Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Pioneer Corporation

Sharp Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Azusa Umemoto

Masafumi Takahashi

Takuya Kinoshita

Aya Enatsu

Tatsuo Sudo

Masafumi Hirata

Katsuo Doi

Soichi Nitta

Kiyotaka Kashito

Minehiro Konya

Mitsunori Nojima

Yohei Iwami

Mitsuru Minakuchi

Hirofumi Furukawa

Hideyuki Otokawa

Akihiro Tozaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Toru Ueda

Takehiko Shioda

Katsuya Nakagawa

Kunihiro Minoshima

Masaharu Nakatsuchi

Akira Tojima

Naoki Urano

Junichi Shirakawa

Kumiko Yamaguchi

Kenji Mameda

Tsukasa Kaminokado

Kentaro Sakakura

Nobuo Kusumoto

Syuji Daioku

Hideki Nishimura

Takashi Nakajima

Satoshi Eguchi

Masaki Hasiura

Toshihide Hagawa

Kanae Naoi

A mobile phone () in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (); a transmission setting section () for registering, on the transmission setting database (), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section () for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (), the image data transmitting section () transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device. Therefore, according to a data transmission device in accordance with the present invention, it is possible to transmit a desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device without forcing a user to again carry out operation of transmitting the piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device, even in a case where the user cannot transmit the desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device.

Data transmission device, data transmission method, data communication system, program, and recording medium

A television () includes: an image data receiving section () for receiving, from the outside, image data storing therein process specifying information; and a controlling section () for controlling an image processing section () so as to carry out a process specified by the process specifying information stored in the received image data. Thus, it is possible to cause the television () to carry out the desired process by causing the television () to receive the image data including the process specifying information for specifying the process which should be carried out by the television ().

Operating system that includes an image data receiving device and an operation device for processing image data sets

A televisionof the present invention is a televisionfor processing display data and displaying an image based on the processed display data, the display data containing the image and a control script that defines at least a function of displaying the image, wherein the televisionincludes a basic function executing sectionfor executing a basic function program called from the control script, the basic function program being stored in a basic function program storage section; and a control script executing sectionfor controlling basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to perform a first function for displaying the image, the first function being defined by the control script, the control script further defines a second function which the televisionperforms while the image is being displayed by the first function, and the control script executing sectioncontrols the basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to execute the second function.

Image display apparatus, image data providing apparatus, and image display system providing a control script for executing basic functions

An electronic device () constitutes a remote control system () together with a remote control device () and at least one controlled device ('), and the electronic device () includes: a first reception section () that receives, from the remote control device, a direct command signal (&#x2032;) broadcasted to the electronic device and the controlled device; a second reception section () that receives, from the controlled device, an indirect command signal () having been generated by the controlled device according to the direct command signal having been received from the remote control device; and a control section () including signal selecting means () that selects one intended command signal to which a response is needed from a signal group according to a predetermined rule, the signal group consisting of the direct command signal having been received by the first reception section and the indirect command signal having been received by the second reception section. This makes it possible to properly select and process a signal to be followed in the electronic device where a plurality of command signals are redundantly supplied with respect to one command signal from the remote control device.

Electronic device, remote control system, signal processing method, control program and recording medium

A reproducing apparatus () of the present invention receives information of a WEB site from a service-providing server () that administrates the WEB site, and reproduces the information. The service-providing server () holds identification information () of a user of a portable communication apparatus () that is permitted to access the WEB site. The reproducing apparatus () includes: a data receiving section for receiving, from the portable communication apparatus (), invitation information (), identification information (), and transmission time point information (); a reproducing apparatus infrared communication section; a destination determination section that establishes a connection to the service-providing server () based on the received invitation information (), and transmits the invitation information (), the identification information (), and transmission-instruction time (); and a reproducing apparatus communication control section. This allows the administrative server to confirm an authorized destination, based on the content request information received from the portable communication apparatus, when a content is provided from the administrative server managing the content.

