Sony Corporation

Makoto Urushihara

Yukio Ichikawa

Takashi Ohkubo

Hideyuki Agata

Keisuke Hiroi

Yoshiyuki Takao

Yasuo Nakano

Yukinobu Mine

A transmission device encodes content data, divides the encoded content data into a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and transmits the pieces to, through a plurality of uploaders and a plurality of networks corresponding to the plurality of uploaders, a distribution device configured to perform content distribution.

Transmission device, transmission method, and content distribution system

High image quality real-time distribution of omnidirectional images is enabled. An imaging unit obtains a front image and a back image each having an ultra-wide viewing angle of greater than or equal to 180&#xb0;. A transmission unit transmits the front image and the back image each having the ultra-wide viewing angle to an external device. For example, the imaging unit includes: a first imager that captures a front-side image taken in by a fisheye lens to obtain a front image having an ultra-wide viewing angle; and a second imager that captures a back-side image taken in by a fisheye lens to obtain a back image having an ultra-wide viewing angle, in which the second imager is arranged in a state of being rotated by 90&#xb0; with respect to the first imager, the first imager captures the front-side image taken in by the fisheye lens in a state where the upper end side and the lower end side of the front-side image are partially missing, and the second imager captures the back-side image taken in by the fisheye lens in a state where the left end side and the right end side of the back-side image are partially missing.

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, reception method, and imaging device

A management device includes a storage management unit configured to store, in a storage unit in accordance with a priority, a plurality of pieces of transmission data having corresponding time information among a plurality of pieces of transmission data generated by dividing a plurality of pieces of content data each encoded for a channel.

Management device and management method

An information processing apparatus is configured to execute a sequence of processing operations for recording video data recorded to a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format, without user's manual intervention. Any one of three settings is provided in accordance with total time Tx of data to be written to a DVD: a first setting in which a maximum value of image bit rate (first value B) and a maximum value of audio bit rate (second value B) are used; a second setting in which a first value of image bit rate and a third value Bof audio bit rate are used; and a third setting in which a fourth value of image bit rate determined on the basis of a line and the third value Bof audio bit rate are used. The information processing apparatus may be an apparatus for recording the data recorded to a digital cassette video tape to a DVD.

Information processing device and program

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a program for executing a sequence of processing operations including the recording of video data recorded to a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format without user's manual intervention. If the information processing apparatus determines that the recording time of a frame just reproduced by a predetermined reproduction device is earlier than the recording time of a frame reproduced by said reproduction device immediately before the above-mentioned frame (step S) or an unrecorded area has been reproduced by the reproduction device for more than a predetermined period of time (step S), the information processing apparatus stops the acquisition of the data recorded to a digital video tape reproduced by the reproduction device (step S), thereby stopping the reproduction of the digital video tape (step S). The present invention is applicable to information processing apparatus for recording data from digital cassette video tape to DVD, for example.

Information processing apparatus for automatically recording video data from a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a retrieving element for retrieving storage medium information and image data information from a memory formed integrally with a storage medium having image data recorded thereon; a recording element for recording to a database the image data information in conjunction with the storage medium information, the image data information having been retrieved by the retrieving element; and a displaying element for displaying the storage medium information and the image data information recorded by the recording element.

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Makoto Urushihara