Pioneer Corporation

Motooki Sugihara

Naoaki Horiuchi

Tetsuya Kawahara

Toshiro Tanikawa

Harumi Nakamura

Yukio Numakami

Koji Matsuura

Hideki Nagata

Toshiro Nunome

A storing-reproducing unitrecognizes a free space of a contents storage area by a storage-area-administrating device, sets a recording timing duration based on the recognized free space of the contents storage area, and selects a schedule information of a contents to be recorded from recording schedule list information. Hence, frequency of storing the contents in the HDDcan be reduced, thereby avoiding that the contents which has not yet watched is erased by self-erasing, so that the contents can be effectively recorded. Therefore, a user can secure flexibility in time in watching the contents.

Information processor, method thereof, program for executing the method, recording medium storing the program and information storage

A program drawing-up apparatus can provide information effectively and efficiently. The program drawing-up apparatus () comprises a program control device () and a narration synthesizer device (). The program control device () has a delivery request acquisition section for acquiring a delivery request from a client apparatus (), a contents data retrieval section for retrieving contents data and a program drawing-up section for drawing up a program showing the sequence of delivery of the contents data and the auxiliary data on the basis of the delivery request. The narration synthesizer device () has a narration synthesizing section for synthetically generating narration data to be delivered in combination with contents data. Information can be provided effectively because contents can be delivered with one or more than one narrations added thereto.

Program drawing-up apparatus, program providing system, methods to be used with the same, computer programs to be used with the same and recording medium storing such computer programs

A CPUof a recording/reproducing deviceacquires automatic video recording request information, and generates, based on EPG data previously acquired, new automatic reservation information incorporating basic video recording information with video recording start date and time or video recording finish date and time for contents corresponding to a keyword in the automatic video recording reservation request information and priority information indicating that the priority is 'intermediate'. When the CPUdetermines that the video recording time indicated by the reservation information corresponding to a manual video recording reservation incorporated in a video recording reservation list information and that for the new automatic reservation information overlap each other, the CPUdeletes the reservation information corresponding to the manual video recording reservation from the video recording reservation list information, and incorporates the new automatic reservation information as reservation information in the video recording list information.

Processing controller, data processor, processing controlling method, program thereof and recording medium storing the program

A management server device in a contents providing system can communicate with a user terminal through a communication network. The management server device includes a play-list creation device which creates a play list of contents based on user input to the user terminal, a storage device which stores the created play list in relation to a user, and a transmission device which acquires a play list from the storage device according to a request from the user terminal.

Management server device and terminal device for a contents providing system

An inverse telecine conversion arrangement and methodology that accurately judges whether entered moving television picture information is originally a television material or a cinematic material, and performs inverse telecine conversion based on a result of the judgement. The apparatus includes a structure judging portion which judges whether a structure is a frame structure or a field structure based on adjacent pieces of field image information in the received moving television picture information which are adjacent to each other in terms of time; and a pattern judging portion which determines that the received moving television picture information has a predetermined pattern based on a pattern in which a field structure and a frame structure judged by the structure judging portion are successive to each other, and when the pattern judging portion recognizes the predetermined pattern, a corresponding piece of the received moving television picture information is inverse telecine converted.

Inverse telecine conversion apparatus

An inverse telecine converting device and method converts quasi-television motion picture information back to original cinema motion picture information, wherein the quasi-television motion picture information had been obtained by quasi-converting the original cinema motion picture information. The inverse telecine converting method includes inputting the quasi-television motion picture information including field picture information pieces time-sequentially arranged at a rate of N frames per second such that each frame of the quasi-television motion picture information including top and bottom field picture information pieces and one of every P field picture information pieces of the quasi-television motion picture information is a repetitive field picture information piece; producing judgment frames on the basis of timely-adjacent field picture information pieces of the quasi television motion picture; determining the structure of each judgment frame as being one of a frame structure and a field structure; identifying the repetitive field picture information pieces on the basis of the determined structures corresponding to timely-adjacent judgment frames; and outputting the original cinema motion picture information arranged at a rate of M frames per second, wherein M, N, and P are natural numbers.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Motooki Sugihara