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7620965 Information processing apparatus and method, information providing apparatus and method, and program storage medium  
An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are disclosed. A personal computer receives a program guide and displays it. Then, the personal computer sends information...
7620292 Reproducing apparatus  
A reproducing apparatus that is capable of applying a special effect process to a moving picture signal reproduced from a recording medium is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus is configured to...
RE40982 Digital broadcast receiving/recording apparatus and method  
A multi-media system for transferring a single program transport stream and a method therefor are provided. A receiver is for receiving a transport stream. For the receiver to control recording and...
7616865 Recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of subtitle data and methods and apparatuses of recording and reproducing  
In the data structure for managing reproduction of subtitle data, a subtitle information area of the recording medium includes at least one object data segment and more than one color information...
7614066 Use of multiple embedded messages in program signal streams  
A method of generating a program signal stream comprises creating a sequence of serial programs that include a first event and a second, later occurring event and inserting a plurality of messages...
7609940 Display device and method for recording and replaying broadcasting program therein  
A method for selectively recording or replaying partial scenes of a broadcasting program includes the steps of: receiving a broadcasting program and a corresponding supplementary information;...
7609936 Content recording/reproducing apparatus and method, storage medium and computer program  
The present invention is intended to present to audience of content a remaining reproducible period of that content limited in recording retention period. If the information recording retention...
7603023 Recording apparatus and recording method capable of recording series of content data on different recording media  
A recording apparatus includes a first recording unit which records image data on a first recording medium, a second recording unit which records the image data on a second recording medium, and a...
7602819 Demultiplexing devices and process for at least two transport streams and a corresponding digital stream  
The invention is related to a demultiplexing device and process for at least two transport streams. The demultiplexing device comprises at least one merging unit, receiving at least two of the...
7600246 Method and apparatus for analyzing program data  
A system identifies a television program selected to be recorded. The identified television program has a scheduled start time and is associated with a program series. A program guide is searched...
7599609 Method for recording service data depending on service type in digital TV complex machine  
Provided are a method for recording service data and a digital TV complex machine using the same. The method includes: determining whether to include OSD data as an additional data for guiding...
7599600 Hard disk recorder  
The title of a program with a recording duration longest among all recording durations is recorded as the program title of a relevant program file. Thereby, even when a user has performed an...
7596302 Mobile terrestrial digital broadcast receiver  
A mobile terrestrial digital broadcast receiver is disclosed. With the arrival at a predetermined time before the starting time of a recording reserved program specified by arbitrary recording...
7593621 Method of reserving space on a storage medium for recording audio and video content and recofding 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...
7587132 Digital video recorder to be connected to a digital video camcorder via IEEE 1394 serial bus  
A digital video recorder connected to a DV camcorder sends, to the camcorder upon detecting camcorder mode change from a reproduction mode to a rewind mode, a stop command to forward a DV tape...
7581238 Program episodes recording  
A client device for a television-based entertainment system receives a viewer request to record episodes of a program and generates an episode record chart that designates a start time to record...
7580612 Digital broadcast sending apparatus, receiving apparatus and digital broadcast system  
In the digital broadcast to a mobile unit, the continuous reproduction of an image cannot be guaranteed when switching the hierarchical level in accordance with the receiving condition of the radio...
7577340 Device and method for recording real-time data  
The navigation generator 12 sets the time length of a VOB to a time length that is determined in advance depending on a scheduled recording time H. Even if a user makes an operation to stop the...
7577335 Digital broadcasting receiving/recording apparatus  
The MPU 17 issues, in program recording control, a control command to a stream recording/reproducing unit 4 so as to supply a partial TS outputted from a TS decoder 3 a to an external...
7574723 Home media network  
According to one embodiment, a method is described. The method includes receiving a request at a control module from a first remote device to access media data from a storage management module and...
7571454 Strategies for updating schedules  
Scheduling functionality is employed at a head-end site to update schedules used by a plurality of respective client devices to define the recording of media presentation events. The scheduling...
7570870 Systems and methods for recording programs of lesser interest when convenient  
Systems and methods for recording a program are provided. Alternate transmissions of a program with a “when convenient” recording priority may be recorded in whole or in portions whenever...
7568212 Digital broadcasting receiver  
There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel...
7567747 Recording method and system for selecting programs to be automatically recorded according to objective criteria  
Automatic video recording system and method are provided which make it possible that programs to be automatically recorded are selected according to objective criteria from the programs that are...
7559074 Program processing apparatus, program processing system, and program  
A program processing apparatus and system is disclosed by which an electronic program guide can be used to confirm a condition of each program readily and perform various operations for a program....
