Pioneer Corporation

Keiji Katata

Takeshi Koda

Masayoshi Yoshida

Masahiro Kato

Masahiro Miura

Eiji Muramatsu

Shoji Taniguchi

Kazuo Kuroda

Toshiro Tanikawa

Tsuyoshi Hasebe

Tsuyoshi Namiki

Shinji Suzuki

Yoshimi Tomita

Hiroshi Iwamura

Kazumi Sugaya

Masami Oishi

Hidejiro Higashi

Akihito Kajita

Kazuki Sakai

Kimio Matsusaka

Motoyasu Aoki

Kenichi Enoki

Takahiro Okoge

Tatsuhiko Ono

A terminal device used by a user of a vehicle includes a first input unit configured to receive a first user ID inputted by the user, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first user ID to a second server device operated by a service providing company, a receiving unit configured to receive service information from the second server device, the service information including provision information, the provision information indicating information to be provided from a first server device to the second server device from among information transmitted from a terminal device of the vehicle to the first server device, a storage unit configured to store the received service information, a second input unit configured to receive a use start instruction of the vehicle inputted by the user, and a second transmission unit configured to transmit the service information to the terminal device of the vehicle.

Server device, information processing method, program, and storage medium

A job request is transmission data transmitted from the vehicle cloud serverto the in-vehicle terminaland includes at least: data collection condition information and collection data designation information indicative of contents of a process to be performed by the in-vehicle terminal; and deletion prohibition flag indicative of prohibiting the in-vehicle terminalfrom deleting the job request under a predetermined condition.

Data structures, storage media, storage device and receiver

A moving body management device includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request signal (JR) transmitted by an information management device (); a generating unit configured to generate command information (JR) based on the request signal (JR); a first transmitting unit configured to transmit the command information (JR) to a plurality of moving bodies (); a second receiving unit configured to receive a reception result (UD) indicating that the moving bodies () have successfully received the command information (JR); a first counting unit configured to count, on a basis of the reception result (UD), the number of the moving bodies () which have successfully received the command information (JR); a third receiving unit configured to receive response information to the command information (JR); a second counting unit configured to count, on a basis of the response information, the number of moving bodies () that have transmitted the response information; and a second transmitting unit configured to moving body number information to information management device (), the moving body number information relating to the number of the moving bodies () which have successfully received the command information and the number of moving bodies () that have transmitted the response information.

Moving body management device, control method, program and storage media

An information recording apparatus recording disc structure definition information defining a structure of an optical disc, in management areas of the optical disc including a data area and the management areas positioned on inner and outer periphery sides of the data area, includes: a memory which stores disc structure definition information of a new version including an invalid mark which cannot be interpreted as the disc structure definition information by an information reproducing apparatus and an information recording/reproducing apparatus being non-adaptive; and a recording control element for, when the disc structure definition information of the new version is recorded in the management areas, controlling recording of the disc structure definition information of the new version so the invalid mark is positioned at a position in the management areas in which all or part of disc structure definition information of an old version without the invalid mark needs to be recorded.

Information recording apparatus, information recording method, and information recording/processing program

An information recording medium () of the present invention has a plurality of recording layers (, and) for recording therein data. Each of the plurality of recording layers corresponds to one of a plurality of recording formats. A first recording layer number (SLN) assigned with each of the recording layers in accordance with a disposed position of each of the recording layer and a second recording layer number (LLN) assigned with corresponding recording format are included in the address area () for the data, with respect to each of the plurality of recording layer.

Information recording medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproducing apparatus

An information recording medium () is provided with: a data recording area () to which one attribute, which corresponds to recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes is given in each of segmentized area units; and an address recording area () to record therein an address (AD-, AD-) of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data.

Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program

An information recording apparatus includes a first acquiring element that acquires both control information for controlling the order of recording or reproducing recorded information and virtual reference information that can be determined by the control information and by an address indicative of the position of a recording area in which the recorded information is recorded, a first converting element that converts the acquired control information and virtual reference information to first control information, a recording element that at least records the recorded information, a first control element that controls the recording element to record the converted first control information, a second acquiring element that acquires the recorded first control information, a second converting element that converts the acquired first control information to second control information having different attributes, and a second control element that controls the recording element to record the converted second control information.

