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7602443 Methods for improved modulation of video signals  
A method for modulating a video signal. Frames are selected from a plurality of frames for modulation. Intensity of a plurality of pixels of a plurality of scan lines of a field of the selected...
7586542 Methods for improved modulation of video signals  
A method for modulating a video signal. Frames of a plurality of frames are selected for modulation. A first magnitude alternation pattern is designated for each of a first area of a field of the...
7548950 Data-processing device, system thereof, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium storing the program  
A first data-recording device ( 400 ) includes a network interface, a recording unit, and a group recording reservation notifying unit. The network interface acquires a group recording reservation...
7545441 Digital broadcast receiver  
A microprocessor in a digital broadcast receiver outputs image data displaying a menu in a sub-screen when instructed by a user to display the menu: if received broadcast signals are those of an HD...
7538819 Adaptive video image information processing system  
Video image information is received in a signal including conditional access information. The conditional access information is associated with one of a plurality of picture resolution formats for...
7477320 Method and system for downloading and storing interactive device content using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal  
A method and system for decoding and storing encoded control data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An interactive device such as a toy performs behavior defined by...
7446816 Image forming apparatus capable of forming image for broadcasting program at proper timing  
A data broadcasting receiving terminal receives a data broadcasting signal from a broadcasting station to detect print-out data and a control signal associated with print-out from the data...
7433488 Information recording medium drive device, information processing apparatus, data replay control system, data replay control method, and computer program  
A content, restored in an information processing apparatus, for replaying a content, such as a personal computer, is fed back to a drive device. The drive device detects an electronic watermark...
7415430 Broadcast response system  
A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items...
7395031 Mobile device and method for receiving and processing program-accompanying data  
Mobile device ( 3 ) and method for receiving and processing program-accompanying digital data, which are transmitted by a radio transmitter ( 1 ), for example a DAB transmitter, and of which at...
7379199 Print controlling apparatus and print controlling method  
This invention relates to a producer of content who associates information for print control with the content such as a picture, before delivery. Specifically, a digital broadcast receiving device...
7373218 Image distribution system  
An information distribution system capable of presenting an image photographed by a moving body, such as a robot or vehicle, selected by a user. The information distribution system includes moving...
7360232 System and method to subscribe to channel URL addresses and to provide non-programming-related URL addresses in an interactive video casting system  
A remote device is capable to receive network address information, such as uniform resource locator (URL) addresses, and other supplemental content that are available along with television signal....
7343024 Embedding data in material  
The present invention relates to embedding data in material. Material means one or more of video material, audio material and data material. Video material in this context may be still images or...
7342966 MPEG table structure  
A MPEG table data structure includes a data portion and a header. The header includes an action identifier field, and the action identifier field relates to data that identifies an action to be...
7342612 System and method for controlling an electronic device  
A communication and control system includes a command device for generating a command signal and an input device for generating a data signal. A first device of the system receives the command and...
7324159 Method and device communicating a command  
Disclosed are a method, a controlling device ( 110 ), a controllable device ( 130 ) and an arrangement ( 100 ) for communicating a command from the controlling device ( 110 ) to the controllable...
7283180 Computer system and method for storing TV signals therein  
A computer comprises: a central processing unit (CPU) driving an operating system (OS); a television (TV) receiver part for receiving external television signals; a storage unit for storing the...
7269843 Broadcasting system and media player  
Broadcasting waves transmitted from a broadcasting device include operation control information for operating peripheral devices on a receiver side in accordance with the contents of a broadcast...
7269330 Method and apparatus for controlling a video recorder/player to selectively alter a video signal  
The method and apparatus operates in a video recorder and playback unit to identify selected broadcast segments, such as commercial advertisements, of a television signal in real-time for the...
7263202 Watermarking to control video recording  
Video programs are identified by watermark data subliminally conveyed within the picture data. By reference to such program identification data, video recording devices can automatically identify...
7248581 Method and apparatus for injecting information assets into a content stream  
A method and apparatus for transport encoded asset data and content data, multiplexing the transport encoded content data with a plurality of NULL transport packets to provide “place holder”...
7187781 Information processing device and method for processing picture data and digital watermark information  
A device and method for embedding plural kinds of additional information or multiple bits of additional information into one picture is provided. A region information generating step generates...
7162733 Method and apparatus for automatic set-up of electronic devices  
A method and apparatus to automatically set-up an electronic device having multiple user-controllable functionalities is provided by an arrangement that provides an interactive menu to a user. The...
7158185 Method and apparatus for tagging media presentations with subscriber identification information  
A system that inserts subscriber identification information includes, in a preferred embodiment, a system with a memory for storing subscriber identification information and a processor configured...
7142888 Radio communication method, base station and mobile station  
The object of the present invention is to improve the accuracy of channel estimation and increase downlink capacity when a base station transmits an individual channel using directional beams. The...
