With Phase Lock Loop (e.g., Procamp, Pll, Etc.) Patents (Class 386/204)
  • Patent number: 11475872
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device having a timing generator that generates synchronization signals so as to match input timings of serial audio data input from an external source, a reproduction processor that, based on the synchronization signals, reads audio data from memory, performs reproduction processing, and outputs a plurality of channel information items, and a mixer that mixes the plurality of channel information items with the serial audio data, and reproduces an audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuhiro Kai
  • Patent number: 10380178
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Patent number: 9821924
    Abstract: Various apparatus embodiments include first, second, third and fourth idler shafts, and further include a first movable idler shaft having a first movable axis that is movable between a first axis position and a second axis position, and a second movable idler shaft having a second movable axis that is movable between a third axis position and fourth axis position. At least one linkage connects the first movable idler shaft to the second movable idler shaft. A motor linkage connects the at least one linkage to at least one motor for providing simultaneous movement of the first and second movable idler shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Delta Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventor: David Schiebout
  • Patent number: 9805117
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Patent number: 9324089
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for metering media feeds in a market are disclosed. An example method includes duplicating a first audio stream in a media feed to generate a second audio stream, encoding the first audio stream with a first breakout code, encoding the second audio stream with a second breakout code different from the first breakout code, combining the first audio stream, the second audio stream, and a video stream of the media to generate an encoded transport stream, and instructing, via a processor, a media receiver to tune to the transport stream and select the second audio stream for distribution to a media presentation location on a channel associated with the second breakout code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Arun Ramaswamy, Douglas B. Turnbow
  • Patent number: 9049349
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a video frame from an encoder associated with a first camera that is coupled to a network; appending the video frame to a data block; associating a parity block to the video frame; evaluating whether the data block is full; and communicating the data block to a second camera in the network. In other embodiments, the method can include receiving additional video frames from the encoder; appending the additional video frames to a plurality of data blocks; and aligning particular sizes of the plurality of data blocks to a plurality of corresponding disk write sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Elango Ganesan, Michael Freed, Brian A. Apgar, Guido Jouret
  • Patent number: 9014531
    Abstract: A transmitting section of the present invention initiates transmission of a second video continuously after completing transmission of a first video being transmitted, in a case that a reproduction position of the first video being transmitted is beyond an end point of the first video, when a video recording start time of a second video stored in a video storage section and a video recording end time of the first video being transmitted coincide within a predetermined time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Gokurakuji, Shuhei Miura, Masahiro Koike, Masayuki Uwabo, Takumi Okazaki, Chihiro Harada
  • Patent number: 8934753
    Abstract: An exemplary method for synchronizing audio playback of a plurality of digital media renders. The digital media renders include a digital audio/video (AV) media render and at least one digital audio media render. The method includes: detecting a relative time position difference between the digital AV media render and the at least one digital audio media render; and controlling audio playback of the digital audio media render to synchronize to audio playback of the digital AV media render according to the relative time position difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting-Yuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 8861923
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling subtitle switching through Bluetooth are provided. The method includes the following steps: a Bluetooth control device transmits a media control instruction which instructs a Bluetooth multimedia playing device to perform subtitle switching to the Bluetooth multimedia playing device after a Bluetooth connection is established between the Bluetooth control device and the Bluetooth multimedia playing device; the Bluetooth multimedia playing device performs the subtitle switching after receiving the media control instruction, and after switching successfully, it loads the subtitle file which is obtained through switching and plays after combined with a video stream. By adopting the technical scheme of the present invention, it can realize wirelessly and remotely controlling a multimedia player through Bluetooth to load subtitle files freely and switch between a plurality of subtitle files when playing a multimedia video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Yang, Zhiping Zhang, Qihong Fu
  • Patent number: 8855460
    Abstract: Methods and systems for delivering and exporting edited media in multiple formats. A user may select an export format and the selection of the export format may be recorded. Metadata related to an edit decision list created by a user for the edited media product may be accessed, and the metadata may be applied to a component of each media file to create a clip. The clip may be converted to a temporary conversion format. An effect time in the edit decision list may be accessed, and each clip may be broken into individual frames. Effect images from a library may be appropriately and proportionately combined with each individual frame of each clip, the combined frames may be joined to create a completed media file in an order specified in the edit decision list, and the completed media file may be converted to the selected export format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: CitizenGlobal, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Lussier, Nikolas Namikas, Dmitry Buslaev, Robert McFarland
