Maxell, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Maxell Holdings, Ltd.

Hitachi Engineering Ltd

Nobuo Masuoka

Kazuhiko Yoshizawa

Yasunobu Hashimoto

Takuya Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu

Motoyuki Suzuki

Hiroaki Ono

Nobuaki Kabuto

Koji Hirata

Atsushi Inoue

Mitsunobu Watanabe

Yusuke Uchiyama

Osamu Kawamae

Tomomi Okamoto

Kyuichiro Nagai

Hirofumi Taguchi

Masayuki Hirabayashi

Yoshie Kodera

Hideo Nishijima

Masahiko Yatsu

Mikio Shiraishi

Kenji Fuse

Sadayuki Nishimura

Tatsuo Morita

Nobuyuki Kaku

Hitoshi Akiyama

Kenji Ogiro

Toshiyuki Kurita

Hidekazu Takeda

Katsuyuki Watanabe

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Fukuyasu Abe

Hiroyuki Urata

Ryuji Kurihara

Akinori Maeda

Hideyuki Kuwajima

Naoyuki Ogura

Yoshinori Okada

Naohisa Takamizawa

Hidenao Kubota

Masao Iwakura

Kei Adachi

Toshihiko Matsuzawa

Tetsuo Itou

Mitsuo Okimoto

Koji Kaniwa

Hideyuki Nagata

Ryuji Nishimura

Keisuke Inata

Tetsu Ohishi

Takaaki Matono

Ikuo Nishida

Kenmei Masuda

Kouji Fujita

Futoshi Yamasaki

Yoshiharu Yamashita

Junichi Ikoma

Makoto Ibe

Tsutomu Nakashima

Noboru Katohno

Seiji Ono

Yoshiyuki Tanaka

Kyuichirou Nagai

Tatsumi Nishijima

Tetsuya Sakamoto

Kouhei Takita

Kuniaki Hirayama

Motonori Ohmori

Koji Iyota

Toshio Osada

Hiroaki Itou

Takeru Kisanuki

Kiyokazu Watanabe

Hironori Saitoh

Megumi Sakoo

A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.

Broadcast reception device, broadcast reception method, and broadcast reception program

An image display device is for displaying an image including a user in, and comprises: a display processing unit displaying an image within a user's visual field display range; and a processor controlling the entire operation including a display operation on the display processing unit. The processor controls the display processing unit such that, in a state where information is displayed at a low content level within a visual field display range by control of the display processing unit, when an observation point which a user observes closely stays within a prescribed display range for a prescribed period of time, the vicinity of the observation point is displayed as information of a high content level, whereas when the observation point has deviated from the location of said information of the high content level, the vicinity of the observation point is returned to the information display at the low content level.

Image display device and image display method

A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface via which the contents received by the receiving unit is outputted; a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. In this case, the control unit is configured to determine the output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying necessity or not of protection when to output the contents, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.

Broadcast receiving apparatus

The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.

Broadcast receiver and broadcast receiving system

A head mounted display includes a transmissive display, an image capturing part acquires field of view range image, and an additional information presence/absence analysis part that analyzes the acquired field of view range image, confirms whether there is an information terminal included in the field of view range of user and whether a display image of an information terminal included in the field of view range of the user is one in which additional information is superimposed on the main image. An additional information acquisition part requests the information terminal to send additional information, and receives the additional information. A display controller detects an information terminal visual recognition area that is an area where the information terminal is viewed in the transmissive display, and displays the received additional information in a position that does not overlap with the information terminal visual recognition area of the transmissive display.

Head mounted display apparatus

When storing captured image data in an information server, a mobile information terminal transmits related information (date and time information, location information, direction angle information, information of a distance to a subject, and user identification information) at the time of imaging to the information server. In addition, when making a request for the image data stored in the information server, current terminal information and image search conditions describing image data replay conditions are transmitted to the information server. The information server searches for corresponding image data based on the current terminal information and the image search conditions and transmits the corresponding image data to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal displays the received image data on the display unit as a related image. Therefore, a user can effectively recall the memories, such as a situation or impression at the time of imaging.

Mobile information terminal, information presentation system and information presentation method

A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface through which the contents received by the receiving unit are outputted; and a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. The control unit is configured to determine an output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying whether protection is required or not when the contents are to be outputted, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of the video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.

The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.

Image pickup device and method of tracking subject thereof

A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video decoder that decodes the coded program video data to reproduce program video information; a cooperation information generator that interprets the program-cooperation data to generate program-cooperation information; and a control unit that, when an instruction to display a given screen is input while the presentation processor divides video display region into sub-regions based on the screen layout control information, places the program video information in one of the sub-regions, places the program-cooperation information in another sub-region, and outputs the data of the video display region as the video information, outputs information of the given screen as the video information without dividing the video display region based on the screen layout control information.

Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, and contents outputting method

A user authentication system includes a main body device and an authentication device. The main body device has an authentication code transmission requesting unit, a verification unit, and an unlocking unit. The authentication code transmission requesting unit generates an authentication code transmission request including a first value, and transmits the authentication code transmission request to the authentication device. The authentication device generates an authentication code in response to the first value in the authentication code transmission request, and transmits the authentication code to the main body device. The verification unit determines that authentication is successful if the authentication code is received from the authentication device. When the verification unit determines that the authentication is successful, the unlocking unit enables a predetermined functionality.

User authentication system and portable terminal

In a broadcast receiving apparatus including: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive control information regarding contents of digital broadcasting and content protection for the contents; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; a video output unit configured to output video of the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit or video of the contents accumulated by the accumulation unit to external equipment; an interface; and a control unit, switching of content protecting processes are executed in accordance with the number of pixels of video of contents in a first video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment without accumulation, a second video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment after an accumulating process, a copying process state, and a moving process state, and control is executed.

A portable terminal apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, an operation input unit inputting a user operation, and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication by a wireless LAN, and at a time of startup from a sleep state, a remote control button is displayed on the display unit when a mutual communication with a predetermined access point can be performed in the wireless communication unit, and when the remote control button is selected, a remote control signal corresponding to the selected remote control button is transmitted.

Portable terminal apparatus

Provided is a mobile information terminal that performs data transmission and reception, the data transmission and reception including video data reception. The mobile information terminal includes a communication management execution module that obtains a communication amount of data transmitted and received by the mobile information terminal in a predetermined period, and a remote viewing execution module that compares the obtained communication amount to a preset predetermined value and makes an image quality of the video data selectable according to a relationship between the obtained communication amount and the predetermined value.

Mobile information terminal

A digital broadcast receiving apparatus executing a function with a higher added value can include: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents and location information from a broadcast transmission path, a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data being described in the location information; a communication unit configured to receive communication data of the program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line; a recording/reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; an outputting unit configured to output the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents reproduced from the recording/reproducing unit to external equipment; and a server function unit for external equipment. The outputting unit can include a state where the location information is outputted together with reproduced broadcasting data.

Broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving program contents based on location information

A broadcast receiving system includes: a first receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a first transmission method; a second receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a second transmission method; a first decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the first receiving unit; a second decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the second receiving unit; a video output unit outputting video, the video being generated based on data decoded by the first or second decoding unit; an operation input unit receiving control information from a remote controller; and a control unit controlling the units based on the control information received by the operation input unit. The remote controller includes a button to output control information for switching between a display state and a non-display state of service, the service being linked with a broadcasting program.

Broadcast receiving system

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Nobuo Masuoka