Sony Corporation

The Grass Valley Group, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Koji Matsuura

Hideki Asazu

Koichi Abe

Yasushi Okamoto

Shogo Tsubouchi

Kazuhito Sumiyoshi

Toshiyuki Sekiya

Kazuya Tateishi

Yasushi Tsuruta

Satoshi Higuchi

Kazuya Katsuki

Saki Yokoyama

Masatoshi Ohta

Yuki Fujikashi

There is provided an audio device including a control section configured to cause an audio signal to be output, the audio signal including a sound signal obtained through playback of content and a sound signal received from a communication partner device, and a sound processing section configured to generate an elimination signal obtained by eliminating a given sound signal from a microphone detection signal, which is the audio signal that is propagated and detected by a microphone. The control section causes the communication partner device to transmit the elimination signal.

Audio device, sound processing method, sound processing program, sound output method, and sound output program

A schedule-table presenting apparatus including: a schedule acquisition section configured to acquire a schedule including the broadcasting start time and a descriptive text describing each of the events; a schedule-table generation section configured to assign a specific one of the events to a first program frame and assign a plurality of events other than the specific event to a second program frame in order to generate a schedule table including the first program frame allocated to the specific event as a frame showing the broadcasting start time of the specific event as well as the descriptive text describing the specific event and the second program frame allocated to the other events as a frame showing the broadcasting start time of each of the other events; and a display control section configured to display the schedule table generated by the schedule-table generation section on a display section determined in advance.

Schedule-table presenting apparatus and schedule-table presenting method

In the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recommending contents. The information processing apparatus may include recommended content extracting means for, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, during a period within a predetermined time from a point in time at which the predetermined condition is satisfied, with one or more contents that are being distributed or whose distribution is to be started from one or more distribution sources, respectively, as processing objects, extracting a recommended content to be recommended to a user from the processing objects on a basis of content information on each of the processing objects and preference information.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

In the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recommending contents. The information processing apparatus may include recommendation information generating means for generating recommendation information for presenting a recommended content to be recommended to a user to the user, and when presenting the recommendation information to the user, changing a form of presentation of at least a part of the recommendation information.

A plurality of input image signals are synthesized to generate a synthesis signal on the basis of synthesis information indicating an area where input image signals which are image signals of an image composed of at least one of input moving images and still images are respectively synthesized, a motion vector of the synthesis signal is detected, a synthesis interpolation exclusion area is decided where the interpolation in the synthesis signal is not performed on the basis of the synthesis information and interpolation control information indicating an input interpolation exclusion area where the interpolation in the respective input image signals is not performed, and a synthesis signal in-between signal is interpolated and output which is an image signal at an arbitrary time between the synthesis signal and a previous synthesis signal on the basis of the motion vector in an area other than the synthesis interpolation exclusion area.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and program

A light measuring device is disclosed which can take in light from different portions of a plane light source efficiently to carry out measurement. The light measuring device for measuring light from a plane light source includes a spatial division device configured to carry out operation for successively taking in light from different portions of the plane light source. An optical condensing device condenses the light from the different portions of the plane light source taken in by the operation of the spatial division device. A detector receives the light condensed by the optical condensing device and outputs a signal corresponding to the received light.

Light measuring device and scanning optical system

A non-linear video edit system has first, second and third play modes which are selectable at time of playing a video for an edit. In the first play mode (EP TRIM), it plays a first cut scene (scene A) before an edit point and plays a second cut scene (scene B) after the edit point according to a play list. In the second play mode (PREV TRIM), it successively plays the first cut scene (scene A) before and after the edit point. In the third play mode (NEXT TRIM), it successively plays the second cut scene (scene B) before and after the edit point. These play modes allows to change the play speed in an arbitrary direction by a dial, and to switch the play mode with one touch of the corresponding three buttons with aligning current positions.

Non-linear video edit system

When a played scene of a VCR (sequential access recorder) ( ) is overwritten or added to the play list derived from the cut edit of the video scenes already stored in a disk (random access recorder) ( ) according to the first instruction of a user, a selector ( ) switches the play output of the disk following the play list and said played scene of the VCR to provide it to a monitor ( A) so that the user can confirm the edit result during the recording in real time. If there is the second instruction (VIEW instruction) during the recording, it plays the same edit result of the disk ( ) again based on the renewed temporary play list to provide it to the monitor ( A) without interrupting the recording. On this occasion, it approves the user to change the play speed and stops advancing the play if the user try to play beyond the recorded point. Then, the user can confirm the recorded video portion without waiting the completion of the recording and without interrupting the recording even during the recording from the external VCR.

A semiconductor memory device of present invention has a memory cell, a sense amplifier which amplifies data of the memory cell, first IO line connected to the sense amplifier, and second IO line which is connected to first IO line through a switch, wherein the second IO line is arranged on the memory cell.

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Tokyo, Japan

Koji Matsuura