7130616 System and method for providing content, management, and interactivity for client devices  
A system and a method for providing content, management and interactivity for client devices are provided. Digital data based on user specified preferences is automatically obtained and transferred.
7126714 Method and apparatus for printing contents carried on broadcast signals  
A printing apparatus for printing out contents carried on broadcast signals onto paper, which comprises a receiving unit for receiving the broadcast signals; a detecting unit for detecting...
7124365 Method and device for detecting an event in a program of a video and/or audio signal and for providing the program to a display upon detection of the event  
A device for automatically providing program information to a television display upon detection of an event in the program. The event being a user definable event. The device also provides...
7080395 Information processor, information processing method as well as broadcasting system and broadcasting method  
There is provided an information processor and an information processing method for effectively utilizing EPG data. Identification codes for identifying specific character parts such as names of...
7079750 Information processing apparatus and method as well as program storage medium  
An information processing apparatus supplies time information by a real-time-clock (RTC) that is corrected and a correction history is recorded. When a signal representing a correct-time indication...
7075583 Methods for improved modulation of video signals  
A method for modulating one or more fields of video signal ( 18 ) with auxiliary signal ( 20 ) by use of an encoding improvement, the one or more fields having one or more sub-fields, the one or...
7072490 Symmetry watermark  
A digital watermark is generated with radial and circumferential symmetries in a particular domain of a host signal into which it is embedded. These symmetries enable a detector to compute the...
7062466 Method and system for operating online classified advertisements  
A system and method for pricing a classified advertisement. The method includes receiving a classified advertisement from an advertiser to be distributed to at least one of multiple device types....
7058635 Method and apparatus for searching through an electronic programming guide  
A method for managing entertainment system data includes obtaining a record corresponding to a first entertainment selection that is selected. A selectable identifier corresponding to a first set...
7046817 Image processing apparatus and method therefor  
It is one object of the present invention to prevent embedded verification information from being lost even when a quantization process is performed after verification information has been...
7042471 Method and system for displaying descriptive information associated with a defined video object  
According to the present invention, there is provided a method, system and program storage device for displaying textual information associated with a defined video object in video data on a video...
7039930 Television advertising automated billing system  
Advertising is marked with a code in a way which makes it difficult to fool the system. The advertising is marked with a code at the time the advertising is produced. Then, when the advertising is...
7034890 Method and apparatus for updating a computer system clock from a real time television signal  
The system for updating a clock in an electronic device, such as a personal computer, has a receiver system having an input for receiving a real time signal and having an output on which is...
6999129 Image processing apparatus, method, and recording medium for controlling image quality  
Viewing of a program at optimum image quality is realized. A correspondence table of combinations of MPEG video encoding parameters and image signal processing parameters is stored in a RAM. A CPU...
6985782 Audio control signal transmission apparatus and reception appartus, control system and control method using an audio control signal, program information transmission apparatus and transmission method, and program reservation apparatus and program reservation method  
An audio control signal transmission apparatus and reception apparatus, an audio control signal based control system and control method, a program information transmission apparatus and...
6968072 Image sensor with built-in steganographic and watermarking functions  
An image sensor enabling automatic steganography is disclosed herein. One embodiment of such a sensor includes a single integrated system fabricated on a single substrate. In particular, the image...
6963363 Digital camera capable of embedding an electronic watermark into image data  
A digital camera has a memory for storing a plurality of programs each to embed a watermark on a digital image data. The digital camera embeds the watermark on the image data according to the...
6961556 Apparatus and method for an enhanced PCS communication system  
The vertical blanking interval (“VBI”) of a video signal is used in broadband communications including digital data transmission on the VBI or a dual VBI/PCS system capable of enhancing rapid...
RE38829 Viewing restricting method and viewing restricting apparatus  
A method and apparatus for securely restricting the viewing of television programs. When a television program has been received along with rating data associated with a rating of the television...
6951031 Apparatus for and method of recording program information  
An apparatus for recording program information is provided with a program information obtaining device, a program guide providing device, a storing device, a reception contents recording device, a...
6944313 Method and device for inserting and decoding a watermark in digital data  
A method of inserting a watermark in digital data (I) includes the steps of multi-resolution spectral breakdown (E 1 ) of the digital data (I); extraction (E 2 ) of the components of lowest...
6915064 Apparatus and method for recording elementary streams  
A video recording and reproducing apparatus is provided which is capable of, even if the number of elementary streams (ES) of bits of a program to be recorded is too large and all the elementary...
6879347 Method and apparatus for communicating state information using vertical blanking interval  
An information handling system controls a signal processing device by providing a control signal to the signal processing device. The control signal may be transmitted to the signal processing...
6870577 Process for managing a memory in a television receiver and television receiver  
Television receiver furnished with a memory ( 21, 22, 23 ) for receiving service data comprising a processing module ( 11 ) which correlates usage criteria received together with the service data...
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