Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Masatoshi Miyoshi

Makoto Takemoto

Makoto Imagawa

Kanji Imanishi

Shinichi Toge

Yoshikazu Fujita

Eiji Nakata

Yoshinobu Imoto

Ryuji Ikeda

Masahito Teraoka

A control apparatus is connected to a server device storing content and to a playback device, and controls playback of the content at the playback device. The control apparatus includes a receiver that receives the content from the server device, and a controller that transmits to the playback device information about a first playback position in the content received by the receiver.

Control apparatus

An information device is provided that includes a communication component and a controller. The communication component communicates with an external device. The controller downloads video data from the external device through the communication component. The controller performs processing for playing the video data. The controller executes an application for playing the downloaded video data. The controller sends a download request for each divided video data, with the divided video data being obtained by dividing up the video data.

Information device and distribution device

A video recording/playing device includes a trending word acquiring portion that acquires, from the Internet, a trending word for which a search frequency is rising, and a program information searching portion that searches a program information database for program information that includes the trending word.

Video recording/playing device and program searching method

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Osaka, Japan

Masatoshi Miyoshi