Goldstar, Co., Ltd.

Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd.

Choon Lee

Seung Il Kim

Dong Hyun Lee

Je Hun Lee

Tae Seok Yang

Byoung K Yoo

Yong T Yoo

Ho Won Lee

Woo-Yong Jung

Joon P Chang

Yong H Lee

Sung K Cho

Ki Dong Lee

Yeon-Haeng Heo

Soo-Kyung Heo

A variable-speed reproducing method for DVCR comprising the steps of: (1) converting a transported signal into a transport stream (TS) signal; (2) storing the converted TS signal as normal play data; (3) detecting trick play data from the converted TS signal; (4) separately recording the trick play data and normal play data formed in the steps 2 and 3; and (5 and 6) if a trick play signal is input, reading and reproducing only the recorded trick play data at a corresponding speed, thereby facilitating trick play by DVCR.

Variable-speed recording and reproducing method for digital VCR, using

A recording and playback apparatus for a digital video cassette recorder is provided with a data conversion unit for recording a compressed video signal in a more compressed format on a digital recording medium and a data inverse recording unit for playing out the recorded video signal. The data conversion unit includes a controller, encoder and multiplexer. The controller has for its inputs ID information decoded from the compressed video data signal by a decoder and a recording signal instructing the recording of the compressed video signal on a recording medium. At the start of picture recording the controller provides a selection signal to a multiplexer and a decoding instruction to an encoder to enable the encoder to recode the entire picture region of the decoded video data in an intraframe manner with a header which contains the decoding instruction information. The data inverse conversion unit includes a header decoder, a buffer controller, and a buffer. The buffer controller has as inputs the decoded instruction information output from the header decoder and a playback signal instructing the playback of compressed video data from the digital recording medium. Thus, both intraframe and interframe coded pictures can be viewed without degradation, even when playout is begun from a stopped position in the middle of a program.

Recording/playback apparatus for digital video cassette recorder

An apparatus for controlling a buffer adapted to transmit motion-involving video compressed by use of an intraframe compression coding technique employing discrete cosine transform and variable length coding to a constant rate channel, wherein a statistical feed-forward-based buffer control apparatus having a simple construction is combined with an existing statistical feed-back-based buffer control apparatus, thereby being capable of stably controlling a buffer even when a scene change occurs, and reducing the capacity of the buffer and the length of a tape needed. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding input video data to be compressed, and a feed-forward-based division factor selector for receiving an output signal from the encoder, calculating the complexity of each frame based on the received signal, estimating the quantity of data to be generated by units of a predetermined number of discrete cosine transform blocks, and sending a division factor corresponding to the estimated quantity of data to the encoder.

Buffer control apparatus for compression of video intraframes

An apparatus for, and a method of, reproducing digital video signals at a varied speed, adapted to insert information about the maximum coded lengths of digital video signals in slices resulting from encoding and compressing of the digital video signals by a digital video signal transmitter so that the inserted information can be transmitted together with the compressed digital video signal, and to insert slice condition information and slice length information in slice headers of slices upon reproducing the digital video signals recorded on a tape at a varied speed so that the inserted slice condition information and slice length information can be deformatted together with the slices. The apparatus and method is thus capable of decoding the digital video signals for macroblocks preceding the macroblock involving a discontinuous interval based on the maximum coded length information, slice condition information and slice length information.

Apparatus for and method of reproducing digital video signals at a

An image shake compensation circuit comprising a motion information detector for detecting motion information based on the occurrence of an image shake when the image shake occurs in an encoded video signal, a shake compensator for obtaining a start display position of an image of a present frame according to the motion information detected by the motion information detector, and a decoder for decoding the encoded video signal, correcting a display position of the image of the present frame in response to an output signal from the shake compensator if the encoded video signal has previously been compensated for the image shake and compensating for the image sake if the encoded video signal has not previously been compensated for the image shake.

Image shake compensation circuit for a digital video signal

An apparatus for compression-encoding and decoding digital video signals, capable of additionally transmitting a differential signal indicative of a difference between an original video signal and an encoded video signal obtained by encoding the original video signal by an existing video compression system, so as to efficiently cope with a varied bandwidth of a recording medium or a channel. The apparatus comprises an encoding device for encoding an original digital video in a sampling manner, encoding a differential signal indicative of a difference between each of the original video signals and a signal obtained by expanding each corresponding one of the encoded original video signals, together with edge information, adding the encoded composite differential signal to the encoded original video signal, and outputting the resulting signal. The apparatus also comprises a decoding device for decoding each of the encoded original video signals, reading video signals, indicative of video portions including no differential signal, from video signals resulting from the decoding of the encoded original video signals, based on the edge information, adding each of the differential signals to each corresponding one of the read video signals, and outputting recovered video signals.

Apparatus for compression-encoding and decoding video signals

A signal characteristic variation apparatus for a high definition VCR in which a characteristic of a video signal is varied according to characteristics of a tape and a channel. A predetermined frequency band of test signal is recorded on the tape for recording the tape and channel characteristics in a recording mode. This enables the video signal to be recorded on the tape in the proper mode and permits, in the play-back mode, the tape and channel characteristics to be discriminated by detecting the test signal recorded on the tape. Therefore, the video signal can be played back from the tape with its frequency characteristic properly adjusted according to the discriminated tape and channel characteristics.

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