  • Patent number: 8781290
    Abstract: A display apparatus to store a broadcasting signal or a video signal and/or an audio signal in an external storage medium, and reproduce signals from the external storage medium includes a receiving processor, a controller, and an output unit. The receiving processor receives a video signal and/or an audio signal. The controller stores a video signal and/or an audio signal received using the receiving processor in the external storage medium in real time, if a user requires storage of the received video signal and the audio signal. The controller reproduces the stored video signal and/or audio signal from the external storage medium if the user requires reproduction of the video signal and/or the audio signal stored on the external storage medium. The output unit outputs the reproduced video signal and/or audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-hak Lee
  • Patent number: 8724957
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of selecting parts of an audiovisual document. First, the document is analyzed by at least two subdividing means in order to extract from it at least two groups of audiovisual sequences. Then, selection criteria associated with each of the two subdividing means are entered. Finally, a list of sequences responding to all the selection criteria entered previously is generated. According to a refinement, the sequences are concatenated in a chronological order in order to generate an audiovisual document representative of the audiovisual document. The invention also relates to a device for displaying the sequences selected according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Lionel Oisel, Ewa Kijak, William Richard
  • Patent number: 8682131
    Abstract: A recording medium, a method of creating a file of the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing the same are disclosed, wherein position change and transition of random playback points among title recorded within the recording medium can be easily performed, thereby providing an apparatus having more convenient title playback functions to the users. The method of creating a file of the recording medium includes forming a PlayList file including playback control information of a set of recorded data, forming an object file including an execute command of the PlayList file, and forming an index file including a set of Normal Title information designating a specific object within the object file, and a set of auxiliary Title information designating a random point of data being reproduced by the Normal Title information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Byung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8682132
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a method of detecting a music scene with a high accuracy from a television broadcast. [Means for solution] The music-segment detection method provided with a data input step of inputting data including an audio signal and a video signal; a plurality of candidate-music-segment detection steps of detecting, from the audio signal, respective candidate music-segments in the input data, based on criteria different from each other; a change-point detection step of detecting a change point in the input data, based on a distinctive change in the audio signal and/or on a distinctive change in a video signal; and a music-segment detection step of detecting a music segment, based on the plurality of detected candidate-music-segments and on the detected change point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetsugu Suginohara, Isao Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8644669
    Abstract: A recording medium, which is provided by a content provider and allows the content provider to control messages, has recorded thereon content and a program executed at a time of playback of the content by a playback apparatus. The program causing the playback apparatus to interact with a different program prestored in the playback apparatus and executed at the time of the playback of the content and to transmit, to the different program, a message determined according to the result of the interaction. The playback apparatus includes a reading unit reading the program from the recording medium at the time of the playback of the content, a startup unit starting up the read program, an interaction unit interacting with the program, and a processing unit receiving a message corresponding to a result of the interaction from the recording medium and performing a process corresponding to the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Harada, Kaoru Murase, Masayuki Kozuka, Masaya Yamamoto, Senichi Onoda, Minehisa Nagata
  • Patent number: 8639083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recording a video stream on a recording media, e.g. HDD, wherein the video stream has different parental ratings, and to an apparatus for recording a video stream performing such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Cheng Tao, Kwong Heng Kwok
  • Patent number: 8640170
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects a program (60 or 62) listed in displayed schedule information (50), the system (10) reads the source identifier attached to the program's channel (52). The system (10) then carries out an automatic switching/tuning such that the required source device (26, 28, 30 or 34) is input to the destination device (22), and a tuner is then tuned to the selected program's channel (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Starsight Telecast, Incorporated
    Inventor: Brian Lee Klosterman
  • Patent number: 8634693
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a guide information obtaining section to obtain guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining section to obtain series information for specifying a plurality of programs belonging to a series; a program data obtaining section to obtain data of the programs; a program data storage section capable of storing the data of the programs; a program data recording section to store the data of the programs obtained by the program data obtaining section in the program data storage section; a recording history storage section to store information about the programs whose data is stored in the program data storage section, as recording history information; and a detection section to detect a recording status of at least one program belonging to the series intended to be recorded based on the guide information, the series information, and the recording history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8630524
