Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Sharp Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Masafumi Takahashi

Azusa Umemoto

Takuya Kinoshita

Katsuo Doi

Tatsuo Sudo

Aya Enatsu

Masafumi Hirata

Soichi Nitta

Kiyotaka Kashito

Minehiro Konya

Yuji Ichikawa

Yohei Iwami

Mitsunori Nojima

Toru Ueda

Takashi Nishimura

Kazuyuki Sumi

Daisuke Nakano

Hirofumi Furukawa

Koji Sakai

Kazuhito Nagura

Hitoshi Naoe

Masaharu Nakatsuchi

Kumiko Yamaguchi

Kenji Mameda

Michihiro Ohno

Kentaro Sakakura

Hirohisa Wakai

Hideyuki Otokawa

Takashi Nakajima

Masaki Hasiura

Satoshi Eguchi

Toshihide Hagawa

A television () includes: an image data receiving section () for receiving, from the outside, image data storing therein process specifying information; and a controlling section () for controlling an image processing section () so as to carry out a process specified by the process specifying information stored in the received image data. Thus, it is possible to cause the television () to carry out the desired process by causing the television () to receive the image data including the process specifying information for specifying the process which should be carried out by the television ().

Operating system that includes an image data receiving device and an operation device for processing image data sets

A televisionof the present invention is a televisionfor processing display data and displaying an image based on the processed display data, the display data containing the image and a control script that defines at least a function of displaying the image, wherein the televisionincludes a basic function executing sectionfor executing a basic function program called from the control script, the basic function program being stored in a basic function program storage section; and a control script executing sectionfor controlling basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to perform a first function for displaying the image, the first function being defined by the control script, the control script further defines a second function which the televisionperforms while the image is being displayed by the first function, and the control script executing sectioncontrols the basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to execute the second function.

Image display apparatus, image data providing apparatus, and image display system providing a control script for executing basic functions

An electronic device () constitutes a remote control system () together with a remote control device () and at least one controlled device ('), and the electronic device () includes: a first reception section () that receives, from the remote control device, a direct command signal (&#x2032;) broadcasted to the electronic device and the controlled device; a second reception section () that receives, from the controlled device, an indirect command signal () having been generated by the controlled device according to the direct command signal having been received from the remote control device; and a control section () including signal selecting means () that selects one intended command signal to which a response is needed from a signal group according to a predetermined rule, the signal group consisting of the direct command signal having been received by the first reception section and the indirect command signal having been received by the second reception section. This makes it possible to properly select and process a signal to be followed in the electronic device where a plurality of command signals are redundantly supplied with respect to one command signal from the remote control device.

Electronic device, remote control system, signal processing method, control program and recording medium

A reproducing apparatus () of the present invention receives information of a WEB site from a service-providing server () that administrates the WEB site, and reproduces the information. The service-providing server () holds identification information () of a user of a portable communication apparatus () that is permitted to access the WEB site. The reproducing apparatus () includes: a data receiving section for receiving, from the portable communication apparatus (), invitation information (), identification information (), and transmission time point information (); a reproducing apparatus infrared communication section; a destination determination section that establishes a connection to the service-providing server () based on the received invitation information (), and transmits the invitation information (), the identification information (), and transmission-instruction time (); and a reproducing apparatus communication control section. This allows the administrative server to confirm an authorized destination, based on the content request information received from the portable communication apparatus, when a content is provided from the administrative server managing the content.

Reproducing apparatus, portable communication apparatus, administrative server, and content distribution system

A control section of a slideshow display device includes a display control section. The display control sectioncauses a list of thumbnails to be displayed when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a predetermined point in time. As such, when display delay occurs, a list of thumbnails can be displayed, instead of the target image. This realizes an image display device which prevents a user from being subject to stress when display delay occurs in slideshow display.

Image display device, image display method, image display system, image data transmitting device, program, and storage medium

A source devicetransmits streaming data. In a packet receiverof a sync device, statistical data acquirercalculates statistical data such as one-way delay time, packet loss ratio, reception rate and the like from the received streaming data and transmits it to the source device. The statistical information received by source deviceis extracted by a packet receiverand input to a channel band estimator. The channel band estimatorgives encoderinstructions to provide optimal encoding based on the transmission delay. Upon this, the transmission delay is calculated by assuming the minimum value of the communication delay from the start of transmission as zero. Control is performed by determining the delay time and packet loss ratio in data transmission and considering, based on these, the channel quality and bandwidth margin, so as to provide the optimal transmission bit rate or encoding rate.

