Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kunihiro Minoshima

Hidemi Usuba

Sho Murakoshi

Kinya Ono

Makoto Matsumaru

Seiichi Hasebe

Akihiro Tozaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Takehiko Shioda

Shinsuke Nishimura

Akira Tojima

Junichi Shirakawa

Syuji Daioku

Nobuo Kusumoto

Toru Ueda

Masao Higuchi

Ryuichiro Morioka

Kinya Ohno

Junichi Yoshio

Tsuyoshi Hasebe

Tsutomu Takahashi

Azusa Umemoto

Hiroaki Shibuki

Akihiro Azuma

Gaku Yamamura

Kazutomo Watanabe

Myrine Maekawa

Yasuyuki Noda

Katsutoshi Inagaki

Tetsuya Tenma

Yoshitaka Tanaka

Yasuo Shirosaki

A mobile phone () in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (); a transmission setting section () for registering, on the transmission setting database (), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section () for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (), the image data transmitting section () transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device. Therefore, according to a data transmission device in accordance with the present invention, it is possible to transmit a desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device without forcing a user to again carry out operation of transmitting the piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device, even in a case where the user cannot transmit the desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device.

Data transmission device, data transmission method, data communication system, program, and recording medium

A mobile phone () of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section () configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section () for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section () and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section () for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (), and a mobile phone notification section () notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.

Notification device, notification system, method for controlling notification device, and computer readable recording medium having a control program recorded thereupon

It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section () for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (); and a line communication section () for carrying out data communication with the communication device (), and an address sending section () for sending, to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (), first identification information for identifying the communication device (); a position receiving section () for receiving position information from the communication device () via the line communication section (); a position sending section () for sending the position information to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); a message receiving section () for receiving a message from the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); an address adding section () for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (); and a message sending section () for sending, to the communication device () via the line communication section (), the message to which the second identification information is added.

Communication device, information presentation device, communication method, program, and recording medium

There are provided the controlling methods of the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus, which cancel the flow control to execute the normal reproduction by the user who looks at the warning display or in response to the reception of the flow control cancel signal from the receiver side. Otherwise, there are provided the controlling methods of the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus, which cancel the flow control reception to execute the normal reception without the buffer if the contents with the video is reproduced.

Transmitting apparatus and control method therefor and receiving apparatus and control method therefor

A relay device and the like are provided which are capable of easily transmitting/receiving information among information processors connected on buses whose information transmission standards are different from each other. A bridge Bfor connecting buses BSand BSwhose information transmission standards are different from each other includes: an operation unit () for performing an operation of instructing an operation of an apparatus connected to any of the buses BS; a message generatorfor generating a control message corresponding to the instructed operation; and a packet transmitter/receiver () for transmitting the generated control message to a target apparatus via the bus BS to which the target apparatus is connected.

Relay device, relay method, and information recording medium

A method for reserving recording and viewing a broadcast program on a display screen includes the steps of extracting a broadcast program timetable; simultaneously displaying the broadcast program timetable and a viewing reservation timetable; waiting for a selection input to select a broadcast program on the display screen; waiting for an allocation input to allocate a selected program into the viewing reservation timetable; and generating recording instruction to instruct recording of the selected program and reproduction reservation instruction to instruct reproduction of the selected program at a time corresponding to a position at which the selected program is allocated in the viewing reservation timetable.

Program recording and viewing reservation system and method thereof

At each node of the data transmission/reception system of the present invention on a bus of an IEEE 1394, the following operations are sequentially performed: necessary initialization at the time of bus resetting; and GUID acquisition, restoration of Broadcast-out connection, restoration of Broadcast-in connection, and restoration of Point-to-point connection according to a restoration connection queue registering an execution order of respective connection restoration operations if there is a PENDING status of each connection before a passage of a predetermined time, after the bus resetting. Moreover, the restoration of each connection is subdivided into a plurality of processing steps when necessary, and controlled to select a proper processing step.

