Maxell, Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

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Hiroki Mizosoe

Manabu Sasamoto

Kazunori Iwabuchi

Setiawan Bondan

Mutsumi Shimoda

Junji Shiokawa

Kazuto Yoneyama

Takashi Yoshimaru

Kunihiro Nomura

Yo Miyamoto

Yasuhisa Mori

Kazuaki Aoyama

Tomomu Ishikawa

Masaaki Hiramatsu

Keisuke Inata

Akihito Nishizawa

Yasuo Mutsuro

Mitsuhiro Okada

Hironori Komi

Takashi Furuhata

Taku Nakamura

Yusuke Yatabe

Manabu Katsuki

Tomoyuki Myojin

Takuya Imaide

Masuo Oku

Hiroyasu Ohtsubo

Chiyo Ohno

Hiroyuki Komatsu

Nobuo Azuma

Yukitoshi Tsuboi

Hiromi Watanabe

Shuji Shinohara

Takayuki Miyo

A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.

Television receiver with a TV phone function

A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal () and the receiving terminal () are connected to a delivery server () via a network (). The delivery server () comprises: a database () for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (); a content storage () for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (); and table () for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (), refers to the tables () and transmits to the receiving terminal () a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal ().

Content delivery system, delivery server, receiving terminal, and content delivery method

Communication apparatus and method for receiving an inbound videophone call notice while displaying digital information on the display

Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.

Information recording/reproducing apparatus

Communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital information to and from another communication apparatus

Reduction in power consumption is not considered in the prior art documents. Provided is an encoding method for encoding image information and having: a step in which image information is input; an analysis step in which the characteristics of the input image information are analyzed; a bit depth output step in which the bit depth for video encoding is determined and output; and an encoding step in which the bit depth output in the bit depth output step is used and the input image information is encoded. The encoding method is characterized by the output bit depth being switched in the bit depth output step, on the basis of the analysis results from the analysis step.

Encoding method and encoding device

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hiroki Mizosoe