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A reproduction section reproduces video data from a record medium, the video data being managed in a unit of a clip composed of a plurality of frames which are chronologically successive. A first decode section decodes a first clip which is currently being output and stores the decoded first clip. A second decode section pre-decodes at least a frame which is output at beginning of a second clip adjacent to the first clip in a reproduction order and stores the decoded frame. A control section controls a clip adjacent to a decoded position side of the first clip in the reproduction order to become the second clip for an early region and a late region of a time length based on a center position of a reproduction time length of the first clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Naito
  • Patent number: 8615153
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-media data editing system for editing a multi-media data. The multi-media data editing system includes a sample memory and a processor. The sample memory stores a plurality of undesired voice samples. The processor includes a voice obtaining module, a voice comparing module, and a voice editing module. The voice obtaining module is configured for obtaining an audio data from the multi-media data. The voice comparing module is configured for comparing the obtained audio data with the plurality of undesired voice samples looking for a match. The voice editing module is configured for editing the audio data during the audio data matched with undesired voice samples. The present disclosure also provides a multi-media data editing method. And the present disclosure provides an electronic device using the multi-media data editing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuan-Feng Wu
  • Patent number: 8594482
    Abstract: Video analytics data is audited through review of selective visual essence subsets of visual images from a visual image stream as a function of a temporal relationship of the essence subset images to a triggering alert event. The visual essence subset comprehends an image contemporaneous with the triggering alert event and one or more other images occurring before or after the contemporaneous image. The generated visual essence is presented for review to determine whether the triggering alert event is a true or false alert, or whether additional data from the visual image stream is required to make such a determination. If determined from the presented visual essence that the additional data is required make the true or false determination, then additional data is presented from the visual image stream for review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Quanfu Fan, Zuoxuan Lu, Sachiko Miyazawa, Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti
  • Patent number: 8588575
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Eldon Technology Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Thornberry, Chris Howe
  • Patent number: 8565574
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes bank overflow flag confirming means for confirming whether a bank overflow flag is set, the bank overflow flag notifying the occurrence of a bank-full state where, in a storage area including plural banks formed therein to store data, not-yet-read data is stored in all the banks, read pointer control means for, upon confirming that the bank overflow flag is set, moving a location designated by a read pointer cyclically designating each of the banks as a bank, from which the data is to be read, to a bank positioned next to a bank at a location designated by a write pointer cyclically designating each of the banks as a bank, into which the data is to be written, and reading means for reading the data from the bank designated by the read pointer after the location designated by the read pointer has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Futenma, Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 8532458
    Abstract: A picture search method and apparatus for digital reproduction are provided. The picture search method includes, generating a multiple image screen by configuring one or more pictures provided before a reproduction start time selected by a user during a high-speed search to a screen or a plurality of screens, outputting the multiple image screen, and sequentially reproducing following pictures starting from a picture selected by the user among one or more pictures included in the output multiple image screen. Therefore, it is possible to allow a user to exactly select a desired reproduction start time during the high-speed search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon-sik Jung, Cheul-hee Hamn
  • Patent number: 8509589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving a broadcase program in a mobile communication terminal. The present invention includes receiving a broadcast program in the mobile communication terminal, recording the broadcast program when a first event occurs, playing back the recorded broadcast program when a second event occurs, manipulating the recorded broadcast program playback to eliminate a time lag between the recorded broadcast program playback and the received broadcast program, and determining whether the time lag between the recorded broadcast program playback and the received broadcast program is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Park, Hyung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8494340
    Abstract: An electronic device connected with at least one digital video camera dynamically monitors an area where the digital video camera covers. The electronic device displays a monitor point tree, where each node corresponds to a digital video camera. The electronic device can dynamically create an icon control component of a selected digital video camera on an electronic map by dragging and dropping the node corresponding to the one selected on a electronic map. The electronic device can play a video feed of the digital video camera by clicking on the created icon control component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: GDS Software (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Chih Wang, Quan-Zhong Zhang, Xiao Cai, Xiao-Kang Lu
  • Patent number: 8494338
