High Definition Video Patents (Class 386/335)
  • Patent number: 10257830
    Abstract: A device may receive a request for a transmission of media content. The device may determine a set of rules associated with the transmission of the media content. The device may assign one or more radio frequency (RF) spectrum bands for the transmission of the media content. The device may provide or receive the media content via the one or more RF spectrum bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Chandwani, Sergio Aguirre
  • Patent number: 9575707
    Abstract: A multi-chassis coordinated display system a first chassis having a first display device located on the first chassis and a master screen agent. The master screen agent is configured to receive device information from a screen sub-agent that is located in a second chassis that includes a second display device. The master screen agent uses the device information to determine a first user interface screen for a user interface and a second user interface screen for the user interface, and sends the second user interface screen to the screen sub-agent. The master screen agent may then display the first user interface screen on the first display device while the screen sub-agent displays the second user interface screen on the second display device to provide a coordinated display of the user interface on the first display device and the second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen Petrick, Deborah C. Russell, Orin M. Ozias
  • Patent number: 9231689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of flexibly regulating coverage of a repeater in a long term evolution system (hereinafter referred to as an LTE system). The present invention provides an apparatus for regulating transmission power of a repeater in an LTE (LONG TERM EVOLUTION) system, the apparatus including a sink signal detector that detects a sink signal of a reception signal received through an IF/RF receiver of the repeater, a sink signal power measurer that measures a size of power of the sink signal detected through the sink signal detector, and an amplification controller that calculates a gain of an amplifier of the repeater for maintaining coverage of the repeater based on the size of the power of the sink signal measured through the sink signal power measurer, and controls the amplifier of the repeater according to the calculated gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Solid Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun-Chae Kim, Cheong-Hwan Kim, Joong-Hyup Lee
  • Patent number: 9042709
    Abstract: An image capture device includes: first and second shooting sections, each of which is configured to shoot an image of a subject; a disparity calculating section configured to generate a depth map based on first and second images that have been shot by the first and second shooting sections, respectively; and an image generating section configured to generate, based on the depth map and the first image, a third image that has as high a resolution as the first image and that forms part of a 3D image. The image generating section is controlled to determine whether or not to generate the third image based on at least one of the states of the first and second images, a zoom power during shooting, and the tilt of the image capture device during shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Morioka, Tadashi Nagai, Takeshi Hamasaki, Koichi Toyomura, Takanori Yabuki, Kenji Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9036005
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for measuring a stereo video format includes an active space measuring circuit and a decision circuit. The active space measuring circuit is utilized for determining a position of an active space of a frame packing to generate an active space measuring result according to pixels values of a plurality of scan lines of the frame packing. The decision circuit is coupled to the active space measuring circuit, and is utilized for determining the stereo video format according to at least the active space measuring result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Chi Lin, Ching-Sheng Cheng, Yueh-Hsuan Tsai, Guo-Zhan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9020331
    Abstract: A video image information playback method and a video image information playback device with which user convenience can be obtained at the start of resume playback. The video image information playback method is a method of playback of a recording medium on which virtual-machine-based content has been recorded. During normal playback of the virtual-machine-based content, a program running on a virtual machine and a decryption program that decrypts encrypted virtual-machine-based content perform decryption processing for the virtual-machine-based content while exchanging data. After suspension of playback of the virtual-machine-based content, at the start of resume playback, which is executed following an instruction to resume playback, a proxy program is launched in place of the program that runs on the virtual machine. The proxy program and the decryption program perform playback of the video image of the virtual-machine-based content while exchanging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoaki Ryu
  • Patent number: 8983094
    Abstract: An all-in-one audio system includes an audio chip, an audio interface, first and second audio signal amplifiers, a speaker, a woofer, a multi-function controller, a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and a switch. The multi-function controller is connected to the audio chip, the switch, the audio interface, the first and second audio signal amplifiers, and the HDMI. When the multi-function controller detects a high definition multimedia signal through the HDMI, the multi-function controller turns off the switch, decodes the high definition multimedia signal into an audio signal, and transmits the audio signal to the audio interface, and the first and second audio signal amplifiers. The first and second audio signal amplifiers amplify the audio signal and output the amplified audio signal to the speaker and woofer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Innocloud Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Feng-Long He
