| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40107 |
Video/audio transmission system and method |
February 26, 2008 |
| The invention is a data pipeline system which synchronizes the display of digitized audio and video data regardless of the speed at which the data was recorded on its linear medium. To do this, the video data is played at a constant speed, synchronized by the audio speed. Further, the |
| D565553 |
Audio peripheral for a music production system |
April 1, 2008 |
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| D515095 |
Computer peripheral |
February 14, 2006 |
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| D398912 |
Computer input device |
September 29, 1998 |
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| D396853 |
Icon for a display screen of a video editing system |
August 11, 1998 |
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| D395291 |
Icon for a display screen |
June 16, 1998 |
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| D392269 |
Icon for a display screen |
March 17, 1998 |
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| D392268 |
Icon for a display screen |
March 17, 1998 |
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| D392267 |
Icon for a display screen |
March 17, 1998 |
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| D373778 |
Combined front panel display and associated input unit for a video camera |
September 17, 1996 |
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| D372478 |
Editing control panel |
August 6, 1996 |
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| 7623754 |
Motion picture recording device using digital, computer-readable non-linear media |
November 24, 2009 |
| A digital media recorder including a video camera digitizing circuitry and a digital computer readable and writable random access medium, such as magnetic or optical disk, in which sequences of digital still images are stored directly on the recording medium. Audio recording capabilities |
| 7587062 |
Watermarking |
September 8, 2009 |
| A structured watermark may be embedded in data by applying an irregular mapping of variations defined by the structured watermark to frequency domain values representing the data. In particular, the frequency domain representation of the data comprises an ordered set of frequency domain |
| 7562099 |
Graphical user interface for a media management system for communicating quality, source and acc |
July 14, 2009 |
| A media management system communicates to a user the availability of media data at different qualities (such as compression quality or resolution), or from different channels, that originated from one or more sources. Given a selection of media objects, whether a set of media files, a |
| 7555557 |
Review and approval system |
June 30, 2009 |
| The review and Approval system of the present invention advantageously provides computer implemented access for a reviewer to digital content for the purpose of reviewing and approving the digital content. The system is capable of communication with an editing system, and automatical |
| 7545957 |
Analyzing motion of characteristics in images |
June 9, 2009 |
| In calculating motion between two images, a single channel image may be generated for each image based on measurement of a desired characteristic of those images. Given a desired characteristic (such as edge strength or edge magnitude) in an image, a function measures the strength of the |
| 7532807 |
Combined editing system and digital moving picture recording system |
May 12, 2009 |
| A moving picture recording device includes a random-access, computer-readable and writable storage medium to provide non-linear access to recorded clips. The device provides digital capture of both video and audio information. Multiple data paths are provided to allow recording to an |
| 7512885 |
Graphical user interface for navigating and displaying relationships among media data and metada |
March 31, 2009 |
| An editing system has a graphical user interface that shows media/metadata and metadata/metadata relationships and allows a user to navigate a graph defined by these relationships. Using this graphical user interface, a user may determine, for example, which masterclips are used in a |
| 7487309 |
Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between mul |
February 3, 2009 |
| Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent of the storage units on which other segments of the media data are stored. At |
| 7467244 |
Connecting a computer program and a peripheral device using a first communication protocol throu |
December 16, 2008 |
| A device and method for electronic data conversion is provided. Data according to IEEE 1394 format and protocol is received and converted to USB format and protocol and supplied to a system configured to receive data according to USB format and protocol. |
| 7433519 |
Bitstream format for compressed image data |
October 7, 2008 |
| It is desirable to provide a bitstream format for compressed data that would allow multiple processors to access and decompress different parts of the data in parallel. Compressed images are usually defined in terms of macroblocks that have a width less than the image width and a height |
| 7432936 |
Texture data anti-aliasing method and apparatus |
October 7, 2008 |
