Method for using a video content recording apparatus with syntax for video content recording parameters

• US 20080124053A1
• Filed: 09/01/2006
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Hutten, Matthijs C.
• Application Number:
  US11/514,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20080124053A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/124
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4184 providing storage capabilities, e.g. memory stick
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A method for using a video content recording apparatus with syntax for video content recording parameters is disclosed. In one preferred embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising the acts of receiving video content, receiving a removable memory device, receiving a code formatted in accordance with a syntax in which values of video content recording parameters are represented by characters arranged in a predefined order, and recording the video content onto the removable memory device in accordance with the values of the video content recording parameters specified by the code. Other embodiments are disclosed, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.

Claims

1. A method for recording video content onto a removable memory device, the method comprising:

receiving video content;

receiving a removable memory device;

receiving a code formatted in accordance with a syntax in which values of video content recording parameters are represented by characters arranged in a predefined order; and

recording the video content onto the removable memory device in accordance with the values of the video content recording parameters specified by the code.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein character positions in the code correspond to respective video content recording parameters, and wherein a character in a character position represents a value of a video content recording parameter corresponding to that character position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the video content recording parameters comprise one or more of the following:

a video codec parameter, an audio codec parameter, a file format parameter, a file wrapper parameter, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, audio bit rate variation, a video processing parameter, screen resolution, screen orientation, card format, folder structure, folder name, and naming convention of a digital file containing recorded video content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the code is received via a remote control device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the code is received via at least one user interface element on a video content recording apparatus.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying, on a display device, a graphical user interface that facilitates user-entry of the code.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the removable memory device comprises a removable solid-state memory card.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising recording a recording profile on the removable memory device, the recording profile comprising values of video content recording parameters.

9. A method for providing a video content recording apparatus and video content recording parameters, the method comprising:

providing a video content recording apparatus comprising;

a first input configured to receive video content;

a second input configured to receive a removable memory device;

a third input configured to receive a code formatted in accordance with a syntax in which values of video content recording parameters are represented by characters arranged in a predefined order; and

circuitry operative to record the video content onto the removable memory device in accordance with the values of the video content recording parameters specified by the code; and

publishing the code.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the code is published on the Internet.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the code is published in a user guide provided with the apparatus.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein character positions in the code correspond to respective video content recording parameters, and wherein a character in a character position represents a value of a video content recording parameter corresponding to that character position.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the video content recording parameters comprise one or more of the following:

a video codec parameter, an audio codec parameter, a file format parameter, a file wrapper parameter, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, audio bit rate variation, a video processing parameter, screen resolution, screen orientation, card format, folder structure, folder name, and naming convention of a digital file containing recorded video content.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the removable memory device comprises a removable solid-state memory card.

15. A method for recording video content onto a removable memory device, the method comprising:

displaying a graphical user interface that facilitates user entry of a code formatted in accordance with a syntax in which values of video content recording parameters are represented by characters arranged in a predefined order;

receiving the code; and

recording video content onto a removable memory device in accordance with the values of the video content recording parameters specified by the code.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein character positions in the code correspond to respective video content recording parameters, and wherein a character in a character position represents a value of a video content recording parameter corresponding to that character position.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the video content recording parameters comprise one or more of the following:

a video codec parameter, an audio codec parameter, a file format parameter, a file wrapper parameter, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, audio bit rate variation, a video processing parameter, screen resolution, screen orientation, card format, folder structure, folder name, and naming convention of a digital file containing recorded video content.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the code is received via a remote control device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the code is received via at least one user interface element on a video content recording apparatus.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the removable memory device comprises a removable solid-state memory card.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface also facilitates user selection of a playback device.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface also facilitates user entry of individual video content recording parameters.

23. The method of claim 15 further comprising recording a recording profile on the removable memory device, the recording profile comprising values of video content recording parameters.