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Patent No.:

US 9311962 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2008

Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals

Applicants:

Vincent Carl Harradine, Burlington, CA;

Alan Turner, Basingstoke, GB;

Richard Daniel Foster, Fordingbridge, GB;

Martin Rex Dorricott, Basingstoke, GB;

Mark John Mcgrath, Bracknell, GB;

Inventors:

Vincent Carl Harradine, Burlington, CA;

Alan Turner, Basingstoke, GB;

Richard Daniel Foster, Fordingbridge, GB;

Martin Rex Dorricott, Basingstoke, GB;

Mark John McGrath, Bracknell, GB;

Assignee:

SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED, Weybridge, GB;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Nigar Chowdhury

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 5/93 (2006.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G11B 27/034 (2006.01); G11B 27/11 (2006.01); G11B 27/28 (2006.01); G11B 27/30 (2006.01); G11B 27/32 (2006.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/2389 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01); H04N 21/858 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/105 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G11B 27/034 (2013.01); G11B 27/11 (2013.01); G11B 27/28 (2013.01); G11B 27/3027 (2013.01); G11B 27/322 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); H04N 5/222 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/262 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/854 (2013.01); H04N 21/858 (2013.01); G11B 2220/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

A camera configured to generate audio/video signals, the camera including a recording unit configured to record the audio/video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor configured to generate automatically meta data identifying the content of the audio/video signals in response to the audio/video signals, a wireless communications processor configured to communicate the meta data separately from the recording medium, and a communications interface configured to communicate the automatically generated meta data to a personal data processing apparatus and to receive user generated meta data from the personal data processing apparatus.

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