Patents Examined by Tat Chio
  • Patent number: 8494341
    Abstract: A method and system for display of a video file are provided in which multiple time segments of the video file are displayed simultaneously to enable small changes to be identified in less time than viewing the entire file in a single playback. The method includes dividing a first portion of a video file into multiple segments each of a same time duration and sending each of the multiple segments of the first portion of the video file to be played simultaneously in multiple windows of a display device. The method then includes dividing a second portion of a video file starting at the end of the first portion, into multiple segments each of a same time duration and sending each of the multiple segments of the second portion of the video file to be played simultaneously in multiple windows of the display device. The method is repeated for subsequent portions until the entire video file has been played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ophir Azulai
  • Patent number: 8488944
    Abstract: In a broadcast program recording apparatus 101 that is capable of recording an event relayed program, each of first and second receiving units 102 and 103 receives digital broadcast signals. A control unit 112 reads out program information stored in a memory 111, and determines whether the program being received by the first receiving unit 102 and recorded on a storage 110 is a relay source program or not. Then, in a case in which the receiving unit 102 is receiving the relay source program, channel selection is carried out so that the second receiving unit 103 receives a relay destination program a certain period of time before the end time of that program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Go Takehi
  • Patent number: 8478114
    Abstract: A distributed database management system provides a central database resident on a server that contains database objects. Objects, e.g., program guide data, to be replicated are gathered together into distribution packages called “slices,” that are transmitted to client devices. A slice is a subset of the central database which is relevant to clients within a specific domain, such as a geographic region, or under the footprint of a satellite transmitter. The viewer selects television programs and Web content from displayed sections of the program guide data which are recorded to a storage device. The program guide data are used to determine when to start and end recordings. Client devices periodically connect to the server using a phone line and upload information of interest which is combined with information uploaded from other client devices for statistical, operational, or viewing models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: TiVo Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Beach, David C. Platt
  • Patent number: 8478103
    Abstract: A video apparatus includes signal control unit that outputs an image signal in a plurality of formats. An interface unit connects the video apparatus to a computer, and an interface control unit controls transmission of the image signal to the computer. When the video apparatus has been connected to the computer through the interface unit, when the format of the image signal is switched, the interface control unit controls the interface unit so that the connection to the computer is disconnected without changing a physical connecting state. After the elapse of a predetermined period, the video apparatus is connected to the computer again without changing the physical connecting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8472786
    Abstract: It is arranged so that a sense of discomfort will not be imparted to an individual observing a stereoscopic image. Cross-point information is recorded on a memory card on which stereoscopic moving image data has also been recorded. When the stereoscopic moving image is played back, an image representing a subject that is deeper than the cross point represented by the cross-point information is caused to blur. By causing blurring, the observer can be prevented from closely observing an image portion that exhibits too much parallax. Thus a sense of discomfort is not imparted to the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Kusuda
  • Patent number: 8467657
    Abstract: A method and system for incorporating a current event data stream from a television broadcasted video signal onto a pre-recorded video stream for playback on a television set. A first digital video stream, which includes television program content and a first event data stream, is retrieved. If it is ascertained that a current event is located in the current event data stream in the television broadcasted video signal, then the first event data stream is replaced with the current event data stream in the retrieved first digital video stream, and the television program content is played back concurrently with the current event data stream on the television set. If it is ascertained that the current event is not located in the current event data stream in the television broadcasted video signal, then the television program content in the retained first digital video stream is played back on the television set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Blaine H. Dolph
  • Patent number: 8447173
    Abstract: An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information includes jumping-point information for jumping into another angle. Each of the clip AV streams may be recorded in a contiguous recording area, or divided into smaller interleaved units that are interleaved with units of the other clip AV streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo Jung, Seong-Jin Moon, Jung-wan Ko, Jung-kwon Heo, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung
  • Patent number: 8437604
    Abstract: To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an index file management section 72 manages and updates an index file held in an index file hold section 51 as the video data and audio data are updated. At this point, a search section 92 searches disc internal IDs assigned to clips or edit lists contained in the index file for the maximum value. A disc internal ID generation section 91 generates a disc internal ID according to the maximum value. An index file management section 72 updates the index file with the disc internal ID generated by the disc internal ID generation section 91.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Yoshiaki Shibata, Hideaki Mita, Hiroshi Saitou, Tatsushi Bannai
  • Patent number: 8437613
    Abstract: A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Muneaki Osawa, Kazuo Yamaoka, Hiroshi Aruga, Akira Ando, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8433183