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first input unit to input an image signal and a first audio signal that constitute a first video content, a second input unit to input a second audio signal different from the first audio signal, a first calculation unit to detect a face image area in which a face of a person is included from the image signal input, and calculate a face evaluation value evaluating a certainty of the face image area detected, a second calculation unit to detect a voice of the person from the first audio signal input, and calculate a voice evaluation value evaluating a volume of the voice, a setting unit to set first and second weighting factors for each image signal, and a generation unit to generate a third audio signal, and generate a second video content constituted of the third audio signal and the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 8437599
    Abstract: A method of reproducing text subtitle streams, the method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source, each text subtitle stream including a style segment defining a group of region styles and presentation segment, each presentation segment containing at least one region of text linked to a selected one of the group of region styles, wherein a current presentation segment contains a continuous presentation flag to indicate whether the continuous presentation is required between current presentation and previous presentation; and decoding the text subtitle stream using the presentation segment defining the continuous presentation flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Jea Yong Yoo, Byung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8417086
    Abstract: While viewing and listening to AV data, other AV data is converted and transferred to a reproducing terminal. A recorder has two decoding parts as a decoding unit of AV data on a recording medium. AV data which was decoded in one of the decoding parts is supplied to a monitor device. When there is a transfer request for AV data, in accordance with a schedule which is formulated based on a transfer request list and a programmed picture recording list, AV data in the transfer request list is decoded in the other one of the decoding parts, encoded in an encoding part, converted into new AV data, and recorded in the recording medium. When a connection to the reproducing terminal is detected, the new AV data on the recording medium is transferred to the reproducing terminal. Since it has two decoding parts, it is possible to convert other AV data into new AV data while viewing and listening to AV data on the monitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takagi, Junji Oiwa
  • Patent number: 8412020
    Abstract: This invention provides a disk playback apparatus which can shorten a time from when a power switch is turned on until a startup operation is completed. Even when the power switch of the main body is OFF, if exchange of a disk-like recording medium is detected, management data of the disk is read out and is stored in a buffer memory. When the power switch is turned on for the next time, the management data is read out from the buffer memory without accessing the disk-like recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isao Abe
  • Patent number: 8412019
    Abstract: An apparatus for recording a real time stream of digital information signals on a disc like record carrier has been proposed. The stream of information signals represent information arranged in a sequence of video frames, each video frame arranged in separate, consecutive data blocks comprised in separate, consecutive data packets. The apparatus comprises input means (1) for receiving the stream of digital signals, processing means (100) for processing the stream of digital information signals to obtain digital information signals and writing means (102) for writing the digital information signals into the units of recording on the disc like record carrier. The processing means (102) are adopted to detect the data blocks in the data packets and to allocate consecutive data blocks comprised in multiple data packets into consecutive logical units, a size of each logical unit corresponding to the predetermined size of the unit of recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel
  • Patent number: 8401361
    Abstract: A signal processing portion successively accepts frames of images from video information recorded on a recording medium acting as a dubbing source. The medium is one of a hard disc drive and a disc medium. Then, the processing portion recognizes face images from the frames of image, displays the recognized face images on the screen of an LCD, registers face images selected from the displayed face images in response to a manipulation of control buttons, creates thumbnail images from images which are included in the registered face images and which have appeared at ratios in excess of 70%, extracts images including the thumbnail images from the recording medium acting as the dubbing source, and dubs the extracted images onto the recording medium acting as a dubbing destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromi Nishiura
  • Patent number: 8380038
    Abstract: A broadcasting station apparatus includes a video editor and a TS encoder. The video editor produces a video signal by editing video of a TV program and video of a CM. When substantially the same scenes are arranged before and after the CM in the video signal produced in the video editor, the TS encoder manipulates predetermined data of a TS packet storing information of the same scene (overlap scene) after the CM. In a recording/reproducing apparatus, the TS packet storing the information of the overlap scene is sorted based on the data. The TS packet storing the information of the overlap scene is not decoded in time shift reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiroh Nishio
  • Patent number: 8358902
    Abstract: One or more representative images extracted from an image group comprising a plurality of images is/are displayed. A part or all of the representative image or images, such as a main subject region or a background region including a search target, is/are selected from the representative image or images, and used for setting search conditions. The image group is searched for an image or images agreeing with the search conditions having been set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Mino
  • Patent number: 8346050
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a data area storing at least one text subtitle stream, each text subtitle stream including a style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of presentation segments, at least one of the plurality of presentation segments containing first and second regions of text which are linked to first and second region styles selected from the group of region styles, respectively, wherein the first and second region styles define a same text flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Jea Yong Yoo, Byung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8320730
