Sony Corporation

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Osamu Date

Katsumi Matsuno

Kenichiro Aridome

Chisato Yoshida

Makoto Yamada

Toshihiro Ishizaka

Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi

Sho Tanaka

Satoshi Tsujii

Keiji Kanota

Hiroshi Masuda

Tamaki Kojima

Takahito Seki

Hiroshi Jinno

Shigeru Kashiwagi

Fumitaka Kawate

Haruo Yoshida

Akira Tokuse

Masayoshi Ohno

Masaki Ando

Hiroshi Fujisawa

Rui Yamagami

Seigo Fukushima

Yoko Takahashi

Takuji Shimoda

Yasuki Ogiwara

Hidekazu Shintani

Nobuki Iio

Shoji Ohyama

Akihiro Sagisaka

This invention relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method for supplying an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDAhas a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phonedetermines that a maximum speed of communication with the PDAis low, reduces accordingly the amount of moving image data captured by a CCD of the mobile phone, and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDAdisplays a low-quality moving imageon its display unit. When the PDAhas a maximum transfer rate of 480 Mbps, the CPU of the mobile phone leaves unchanged the amount of moving picture data captured by the CCD and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDAthen displays a high-quality moving imageon the display unit. This invention applies advantageously to digital cameras.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

An imaging apparatus and an imaging method supply an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone determines that the maximum speed of communication with the PDA is low, reduces the amount of moving image data captured by a CCD of the mobile phone accordingly, and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDA therefore displays a low-quality moving image on its display unit. When the PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 480 Mbps, the CPU of the mobile phone leaves unchanged the amount of moving picture data captured by the CCD and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA. The PDA then displays a high-quality moving image on its display unit. The foregoing may be advantageously applied to digital cameras.

A video is recorded on a recording medium so that a reproducing apparatus can faithfully reproduce an original color of the recorded video. An sRGB color space or an extended sRGB color space is specified as the color space of the video to be recorded. A signal processing unit generates a video signal corresponding to the specified color space. An encoding/decoding unit compresses the video signal in accordance with the MPEG4-AVC standard to generate a compressed video signal. A CPU generates a color space identifier including information indicating the color space specified and is configured so that an access unit including an SPS NAL unit in the compressed video signal includes an SEI NAL unit in which the color space identifier is stored. The video recorded on the recording medium includes the color space identifier having information for a color space of that video.

Recording apparatus, recording method, image pickup apparatus, reproducing apparatus and video system

Disclosed herein is a pictureAn imagedisplay controlling apparatuscapable of improving the user's ease of operation upon selecting pictureallows a navigation of imagedataitemson asmall-sizescreen ofdigital cameras or the likean image capturing device.PictureThe imagedata items held in a data holding unit()are sorted intopictureimage datagroups. The location of thepictureimagedata item most recently displayed fromany of the picture groupsa selected image data groupis heldasinapicture resume pointer in a resumepointer holding unit(). With an operation input accepted from the user by an operation inputtingdevice ()unit, a display controlling unit()causes a displaying unit()to display thepicture designatedimage selectedby the operation inputwhile effecting transition from the current display status retained in a status holding unit (). If the operation input designates transition from a first picture group to a second picture group, the location of the picture data item currently displayed from the first picture group is placed into the resume pointer holding unit (), and the location of the picture data item to be displayed anew from the second picture group is retrieved from the resume pointer holding unit ().When the operating inputting unit receives a re-selection of the selected image data group after an intervening selection of another image data group, the display image controlling unit displays the image data item.

Picture display controlling apparatus and picture display controlling method

A storage apparatus and method, a program, and a playback apparatus and method, capable of quickly reading a specific part of data among metadata including metadata associated with faces. A storage controller controls storing face metadata in a storage medium, wherein the face metadata includes a content data set added for each content, content data storage location information indicating the storage location of the content data set, a detected face data set associated with each of face images detected from a content, and detected face data storage location information indicating the storage location of the detected face data set, and wherein the face metadata is configured such that the content data storage location information and face block storage location information indicating the storage location of the detected face data storage location information are described in a single data set. The present invention is applicable to a digital camera.

Storage apparatus and method, program, and playback apparatus and method

To record a video signal on a recording medium for faithful reproduction A signal processing unit generates a video signal corresponding to a specified color space. An encoding/decoding unit performs data compression on the video signal in accordance with the MPEG4-AVC standard to generate a compressed video signal to be recorded on a recording medium. A CPU generates a color space identifier including information indicating the specified color space and is configured so that an access unit including an SPS NAL unit in the compressed video signal includes an SEI NAL unit in which the color space identifier is stored. The video signal recorded on the recording medium is a signal to which a color space identifier having information for a color space of that video signal is added.

