130 results about "Hard disk recorder" patented technology

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 invention discloses an invasion detecting alarming system based on multi-camera data combination and a detecting method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of video monitoring. The system comprises a common camera, a cloud camera, a zooming wide-angle multi-target tracking system, a PC type hard disk recorder, a control system, a display, a multi-stage alarming processing module and an invader recognizing and treating module. According to the system, an area to be monitored is completely covered with a plurality of cameras; the shot video signals can be digitized and compressed and then transmitted to the control system to recognize an invader and respond to the corresponding alarming level. The system is applicable to scenes or channels with high requirement on safety production, such as a factory area, a tunnel, a warehouse and an airport; the system can perform monitoring and alarming at different conditions.

When an IC card is placed close to an IC card reader/writer in a hard disk recorder, the hard disk recorder writes the profile thereof including an IP address on the IC card. The hard disk recorder reads a card ID and a profile list including, for example, the profile of a television receiver from the IC card. Based on the card ID and the profile list, the hard disk recorder accesses the television receiver. The hard disk recorder notifies the television receiver of the profile list which is read from the IC card and to which the profile of the hard disk recorder has been newly added. The hard disk recorder thus establishes a virtual private network with the television receiver.

A quick-releasing structure is applied to a casing for installing a hard disk device. The quick-releasing structure comprises a spring plate, a handle, and two shock-absorbing members. The spring plate is connected to the casing; the two ends of the handle are coupled to the spring plate; two shock-absorbing members are connected to the two ends of the spring plate for fastening the hard disk device and producing shock-absorbing effect. By pulling the handle, the two ends of the spring plate being moved away from the casing, and the two shock-absorbing members being moved to release the hard disk device.

The invention provides a hard disk video recorder, which comprises head-end equipment and real-time format conversion equipment connected with the head-end equipment, wherein the real-time format conversion equipment acquires multimedia real-time stream data from the head-end equipment, decodes and separates the multimedia real-time steam data, acquires decoded audio data and video data, encodes the decoded audio data and video data according to a set encoding mode and set encoding parameters respectively, acquires the multimedia real-time stream data after format conversion according to the encoded audio data and the encoded video data, and outputs the multimedia real-time stream data. The invention also provides a system and a method for converting multimedia formats. By adopting the hard disk recorder and the system and the method for converting the multimedia formats, the using real-time and convenience can be improved.

The invention discloses a video recording file management method and device for easily preventing disk fragments from being generated. The method comprises the following steps that firstly, disk formatting is conducted on a video recorder, a disk is fixedly set to one subarea or multiple subareas, and different formatting methods provided by an operating system are applied to different file systems; secondly, a video recording file index database is established, and the video recording file retrieval service is provided; thirdly, the size of each video recording file is fixed and marked as A (Byte); fourthly, when the disk is not fully occupied, a general file establishment and write-in method is applied; fifthly, when the disk is fully occupied, the file which is established earliest on the disk is found out and used as a new video recording file, write-in is conducted from the start position of the file in a covering mode, and the step is repeated. The video recording file management method and device for easily preventing disk fragments from being generated have the advantages of being simple, easy to achieve and compatible with different file systems due to the fact that the management method and device capable of easily preventing the disk fragments from generating the video recording file are established on a general file system; the problems that after audio and video data are written in a hard disk recorder in a circulating mode for a long time, a great number of disk fragments are generated and the system operating efficiency is influenced are solved.

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program recording medium, and a program which mitigate inconveniences due to a difference in recording format when performing the processing of copying or moving data between two recording media of different recording formats. A device control section 16 supplies UDF data, which is adopted for a DVD, to a device control section 17 together with an ATAPI command used when recording data onto a DVD. The device control section 17 converts the ATAPI command supplied from the device control section 16 into an ATA command corresponding to the ATAPI command, supplies it to an HDD 18 together with data supplied from the device control section 16 together with the ATAPI command, thereby controlling recording of the UDF data onto a hard disk 18A. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a hard disk recorder.

The invention discloses an intelligent fiber perimeter intrusion alarm system, and the system includes a vibrating cable, a wire mesh, a Y-shaped bracket, a rolling cage barbed wire, a fiber perimeterintrusion detector, a linkage module, a network hard disk recorder, an industrial switch, a fiber optic transceiver, a high-definition network dome, a sound and light alarm, a loudspeaker and an upper computer. Among them, the vibrating cable is hung on a fence or a wall in a ring-shaped manner, and is arranged underground in a sinusoidal manner to realize the detection of an intrusion behavior,and an optical signal with the vibration information is transmitted to the fiber perimeter intrusion detector through an artificial neural network for processing. After the intrusion behavior of a person or a vehicle, the local high-definition network dome camera is controlled by the linkage module, the network hard disk recorder, the industrial switch and the optical transceiver to perform videorecording and expelling through the loudspeaker. Meanwhile, the sound and light alarm is used to alert the user, thereby achieving the local user monitoring.

