Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Ryuichi Okamoto

Katsumi Tokuda

Masayuki Kozuka

Masaki Mukai

Hideki Matsushima

Mitsuhiro Inoue

Masaya Yamamoto

Kouji Miura

Tohru Nakahara

Tomoyuki Shimomura

Masaichi Yano

Hiroki Murakami

Masaki Igarashi

Motoji Ohmori

Toshihisa Nakano

Shunji Harada

Akio Higashi

Atsunori Sakurai

Masataka Minami

Susumu Kobayashi

Akihiro Tanaka

Masaya Miyazaki

Tohru Wakabayashi

Takuji Hiramoto

Yusaku Nakamura

Masahiro Oho

Koji Miura

Sen'ichi Onoda

Satoshi Niwano

Masato Ukena

Shinya Kemi

An image display device generates a temperature information image indicating, by a numerical value, a temperature of each pixel contained in a predetermined area including a position on a thermal image specified by a user, and causes a display to display the temperature information image while a temperature of a pixel corresponding to the position specified is displayed at a center of the temperature information image. The image display device sets a temperature range that has a predetermined temperature width and a center which is a temperature of a pixel corresponding to a position the temperature information image specified by the user, updates the temperature-color conversion information based on the set temperature range, regenerates the thermal image and the temperature information image based on the temperature-color conversion information updated, and causes the display to display the regenerated thermal image and the regenerated temperature information image.

Image display device and image display method

An information processing device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a processor. The communication unit is connected to a network. The storage unit stores environment setting information indicating the environment of the device. The information is set according to the type of the network and the presence or absence of a virtual network created through the network. The processor sets the environment of the device based on the environment setting information in at least one of the following cases: when the network is switched to another network and when the presence or absence of the virtual network is changed.

Information processing device and method for setting the environment of the device

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit that can connect to a plurality of networks including a first network, a storage unit that stores priority level information indicating priority levels of the plurality of networks, and a processor. When the communication unit is connected to the first network, the processor decides a next connection destination candidate on the basis of the priority level information, checks whether an operation requiring continuous connection between the communication unit and any one of the plurality of networks is being executed, and checks whether a virtual network has been established. If the operation is being executed and a virtual network has been established, the processor switches the connection destination of the communication unit from the first network to the next connection destination candidate.

Information processing apparatus and network switching method

An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a processor; a network interface that establishes a connection to a network and a connection to a client terminal; and a storage unit, wherein the processor is capable of executing a tethering function to control communication between the network and the client terminal through the network interface, the storage unit stores network information of the network, to which the information processing apparatus connects, and ON/OFF information of the tethering function in association with the network information, and the processor sets the tethering function based on the ON/OFF information of the tethering function when the network interface connects to the network.

Client terminal's tethering function is selectively turn on or off based on network connection

A highly convenient information processing device is provided. The information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit, a storage unit in which an OS and a program are stored, and a processor configured to execute a predetermined program based on identification information of a predetermined network when the communication unit establishes a connection to the predetermined network. In a case where the communication unit establishes a connection to the predetermined network when the information processing device is in a sleep state, the processor does not execute the predetermined program, and after the sleep state is cleared, the processor executes the predetermined program.

Information processing device

A network connecting device includes: a wired LAN connection detection section that detects connecting of a LAN cable; a profile management section that manages a profile; a profile selection section that selects in sequence at least one profile that indicates wired LAN connection; a network configuration section that sets a network configuration based on the selected profile; a network identification information acquisition section that acquires network identification information; a network determination section that determines whether or not a wired LAN with which a connection is formed by the LAN cable and a network indicated by the profile match each other; and a network connection section that applies the profile when it is determined as a match.

Network connecting device and method

When a secure counter malfunction detection unitdeters a malfunction in a secure counter, a content playability judgment unitperforms a content playability judgment based on information managed by a malfunctioning-state playback processing management unit. The malfunctioning-state playback processing management unitstores a malfunctioning-state playback condition composed of information such as a playback count and a playback time. The content playability judgment unitjudges that content is playable when the malfunctioning-state playback condition is met, and a content playback unitsplays the content.

