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| 386326000 | VIDEO PROCESSING FOR RECORDING | 89 |
| 20130028576 | REPRODUCTION CONTROL DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION CONTROL METHOD - One embodiment provides a reproduction control device including: a first receiving module configured to receive addresses of plural respective content data that correspond to each other in substance but are different from each other in usable functions and first function information indicating sets of usable functions of the plural respective content data; a second receiving module configured to receive second function information indicating functions supported by an external device; a selecting module configured to select a function to be used in playing back; and a sending module configured to determine content data that allow the external device to use the selected function according to the first and second function information, and to send an address of the determined content data to the external device. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20110194843 | INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information terminal includes a storing unit configured to store image pickup data picked up in time series by an image pickup apparatus that picks up images of a sales floor and sales data obtained by recording sales of a commodity displayed in the sales floor and date and time of registration of the sales; a list display unit configured to list-display videos of a predetermined sales floor in time series at every predetermined time interval on the basis of the image pickup data; a totalizing unit configured to totalize, at the every time interval, list-displayed sales of the commodity of the sales floor on the basis of the sales data; and a sales display unit configured to display the totalized sales of the commodity at the every time interval. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20130044996 | INTELLIGENT RECORDING - An audio/video recording method and system is provided. The method includes receiving by a processor of an audio/video recording device, a request for recording broadcast audio/video data. The processor analyzes audio/video presentation capabilities for audio/video presentation devices and formats of a first group of broadcast audio/video files associated with the broadcast audio/video data. Results of the analyses are compared and in response a first audio/video file is selected from the first group of broadcast audio/video files. The first audio/video file includes a first format requiring a first amount of storage space within a storage device of the audio/video recording device. The first format is associated with the audio/video presentation capabilities of a first audio/video presentation device and the first audio/video file is recorded. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130051774 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus generates an information file which has a plurality of storage unit elements each of which includes size information and which information file include one or more first storage unit elements each for storing encoded information data and one or more second storage unit elements each for storing management information regarding the information data stored in the first storage unit element, such that a new first storage unit element is formed for every predetermined amount of the encoded information data, and the second storage unit element corresponding to the formed first storage unit element is formed, thereby generating information file. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20120224835 | VIDEO RECORDING MANAGEMENT - A device may estimate a probability that each video recording, of a group of video recordings, will be played back at the device during a time interval. The group of video recordings may include video recordings stored locally at the device and video recording stored at a remote location. The device may also determine whether to transfer a video recording to the remote location or retrieve a video recording from the remote location based on the estimated probabilities. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20110274413 | Multimedia control center - A video library is formed within a personal video depot (PVD). The PVD has capability to accept purchased video's and DVD's as well as personal video's captured on camcorders. The purchased video's and DVD's are rights verified and assigned to a user having an authenticated ID. The PVD has capability to play a selected video on a TV as well as acquire additional video titles from the server connected to the depot through a network. A menu is displayed on a TV from which a remote control is used to make selections that affect the purchase of video titles and operation of the PVD. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110299837 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a priority content setting unit setting at least one of a plurality of contents managed in accordance with at least one of a plurality of recording formats as a priority content based on selection of a user or a predetermined rule; and a control unit performing control to change the recording format for managing the priority content so that the priority content is managed in accordance with a specific recording format among the plurality of recording formats, when an operation input of the user is receivable and the operation input is an operation input associated with a specific operation. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110200306 | 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 of which changes from a normal state to a selected state, and from the selected state to an active state, according to a user operation. In the three Button State groups in the graphics stream, the first-order group (N-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent normal states of the buttons, the second-order group (S-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent selected states of the buttons, and the third-order group (A-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent active states of the buttons. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110008021 | METHOD FOR RAPID ARCHIVING AND RESTORING OF A VIDEO STORE - An apparatus, method and software program product for rapid archiving and restoring of a video store. The method includes receiving and recording video signals representing the video data more than one time responsive to a first command; and terminating the recording of the video signals responsive to a second command. The recoding of the video signals is performed at a video rate. The method further includes receiving video signals from the video recoding device playing back the stored plurality of instances of the video data; recording the received video signals to a memory responsive to a command; and terminating the recording process when the memory is filled, wherein the recorded video signals includes at least one instance of the video. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110142424 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a moving image signal in a recording medium, a setting unit configured to set a threshold based on a remaining recording capacity of the recording medium, and a control unit configured to control the recording unit to start recording the moving image signal, into a first moving image file in the recording medium, according to a recording instruction, wherein the control unit is configured to control the recording unit to divide the moving image signal into at least a second moving image file in the recording medium in the case that a size of the first moving image file has reached the threshold during recording of the moving image signal according to the recording instruction, and is configured to control the recording unit to delete the moving image file recorded first, from among the plurality of moving image files recorded after the recording instruction, if the remaining recording capacity of the recording medium is determined to have run out during recording of the moving image signal. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110058792 | Video Format for Digital Video Recorder - Some embodiments provide a video recording device for capturing a video clip. The video recording device receives a selection of a non-temporally compressed encoding scheme from several different encoding schemes for encoding the video clip. The different encoding schemes include at least one temporally compressed encoding scheme and at least the selected non-temporally compressed encoding scheme. The video recording device captures the video clip as several frames. The video recording device non-temporally encodes each of the frames as several slices. The slices of a particular frame are for decoding by several processing units of a video decoding device. The video recording device stores the video clip in a storage. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20100316357 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a control unit configured to store in a recording medium a piece of attribute information specified by a user input from among a plurality of sequential pieces of the attribute information in association with a predetermined time period of a content stored in the recording medium. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110044663 | Moving image recording apparatus, moving image recording method and program - There is provided a moving image recording apparatus including a feature amount extracting unit which extracts plural types of feature amount data relating to feature amounts characterizing moving image data from the moving image data, a memory unit at which the plural types of feature amount data extracted by the feature amount extracting unit and the moving image data are recorded being mutually associated, and a duplicate content searching unit which searches duplicate contents being mutually duplicated moving image data out of a plurality of the moving image data stored in the memory unit based on the plural types of feature amount data. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100329647 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BASED ON BUFFERING STATES OF THE MULTIMEDIA SERVICE - Provided are a method and apparatus for recording digital multimedia by buffering. The method includes performing buffering with regard to each of a plurality of received multimedia services in a predetermined output mode; managing buffering information relating to buffering settings with regard to each of the buffered multimedia services; and controlling output of a corresponding multimedia service according to the buffering information, wherein the output mode comprises a time shift mode where a previously buffered multimedia service is called and reproduced and a background mode where a currently received multimedia service is buffered without being displayed on a screen. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110262109 | METHOD FOR RECORDING MEDICAL IMAGES OF A MOVING OBJECT - The invention relates to a method for recording medical images, in particular ultrasound images, of a moving object, in particular of a heart, said method comprising the following steps: generating a movement signal that dynamically represents the state of movement of the moving object, identifying the phase position and the frequency of the moving object on the basis of the movement signal, reconstructing the images on the basis of the phase position and of the frequency and/or carrying out at least one scan of the moving object, with the recording times being adjusted according to the phase position and the frequency of the moving object. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120020652 | VIDEO RECORDER - To provide a video recorder that can receive a plurality of broadcast signals having different channels to perform video recording. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120301119 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image capturing apparatus is able to record a moving image in a first image capturing mode or a second image capturing mode. In the first image capturing mode, the apparatus starts recording of a moving image signal in response to an instruction to start recording and stops recording of the moving image signal in response to an instruction to stop recording. In the second image capturing mode, the apparatus starts recording of a moving image signal in response to the instruction to start recording, and automatically stops recording of the moving image signal when a predetermined period elapses after recording of the moving image signal starts. The apparatus controls so as to extract a moving image signal of the predetermined period from a moving image signal recorded in the first image capturing mode on a recording medium, and to record the extracted moving image signal on a recording medium. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120301118 | OPTICAL DISC PLAYER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DECODING UNIT IN THE OPTICAL DISC PLAYER SYSTEM TO READ ENCODED BITSTREAM DATA FROM A BUFFER MEMORY - A data processing apparatus for decoding a bitstream includes a channel decoder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of decoders. The channel decoder is used for generating an encoded bitstream data from a received channel data and storing the encoded bitstream data to a buffer, wherein the encoded bitstream contains a plurality types of sectors. The demultiplexer is used for rearranging the stored encoded bitstream data according to the plurality of types and storing sectors corresponding to the same bitstream type in respective regions in the buffer. The decoders are used for decoding the sectors corresponding to the bitstream types, the decoders retrieving the rearranged data from the buffer according to corresponding one of the plurality of types. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120237188 | NETWORK VIDEO RECORDER AND METHOD FOR RECORDING VIDEO DATA IN THE NETWORK VIDEO RECORDER - In a network video recorder (NVR), a starting location and an end location of video data in a file are set. One frame of video data is recorded in one element of a storage buffer and the element has an index. The NVR further sets a starting location and an end location that coincides with the index of a frame of video data in the storage buffer. If the NVR receives a frame and not enough space of the storage buffer, the NVR adjusts the starting location of the storage buffer by one element, and adjusts the starting location of the file to the starting location of the frame in the storage buffer. If enough space is and the frame is the Intra-frame, the NVR adjusts the end location of the file by one frame, and adjusts the end location of the storage buffer by one element. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120213496 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING TIME DELAYED BROADBAND CONTENT - Systems, methods, and apparatus for recording time delayed broadband content are provided. Desired content to be recorded may be identified by a programming processing component configured to receive broadband content output by a service provider. A channel associated with the desired content and an amount of delay associated with the channel may be determined. Based at least in part upon the determined amount of delay, the recording of the desired content may be scheduled by the programming processing component. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120315022 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING MEDIUM, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - The present invention is for more optimally performing recording and reproduction of stereoscopic video. In the present invention, parallax information is utilized to store, in a recording medium, stereoscopic video including left-eye images and right-eye images. Particularly, for video content that contains stereoscopic images, information is obtained regarding the amount of variation in parallactic angle having a given or larger value, a variation time that the variation in parallactic angle takes, and the number of times that the variation in parallactic angle occurs. An evaluation value is calculated that corresponds to the degree of eye fatigue on the basis of the amount of variation, the variation time, and the number of times of the variation. According to the present invention, the video content is encoded in such a manner that the evaluation value is within a given range, and then recorded in the recording medium. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120177347 | BROADCAST RECORDING DEVICE AND BROADCAST RECORDING METHOD - The present invention discloses a broadcast recording device that generates a partial transport stream from a transport stream representing information of one or more channels as a transport packet group. The device includes a reduction recording unit that generates the partial transport stream by using a filtered transport packet group made by deleting at least one of a caption transport packet and a data broadcast transport packet from the transport packet group representing the information of one recording channel selected from the one or more channels. The reduction recording unit records the generated partial transport stream in a recording media. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20110013886 | RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A DATA STRUCTURE FOR MANAGING REPRODUCTION OF TEXT SUBTITLE DATA AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES OF RECORDING AND REPRODUCING - In the a data structure, a subtitle area of the recording medium stores a text subtitle stream including text subtitle data and at least one of global style information and local style information. The global style information provides at least one of composition information and rendering information, and the local style information provides font information for at least a portion of the text subtitle data. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110235999 | CONTENT CONTROL VIA GUIDE DATA AND/OR METADATA - Metadata of the type for instance associated with television or video Electronic Programming Guides (EPG) or Interactive Programming Guides (IPG), is transported via a digital delivery network such as the Internet to a video receiving device such as a personal video recorder (PVR). The receiving device extracts the metadata for a purpose such as determining from the metadata programming of control signals. The PVR thereby reads or interprets control signals derived from the metadata provided via the digital delivery network so as to control subsequent video recording. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120275771 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image encoding/decoding device includes a first circuit and a second circuit for providing initial setting to image processing modules. The image encoding/decoding device does not receive information, which is initially set to the image processing modules, directly from an external CPU, and control information for the initial setting is set to the first circuit from the CPU. The second circuit reads in initial setting information and setting-target information of the initial setting information from outside using the control information set in the first circuit and transfers the initial setting information to an image processing module according to the setting-target information. The CPU does not need to set the whole information, which is initially set to the image processing modules, directly to the image encoding/decoding device, and also does not need to set both a transfer source address and a transfer destination address as in DMA transfer. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120328267 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING STORAGE OF RECORDED VIDEO PROGRAMS - A method of managing video programs and associated program components on a storage unit of an electronic device is provided. A total number of playbacks of each video program stored in the storage unit and a total number of playbacks of each program component stored in the storage unit for each of the video programs are tracked. A percentage of playbacks of each program component stored on the storage unit relative to the total number of playbacks of its corresponding video program is determined. From this, candidates of program components for deletion from the storage unit are identified based on the values of the determined percentages. The tracking, determining and identifying steps of the method are performed by electronic components of the electronic device. A device is also disclosed. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130011124 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data recording/playing configuration on a coding process for a recorded 3D image. Attribute information of the 3D image is recorded in each of hierarchized management information files as an attribute in units of management data of each of the management information files. The attribute information to be recorded can include attribute information of a coding process of a 3D image to be recorded. During decoding of the 3D image, inter-image reference identification data indicating whether or not inter-image reference between a left-eye image and a right-eye image is likely to be needed or coding mode identification data indicating whether or not an entropy coding mode is used for coding the 3D image are recorded as attribute information. A playing apparatus can determine a coding mode without performing analysis of data to be played, to correctly perform a decoding process. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130022337 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data recording/playing configuration capable of recording different attribute information according to methods of coding a 3D image and decoding according to the coding method, by acquiring attribute information. A method of coding a 3D image included in data to be recorded in a recoding medium is determined; attribute information to be recorded in a management information file is changed according to the determined coding method; and attribute information unique to each coding method is recorded in the management information file. For example, if the coding method is a frame sequential method, frame identification data indicating whether a frame constituting the 3D image is a left-eye image or a right-eye image is recorded as the attribute information. A playing apparatus acquires information unique to the coding method from the attribute information, so a decoding process corresponding to the coding method can be performed without error. | 01-24-2013 |
| 386328000 | With compression (e.g., DCT/MJPEG, etc.) | 43 |
| 20130028577 | LARGE FORMAT VIDEO ARCHIVAL, STORAGE, AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A method and system for storing a video on a storage device are provided. The method includes formatting each image in a plurality of images into a plurality of tiles, the plurality of images being captured as a temporal sequence of images at successive points in time. The method further includes selecting a tile from each image in the temporal sequence of images to obtain a temporal sequence of tiles to generate a video segment; selecting another tile from each image in the temporal sequence of images to obtain another temporal sequence of tiles to generate another video segment; and repeating the selecting a tile from each image in the temporal sequence of images to obtain a plurality of temporal sequences of tiles to generate a plurality of video segments. The obtained plurality of video segments are stored in a file on the storage device. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20110194844 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD, DATA STRUCTURE, RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, a data structure, a recording medium, a recording apparatus and a recording method, and a program that enable, in a case where offset information of a sub-image is arranged in a stream of a main image, easy realization of 3D display of the sub-image based on the offset information. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20130077942 | VIDEO RECORDING METHOD AND VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE - A video recording method is provided. The method includes steps of: determining a threshold bit rate according to a storage space and an expected recording period; capturing a video data; determining whether a current bit rate is greater than the threshold bit rate; storing a predictive frame of the video data when the current bit rate is not greater than the threshold bit rate; and not storing the predictive frame when the current bit rate is greater than the threshold bit rate. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130071094 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM INCLUDING CONTENT RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTENT PLAYBACK APPARATUS CONNECTED THROUGH WIRELESS TRANSMISSION PATH, CAPABLE OF RECORDING PROGRAM CONTENT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY PLAYING BACK PROGRAM CONTENT IN REAL TIME - A content recording apparatus comprising: an encoding unit for encoding program content at a data rate; a HDD for storing the encoded program content; a wireless transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting the encoded program content to a content playback apparatus; a data rate memory for storing the data rate at which the program content is encoded; and a data rate setting unit for setting the data rate stored in the data rate memory, on the encoding unit. The wireless transmitting and receiving unit receives result information from the content playback apparatus, the result information indicating whether or not the program content transmitted to the content playback apparatus has been correctly played back on the content playback apparatus. The data rate setting unit determines, based on the result information, a data rate at which the program content is encoded, and stores the data rate in the data rate memory. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20120014674 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AUTHORED FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA A PHYSICAL MEDIUM FOR ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods for converting interactive multimedia content authored for distribution via a physical medium for electronic distribution are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes building an object model of interactive multimedia content authored for distribution via a physical medium using a content authoring system, automatically authoring a user interface based upon the object model using the content authoring system, and packing the transcoded multimedia content into at least one container file. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20110058794 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS - A video recording apparatus compresses video data so that a bit rate converges to a target bit rate while keeping a minimum image quality and records the compressed video data. The video recording apparatus (exemplified by a recording and reproducing apparatus ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058793 | Video Format for Digital Video Recorder - Some embodiments provide a video camera. The video camera includes image sensing circuitry for capturing a sequence of video pictures, a user interface for allowing a user to select a video encoding format from a temporally compressed encoding format and non-temporally compressed encoding format, encoding circuitry for encoding the video pictures according to the format selected by the user, and random access storage for storing video clips. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110150433 | Systems and methods for video-aware screen capture and compression - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support video-aware screen capture and compression. More specifically, the video-aware approach first detects whether or when video content is being actively played back on a screen of a hosting device. If the video content is actively being rendered, the approach separates (segments) the screen content into static (non-video) content and video content, The approach then applies video-specific capture and compression methods to the video content of the screen and other suitable compression methods to the non-video content of the screen. The compressed static and video content of the screen are separately and independently transmitted across the network to remote computing devices and are then decompressed and processed to reconstruct screen of its original content for display at the screens of the remote computing devices. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110110648 | VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE, VIDEO REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - A video reproduction apparatus includes audio data reading unit for reading audio data in a second file; video data reading units for reading video data in a first file; audio decoding unit for generating an audio signal from the audio data read by the audio data reading unit; video decoding unit for decoding the demultiplexed video data; and read controlling unit for controlling the audio data reading unit and the video data reading unit. The read controlling unit reads the first file using a band other than a band required to read the second file, and instructs to output skipped video data. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110081131 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a recording device, a recording method, a playback device, a playback method, a recording medium, and a program that enable a recording medium, such as a BD, storing a stream of base image and a stream of extended image obtained by encoding video data of a plurality of viewpoints using a predetermined encoding method to be played in a device incompatible with playback of video data of a plurality of viewpoints. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110150434 | A Pan camera controlling method - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for controlling a pan camera is presented. The process may be implemented to record, by the pan camera, a first set of video clips corresponding to a plurality of scene areas, wherein each of the first set of video clips is generated by recording one of the plurality of scene areas according to a video capturing scheme. The process may, in response to a data request for a first video clip of a scene area selected from the plurality of scene areas, retrieve the first video clip from the previously recorded first set of video clips. The process may also adjust the video capturing scheme for a subsequent video recording. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110249959 | VIDEO STORING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON VARIABLE BIT ALLOCATION AND RELATED VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUSES - Provided are a method and device for storing video on the basis of a variable bit allocation to variably control a buffer size. Also provided are video encoding and decoding apparatuses using the same. The device divides a video image to be stored into a plurality of first basic blocks, checks pixel values of second basic blocks for each of the divided first basic blocks, and allocates bits to each of the first basic blocks according to a difference between maximum and minimum values of the checked pixel values. Also, the device compresses and stores pixel information about the first basic block in the allocated bits, and then de-compresses the compressed pixel information according to the maximum and minimum values for each of the first basic blocks. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110069941 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus performs bit rate conversion on an input stream and records the input stream with additional data such as captions and a weather forecast left therein into a recording medium in consideration of the remaining capacity thereof. A recording apparatus ( | 03-24-2011 |
