Sony Corporation

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Yoshiaki Shibata

Junzo Tokunaka

Fumihiro Nagasawa

Takayoshi Kawamura

Hideki Ando

Kazuo Endo

Kotaro Kashiwa

Hirofumi Murakami

Hiroaki Deguchi

Nobuhiro Kotaka

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Masaki Hirose

Toru Suzuki

Kenji Nakano

Shinichi Morishima

Takao Suzuki

Yoshihiro Murakami

Hisao Tanaka

Yujiro Ito

Minoru Kawahara

Sensaburo Nakamura

Fumiaki Henmi

Noboru Oya

Tadahiko Nakamura

Tetsuo Kani

Takuji Moriya

Kazuo Ido

Masaaki Sakai

Akimitsu Hio

Kenji Hyodo

Masataka Mukai

A unit video representing device, which includes an input section inputting unit video information being information about unit video as an animation, a display section, a control section causing the display section to execute display representing contents of the unit video, on the basis of the unit video information inputted by the input section, and a self information notifying section capable of causing an external editing console to recognize self information when the self unit video representing device is placed on the editing console.

Unit video representing device, editing console, editing system, and animation editing method

An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input video data, a setting unit configured to set a progressing speed of the video data that is inputted, an interpolation processing unit configured to perform interpolation processing corresponding to the progressing speed that is set, with respect to the video data that is inputted, and an imparting unit configured to impart a time code to all frames constituting interpolated video data that is obtained as a result of the interpolation processing.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and program

Disclosed is a memory card attached to an external apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via the external apparatus and an optical communication. The memory card includes a power-supply potential unit receiving electric power supply at a predetermined voltage from the external apparatus; a ground potential unit connected to a ground potential unit of the external apparatus; a light-receiving unit receiving an optical signal transmitted from the external apparatus or another memory card; and a light-emitting unit transmitting the optical signal to the external apparatus or another memory card. In the memory card, the light-receiving unit and the light-emitting unit are arranged such that the signal received by the light-receiving unit and the signal transmitted from the light-emitting unit are transmitted in a straight line.

Memory card, imaging apparatus, and recording/reproducing apparatus

A video signal processing apparatus includes a user interface unit, a gamma correction value calculating unit, and a gamma correction value storage unit. The user interface unit receives a designation of values of at least three points that form a gamma curve used during gamma correction of a video signal. The gamma correction value calculating unit calculates gamma correction values by substituting coefficients, obtained by an approximation calculation carried out on the values of the at least three points, whose designation is received by the user interface unit, into an exponential function using the coefficients as parameters. The gamma correction value storage unit stores the gamma correction values calculated by the gamma correction value calculating unit and is operable when an indication confirming the gamma correction values has been received from the user, to output the gamma correction values to a gamma correction unit carrying out processing for gamma correction.

Apparatus, method and computer readable storage medium outputting a processed signal having corrected gamma values to a location based on a user indication

A first recording apparatus acquires first data and records the first data in a first recording unit, transmits to a second recording apparatus first priority information which is information relating to priority data representing priority of recording the first data to the second recording apparatus, receives second priority information which is information relating to priority data representing priority of recording second data acquired at the second recording apparatus which is transmitted from the second recording apparatus, determines priority data of the first recording apparatus and the second recording apparatus, based on the first priority information and the second priority information, and transfers the first data to the second recording apparatus, based on the priority data of the second recording apparatus, if the recording capacity of the first recording unit falls below a stipulation value corresponding to the priority data of the first recording apparatus.

Recording apparatus and recording method, program, and recording system

In an information processing apparatus that stores data on a plurality of storage media, a management information generator generates management information based on which to manage an order in which data is stored on the storage media, using storage medium identification information identifying each storage medium, and a multiplexer multiplexes the management information generated by the management information generator on the data. A storage unit stores the data, including the management information multiplexed by the multiplexer, on the storage media such that the data can be easily managed and the storage media can be used in a very convenient manner.

Method, apparatus and program for processing information

Disclosed is an apparatus, a method, and a program for processing information, applicable to a record playback system etc. wherein a control unit provides information regarding an input imaging record mode inputted by a user to a rate information creation unit; the rate information creation unit creates rate information based on the information and provides the rate information to a record unit; the record unit records the rate information etc. onto an optical disc as being controlled by the control unit; a playback unit is controlled by a control unit to read out the rate information recorded on the optical disc and provide it to a rate information determination unit; the rate information determination unit determines a processing mode at each unit based on the rate information and provides the information to the control unit; and the control unit controls the playback unit, an image audio processing unit, and an output unit based on this information.