  • Patent number: 8970675
    Abstract: A system of the present disclosure comprises a shooting system and a playback system. The shooting system includes first and second shooting sections and a disparity calculating section that generates a differential image representing a difference between first and second images that have been shot by the first and second shooting sections, respectively. The playback system includes an image generating section that generates, based on the differential image and the first image, a third image that has as high a resolution as the first image and that forms, along with the first image, a 3D image. The image generating section generates, based on the first image and the differential image, a depth map representing the amount of parallax between the first and second images, and generates the third image based on the first image and the depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Morioka, Haruo Isaka, Kenji Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8970710
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of a video is provided. The method comprises: generating a frame loss pattern of the video by indicating whether each frame in the video is lost or successfully transmitted; and evaluating the quality of the video as a function of the generated t came loss pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Xiao Dong Gu, De Bing Liu, Zhi Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 8942547
    Abstract: The recorder apparatus includes the controller that sets conversion mode used when input stream is processed and converted into recording stream to any of two-dimensional mode that converts the input stream into two-dimensional recording stream and three-dimensional mode that converts the input stream into three-dimensional recording stream, the controller that sets one recording mode that can be used when the video signal is converted and processed in the two-dimensional mode and the three-dimensional mode and specifies recording rate, and the signal processor that processes the video signal based on the set conversion mode and the set recording mode to convert the video signal into recording video signal. The controller sets the recording modes such that combination of the recording modes that can be set when the two-dimensional mode is set is different from combination of recording modes that can be set when the three-dimensional mode is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Maruyama, Kazuhito Kimura
  • Patent number: 8913881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital video recorder having an apparatus for receiving an automatic switched image by recognizing a source and a method thereof, which is capable of automatically determining whether an image channel is a SD signal channel or a HD-SDI signal channel and switching between these channels. The present invention has an advantage in that it provides a DVR having a source recognition automatic switched image receiving apparatus which is capable of automatically detecting whether an image signal is a SD signal or a HD-SDI signal in a channel and automatically switches between these signals, thereby allowing free channel change without requiring separate setting, which can result in higher flexibility of installation and channel setting and improved utilization of existing lines, and a method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Inventor: Kyung Sug Lee
  • Patent number: 8903227
    Abstract: In processing of recording data on a recording medium, three-dimensional image discrimination data representing whether or not there is a possibility of a three-dimensional image being included in recorded data is recorded as management information. The three-dimensional image discrimination data is recorded in a clip information file set in association with a stream file as a storage file of image data, a playlist file including reproduction section designating information for the clip information file, a disc management file which directly or indirectly designates the playlist file, or the like. A reproducing apparatus can thereby easily determine the presence/absence of a three-dimensional image without performing analysis on reproduction target data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiya Hamada
  • Patent number: 8886021
    Abstract: The recording medium has a navigation area storing at least one navigation file. The navigation file includes navigation commands for managing reproduction of at least video data forming different parental control reproduction paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Byung Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8866881
    Abstract: In the case where a parallax of left and right images is not appropriate, an influence on the health caused by stereoscopic viewing is preliminarily prevented. A camera and a television are connected (step S1) and a television size is input from the camera (step S2). A parallax adjustment amount v is created based on the input television size (step S3) and the left and right image data and the parallax adjustment amount v are transmitted to the television (step S4). When the television receives those (step S101), the parallax of the left and right images is adjusted by the parallax adjustment amount v (step S102). A region including the subject having the largest parallax among subjects in the left and right images is clipped and displayed in a small screen with the size of the display unit of the camera (step S103). The user checks the image displayed in the small screen (step S5) and when there is no problem, the left and right images are displayed on all over the television size in a 3D mode (step S104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Koudai Fujita
