Sony Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Katsumi Matsuno

Kenichiro Aridome

Hisato Shima

Osamu Date

Ichiro Kubota

Minobu Hayashi

Akinobu Sugino

Shingo Yoshioka

Sho Tanaka

Tokuya Fukuda

Keiichiro Shimada

Toru Shiono

Toshitaka Senuma

Hiroyuki Miyawaki

Iwao Yamamoto

Kenichi Ito

Shunji Okada

Koji Iwamoto

Shinji Takada

Ryo Ito

Sunao Furui

Yuriko Kishitaka

Akira Hirai

Koji Okumoto

Toru Miura

Nobumitsu Suzuki

Disclosed herein is a pictureAn imagedisplay controlling apparatuscapable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting pictureallows a navigation of imagedataitemson asmall-sizescreen ofdigital cameras or the likean image capturing device.PictureThe imagedata items held in a data holding unit()are sorted intopictureimage datagroups. The location of thepictureimagedata item most recently displayed fromany of the picture groupsa selected image data groupis heldasinapicture resume pointer in a resumepointer holding unit(). With an operation input accepted from the user by an operation inputtingdevice ()unit, a display controlling unit()causes a displaying unit()to display thepicture designatedimage selectedby the operation inputwhile effecting transition from the current display status retained in a status holding unit (). If the operation input designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, the location of the picture data item currently displayed from the first picture group is placed into the resume pointer holding unit (), and the location of the picture data item to be displayed anew from the second picture group is retrieved from the resume pointer holding unit ().When the operating inputting unit receives a re-selection of the selected image data group after an intervening selection of another image data group, the display image controlling unit displays the image data item.

Picture display controlling apparatus and picture display controlling method

An information recording apparatus is disclosed which comprises: a first recording element for recording input picture information in units of recording into a first area of a recording medium; a representative data generating element for generating representative data representing the picture information recorded in the units of recording; a first memory for recording a plurality of symbolic pictures; a second memory for recording a program for generating link information linking the plurality of symbolic pictures recorded in the first memory with the representative data; a link information generating element for generating the link information using program; a picture generating element which, based on the link information, generates picture information including at least the symbolic pictures and the representative data being linked with one another; and a second recording element for recording the picture information generated by the picture generating element to a second area of the recording medium.

Information recording apparatus and information recording method

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device configured to capture an image regarding an object image; an object detector detecting a specific object in the captured image; an image-capturing-information obtaining unit obtaining image capturing information from a predetermined area set in an image capturing area; a determiner determining whether or not the image capturing information regarding the specific object is obtainable from the predetermined area; and a display controller controlling a position display shown on a display unit, the position display indicating a position of the specific object. The display controller changes a display mode of the position display in accordance with the result of the determination performed by the determiner.

Image pickup apparatus

The present invention efficiently executes a transfer process from a flash memory to an optical disc. A recording control apparatus includes a UDF file system section that configures a UDF file system on the flash file system of a flash memory and an application format section that converts video and audio data into a file group conforming to the DVD application format and manages it on the UDF file system. When copying the data recorded in the flash memory to a DVD, a management information switching section of the apparatus converts the logical addresses of the flash memory into the logical addresses of the DVD. A DVD buffer control section converts the data recorded in an array of 64 Kbytes that is the recording unit of the flash memory into an array of 32 Kbytes that is the recording unit of the DVD and transfers them to the DVD drive.

Recording control apparatus, recording control method and recording apparatus integral with camera

Disclosed herein is a picture display controlling apparatus capable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting picture data on a small-size screen of digital cameras or the like. Picture data items held in a data holding unit () are sorted into picture groups. The location of the picture data item most recently displayed from any of the picture groups is held as a picture resume pointer in a resume pointer holding unit (). With an operation input accepted from the user by an operation inputting device (), a display controlling unit () causes a displaying unit () to display the picture designated by the operation input while effecting transition from the current display status retained in a status holding unit (). If the operation input designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, the location of the picture data item currently displayed from the first picture group is placed into the resume pointer holding unit (), and the location of the picture data item to be displayed anew from the second picture group is retrieved from the resume pointer holding unit ().

Information created by a device and recorded on a recording medium and information supplied externally to the device and recorded on the recording medium are classified according to creation date and time information. Each image data file recorded on the recording medium has an original recorded file flag added thereto which indicates whether the image data file is obtained by photographing using the device. Photographing date and time information is added to an image data file obtained by photographing using the device. Obtainment date and time information is added to an image data file supplied externally. In a classification process, an original recorded file flag is checked; an obtainment date and time is used for an image data file obtained externally; a photographing date and time is used for an image data file obtained by photographing; a classification process is performed; and a result of the classification process is displayed.

