470results 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 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.

A hard disk recorder that can help to configure a group of information of a periodically broadcasted program includes: a remote control receiver that receives an instruction from a user; a controller that determines whether an instruction to record a broadcast program also designates a periodical interval applied to record the broadcast program, and if so then determines a series ID common among a group of broadcast programs and depends on whether series ID is shared to search broadcast program title information for and retrieve information corresponding to group of broadcast programs, and generates a play list including the retrieved information; an antenna receiving a broadcast signal of a broadcast program; a tuner extracting a broadcast signal; a HD device recording a series ID, broadcast program title information, and a broadcast signal in association with each other; and a video output device outputting the play list.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When a slide show in which a plurality of still images is reproduced and displayed in sequence is executed, the number of subjects captured in each still image is determined. Display time of each still image is calculated based on the determined number of the subjects. The number of the subjects is determined from the number of faces detected in the still image. The faces smaller in size than a predetermined value are eliminated from the number of the subjects. The display time is obtained by multiplying the number of the subjects by a predetermined coefficient. When the number of the subjects is larger than a criterion subject number M, the coefficient is set small. Accordingly, it is prevented that the display time is set unduly long.

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.

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.