Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Communication Systems Corporation

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Toshiba Communications Systems Corporation

Shinichi Kurihara

Sunao Wada

Yoshiro Osaki

Satoshi Yamasaki

Koji Nakashima

Yuichiro Saito

Toshihiro Mikoshi

Kazuhisa Imura

Osamu Kobori

Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

Asahiko Yamada

Yasuo Ooya

Hiroaki Unno

Taku Kato

Hideki Ueno

Naoko Satoh

Hiroyuki Abe

Hiroaki Fukui

Shingo Yasunami

Yuri Komori

Daisuke Takasaki

Yoshiro Oskai

Junji Hiroshima

Takafumi Abe

According to one embodiment, a social information distribution apparatus apportions and accumulates, for items classified, basic information including a position of each of a plurality of information sources and social information transmitted in time series from each of the plurality of information sources, analyzes the accumulated social information, modifies and processes the social information, updates the social information as some of the items, selects social information to be broadcast, determines a broadcast format including at least classification of broadcast ranges, a broadcasting time, and a repetition count within the broadcasting time when broadcasting the selected social information, and transmits the selected social information to a designated broadcast range by a broadcast wave.

Social information providing system, social information distribution apparatus, and user terminal apparatus

According to an embodiment, a client includes a street information collection unit for collecting street information near an arrangement place, a provision determination unit for determining whether the street information collected by the street information collection unit is information required to be provided to the server, and a first transmission unit for transmitting the street information, which is determined to be required to be provided by determination of the provision determination unit, to the server, with client identification information for identifying the client.

Street information processing system, client and server applied to street information processing system, and method and program of the same

A content delivery apparatus, when a content delivery request is outputted from a user terminal device, encrypts the requested content with an encryption key, adds a view period to it to deliver it to a request source and delivers a viewing key in response to a view request from the user terminal device within the view period. A user relief management unit monitors failure information notifying, grasps a delivery disabled period from the failure information, specifies a delivery destination user for a content of which the view period is overlapped with the delivery disabled period and issues a relief right with a relief period specified thereto to the specified user. A contract period processing unit manages the relief right and permits viewing within the relief period set by the relief right when a view right based on the relief right is output from the user terminal device.

Content delivery apparatus, user terminal device, relief management method and computer program

It is assumed that a reception processing unit receives a broadcast program in accordance with tuning based on the user's specification. In this state, a non-viewable state detection processing unit monitors occurrence of a non-viewable state from an acquisition state of reception data. When the non-viewable state occurs due to a certain factor, a non-viewable state accumulation unit accumulates information on the non-viewable state. When the factor of a viewing interruption is solved and a user makes a request for service provision, the processing unit connects to a distribution apparatus to report content of the non-viewable state, and receives distribution of a relevant content, thereby the processing unit becomes able to recontinue interrupted broadcast content.

Broadcast content distribution system, and distribution apparatus and broadcast reception terminal device for use in the system

A content encryption device generates encrypted content and an encrypted content copying device copies the encrypted content on an information storage medium. The storage medium is sold at a charge or distributed at no charge. A user gets the storage medium to connect the storage medium to a user terminal device or set the storage medium in a user terminal device, accesses to a content key distribution device to present a part or a whole of medium information of the storage medium to the distribution device. The distribution device grasps the whole of the medium information of the copied medium together with copied content and makes a content key encryption device issue an encrypted content key on the basis of user presentation information and distributes it to the terminal device.

Information provision system, content information copying device, user terminal device and user management device

A user terminal device specifies presence or absence of additional recording in issuing a content request, and in the case of additional recording, the device transmits medium information and encrypted information of pre-recorded contents to a delivery center. When receiving a content additional recording request from the device, the delivery center decrypts once encrypted contents to be additionally recorded with the corresponding-content keys. The encrypted key information is decrypted by the medium information from the device to decrypt content keys of the pre-recorded contents and re-encrypts encrypted contents to be additionally recorded to deliver the re-encrypted contents to the device. When receiving contents for additional recording, the device records the received contents so as to be related to the pre-recorded contents, on a recording medium.