  • Patent number: 8855463
    Abstract: In an image storing apparatus (photostorage), files are enabled to be certainly copied (or moved) without overlapping by the fairly simple operation. When image data is read out of a recording medium connected through a slot and stored into a high capacity storage unit, a management table in which a unique ID of the recording medium and the maximum value of file IDs of image files stored in the recording medium have been associated is used and the image files having the file IDs larger than the maximum value of the file IDs corresponding to the unique ID of the recording medium in the management table are read out and stored into the high capacity storage unit. The file ID is formed by combining a directory number and a file number in the DCF standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Yoshitani
  • Patent number: 8831406
    Abstract: The recording medium has a data structure for managing reproduction of data recorded on the recording medium. A navigation area stores at least one navigation file, and the navigation file includes at least one navigation command group. At least one navigation command group includes at least one navigation command for managing reproduction of at least video data recorded on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Eun Sil Hyun, Jea Yong Yoo, Sung Wan Park, Byung Jin Kim, Soung Hyun Um, Chang Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 8818170
    Abstract: For a content-prerecorded large capacity disc-shaped recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility is accomplished. Button image data, corresponding sound data as an effect sound, and control commands for the sound data and image data are multiplexed with a stream and recorded on the disc. A scenario reproduced from the disc is stored in a buffer. The image data and sound data are stored in a buffer. Image data is read from the buffer in accordance with a scenario and expanded to a graphics plane. In addition, corresponding sound data is read from the buffer and reproduced by a sound player. When a button image is varied in accordance with a state change of the button, an effect sound is reproduced. As a result, a more effective user interface is accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Hamada, Motoki Kato
  • Publication number: 20140161424
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, a recording medium, and a program which are capable of processing imaging data in a manner similar to that of a normal frame rate. Image data captured by a solid-state imaging element capable of performing imaging at a high resolution and a high frame rate is supplied to a memory control. The memory control, at the same time as writing the imaging data input from the imaging element in a frame memory, reads preceding frames of imaging data that are recorded on the frame memory, and sequentially respectively outputs them in parallel, as video image data items, for each frame, to respective camera signal processing units. In the camera signal processing units, a video output, a viewfinder output, codec units, and recording units, processing similar to that when a frame rate that is ¼ the imaging frame rate is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Isao OHASHI, Yoshihiko KUROKI
  • Patent number: 8750690
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller for controlling data recording to an information recording medium. The controller executes a state determination process of determining whether the information recording medium is ready to record additionally data. Upon determining that the information recording medium is not ready to additionally record the data, the controller performs a notification process of notifying that the information recording medium is not ready to record additionally the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Mae, Kenichiro Aridome, Yukio Isobe, Naoki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8737823
    Abstract: A disk reproducing device which is connected to a television device meeting an HDMI standard and is operable to output information data that has a native format and is recorded on a disk to the television device, includes: an obtaining unit, operable to obtain an EDID including video resolution information which is transmitted from the television device; a discriminating unit, operable to discriminate whether or not the native format is present in the video resolution information; and an outputting unit, operable to output the information data to the television device in the native format, in a case where the discriminating unit discriminates that the native format is present in the video resolution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomotsugu Takamori
  • Patent number: 8712223
    Abstract: There is provided an authoring method including the steps of generating a first materialization file not including material data itself and referencing a recording position of the material data to mount a first real image having a stream data structure of a first file system, the first file system including time-division multiplexed material data, generating a second materialization file not including material data itself and referencing a recording position of the material data to mount a second real image having a stream data structure of a second file system, the second file system being different from the first file system including time-division multiplexed material data, and arranging the first materialization file and the second materialization file under a directory of a first virtual image to generate the first virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sumiyo Ejima
