Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hideo Kataoka

Kazuya Fujita

Shinichi Kikuchi

Hajime Aoyama

Hiroaki Unno

Masahiro Ito

Yutaka Ueda

Takahisa Yoneyama

Hideyuki Toma

Mitsunori Omokawa

Tatsuji Kusumoto

Masataka Moteki

Shouichi Yokobori

Masanori Gunji

Masataka 313 Toshiba-Isogo-Dai-4-Ryo Moteki

According to one embodiment, there is provided a control block including a read control processor for reading designated content, a time information processor for processing time information. A controller returns, to a user terminal, a response signal, and information indicating a second absolute time point when an operation is executed in response to a request signal generated by the user terminal at a first absolute time point. The controller stores time difference information indicating a time difference between the first and the second absolute time points. When responding to a further request signal sent from the requester via the network, the controller sets, as tag time information, time information obtained by correcting, using the time difference information, a current relative time period for which the designated content is read.

Recording/reading apparatus, method of generating tag list for recording/reading apparatus, and control unit for recording/reading apparatus

According to one embodiment, an information processing system includes a television receiver, a mobile terminal, and an interface. The terminal includes a wireless controller configured to acquire a state signal from the television receiver and to supply a control signal to the television receiver. The interface is provided in the television receiver or the terminal and configured to convert a state acquisition request and a control signal from the controller into a request and a signal which can be detected by the television receiver and to convert a state signal from the television receiver into a state signal which can be detected by the controller.

Information processing system and information processing method

According to one embodiment, a video processor includes: a list output module; a selection receiver; and a data controller. The list output module is configured to output screen information in which a plurality of pieces of list information are arranged. Each of the pieces of list information includes pieces of identification information each identifying a scene contained in video data and arranged in an order in which scenes are played. The selection receiver is configured to receive a selection of one of the pieces of identification information comprised in one of the pieces of list information. The data controller is configured to control playing the video data from a scene identified by the one of identification information received by the selection receiver.

Video processor, television display device, and video processing method

An information recording apparatus for recording video information conforming to a first format comprises generation section for generating conversion compatibility information indicating the compatibility of conversion of video information conforming to the first format into video information conforming to a second format, and recording section for recording the video information conforming to the first format with the conversion compatibility information. The conversion compatibility information is typically contained in title information and it is possible to know the convertibility of the video information in advance on the basis of the conversion compatibility information.

Information recording apparatus and method for converting video information

There is disclosed a method in which a recording section configured to record an external input signal, and a display signal output section configured to output a display signal based on at least one of the external input signal and a reproduction signal from the recording section are used. Here, when the display signal output section outputs the external input signal as the display signal, and a predetermined temporary interruption state is set at this time, the external input signal is recorded in the recording section.

Digital recording/reproducing apparatus with built-in storage medium

The apparatus comprises a first medium, a first recording/reproducing section which can record information on or can reproduce information from the first medium, a second recording/reproducing section which can record information on or can reproduce information from a second medium, and a display signal output section. The apparatus is configured to compose input information, being subjected to recording of the first recording/reproducing processing section, with a reproduction signal, being reproduced by the first recording/reproducing processing section. A result of composition is then output to the display signal output section.

Digital recording/reproducing apparatus

Input programming data items are recorded into a memory contained in an apparatus. That one of the programming data items recorded in the memory, which is requested to be recorded in a recording medium, is read from the memory, transferred to the recording medium and recorded thereon. Programming data for usual record programming and for record programming using a specified recording medium can be managed in a centralized manner by referring to the programming data items recorded in the memory.

Recording/reproducing apparatus and method with record programming function

The remaining capacity of a recording medium is calculated when picture recording reservation is made so as to permit the user to easily understand the reservation status and whether the reservation recording is possible or not. An apparatus of this invention can record and reproduce compressed video information on a contained hard disk in a format of the same DVD standard and can record and reproduce compressed video information on a removable DVD. Further, it is possible to specify a disk and make picture recording reservation and a reservation table thereof is stored in a memory. Then, picture recording reservation time information and the remaining capacity of the disk are calculated and whether or not reservation picture recording can be made can be displayed in a list form.

Recording/reproducing apparatus and picture recording reservation method of recording/reproducing apparatus

An image reproducing apparatus reproducing image information, having a reproduction processor reproducing the image information stored in the recording medium, a key input section having a skip key, a first skip processor, when the skip key is pressed one time, skipping the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor for a first predetermined period and resuming the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor after the first predetermined period is passed, and a second skip processor, when the skip key is pressed twice in a certain period, skipping the reproduction for a second predetermined period having the first predetermined period and a third predetermined period which is longer than the first predetermined period and resuming the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor after the second predetermined period is passed.

Image reproducing apparatus having skip function

In an image recording/reproducing apparatus capable of handling a hard disk and an optical disk, when just-recording on the hard disk has been requested, if a residual recording capacity of the hard disk is more than a residual recording capacity of the optical disk that is in a non-recorded state, a compression encoding rate for image information is set by regarding the residual recording capacity of the hard disk as being equal to the residual recording capacity of the optical disk in the non-recorded state.

Image recording/reproducing apparatus and method

A recording rate automatic setting recording device which, a microcomputer block, detects a recording time on the basis of recording reservation information, and detects an entire capacity and a remaining capacity of a first recording surface of an information recording medium, and assumes that a capacity which is at least half of the entire capacity of the first recording surface is a remaining capacity of a second recording surface of the information recording medium, and calculates an entire remaining capacity by adding together the remaining capacity of the first recording surface and the remaining capacity of the second recording surface, and sets a recording bit rate from the entire remaining capacity and a reservation recording time.

Recording rate automatic setting recording device and recording rate automatic setting recording method

An information recording device which handles a plurality of recording surfaces has a recording device which, when the remaining recording capacity of a first recording surface is less than a predetermined capacity, continues to record the target information onto a first recording surface, and records the same target information onto a hard disk as well. When a second recording surface is provided, the recording device stops recording onto the hard disk, and records following target information onto the second recording surface, and records the target information, which was partially recorded on the hard disk, so as to be duplicated with a part of the target information recorded on the first recording surface.

Information recording device which handles a plurality of recording surfaces and information recording method which handles a plurality of recording surfaces

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Hideo Kataoka