Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Hirokazu Imazeki

Masahiko Seki

Prem Aanand Venkatesan

Hiroyuki Shinkai

Cristian Lars Almstrand

Yuji Arataki

Osamu Nagata

A portable media player communicates with a host computer for enabling a user of the player to manage media distribution using the control software of the host computer. The host computer can send a GUI that is displayed on the otherwise 'dumb' player, and the user can view the GUI and press a single button to command the control software to download a media title to the player. The host computer can periodically poll the player to determine its status.

Remote user interface for media player

A recording medium on which a plurality of programs are collected in a plurality of groups and supervised in this grouped state, wherein when an editing command such as dividing, linking, and erasing the predetermined programs or groups recorded on the recording medium is executed, management data is edited to perform the editing command. The invention provides a solution to meet this request by a recording medium, an editing method and an editing apparatus.

Recording medium, editing method and editing apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa, Japan

Hirokazu Imazeki