Sony Corporation

Atsumu Soda

Junichi Ogikubo

Takayuki Takeda

Tetsuya Iwamoto

Hiroshi Inamura

Akira Sugiyama

Hiroyuki Fujita

Yuichi Kojima

Yoshinori Suzuki

Ichiro Munakata

Soichiro Niho

Tatsuji Yamazaki

Nirokazu Ito

Jeremy Brayley

A high speed data processing apparatus which is able to produce smooth reproduced pictures without lowering the quality of the reproduced picture. When the high speed reproduction is selected by a user, a system controller controls a media controller to cause a reproducing driver to read out a plural number of stamp video data from an optical disc to write the data in an associated memory space of the memory on the frame basis. The data processing apparatus reads out stamp video data written on the frame basis in a memory space of the memory portion-wise to display the plural number of frames of the picture information simultaneously on one picture frame in each output frame.

Data processing apparatus

Disclosed herein is an information processing system including: a first information processing apparatus for transmitting a content including video and audio signals; and a second information processing apparatus for receiving the content. The first apparatus includes: a first key generator configured to generate a first key; a video encryptor configured to encrypt the video signal with the first key; an audio encryptor configured to encrypt the audio signal with the first key; and a transmitter configured to transmit the content including the encrypted video and audio signals. The second apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive the content; a second key generator configured to generate a second key corresponding to the first key; a video decryptor configured to decrypt the encrypted video signal with the second key; and an audio decryptor configured to decrypt the encrypted audio signal with the second key.

Information processing system, method, and apparatus, and program

An information processing apparatus decrypts, using meta data, encrypted data obtained by encrypting stream data including successive frames according to an encryption method in which, when the stream data is sequentially encrypted on a frame-by-frame basis, a key used for encrypting each frame is updated according to a predetermined rule. The meta data includes the plurality of keys used for encrypting the stream data and update information for identifying update timings of the keys. The apparatus includes a decrypter for acquiring the encrypted data and decrypting each frame using the key used for encrypting the frame and a meta data acquirer for acquiring the meta data and delivering one of the keys corresponding to the frame to the decrypter in accordance with the update information. The meta data acquirer includes a corrector for detecting an error in the update information and correcting the update information if an error has occurred.

Method, apparatus, and program for processing information

An information processing apparatus decrypts stream data encrypted according to a first encryption method using a key encrypted according to a second encryption method. In the apparatus, an update instructing unit identifies the update timings of decryption keys and issues an update command. A decryption key output unit outputs a first decryption key before receiving the update command and outputs a second decryption key generated subsequent to the first decryption key after receiving the update command. An update instruction control unit determines whether the second decryption key has been generated before the first decryption key is updated to the second decryption key. When the second decryption key is generated, the update instruction control unit considers the second key generation point in time to be the update timing from the first decryption key to the second decryption key so as to control the update instructing unit to issue the update command.

An AV data input/output controlling circuit is connected through a data bus to a synchronous-asynchronous conversion circuit and through a control bus to a recording and reproduction controlling circuit. The AV data input/output controlling circuit inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a normal data rate. The AV data input/output controlling circuit also inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a higher data rate than usual. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, audio and/or video data is transferred through a data bus synchronized with a reference synchronization signal S etc., the audio and/or video data input from an external unit is recorded in a storage device, and the audio and/or video data recorded in the storage device is reproduced and supplied to the outside.

Video data recording/reproducing system, audio/video data recording/reproducing device, its system, and data reproducing device

A video data recording apparatus which divides video data which has been compressed and encoded in units of groups of pictures (GOPs) comprised of the video data of a predetermined plurality of frames into a plurality of data blocks of a predetermined format, adding a GOP identifying code for identifying a GOP of compressed and encoded video data, recording on a predetermined number of slanted tracks on the tape the plurality of data blocks. Also, a video data reproduction apparatus which reproduces the video data recorded by the video data recording apparatus by simple tracking control.

Video data recording and reproducing apparatus and method thereof

An audio signal reproducing apparatus which can remove, upon variable speed reproduction, only noise such as noise caused by a bias frequency without sacrificing sound is disclosed. An audio signal recorded on a magnetic tape is reproduced by a magnetic head, amplified by an amplifier and supplied to a voltage controlled filter. Meanwhile, the feeding speed of the magnetic tape is detected by a tape speed detector and converted into a corresponding voltage by a tape speed to voltage converter, and the voltage is further converted into a control voltage by a control voltage generation circuit. The control voltage is supplied to the voltage controlled filter so that the cutoff frequency of the filter is varied in accordance with the control voltage. The cutoff frequency decreases as the feeding speed of the magnetic tape decreases. Signals of frequencies of the audio signal inputted to the filter which are lower than the cutoff frequency are maintained while noise components including a signal of a bias frequency are cut by the filter.

Audio signal reproducing apparatus

An audio rate converter converts a sampling rate for audio data into a fixed rate. In the audio rate converter, an input audio data DAin at a sampling rate of PFS (48 kHz.+-.x%) are stored in the memory in accordance with a write address WAD which is synchronized with the rate PFS. Audio data are read from the memory in accordance with a read address RAD which is synchronized with a rate FS (48 kHz), and coefficient data determined based on a sampling point in output audio data are read from a ROM table in accordance with a read address Coef.AD which is synchronized with the rate FS. A data arithmetic and logic circuit performs multiplying and adding operations using these data in order to produce the output audio data DAout. If the sampling rate PFS at which the input audio data are provided changes, the audio rate converter can provide the output audio data DAout at the fixed sampling rate FS.

Audio rate converter

A video signal processing apparatus includes a discrete cosine transform circuit for generating a DC component and an AC component by processing image data in a discrete cosine transform fashion, a motion detecting circuit for generating a coincidence detection level based on an energy ratio between the DC component and the AC component generated by the discrete cosine transform circuit, comparing a difference between a DC component of a first field or frame and a DC component of a second field or frame continuing the first field or frame of the image data with the coincidence detection level and detecting on the basis of a compared result whether the image data indicates a moving picture or a still picture, and an image inserting and extracting circuit for inserting an image into or extracting an image from image data at field or frame unit based on a detected result of the motion detecting circuit, wherein the image inserting and extracting circuit inserts an image into or extracts an image from image data at the field unit when the motion detecting circuit detects that the image data indicates a moving picture and inserts an image into or extracts an image from image data at the frame unit when the motion detecting circuit detects that the image data indicates a still picture.

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Atsumu Soda