Sony Corporation

Media Global Links Co., Ltd.

Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Masaaki Kojima

Takao Takahashi

Teruhiko Kori

Koji Iijima

Kazunori Nakamura

Kazuki Narita

Hirokazu Arai

Kazuo Yoshino

Koji Nakao

Hiroyuki Terasaki

Yukiyo Asakura

Sho Hongo

Takayuki Suzuki

Kaname Ogawa

Yasuhiro Hidaka

Hiroki Shiina

Shingo Yoshioka

Tsutomu Mikami

Hirokazu Nagasawa

Hidehiko Okumura

Yoshitsugu Nomiyama

Hiromichi Abe

Provided is an IP uncompressed video encoder that converts an IP packet stream of uncompressed video to an IP packet stream of compressed video. The invention is a video encoder that produces an IP packetized stream of compressed video from an IP packetized stream of an uncompressed video signal, comprising: receiving means packetizing, from a network, one or a plurality of IP packetized streams of an uncompressed video signal; retrieving means for retrieving video data from the one or plurality of IP packetized streams of the uncompressed video signal; compressing means for compressing the retrieved video data; and transmitting means configured to IP packetize video compressed by the compressing means to create and transmit a stream of compressed video.

IP uncompressed video encoder and decoder

An IP uncompressed video encoder that converts an IP packet stream of uncompressed video to an IP packet stream of compressed video. A video encoder that produces an IP packetized stream of compressed video from an IP packetized stream of an uncompressed video signal, including: receiving means packetizing, from a network, one or a plurality of IP packetized streams of an uncompressed video signal; retrieving means for retrieving video data from the one or plurality of IP packetized streams of the uncompressed video signal; compressing means for compressing the retrieved video data; and transmitting means configured to IP packetize video compressed by the compressing means to create and transmit a stream of compressed video.

A recording apparatus and a recording method that can record both moving picture data and still picture data in a form reproducible by various reproducing apparatus. The moving picture data is compressed by an MPEG system by an MPEG encoder, formed into data for recording corresponding to a predetermined recording format by a format forming unit, and then recorded on a DVD. The still picture data is compressed by a JPEG system by a JPEG encoder, and recorded on the DVD separately from the moving picture data. In predetermined timing, the still picture data compressed by the JPEG system and recorded on the DVD is read, the still picture data is converted into I-pictures of the MPEG system by a format converting unit, and then the I-pictures of the MPEG system are recorded onto the DVD in the predetermined format via the format forming unit.

Recording device and recording method

A video recording/reproducing apparatus combined with a camera adapted to control a target information amount according to the nature and properties of an animated image to be photographed, and a recording control method for the same are provided. A target information amount control microcomputer () controls an encoding and compressing apparatus () by a target bit rate to carry out predetermined compressive encoding on the animated image data from a filter computing unit () so as to create an encoded bit stream. The filter computing unit () is given a filter coefficient to convert the animated image data into data of a resolution that is suited for encoding.

Camera-integrated video recording and reproducing apparatus, and record control method thereof

In order to propose a signal input and output apparatus for changing over control depending on a detection result by discriminating the type of signals when signals of two or more types are passed in the same signal line, a signal input and output apparatus comprises signal discrimination changeover means for discriminating the type of control signal through cable, plug and jack, as a transmission path generating a discrimination signal, supplying it to a controller, and changing over the control of a signal processor to the controller on the basis of the discrimination signal, and thereby input and output of plural control signals can be processed through a single transmission path. As a result, by a single jack only, plural signals can be passed on the same transmission path by optimizing the transmission and reception paths and transmission and reception elements, and therefore the parts mounting area can be saved, and states of various types of signals can be detected.

Signal input and output apparatus that discriminates between plurality of different devices each issuing unique control signals substantially simultaneously through single transmission path

A clock apparatus comprising an EEPROM 8 to store a shipping area code, an internal clock 12, a time button 2, and a liquid crystal display section 5. The time of the internal clock 12 is set by the time button 2, the shipping area code is set by the EEPROM 8, and the area information is set on the basis of the shipping area code. When the shipping area coincides with the purchase area, by merely setting the time of the purchase area, the world time can be easily obtained.

Clock apparatus

A video signal processing apparatus for performing editing of video signals includes a memory into which one field or one frame of a moving picture video signal from a video camera is written and a crossfading circuit, wherein a still picture of the video signal is written in the memory at a selected time or at a time the video camera stops operation. Thereafter, when the video camera resumes operation, the contents of the memory are read out, so that the real moving picture video signal being currently provided by the video camera and the previous still picture video signal read out from the memory are crossfaded. The video signal processing apparatus can also cooperate with a video tape recorder for storing in the memory a still picture derived from the video tape recorder, so that when the video camera starts its operation, the real moving picture video signal produced by the video camera and a still picture video signal from the memory are crossfaded.

Video signal parocessing apparatus with memory and crossfader

A video signal processing apparatus has an input terminal receiving a real moving picture video signal, for example, from a video camera, a memory for storing at least one field of the real moving picture video signal so as to form a still picture video signal, a key signal generator which may be constituted by an additional memory storing data characteristic of a key picture, and a circuit responsive to reading of the data stored in the additional memory for switching between the real moving picture video signal and the still picture video signal and thereby forming a composite video signal therefrom.

Apparatus for producing a composite signal from real moving picture and

A battery level indicator for use with an electronic apparatus so arranged as to display, on an indicator, a real time voltage level detected by a voltage detector, when a battery is applying power to the electronic apparatus, and to display on the indicator the latest voltage read from a memory when the battery is not applying power to the electronic apparatus, whereby the indicator indicates how much power the battery will be able to supply to such electronic apparatus.

Battery level indicator supplying data from a memory to a display in a

Disclosed is a lens supporting assembly having a lens fitting in a cylindrical section of a supporting frame against a retaining flange. The lens is held in place by a keep ring and the keep ring is held against the lens by calking projections circumferentially spaced around the cylindrical section of the frame. The calking projections are formed by suitably deforming portions of the frame itself.

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Masaaki Kojima