Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takashi Arimoto

Hideharu Tajima

Tetsuya Hayashi

Shigemi Maeda

Hirohisa Yamada

Yoshihisa Adachi

Toshihiko Sakai

Tetsuya Okumura

Takanobu Sato

Masaki Yamamoto

Go Mori

Noboru Iwata

Yasuhiro Harada

Takayuki Naka

Atsushi Etoh

Ikuo Nakano

Teruhisa Kotani

User convenience of data whose duplication is restricted and data created by utilizing the data is improved. An information recording device () is capable of recoding information onto an RE layer () of an optical disk (), and includes a recording and replay control section () for recording, onto the RE layer (), duplication-restricted information utilization information () created by utilizing duplication-restricted information () whose duplication onto a different optical disk is restricted.

Information recording device, information recording medium and information recording method

A three-dimensional image output device of the present invention includes a display control section for, in a case where a plurality of three-dimensional effects are set for initial sub-image data for displaying a three-dimensional image to be displayed in the sub-window, supplying, to the display device, a plurality of sub-image data, which are the initial sub-image data for which the respective plurality of three-dimensional effects are set, so that a plurality of three-dimensional images which use the respective plurality of sub-image data are displayed on the display screen.

Three-dimensional image output device, three-dimensional image output method, three-dimensional image display device, and computer readable recording medium

An image watching glasses identification device(oror) is an image watching glasses identification device(oror) for identifying a pair of shutter glassesthrough which to watch an image displayed on a display device, the image watching glasses identification device(oror) including: an identification information obtaining sectionfor obtaining an identification information item for identifying the pair of shutter glassesand; a display control sectionfor causing the display deviceto display an identification result associated with the identification information item obtained by the identification information obtaining section. This makes it possible to provide an image watching glasses identification device that is capable of causing, when a viewer watches through the pair of image watching glassesthe image displayed on the display device, the display deviceto display the identification result. The identification result enables the viewer to identify the pair of image watching glasses worn by the viewer.

Image watching glasses identification device, image watching system, pair of image watching glasses, image watching glasses identification program, computer-readable recording medium, and display device

An invention disclosed includes a layer number obtaining section () for determining which information storage layer (L) has been accessed and a layer type identifying section () for identifying a type of the information storage layer (L) determined by the layer number obtaining section (). With the configuration, even in a case where an information recording and reproducing apparatus accesses an information storage layer different from an intended information storage layer by false operation or the like, it is still possible to dissolve mismatching between a recording or reproduction control scheme being set up and a recording or reproduction control scheme suitable for the information storage layer thus accessed.

Information recording and reproducing apparatus, program for controlling same, computer-readable storage medium, method for controlling information recording and reproducing apparatus, and information storage medium

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Osaka, Japan

Takashi Arimoto