Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Ryuichi Sakai

Koji Hirose

Takashi Maniwa

Kenjiro Nakamura

Kazuhide Yanase

Katsunori Mochida

An apparatus and a method of remote control which can enable real time operation of a device in home from a terminal device at remote location through a network are provided. A first server communicates with a terminal device through the Internet and generates device control data for controlling the device. A second server communicates with the device in a predetermined manner to acquire and store a specific address of the device, generates transmission data for transmission of the received device control data from the first server to the device based on the specific address, and transmits the transmission data to the device. This allows real time control of the device from the terminal device through the network to be realized.

Remote control device, remote control method, and remote-controllable device

A remote control system detects an operating status of various devices through the Internet in real time. A remote controller, which enables a terminal device to control an operation of a device through a network, acquires and stores a latest address of the device by communicating with the device at predetermined time intervals through the network. A status notification request referring to the stored address is transmitted through the network. In response, the remote controller receives status information from the device, stores the status information received from the device, and transmits the stored status information to the terminal device through the network.

Remote control device, remote control method, and remotely controlled device

A remote control system in which an instruction from a remote terminal is transmitted to a controlled device through a remote control device. Device unique data which is information specific to the controlled device is stored in the remote control device or the controlled device. The remote control device generates WEB display data to be displayed on the remote terminal based on a device type of the controlled device and the device unique data. Alternatively, the remote control device generates WEB display data based on the device unique data stored in the controlled device. Thus, even when a new type of controlled device is developed, or even when the function for the controlled device is extended, it does not need to modify programs for achieving functions of the remote control device. Accordingly, it facilitates a change of an operational screen of the terminal in response to those changes.

Remote control system and remote control method

A video recording and reproducing apparatus is provided which is capable of, even if the number of elementary streams (ES) of bits of a program to be recorded is too large and all the elementary streams can hardly be recorded, carrying out a recording operation with ease substantially corresponding to the direction of the user. The apparatus allows an ES selector to identify the elementary streams of video data, audio data, and their relevant data video in the stream of bits received from its program selector and, when the number of the elementary streams is higher than a given setting, pick up elementary streams which satisfy the predetermined requirements while deleting the other elementary streams. The elementary streams are then recorded by a recorder/player in the apparatus. Even if the elementary streams of bits are not all recorded, the elementary streams which satisfy the predetermined requirements can readily be recorded.

Apparatus and method for recording elementary streams

A digital signal is recorded with resolutions maintained and the disturbance of reproduced video and/or audio associated with changes of a recording rate of the digital signal is suppressed to minimum. A digital signal recording apparatus for recording a digital signal having a variable recording rate representing a recording speed, said apparatus comprising a receiving section which receives the digital signal; a recording rate detecting section which detects the recording rate of the digital signal received at the receiving section; a storage section which stores a detected recording rate when said detected recording rate is greater than a previously stored recording rate, whereby said storage section stores a maximum recording rate; and a recording section which is operable to record the digital signal in a recording medium based on the maximum recording rate stored in the storage section.

Digital signal recording apparatus and method thereof

A data transfer unit is connected with an external nonvolatile memory storing a correction program and the like data, and it transfers the correction program, etc. of the external nonvolatile memory to an internal nonvolatile memory upon detecting it having been connected with the external nonvolatile memory. The external nonvolatile memory is disconnected from the data transfer unit after completion of the data transfer. When a CPU unit is reset thereafter, it transfers the correction program, etc. to a RAM unit, executes a program in a ROM unit, and also executes the correction program in the RAM unit upon reaching a correcting point stored in the RAM unit.

Electronic equipment

A channel selection apparatus for sorting broadcast signals detects parity errors of plural broadcast signals transmitted from the same broadcasting station. The tuned frequency of the broadcast signal is shifted from the frequency of a normal broadcast signal by a predetermined value. As a result, field intensity of the broadcast signal correlates more closely with a parity error rate. The channel selection apparatus thus can sort broadcast signals in the order of fewer error rates and assign them to tuning buttons in the order of easier selecting operation.

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Osaka, Japan

Ryuichi Sakai