| 20100322597 | METHOD OF COMPRESSION OF GRAPHICS IMAGES AND VIDEOS - Compression of graphics images and videos includes partitioning an image into blocks, determining the number of bitplanes for encoding each block, encoding the block by grouping pixel values so that within each group, the pixel values are the same or similar, sending the number of bitplanes, sending the number of groups and the pixel value of each group and sending a signal for each pixel to indicate the group for that pixel, as well as using leftover bits from a bit budget for sending refinement bits for pixels. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110150435 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SELECTING A RECORDING MODE INDEPENDENT FROM THE RECORDING ASPECT RATIO - The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus and method, and a program for improving usability by removing operational constraints on combinations of an aspect ratio of a recorded moving image and a horizontal resolution from users while the compliance with the DVD-Video standard is strictly maintained. When an aspect ratio is 16:9 in a state that an LP mode is selected, a horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 720×480. When the aspect ratio is 4:3 in a state that the LP mode is selected, the horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 352×480. When an HQ or SQ mode is selected, the horizontal×vertical resolution is set to 720×480 irrespective of the aspect ratio. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus can encode a moving image and record the encoded image onto a DVD | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110019977 | RANDOMLY ACCESSIBLE VISUAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110135285 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - An image coding apparatus ( | 06-09-2011 |
| 20120114314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING STORAGE IN NETWORK VIDEO RECORDERS - The subject matter discloses a method, comprising obtaining a current retention time of storage associated with a digital recorder; obtaining current bitrates of channels used to transmit video captured by edge devices communicating with the digital recorder. The method then determines change in compression rates to be allocated to at least a portion of the channels according to the current retention time and the current bitrates and transmits the change in compression rates to be allocated to the channels to edge devices communicating with the digital recorder. The method can be implemented in a system in which several digital recorders use the same storage. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120014675 | Method and Device for Storing a Portion of a Video Stream - The invention relates to a method for storing a portion of a compressed video stream, said compressed video stream comprising a series of compressed key images between which are inserted intermediate frames comprising at least the encoding of differences between an uncompressed intermediate image and the key image immediately preceding same, said method comprising: acquiring, in real time, the compressed video stream; temporarily storing, without decompression, the acquired compressed video stream, said temporary storage comprising at least the last compressed key image received and the subsequent intermediate frames; upon receipt of a permanent storage start event at a given instant: reconstructing a compressed key image corresponding to said given instant starting from the last key image received and from the subsequent intermediate frames; and storing the portion of the video stream starting with the reconstructed compressed key image. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120063748 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TEMPORARY STORAGE OF IMAGE-ENCODING DATA - An apparatus and a method for temporary storage of image-encoding data are provided. The apparatus for temporary storage of image-encoding data is utilized for high-resolution image encoding, wherein the apparatus includes an image sensing unit, a storage unit, and an encoding unit. The image sensing unit creates a plurality of frame data in successive order. Each frame data is composed of a plurality of macroblock row data. The storage unit includes a first storage portion and a second storage portion. The capacities of the first storage portion and the second storage portion are both a positive integral multiple of the size of the macroblock row data. The storage unit receives the macroblock row data from the image sensing unit and writes the macroblock row data into one of the first storage portion and the second storage portion. When the encoding unit reads the written macroblock row data from one of the first storage portion and the second storage portion, the storage unit simultaneously receives new macroblock row data from the image sensing unit and writes the new macroblock row data to the other one of the first storage portion and the second storage portion. The design of the first storage portion and the second storage portion is utilized to conserve storage space. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063749 | VIDEO FILE CREATION DEVICE AND VIDEO FILE CREATION METHOD - A video file creation device according to an embodiment includes an encoder, a metadata acquisition unit, a file creation unit, and a data storage unit. The encoder is configured to create compressed video data from a video stream. The metadata acquisition unit is configured to acquire metadata related to the video data. The file creation unit configured to create a file in an MXF format having a metadata section formed of a metadata recording area and an additional writing area. The acquired metadata is recorded in the metadata recording area. The data storage unit configured to record the file in the MXF format created by the file creation unit. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20110044664 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONVERSION RECORDING DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONVERSION RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONVERSION DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A three-dimensional video conversion recording device capable of recording three-dimensional video data on a recording medium after reducing data amount thereof, includes a separating unit for separating an inputted three-dimensional video stream into a plurality of video streams, a decoding unit for decoding at least one of the plurality of separated video streams, a frame thinning unit for reducing data amount of the decoded video stream, an encoding unit for encoding the video stream whose data amount is reduced, a multiplexing unit for multiplexing other video streams which are video streams other than the video stream inputted to the decoding unit out of the plurality of separated video streams and the encoded video stream, and a recording unit for recording the multiplexed video data on a recording medium. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120163777 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus is arranged such that in the case where moving image data is recorded into recording mediums, seamless discrimination information for discriminating whether or not the moving image data is reproducible successively to preceding moving image data which is to be reproduced precedingly thereto is generated, a code amount of the moving image data which is encoded by an encoding unit is adjusted on the basis of a code amount of the preceding moving image data recorded in one of a first recording medium and a second recording medium in accordance with a simultaneous recording instruction to simultaneously record the moving image data encoded by the encoding unit into the first and second recording mediums, and the moving image data whose code amount is adjusted, and the seamless discrimination information are recorded into the first and second recording mediums. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120230656 | 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 being correlated with the converted image signal. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120177348 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDIA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A media processing method for performing media processing by causing a processor to execute plural program modules, includes controlling input/output of media data, determining at least one call time, and calling a second program module in a second layer at each determined call time, by executing a first program module in a first layer, the first layer being higher than the second layer. The method further includes causing the processor to perform data conversion on the media data, by executing the second program module in the second layer, the data conversion being part of the media processing. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120082438 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video data processing apparatus includes a file receiver, an analyzer, and a recorder. The file receiver receives a data file. The analyzer analyzes the data file, divides the data file into first data blocks of first data units, and adds index information to each of the first data blocks. The index information includes particular verification data located at a first position in the index information, and management information for playback of the each first data block. The recorder records each of the first data blocks with the index information. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20110262110 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING PROGRAM - A file management apparatus includes: a display unit; an operation unit; a storage which stores first files movable to a portable apparatus and second files unmovable to the portable apparatus; an interface to which the portable apparatus is connected and through which the first files are moved between the storage and the portable apparatus; and a control unit which displays a list of the first files on the display unit when the operation unit operates a first operation and displays a list of the second files on the display unit when the operation unit operates a second operation and which generates a graphical user interface to display an operation button, which is used to move the first files to the portable apparatus, on the display unit, when the portable apparatus is connected to the interface. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120087641 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a recoding device, a recording method, a playback device, a playback method, a program, and a recording medium, whereby synchronization between a basic stream and an extended stream obtained by encoding a plurality of video data using a predetermined encoding method to be recoded in a recording medium such as a BD or the like using a predetermined encoding method can be secured. | 04-12-2012 |
| 386329000 | MPEG 1 or MPEG2 (e.g., GOP/GOF (I, P, and B frames), etc.) | 13 |
| 20110142425 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING INFORMATION TO INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A data recording medium by which, when encoding an externally input AV signal to an MPEG transport stream, the MPEG_TS can be quickly and efficiently converted to an MPEG program stream conforming to a DVD standard, is provided. An apparatus and method for recording to the data recording medium are also provided. A flag indicating that a first stream (such as an MPEG transport stream) is recorded in a constraint format enabling efficient conversion to a second stream (such as an MPEG program stream) is written to the management information (VOBI). By referencing this flag the recorder can easily determine if the recorded data was recorded in the specified constraint format without analyzing the data recorded to the data recording medium. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110008022 | System and Methods for Recording a Compressed Video and Audio Stream - A system for recording a compressed video-audio stream includes a decoder for decoding the video and audio packets of the stream, a multimedia recorder for recording the video and audio portions of the stream, and a video frame editor. In one embodiment the multimedia recorder receives and ignores initial delta frames of the video portion of the stream while buffering the audio portion of the stream received until a first key frame arrives and is buffered and decoded and wherein upon receiving a command to record, the system writes a copy of the key frame at a predefined interval the first interval corresponding with the start of the recording of the audio portions of the stream, the write interval repeated successively until a next key frame arrives whereby the video and audio is then recorded as received. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110002671 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002670 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002669 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002668 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002667 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002666 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002665 | 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 (DA | 01-06-2011 |
| 386330000 | MPEG2 transport stream (e.g., 188-packets or data structure, etc.) | 4 |
| 20110262111 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-SPEED VIDEO PRESENTATION - A method of presenting video frames of a video segment at a non-standard speed is provided. A frame count is set to an initial value. For each video frame that is to be presented, a time offset relative to a staring time within the video segment is generated. The time offset may be generated by multiplying the frame count by two values. The first value is a length of time for which each selected frame is to be presented to the user, and the second value is the presentation rate of the video segment relative to a normal presentation rate. A video frame within the video segment corresponding to the time offset within the video segment is selected and output for presentation. The frame count is then updated, and the process is repeated for the next frame to be presented. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110026905 | Packet Sequence Restoring Controller and Method Thereof - A packet sequence restoring controller includes a recording device, a memory interface unit and a playback device. The recording device includes a first packet detector, a time stamp inserting unit and a first counting module. The playback device includes a second packet detector, a comparing unit, a time stamp deleting unit and a second counting module. Through the memory interface unit, the recording device and the playback device perform data access with an external memory. By recording arrival time of each packet, a live packet sequence is simulated and restored to optimize play quality of a recorded program. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110075994 | System and Method for Video Storage and Retrieval - A method and system for providing functionality similar to that found in a DVR but mostly or completely contained within a television set is disclosed. A memory stores packets representing a portion of one or more programs in the broadcast stream and allows a viewer to replay that portion of the program using some of the functions available on a DVR, such as pause, rewind, and fast forward. The packet stream is divided into groups of equal length and fixed time duration, for example one second, and stored in sequential order in the memory. This allows for the storage and retrieval of content without the need for an index file, without adding a timestamp to the program data packets, and without separating the audio portion from the video portion of the program and then having to synchronize and recombine them. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110135286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING KEY FRAMES AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - An apparatus and method for extracting key frames and an apparatus and method for recording broadcast signals using the same, the key frame extracting apparatus including a stream information analyzing unit and a key frame extracting unit. The stream information analyzing unit extracts frame information from a video stream. The key frame extracting unit extracts a key frame among frames of the video stream by using the frame information. | 06-09-2011 |
| 386331000 | With MPEG4 or MPEG7 (e.g., META data, VOP, etc.) | 2 |
