Sony Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Multifastener Corporation

Alab Inc.

E-globaledge Corporation

Takao Takahashi

Toshiya Akiba

Masami Tomita

Masashi Ohta

Taro Suito

Kenji Nakano

Hiroshi Okada

Toshimichi Hamada

Koichi Chotoku

Noboru Murabayashi

Hisayoshi Moriwaki

Katsunari Miyata

Hiroshi Takehara

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Naohisa Arai

Hajime Inoue

Keiichiro Shimada

Masayuki Koriyama

Takatsugu Kato

Teruhiko Kori

Takayuki Sasaki

Koji Iijima

Kenji Nagashima

Hiroshi Amano

Eiji Yamamoto

Takumi Arie

Masaaki Kojima

Kimimasa Onishi

Kazuo Yoshino

Hideyuki Uemura

Koji Nagata

Yukio Kubota

Akira Sakamoto

Akihiro Kikuchi

Yoshiki Shirochi

Norio Saito

Shigeyuki Yoneyama

Keiichi Nito

Yukihiko Machida

Shigeki Ishizuka

Yuriko Kishitaka

Takao Ishido

Kimimasa Ohnishi

Tetsuji Watanabe

Masayuki Araki

Hidetsugu Umezawa

Mamoru Kugumiya

Hiroshi Yoshioka

Kazumasa Miyazaki

Yoshio Nitta

Masami Toriduka

Shigero Terushima

Niroshi Takehara

Kazunori Ishimoto

Sinzi Wakai

Yukihiro Yasuda

Shougo Sasaki

A residual seismic-resistant performance evaluation system includes a seismograph including a seismic intensity sensor, a network interface, a storage, an A/D converter, a temporary storage means and a CPU; a data processing terminal for recording and processing measurement data; and a data processing server for evaluating residual seismic-resistant performance based on the measurement data. The system causes the data processing terminal to perform the steps below: a) calculating seismic intensity data based on the measurement data; b) setting a threshold value for the seismic intensity data; determining whether or not the seismic intensity data exceeds the threshold value; and d) transmitting the seismic intensity data exceeding the threshold value to the data processing server. The system causes the data processing server to perform steps below: g) requesting at least one of the seismograph and the data processing terminal to provide the measurement data; and h) receiving the measurement data transmitted according to the request.

Residual seismic-resistant performance evaluation system

Front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a front part of a vehicle internal space, rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a rear part of the vehicle internal space, and a connection adapted to connect the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is described. Rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment controls the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment via a keyboard or game controller, thereby allowing a passenger to control the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment in a straightforward manner from the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment instead of the driver operating the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment. The rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment can be denied access to overwriting information related to music data in the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment.

In-vehicle equipment system

An audio/video synchronizing system and a monitor apparatus can provide a set of contents where the images and the sounds of the contents show lip synchronization to the user so that the user may not have any strange and uneasy feeling if only the images are transmitted wirelessly. A contents server outputs sounds of a set of contents at a timing delayed by an initial delay time (1 second) that is greater than the transmission delay time according to the PTS and the DTS defined by the contents server by taking the largest transmission delay into consideration. The monitor corrects the time base of the STC added to the video packets according to the transmission delay time and subsequently outputs the images according to the SCR, the time base of which is corrected, and the PTS and the DTS, for which the initial delay time is defined. With this arrangement, it is possible to compensate the delay of the transmission delay time and display the images at a timing synchronized with the timing of outputting the sounds. Thus, it is possible to realize lip synchronization between the sounds and the images if only the images are transmitted wirelessly.

Audio/video synchronizing system and monitor apparatus

By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal. The additional signal is then recorded in the free area instead of being inserted into the point of insertion. Since the free area is larger in size than the length of the additional signal, the rest of the free area is filled up with a portion of the existing signal adjacent to the point of insertion.

Signal reproducing method and apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal reproducing method & apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method and apparatus, signal recording / reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method and apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and appparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method & apparatus, signal recording / reproducing method & apparatus and signal recording medium

Recording method and apparatus for continuous playback of fragmented signals

In a signal record/playback apparatus and its method which performs the recording for recording a signal on the recording medium DISK and the playback for playing back the recorded signal from the recording medium DISK at the same time, the recording position and the playback position are set independently and arbitrarily. Record starting position information Pon the recording medium DISK for starting the recording is stored, playback starting position information Pon the recording medium DISK for starting the playback is stored, and the recording based on the record starting position information Pand the playback based on the playback starting position information Pare independently performed, so as to realize a signal record/playback apparatus and its method which can set the record starting position Pand the playback starting position Parbitrarily.

Signal record/playback apparatus and method featuring independent recording and playback processing

To perform non-normal speed reproduction without preventing a user from understanding of the program content. The audio data which has been blocked into blocks of a predetermined time unit is stored in a buffer. Blocks having the level equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value are treated as silence data, and the block numbers are stored in a silence pointer buffer. A read out address generating unit does not read out blocks which is stored in the silence pointer buffer when the read out address buffer reads out audio data blocks from the buffer. The audio data from which silence data blocks have been excluded is subjected to connection processing in a waveform connection processing unit so that noise is not generated. A skip pattern generating unit controls a video data processing unit so that the video data is sent out with skipping some video data corresponding to blocks treated as silence block stored in the silence pointer buffer.

Apparatus and method for reproduction and distribution medium

A video signal recording/reproduction apparatus utilizes time division writing and reading to implement simultaneous recording and reproduction of different video signals to and from a common recording medium. In one operating mode, a first video signal being recorded and a second video signal being reproduced are simultaneously displayed in separate windows on a display. In other operating modes, two or more video signals are simultaneously recorded or reproduced to/from a common recording medium, and simultaneously displayed in separate windows.

Video signal recording/reproduction apparatus and method with multi-picture display

Recording and playback apparatus for continuous playback of fragmented signals

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Tokyo, Japan

Takao Takahashi