Sony Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takayoshi Kawamura

Masaki Hirose

Hisao Tanaka

Takashi Furukawa

Hideki Ando

Satoshi Katsuo

Motohiro Terao

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Yoshiaki Shibata

Takaya Ono

Yoshiho Gotoh

Tatsushi Bannai

Nobuhiro Kotaka

Hirofumi Murakami

Takuji Moriya

Hiroshi Saitou

Keiichi Teranishi

Shiro Hagihara

Hisao Kimura

A captured image data management method is disclosed. Coverage direction data are input to a recorder-built-in type image capturing apparatus, and the coverage direction data are recorded to a nonvolatile memory and a record medium. The captured image data are obtained as files. A name of the file recorded on the record medium is automatically assigned based on title information contained in the coverage direction data, and the assigned file name is recorded to the nonvolatile memory and the record medium.

Captured image data management method and image capturing apparatus

A conversion apparatus and method is disclosed by which a file including data multiplexed therein can be edited or handled readily while maintaining the compatibility. A standard/independent conversion section converts a file of a standard AV multiplex format wherein video data and audio data are placed in a multiplexed state in a body into a file of an AV independent format wherein video data or audio data are placed collectively in a body. Meanwhile, an independent/standard conversion section converts a file of the AV independent formation into a file of the standard AV multiplex format.

Convertion apparatus and convertion method

An acquisition section acquires image data having a plurality of frames. Table information is written into a store when the image data is acquired. The table information includes first position information representing absolute position information of each of the plurality of frames and second position information representing relative position information when a head frame of the image data is set as a reference. A specification section specifics the second position information of a frame corresponding to a frame reproduction instruction using the first position information. A reproduction section reproduces the reproduction frame corresponding to the specified second position information. Writing of the table information into the table store is restricted when there is an instruction to reproduce the frame.

Apparatus and method for information processing

Conversion apparatus and conversion method

To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a reproduction processthat reproduces material data recorded on a discis executed, a disc information file management sectionreferences a reproduction history of a disc information file held in a disc information file hold sectionand starts reproducing material data from a position according to the reproduction history. When the reproduction process is completed, the disc information file management sectionupdates the reproduction history of the disc information file held in the disc information file hold section. A disc information file record control sectionrecords the updated disc information file on the disc

Information processing apparatus and method, program, and record medium

A reproduction device reproducing data by reading data recorded in a recording medium and buffering the read data to a predetermined buffer. The reproduction device includes: a setting unit setting a countdown time; a determination unit determining whether or not the countdown time is equal to or more than a minimum reproduction delay time; a requirement unit requiring a change of the countdown time when it is determined that the countdown time is less than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination; and a countdown unit performing countdown from a time before the countdown time earlier than a time at which reproduction of the data is started when it is determined the countdown time is equal to or more than the minimum reproduction delay time by the determination unit.

Device, method, and program for reproducing data following a countdown

The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium for said program, which are designed to facilitate the editing process and permit the recording medium to be used conveniently. The edit list editing unitgenerates the edit list (which is information about the result of editing) according to information of various kinds which has been generated by editing in the clip data editing unit. The resulting edit list is stored in the memory unit. At this time, the edit list editing unitgenerates the clip metadata for the edit list according to the clip metadata of the clips to be edited, which do not need to be in real time. The edit list editing unitgenerates the discontinuous point of the LTC corresponding to the video data of the clip to be edited and also generates the conversion table for the frame number. The present invention will be applied to the assistance system for video program production.

Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium

A recording control device for controlling a recording operation on a first recording medium on which first identification information for identifying the recording medium, first data, and data editing information which is information on an editing result of the first data are recorded includes a reading unit for reading second identification information from a detachable second recording medium on which the second identification information, first small data, and first small data editing information are recorded, a determination unit for determining whether the second identification information read by the reading unit is identical to the first identification information, and an update unit for updating the data editing information recorded on the first recording medium on the basis of the first small data editing information recorded on the second recording medium when the determination unit determines that the second identification information is identical to the first identification information.

Recording control device, recording control method, and program

To smoothly reproduce data. A clip generation sectiongenerates a clip information file that describes attribute information of each piece of essence data that are necessary to reproduce each piece of essence data generated by a data generation sectionaccording to parameter information supplied from an information obtainment section. An index file update sectiongenerates in an index file read from an optical discand stored in a RAM a clip element that describes attribute information of a clip necessary to reproduce the clip according to the parameter information supplied from the information obtainment sectionand updates the index file. The present invention can be applied to a video program creation support system.

Information process apparatus and method, program record medium, and program

The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a playback method, and a program for the same that increase the level of convenience of a recording medium and thereby, for example, enable a user to perform playback control processing and the like more easily. An information acquisition unitin a playback control unitallows a holding unitto hold an acquired an Linear Time Code (LTC) change point table. An input acceptance processing unitsupplies an accepted cue-up instruction to a cue-up processing unit. The cue-up processing unitidentifies the File Time Code (FTC) of a frame to be cued up, referring to the LTC change point tableheld in the holding unit, and supplies this information to a control unit. Based on the information, the control unitcreates cue-up command information and supplies it through a command processing unitto a disk recording/playback apparatus which displays a frame image of a frame to be cued up onto a monitor. The invention can be applied to an editing system.

Playback apparatus, playback method, and program for the same

In a recording control apparatus and method, in recording areas on an optical disk, consecutive empty areas for an ALLOCATION_UNIT are reserved as reserved areas. Multiplexed data in units of packets which can be recorded in the reserved areas is recorded in the reserved areas. A remaining part of the reserved areas in which the multiplexed data in units of packets is not recorded is freed as empty areas. Subsequently, multiplexed data is similarly recorded.

Recording control apparatus, recording control method, and program used therewith

A server apparatus for providing content data includes a generator configured to generate second management data based on first management data, the first management data managing first identification data for identifying the content data locally within the server apparatus, the second management data managing second identification data for identifying the content data globally outside the server apparatus, and an output unit configured to output the second management data generated by the generator to an external apparatus that uses the content data.

Server apparatus, data processing method, program, and communication method

A file management apparatus that includes a table management section, a file name display control section, a file access control section, and a mode switching section. The mode switching section switches an operating mode between an arbitrary file name mode and a standard file name mode.

File management apparatus, file management method, and program

A real-time reproduction determination unit determines whether or not AV data recorded in recording areas on an optical disc can be reproduced in a real-time manner. If the AV data recorded on the optical disc cannot be reproduced in a real-time manner, a compile simulation unit and a compile execution unit respectively select extents from the AV data recorded on the optical disc and relocate the extents to a relocation area.

Data-processing apparatus, data-processing method and program

An information processing apparatus includes a file-time-code (FTC) sort unit and a logical block number (LBN) scheduling unit. The FTC unit sorts data items recorded on an optical disk based on the playback times of the pieces of data. The LBN scheduling unit sorts the data items recorded by the FTC sort unit based on the recording positions of the data items on the optical disk. The LBN scheduling unit also uses the sorting result as the result of scheduling the order of reading the data items from the optical disk.

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Takayoshi Kawamura