Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Takenori Ohshima

Kenichi Imai

Ikuo Tsukagoshi

Masaru Masuda

Yuichi Nishimori

Yasushi Fujinami

Toshiya Hamada

Kuniaki Takahashi

Koji Ihara

Shusuke Utsumi

Tatsuya Kakumu

Akihiko Ueda

Goro Hayakawa

To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device produces own device video data and own device sound data to be displayed and reproduced, respectively, on the video display device; displays the own device video data and reproduces the own device sound data; encodes these data into a data format which the portable video display device is able to handle, to thereby produce other device video data and other device sound data; and sends to the portable video display device. The portable video display device receives these data, and decodes and displays the other device video data, and decodes and reproduces the other device sound data.

Video display system, video display device, its control method, and information storage medium

To facilitate implementing a user operation control in a picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on a disk or the like. A picture reproducing apparatus selects and reproduces a plurality of prerecorded picture streams in the disk. A reproduction control unit is configured to reproduce the picture streams in either of two reproduction modes, i.e., a normal mode for accepting particular key inputs pertaining to picture reproduction and a menu mode for not accepting the particular key inputs. The mode in which the picture streams are reproduced may be written by contents creators in a script file which is recorded on the disk.

Picture reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium, and picture reproducing program

To effectively reproduce video depending on the performance of a reproducing apparatus. A controllerdetermines whether or not an entry of video is a beginning of a chapter of video or whether or not a scene change of the entry is important. In other words, the controllerdetermines whether or not an entry under evaluation corresponds to a time of a chapter of chapter scene change informationor whether or not the entry is an important scene change. If an entry under evaluation corresponds to a time of a chapter, the controllersets priority_flag=3 and stores it to an output server. The present invention can be applied to a game device or the like that uses for example a DVD.

Data recording device, data recording method, data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure

At step S, permission information about video data that are being reproduced is obtained from permission information that represents whether video data corresponding to encoded video data equal to or larger than an access unit are permitted to be secondarily used. At step S, it is determined whether the video data that are being reproduced have been permitted to be secondarily used corresponding to the permission information. When it has been determined that the video data that are being reproduced have been permitted to be secondarily used, at step S, the video data that are being reproduced are captured. At step S, a process using the captured video data is executed. The present invention can be applied to for example a game device that uses a DVD.

Data processing apparatus, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure

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Tokyo, Japan

Takenori Ohshima