Data transmission/ reception system, connection restoring method and information transmission/ reception apparatus

Data transmission/reception system, connection establishing method and information transmission/reception apparatus

An audio information reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio information on a recording medium, which can be connected with a bus. In the medium reproducing control information for controlling a reproducing mode of the audio information and the audio information are recorded. The reproducing control information has an amount of information larger than that capable of being inserted into one information unit formed during transmission via the bus. In the apparatus a detecting device detects the audio information and the reproducing control information from the medium. Then, a generating device generates corresponding information indicating a corresponding relationship between the audio information and the reproducing control information. Then, an outputting device forms transmission information including a plurality of the information units including at least any one out of among the audio information, the corresponding information, and one portion of the reproducing control information and outputs the transmission information to the bus.

Audio information reproducing system, audio information reproducing apparatus and audio information reproducing method

There is provided a phase locked state detecting apparatus for accurately detecting whether or not a phase locked state is canceled, the phase locked state detecting apparatus includes a comparatorfor comparing a phase of a processing clock signal Smc generated by a phase locked loop for use in an information processing with a phase of a reference clock signal Src; an edge counterfor detecting a change of a frequency of the processing clock signal Smc; and a CPUfor judging to based on a phase comparison result whether or not the processing clock signal Smc is in the phase locked state with respect to the reference clock signal Src, and subsequently judging based on a detection result of the frequency change whether or not the phase locked state is canceled.

Phase locked state detecting apparatus and image processing apparatus

A reception interface unit in a transmission system wherein time series data is divided into data groups and a data packet with reproduction specification time data specifying a time at which each data piece in the data groups should be reproduced, added to the data groups is transmitted on a transmission bus in a time division manner. The interface unit has a cycle timer for counting the reference time of the home device based on the reference time on the transmission bus, a unit for extracting the reproduction specification time data in the data groups from a signal received via the transmission bus and storing the reproduction specification time data in a buffer, a reception buffer for inputting and storing the data pieces in the data groups in order and reading out the data pieces in the storage order responsive to a reproduction clock, a match detector for generating a reference clock pulse if the reference time of the home device matches the reproduction specification time, and a PLL circuit being responsive to the reference clock pulse for generating a clock signal which is phase synchronized with the reference clock pulse as the reproduction clock. When the reference time on the transmission bus changes, the data stored in the buffer in the reproduction specification time data extraction unit and the data stored in the reception buffer are all deleted.

Reception interface unit in transmission system

A receiving apparatus constructed to store data received from a network in a buffer and read the data in the buffer based on a reference clock, has a detecting means for detecting change of a sampling frequency of the data, a first controlling means for controlling to stop writing of the data into the buffer and reading of the data from the buffer in response to an output of the detecting means, a clearing means for clearing the data in the buffer in response to the output of the detecting means, a clock changing means for changing a frequency of the reference clock in response to the output of the detecting means, and a second controlling means for controlling to restart the writing of the data into the buffer and the reading of the data from the buffer in response to the output of the detecting means.

Receiving apparatus and flow control method therefor and transmitting apparatus and flow control method therefor

A transmission managing apparatus included in an information transmitting system comprising a communication bus (B), an indicating device (NI), which has a transmission state memory () for storing a channel used for an information transmission executed in a time division manner on the communication bus and a transmission occupation period occupied for the information transmission, for indicating the channel and the transmission occupation period and an information processing apparatus (N) for reserving a non-used channel and a preservable period, while referring to a memory content of the transmission state memory.

Transmission managing apparatus for managing a transmission state of information

An information transmitting apparatus is included in a system for transmitting information through a bus (B), for transmitting the information onto the bus. The information transmitting apparatus is provided with: an initialization detecting device ( ) for detecting whether or not the bus is initialized; an obtaining device ( ) for obtaining post-initialization information, which is the information transmitted on the bus immediately after an initialization of the bus when the initialization of the bus is detected by the initialization detecting device; and a transmission controlling device ( ) for judging whether or not transmission information, which is the information to be transmitted onto the bus, can be transmitted in accordance with the obtained post-initialization information, and then transmitting the transmission information onto the bus if it is judged that the transmission information can be transmitted.

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Kunihiro Minoshima