    Abstract: A recording apparatus and a recording method that can record both moving picture data and still picture data in a form reproducible by various reproducing apparatus. The moving picture data is compressed by an MPEG system by an MPEG encoder, formed into data for recording corresponding to a predetermined recording format by a format forming unit, and then recorded on a DVD. The still picture data is compressed by a JPEG system by a JPEG encoder, and recorded on the DVD separately from the moving picture data. In predetermined timing, the still picture data compressed by the JPEG system and recorded on the DVD is read, the still picture data is converted into I-pictures of the MPEG system by a format converting unit, and then the I-pictures of the MPEG system are recorded onto the DVD in the predetermined format via the format forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hidaka, Masaaki Kojima, Shingo Yoshioka, Hidehiko Okumura, Kaname Ogawa, Hiroki Shiina
  • Patent number: 8422861
    Abstract: The present invention provides a content management device manages not to reproduce a part of contents in output source/destination concurrently, and manages to reproduce the whole contents in the original sequence continuously. A content management device is a device for managing reproduction of content from the first medium for which data corresponding to a part of the content output to the second medium. This device includes an outputting circuitry configured to output data corresponding to the part of the content, and a reproduction controller configured to disable reproduction of the part of the content recorded in the first medium when the outputting circuitry outputs the data corresponding to the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ohgose, Katsuo Saigo, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Kenjiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8406614
    Abstract: Auxiliary AV data of a lower rate is formed in an auxiliary AV data converting unit on the basis of video and audio data of a main line system. The audio data of the main line system in which the number of channels is equal to 0 and 4 or 8 channels can exist mixedly. In the auxiliary AV data, the number of channels of the audio data is fixed to 8 channels. Audio data showing silence is outputted to the channels which do not correspond to the channels of the audio data of the main line system of the auxiliary AV data. Since the number of channels of the audio data of the auxiliary AV data is fixed irrespective of the number of channels of the audio data of the main line system, the editing or searching operation using the auxiliary AV data can be executed without paying attention to a change in the number of channels of the audio data of the main line system, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Hyodo
  • Patent number: 8396354
    Abstract: A display apparatus and method of displaying an image, and a video signal processor and method of converting an input video signal into a displayable format compatible with the display, including an reproducing apparatus reading out data stored on a medium, a playback part converting the data read by the optical disk drive into a video signal compatible with the video signal processor, an interface transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, e.g., a computer, and a switching part selectively enabling the reproducing apparatus to communicate with either the drive playback part or the external device. With this configuration, embodiments of the present invention provide a display apparatus, computer system, and methods, using a display apparatus to play back a medium, e.g., a DVD having multimedia functionality, without having to boot the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-goo Kang, Yong-hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8396353
    Abstract: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on the basis of the contents of this option support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Masahiro Nakashika, Yasufumi Tsumagari
  • Patent number: 8391671
    Abstract: Content that is simultaneously viewed by users of remotely located communication apparatuses is recorded along with images and sound corresponding to the users, for a synthesized reproduction. Synthesis information including parameters relating to setting a synthesis situation of an image and sound of the content and an image and sound of the users, along with information representative of a standard time, is produced and stored. The content being played back is recorded with the standard time added thereto. Similarly, real-time recording of the users includes the standard time. The synthesis information is produced again and stored when a parameter relating to setting the synthesis situation is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Yusuke Sakai, Mikio Kamada
  • Patent number: 8391684
    Abstract: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on the basis of the contents of this option support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Masahiro Nakashika, Yasufumi Tsumagari
  • Patent number: 8391676
    Abstract: A playback apparatus for playing a digital stream in conjunction with an application includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information, and a selection unit operable to detect a plurality of playable titles from the package information, and select one of the detected titles as a current title.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Tanaka, Hidetaka Ohto, Masahiro Oashi
  • Patent number: 8391683
    Abstract: To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on the basis of the contents of this option support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Masahiro Nakashika, Yasufumi Tsumagari
  • Patent number: 8391691
    Abstract: An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Takumi Hasebe, Kazuhiro Tsuga, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yoshihiro Mori, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Toshiyuki Kawara, Yasushi Azumatani, Tomoyuki Okada, Kenichi Matsui
  • Patent number: 8391687
    Abstract: An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information includes jumping-point information for jumping into another angle. Each of the clip AV streams may be recorded in a contiguous recording area, or divided into smaller interleaved units that are interleaved with units of the other clip AV streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil-soo Jung, Seong-jin Moon, Jung-wan Ko, Jung-kwon Hao, Sung-wook Park, Hyun-kwon Chung