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an I/O device capable of collectively managing and easily editing AV data recorded by a plurality of video cameras with transfer bit rate between devices kept constant, and an I/O management system. The I/O management system according to the present invention comprises: a storage device having a non-linear accessible recording medium; a control unit for controlling output of externally supplied data with respect to the storage device, or input of data from the storage device; and one or more I/O device having a record information management unit for managing, through a file system, record information acquired at the time when data is recorded onto the recording medium, and controls input of data from the storage device on the basis of the record information managed by a file system at the time of reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Yoshinori Koishikawa, Ryo Abiko
  • Patent number: 8315501
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A reproduction section reproduces video data from a record medium. The video data are managed in a unit of a clip composed of a plurality of frames which are chronologically successive. A first decode section decodes a first clip which is currently being output and stores the decoded first clip. A second decode section pre-decodes at least a frame which is output at beginning of a second clip adjacent to the first clip in a reproduction order and stores the decoded frame. A control section which controls a clip adjacent to a decoded position side of the first clip in the reproduction order to become the second clip for an early region and a late region of a time length based on a center position of a reproduction time length of the first clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Naito
  • Patent number: 8290334
    Abstract: A system and method for automated editing of content is disclosed. The system includes a biasable editing engine. A user is provided with content. The user rates the content according to user preferences. The system receives the ratings implements the editor engine, which edits the content and which is biased in its decision making by user ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Cyberlink Corp.
    Inventor: Michael Francis Demeyer
  • Patent number: 8280220
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus successively decoding and reproducing a plurality of picture data forming reproduced data, comprising a reproduction memory, a decoder decoding the picture data, writing the decoding results in the reproduction memory, and reproducing and outputting the decoding results read from the reproduction memory, and a processing circuit for performing decoding scheduling for determining an order of making the decoder decode picture data belonging to a group of picture data in units of groups of picture data comprised of a predetermined plurality of the picture data, generating scheduling result data including decoding order data indicating the determined order and validity data indicating validity of the picture data, selecting the picture data to be processed in the order determined by the decoding scheduling based on the scheduling result data, and, conditional on the selected picture data being valid, making the decoder decode and reproduce and output the picture data and, when receiving a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Tsunashima, Shojiro Shibata, Mototsugu Takamura, Kyohei Koyabu, Shinjiro Kakita
  • Patent number: 8270800
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus decodes compression-coded video data including I-pictures, P-pictures, and B-pictures. The information processing apparatus includes at least one decoder decoding the compression-coded video data, a supply controller controlling the supply of the compression-coded video data to the decoder, and a controller controlling processing executed by the supply controller and the decoder. The decoder includes a bank memory for storing decoded picture data, and the controller controls the timing at which a picture stored in the bank memory is released by changing the value of a first counter indicating a number of times for which the picture stored in the bank memory is referred to when a P-picture or a B-picture is decoded by the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shojiro Shibata, Shuji Tsunashima, Mototsugu Takamura, Kyohei Koyabu, Shinjiro Kakita, Mitsuhisa Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8265448
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus may include means for storing priority information on priorities of contents, means for receiving a list of the contents stored in another electronic apparatus with attribute information on contents in the list from anther electronic apparatus, means for determining whether a content in the list is a first content with a first priority or a second content with a second priority lower than the first priority, means for causing whole data of the first content to be received if the content is the first content and causing beginning portion data of the second content to be received if the content is the second content, means for storing at least one of the whole data and the beginning portion data, and means for causing the stored whole data to be reproduced and causing subsequent portion data to be received from the other electronic apparatus while the beginning portion data is being reproduced and to be reproduced following the reproduction of the beginning portion data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Morihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8260108
    Abstract: A recording and reproduction apparatus may include an information signal recording section configured to record an information signal on a recording medium; a reproduction section configured to read/reproduce the information signal; a feature amount detection section configured to detect feature amounts of the information signal to be recorded and/or the reproduced information signal; a division detection section configured to detect divisions of the information signal; a keyword obtaining section configured to obtain a keyword; a keyword recording section configured to record the keywords obtained by the keyword obtaining section; a user operation input detection section configured to detect operation input by a user; a user evaluation value generator configured to generate a user evaluation value; a keyword evaluation value accumulation and storage section configured to accumulate the user evaluation value for each of the keywords and store the accumulated evaluation value; and a recommendation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho Murakoshi