Reproducing apparatus, portable communication apparatus, administrative server, and content distribution system

A control section of a slideshow display device includes a display control section. The display control sectioncauses a list of thumbnails to be displayed when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a predetermined point in time. As such, when display delay occurs, a list of thumbnails can be displayed, instead of the target image. This realizes an image display device which prevents a user from being subject to stress when display delay occurs in slideshow display.

Image display device, image display method, image display system, image data transmitting device, program, and storage medium

When a content playback apparatus has detected a content data acquisition error in a process of acquiring title screen content serving as next content that is to be reproduced after top screen content, the content playback apparatus reproduces sub-content contained as error-handling information in the top screen content, and then displays an error screen. The error screen is contained as sub-content in the top screen content, and therefore can be changed flexibly. This makes it possible to provide a content playback apparatus capable of performing error handling flexibly in accordance with the content being reproduced.

Content playback apparatus, content playback method, and storage medium

A picture display apparatus, comprising: a synthesizing section for synthesizing divided screens to display a plurality of pictures on a single screen; a menu display section for displaying a menu in which a list of options is displayed, the options enabling a user to select a change to be made to at least one of a number, shapes, relative sizes, and relative positions of the divided screens and types of the pictures, so that the user can select from the options to switch to a corresponding screen arrangement; an icon display section for displaying an icon indicating a border between the divided screens in association with the options; and a border changing section for updating the divided screens according to a change in position of the border, wherein the icon display section displays the icon indicating a result of the change in position of the border before the border changing section updates the divided screens according to the change in position of the border. Thus, the user is informed of what the screen will look like before entering a change of the border.

Picture display apparatus with selectively divided screens, picture display method for selectively dividing screens, and storage medium

Upon receipt of operation entry for processing and editing a currently displayed slide, an operation information generating section generates operation information corresponding to this entry. An operation information reflecting section performs editing on the basis of the operation information and stores the operation information regarding the editing in a storage section. Upon receipt of slide data from the server device, the operation information reflecting section reads operation information of the past regarding this slide data, and generates a display screen in such a manner that editing corresponding to the read operation information is reflected in the received slide data. This makes it possible to display slide data stored in the server device on an image display device in a manner that a user wants, without increasing load on the server device.

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program image data transmission program, and storage medium storing an image data transmission program

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program, image data transmission program, and storage medium storing the image data transmission program

A service providing apparatuscapable of providing a service while effectively managing execution codes and screen configuration information stored in the apparatus includes: a display apparatus; a communication unit; an obtaining unitfor obtaining an execution code for providing the service through communication unit; an execution code storagefor storing the obtained execution code; a screen configuration information storagefor storing screen configuration information defining screen configuration to be displayed at the time of execution of the execution code; and a management unitmanaging these units such that by the time the service is provided, the execution code and screen configuration information necessary for providing the service are stored in the execution code storageand screen configuration information storage, and executing, in response to a service providing instruction, the execution code stored in the execution code storageusing the screen configuration information stored in the screen configuration information storage

Service providing apparatus

An information presentation apparatus is provided presenting an interface suitable for selecting desired information from a plurality of information. The apparatus has three methods of presenting information. The first method is to present information by sequentially playing and presenting a plurality of audio information related to the information in turn. The second method is to present the plurality of audio information at the same time wherein each sound has its directivity. The third method is a combination of the first and second methods wherein user can select desired method between the two depending on kinds of information presented.

Information selection apparatus selecting desired information from plurality of audio information by mainly using audio

In an information presentation apparatus, a documents parser reads out and analyzes desired document data from a documents storage unit to obtain attributes data of the document data, which is stored in a document attributes storage uni. A displaying attributes setting unit uses the document attribute information, or attributes data, stored in the document attributes storage unit to retrieve data from tables of document attributes and displaying attributes, and, based on the retrieval result, sets a displaying attribute for the relevant document data. A displaying data generator determines a displaying manner of the document data according to the displaying attribute thus set, and the document data is displayed on a displaying unit in the determined manner. Accordingly, a user can quickly estimate a document attribute suggested by the content of the document data, not by reading the document data, but only at a glance of the manner in which the document data is being displayed. This allows easy comprehension of the content.

Method and apparatus for presenting information in accordance with presentation attribute information to control presentation thereof

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Azusa Umemoto