Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Senichi Onoda

Masaya Yamamoto

Kaoru Murase

Toshihisa Nakano

Motoji Ohmori

Yuichi Futa

Kaoru Yokota

Masao Nonaka

Masaya Miyazaki

Masayuki Kozuka

Minehisa Nagata

Yoshitomo Osawa

Jun Yonemitsu

Tateo Oishi

Katsumi Muramatsu

Takashi Yamanishi

Yoshikazu Takashima

Shunji Harada

Yoshikatsu Ito

Keisuke Nakata

Satoshi Sugimoto

Jun Takemura

Ayako Satou

A controller in an electricity storage system that includes a first DC/DC converter connected to a storage battery, and a bidirectional inverter connected to the first DC/DC converter. The controller includes a control circuit which changes a content to be displayed by a display, according to whether the electricity storage system is in a predetermined state in which a first PV is connected to the bidirectional inverter via a DC bus.

Controller, electricity storage system, and recording medium

A data processing device for playing back a digital work reduces the processing load involved in verification by using only a predetermined number of encrypted units selected randomly from multiple encrypted units constituting encrypted contents recorded on a DVD. In addition, the data processing device improves the accuracy of detecting unauthorized contents by randomly selecting a predetermined number of encrypted units every time the verification is performed.

Unauthorized contents detection system

A data generating is device capable of preventing unauthorized extraction of plaintext content between decryption processing and digital watermark embedment processing. A content reproducing device obtains restoration information and, in accordance with the restoration information, selectively performs predetermined restoration processing and processing of embedding device unique information, on content data at a position shown by the restoration information.

Reproducing device, recording device, recording medium, data processing method, data processing program, data recording method, data recording program, and integrated circuit

An imaging apparatus, which is capable of recording a still image during a moving image recording operation, includes a display unit, an operation unit configured to receive an instruction from a user, and a controller configured to control the display unit to display information about a number of recordable still image data, when the operation unit receives a predetermined instruction during a moving image recording operation.

Imaging apparatus and information display method for imaging apparatus

A recording medium, which is provided by a content provider and allows the content provider to control messages, has recorded thereon content and a program executed at a time of playback of the content by a playback apparatus. The program causing the playback apparatus to interact with a different program prestored in the playback apparatus and executed at the time of the playback of the content and to transmit, to the different program, a message determined according to the result of the interaction. The playback apparatus includes a reading unit reading the program from the recording medium at the time of the playback of the content, a startup unit starting up the read program, an interaction unit interacting with the program, and a processing unit receiving a message corresponding to a result of the interaction from the recording medium and performing a process corresponding to the received message.

Recording medium, reproduction device, message acquisition method, message acquisition program, integrated circuit

An imaging apparatus includes an image generation unit operable to generate image signal of a subject, a recording unit operable to record a first type of image file or a second type of image file to a recording medium based on the image signal generated by the image generation unit, and a controller operable to control the recording unit. The controller controls the recording unit to record the first type of image file at a lower level of a first directory in the recording medium and record the second type of image file at a lower level of a second directory in the recording medium, and record in the recording medium information used to analyze a recording order of the first type of image file and the second type of image file in the recording medium, while relating the information to the second type of image file.

Imaging apparatus, recording apparatus, file management apparatus and display apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes an information acquiring unit operable to acquire information representing a state of a recoding medium from the recording medium, a determining unit operable to determine the state of the recording medium based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, and an informing unit operable to inform result of the determination by the determining unit to an outside of the imaging apparatus.

Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus and information processing method

A virtual machine can be implemented by anyone because the interface and other information necessary for implementation are publicly available. Hence, if virtual machine is implemented maliciously, a program operating thereon can be made to operate maliciously instead of operating legitimately. By comparing secret information held in memory and specific to the virtual machine with verification information which a program holds itself, the program verifies that the virtual machine on which it is running has been legitimately implemented and excludes illegitimate virtual machines.

Verification method, information processing device, recording medium, verification system, certification program, and verification program

A data generating device is capable of preventing unauthorized extraction of plaintext content between decryption processing and digital watermark embedment processing. A content reproducing device obtains restoration information and, in accordance with the restoration information, selectively performs predetermined restoration processing and processing of embedding device unique information, on content data at a position shown by the restoration information.

A virtual machine can be implemented by anyone because the interface and other information necessary for implementation are publicly available. Therefore, it is possible that by implementing the virtual machine illegitimately, programs run thereon on will be made to operate illegitimately instead of legitimately. A program compares secret information held by the virtual machine with verification information held by the program itself. The program thereby verifies whether the virtual machine that runs the program is implemented legitimately, and is able to reject an illegitimate virtual machine.

Verification method, verification program, recording medium, information processor, and integrated circuit

A new-type recordable DVD medium has medium characteristics not defined in the DVD-R standards and has compatibility with the DVD-ROM standards. Since information on the new-type recordable DVD medium can be played back by an existing player, even when content data protected by CSS (Content Scrambling System) is recorded on the new-type recordable DVD medium, the recordable DVD medium can be used for content distribution service using a kiosk terminal.

Recording medium, data recording apparatus, data reproducing apparatus and data recording method

Processing load on an executing device for conducting playback is high during the playback of contents since the executing device performs verification of the contents validity in parallel with the contents playback, and therefore the executing device has to be equipped with a highly efficient processor. The present invention reduces the processing load involved in the verification by using, for the verification, only a predetermined number of encrypted units selected randomly from multiple encrypted units constituting encrypted contents recorded on the DVD. In addition, the present invention is capable of improving the accuracy of detecting unauthorized contents to some extent by randomly selecting a predetermined number of encrypted units every time the verification is performed.

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Osaka, Japan

Senichi Onoda