478results about "Carrier editing" patented technology

Automatic and assisted playlist generation is accomplished by collecting data from users of a world-wide music information system. Attributes of the recordings listened to by users are extracted from data collected when the users access the music information system. The attributes are correlated with other attributes in the system to verify data accuracy. Users can specify a set of attributes of their music collection for automatic generation of a playlist. The playlist can then be further edited, even on devices with a limited display and a few buttons designed for playback of recordings, by re-mapping the functions of the buttons for playlist generation.

Systems and methods for generating and using performance metadata associated with a media piece (e.g., music or video) are provided. An electronic device can monitor a user's workout performance while playing a particular media piece. Workout performance may include the user's rate of motion and / or one or more physiological metrics of the user. Based on the user's workout performance, the electronic device can create new or modify existing performance metadata associated with the media piece. In some embodiments, the performance metadata based on a particular user's workout performance in response to a media piece may be combined with collective performance metadata based on the workout performances of multiple users in response to the media piece. The combined performance metadata may then be stored as new collective metadata. Accordingly, the collective performance metadata can represent the average response to a media piece over multiple users.

An information recording disc having a burst cutting area (BCA) for recording control information for a reproducing apparatus by removing a reflective layer of the disc in a striped shape and a data recording area for recording user data, wherein the burst cutting area includes at least one BCA control information area and the BCA control information area comprises: an application identifier area for identifying applications of control data; a data length area for indicating data length of the control data; and an application specific data area for recording the control data, and an information reproducing drive for reproducing data from the information recording disc.

An improved system and method enhances performance of updates to sequential block storage of a storage system. A disk-based sort procedure is provided to establish locality among updates (write data) held in a disk-based log, thereby enabling the write data to be efficiently written to home locations on a home location array. As the write data is received, a log manager of the storage system temporarily stores the data efficiently on the disk-based log. As more write data arrives, the log manager sorts the data in the log in accordance with the sort procedure, thus increasing the locality of data when stored on the home location array. When the log approaches capacity, the log manager writes the sorted data to their home locations on the array with high locality and performance.

A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter.

A method and apparatus are provided for automatically selecting and deleting unimportant content in order to secure a storage space in a digital multimedia device. The multimedia content is classified into content in which a storage period is set and content in which a storage period is not set and then the content is stored. The size of the content occupying a storage space in each storage type is automatically calculated to analyze a user's pattern of using the storage space when the storage space is insufficient, and content to be deleted is selected according to the analyzed pattern. Thus, it is possible to prevent the content which the user does not want to delete from being deleted and to eliminate the need for the user to individually manage the content.

A system and method for a file server to allocate spare disks in a network storage system. The method determines the available spare disks and first selects those disks that satisfy one or more required rules. The method sorts the spare disks by a set of ordered policies to determine a highest-ranked disk that is then selected as the spare to be utilized. If multiple disks are equally ranked, one of the equally ranked disks is randomly chosen to be the spare disk allocated.

An information recording medium 1 is provided with: a user data recording part 3 which records user data; a random-patter-information recording part 4 which records random pattern information from a random physical phenomenon; and an authentication data recording part 5 which records, as authentication data, medium identification information created on the basis of the random pattern information detected from the random-pattern-information recording part 4 and a digital signature for each manufacturer with respect to the medium identification information.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a video compositing method and device. The video compositing method comprises the steps of receiving a video compositing request of a user; according to the video compositing request, determining media materials required by video compositing, display periods, corresponding to the media materials, in an expected compositing result, render effects corresponding to the media materials, and render periods corresponding to the render effects; according to determining results, generating time domain distribution information used for video compositing, wherein time domain distribution situations of the media materials in the expected compositing result, and time domain distribution situations of the render effects corresponding to the media materials in the expected compositing result are recorded in the distribution information; respectively decoding the media materials, and conducting compositing on decoding results of the medial materials according to the time domain distribution information. Thus, in a video, image and audio compositing process, corresponding effects can be added at the same time, time for video compositing is shortened, and user experience is promoted.

A method for automatically generating a master music video comprising a plurality of user-generated videos synchronized against a segment of an audio track. The method includes dividing an audio track into a plurality of segments. A user-recorded video is automatically selected for each of the plurality of segments, where each selected user-recorded video includes a video recording of a user synchronized against an audio clip of a unique one of the plurality of segments. The method further includes concatenating the user-recorded videos in a sequence and into a master music video featuring the user-recorded videos all placed in synch against the entire audio track such that playback of the plurality of segments associated with the user-recorded videos in the sequence corresponds to an original sequence of the audio track in its entirety.