Recording apparatus using control information and virtual reference information

An information recording medium (), provided with: a first recording layer (Llayer) and a second recording layer (Llayer) in each of which record information can be alternately recorded, at least one of the first recording layer and the second recording layer provided with: an anchor area (AP#to) which is to record therein anchor information (VRS, AVDP, VAT_ICB) and which is referred to in reading file system information () for controlling at least one of recording and reproduction of the record information; and an update area to update and record therein the anchor information.

Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program

An information recording apparatus () is provided with: a recording device () for recording data onto an information recording medium () being provided with a first recording layer (L) and a second recording layer (L); a first controlling device () for controlling the recording device to record the data into each of the first recording layer and the second recording layer; a forming device () for forming a compatibility area () for realizing reproduction compatibility of the information recording medium on an information recording apparatus, following the data recorded in each of the first recording layer and the second recording layer; and a second controlling device () for controlling the recording device to record the data into the formed compatibility area if the data is recorded after the compatibility area is formed.

Information recording apparatus and method, computer program

An information recording apparatus comprising: a writing device capable of writing record information onto an information recording medium comprising first and second recording layers; a first controlling device for controlling said writing device to continuously write the record information into the first and second recording layers; a second controlling device for controlling said writing device to write a predetermined amount of buffer data on an outer circumferential side of the record information written in the first and second recording layers; and a third controlling device for controlling said writing device to add buffer data on an outer circumferential side of the predetermined amount of buffer data.

Information recording device and method, and computer program

An information recording/reproducing device, wherein a power management mechanism for a serial ATA interface connecting between an optical disk drive and a host computer has a steady-state power mode (PHYRDY) and a power-saving mode (Partial state, Slumber state) to keep power consumption lower than the steady-state power mode, while a power management mechanism built into the optical disk drive has a steady-state power mode (active state) and a power-saving mode (inactive mode) to keep power consumption lower than the steady-state power mode. The optical disk drive controls transition of the power consumption modes of the power management mechanism for a serial ATA interface in accordance with current power consumption mode of its internal power management mechanism.

Information storage device, information recording/reproducing device, and power consumption management method

An information recording apparatus is for recording user data and recording management data onto an information recording medium being provided with: a first recording layer; and a second recording layer, each of the first recording layer and the second recording layer having a user data area to record therein at least the user data and a recording management area to record therein at least the recording management data for managing recording of the user data, the information recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device for dividing the recording management area into a plurality of recording management segments and for recording the recording management data into at least one of the plurality of recording management segments; and a first controlling device for controlling the recording device to dispose each of the plurality of recording management segments in a single recording layer.

A recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device for recording record data onto a recording medium, the record data including real-time data which is continuously recorded by a certain amount and management data which is to manage at least one of recording and reproduction of the real-time data; a verifying device for verifying whether or not the recorded record data is accurately recorded; and a first controlling device for controlling the verifying device so as to selectively verify whether or not the management data is accurately recorded, out of the recorded record data.

Recording device and method, and computer program

Disclosed is an information recording medium () comprising a first recording layer (L0 layer) which is provided with a first recording track for recording record information, and a second recording layer (L1 layer) which is provided with a second recording track for recording record information. Each recording zone (zone #n) including one recording area in the first recording layer and another recording area in the second recording layer which is opposite to the recording area in the first recording layer has a management information recording area (RMA) for recording management information (RMD) for recording the record information.

Information recording medium, apparatus and method for recording information, and computer program

An information recording apparatus () is provided with: a first recording device () for recording user data into a user data area () provided for an information recording medium (), with a data area attribute added; and a second recording device () for recording a marker () following an end edge portion of the recorded user data, with a predetermined flag bit set to a first value and with the data area attribute added, the flag bit indicating at least whether or not the marker is recorded.

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Keiji Katata