Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Junichi Hirai

Kazuo Okamura

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Masahiro Oashi

Tatsuya Shimoji

Takashi Kakiuchi

Masayuki Kozuka

Toshiya Mori

Naoya Takao

Yoshihiro Mimura

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Shinji Inoue

Hidekazu Tanigawa

Kiyokazu Yamanaka

Toshihiro Hishida

Akihiro Tanaka

Hidetaka Ohto

Masaki Mukai

Yoshinori Matsui

Keiji Sugiyama

Shigeaki Watanabe

Hiroyuki Waki

Chihiro Kawahara

Hidekazu Shimizu

Kazutoshi Sumiya

Akira Ishikawa

Kakuya Yamamoto

Hideki Kagemoto

Sukeichi Miki

Takashi Sakao

Chihiro Imagawa

Hidekaau Tanigawa

When a program transmission apparatus divides a program into a plurality of partial programs before transmission, a program reception execution apparatus executes a partial program when the partial program has already been received, and, when the execution needs to proceed to from a present partial program to a next partial program, executes the other partial program when the next partial program has been received.

Program reception/execution apparatus that can commence execution of a machine program having only received the program in part, and a program transmission apparatus that enables such execution

The present invention provides a guiding device that can induce a user to move according to a guiding route. The guiding device according to the present invention is a guiding device which guides a user, including an acquisition unit () which acquires a guiding route for the user, a recognition unit () which recognizes an object which exists in the user's vicinity, a management unit () which manages an object and an adjustment method for adjusting an influence that the object has on the movement of the user, by associating the object and the adjustment method in advance, a judgment unit () which judges whether or not the object recognized by the recognition unit () exists within the guiding route acquired by the acquisition unit (), and an adjustment unit () which executes a specified adjustment process based on the judgment made by the judgment unit (), and on the adjustment method managed in association with the object recognized by the recognition unit ().

Guiding device and guiding method

A management device that provides user profile taking the user's situation into consideration. The management device creates, in response to a request from applications, a new user profile (hereinafter referred to as 'comprehensive user profile') based on a plurality of user profiles, and provides it to the applications. The management device always monitors a user's situation, directly or indirectly correlates the user's situation at the time that the user profile is registered with the user profile, and stores the same. Because the management device creates the comprehensive user profile based on the user profile corresponding to the current user situation, the comprehensive user profile reflects the user's situation which changes from time to time.

User profile management system

The present invention relate to a digital broadcast system, and it is an object of the invention to record contents quickly in a broadcast system which implements interactivity by transmitting a set of data repeatedly, wherein a digital broadcast receiver separates a table corresponding to video images from streams in an arbitrary order and repeats the processing of memorizing the video image data to be identified in the order of obtaining the same by means of the table corresponding to the video images until all of the set of video images have been memorized. This allows for performing, in a short time, storage process of video image data broadcast for the purpose of efficient reproduction by a receiver having no storage function. Additionally, the data is available to viewers at any time after the completion of storage thereof.

Digital broadcast system

A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparatuses. The data conversion apparatus converts documents stored inside into images to be displayed on the screen, such as a TV screen. In doing so, if the document includes character strings or image information as link destination information which specifies another document as a link destination, the data conversion apparatus adds a supplementary design into the image of the link destination information for the viewer to recognize such information.

Data conversion apparatus for data communication system

A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit stores a plurality of frames of image data. The second storage unit stores control information which shows links between said plurality of frames of image data stored in the first storage unit, and which indicates a combining of a supplementary design with the image data. These supplementary designs are stored by a receiving apparatus and are combined with the image represented by the image data. The transmitting unit repeatedly transmits a predetermined number of frames of image data together with corresponding control information.

Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, and data receiving apparatus

Terminal devices and a method of transferring sets of transmission document information in a network system between terminal devices such as portable devices which can be grouped together into a plurality of different groups is provided. A terminal device can store capability information relative to a specific type of data that can be received and outputted. The terminal device can receive an inquiry from another terminal device as to the capability information and can transmit the capability information when appropriate to the inquiring terminal device. Various types of capability information can be stored, depending upon the particular capabilities of the terminal device such as picture data, audio data and character data to enable the terminal device to be an e-mail terminal.