  • Patent number: 8705946
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Technologies Inc
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takashima, Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 8687950
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus, which play 2D video data or 3D video data, includes a 2Dto3D converter and a display controller. The 2Dto3D converter generates 3D video frames corresponding to 2D video frames in the 2D video data. The display controller controls displaying the 3D video frames on a screen if 3D play of the 2D video data has been requested, and controls displaying 3D video frames in the 3D video data if play of the 3D video data has been requested. The display controller controls displaying the 2D video frames on the screen if a change of a play speed has been requested during the 3D play of the 2D video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shunsuke Takayama
  • Patent number: 8676041
    Abstract: Full resolution graphic overlays (e.g., graphics, menus, arrows, buttons, captions, banners, picture in picture information) and subtitles in frame compatible 3D delivery for a scalable system are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandros Tourapis, Kevin Stec
  • Patent number: 8666230
    Abstract: A mechanism that enables authoring of new optical disc physical media (e.g., HD-DVD) while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous physical media (e.g., DVD-ROM, DVD-Video). The system eliminates film system “switching” and avoids adding new commands to the command specification, while still allowing legacy (e.g., DVD-ROM) drives to use of the content on the legacy layer. The mechanism enables seamless use of any layer should the drive be able to recognize it. The system can employ a single logical block address (LBA) range together with the concept of “sessions” to effect backwards compatibility. As well, logical overwrite techniques can also be employed to accomplish seamless backwards compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Henry P. Gabryjelski
  • Patent number: 8634707
    Abstract: Provided are a Blu-ray Disc (BD) playback system, a BD playback device, a display device, and a computer program which can report the status to the user during playback of BD content and can automatically provide an optimal user interface (UI). A BD playback device (110) is provided with an interactive content decision unit (113) for analyzing control data received from a disc reader (111) and determining whether a disc contains interactive content, and, if there is content, whether the interactive content should be played back. In addition, a display and operating device (120) is provided with an HMI control unit (123) for determining the status of the BD playback device (110) from the input from a communication unit (124) and displaying the appropriate HMI. The HMI control unit (123) controls the report to the user that interactive content exists when it has been determined that interactive content exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Nakagawa, Susumu Ibaraki
  • Patent number: 8630527
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an image editing apparatus that automatically selects an appropriate frame rate that improves image quality of a new moving image generated by combining a plurality of moving images having different frame rates to prevent a user from working much on the selection, when the user newly creates a moving image. The image editing apparatus of the present invention classifies a plurality of moving images to be combined into groups based on a frame rate, compares an amount of moving images included in each of the groups, and selects the group having the largest amount of moving images belonging thereto. Further, the image editing apparatus compares the amounts of the moving images for respective frame rates included in the selected group to select the frame rate which the largest amount of the moving images has. The image editing apparatus converts moving image to be combined into the selected frame rate and then combines the plurality of converted moving images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuma Mikawa
  • Patent number: 8606080
    Abstract: For a content-prerecorded large capacity disc-shaped recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility is accomplished. Button image data, corresponding sound data as an effect sound, and control commands for the sound data and image data are multiplexed with a stream and recorded on the disc. A scenario reproduced from the disc is stored in a buffer. The image data and sound data are stored in a buffer. Image data is read from the buffer in accordance with a scenario and expanded to a graphics plane. In addition, corresponding sound data is read from the buffer and reproduced by a sound player. When a button image is varied in accordance with a state change of the button, an effect sound is reproduced. As a result, a more effective user interface is accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Hamada, Motoki Kato
  • Patent number: 8600221
    Abstract: The present invention provides a writing/reading control method of HD stream in a DVD recorder, by which HD broadcast signals are write in a DVD medium. The present invention includes the steps of storing a plurality of HD streams in the HDD by demodulating HD broadcast signals received from a tuner/demodulator, creating a stream file in a DVD medium to record a specific one of a plurality of the HD streams stored in the HDD, recording the specific HD stream in the stream file, opening to read the HD steam file recorded in the DVD medium, buffering the read HD stream file in the HDD, and reading the buffered HD stream file using a video decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Sang Park, Woo Hyun Paik, Jong Seok Park, Kang Suk Chai, Ssang Soo Lee, Jong Won Lim, Hyung Jin Kim, Il Gun Kwon, Bo Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 8594184
