Sony Corporation

Akihiro Hokimoto

Yoshiyuki Kunito

Atsushi Shionozaki

Shinako Matsuyama

Motoki Nakade

Makoto Oka

Takahiro Sasaki

Shinya Kimura

Hideto Takeuchi

Tadayuki Hattori

Satoshi Kawahata

Monitoring system is provided which includes an image capturing apparatus including a basic analysis section that performs analysis processing based on image data input from an image capturing section that captures an image of a subject and generates first metadata, and a first metadata output section that outputs the first metadata and second metadata different from the first metadata to a monitoring apparatus connected to a network via the network, and an analysis apparatus including an extended analysis section that performs analysis processing different from that of the basic analysis section based on the image data received from the image capturing apparatus and generates the second metadata, and a second metadata output section that outputs the second metadata to the image capturing apparatus.

Monitoring system, image capturing apparatus, analysis apparatus, and monitoring method

A metadata generating apparatus generating metadata associated with content data continuously generated in real time includes an additional information acquiring unit that acquires additional information corresponding to at least one piece of the content data and a link information adding unit that adds link information uniquely identifying the at least one piece of the content data corresponding to the additional information to the corresponding additional information to generate the metadata.

Metadata generating apparatus, information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, video conference system, security system, method of generating metadata, and program

MTID of a terminal apparatus is preliminarily registered into a database of an ISP. In step S, when a power source of the terminal apparatus is turned on first, (MTID=B) is transmitted from the terminal apparatus to a router. A transmission signal is received by the router and (HGWID=A, MTID=B) is transmitted from the router to the ISP. If (HGWID=A, MTID=B) has been registered in the database, the ISP transmits a permission message in step S. In step S, an IP address for a new terminal apparatus is allocated and the new terminal apparatus can participate in a homenetwork. If (HGWID=A, MTID=B) is not registered, a refusal message is sent to the router.

Network system

Disclosed herein is a contact destination information registration method employed in a network system including nodes and employing a distributed hash table. When registering contact destination information corresponding to a predetermined node address in the table, the node first performs a first operation of looking up a value associated with a key corresponding to the node address in the table, and, if no such value is found, registering provisional contact destination information in the table so as to be associated with the key and acquiring a registration time of the provisional information, but, if any such value is found, acquiring a registration time of that value, and then performs a second operation of registering the true contact destination information in the table, if the registration time of the value associated with the key in the table coincides with the registration time acquired by the first operation.

Contact destination information registration method, network system, node, and contact destination information registration program

A call apparatus, a call method and a call system, are disclosed, in which the problem otherwise caused by fixed setting of the sound volume level of the BGM or the effect sound with respect to the call voice may be overcome. A decoded output of a decoder(PCM data) is multiplied in a gain adjustment unitwith a gain coefficient k, as the SE sound volume level as set by a user. A multiplication output of the gain adjustment unitis sent to an adder. The decoded output of a decoderis multiplied in a gain adjustment unitwith a gain coefficient k, as the BGM sound volume level, as set by the user. A multiplication output of the gain adjustment unitis sent to an adder. The addersums the multiplication outputs of the gain adjustment unitsandand sends a sum output to an encoder

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Saitama, Japan

Akihiro Hokimoto