as graphic characters, a graphic controller controls a display time or the information amount of the character information depending on a multiple-times reproduction speed of a recording medium. Further, when closed caption data is superimposed on a predetermined line of the ...

06/02/05 - 20050117888 - Video and audio reproduction apparatus
A stream separation unit calculates a new video PTS on the basis of a video PTS initially detected from an MPEG stream read from a recording medium in each time when a picture header is detected. The stream separation unit also calculates a new audio PTS on the basis of ...

06/02/05 - 20050117887 - Video and audio reproduction apparatus
A system control unit sets stream_id of each reproduced elementary stream and the total number of streams in each of the elementary stream from management information read from a medium. A stream separation unit reads an MPEG stream from the medium to record a combination of a stream identification number ...

06/02/05 - 20050117886 - Storage medium storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and apparatus and method of playing back the storage medium
A storage medium includes text-based subtitle data including style information for use with an apparatus and a method of playing back the storage medium. The storage medium includes moving image data, and subtitle data for providing a subtitle for the moving image data. The subtitle data is recorded based on ...

06/02/05 - 20050117885 - Dvd player and method of reproducing multimedia file using the dvd player
A DVD player and a method of reproducing multimedia files using the DVD player are provided. The DVD player and the method can improve practical applicability and usefulness of a common DVD player by enabling reproduction of multimedia (moving picture) information stored in various multimedia formats (such as, moving picture ...

06/02/05 - 20050117884 - Storage medium storing meta information for enhanced search and subtitle information, and reproducing apparatus
A storage medium stores meta information of enhanced search and subtitle information, and a reproducing apparatus reproduces the storage medium. The storage medium includes moving-image information, meta information used to provide an enhanced search function of the moving-image information, and subtitle information used to provide subtitles of the moving-image information. ...

06/02/05 - 20050117883 - Storage medium storing program management information, and reproducing method and apparatus
A storage medium storing program applications to provide additional functions using moving-images and management information needed to manage the program applications. The storage medium includes reproduction mode data reproducing moving-image data, program data including a plurality of program applications providing additional functions using the moving-image data, system data controlling the ...

06/02/05 - 20050117882 - Apparatus and a record carrier for, and a method of recording a sequence of video data signals
An apparatus for recording a sequence of video data signals on a record carrier (3) has been proposed. The apparatus comprises input (1) means for receiving video data signals, generating means (100) for generating characteristic point information signals, processing means for processing the characteristic point information signals for a plurality ...

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