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for controlling video-audio data playing, which relates to the network communication field. The method includes: obtaining total duration of playing video-audio data in a buffer; calculating a time difference, the time difference being a difference between a current time point and a time point of receiving a latest video-audio data packet; and performing time domain stretch processing for video-audio data in the buffer when the total duration and the time difference satisfy a preset condition, and playing the processed video-audio data. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose an apparatus for controlling video-audio data playing. By using the method and apparatus, the incontinuity phenomena will be decreased when the video-audio data is played, so as to improve user experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Xinliang Wang
  • Patent number: 8577207
    Abstract: An information signal processing apparatus comprises: data playback unit for playing back data from a recording medium on which featured data is recorded according to the setting of a first parameter series; information file playback unit for playing back the video/audio information files by selecting from the recording medium; parameter setting unit for selecting one of the played back information files and setting parameter data corresponding to the information file and to the first or second parameter series; playback period processing unit for determining the playback period of the video/audio data recorded on the recording medium according to the featured data and either initialization parameter data set in advance in accordance with the first and second parameter series or the parameter data adjusted by the parameter setting unit; and playback control unit for performing playback control according to the signal from the playback period processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 8577208
    Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Ikeuchi, Kengo Nishimura, Shoji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8554060
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing video data are discussed. According an embodiment, the apparatus includes a controller configured to receive a request of a path change, the controller configured to control the path change from a current path to the request path among the multiple reproduction paths by identifying path information in an entry point map, the path information associated with an entry point in the video data, and the entry point map having an entry point fine table including fine information of at least one entry point and an entry point coarse table including coarse information of the at least one entry point, the fine information and coarse information identifying a presentation time and an address for the at least one entry point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang Soo Seo, Sung Wan Park, Mi Hyun Kim, Sung Ryun Cho, Byung Jin Kim, Soung Hyun Um
  • Patent number: 8548305
    Abstract: Method and apparatus of contiguously recording a sequence of ordered AfV information signals, and corresponding management information signals, on a disc-like recording medium of the write-once type. The method comprises allocating a reserved area within a linear addressing space of the disc, contiguously recording the A/V information signals in a video recording area located succeeding the reserved area, recording corresponding management data in a temporary overview space succeeding the video recording area, generating a mapping table (39) for mapping the recorded management data to address locations in the reserved area and recording the mapping table (39) in the temporary overview space. The mapping table (39) used when recording information according to VCPS comprises a structure (39a), preventing the overwriting of the management data by recorders not familiar with VCPS. The structure is preferably formed by a mapping-table header field (39a) containing dummy data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Wiebe De Haan
  • Patent number: 8532467
    Abstract: A transmitting device, a receiving device and a transmitting and receiving device includes multiple devices connected. When these devices have duplicate functions for processing video signals or audio signals, these signals are processed using optimal circuits by comparing functions for processing video signals or audio signals in the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiroh Nishio
  • Patent number: 8417102
    Abstract: A machine-implemented authoring method for a high definition digital versatile disc includes: receiving a user-specified title; enabling a user to specify an initial playlist file and at least one application, the initial playlist file being one of a template-generated raw playlist file and a user-authored raw playlist file; and in response to a user-inputted command, modifying the initial playlist file to set corresponding relationship between the user-specified title and the at least one application such that, during playback of the user-specified title, the at least one application set to correspond to the user-specified title can be invoked and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventor: Sheng-Wen Bai
  • Patent number: 8385726
