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6965730 Method for improving bandwidth efficiency  
A method for dynamically managing a digital recording system's bandwidth requirements, provides prioritized accesses to the recording system's hard drive according to a pre-defined policy which...
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...
6961096 Apparatus for and method of converting location information, and computer program product that is used therefor  
An apparatus for, a method of, and a computer program product for processing location information associated with an image of picture-taking, in a wide range of usage, inputs the location...
6961514 System and method for communicating images to a removable media device  
A system and method for communicating an image to a removable media device includes communicating the image from an image capture device to the removable media device over a wireless connection....
6959143 Advertising extracting system  
A system and method for extracting advertising segments from a video source, stores the extracted segments in a stractured database to be used in various applications. The system for extracting...
RE38849 Information record medium, apparatus for recording the same and apparatus for reproducing the same  
An information recording apparatus (SSI) is provided with: a signal process device ( 72 ) for applying a predetermined signal process to a plurality of partial record information blocks...
6952520 Picture recorder/reproducer and method thereof  
According to the invention, as received stream data is analyzed a sequence header is retrieved and stream data after the detected sequence header is written to storage unit when a recording...
6950600 Exponential storage system and method  
A system records a sequence of frames of a video in circular buffers. Each buffer is configured to store the frames in a sequential order. Disjoint sets of frames are selected from the video. There...
6947662 Picture mapping system  
A picture mapping system comprises a vehicle adapted to travel on an agricultural field; a camera mounted on the vehicle for continuously taking pictures of various portions of the agriculture...
6947658 Electronic image filing apparatus having image naming function  
An electronic album according to the present invention includes an image data selecting section for selecting image data to be titled, a picture-taking information capturing section for capturing a...
6944392 Electronic device  
The invention relates to an electronic device with an optical unit for reading information stored on an information plate and for writing information on an information plate, characterized in that...
6937813 Digital video storage and replay system  
A broadcast pause and resume system may simultaneously read and write data to a disk memory by using separate read and write heads which are driven by separate controllers. In this way, information...
6937814 System and method for play while recording processing  
A system and method of the present invention allow the playback of recorded data as the data is being recorded. Data is read from a source location, converted into an encoded format and stored in a...
6931199 Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and recording medium  
A digital television (DTV) operating screen is displayed on the cathode ray tube (CRT) display screen of a DTV which is the controlling apparatus of a network. In the event that the user selects a...
6931198 Apparatus and method for downloading desired data signal to user-selectable storage unit  
An information receiving apparatus instructs a storage device to be ready to perform a downloading operation. For example, the information receiving apparatus instructs the storage device to...
6928231 Method and system for video recording and computer program storing medium thereof  
A method and a system for video recording, in which scenes desired by a user can be recorded, are provided. Even at a case that the user sets the starting time and the ending time of a program...
6928229 Recording and reproducing apparatus storing data of a number of sub-frames  
Individual images included in a multi-frame image can be reproduced in an enlarged scale by an easy operation. Information indicating the number of split frames of a multi-frame image and...
6928230 Associating recordings and auxiliary data  
In order to match up individual recordings in a sequence ( 150 ) of recordings with corresponding items in a sequence ( 151 ) of separately-stored auxiliary data items concerning those recordings,...
6928228 System and method for detection and analysis of video recordings  
A system and method for detection and analysis of video recording is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a video recording, calculating complexity values of video recording received,...
6928232 Image processing apparatus with automatic image pickup feature  
The image processing apparatus includes a change detecting portion for outputting a first control signal indicating transition from a small change state to a large change state and a second control...
6928433 Automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata  
A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable music playback device, that automatically files tracks according to hierarchical structure of categories to organize tracks...
6925245 Method and medium for recording video information  
A method and a medium for recording video information make it possible to retrieve particular scenes quickly based on representative images alone, which are chosen by taking the contents of images...
6925577 Method for recording/storing multiple transport streams by dividing into series of packets  
A method for recording and storing independent and/or simultaneous transport streams of data is suggested. The inventive method comprises at least a recording mode in which at least a first...
6925246 Television recorder having a removeable hard disk drive  
A television recorder defines a recessed memory storage device bay and a rack mounted in the storage device bay. The recorder includes a carrier for removeably locking a hard disk drive into the...
6920086 Method for recording and reproducing radio information and corresponding system  
A method for the reproduction of information, as well as an arrangement therefor, are proposed, in which upon the arrival of information from a first information source, that information is...
6920641 Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media  
A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit...
