Sony Corporation

Keiji Kanota

Yukio Kubota

Hajime Inoue

Takahito Seki

Naofumi Yanagihara

Masaki Oguro

Tadashi Ezaki

Akira Shimazu

Noboru Murabayashi

Makoto Yamada

Junichi Yokota

Toshimichi Nagashima

Nobuko Fujii

Tadao Yoshida

Teruhiko Kori

Satoshi Tsuchiya

Kaname Ogawa

Hajime Yano

Hiroshi Jinno

Toyomi Fujino

Hiroaki Oishi

Akihiro Uetake

Shunji Okada

Hiroshi Fukuda

Moriyuki Kawaguchi

Masahiko Sato

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Ryogo Ito

Tetsujiro Kondo

Hisato Shima

Hiroshi Okada

Shinichi Hasegawa

Toshihiro Ishizaka

Osamu Date

Katsuhiko Watanabe

Kenichiro Imai

Yoichirou Senshu

Kazunobu Chiba

Hirofumi Todo

Heikichi Sato

Fumihiko Kaise

Seiichi Ogata

Hiroshi Shimono

Shinichi Suenaga

Michio Nagai

Takuji Shimoda

Kiminori Sugisaki

Iwao Abe

Ko Kobayashi

Atsuo Okamoto

Kunihiko Take

Naoki Honda

Osamu Matsumura

Takahashi Seki

An information processing apparatus may generate resource information used for playing back image content that can be divided into a plurality of zones. The information processing apparatus may include an image generator generating a still image from each of the plurality of zones, a face processor setting each of the plurality of zones to be a target zone and determining whether a face of a specific character which is determined to continuously appear in at least one zone before the target zone is contained in the still image generated from the target zone, and an information generator specifying, on the basis of a determination result obtained for each of the plurality of zones by the face processor, at least one zone in which the face of the specific character continuously appears as a face zone, and generating information concerning the face zone as one item of the resource information.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

An information processing apparatus may control display of a GUI image including indexes that allow a user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece. The information processing apparatus may include a controller configured to control display of a first GUI image including an index of each of at least one image content piece, and to control a display of a second GUI image including face thumbnail images, which serve as indexes that allow the user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece corresponding to an index selected from the first GUI image by the user, the face thumbnail images corresponding to faces detected from the entirety or part of the image content piece.

A broadcasting systemprovides a digital content to be broadcast with an attribute vector A thereof. A filteris assigned with a selection vector S indicating user's taste. The filterperforms a standardized inner product operation between the selection vector S and the attribute vector A for selecting and recording broadcast programs. 

Broadcasting system and reception apparatus

A video signal is processed to selectively permit copying by superposing in that portion of the video signal which does not contain useful picture information a copyright information signal indicative of whether the viewable picture that is displayed from the video signal is subject to copyright and a copy generation signal indicative of the number of successive generations of copies that can be made from the video signal.

Copy control for a video signal with copyright signals superimposed as predetermined bits in the VBID data of the video signal

The present invention relates to a recoding apparatus and a recording method, a playback apparatus and a playback method, a recording/playback apparatus and a recording/playback method, and a program, whereby processing relating to a file can be readily performed. With a video camera wherein with regard to H.264/AVC for example, which is a coding method arranged to encode or decode data, a codec class arranged to classify the performance of a codec configured to encode or decode data, and a codec level serving as a group of said one or more codec classes whose upper compatibility is ensured, are based on stipulated specifications, data is encoded into, for example, coded data of a codec class #, for example, within a codec level AVC_A by H.264/AVC. The coded data is recorded in a recording medium, for example, as a file 'AVCA0001.MP4' whose file name represents the codec level AVC_A of the coded data. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a video camera from which a recording medium can be detachable.

Recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, recording/playback apparatus and recording/playback method, and program

Copy control, for a video signal with copyright signals superimposed as predetermined bits in the VBID data of the video signal

The broadcast stationprovides the digital contents to be put on the air with the attributive information of the digital contents thereof. The selective information showing the user's taste is set out in the filter unit. The filter unitfilters the attributive information on the basis of the selective information to select the digital contents which suits the user's taste among the digital contents which were put on the air. According to the broadcast station, the user may listen and view the selected digital contents after recording the digital contents in the recording medium, or the user may listen and view the digital contents which suits the user's taste among the digital contents which were put on the air.

Broadcasting system and receiving apparatus

A broadcasting systemprovides a digital content to be broadcast with an attribute vector A thereof. A filteris assigned with a selection vector S indicating user's taste. The filterperforms a standardized inner product operation between the selection vector S and the attribute vector A for selecting and recording broadcast programs.()() 

A recording device which records data onto a recording medium includes a nonvolatile memory storing and holding data on a free capacity of the recording medium, and a control unit controlling the data recording. The control unit determines the free-capacity data stored in the nonvolatile memory based on the total capacity of the recording medium when power is turned on. When the determination result indicates that a value of the free-capacity data stored in the nonvolatile memory does not exceed a value of the total capacity of the recording medium, the control unit records the data onto the recording medium with reference to the free-capacity data. When the power is turned off, the control unit updates the free-capacity data so as to reduce the value of the free-capacity data by as much as an amount of the data recorded onto the recording medium.

Recording device, recording-medium-management method, program of recording-medium-management method, and recording medium recording program of recording-medium-management method

A video signal receiver receives a plurality of video channels simultaneously carrying, offset by a transmission interval, a single video program, selects one channel from which to obtain the program for display to a user, and achieves a pause function in the display of the transmitted video program by temporarily storing a segment of the video program equal to the length of the transmission interval and obtaining the remainder of the program at a later time from the same or another channel.

Near video-on-demand signal receiver

An information recording method and apparatus and an information reproducing method and apparatus in which AV data can be recorded or reproduced temporally continuously without producing fragmentation. To this end, the apparatus includes a storage unitat least including a management information region and a user data region made up of plural logical blocks, and a recording unitfor continuously recording information signals from a recording start logical block to a recording end logical block in the user data region of the storage unitand again recording information signals from the recording start logical block.

Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus

Information processing equipment is so constructed that the power consumption of a disk drive for hard disks, optical disks, or the like can be reliably and sufficiently reduced. The host CPU () of an information processing unit () forms a command for changing the power consumption mode of a HDD () based on the state of control on the HDD (). The host CPU supplies the command to the HDD () through a media controller (). When the HDD () accepts the command, it changes its power consumption mode according to the instruction from the information processing unit. Thus, the information processing unit can control the power consumption mode of the HDD () based on the state of control on the HDD ().

Information processing equipment and power consumption control method

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