Sony Corporation

Tadahiro Ohata

Yasushi Yamamoto

Keiko Abe

Tadao Ogaki

Shizue Okuda

Akira Matsuki

A recording medium on which material information and a program are recorded for a user to create an original electronic album in relation to a sightseeing spot, wherein the material information is recorded with situational information, such as location, date, and time, added to information, such as text, images, audio, and maps related to this sightseeing spot, and the program is made to automatically or selectably display material information related to the situational information, such as location, date, and time, recorded with images and the like prepared by a user. Thus, it is possible to create an original electronic album by oneself relatively easily.

Recording medium for creating electronic album

A digital broadcast signal processing apparatus for multiplexing on a digital broadcast signal any combination of the GPS position information of a movable body, mapping information generated by the mapping of the position information of the movable body and/or the position information of an imaging apparatus on a map, imaging area information by the imaging apparatus, object information by the imaging apparatus, and the profile information concerning the movable body, and transmitting the multiplexed signal.

Digital broadcast signal processing apparatus and digital broadcast signal processing method

A media converter capable of converting digital data of a unidirectional interface to digital data of a bidirectional interface or converting vice versa and converting digital data in commercial use to digital data for consumers or converting vice versa so that consumers are able to obtain even high quality images is provided. The media converter has a function for inputting digital data of a unidirectional interface and converting the inputting digital data to digital data of a bidirectional interface, and a function for inputting digital data of a bidirectional interface and converting the inputting digital data to digital data of a unidirectional interface, wherein the unidirectional interface is an HD-SDI (High Definition Serial Data Interface) format digital interface, and the bidirectional interface is a digital interface conforming to IEEE1394.

Media converter

On-demand image delivery server delivering designated image data based on a request from a client terminal with one or a plurality of retrieval items as a retrieval condition inputted from the client terminal, made up by a retrieval function portion, which retrieves one or a plurality of image resource databases, and a retrieval result displaying function portion, which displays on the screen of the client terminal for confirmation of contents of image data subject to delivery, simplified image data of the image data matching a retrieval condition and/or data regarding attached contents-related information.

On-demand image delivery server, image resource database, client terminal, and method of displaying retrieval result

A positioning information transmitting device for transmitting the current site data to a peripheral device(s) using wireless signals. The current side data, as the positioning information of the current site, calculated by a portable telephone signal positioning processoror a GPS unit, is transmitted to a CPUthrough an interfacing (I/F) unit. The positioning information transmitting deviceincludes a local wireless communication unitfor transmitting/receiving data to or from the peripheral device(s). The current side data is transmitted from a CPUthrough a communication controllerso as to be processed by a baseband processorof the local wireless communication unit. The so processed data is superposed by an RF processoron a carrier wave so as to be transmitted over a wireless path to a peripheral device(s) from a local wireless communication antenna

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tadahiro Ohata