Sony Corporation

Makoto Tabuchi

Shinichi Morishima

Masakazu Murata

Kazuo Kamiyama

Ichiro Fujisawa

Hiroshi Masuda

Junichi Onodera

Toru Eto

Yoshizo Mihara

Yoshiharu Yamashita

Tatsuo Tsukida

Koichi Sato

Koji Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Masuda

Shigeya Yasui

Ryoko Amano

Susumu Ijichi

Kashu Takahashi

Yoichiro Asato

Ryuji Takenouchi

Kaori Kashimoto

Hajime Yoshimasu

Kayoko Yamasaki

An information processing apparatus is provided including a first display control unit for controlling display of an area to which to paste an image representing a content and selected to start reproduction of the content. A second display control unit displays a list of images when a display instruction to display the list of the images is given. Under control of the first display control unit, one screen including a different number of layers according to a category of data created in the area to which to paste the image is displayed in the area.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

A data recording and reproducing apparatus has facilities for recording and reproducing, inputting and outputting, and editing data and can perform edits by itself. The data recording and reproducing apparatus records AV data inputted from an input port on HDDs by using a recorder and reproducer, and outputs data reproduced from HDDs by the recorder and reproducer through an output port. In an editor inputted is data inputted from outside and data reproduced by the recorder and reproducer. The editor performs edits on at least either of the data above by using a matrix switcher and an audio mixer provided therein. A special effector is utilized as necessary. The editor can output data obtained through editing processing to a switch.

Data recording and reproducing apparatus and data editing method

When second material data is inserted into first material data, in point and out point are set in the first material data and the second material data to generate editing processing information. On the basis of the editing processing information, there are prepared first virtual file in which recording area of recording medium with respect to the first material data is described by time codes and second virtual file in which recording area of the recording medium with respect to the second material data is described by time codes. Thus, reproduction is carried out from preroll point positioned forward in point of time with respect to the in point up to postroll point positioned backward in point of time with respect to the out point.

Data recording/reproducing apparatus and method

A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other data on a limited display area without detracting from viewability. To this end, the apparatus recording and/or reproducing includes a unit for recording and/or reproducing data for a non-linear accessible recording medium, at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port and the output port time-divisionally access the recording and/or reproducing unit to process the data inputted to the input port to output the processed data to the recording and/or reproducing a unit. The data reproduced from the recording and/or reproducing unit is processed by and outputted from the output port. The apparatus also includes a port actuation button for selecting the input and output ports, an actuation selection button for selecting recording or playback for the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button, and a controller for performing control so that the recording operation or the playback operation as selected by the actuation selection button will be executed by the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for detecting and displaying audio signal levels of input and output and ports

A data recording/reproduction apparatus and a data recording/reproduction method according to the invention can effectively and economically utilize the limited resource of hard discs when editing files by defining the editing points on a plurality of data recorded on a non-linearly reproducible recording medium.

Data recording/reproduction apparatus and data recording/reproduction method

A data recording and reproducing apparatus having a recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing data containing video data and/or audio data to and from a record medium that is non-linearly accessible and a plurality of input and output processing means for accessing the recording and reproducing means in respectively assigned time slot periods, outputting the data that is output from the outside to the recording and reproducing means, and inputting the data from the recording and reproducing means is disclosed, that comprises an operating means for performing at least a record operation for causing the data to be recorded to the record medium and a reproduction operation for causing the data to be reproduced from the record medium, and a displaying means for displaying the data that is input to and that is output from the plurality of input and output means, wherein the operating means and the displaying means are integrally structured.

Data recording and reproducing apparatus and data displaying method

A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a unit for recording and/or reproducing data for a non-linear accessible recording medium, at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port and the output port time-divisionally access the recording and/or reproducing unit to process the data inputted to the input port to output the processed data to the recording and/or reproducing a unit. The data reproduced from the recording and/or reproducing unit is processed by and outputted from the output port. The apparatus also includes a port actuation button for selecting the input and output ports, an actuation selection button for selecting recording or playback for the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button, and a controller for performing control so that the recording operation or the playback operation as selected by the actuation selection button will be executed by the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button.

DATA RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, ADJUSTMENT VOLUME IN DATA RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, PORT OPERATING METHOD IN DATA RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND SELECTIVE INDICATING METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT VOLUME IN DATA RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING

The A/V server manages data to be edited in the form of edit data pages (will be referred to as &ldquo;page&rdquo; herebelow) and program as a collection of the pages. The page data include recorder- and player-side device names, file names and edition points per page. The data in all the pages are collected as a program. A page number to identify each page is represented by a sequence of information assigned in the produced order in each page. The A/V server changes only the page number in the temporal order of the IN points in the destination data and produces a program in which the page data are re-arranged. Also when re-accessing near the same material data recorded in a VTR, the A/V server accesses data recorded in the HDD, not in the VTR.

Data recording/playback apparatus, data editing apparatus and data recording method

Computer generated image for a display panel or screen

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Tabuchi