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes an output unit configured to output main video data used as a main image, sub-video data used as a subsidiary image, cursor data to display a cursor, graphics data to display operation guidance, and sub-picture data to display subtitles, a first blend processing unit configured to superimpose the sub-video data, the sub-picture data, the cursor data and the graphics data, and a second blend processing unit configured to superimpose the superimposed data obtained by the first blend processing unit and the main video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shinji Kuno
  • Patent number: 8380054
    Abstract: An information storage medium on which multi-angle data is recorded includes at least two clips in each of which video object data for an angle of the multi-angle data is recorded. The at least two clips are recorded in contiguous areas of the information storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 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: 8369692
    Abstract: A video and sound signal recorded on an optical disk is reproduced and when a read error of the video and sound signal occurs during the reproduction of the optical disk, reading of the video and sound signal is retried and when a read error of the video and sound signal occurs during the retry of the reading of the video and sound signal, a rotational speed of the optical disk is increased to retry reading of the video and sound signal and when the video and sound signal can be read by the retry of the reading of the video and sound signal, the rotational speed of the optical disk is returned to the original rotational speed and the video and sound signal recorded on the optical disk is reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryusuke Noda
  • Patent number: 8369693
    Abstract: A method for storing visual information on a storage medium is disclosed, whereby the method includes receiving a first visual information corresponding to a left eye and a second visual information corresponding to a right eye. The method further includes storing the first visual information in a first stream and the second visual information in a second stream on the storage medium, wherein the first stream and the second stream are each stored at full resolution. An information handling system (IHS) is further disclosed including a storage medium operable to store, at full resolution, a first stream of visual information corresponding to a left eye and a second stream of visual information corresponding to a right eye, wherein the first stream and the second stream are each stored at full resolution. The system may further include a playback device operable to read the storage medium and display the visual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Brian Todd Zucker, Thomas Alexander Shows
  • Patent number: 8369691
    Abstract: An apparatus which easily discriminates 3D (stereoscopic vision) contents from non-3D contents among recorded program contents can be provided. Further, a unit to prohibit unintentional generation of a virtual play list where 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed can be provided. For these purposes, a 3D flag is recorded in a play list file. Further, upon virtual play list generation, the recorded 3D flag set values are obtained and it is checked whether or not 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akinobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8340505
    Abstract: An audio-video processing method is adapted to an audio-video device and a storage device for processing an index-based audio-video file. The method for processing audio-video data includes a write procedure, a play procedure, and/or a repair procedure. In the write procedure, audio-video data is captured by the audio-video device first, and the audio-video data includes a plurality of continuous samples; a header is written according to the audio-video data; a predetermined number of samples are captured as a data chunk; a prefix index corresponding to the data chunk and the data chunk are written in sequence repeatedly according to the audio-video data; and a file index is written finally. In the play procedure, after the header is read, corresponding prefix index and data chunk are repeatedly read and played. Moreover, in the repair procedure, incompletely written file index and data chunk are repaired through all the prefix indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Vivotek Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Wu Fan Jiang, Jian-Nan Guan
  • Patent number: 8280219
    Abstract: An information converting apparatus includes an additional information retrieval unit for retrieving additional information incidental to moving image data stored on a stream file having a first recording format, an additional information converting unit for converting the retrieved additional information in accordance with a second recording format, and an additional information recording control unit for controlling recording of the converted additional information onto a stream file having the second recording format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Morimoto, Kenichiro Aridome, Yukio Isobe, Atsushi Mae, Kenichiro Nagao
  • Patent number: 8265453
    Abstract: A BD-ROM has recorded thereon: a plurality of subtitle streams each configured for playback in sync with a video stream; and PlayList information. The PlayList information includes PlayItem information and a display method flag. The PlayItem information defines a playback section with information indicating In_time and Out_time of a playback time axis of the video stream and includes a stream information table. The display method flag indicates whether or not control according to a subtitle display method is valid. The stream information table specifies to, a playback apparatus, one of the subtitle streams to be selected if the control according to the subtitle display method is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Okubo, Tomokazu Kanamaru