An electronic apparatus with haptic feedback and a method for providing haptic feedback are provided. The method includes the following steps. An actuation unit is provided to generate haptic feedback. In response to at least a haptic command, a control value is dynamically generated to control the actuation unit to generate haptic feedback, wherein dynamic range compression is applied to dynamically generate the control value so as to control the magnitude of haptic feedback to be substantially within a vibration range.

A room designed for collaboration and personal interaction during the editing process by parties situated in different locations. At a source location, an operator transmits media content from an editing system to a target location. At the target location, another operator uses a remote control to control the editing system's playback of the media content. The target operator can overlay graphics, text and other information on the media content. This commentary overlay is then sent back to the source location. A high-resolution video teleconferencing system allows personal real-time interaction between the source operator and target operator. The video teleconferencing system provides for direct eye-to-eye contact as well as control of audio levels for realistic conversation between the source and target operators.

The invention discloses an on-line collaborative nolinear editing system belonging to the technical field of Internet media information processing. The on-line collaborative nolinear editing system comprises a manufacture team management module, a material management module, a timeline operation module, a material previewing module, a user operation management module and a collaborative manufacture management module. Edition operation for respective video of each person is shared by the on-line collaborative nolinear editing system to realize the on-line collaborative nolinear edition system for more people, the efficiency on collaborative edition manufacture of the on-line video program is improved, and the collaborative edition manufacture for more people under different environments can be realized.

An electronic device includes a media player and a control unit operable to selectively access any one of a plurality of different types of media sources, such as a local media file memory, and at least one signal input for media data received through a communication connection from an external source, such as a streaming media data or a real time FM radio signal. A user-operable key is carried on the device, which upon activation triggers the control unit to store data related to a currently accessed media source in a playlist. Both the storage and selection of a playlist, which are dependent on from which type of media source the media data is accessed, are performed automatically in the device.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of video editing, and provides a method of video editing and a mobile terminal thereof. The method comprises the steps of: an added step that: a video editing interface is added with a first video file to be edited and / or a plurality of second video files to be edited; a segmentation step that: a time point dividing the first video file and / or a plurality of the second video files is set by sliding a cursor on a time axis of the video editing interface, the first video file is divided into multiple first sub-video files, and / or the a plurality of the second video files are divided into multiple second sub-video files; and a synthesis step that: the first and / or second sub-video files to be retained are selected to be combined into a new video file according to the sequence of a preorder traversal. Therefore, the method of video editing and the mobile terminal thereof achieves the clips of multi-video discontinuous video.

The present invention provides a caption using method in non-linear editing system. Traditional caption functions are templated and different template is used to realize different function, for example, hand written caption template, static attribute of caption, color, style, structure and caption in and outer mode. After activating selected template and drawing it to time line in editing state, the caption is edited. The simple modular operation can realize powerful caption editing function.

A method of formatting a rewritable optical recording medium includes registering defective blocks in a primary defect lists (PDL) and performing a slipping replacement corresponding to the number of PDL registrations, determining whether an error has occurred in the slipping replacement, and if it is determined that the error has occurred in the slipping replacement, adjusting a recording capacity of the optical recording medium by checking the number of un-slipped PDLs and reducing the recording capacity by the number of un-slipped PDLs. As a result, even if the error has occurred in the slipping replacement due to insufficient spare area, the PDL registration is still maintained without formatting error, thereby causing the optical recording medium to be usable.

A method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium using a local storage is disclosed. The apparatus for reproducing data of a recording medium, wherein original data constructing a first title and a second title having different attributes is recorded, using a local storage includes a local storage for downloading additional data associated with the first title and / or the second title from an external part, and storing the downloaded additional data; and a playback system for forming a virtual file system to reproduce the original data and the additional data, and reproducing the first title or the second title. The playback system includes a first module for reproducing the original data and the additional data, which are associated with the first title; and a second module for reproducing the original data and the additional data, which are associated with the second title.

An apparatus and method for recording and reproducing a sound (i.e. audio) signal corresponding to a video signal at a higher than normal speed. The method delimits a sound signal reproduced at a recording medium at a speed higher than a normal speed into successive processing unit periods. For each processing unit period, sound absence portion(s) of the reproduced sound signal are deleted (or partially deleted) within a range corresponding to a normal speed reproduction. Sound presence portions preceding and following the deleted absence portions are joined or compressed to produce a recognizable sound signal.

An apparatus for reproducing a music content includes a first acquisition unit for acquiring data of a music content, a second acquisition unit for acquiring attribute information, a reproducing unit for reproducing, into an audio reproduction output, the music content data acquired by the first acquisition unit, a detecting unit for detecting bio-information of a listener listening to the audio reproduction output, and a setting unit for setting a next reproduction music content candidate based on the acquired bio-information of the listener and the attribute information acquired by the second acquisition unit.