Terminal device for controlling transmission size of documents with capability of receiving device

A data transmission apparatus has a multiplexing unit that cyclically multiplexes presentation information and navigation information stored in a transmission data storage unit according to control by a multiplexing control unit and a transmission unit that transmits the multiplexed stream. The reception control unit of a data reception apparatus sets filter conditions in a filter condition storage unit of a TS decoder unit in accordance with user operation indications. The presentation information and navigation information separated by the TS decoder unit are outputted via a reproduction unit to a display unit and an audio output unit.

Digital broadcasting system, digital broadcasting apparatus, and receiver apparatus for digital broadcasts

A digital broadcasting system includes an authoring apparatus and a transmission apparatus. The authoring apparatus generates event information, which defines an event message that should be transmitted immediately after an operator's instruction to transmit the event message is received, and adds the event information to a content. The authoring apparatus then extracts the event information from the content by referring to tag information and transfers the extracted event information to the transmission apparatus. The transmission apparatus stores the event message defined by the event information transferred from the authoring apparatus. According to an operator's instruction to transmit the event message, the transmission apparatus issues the event message, and multiplexes and transmits the issued event message and the content.

Digital broadcasting system and event message transmission method

Method and system for receiving and recording digital broadcast programs

A data broadcast apparatus repeatedly broadcasts data using a carousel method, to a reception apparatus which stores the data into a memory and reproduces the data stored in the memory. A storing unit stores first data and second data. A detecting unit detects an event which prohibits the reception apparatus from reproducing the first data. A broadcasting unit repeatedly broadcasts the first and second data stored in the storing unit, and stops broadcasting the first data when the detecting unit detects the event. An instructing unit has the broadcasting unit broadcast a switch instruction, which instructs the reception apparatus to stop reproducing the first data and start reproducing the second data when the broadcast of the first data is stopped.

Data broadcast apparatus capable of stopping reproduction of broadcast data in reception apparatus when an event requiring to stop the reproduction of the broadcast data occurs

A digital broadcasting apparatus includes: a bitrate storage unit for holding a bitrate set for each source data item and a total bitrate available for transmitting source data items; a transmission period storage unit for holding transmission time period of each source data item; a source data reading unit for reading each source data item to be transmitted from a source data storage unit; a rate control unit for calculating a transmission bitrate of each source data item that should be simultaneously transmitted according to predetermined equations; and a data multiplexing unit for multiplexing each source data item read by the source data reading unit into a transport stream at the transmission bitrate calculated by the rate control unit.

Digital broadcasting apparatus which adjusts bitrates of source data items composing additional information

A data broadcast apparatus repeatedly broadcasts broadcast data to a reception apparatus which stores the broadcast data into a memory and reproduces the broadcast data stored in the memory, according to a carousel method. An acquiring unit acquires a plurality of sets of broadcast data which each have a specified reproduction start time. A generating unit generates carousel data including the plurality of sets of broadcast data. A carousel data broadcasting unit repeatedly broadcasts the carousel data according to the carousel method, beginning at the earliest reproduction start time of the plurality of sets of broadcast data. An instruction broadcasting unit broadcasts, for each set of broadcast data, an instruction that indicates to the reception apparatus to start reproducing the set of broadcast data at a reproduction start time specified for the set of broadcast data.

Data broadcast apparatus for controlling presentation timing of additional data with high precision

A broadcasting system which includes a broadcasting apparatus and a reception apparatus and which achieves interactiveness using a broadcast wave. The broadcasting apparatus includes a content storing unit for storing the plurality of contents, each content including a set of video data and a set of control information that indicates another content that is a link destination for a present content, and a transmitting unit for multiplexing a set of video data and a plurality of sets of the same control information included in a same content as the set of video data, and for transmitting the multiplexed sets of video data and control information. The reception apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a set of video data and a set of control information in a same content as the set of video data, a storing unit for storing the extracted set of control information, a reproducing unit for reproducing the extracted set of video data and outputting an image signal, an operation unit for receiving a user operation that indicates a content switching, and a control unit for controlling the extracting unit to extract another content indicated by the set of control information stored in the storing unit, in accordance with the user operation.

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Junichi Hirai