  • Patent number: 8260124
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for reproducing a digital broadcast having different compression formats and a method of recording the digital broadcast so that the digital broadcast may be consistently stored and reproduced regardless of a compression format of the digital broadcast. The method of reproducing a digital broadcast includes receiving a transport stream of the digital broadcast which is provided in a compression format; extracting an original stream of a desired program by demultiplexing the transport stream and extracting metadata from the original stream for reproducing or performing trick-play functions on the original stream; separately storing the original stream and the metadata; and decoding the original stream in accordance with the compression format and displaying the original stream. The method and apparatus allows a user to consistently perform functions on the digital broadcast regardless of a compression format of the digital broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-seon Kim, Hyung-il Jang
  • Patent number: 8224149
    Abstract: A record/reproduction apparatus capable of performing record-reproduction with high definition and standard definition appropriately records information, and includes: at least one of a display unit and an output unit to an external display device; a hard disk drive; and a disc drive corresponding to record-reproduction using a disc for record-reproduction in a high definition mode and a disc for record-reproduction in a standard definition mode. With the configuration, the record/reproduction apparatus performs a display on the display unit in the high definition mode or a display-output to the output unit in the high definition mode at activation, recognizes one of the hard disk drive and the disc drive as a record medium after the display-outputting, and sets a record mode to one of the hard disk drive and the disc drive based on a result of the recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kato, Akinobu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Marumori, Takaki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 8213775
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method for providing images which coincide in reproduction time and atmosphere with BGM as a slideshow to a user. From sound data to be used for production of BGM, a head no-sound interval detection section detects a head no-sound interval and a tail no-sound interval detection section detects a tail no-sound interval while a tail fade-out interval detection section detects a tail fade-out interval. A play interval specification section specifies a play interval of the sound data other than the head and tail no-sound intervals, and an image content allocation section allocates photo album information and effect data to the play interval to produce vector data. A fade-out process setting section updates the vector data so that a fade-out process may be applied to images within the tail fade-out interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuro Matsuzaki, Masayuki Inoue, Kanako Nakamura, Shinji Sakai
  • Patent number: 8200069
    Abstract: A BD media with different formats such as BDMV and BDAV having been recorded. In a data indicating method of list-indicating data recorded on a recording medium, the data includes a first data group and a second data group, the first data group is recorded onto the recording medium according to a first recording format, the second data group is recorded according to a second recording format different from the first recording format, the first recording data group includes first list indication data for a first list indicating method, the second group includes second list for a second list indicating method different from the first method, the first list indication data indicates the first data group, the second list indication data indicates the second data group, and the first group and the second data group are collectively list-indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akinobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8184942
    Abstract: A title record method to be used with a digital broadcast recorder including recording a received digital broadcast signal, and, substantially simultaneously, reading broadcast information contained in the digital broadcast signal, determining the presence or absence of a program title in the broadcast information, continuously reading the broadcast information of the next digital broadcast signal following the digital broadcast signal if no title is present in the broadcast information, and, substantially simultaneously, determining the presence or absence of the title in the next digital broadcast signal, and recording the title as a title of the recorded broadcast signal if the title is present in the broadcast information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pung Hwan Lim, Cheon Seong Lee
  • Patent number: 8184958
    Abstract: An audio-video player, which automatically determines an event corresponding to the current state and displays a preferred message associated with the event, is provided. A DVD player includes: a massage table which stores prescribed messages in advance by associating them with a plurality of events having prescribed priorities; an event determination unit which sequentially determines whether the current state corresponds to an event, starting from an event of higher priority; and a message display control unit which reads out, when the event determination unit found the corresponding event, a prescribed message associated with the corresponding event from a message table and displays it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sawada, Hiroyuki Fukuma, Dai Shimozawa