Content reproducing device and content reproducing method

A network connection device includes: one or more network devices; a network switching control section configured to determine a second network as a candidate network to which connection is subsequently switched from a first network to which a network device is currently connecting; a network relation state determination section configured to determine whether or not the network device is used for forming a PAN; a disconnection-caused disadvantage determination section configured to determine whether or not a disadvantage to a user will be caused by switching connection to the second network, based on the result of the determination by the network relation state determination section; and a switching acceptability determination section configured to prohibit switching connection to the second network when the result of the determination is that a disadvantage to the user will be caused.

Network connection device and method

In a network connecting device connectable to a network, a connection approval/disapproval determination section determines approval/disapproval of connection to a network in accordance with a connection approval/disapproval determination rule managed by a connection approval/disapproval determination rule management section. When there is a security problem in a content of the connection approval/disapproval determination rule if a connection is to be formed, the security problem is solved by having a user re-input authentication information in the content of the connection approval/disapproval determination rule.

A user terminal () having a license purchase unit () obtaining a license () indicating a content usable time () of a content data () composed of a plurality of elements (), each of which can be replayed individually. The user terminal () also having an availability judgment unit () judging whether or not encrypted elements () included in the content data () are available, based on the content usable time () indicated in the obtained license (), and having a replay/display unit () replaying the encrypted elements judged as available. In addition, the user terminal () having a use status management unit () specifying license-consuming elements, each of which consumes an authorized amount of replay under right, out of the elements that are being replayed, and measuring a content used time () consumed by replaying the specified license-consuming elements.

Digital content reproducing apparatus and method thereof

A CD on which only music information specified by the CD-DA is recorded, or a CD on which both music information specified by the CD-DA and music information to be recorded on a CD-ROM are recorded is mounted upon an information processing terminal. When the CD on which only music information specified by the CD-DA is recorded is mounted, the information processing terminal acquires, from a directory server, an ISRC number that identifies the music information recorded on the CD, and distribution server location information that identifies a content distribution server. The information processing terminal acquires content that is the music information compressed according to the MP3 and encrypted, from the content distribution server identified by the acquired distribution server location information, and the decryption key. The information processing terminal then decrypts the acquired content using the acquired decryption key and reproduces music.

Digital data distribution system with switching unit, online acquisition unit, and conversion unit for converting from first to second format

To provide a content playback device that can use content appropriately by avoiding output of content not permitted to be used according to contract information. A playback control unitextracts a content name from playback control information in a playback path information table, and inquires of a rights management unitwhether content identified by the extracted content name is playable or not. If the content is judged as being unplayable, the playback control unitextracts an alternative playback number from the playback control information, and extracts a content name from playback control information whose playback number matches the alternative playback number. The playback control unitthen instructs a decryption unitand a playback unitto decrypt and play back encrypted content identified by the extracted content name.

Content use device and recording medium

A terminal apparatus is provided which guarantees operation of a use condition bytecode while securing a degree of freedom for a service provider generating the use condition bytecode. A terminal apparatus (), in which a license () includes a use condition determining logic code () and a version number (), includes a license obtainment unit () obtaining the license (), a use condition verification unit () determining, based on the version number (), whether or not an operation of the use condition determining logic code () has been confirmed, a use condition bytecode execution unit () executing the use condition determining logic code () when the operation of the use condition determining logic code () has been determined to have been confirmed, and a content playback unit () playing back content based on the use condition determining logic code ().

Terminal apparatus and system thereof

Content reproducing device and content preproducing method

A contents using device (or a terminal device)is composed of: a license processing unitwhich judges, on the basis of a usage rule of a license, whether or not the content is available; a content reproduction unitwhich uses the content judged by the terminal deviceto be available; a restriction unit (or a content reproduction unit) which restricts the license corresponding to the contents from being used by another source by reason that the license is currently in use, for a time period between a start and a normal end of the content usage by the content reproduction unit; an event detection unitwhich detects a predetermined event that occurs between the start and the normal end of the content usage and that forcefully aborts the content usage; a restriction-relaxation necessity judgment unit (or a recovery/penalty judgment unit)which judges whether or not the predetermined event is against an intention of a user; and a restriction relaxation unit (or a license recovery unit)which relaxes the restriction on the content usage when the recovery/penalty judgment unitjudges that the predetermined event is against the intention of the user.

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Osaka, Japan

Ryuichi Okamoto