Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Kensuke Satoh

Takuya Nishimura

Hisashi Tsuji

Kiyoshi Uchimura

Hirokazu Tamano

Mitsujiro Matsumoto

A receiving terminal includes a data acquiring unit which acquires from the content server information that is required for the export of the content and that includes information about a capability required for the receiving terminal and information about a capability required for the removable medium. A propriety judgment unit compares the information about the capability required for the receiving terminal with information about a capability the receiving terminal possesses, compares the information about the capability required for the removable medium with information about a capability the removable medium possesses, and judges whether or not the export processing of the content can be performed. A control unit makes a processing relevant to a purchase of the content or to the export of the content perform, according to a judgment result by the propriety judgment unit.

Receiving terminal, and content exporting method

A method and apparatus for recording/reproducing video signals on or from storage media. A video signal is divided into k video blocks in a time-axis direction, wherein k is an integer not less than 2, finding a block skip interval s which is an integer satisfying an equation s=(pk+1)/n when p is an integer not less than 1 and n is an integer not less than 2. The k video blocks are interleaved in order of

Method and apparatus for recording or reproducing video data on or from

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Osaka, Japan

Kensuke Satoh