7558469 Method and apparatus to display graphically recording timer conflicts  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for displaying conflicts between two or more recording timers. These conflicts are displayed graphically for the user to resolve. Other features and...
7558466 Moving image playback apparatus and its control method, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium  
According to this invention, since a region to be decoded in a frame is set in accordance with the playback speed, the load on the decoding process remains unchanged irrespective of the playback...
7555207 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...
7555199 Recording apparatus, OSD controlling method, program, and recording medium  
A recording apparatus having a TS obtaining unit that obtains a transport stream including video data and data broadcast content; a BML generating unit that generates state information in which a...
7555198 Recording device, recording medium recording method, and program for recording medium recording method  
A video camera uses an optical disk based on the DVD system. Data for determination changing each time data corresponding to a recording unit from a start of a recording operation until the end of...
7551836 Broadcast program recording method, broadcast receiver, and information recorder therefor  
A highly-operable receiver, which shortens search operations on an HDD upon startup, a recording method thereof, and an information recorder therefor are described. The broadcast receiver includes...
7551835 Image pickup apparatus  
A recorder adapted to encode a moving picture signal using an MPEG method to record the resultant encoded moving picture signal to transmit the encoded moving picture signal to the outside of the...
RE40784 Method for automatic setting of a timer reservation mode and an associated clock in a V.C.R.  
In a VCR employing multiple reservation modes, the last used reservation mode is memorized by a microprocessor, and, at the time for setting a next reservation, the memorized reservation mode is...
7546627 Digital broadcast receiving and recording apparatus  
When an operation of starting a time shift recording is input, start a recording of a channel in viewing when the channel is set as a favorite channel. When the channel is not set as the favorite...
7546626 Information providing system, information processing apparatus, and method  
A data providing system is capable of providing metadata or supplementary data generated in a predetermined area to a different area. Metadata related to broadcast programs are transmitted from a...
7545407 Method of recording still pictures onto a recording medium  
The present invention relates to a method of recording still pictures and audio data onto a rewritable recording medium. The present method records still-picture video and audio files of the...
7542658 Apparatus and program for updating a reservation of a broadcast program based on program guide data  
Contents reserved to be recorded by a user manually operating a switch unit are stored in an EPG/reservation information memory as first reservation information. A CPU having acquired EPG data by a...
7542657 Video tape indexing system and method  
A video tape indexing system in which program broadcast identification information is entered into the system for use in recording the program. When the program is recorded, the system stores...
7542656 Method and apparatus of recording a multi-channel stream, and a recording medium containing a multi-channel stream recorded by said method  
The present invention relates to method and apparatus of recording a multi-channel data stream on a recording medium in such a manner that substreams of digital channels constituting the...
7539392 Reproduction apparatus and recording apparatus, and controlling method thereof  
A reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction unit and a communication unit. The reproduction unit reproduces digital video data from a storage medium. The communication unit generates a packet...
7536080 Signal processing apparatus  
A signal processing apparatus that enables while a significant video signal is not being output, a stream that is decoded to a black picture signal is output along with a base band signal that...
7536077 Method for sending information on a network, and electronic information equipment  
Electronic information equipment for recording contents are connected to a network. One of the pieces of electronic information equipment manages information of the dispersed storage state. The...
7529466 Signal processing method and signal processing apparatus  
A signal recorded in a work area is read for a predetermined time, the signal is assumed to be a candidate signal, and this signal is stored in a memory. A signal differing from the candidate...
7529465 System for time shifting multimedia content streams  
A multimedia time warping system. The TV streams are converted to an Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) formatted stream for internal transfer and manipulation and are parsed and separated it...
7529463 Speculative recording device  
In a speculative recording device, a profile extracting unit extracts a user profile which indicates a preference of a user in viewing programs based on an operation by the user, and a program list...
7529462 Memory control method for a personal video recording system  
The invention relates to a PVR system ( 100 ) making choices to store or remove certain programs in or from a memory ( 102 ) in order to create space for new programs to be stored in the memory....
7526787 Method to remotely provide television broadcast recording services to broadcast television service subscribers  
A system and method for remotely recording television programs using a remote redundant recording system in case of local DVR system failure. The system and method enables a subscriber station to...
7526185 Information storage medium and method of recording and/or reproducing data thereon  
An information storage medium in which speed information has been recorded, and a method of recording and/or reproducing data on the information storage medium. The information storage medium...
7526184 Video recording system utilizing external video storage to record streaming video data via an isochronous interface  
The present invention may be regarded as a video recording system and method of enabling the recording of an external video data stream for a video program segment selected using an electronic...
7522817 Method and apparatus for storing content  
A system receives a broadcast program and temporarily stores the program data. A request is received to permanently record the broadcast program. This request is received after a portion of the...