Apparatus, method, and program for processing information

The present invention relates to a recording control apparatus and a recording control method which can improve the convenience of a storage medium and also to a program and a storage medium. Image annulus data or audio annulus data having a first data amount in accordance with a data amount required for reproduction for first reproduction time and low-resolution annulus data or frame-meta annulus data having a second data amount in accordance with a data amount required for reproduction for a second reproduction time that is different from the first reproduction time are recorded on an optical disk so that the data are periodically arranged. The image annulus data or the audio annulus data is extracted from a data series of corresponding video data or audio data. The low-resolution annulus data or the frame-meta annulus data is extracted from a data series of low-resolution that is video data having a less data amount or a series of frame metadata. Clip metadata generated in accordance with the frame metadata is recorded at random independently of those data. The present invention is applicable to a disk drive apparatus.

Recording control device and method, program, and recording medium

An editing apparatus for performing editing in which a second video is added to or inserted into a first video, includes: an editing unit performing the editing; a generating unit generating a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of the first video, as an edited video electronic mark, which is an electronic mark indicating characteristics of an edited video obtained as the result of the editing; a detecting unit detecting, of the first electronic marks, a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of a first video corresponding to an editing section, as an invalid electronic mark; and a deleting unit deleting the invalid electronic mark from the edited video electronic marks.

Editing apparatus, editing method, and program

An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein setting data to be used in image pickup can be set precisely to perform desired image pickup. The information processing apparatus may include a recording control section configured to control recording of image data obtained by image pickup and setting data used in the image pickup, and a reproduction section configured to reproduce the setting data. The information processing apparatus may further include an acceptance section configured to accept a variation amount to a value corresponding to the setting data inputted by a user, and a variation section configured to vary the setting data reproduced by the reproduction section based on the variation amount accepted by the acceptance section. The recording control section may control recording of the setting data varied by the variation section. The invention can be applied typically to a personal computer.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method as well as program

A video program production system of efficiently and flexibly producing a video program. For viewing, a composition table providing apparatus provides each terminal with composition table data in which items required for the production of the video program are arranged and a variety of information is described in the items. Each terminal, namely, each terminal of each work group is permitted to view the composition table data. Each work group views the composition table data any time in time of need, and the work group can learn the content, described in the composition table data, such as instructions for work, and work results of other groups. Based on the content, the work group performs required jobs.

Video program creation system, table providing device, terminal device, terminal processing method, program, recording medium

A drive apparatus that handles and operates a recording medium attached with a memory tag, the drive apparatus include: a recording medium mounting part on which the recording medium is mounted; an information readout part configured to read information out of a memory tag attached to a recording medium before the recording medium is mounted on the recording medium mounting part; a determining part configured to determine whether the recording medium can be handled and operated based on the information read out by the information readout part; and an informing part configured to inform a determined result determined by the determining part.

Drive apparatus, method of informing possibility of handling and operating recording medium, control method of handling and operating recording medium, and recording medium

A reproduction device reproducing data by reading data recorded in a recording medium and buffering the read data to a predetermined buffer. The reproduction device includes: a setting unit setting a countdown time; a determination unit determining whether or not the countdown time is equal to or more than a minimum reproduction delay time; a requirement unit requiring a change of the countdown time when it is determined that the countdown time is less than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination; and a countdown unit performing countdown from a time before the countdown time earlier than a time at which reproduction of the data is started when it is determined the countdown time is equal to or more than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination unit.

Device, method, and program for reproducing data following a countdown

A video signal processing apparatus capable of flexibly handling metadata having various notation formats is provided. The video signal processing apparatus has metadata notation format identification block for identifying a metadata notation format written in a predetermined language; a conversion table selection block for selecting a conversion table corresponding to the identified metadata notation format from among one or more conversion tables prepared in advance; a metadata notation format conversion block for converting the metadata notation format into a notation format compatible with the video signal processing apparatus on the basis of the selected conversion table; and a metadata application processing block for controlling the processing associated with video signals on the basis of the metadata whose notation format has been converted.

Video signal processor, video signal recorder, video signal reproducer, video signal processor processing method, video signal recorder processing method, video signal reproducer processing method, recording medium

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Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsutoshi Shinkai