| Computer-implemented methods of pre-filtering texture data and methods of generating a filter control for pre-filtering texture data for generating a graphics image are disclosed. The disclosed methods include determining encoded pre-filter characteristics representing a measure of the m |
| 7403561 |
Fixed bit rate, intraframe compression and decompression of video |
July 22, 2008 |
| High quality intraframe-only compression of video can be achieved using rate distortion optimization and without resizing or bit depth modification. The compression process involves transforming portions of the image to generate frequency domain coefficients for each portion. A bit r |
| 7397474 |
Restricting smoothing operations on a three-dimensional geometrical primitive according to a sur |
July 8, 2008 |
| Smoothing operations on a three-dimensional geometrical primitive, such as a mesh, are restricted by filtering the set of smoothing vectors to apply a user-selected restriction to the set of vectors. The user-selected restriction limits the set of smoothing vectors according to a normal |
| 7336264 |
Method and system for editing or modifying 3D animations in a non-linear editing environment |
February 26, 2008 |
| A non-linear editing (NLE) system for editing and/or modifying 3D animation information comprises elements represented by clip objects which can be positioned and/or manipulated relative to a time line. The elements can comprise conventional 1D (audio) or 2D (video) information or ca |
| 7280117 |
Graphical user interface for a keyer |
October 9, 2007 |
| A keyer is provided with a graphical user interface that helps a user visualize the relationship between the key and the image to be processed using that key. A color space swatch is processed by the keyer using the defined key. The output of the keyer as applied to the color space swatc |
| 7266241 |
Secondary color modification of a digital image |
September 4, 2007 |
| An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further, two or more diffe |
| 7233327 |
Subdividing rotation in a character using quaternion interpolation for modeling and animation in |
June 19, 2007 |
| Subdividing rotation between two poses in three dimensions may be accomplished in three parts. First, data defining the two poses is obtained from the animation or modeling interface. Second, a path associated with the two poses is determined. Third, using quaternion interpolation, t |
| 7194676 |
Performance retiming effects on synchronized data in an editing system |
March 20, 2007 |
| A retiming function that defines a rampable retiming effect is used to generate new audio and video samples at appropriate output times. In particular, for each output time, a corresponding input time is determined from the output time by using the retiming function. The retiming fun |
| 7176917 |
Visual programming interface for a three-dimensional animation system for defining real time sha |
February 13, 2007 |
| A visual programming interface allows an artist to create real time shaders using a tree of shader nodes. Each shader node represents an operation that can be performed in real time through the real time rendering engine. The visual interface allows the arbitrary combinations of thes |
| 7176915 |
Subdividing rotation in a character using quaternion interpolation for modeling and animation in |
February 13, 2007 |
| Subdividing rotation between two poses in three dimensions may be accomplished in three parts. First, data defining the two poses is obtained from the animation or modeling interface. Second, a path associated with the two poses is determined. Third, using quaternion interpolation, t |
| 7165219 |
Media composition system with keyboard-based editing controls |
January 16, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus for selecting samples for presentation on an output device, such as a display or speaker, from a sequence of stored media samples, such as audio or video information. Position information is received from a pointing device, such as a mouse, and translated into di |
| 7151542 |
Manipulation of motion data in an animation editing system |
December 19, 2006 |
| The problem of editing motion data can be solved by providing a way to specify control points (herein called "handles") along the path of the motion data and to describe the motion data as a combination of layers of information describing the motion in relationship to these handles. A |
| 7145567 |
Bitstream format and reading and writing methods and apparatus therefor |
December 5, 2006 |
| Image data having a bit depth of m bits, where m is not a power of two, may be divided into two parts for storage. The first part is the n most significant bits, where n is a power of two. The second part is the k least significant bits, where k=m-n and k<n. For example, 10-bit data |
| 7124366 |
Graphical user interface for a motion video planning and editing system for a computer |
October 17, 2006 |
| A graphical user interface for a computer-assisted motion video editing system directs a user through the process of editing a video program. The graphical user interface may also enables a user to plan a video program. Alternatively selectable interfaces within a single window interface |
| 7111115 |
Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between mul |
September 19, 2006 |
| Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent of the storage units on which other segments of the media data are stored. At |
| 7103231 |
Interpolation of a sequence of images using motion analysis |
September 5, 2006 |
| Two images are analyzed to compute a set of motion vectors that describes motion between the first and second images. A motion vector is computed for each pixel in an image at a time between the first and second images. This set of motion vectors may be defined at any time between the fi |
| 7081900 |
Graphical user interface for color correction |
July 25, 2006 |
| A graphical user interface facilitates color modification of a sequence of segments of moving images on a display of a general purpose computer. The graphical user interface may include a three-image display. The three image display may include a first region on the display for displayin |
| 7069296 |
Method and system for archiving and forwarding multimedia production data |
June 27, 2006 |
| Methods and system are disclosed for archiving and forwarding multimedia data. A server can receive multimedia data for a project from any number of users. The server can archive or store the multimedia data in a database for later access. The server can distribute the received multi |
| 7060916 |
Knob design for a rotary encoder |
June 13, 2006 |
| A rotary encoder of a control surface has a display. The display includes a ring of light emitting elements, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), in the control surface around the shaft and knob of the rotary encoder. The rotary encoder has a shaft that rotates about an axis under contr |
| 7046251 |
Editing system with router for connection to HDTV circuitry |
May 16, 2006 |
| A non-linear editor is connected to video processing equipment through a serial digital video interface to edit high definition (HD) television video data. The non-linear editor includes a randomly accessible, computer-readable and re-writeable storage medium that stores a plurality |
| 7043058 |
Correcting motion vector maps for image processing |
May 9, 2006 |
| Visibie artifacts in images created using image processing based on motion vector maps may be reduced by providing one or more mechanisms for correcting the vector map. In general, the set of motion vectors is changed by selecting one or more portions of the image. The vectors corres |
| 6977673 |
Portable moving picture recording device including switching control for multiple data flow conf |
December 20, 2005 |
| A portable moving picture recording device includes switching control to enable multiple data flow configurations. Two output encoders receive either composite or component digital video signals. The component video signals can come from one of three sources: decoded composite video, |
| 6961801 |
Method and apparatus for accessing video data in memory across flow-controlled interconnects |
November 1, 2005 |
| Command data may be embedded in the data transmitted over an interconnect between video devices to specify memory addresses in a destination device. Using an embedded address allows address-dependent data to be transmitted over the interconnect without losing these attributes. For exampl |
| 6948128 |
Nonlinear editing system and method of constructing an edit therein |
September 20, 2005 |
| A nonlinear editing system for audio, video and/or other source materials comprises a system to define at least one time line representing the edit, the time line being represented in the editing system as an operator graph. The operator graph includes operators, representing sources and |
| 6933948 |
Multi-tone representation of a digital image on a digital nonlinear editing system |
August 23, 2005 |
| A system and method for generating a multi-tone representation of a digital image by applying a plurality of functions of luma to the digital image. The functions of luma comprise at least a first function and a second function, where each function has a value for each luma value in a ra |
| 6933866 |
Variable data rate receiver |
August 23, 2005 |
| A clock signal and data is recovered from a variable rate signal including biphase mark encoded digital audio data. Such recovery involves regularly determining a minimum or maximum pulse width in the biphase mark encoded digital audio data using a high frequency clock. This pulse width |
| 6928187 |
Secondary color modification of a digital image |
August 9, 2005 |
| An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further, two or more diffe |
| 6907191 |
Media recorder for capture and playback of live prerecorded audio and/or video information |
June 14, 2005 |
| The invention disclosed herein is a media recorder for recording live and prerecorded analog audio and/or video information. It is capable of receiving, digitizing, and storing analog audio and/or video information in real time. The invention detects discontinuities in the reception of |
| 6901211 |
Media recorder for capture and playback of live prerecorded audio and/or video information |
May 31, 2005 |
| The invention disclosed herein is a media recorder for recording live and prerecorded analog audio and/or video information. It is capable of receiving, digitizing, and storing analog audio and/or video information in real time. The invention detects discontinuities in the reception of |
