Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Shunji Yoshimura

Jun Yonemitsu

Makoto Kawamura

Ryuichi Iwamura

Atsushi Fukumoto

Toshiki Udagawa

Tatsuya Narahara

Toru Okazaki

Kouichi Yasuda

Masumi Ono

Noboru Murabayashi

Toshiyuki Nakagawa

Hiroshige Okamoto

Tetsuji Kawashima

Shinichi Kai

Masumi Ohta

Hideo Nagasaka

Toshio Watanabe

Isao Ichimura

Sho Murakoshi

Yoshiyuki Akiyama

Hiroyuki Ino

Isamu Nakao

Yasuhito Tanaka

Mamoru Akita

Kensuke Fujimoto

Tomonori Misawa

Shinji Katsuramoto

Nobuyoshi Miyokawa

Junpei Kura

Seiji Kobayashi

Kiyoshi Ohsato

Michihiko Iida

Yoshihide Shimpuku

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Naoya Eguchi

Motoi Kimura

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Toshiharu Yabe

Motoki Tsunokawa

Masaru Miyamoto

Shoji Sato

Norio Nishida

Jumpei Kura

Daisuke Negi

Tsutomu Seki

Kyoko Suzuki

Hideaki Miyahara

Atsushi Fukimoto

Kiyoshi Ohsata

There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.

Display control device, recording control device, and display control method

An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.

Information processing system, recording apparatus, portable device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes: accepting means for accepting user's input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; setting means for setting a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the accepting means to a user's remarkable scene; acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating the remarkable scene contents; and display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents on the basis of the additional information and display of a list screen including an arrangement of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents for each remarkable scene.

Information processing apparatus, method, and program

In response to a request from a playback apparatus over a network to play back content, a first recording/playback apparatus transmits data indicating content satisfying the request to the playback apparatus over the network. When selecting desired content from the transmitted data, the playback apparatus requests the first recording/playback apparatus to transmit data of the selected content to the playback apparatus over the network. When the data of the desired content is transmitted to the playback apparatus from the first recording/playback apparatus over the network in response to the request, the content being transmitted is played back via streaming. When the playback apparatus transmits data indicating the played back content and an address of a second recording/playback apparatus to the first recording/playback apparatus over the network, the first recording/playback apparatus transmits data of the played back content to the second recording/playback apparatus over the network in accordance with the address.

Method for providing content

An information processing apparatus detecting a characteristic amount of a group of contents of a series configured of contents corresponding to episodes, the information processing apparatus including: a first generating means for detecting a characteristic amount in a time series of the contents corresponding to the episodes and generate a characteristic amount in the episode based on a detected result; a computing means for computing a representative value of the generated characteristic amount in the episode; a second generating means for arranging the computed representative values corresponding to the episodes in a time series and generate a characteristic amount in the series indicating a characteristic amount in a time series of the group of the contents of the series; and a database means for storing the generated characteristic amount in the series in a database in association with the group of the contents of the series.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes a receiving part that receives contents, an input part into which designation information to select desired contents is input from a user, a recording setting information generation part that generates recording setting information of contents to be recorded based on the designation information, an analysis part that analyzes relevance of content of the contents being recorded to be recorded based on the recording setting information to the designation information, and an acquisition part that acquires the desired contents of the user from the recorded contents based on an analysis result by the analysis part.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program

A content usage system includes a recording and playback device and a portable electronic device mutually connected via a network. When the recording and playback device receives a certain command while outputting digital content, that content is converted into transfer content suitable for use with the portable electronic device, and then stored with metadata indicating that the content is transfer content. Using the metadata, the recording and playback device is able to generate and transmit a list of transfer content upon request from the portable electronic device. Using the list, the user of the portable electronic device then selects desired transfer content from the list and sends a transfer content request. In response, the recording and playback device transmits the selected transfer content to the portable electronic device, thereby making the content available for use on the portable electronic device.

Content usage system, content usage method, recording and playback device, content delivery method, and content delivery program

An information processing device processes content according to an identified category for the content, the category being identified by first extracting characteristic data from the content. An extractor extracts characteristic data from the content. An identifying component identifies a category for the content on the basis of the characteristic data extracted by the extracting means. An executing component executes set processing of the content using a method according to the category identified by the identifying component. In so doing, the optimal content category for the set processing is identified.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program therefor

An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&#xb1;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &#x3bc;m and 1.05 &#x3bc;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks; with the TOC information including addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks. The data (both user and TOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols, and is run length limited (RLL) modulated.

Optical disk and method and apparatus for recording and then playing information back from that disk

An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract sequentially in time, keywords from multiple character strings, and a similarity calculation unit configured to calculate similarity values of the extracted keywords included in adjacent first regions of the multiple character strings, each first region including a predefined part of the multiple character strings.

Information processing apparatus, method, and program product

An information processing apparatus which creates a predetermined piece of programming, including: a taste information acquiring module which acquires taste information showing user's tastes; a material information acquiring module which acquires a component configuring the piece of programming as material information; a construction information acquiring module which acquires construction information that describes a construction of the piece of programming and includes a motion of the component in the piece of programming; and a creating module which creates the piece of programming based on the taste information, the material information, and the construction information.

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for precisely and adequately evaluating actual quality of reproduced data whenever applying a maximum likelihood decoder for converting signal reproduced from a recording medium into binary signal Based on data arrays of a pair of binary data outputted from a 'Viterbi' decoder, SAM values are secured by selecting any of path-metric differential values (00) and (11) being the difference between a pair of values compared when renewing path-metric values PMM (00) and (11) outputted from the 'Viterbi' decoder. The minimum SAM value for an ideally-reproduced signal is outputted from a constant generating circuit. If the SAM values are verified as valid, and yet, if the SAM values coincide with the equation &#x201c;input SAM values&#x201d;&#x2266;&#x201c;data value outputted from the constant generating circuit&#x201d;, then squared values outputted from a square circuit are averaged by an averaging circuit. Finally, the average value is outputted as the reproduced signal evaluation.

Reproduced signal evaluation apparatus and method, reproduction apparatus and method, and recording apparatus and method

Method and apparatus for reproducing MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data from an optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&#xb1;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &#x3bc;m and 1.05 &#x3bc;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks. The user information is comprised of MPEG-compressed video data, which may exhibit any one of difference MPEG formats, and compressed audio data, which likewise may exhibit an MPEG format, a PCM format or the like. The TOC information includes addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks and also includes application table of contents (ATOC) information which identifies various parameters for accessing and using the user information. The data (both user, TOC and ATOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols.

Method for reproducing compressed information data from a disk using a spatial frequency less than the track pitch

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for precisely and adequately evaluating actual quality of reproduced data whenever applying a maximum likelihood decoder for converting signal reproduced from a recording medium into binary signal. Based on data arrays of a pair of binary data outputted from a 'Viterbi' decoder, SAM values are secured by selecting any of path-metric differential values (00) and (11) being the difference between a pair of values compared when renewing path-metric values PMM (00) and (11) outputted from the 'Viterbi' decoder. The minimum SAM value for an ideally-reproduced signal is outputted from a constant generating circuit. If the SAM values are verified as valid, and yet, if the SAM values coincide with the equation &#x201c;input SAM values&#x201d;&#x2266;&#x201c;data value outputted from the constant generating circuit&#x201d;, then squared values outputted from a square circuit are averaged by an averaging circuit. Finally, the average value is outputted as the reproduced signal evaluation.

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