Sony Corporation

Norio Kobota

Masato Kawada

Tomoya Oikawa

Honggang Wang

Disclosed herein is a metadata transmission apparatus including a storage section configured to store metadata, and a wireless transmission section configured to transmit the metadata stored in the storage section via a wireless communication network.

Metadata transmission apparatus, metadata reception apparatus, imaging apparatus, and information management program

Disclosed herein is a program guide providing system including: a terminal; a content providing server including a service providing section for providing programs and a related service to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal; a SIP proxy server; a program guide providing server including a communication history acquisition section for acquiring a communication history between the content providing server and the terminal, a communication history storage section, an audience situation calculation section for calculating an audience situation concerning each of the programs based on the communication history, a program guide generation section for generating a program guide in which each program is assigned an indicator based on the audience situation, and a program guide providing section for providing the program guide to the terminal; and an NGN to which the terminal, the content providing server, the SIP proxy server, and the program guide providing server are connected.

Program guide providing system, program guide providing apparatus, program guide providing method, and program guide providing program

A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network includes a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content, an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, and a monitoring server that is connected to the network and stores monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being transmitted from the SIP proxy server.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Norio Kobota