Information delivery system, delivery center device, user terminal device and information delivery method

A content encryption device generates encrypted content and an encrypted content copying device copies the encrypted content on an information storage medium. The storage medium is sold at a charge or distributed at no charge. A user gets the storage medium to connect or set it to or in a user terminal device, accesses to a user management device to receive permission by authentication information distributed together with the storage medium and presents a part or a whole of medium information to a content key distribution device. The distribution device makes a content key encryption device issue an encrypted content key on the basis of the presented information and distributes it to the terminal device.

Information provision system, provision information copying device, user terminal device and user management device

According to one embodiment, an information distribution apparatus stores a characteristic information extracted arbitrary time-series data and relevant information in association of an information providing site on a communication line with each other, fetches characteristic information presented with a request for distribution through the line from a terminal, collates the fetched characteristic information with each characteristic information item of the stored associated information, determines the closest characteristic information, fetches relevant information associated with the characteristic information, and distributes the fetched relevant information to the terminal through the line.

Information distribution system, information distribution apparatus, information communication terminal, and information distribution method

In a transport stream distribution system, a transmission rate control unit takes in an IP packet output from an IP transmission processing unit, obtains a TTS to be added to an arbitrary TS packet in the IP packet, and compares the TTS with a time stamp generated internally to determine whether both of them coincide with each other or not. And if they coincide with each other, the system takes in a TTS of the next TS packet, and otherwise, the system obtains a difference between a time indicating the TTS and the time indicating the internally generated time stamp to calculate a transmission rate correction value equivalent to the value of the difference, and issues the calculated correction value to the processing unit to correct a transmission rate.

Broadcast transport stream distribution system, and broadcast transport stream distribution apparatus, user terminal device and distribution method for use in the system

A content provision system provides a content reproduction apparatus with content including main information which is at least either of video information and audio information generated by a content generation apparatus. The content generation apparatus generates a bodily sensation element by applying numeric conversion to characteristics of a bodily sensation given to a user, generates instruction information to reproduce the bodily sensation element in synchronism with reproduction of the main information, generates bodily sensation information by adding the instruction information to the bodily sensation element, and generates content including the bodily sensation information by adding the bodily sensation information to the main information. The content reproduction apparatus separates the main information and the bodily sensation information from the content, reproduces the main information, separates the bodily sensation element and the instruction information from the bodily sensation, and reproduces bodily sensation element based on the instruction information.

Content provision system, content generation apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, and content generation method

In an information communication system, user personal information is batch-managed in a user management center apparatus. The center apparatus issues temporary information, which includes temporary user information and temporary authentication information, in response to a log-in request from a user terminal apparatus that designates a net-shop apparatus, and sends the information to the user terminal apparatus and the designated net-shop apparatus. Thereby, if the user terminal apparatus sends an authentication request to the net-shop apparatus on the basis of the information, the net-shop apparatus can authenticate the user terminal apparatus on the basis of the information from the user management center apparatus. At this time, the user personal information does not go to the net-shop apparatus, and there is no need for the net-shop apparatus to manage the user personal information.

Information communication system, user management apparatus thereof, information providing apparatus thereof and user terminal apparatus thereof

On the content delivery side, a user management control unit manages authentication information and the distribution of a delivery list at the time of delivering service, the acceptance of a content select request, and charging and settlement on a user basis. On the other hand, an encrypted content control unit creates a content key and an encrypted content using the content key on the basis of a content key creating condition from a copyright owner or copyright manager. Then, an encrypted content key control unit encrypts the corresponding content key using medium information, or medium information and terminal device unique key information presented at the content request, delivers the key to the requester. Then, a content delivery control unit delivers the corresponding encrypted content to the requester at the content request.

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Shinichi Kurihara