Abstract: Digital audio and video files are created corresponding to selected scenes from a creative production and are provided with a processing system that enables dialog to be selected from a scene and replaced by a user's dialog which is automatically synchronized with the original dialog so as to be in synchronism with lip movements displayed by the accompanying video display. The processing further includes a graphical user interface that presents the user with the video, the text of the dialog, and cues for rehearsal and recording of replacement dialog by the user. Replay of the user's dialog is accompanied by the video and part of the original audio except that the original dialog corresponding to the user's dialog is muted so that the user's dialog is heard as a replacement. Singing or other sounds associated with visible action may also be replaced by the same processes.

Abstract: A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents and enabling editing of the video contents with a high reliability. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with clip data of the video and low resolution proxy AV data from the optical disk device, streaming reproduces them as live video and, at the same time, introduces essence marks as meta-data to any positions of the proxy AV data, and describes them in a meta-data file. When a communication abnormality occurs between the optical disk device and the computer, the clip data is notified to the computer again.

Abstract: A method for reproducing video contents includes the steps of: selecting a reproduction shot from video contents, based on a current location information and a shot index information; determining a reproduction section from the selected reproduction shot; and reproducing the determined reproduction section. After the determined reproduction section is reproduced, the above processes are repeated to next reproduction shots. The repetitive processes are performed all over the video contents until the user requests a reproduction change.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction section 51 extracts one picture from each GOP. A number-of-pixels conversion section 40 reduces the amount of information of the extracted picture by thinning out pixels. A static-image compression section 41 encodes the picture whose amount of information has been reduced by a JPEG technique. A microcomputer 31 associates the encoded picture with the GOP from which the picture has been extracted and controls recording of the picture associated with the GOP onto a disk 45 on which the moving image is to be recorded. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus for recording a moving image onto a data recording medium.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: 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 (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.

Abstract: A user photographs an area including a desired portion of a television program schedule (with G-code numbers) in a newspaper, and the like, with a digital camera functional portion (219) of a mobile telephone device (2). A CPU (209) performs, for example, a data transmission/reception by a mobile telephone functional portion (231) (a communication process, an Internet connection process, electronic mail transmission and reception processes), and control of each of functional portions based on received data. Moreover, the CPU (209) performs a character recognition process on an image photographed with the digital camera functional portion (219) and on an image received by electronic mail by the mobile telephone functional portion (231), and executes a video recording reservation process based on the G-code number obtained by the recognition process.

Abstract: An optical disk device 4 for acquiring a file path to an AV file data corresponding to a designated data UMID in an optical disk, based on management data MD read out from the optical disk, in response to a request REQ from a computer 3 and further accessing AV file data recorded at a physical address acquired based on the file path.

Abstract: A system for modifying video including a source of a filter stack specifying filter operations to be carried out on a video clip, a filter registry of filter functions including information on filter operations that can be carried out by the filter functions, and a filter planner that receives the filter stack and accesses the registry in order to generate a filter plan specifying filter functions to be used in carrying out the filter operations specified in the filter stack.

Abstract: A recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. An encoding section encodes the data corresponding to a predetermined compressing and encoding system. A converting section converts a data structure of encoded data that is output from the encoding section into a file structure that a computer software program that synchronously reproduces a moving picture and so forth can handle without need to use a special hardware device. A recording section records data having the file structure to the record medium.

Abstract: A method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file are disclosed. The method of creating a playback control file for a recording medium includes reading a virtual PlayList identifying a download list from the recording medium, the download list designating at least one additional clip downloadable from an external source, downloading the at least one additional clip from the external source, and creating a new PlayList based on the virtual PlayList, the new PlayList including a new PlayItem designating the at least one additional clip designated by the download list.

Abstract: An HDD recorder connected to a DV camcorder via an IEEE 1394 serial bus cable comprises hard disks and a microprocessor having a function that when the HDD recorder is connected to the DV camcorder while a list display screen with a list of various recorded video files is displayed on a monitor, the microprocessor implements a process to edit the list display screen in a manner that based on source device-identifying information, and from the various recorded video files stored on the hard disks, the microprocessor extracts only the recorded video files dubbed from the DV camcorder, and displays the thus extracted recorded video files on the list display screen. This makes it possible for the HDD recorder to significantly reduce time and labor required to find, from the stored various recorded video files, a recorded video file dubbed from the DV camcorder.

Abstract: Video editing and video playback utilizing a render-ahead queue for storing rendered video frames. The render-ahead queue facilitates the smooth playback of video in forward and reverse timeline direction, avoiding video glitches that occur when video frames are rendered at a rate that is less than the timeline rate of the video file. Embodiments of the present invention also include the use of a graphics processing unit in conjunction with the render-ahead queue to further ensure smooth playback of video.

Abstract: An audio/video storage device using a hard disk speeds up the start of reproduction of an audio/video file and reduces power consumption and a noise level. A data recording/reproducing system of the present invention has a hard-disk drive and a flash memory device. When an audio/video file is recorded, the entirety of the file is stored into the hard-disk drive and a starting section of the file is stored into the flash memory device. When the file is reproduced, the reproduction is started from the starting section of the file that was stored into the flash memory device, and the remaining sections that follow the starting section are reproduced from an internal hard disk of the hard-disk drive.