| 20110274414 | BOUNDARY DETECTION IN MEDIA STREAMS - Encoded data decoding techniques. A data decoding agent determines a data segment size for a packet that includes a header and a data segment. The data decoding agent determines a segment end location based, at least in part, on the data segment size. The data decoding agent processes subblocks of data from the data segment. The data decoding agent compares a current location to the segment end location to determine if a current subblock of data from the data segments contains the segment end location. The data decoding agent triggers an exception handler if the current subblock contains the segment end location. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120189285 | Method and System for Simultaneous Recording of Multiple Programs on a DVR - A method and system for broadcasting content, is described, the method and system facilitating simultaneous recording of multiple programs on a digital video recorder (DVR), the method and system including providing a plurality of content items, dividing each one of the plurality of content items into a multiplicity of chunks, each one of the chunks including at least one reference frame, for each one of the chunks determining a location of each reference frame included in the chunk, creating a chunk index of locations of each reference frame included in the chunk, creating a chunk file including the chunk and the chunk index, and inserting the chunk file in a data stream, such that no chunk file including a chunk from a particular content item is adjacent to a second chunk file including a chunk from the same particular content item, and broadcasting using a transmission bitrate greater than the bitrate of the data stream in a single channel in a multiplexed broadcast service, wherein the chunks files in the data stream are transmitted sequentially. Related systems, apparatus, and methods are also described. | 07-26-2012 |
| 386332000 | DVD with MPEG2 program stream (i.e., VOB) | 3 |
| 20110211814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING AND SEARCHING DIGITAL VIDEO CONTENT - The present invention relates to systems and methods for indexing digital video content maintained on a storage media item. The method of the present invention comprises extracting caption and subtitle content from one or more video object (“VOB”) files maintained on the storage media item. The extracted caption and subtitle content are segmented into one or more segments and video and audio content corresponding to the one or more segments are extracted. Descriptions of the video and audio content corresponding to the segmented caption and subtitle content are generated. The captions, subtitles, descriptions, and corresponding video and audio content associated with the one or more segments of the one or more VOB files are indexed. | 09-01-2011 |
| 386333000 | With still picture | 2 |
| 20120014677 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, as a recording apparatus, formulates a Clip Information file of a still picture file (TS file), made up by plural still pictures, and a PlayList, composed of plural PlayItems, indicating the replay path of a slide show, and records the information on a DVD along with the TS file. The Clip Information file has an EP_map, as a table indicating the relationship of correspondence between the value of the presentation time stamp PTS of the transport stream TS and the source packet number SPN in the TS the PTS value indicates. The information processing apparatus, as a reproducing apparatus, reads out and reproduces the data address of the TS, represented by the replay start time IN_time and the replay end time OUT_time of the PlayItem. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014676 | Informatiion Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Recording Medium - An information processing apparatus, as a recording apparatus, formulates a Clip Information file of a still picture file (TS file), made up by plural still pictures, and a PlayList, composed of plural PlayItems, indicating the replay path of a slide show, and records the information on a DVD along with the TS file. The Clip Information file has an EP_map, as a table indicating the relationship of correspondence between the value of the presentation time stamp PTS of the transport stream TS and the source packet number SPN in the TS the PTS value indicates. The information processing apparatus, as a reproducing apparatus, reads out and reproduces the data address of the TS, represented by the replay start time IN_time and the replay end time OUT_time of the PlayItem. | 01-19-2012 |
| 386335000 | High definition video | 3 |
| 20100284672 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND VIDEO REPRODUCER - For example, in reproduction of a BD-ROM, when two streams of image data having different resolutions are displayed in a picture-in-picture mode, the difference in a sense of resolution between two windows is reduced. In an image conversion section, first image data is converted to image data in a progressive scan format by i-p conversion section, and then, the image size of the first image data is converted so that the first image data is output as third image data. The synthesizing section synthesizes the third image data with second image data, and outputs the synthesized data. | 11-11-2010 |
| 386336000 | DVD with high definition video (e.g., holographic, etc.) | 2 |
| 20110008023 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CREATING MEDIA CONTENT - A method and apparatus of processing content, such as, video and/or audio are disclosed. The operations of processing content may include receiving user input, such as, a content file, a type of content format, and a content destination. Other operations include determining necessary operations needed to complete the content processing and determining the applications available to the user on a local machine used by the user. The operations further include determining whether the user's local machine includes the necessary applications to perform the content processing, and determining a codec that will be used to process the content, and formatting the content using the codec and distributing the content to the content destination. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20120141097 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK 3D IMAGES - A recording medium allows random access to be performed in playing back 3D graphics. The recording medium includes a digital stream area where a digital stream including temporally-arranged GOP pairs is recorded, and a map information area where map information is recorded. The map information indicates entry addresses in one to one correspondence with entry times on a time axis of the digital stream, and each entry address shows a beginning of a corresponding GOP pair region in the digital stream area. Each GOP pair includes first-type and second-type GOPs, wherein each first-type GOP is data indicating a plain view picture set to be played back from a corresponding entry time, and each second-type GOP is data to be played back with a corresponding first-type GOP to provide a stereoscopic view. The data indicates a difference between a stereoscopic picture set and the plain view picture set. | 06-07-2012 |
| 386337000 | Multiplexing video and second signal | 9 |
| 20110142426 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A pair of main-view and sub-view video streams and a graphics stream are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. Metadata is provided in each GOP in the sub-view video stream. The metadata includes offset information. The offset information specifies offset control for a plurality of pictures constituting a GOP. Offset control is to provide a left offset and right offset for the horizontal coordinates in a graphics plane to generate a pair of graphics planes, and to combine them separately with main-view and sub-view video planes. The sub-view video stream is packetized and multiplexed in a transport stream. A header of each TS packet includes a TS priority flag. TS packets containing the metadata have a different value of TS priority flag from TS packets containing sub-view pictures. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110044665 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - Original data is copied from a read-only recording medium to a rewritable portable recording medium. A data storage unit stores therein updated data and mapping information indicating a path of the updated data in the virtual package. A determination unit determines, from the mapping information, a match between a path on the portable recording medium of first stream data included in the original data and a path in the virtual package of second stream data included in the updated data. When the match is determined, the recording control unit instructs that the first stream data be deleted from the portable recording medium. The recording control unit further instructs that the updated data be written on the portable recording medium. The data recording unit further writes and deletes data in response to the instructions from the recording control unit. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110075995 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AV DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - An original stream file and an after-recording data file are managed as different files. In the original stream file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CU) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. Likewise, in the after-recording data file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CA) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. These sets of data are recorded onto a disc such that the after-recorded data (CA) is recorded in a region adjacent to a relevant original stream (CU). This allows reproduction and real-time after-recording with the use of a general MPEG-2 PS/TS decoder. Moreover, this allows realization of data recording that causes less interruption of reproduction when non-destructive editing is carried out with respect to an after-recorded result. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20120251085 | VIDEO MULTIPLEXING - A video system including a plurality of video sources, a recording device, a memory, and a controller. The controller receives video frames from the video sources and includes a first and a second write control module, a read control module, and a frame rate control module. The first write control module includes a write pointer and writes a first video frame to a first frame buffer. The second write control module includes a second write pointer and writes a second video frame to a second frame buffer. The read control module includes a read pointer. The frame rate control module controls the reading of the first and second video frames based on a multiplexing order and a read memory location of the read pointer respecting a write memory location of the write pointer. The read control module outputs a multiplexed signal to the recording device according to the multiplexing order. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120189286 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING CONTROL METHOD - An image recording apparatus includes: a recording process section recording an image on a recording medium; an output process section outputting the image; and a control section multiplexing information on timing for starting the recording of the image with the image output from the output process section before the recording process section starts recording the image on the recording medium. | 07-26-2012 |
| 386338000 | With mono or stereo audio signal | 4 |
| 20110142427 | METHOD TO SEAMLESSLY INSERT AUDIO CLIPS INTO A COMPRESSED BROADCAST AUDIO STREAM - A method and computing system for seamlessly inserting a local audio clip into a primary audio stream. The method sends the primary audio stream to an audio output port, and determines main parameters for the primary audio stream. The method receives a request to insert an encoded local audio clip, locates an insertion point in the primary audio stream that coincides with an end of a frame boundary, and identifies a best matching encoded local audio clip for the main parameters. The method receives and sends the best matching encoded local audio clip to the audio output port, stores the primary audio stream in a buffer while sending the best matching encoded local audio clip, and resumes the sending of the primary audio stream when the sending of the best matching encoded local audio clip is complete. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110085782 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING AUDIO DATA WITH SECONDARY DATA - Disclosed is a method for synchronizing audio data with secondary data. The method includes the step of providing indexes of events corresponding to frames in an audio stream, the step of relating the secondary data to the indexes of the events, the step of checking the indexes of the events to determine whether an event of interest is reached or not, and the step of playing some of the secondary data corresponding to the event of interest if the event of interest is reached. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110217025 | AUXILIARY AUDIO TRANSMISSION FOR PRESERVING SYNCHRONIZED PLAYOUT WITH PACED-DOWN VIDEO - In one method embodiment, providing a multiplex of compressed versions of a first video stream and a first audio stream, each corresponding to an audiovisual (A/V) program, the first video stream and the first audio stream each corresponding to a first playout rate and un-synchronized with each other for an initial playout portion; and providing a compressed version of a second audio stream, the second audio stream corresponding to a pitch-preserving, second playout rate different than the first playout rate, the second audio stream synchronized to the initial playout portion of the first video stream when the first video stream is played out at the second playout rate, the first audio stream replaceable by the second audio stream for the initial playout portion. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110158612 | MOVING PICTURE MULTIPLEXING APPARATUS, AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS AND MOVING PICTURE MULTIPLEXING METHOD - The present invention provides a moving picture multiplexing apparatus generating a seamlessly-reproducible multiplexed stream even in the case where streams are reproduced in a different order. The moving picture multiplexing apparatus includes: a stream end information generating unit generating stream end information including a stream end system clock, using a video end PTS; a start clock calculating unit calculating a multiplex starting system clock, using the stream end information as stream end information on a preceding stream, and a video start PTS; an end clock calculating unit calculating a multiplex ending system clock, using the video start PTS as a video start PTS of a following stream, and the stream end information; and a multiplexed pack generating unit generating the multiplexed stream by starting the multiplexing at the multiplex starting system clock, and ending the multiplexing at the multiplex ending system clock. | 06-30-2011 |
| 386341000 | Simultaneous recording of plural video signals (e.g., multi-angle/scene recording, etc.) | 3 |
| 20100316358 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, comprising: a video recording unit for video recording a received broadcast program; a video recording indicator light for indicating visually whether the video recording is in progress or not; and a video recording indicator light control unit, being furnished as a part of a basic input/output system (BIOS), for controlling a turning on and off of the video recording indicator light. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110116770 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, whereby playback of PG and TextST images can be controlled from a BD-J application. There are defined a mono PG/TextST stream of a PG/TextST image that is a mono image serving as a 2D image, a stereo PG/TextST stream of a PG/TextST image that is a stereo image serving as a 3D image, and a PG/TextST stream for offset of a PG/TextST image that is a mono image to be used for generating a stereo image along with an offset value for giving disparity to the mono image, as a PG/TextST stream of a PG/TextST image. An stream selecting API selects a mono PG/TextST stream, a stereo PG/TextST stream, or a PG/TextST stream for offset. The present invention may be applied to a BD player configured to play a BD, or the like. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110038614 | OPTICAL DISC FOR REPRODUCING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE - [Problem] To provide an optical disc whose monoscopic and stereoscopic video images recorded thereon can be respectively played back on a playback device incapable of 3D display and on a 3D-capable playback device. | 02-17-2011 |