  • Patent number: 8260107
    Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a disk section, a process, section, a disk start control device, and a disk start mode setting device. At the time when power ON operation is carried out, in the case (1) when the disk start mode setting device is set in the disabling mode, the disk start control device carries out control so as to start the processing section without starting a hard disk. And in the case (2) when the disk start mode setting device is set in the enabling mode, the disk start control device carries out control to start the hard disk and the processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Miyano
  • Patent number: 8233764
    Abstract: A program recording method receives and records a desired program, the recording of which is set based on at least a broadcast time period and a broadcast channel. The method includes obtaining an electronic program guide and, when the desired program recording is set, searching a character string in a predetermined region of the electronic program guide including the broadcast time and broadcast channel, and changing the broadcast time period to a new time period when a predetermined word is included in the character string. A program recording apparatus for performing the method is also provided. The program recording apparatus and method ensure that a situation does not occur in which an end portion of the desired program is not recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventors: Yukinori Kita, Shinichiro Sugai, Makoto Korehisa, Takayuki Miyama
  • Patent number: 8208783
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Owada
  • Patent number: 8195972
    Abstract: Synchronous circuitry for processing digital data in which the data are filtered to compensate for expected jitter in time-average frequency clock signals. Time-average frequency synthesis circuitry generates internal clock signals of a desired frequency, for example as based on a recovered clock signal from an input data stream, in a manner in which not all periods of the clock signal are of uniform duration. A jitter precorrection filter is inserted into the data path to apply a variable delay to pre-correct for distortion caused by jitter in the clock cycle. In embodiments of the invention using a flying-adder architecture to generate the clock signal, coefficients of the digital filer realizing the jitter precorrection filter are calculated according to the currently-selected oscillator phase and according to a fractional portion of a digital frequency control word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl Renner, Walter Heinrich Demmer, Liming Xiu
  • Patent number: 8165445
    Abstract: A system for analyzing a moving pictures expert group (MPEG)-formatted file comprises a format analysis application and a processing element operable to execute the application. The application is adapted to read a rule having at least one logical instruction defining a format requirement and compare a portion of the file with the rule. A determination of validity of the file is made by the application dependent upon a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: David H. Hanes
  • Publication number: 20110194831
    Abstract: A clock recovery device includes a PLL circuit and a tuning circuit. The PLL circuit includes a first frequency divider, a second frequency divider, and a clock recovery unit. The first frequency divider divides a first frequency of the input clock by a first divisor to generate a reference signal. The second frequency divider divides a second frequency of the output clock by a second divisor to generate a feedback signal. The clock recovery unit is coupled to the first frequency divider and the second frequency divider, for re-building and providing the output clock according to the reference signal and the feedback signal. The tuning circuit is coupled to the PLL circuit, for tuning at least one of the first divisor and the second divisor of the PLL circuit according to a buffer status information of a data buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Mu-Hsien Hsu
  • Patent number: 7983370
    Abstract: A clock and data recovery circuit including a phase synchronization loop including an oscillator, the oscillation frequency of which is variably controlled, the phase synchronization loop performing phase-synchronization of a clock signal output from the oscillator with an input data signal. The circuit also includes a discriminator circuit, responsive to a clock signal for discrimination, for discriminating the input data signal and outputting the discriminated signal. The circuit further includes a phase detector circuit for detecting the phase difference between an output data signal, discriminated and output by the discriminator circuit, and the input data signal. The circuit also includes a phase shift circuit for shifting the phase of the clock signal, output from the oscillator, based on a comparison result output from the phase detector circuit. The clock signal, which is output from the phase shift circuit, is supplied as the clock signal for discrimination to the discriminator circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeki Wada
  • Patent number: 7983525
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a synchronization-signal generator configured to generate a predetermined synchronization signal on the basis of a reference synchronization signal; a resolution converter configured to convert a second signal into a third signal when a received signal is the second signal, the second signal being different from a first signal having a first resolution and the second signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, and the third signal having the first resolution; a delayer configured to delay the first signal received when the received signal is the first signal, by a predetermined time taken to convert the second signal into the third signal; and a recorder configured to record the first signal delayed by the delayer or the third signal obtained by converting the second signal by the resolution converter, on a recording medium on the basis of the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Nakamura