A display control apparatus which controls display of information about a group of data having a predetermined relevance, the apparatus may include a means for generating a three dimensional model for display in accordance with a first item of information of the information about the group; and a means for controlling display of a second item of information that is the information about the group and different from the first item of information so as to be overlaid on a three dimensional image displayed based on the model.

Display control apparatus, method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes an image-information obtaining unit configured to obtain first image information; an information associating unit configured to generate first related information having certain content related to the first image information and to associate the first related information with the first image information; a display processor configured to use function data including second image information and condition information to display an image of the second image information, and to allow display of a representative image representing the first image information on the image of the second image information; a determining unit configured to determine whether the content of the first related information associated with the first image information satisfies a condition represented by the condition information; and a display controller configured to cause the display processor to display the representative image only when the determining unit determines that the condition is satisfied.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

An information recording apparatus is disclosed which comprises: a first recording element for recording input picture information in units of recording into a first area of a recording medium; a representative data generating element for generating representative data representing the picture information recorded in the units of recording; a first memory for recording a plurality of symbolic pictures; a second memory for recording a program for generating link information linking the plurality of symbolic pictures recorded in the first memory with the representative data; a link information generating element for generating the link information using program; a picture generating element which, based on the link information, generates picture information including at least the symbolic pictures and the representative data being linked with one another; and a second recording element for recording the picture information generated by the picture generating element to a second area of the recording medium.

Information recording apparatus and information recording method

The present invention relates to a recoding apparatus and a recording method, a playback apparatus and a playback method, a recording/playback apparatus and a recording/playback method, and a program, whereby processing relating to a file can be readily performed. With a video camera wherein with regard to H.264/AVC for example, which is a coding method arranged to encode or decode data, a codec class arranged to classify the performance of a codec configured to encode or decode data, and a codec level serving as a group of said one or more codec classes whose upper compatibility is ensured, are based on stipulated specifications, data is encoded into, for example, coded data of a codec class #, for example, within a codec level AVC_A by H.264/AVC. The coded data is recorded in a recording medium, for example, as a file 'AVCA0001.MP4' whose file name represents the codec level AVC_A of the coded data. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a video camera from which a recording medium can be detachable.

Recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, recording/playback apparatus and recording/playback method, and program

A withdrawal processing apparatus is arranged with a storage unit for storing deposit balances of respective yen account and foreign currency account; an acquiring unit for acquiring withdrawal request information including a withdrawal amount for every currency; a withdrawal judgment unit for judging, for every currency, whether or not the withdrawal amount is within a range of a deposit balance; and a withdrawal processing unit for performing a withdrawal process based on the withdrawal amount of yen for the yen account if judged that the withdrawal amount of yen is within the range of the deposit balance of the yen account, where the withdrawal processing unit compensates the shortage amount from the yen account and performs the withdrawal process when the shortage amount with respect to the withdrawal amount of the foreign currency of the foreign currency account is within the range of the deposit balance of the yen account.

Withdrawal processing apparatus and withdrawal processing method

An imaging device detects a face of a subject from an image in response to inputting of the image containing the subject, and generates face data related to the face. The imaging device generates face data management information managing the face data and controls recording of the input image, the generated face data and the face data management information on a recording unit with the input image mapped to the face data and the face data management information. The face data contains a plurality information components recorded in a predetermined recording order. The face data management information, in a data structure responsive to the recording order of the information components of the face data, contains a train of consecutively assigned bits. The information components are assigned predetermined flags in the recording order. Each flag represents the presence or absence of the information component corresponding to the flag in the face data.

Image recording device, player device, imaging device, player system, method of recording image, and computer program

To search image information regarding image data, recorded on a storage medium, based on a desired search condition and to perform efficient display. An attribute-information obtaining sectionobtains attributes. For respective chapters, the attributes are held by an attribute file. A condition searching sectionsearches the attributes for the respective chapters in accordance with a condition input from a condition inputting section. A thumbnail obtaining sectionobtains thumbnails that match the search condition. An index displaying sectiondisplays the obtained thumbnails. When a thumbnail is selected via an image selecting section, an image reproducing sectionreproduces image data in accordance with link information extracted by a link-information extracting section

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Osamu Date