Transmitter

When a content playback apparatus has detected a content data acquisition error in a process of acquiring title screen content serving as next content that is to be reproduced after top screen content, the content playback apparatus reproduces sub-content contained as error-handling information in the top screen content, and then displays an error screen. The error screen is contained as sub-content in the top screen content, and therefore can be changed flexibly. This makes it possible to provide a content playback apparatus capable of performing error handling flexibly in accordance with the content being reproduced.

Content playback apparatus, content playback method, and storage medium

A picture display apparatus, comprising: a synthesizing section for synthesizing divided screens to display a plurality of pictures on a single screen; a menu display section for displaying a menu in which a list of options is displayed, the options enabling a user to select a change to be made to at least one of a number, shapes, relative sizes, and relative positions of the divided screens and types of the pictures, so that the user can select from the options to switch to a corresponding screen arrangement; an icon display section for displaying an icon indicating a border between the divided screens in association with the options; and a border changing section for updating the divided screens according to a change in position of the border, wherein the icon display section displays the icon indicating a result of the change in position of the border before the border changing section updates the divided screens according to the change in position of the border. Thus, the user is informed of what the screen will look like before entering a change of the border.

Picture display apparatus with selectively divided screens, picture display method for selectively dividing screens, and storage medium

Upon receipt of operation entry for processing and editing a currently displayed slide, an operation information generating section generates operation information corresponding to this entry. An operation information reflecting section performs editing on the basis of the operation information and stores the operation information regarding the editing in a storage section. Upon receipt of slide data from the server device, the operation information reflecting section reads operation information of the past regarding this slide data, and generates a display screen in such a manner that editing corresponding to the read operation information is reflected in the received slide data. This makes it possible to display slide data stored in the server device on an image display device in a manner that a user wants, without increasing load on the server device.

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program image data transmission program, and storage medium storing an image data transmission program

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program, image data transmission program, and storage medium storing the image data transmission program

A transmission method according to the present invention is capable of transmitting and receiving a data signal and information signal among a plurality of devices by full-duplex operation, wherein, when the information signal consecutively repeats a single pattern, a different pattern is inserted between the same patterns before transmission thereof. This minimizes an adverse effect of crosstalk jitter over a transmission line susceptible to crosstalk, and reduces a margin between the transition and sampling point of a signal, thereby suppressing the cost of a CDR circuit.

Transmission method and transmission system as well as communications device

A data transmission apparatus includes a plurality of I/F (interface) units for converting data into a predetermined transmission format and transmitting it to an external device, a power source section for supplying electric power to the I/F sections, a control section for controlling the power source section, and detection sections are connected to the I/F units for outputting connection detecting signals to the control section. The control section outputs a power control signal to the power source section so as to operate in such a manner that when the control section has detected that at least one of the I/F sections is in a connecting state, the electric power is supplied to the I/F sections, and when the control section has detected that none of the I/F sections is in a connecting state, no electric power is supplied from the power source section to the I/F sections.

Control method or unit of a data transmission apparatus controlling the electric power supplied to all of the interface sections

A real-time processor includes a clock register updating a time at a predetermined interval, a time register storing an arbitrary time, a time comparator comparing the time in the clock register with the time stored in the time register, and an instruction processing unit executing an instruction whose execution status is altered according to the comparison result of the time comparator. A predetermined operation can be carried out correctly at a predetermined time since the instruction processing unit executes an instruction whose execution status is altered according to the comparison result of the time comparator.

Real-time processor executing predetermined operation defined by program correctly at predetermined time

A transmission method uses multiple kinds of control codes to be exchanged on a serial transmission path between a sender side and a receiver side, and each of the multiple kinds of control codes has bits smaller in number than a predetermined fixed length. The transmission method includes the steps of inspecting the received bit string in groups of bits of the number of the control code, and thereby determining whether one of the multiple kinds of control codes is present in the serial signal received on the serial transmission path or not, selecting the control code to be sent based on a result of the determination in the determining step, sending, onto the serial transmission path, a bit string containing at least the control code to be sent based on the result of the determination in the determining step, and receiving the data code by inspecting the received bit string in groups of bits of the fixed length in response to the detection of the control code indicating the start of transmission of the data from the opposite side in the determining step.

Transmission method and device

A multiprocessor device includes a plurality of cache devices connected to a plurality of processors respectively, a consistency control unit connected to the plurality of cache devices, and a main memory. The cache device caches data accessed by a processor connected to the cache device, manages the cached data on the basis of a memory block. When the consistency control unit issues a write back request of a memory block, the cache device transmits the memory block to the consistency control unit. The consistency control unit merges data in the memory block supplied from the cache and the merged memory block is stored in the main memory.

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Sakura, Japan

Masafumi Takahashi