| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7555715 |
Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different dat |
June 30, 2009 |
| The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format |
| 7509530 |
Method and system for use in restoring an active partition |
March 24, 2009 |
| The present embodiments perform active volume restores on actively running initial operating systems in an active partition. The methods identify available memory within a partition, duplicate at least a portion of an initial operating system image into the identified available memory |
| 7440972 |
Interactive media authoring without access to original source material |
October 21, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to improvements in the generation of an authoring file, readable by an authoring program of a DVD-Video or other interaction video media, that defines the playback structure of the content residing in a given disc's "authored content zone" and also defin |
| 7437059 |
Methods and systems for expanding recording capacity of optical discs |
October 14, 2008 |
| A software driven method for appending data to a rewritable optical disc is provided. The method includes detecting a rewritable optical disc, and the rewritable optical disc contains a first written session with a file system and an associated volume descriptor. The method then detects |
| 7398004 |
Software methods for authoring multimedia content to be written to optical media |
July 8, 2008 |
| A computer implemented method for authoring a multimedia compact disc is provided. The method includes obtaining multimedia content from at least one source and enabling manipulation of the obtained multimedia content. The method further includes arranging the obtained multimedia content |
| 7376274 |
Method and apparatus for use in video searching |
May 20, 2008 |
| The present embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for use in searching and/or retrieving video data. Some embodiments provide method for use in searching video data, that extract a spatiotemporal representation of at least a portion of a query sequence of video data, produce a |
| 7343052 |
End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image |
March 11, 2008 |
| The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development ("authoring") of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing "zoomed-in" sections of a master hig |
| 7302453 |
Optimizing the recording on a rewritable interactive medium of revisions to an existing project |
November 27, 2007 |
| An authoring file, readable by DVD-Video authoring program, defines the playback structure of the DVD-Video material residing in a given disc's "DVD-Video zone" (VIDEO_TS directory) and also defines the location of the assets that make up the disc--s DVD-Video "presentation data." The |
| 7269634 |
System, method and article of manufacture for remote control and navigation of local content |
September 11, 2007 |
| A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for remotely controlling content stored on a local computer connected to a network system such as the Internet. The invention allows content such as DVD Video content to be locked so that play can only be accomplished through v |
| 7210134 |
Deterring reverse-engineering of software systems by randomizing the siting of stack-based data |
April 24, 2007 |
| A given software process is composed on one or more threads of execution. Each thread possesses its own stack, a region of memory set aside by the operating system for that thread to store data. Popular programming languages rely heavily on stack-based data (frequently referred to as |
| 7177990 |
Automatic format of removable media |
February 13, 2007 |
| An invention is disclosed for automatically preparing removable media for content, such as by automatically formatting media such as CDs and DVDs. A drive type is determined for a drive present on a computer system. The drive type defines characteristics of the drive. In addition, a medi |
| 7145840 |
Methods for optical disc sector verification |
December 5, 2006 |
| A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the user data. The sectors of the optical disc are verified by reading the user data on the |
| 7139763 |
Method and system for processing data selected for recording to optical media |
November 21, 2006 |
| Methods for processing data to be recorded to optical media are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a request to record data to optical media. The method then maps a source path for the data from a root directory through any intervening parent directories to the file |
| 7136886 |
Pre-mastering for optical media recording |
November 14, 2006 |
| Methods and media for pre-mastering in preparation for recording data files to optical media are provided. In one example, a method for pre-mastering includes receiving a selection of data files to be recorded to an optical media and generating a database in which to list the selecti |
| 7114028 |
Method of automatically formatting and pseudo-mounting a removable media |
September 26, 2006 |
| An invention is disclosed for automatically formatting removable media. A default media image is generated in computer memory in response to detecting unformatted media in a computer drive. The media image includes default file system structures for the media. In response to receiving a |
| 7043312 |
CD playback augmentation for higher resolution and multi-channel sound |
May 9, 2006 |
| The present invention presents a way to augment the playback of a compact disk by increasing the resolution, the number of channel, or both during reproduction, while still allowing the resultant CD to be playable on a standard CD player. From a high quality original master or other sour |
| 6995805 |
Method and system for scene change detection |
February 7, 2006 |
| A method, in one exemplary embodiment, for automatically detecting scene changes within a digital video sequence including a succession of frames, including computing metrics, for each of a plurality of frames from a digital video sequence, the metric of a frame being a measure of distan |
| 6981273 |
System, method and channel line-up processor for localizing an electronic program guide schedule |
December 27, 2005 |
| A system for localizing an EPG program schedule, including an EPG service provider station including a database of channels and corresponding EPG program schedule information, a database manager identifying a plurality of channel line-ups potentially receivable at a viewing location, a |
| 6973014 |
Methods for optical disc sector verification |
December 6, 2005 |
| A method for verifying sectors on an optical disc is provided. The method includes writing user data to unverified sectors of the optical disc and verifying the sectors of the optical disc with the user data. The sectors of the optical disc are verified by reading the user data on the |
| 6904152 |
Multi-channel surround sound mastering and reproduction techniques that preserve spatial harmoni |
June 7, 2005 |
| Techniques of making a recording of or transmitting a sound field from either multiple monaural or directional sound signals that reproduce through multiple discrete loud speakers a sound field with spatial harmonics that substantially exactly match those of the original sound field. |
| 6072878 |
Multi-channel surround sound mastering and reproduction techniques that preserve spatial harmoni |
June 6, 2000 |
| Techniques of making a recording of or transmitting a sound field from either multiple monaural or directional sound signals that reproduce through multiple discrete loud speakers a sound field with spatial harmonics that substantially exactly match those of the original sound field. |
| 6047356 |
Method of dynamically allocating network node memory's partitions for caching distributed files |
April 4, 2000 |
| A distributed file system with dedicated nodes capable of being connected to workstations at their bus. The system uses a complementary client-side and server-side file caching method that increases parallelism by issuing multiple server requests to keep the hardware devices busy simulta |
| 5812790 |
Variable encoding rate plan generation |
September 22, 1998 |
| A profile of information flow rate of a source data stream having inherently variable information flow rate may be developed and conformed to a constrained target profile of output bit rate as would be generated by a variable compression ratio encoding scheme to be applied to the sou |
