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7606471 Video language filtering based on user profile  
The invention relates to video player devices intended to play a video content DSC including audio tracks forming a disc audio languages list DAL and/or subtitles forming a disc subtitle languages...
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...
7587748 Method and apparatus for retrieving data from a broadcast signal  
A broadcast signal is received that includes a data identifier that identifies data associated with the broadcast signal. The broadcast signal also includes the data associated with the broadcast...
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...
7577767 Data storage system having plural storage processors in a single chassis  
An interface for coupling data between a host computer/server and a bank of disk drives. The interface includes a chassis having disposed therein: a pair of storage processors adapted for coupling...
7545440 Digital multimedia broadcasting receiver, and method of using additional information thereof  
A method of using additional information at a DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) receiver is provided. The method includes the steps of: extracting and displaying additional information from a...
7502386 Communication apparatus and communication method  
Upon receiving a call while receiving a digital broadcast, an audio path switching control unit switches an audio path to an output side of a telephone audio processing unit, and outputs telephone...
7489798 Method and apparatus for detecting a watermark in a signal  
The invention relates to a system for detecting a watermark using informed detection. A first signal potentially having a watermark embedded is received ( 601 ) as is a second signal corresponding...
7487527 Interactive television program guide with selectable languages  
An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and...
7477250 Method and system for hapto-visual scene development and deployment  
A method of creating a system for haptically and graphically rendering one or more scenes. The method includes generating one or more haptic targets for haptically rendering the scene as a virtual...
7463311 Method and system for including non-graphic data in an analog video output signal of a set-top box  
A method and system for including non-graphic data in an analog video output signal of a set-top box. Graphics data is generated from and represents non-graphic data using software or firmware that...
7450177 Apparatus and method to control caption positioning  
An apparatus and a method that controls a position of a caption. The apparatus includes: a caption processing unit, which identifies a non-signal area (B) including the caption using a control...
7424132 Embedding hidden auxiliary code signals in media  
Methods for embedding and reading identification codes from media signals use embedded code signals modulated with the auxiliary message. These embedded code signals convey hidden tracking codes in...
7415718 Receiving and processing vertical blanking interval data  
A system and method for receiving, processing, and storing electronic data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The system provides a flexible mechanism for reading...
7415129 Providing reports associated with video and audio content  
The present invention relates generally to generating or otherwise providing reports associated with content (e.g., audio or video). One claim recites a method including: processing data...
7359528 Monitoring of video or audio based on in-band and out-of-band data  
The presently claimed invention relates generally to monitoring and/or filtering video or audio data. In one implementation a method is provided including: obtaining data representing video or...
7345690 Display system for adjusting video parameters for user-selected area  
A display system for adjusting video parameters of a user-selected area is disclosed. The display system includes a level detector detecting a line pattern included in one of a plurality of image...
7336318 Synthetic insertion of clear codes during video program changes  
An apparatus and method for facilitating program changes. The apparatus and method include a controller for detecting a change program request and for outputting change event data when a change...
7312831 Re-inserting VBI data using OSD apparatus and method  
A method of reinserting Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data in a digital video signal includes creating a gray scale palette in a an On Screen Display (OSD) memory; sizing a VBI area in an OSD...
7307665 Method and system for generating reference signals with improved correlation characteristics for accurate time of arrival or position determination  
The present invention provides a method and system for generating reference signals that, when correlated with synchronization code signals or other components of broadcast TV signals, yield...
7295680 Embedding and detecting digital watermark in image  
An apparatus for embedding digital watermark information in an image, includes an image divider dividing the image into a plurality of partial images; and an embedder embedding in each of the...
7271848 Information processing apparatus and method, and television signal receiving apparatus and method  
An information processing apparatus has: an input unit for inputting image data and program information data, the program information data indicating information on a program including the image...
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...
7242790 Video steganography  
The present invention relates generally to hiding a signal in video. One form of hiding is steganographic encoding. In one implementation a method is provided including: receiving content data...
7239359 Digital broadcasting receiver  
A tuner extracts a digital broadcasting wave on a channel tuned in to, and demodulates the extracted digital broadcasting wave, to output a transport stream. A demultiplexer acquires various types...
7227583 Digital TV method for switching channel automatically  
A digital TV and a method of switching a channel automatically thereof provides a viewer with advance notice of an automatic channel switch using linkage descriptor information on HD broadcasting....
7206303 Time ordered indexing of an information stream  
Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered...
7173667 Digital TV receiver for processing teletext information  
The present invention includes a teletext decoder extracting to decode the teletext information from an inputted video signal, a video processing unit extracting to process a pure video signal from...
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...
7130778 Computer touch screen radio station control system  
A computerized audio or video signal control system controlled by an announcer and having a display of the available signal sources and scheduled events which can be activated, mixed, faded and...
7110006 Video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system  
A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES...
7103197 Arrangement for embedding subliminal data in imaging  
Various improvements to steganographic systems, and applications therefore, are disclosed. The improvements include facilitating scale and rotation registration for steganographic decoding by use...
7099563 Multichannel recording device and method  
The present invention is directed to a recording device and method for recording digital data constituting a program on a disc-shaped recording medium using a specified minimum data length (CDA)...
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...
7064796 Method and system for re-identifying broadcast segments using statistical profiles  
A method and system for extracting segments from a broadcast television signal uses a mean display attribute value of pixels of each successive frame of a video component of the signal to identify...
7057669 Language displaying apparatus for digital TV and method for the same  
A language displaying apparatus for a digital TV and a method for the same notices all kinds of languages included in broadcasting signals and enables a user to recognize them and select the...
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...
7019723 Display unit communication system, communication method, display unit, communication circuit, and terminal adapter  
A display data packet contains identification information. A display unit communication system includes a control unit, a terminal adaptor to which a terminal adaptor ID is assigned and which is...
7006655 Methods, apparatus and systems for an electronic watermark having resistance to scaling  
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for embedding and detecting an electronic watermark without requiring signals for geometric compensation. A particular embodiment uses...
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...
6965729 Numbering of video objects and cells  
A method of recording an encoded bit stream, said encoded bit stream representing a plurality of video objects comprising a sequence of cells together constituting a part of an MPEG2 Program...
6965601 Data transmitting method and data transmitter  
When a serial digital transfer interface transmission packet in which an interval of each line of a video frame comprises an area into which an end synchronizing code EAV is inserted, an area into...
6958999 Frame bundling and payload switching  
A method and apparatus by which digitized large frames of packets are sent between computer-based switches over a data network and central switch with greater efficiency than with existing...
6947095 Broadcast data receiver and method of use thereof  
A broadcast data receiver (BDR) is provided and a method of using the BDR for the production of a pseudo stable reference control for the reliable generation of composite video signals. The BDR...
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...
6895169 Method and apparatus for VCR recording using key word selection of advance broadcast data  
A system method and apparatus for selectively recording on a VCR cassette, those news items of interest to a particular subscriber includes selecting video news items in accordance with previously...
6867816 Method and device to display an index of teletext pages  
A teletext program includes several teletext pages, with each teletext page being broadcast in the form of a set of data packets. A method for displaying a teletext program index on a television...
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