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Information processing system

Assignee: Maxell Ltd
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Filing: 1999-03-02
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Granted: 2000-07-25
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Expires: 2019-03-02
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Abstract

Abstract An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for digitizing the motion pictures inputted through the video input device and recording the digitized motion pictures and, at the same time, for converting the motion pictures inputted through the video input device into compressed motion pictures capable of being played in a high compression ratio and in a high picture quality and recording the compressed motion pictures, an information extracting device for extracting arbitrary information from the non-compressed motion pictures captured by the video capture device, a correspondence information generating device for associating the information extracted by the information extracting device with the compressed motion pictures captured by the video capture device, an input device for designating a result of the correspondence, and a compressed video playing device for playing the compressed motion pictures.

Inventors

  • 👤 Masataka Okayama
  • 👤 Tomohisa Kohiyama
  • 👤 Nobukazu Kondo
  • 👤 Kazutoshi Katoh
  • 👤 Kazuaki Tanaka
  • 👤 Yoshihiro Harada

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 18:55
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N5/00; H04N5/76; H04N5/765; H04N5/77; H04N5/772; G; G06; G06T; G06T9/00; G06T9/007; G11; G11B; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/102; G11B27/105; G11B27/11; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/32; G11B27/327; G11B27/329; H04N9/00; H04N9/79; H04N9/80; H04N9/804; H04N9/8042; H04N9/8045; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B27/34; H04N5/78; H04N5/781; H04N5/84; H04N5/85; H04N5/907

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim 113 words
An information processing system comprising; a main memory; a video RAM; a display device coupled to the video RAM; a bus coupled to the main memory and the video RAM; and a video capture device coupled to the bus, the video capture device including an input unit which receives analog video data being composed of a plurality of frames and which digitizes the analog video data to digital video data and a transfer unit which transfers a part of the digital data representing a frame to the main memory in a YUV format and which transfers a remainder of the digital data representing the frame to the video RAM in a RGB format.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 113 words
An information processing system comprising; a main memory; a video RAM; a display device coupled to the video RAM; a bus coupled to the main memory and the video RAM; and a video capture device coupled to the bus, the video capture device including an input unit which receives analog video data being composed of a plurality of frames and which digitizes the analog video data to digital video data and a transfer unit which transfers a part of the digital data representing a frame to the main memory in a YUV format and which transfers a remainder of the digital data representing the frame to the video RAM in a RGB format.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 45 words
An information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the part of the digital data is either one of odd field data or even field data, and wherein the remainder of the digital data is another of the odd field data or even field data.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 34 words
An information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the video capture device further comprises a scaling unit which scales the part of the digital data and the remainder of the digital data independently.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 33 words
An information processing system according to claim 1, wherein a combination of the part of the digital data and the remainder of the digital data represents a frame displayed by the display device.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 33 words
An information processing system according to claim 3, wherein the scaling unit scales the part of digital data and the remainder of the digital data while maintaining an aspect ratio of the frame.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 19 words
An information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer unit carries out a direct memory access transfer.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 115 words
An information processing system comprising: a main memory; a video RAM; a display device coupled to the video RAM; a bus coupled to the main memory and the video RAM; and a video capture device coupled to the bus, the video capture device including an input unit which receives analog video data being composed of a plurality of frames and which digitizes the analog video data to digital video data and a transfer unit which direct memory transfers a part of the digital data representing a frame to the main memory in a YUV format and which transfers a remainder of the digital data representing the frame to the video RAM in a RGB format.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 115 words
An information processing system comprising: a main memory; a video RAM; a display device coupled to the video RAM; a bus coupled to the main memory and the video RAM; and a video capture device coupled to the bus, the video capture device including an input unit which receives analog video data being composed of a plurality of frames and which digitizes the analog video data to digital video data and a transfer unit which direct memory transfers a part of the digital data representing a frame to the main memory in a YUV format and which transfers a remainder of the digital data representing the frame to the video RAM in a RGB format.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 44 words
An information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the part of the digital data is one of odd field data and even field data, and wherein the remainder of the digital data is another of the odd field data and even field data.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 34 words
An information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the video capture device further comprises a scaling unit which scales the part of the digital data and the remainder of the digital data independently.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 33 words
An information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the combination of the part of the digital data and the remainder of the digital data represents a frame displayed by the display device.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim 33 words
An information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the scaling unit scales the part of digital data and the remainder of the digital data while maintaining an aspect ratio of the frame.

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