6920280 Digital data play back apparatus and method for playing back digital data  
The present invention relates to a digital data play back apparatus for converting a digital data a signal read from a recording medium by sampling in a clock cycle, equalizing this digital data to...
6915065 Data processing system architecture  
Disclosed is a data processing system architecture, as may be employed in a digital video security system, that provides easy identification of system components such as system and video data hard...
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...
6901206 Digital video recorder file system  
A method for storing video data files upon an array of multiple storage devices on a frame-by-frame basis, with the larger video frames placed upon devices having more free storage capacity, so as...
6898799 Multimedia content navigation and playback  
In accordance with the present invention, a filtering process is based on the output side of a multimedia decoder. A navigator monitors the current play position of the multimedia content and...
6895174 Frame number detecting device  
An object is to provide a frame number detecting device having a frame counter which is less apt to output a wrong frame number even if a sync signal type was erroneously detected from a DVD etc....
6895166 Method and apparatus for encoding control data in a video data system  
Methods and apparatuses for inserting closed-caption and/or other control data into the vertical blanking interval of a video image data stream without the use of special encoding hardware.
6895165 Apparatus for enabling perpetual recording and instant playback or storage of a time-specific portion of an audio or audio visual broadcast medium  
A radio or television apparatus has tuning circuitry for selecting a channel from an input spectrum, an output for presenting a presentation from a selected channel, a recording apparatus having a...
6892024 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...
6885809 Recording apparatus that records a broadcast program and ID information for a broadcast station on a recording medium, and a playback apparatus for recorded programs  
A recording apparatus includes a reception unit and a recording unit. The reception unit receives a broadcast signal, out of a plurality of broadcast signals that can be specified by conditions...
6882792 Time-shift replaying system  
To provide a time-shift replaying system, which includes two time-shift replaying devices and allows two users to watch video image with different time-shift periods at the same time. Especially,...
6882794 Recording medium storing additional information for restoring digital data stream/information, recording method and restoring method  
A recording medium which stores additional information for restoring digital data streams, and a recording method and a restoration method therefor. The restoration method includes determining the...
6879774 Content sensitive control of rotating media  
A method and related computer system for content-sensitive control of rotating media. In one embodiment, a method includes decreasing a spin rate of a rotating source medium in response to the...
6879768 Information processing apparatus, method therefor and memory medium storing information processing program  
There is provided information processing apparatus/method featured by selecting the desired packets from input stream data containing plural packets multiplexed on time-division basis, counting the...
6877010 System and method for computer-assisted manual and automatic logging of time-based media  
A customizable logging and content management system for indexing multimedia, including a synchronized timer object that provides a time reference upon request in connection with the media, and a...
6871002 DSM-CC carousel receiver, receiving method used therefor, and recording medium storing a control program therefor  
This DSM-CC carousel receiver has a DSM-CC section receiving section for receiving a transport stream of MPEG2 (Moving Picture Experts Group-2) and extracting what forming a DSM-CC section, a...
6868229 Interfering with illicit recording activity by emitting non-visible radiation  
Often, during an event, such as a movie, play, concert, opera, etc., viewers of the event attempt to illicitly record the event. Such illicit recording attempts may be interfered with by using...
6865431 Semiconductor memory card, playback apparatus, recording apparatus, playback method, recording method, and computer-readable recording medium  
An audio stream is divided into a plurality of audio object (AOB) files that are recorded having each been encrypted using a different encryption key. At least one piece of track management...
6859609 Portable digital recorder  
A method and apparatus for recording digital video and/or audio signals include input audio and video interfaces, a memory, a video frame selector, and output audio and video interfaces. In an...
6859611 Computer implemented method of selectively recording and playing broadcast program content  
A computer-implemented method of selectively recording and playing the content of a broadcast program includes playing on a media player one of a plurality of prestored files which include program...
6859610 Recording device with a record-prepared mode for recording digital data  
A recording device for recording digital recording data in a recording mode of the recording device comprises data bus means to which a digital data bus can be connected and which are designed for...
6859614 Apparatus and method for controlling priority order of access to memory  
An apparatus for controlling an access to a memory in a system decoder of a digital video disk player. The digital video disk player includes several devices which access the memory. A memory...
6857129 Signal receiving video recording apparatus and method  
The user selects a program to record using a video recorder. The user programs the video recorder with the date, time, and channel of the selected program. The video recorder receives a start...
6856757 Apparatus and method for detecting sports highlights in a video program  
A method and system to automatically detect and isolate segments of interest from sports programs is provided. Accordingly, the method includes the steps of: segmenting incoming video programs into...