Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shuhei Sasakura

Naoki Ejima

Katsuyuki Morita

Eiji Fukumiya

Kunio Nobori

Seiji Nakamura

Tatsuya Adachi

Ayako Maruyama

Kazuya Iwata

Isao Kato

Yoshihisa Inagaki

Koichi Hotta

A comment information generating apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit which receives a video; a comment input receiving unit which receives position information of an object in the video and a comment that is displayed with the object and is caused to track the object starting from a predetermined timing; a target time determining unit which determines, to be a target value indicating a time length, a target time during which the comment is displayed, based on the comment; an object motion determining unit which determines, for the object, a motion trajectory having a time length substantially equal to the target time and along which the comment is caused to track the object; a comment information generating unit which generates comment information including the comment and the motion trajectory of the object; and an output unit which outputs the comment information.

Comment information generating apparatus and comment information generating method

A device collaboration system includes a serverthat manages contents, a main communication terminalcapable of making access to the servervia a network and reproducing a content, and an auxiliary communication terminalcapable of making access to the server via the network. The server monitors a reproduction state of a content reproduced by the main communication terminal, and when the main communication terminalreproduces a predetermined portion in the content, the server controls an action by the auxiliary communication terminal

Server, communication terminal, and device collaboration system including the same

A communication service system includes a SNS serverthat manages contents, and client terminalstothat can make access to the SNS servervia a network. Each of the client terminalstoincludes a portion with which the client terminal can obtain an object. The SNS servermanages objects input by the client terminalsto, and allows a plurality of client terminals that are connected to the networkand browse the same content to share objects.

Communication service system

A recording/reproduction device that prevents content and related content from being reproduced simultaneously. The recording/reproducing device () includes a recording area (), a communication processing unit () outputting the related content having details identical to details of the content recorded onto the recording area () into an external recording medium (), and an encoding/decoding processing unit () obtaining unique information of the external recording medium (). The encoding/decoding processing unit () changes a state of content recorded in the recording area () into an irreproducible state unless the unique information of the content is used, when the related content is outputted to the external recording medium (), and then reproduces the content recorded in the recording area () using the unique information, when the encoding/decoding processing unit () obtains the unique information.

Recording/reproduction device

An electronic apparatus reads a digital data stream including a video signal and/or an audio signal outputted from an external apparatus according to a transmission clock different from a clock for the data stream, and outputs the video signal and/or audio signal without causing any discontinuity. The electronic apparatus includes a sample rate converter that rate-converts a predetermined volume of the audio signal in synchronization with a constant sampling clock, and changes a number of samples to be outputted, based on a data volume of an audio signal outputted by the electronic apparatus and a data volume of an audio signal transmitted from the external apparatus or transmittable from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus.

Electronic apparatus and control method thereof using sample rate converter

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Osaka, Japan

Shuhei Sasakura