The invention provides a teaching method and system based on human gestures and voice, and belongs to teaching methods and systems using slide teaching. The method includes the following steps of identifying teacher's gestures; performing operation instructions of the corresponding gestures according to the teacher's gestures; collecting teacher's voice; extracting keywords from the voice; comparing the extracted keywords with preset keywords; when the extracted keywords match with the preset keywords, performing operation instructions corresponding to the preset keywords. Basic components ofthe system include a gesture collection device, a voice collection device, a gesture recognition device, a voice recognition device, slide show software, a projector and a projection screen; enhancement components of the system include a class content synthesis device, a hard disk recorder, a video server, course content playback software, a browser with a video playback function and a video service client. The method and the system can be widely used in occasions such as school teaching, conference speech, exhibition venue visitor interaction and the like.

In a hard disc recorder (1) which transits to sleep mode so as to reduce electric power consumption when it is not used by a user in a predetermined term, an imaging unit (9) takes images in an imaging area in front of the hard disc recorder (1) at a predetermined time interval. A person detection unit (32) detects and identifies a person who stays in the imaging area by performing facial recognition process. A transition setting unit (34) sets an individual transition time for the identified user on the basis of a time when the user is detected and a database of execution history of recording or reproducing operation instructed by the user, and set a basic transition time on the basis of a database of execution history of recording or reproducing operation instructed by all users. When the individual transition time comes or when the basic transition time comes in the sleep mode, a hard disc drive controller (31) transits the operation mode of the hard disc recorder (1) from the sleep mode to standby mode where a hard disc recorder (2) is recordable or reproducible.

When display switching is instructed in a state that a program schedule according to time is displayed, in which a time axis is set in a horizontal direction and a channel axis is set in a vertical direction, respectively, a program schedule according to channels is displayed in which the time axis is set in the horizontal direction and the channel axis is set in the vertical direction, respectively. In the program schedule, a wider area than other channels is assigned to the channel which has been focused in the program schedule according to time, and information of programs broadcasted by the channel are displayed at positions corresponding to broadcast time of the programs, respectively. The invention can be applied to equipment capable of displaying an EPG, such as a digital television receiver, a hard disk recorder, or a DVD recorder.

When an interval is designated by pushing a specific button at the time of displaying video desiring to be deleted and again pushing the specific button at the time of completing the video desiring to be deleted while reproduced video displayed on a television monitor is viewed, video in the interval from a point in the time when the button is pushed at the first time to a point in time when it is pushed at the second time is deleted. At the time of the next production, only necessary video can be reproduced.

The invention discloses a hard disk recorder with human face image capturing function and a method for capturing a human face image. The hard disk recorder comprises a human face image capturing system. The human face image capturing system comprises an image acquisition unit, a first storage unit, a human face real-time comparison unit, an image real-time screening unit, a second storage unit and a human face afterward comparison unit, wherein the image real-time screening unit screens a human face image in the first storage unit according to the similarity calculated by the human face real-time comparison unit, and keeps only one human face posture image for the same person. The human face afterward comparison unit selects human face images which have similarities, with human face images set in the second storage unit, smaller than the set similarity, and stores the human face images into the second storage unit. The hard disk recorder and the method directly complete acquisition work of human face photographs, reduce workload of manually playing back, screening and capturing.

The title of a program with a recording duration longest among all recording durations is recorded as the program title of a relevant program file. Thereby, even when a user has performed an operation to record a program on a hard disk recorder by a method other than a timer recording, the program title of a program that is most likely to be a program a user really desires to record can be recorded as the program title of a program file created by the recording. Accordingly, a DTV or a STB can display on its display appropriate program titles in a program file list at the time of playback of a previously recorded program.

An information processing system, an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a computer program can easily provide a user with program information, which is easier to see for the user, and display the program information on a limited screen space effectively. An EPG server of the service provider creates EPG information on the basis of information on programs of a broadcasting station and lays open the EPG information to the outside of the EPG server. An editing server acquires and edits the EPG information periodically at predetermined intervals and lays open edited EPG information to the public. A hard disk recorder requests the edited EPG information from the editing server through a network on the basis of an instruction of a user and causes a monitor to display the edited EPG information supplied from the editing server on the basis of the request. The invention can be applied to an EPG providing system.

To photograph with a digital video camera, a still image is photographed and is inserted at the point to set a chapter. To dub a photographed video from a camera to a hard disk recorder, compression processing of the video data is performed at a variable bit rate by an MPEG encoder in the recorder and the compressed data is recorded on a hard disk. The value of the bit rate is compared with a threshold value. If a state in which the bit rate is less than the threshold value continues for a given section or more, the video is determined a still image and a chapter is set in the portion of the still image.