System and method for classifying files in an information processing device

The present invention provides a recording method capable of reliably associating additional information for data of a decoding/reproduction unit with the decoding/reproduction unit for a case in which data of a read/write unit for a recording medium includes a plurality of aforementioned decoding/reproduction units. Time-series information is compressed before being recorded on the recording medium. Management information added to data of each decoding/reproduction unit of the compressed time-series information as management information for a decoding/reproduction process is also recorded on the recording medium. Additional information for data of a decoding/reproduction unit is also recorded on the recording medium by being associated with management information for a decoding/reproduction process of data of the decoding/reproduction unit.

Recording method, recording apparatus, recording medium, reproduction method, reproduction apparatus and image pickup apparatus

There are provided: a unit data group formation section for forming a unit data group comprising at least one piece of unit data; a thumbnail image generation section for generating a thumbnail image for unit data; a link information generation section for generating unit data link information to link with each unit data forming the unit data group; a data group generation section for generating a data group comprising a unit data group and unit data link information; and a closed session processing section for performing a closed session process so that other reproducing apparatuses can read an optical disc recording at least one data group. The closed session processing section generates a menu image including the thumbnail image based on the unit data, generates menu image link information for linking with the menu image, and records the menu image and the menu image link information on an optical disc.

Optical disc recording apparatus and method thereof

This invention is a recording medium recording method for an optical disc or the like. Every time one VTS is prepared, padding processing is executed to secure a recording area for new TMP_VMGI following that VTS and for VTSI and VTSM VOBS of the subsequent title. As, every time one VTS is prepared, new TMP_VMGI following that VTS is recorded, TMP_VMGI is recorded at the position that is added to the number of VTSs. Therefore, even when the management information becomes unreadable because of update exceeding the rewriting durability of the medium with respect to the recording area of TMP_VMGI on the innermost side, the management information can be read from TMP_VMGI recorded in the other recording areas and the finalizing processing can be executed.

Medium recording method, medium recording device, and information recording medium

The present invention is applied to a video data recording apparatus having an interface with a computer. The buffer size of a recording bufferA for temporarily storing data and recording the data on a recording mediumis switched between a mode for recording data through an interfacewith a computer and a mode for recording steaming data Dsuch as video data or the like.

Recording device and recording method

The present invention is directed to an optical disc recording apparatus adapted for recording data onto a recodable/reproducible optical disc, which comprises a system controller () for executing finalize processing in the state divided into plural processing and memorizing, into a flash memory (), a notification of completion of one processing every time the processing is completed.

Optical recording method and optical recording device

In a ROW-based DVD-RW, a DVD video file is managed according to provisional VMGI (TMP_VMGI) and an extension file other than the DVD video file, such as a JPEG file or the like is managed according to intermediate management information (TMP_EXTI), and temporary space bitmap (TMP_SBM) used in UDF and the like is added to provisional VMGI (TMP_VMGI to record a combination of the DVD video file and extension file such as JPEG file and manage the temporary space. Thereby, the temporary space can be known from TMP_SBM, and even when the extension file has been deleted, the DVD-RW is made interchangeable with a read-only optical disk through finalization. Thus, the present invention allows to record a file of still pictures other than moving pictures and also pad information in a temporary space resulted from deletion of any recorded area.

Recording method and apparatus, and recording medium

In order to drive a PC and a cam-coder communicating with each other by adopting a Bluetooth technique to carry out mutual authentication processing, the user presses an authentication button of the PC and an authentication button of the cam-coder simultaneously. An authentication program of the PC detects an on time to turn on the authentication button of the PC and an off time to turn off the button. Likewise, an authentication program of the cam-coder detects an on time to turn on the authentication button of the cam-coder and an off time to turn off the button. The detected on and off times are exchanged between the PC and the cam-coder. If a difference between the on times and a difference between the off times are each found to be within a predetermined range, a result of the mutual authentication processing is considered to be positive. In this way, the mutual authentication processing can be carried out with ease.

Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, information-processing system, recording medium and program

The present invention provides an optical disk drive, optical disk recording method, optical disk recording program and a recording medium having the optical disk recording method recorded therein, applicable to a DVD drive, for example, to permit recording of also a file of still pictures other than moving pictures with a sufficient extension of the recording ability of the optical disk. To this end, individual management information can be accessed via guide information for an extended file in consideration and an identification code CAT ID indicative of the type of the extended file and recording format CAT INFO TYPE of the management information are allocated to the extension-file guide information.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsumi Matsuno