Sony Corporation

Kazuhisa Tsuchiya

Yasuo Nomura

Kazuhiko Watanabe

Michio Mita

Shin Kimura

Nobuhiro Sakai

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation section which performs remote control of a television receiver, and a content information acquisition section which acquires content information related to content provided by the television receiver, and causes a storage section to store the content information.

Information processing apparatus, television receiver, information processing method, program, and information processing system

An apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a reply unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a request for service information from an information processing apparatus via a network. The determining unit is configured to determine the service information based on the request, where the service information includes information associated with accessing a service and display object information on a display object corresponding to the service. The reply unit is configured to send the service information to the information processing apparatus.

Server apparatus and information processing apparatus

A data processing method is disclosed which includes the steps of: (a) generating edit data which includes a unique material identifier for uniquely identifying material data to be edited and of edit content of the material data; (b) generating management data indicative of the unique material identifier in association with a storage location where the material data identified by the unique material identifier are stored; (c) specifying the storage location where the material data associated with the unique material identifier included in the edit data generated in step (a) are stored, on the basis of the management data generated in step (b); and (d) acquiring the material data from the storage location specified in step (c).

Data processing method and data processing system

An information processing apparatus is connected to a recording or playback apparatus having a file system. The information processing apparatus includes a receiver for receiving a command provided by an operating system in response to a file operating request from an application, and a converter for converting the command provided by the operating system into a request which is to be converted into a command based on a communication protocol capable of handling the file system in communication with said recording or playback apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program and recording medium used therewith

An apparatus defines interleave-processing segments to be interleaved in a backward direction relative to a flow direction of bit streams. The segments are defined every time the segments, ILVU-BR, -CR, -DR are successfully set for each of the respective bit streams, VOB-B-VOB-D. In setting the segments for each of the respective bit streams, the segment of one bit stream is set to follow the set segment of other bit stream. When an amount of data of the rest of the bit streams is insufficient to form the final segment, the rest data is distributed among the segments that have been already defined. The defined segments are arranged in the flow direction of the bit streams.

Method and apparatus for interleave processing, and computer program product for interleave processing

A display apparatus and method for displaying a hue of a color signal so as to be readily understandable to an operator. Such apparatus and method utilizes a display having an indicator strip with a series of characters or letters indicating representative colors. Such indicator strip may also provide an indication of the positional relationships between adjacent colors. By displaying a position on the indicator strip, the display provides a readily identifiable indication of the hue so as to enable an ordinary person or unskilled operator to readily comprehend or grasp the hue.

Method and apparatus for displaying the hue of a signal by utilizing an

In a video signal recording apparatus, information about a video commercial program or message (CM) is recorded in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the video signal constituting the commercial message so that the information remains with the commercial program or message even during subsequent editing. Video signals representing a plurality of commercial messages and having respective information in the vertical blanking intervals are serially recorded on a master tape while generating stop code data and recording the stop codes in a longitudinal track on the master tape. Further, a video signal reproducing apparatus is described which can extract data from the VBI and longitudinal track of a tape, process the data and automatically terminate the reproduction after reproducing a stop code.

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Nagano, Japan

Kazuhisa Tsuchiya