A video processing method. A display region is provided according to a timeline, comprising at least one first sub-region with higher time resolution and one second sub-region with lower time resolution. A time scale value of the first sub-region is smaller than that of the second sub-region, and the first and second sub-regions have low-speed and medium-speed controls for scrolling forward and backward respectively. When a desired frame is located in the first sub-region, the low-speed or medium-speed control is scrolled to forward or backward on the timeline according to an operating command to locate the desired frame. When the desired frame is located in the second sub-region, the low-speed or medium-speed control is scrolled to forward or backward on the timeline according to an operating command to move the desired frame to the first sub-region.

The invention discloses a song audio frequency cutting apparatus and a method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a lyrics text file of a song audio frequency file; analyzing a repetition degree of every line of the lyrics in the lyrics text file and adding the repeated lyrics whose repetition degree is higher than a specific threshold in a candidate set; analyzing the repeated lyrics in the candidate set, acquiring a distribution position and making several lines of the continuously distributed repeated lyrics form a paragraph; according to the repetition degree of the each line of the repeated lyrics and the position in the paragraph, determining one line of the repeated lyrics as initial cutting lyrics and taking a starting time point of the initial cutting lyrics as an cutting starting point of the song audio frequency file; using a song cutting device to cut the song audio frequency file from the cutting starting point. By using the apparatus and the method of the invention, a climax part of the song audio frequency file can be automatically identified in batch and cut so that an accuracy of song climax identification can be guaranteed.

The invention discloses a non-linear editing system for simplifying a programming process by a project template. The system comprises a project template calling module, a material storage module and a material replacement module; the project template calling module is used for calling a project template corresponding to a program; the material storage module is used for storing video and audio materials required by the program; and the material replacement module is used for performing element replacement on the project template called by the project template calling module according to the materials stored by the material storage module to generate a final program project file. In the embodiment of the invention, the non-linear editing system can help simplify the programming process of TV stations and improve the programming efficiency.

A method is described for scheduling a playlist from digital content supplied to a server in a multi-screen digital cinema theater, where the playlist includes components of the content stored in the server and represents a digital entity that is subsequently projected in the digital cinema theater. The method includes the steps of: (a) generating and displaying a table of playlists currently available for scheduling, each playlist displayed along with its run time; (b) generating and displaying a schedule table showing a schedule view for each screen as an elongated timeline bar representing a time dimension, wherein the elongated timeline bars for a plurality of the screens are arranged one adjacent the other relative to a displayed time axis to provide an overall perspective of the schedules for the screens of the theater; (c) selecting a playlist from the table of playlists and specifying a scheduled start time and a selected screen; and (d) updating the schedule table by inserting the selected playlist as an elongated element into the elongated timeline bar for the selected screen, wherein the element starts at the scheduled start time and has a time dimension corresponding to the run time of the selected playlist, whereby the updated schedule table is used to schedule the selected playlist for the selected screen.

To record a video signal on a recording medium so that a reproducing apparatus can faithfully reproduce an original color of the recorded video signal.A user can specify either a sRGB color space or an extended sRGB color space as the color space of the video signal to be recorded. A signal processing unit 131 generates a video signal (luminance signal Y and color-difference signal Cb / Cr) corresponding to the specified color space. An encoding / decoding unit 132 performs data compression on the video signal in accordance with the MPEG4-AVC standard to generate a compressed video signal to be recorded on a recording medium 135. A CPU 121 is configured to generate a color space identifier including information indicating the color space specified by the user and is configured so that an access unit including an SPS NAL unit in the compressed video signal includes an SEI NAL unit in which the color space identifier is stored. The video signal recorded on the recording medium 135 is a signal to which a color space identifier having information for a color space of that video signal is added.

The invention discloses a method and a device for recording and playing audio and video files. The recording method consists of the following steps: collecting audio data and video data; sequentially saving the audio data and the video data collected in set time length and establishing and sequentially storing corresponding index information; generating the audio and video files according to the saved audio data and the video data and the corresponding index information. The playing method consists of the following steps: reading the index information corresponding to the audio data and the video data in the audio and video files according to a set period; judging whether the corresponding audio and video data is the data collected in the same set time length according to the read index information: if not, regulating the playing speed of the video data so that the audio data and the video data are synchronous. The technical proposal can synchronously play the audio and video files and has the advantages of simple implementation, low demand for the operating system and guarantee of playing effect when switching programs.