Sony Corporation

Hirofumi Yuchi

Yoichiro Sako

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Kohei Asada

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Hiroshi Okada

Hiroyuki Hanaya

Takaaki Ohta

Takashi Sato

Kiyoshi Yoneda

Yutaka Fukuyama

Kouji Miyata

Haruhiko Yata

Toshiro Ozawa

Yuichiro Nakamura

Hiroshi Nakano

Hiroshi Katayama

Yasunari Ikeda

Masaharu Tokuhara

Kyoichi Murakami

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Katsumi Oishi

Kenji Inose

Takashi Kagawa

Tatsunobu Ando

Kazuya Katsuki

Shoji Shiomoto

Keiichi Kurokawa

Yutaka Sonoda

There is provided a mobile object including an imaging unit configured to capture a perimeter of the mobile object, a speaker configured to be capable of controlling directivity, a determination unit configured to determine whether the mobile object is in a driving mode, and a speaker control unit configured to control the speaker in the driving mode in a manner that predetermined audio is output toward a warning target that is recognized based on a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and to control the speaker in a non-driving mode in a manner that the predetermined audio is output in a non-directional way.

Mobile object and storage medium

There is provided an illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, a reception unit, and a control unit configured to control illumination of the illumination unit in accordance with a default illumination pattern. When the reception unit receives an illumination pattern, the control unit performs illumination control different from the illumination according to the default illumination pattern.

Illumination apparatus and storage medium

There is provided a communication device capable of improving a decline in the usability caused by an angle of view of a camera. The communication device includes: a camera capturing a picture; an information processing section detecting a face image from the picture captured by the camera, to generate a partial picture including the detected face image; a transmitting section encoding the partial picture to generate encoded data, and transmitting the encoded data to a counterpart; and a first receiving section receiving data transmitted from the counterpart, and decoding the received data to generate a picturephone picture.

Communication device

Video presentation timing can match sounding timing with high accuracy. A digital broadcast receiver calculates the presentation delay time dt from the presentation time when video based on the compressed video data is to be presented to the time when the video is presented on the presentation unit, and outputs audio based on the compressed audio data when the calculated presentation delay time dt passes from the sounding time when the audio based on the compressed audio data is to be outputted.

Data processing apparatus and method

A program switching device and a method thereof which can prevent a disorder of images and an invisible state of the image when a channel (program) is switched. When it is instructed to switch a program to the other program in the state where the image of a program of a predetermined channel is displayed, at step SP, the image of the program currently received is converted into a static image to mute the sound. Then, at step SP, the receiving processing of channel is started after switching. At step SP, the process waits until the processing of channel switching is terminated, and when it is terminated, the static image set at step SPand the mute are released at step SP

Program switching device and method

In a step S, when the user executes a tuning operation (a service-number input operation) on an input section, the information is output to a control section. In a step S, the control section determines whether the service number selected in the step Scorresponds to a promotion channel. When it is determined that the service number corresponds to a promotion channel, the procedure proceeds to a step S. In the step S, the control section displays on the monitor a message indicating that the selected service number is not found.

Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and providing medium

A digital signal receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal having a first information table and a second information table is disclosed, the first information table representing the relation between physical information of transmission paths and deliverable data, the second information table representing deliverable data, the apparatus comprising a means for successively searching services represented with the second information table, a means for generating a list that represents services represented with the first information table, and a means for performing a predetermined process corresponding to the generated list.

Digital signal receiving apparatus and receiving method

A digital broadcast signal formed of compressed video data multiplexed with compressed audio data and program guide data is received. The signal is demultiplexed, and a display processor processes the program guide data so as to display a program guide window containing a number of program names. A cursor for designating a desired program is moved in the window and a controller controls the receiver so that a program designated by the cursor is received.

A data receiving-processing apparatus including a receiver for receiving an extended function program or data transmitted thereto, a processor for processing the received data, a first storage such as a read-only memory for storing a basic program used to execute the data processing and an ID code to identify the apparatus and having a branch for the extended function program, a second storage such as a nonvolatile memory for storing the extended function program in a compressed state, a third storage such as a volatile memory for storing the extended function program in an decompressed state, and a decision maker for making a decision as to whether the ID code has predetermined content. The received data is processed in accordance with the basic program stored in the first storage and, after the extended function program stored in the second storage is read out at the branch in the basic program, the data is processed in accordance with the extended function program. In this apparatus, a new extended function program can be added at low cost as required.

Data receiving-processing apparatus and method, and broadcasting method

A PCR is detected from a bit stream by a PCR extracting circuit. When the time reference value is detected, an STC counter counts a clock oscillated by a VCO and compares the value of the STC counter and the value of the PCR. The phase difference is fed back to the VCO through a digital filter. In the control start stage, the gain of the digital filter is designated to a large value. Thus, the phase difference is quickly converged to the allowable difference range. In the lock stage, the gain is designated to a small value. Thus, the control operation is stably performed. In the nearly unlock stage, the gain is designated to a middle value. Thus, the phase difference is quickly pulled to the allowable difference range.

Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and digital PLL circuit

A program switching device and a method thereof which can prevent a disorder of images and an invisible state of the image when a channel (program) is switched. When it is instructed to switch a program to the other program in the state where the image of a program of a predetermined channel is displayed, at step SP111, the image of the program currently received is converted into a static image to mute the sound. Then, at step SP212, the receiving processing of channel is started after switching. At step SP113, the process waits until the processing of channel switching is terminated, and when it is terminated, the static image set at step SP111 and the mute are released at step SP114.

In a memory control apparatus for providing various video display functions by means of a video memory into which video data constituting successive units, such as, frames or fields, or video information are written at repeatedly changing write addresses while concurrently reading out the data from repeatedly changing read-out addresses; the video memory is provided with at least four memory areas each having a capacity to store one of the units of video information, impending overtaking of the write and read-out addresses relative to each other is detected, and, in response to such detection, the one of the memory areas in which the data is being written or read-out is changed so as to maintain a separation of the write and read-out addresses sufficient to ensure avoidance of overtaking and consequent disturbance of the displayed image.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hirofumi Yuchi