Sony Corporation

Shin Kimura

Kazuhiko Watanabe

Yoshitsugu Taki

Toshiya Kurokawa

Yasuaki Kano

Kazuhisa Tsuchiya

Nobuhiro Sakai

Taketoshi Yamagishi

Kyoichi Isomura

Takayuki Nakagawa

A drive unit supplies to an auxiliary information generating section a first event notice related to reproducing operation and a second event notice indicating reproducing position information, regarding content recorded on a recording medium. The auxiliary information generating section generates auxiliary information based on the first and second event notices, for storage in an information storage section. A comparison/computation section makes a comparison or a computation using the reproducing position information indicated by the auxiliary information and reproducing position information indicated by a later-supplied second event notice. A command issuing section issues a command for controlling reproduction of the content based on a result of the comparison or the computation. As a result, a reproducing operation differing from an operation according to a predetermined command can be performed.

Reproduction controller, and reproduction controlling method and program

An information processing apparatus is connected to a recording or playback apparatus having a file system. The information processing apparatus includes a receiver for receiving a command provided by an operating system in response to a file operating request from an application, and a converter for converting the command provided by the operating system into a request which is to be converted into a command based on a communication protocol capable of handling the file system in communication with said recording or playback apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program and recording medium used therewith

A program capable of individually decoding video data and audio data from data storing, mixed together, the video data, the audio data, and attribute data interleaved, wherein an SYS parse routine parses data MXF_D to extract system data SYS; a PIC parse routine parses the data MXF_D to extract video data PIC and decodes the related extracted video data PIC based on system data SYS extracted by the SYS parse routine, and an SOU parse routine parses the data MXF_D to extract audio data SOU and decodes the related extracted audio data SOU based on the system data SYS extracted by the SYS parse routine.

Program, data processing method, and system of same

An information processing apparatus for processing an access request to access a recording medium from an application includes the following elements. A setting unit sets a priority unique to the access request from the application or permission information indicating whether or not processing on the access request from the application is permitted. A queue controller stores the access request provided with the priority or the permission information in a queue. An access request processor processes the access request stored in the queue according to the priority or the permission information.

Information processing apparatus and method, program, and program recording medium

An MXF parser threadparses data MXF_D, being, mixed together, a plurality of video data PIC, a plurality of audio data SOU, and system data SYS. Then, it generates video file attribute data VFPD concerning the video based on the parsed system data and metadata META and generates video file data VF including the video file attribute data VFPD and the parsed plurality of video data PIC (VIDEO). Further, the audio file data AF is generated too in the same way.

System method using material exchange format (MXF) converting program for audio and video data files having routines that generates attribute data from audio and video data file

A cassette transfer mechanism for transferring a cassette recording medium to and from a cassette accommodating portion for accommodating cassette recording mediums, the cassette transfer mechanism having a unit which stores information in a memory included in the cassette and/or reads information from the same and which has a connector structured to be brought into contact with a memory terminal provided for the cassette recording medium when information is stored in the memory and/or read from the same. The above-mentioned structure enables information to be stored in the memory included in the cassette and/or read from the same without a necessity of loading the cassette recording medium into a drive unit whenever information is stored/read.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shin Kimura