Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Maxell, Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Takumi Okamura

Kenji Katsumata

Satoru Takashimizu

Yuji Yamamoto

Takuya Matsumoto

Yuji Hatanaka

Shuko Sei

Toshinori Murata

Takanori Eda

Shigeru Yoneda

Yumi Bando

Masaru Nanki

Akihiko Kandori

Takahiro Sato

Yuichi Ninomiya

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Shigeru Hirahata

Yasutaka Tsuru

Yuko Sano

Toshihiro Kato

Kazuhiro Kaizaki

Shinobu Torikoshi

Tomohiko Mizuguchi

Noboru Kojima

Koichi Yamaguchi

Kanako Esaki

Toshiyuki Sakamoto

Yoshikazu Sugiyama

Toshiro Ohmura

Tomochika Yamashita

Isao Kondo

Tamotsu Nagabayashi

Shoji Kimura

Moriyoshi Akiyama

Tetsuo Mitsuhashi

Satoshi Imuro

Shinya Katsuki

Yasushi Saito

A brain dysfunction assessment device () comprises: a body movement indicator () which presents a body movement to be performed to a subject with a body movement presentation device (); a body movement data acquisition unit () which acquires the subject's body movement data with a body movement detection sensor (); a body movement accuracy calculation unit () which calculates a positional accuracy and a time sequence accuracy of the subject's body movement from the acquired body movement data; and a cognitive dysfunction assessment unit () which assesses the level of cognitive dysfunction of the subject by comparing a value which indicates the accuracy of the subject's body movement that is obtained from the calculated positional accuracy and time sequence accuracy with statistical data which indicates the accuracy of body movement of healthy individuals.

Brain dysfunction assessment method, brain dysfunction assessment device, and program thereof

In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracted from the digital broadcasting signal. Then, the separated/extracted broadcasting signal is supplied to a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the recording/reproducing apparatus, the supplied broadcasting signal is recorded, and the recorded program can be immediately reproduced without complicated manipulating operations during the signal reproducing operation.

Receiving apparatus for digital broadcasting signal and receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus thereof

In a transmission apparatus, still picture outputting control information is multiplexed to a transmission signal and in a receiving apparatus, still picture is extracted from moving picture. Still picture data to be outputted can be processed and the charge can be set for each kind of processing. A broadcasting system and a receiver can output the still picture data of which the copyright is protected in accordance with use.

Data transmission and receiving apparatus for digital broadcast signals which include control information

In a digital broadcasting receiver, an identification information of the image or audio signal detected from the received digital information, and an identification information stored in an identification information memory means are compared one after another. The image/audio mute means is controlled not to output a disordered image/audio signal on the basis of the comparison result. On the basis of the comparison result, the viewer is informed by the identification information output means that resolution/quality of the received image/audio signal is changed. The identification information showing the image resolution and audio quality is inserted into digital information, and the digital information with the identification information is transmitted in a digital broadcasting transmitter.

Digital broadcasting receiver

A television signal receiving apparatus and method is provided having channel decode means for receiving a signal with a video signal, a sound signal, a data signal, and additional data multiplexed to perform tuning, demodulation, and error correction on the received signal and a demultiplexor for separating the multiplexed signal to output coded data of each of the video signal, the sound signal, and the data signal and for extracting service information as one of additional data. A storage device is provided for storing the service information extracted from the demultiplexor, together with a write controller for controlling writing into the storage device, and a read controller for controlling reading of the storage device according to a user command entered by a user. A source decoder is also provided for decoding the coded data outputted from the demultiplexor using the information outputted from said storage device to output the video signal, the sound signal, and the data signal. The storage device records the service information supplied from the demultiplexor, and the read controller performs control such that necessary data are read from the storage device as required by the user, thereby enhancing the speed of processing associated with the service information to provide a quick response to the user requirement. Also, the write controller can control storage such that only necessary information for the next processing operation is stored, thereby reducing the size of the storage device which is necessary.

Television signal receiving apparatus and method specification

An arrangement to automatically change between a scrambled digital data output and descrambled digital data output of a receiver by inserting a control signal conforming to a program provider's policy into a transmission signal. In a receiving side, a descrambler descrambles a channel-decoded signal, a demultiplexer demultiplexes the multiplexed signal from the descrambler into encoded video and audio data for output to a source decoder, and extracts the control information inserted in the transmitting side for output to a switch or CPU. The CPU decrypts a control signal from the control information extracted by the demultiplexer to determine whether the scrambled digital signal or descrambled digital signal is appropriate for output, and outputs a changeover control signal depending on the result of decryption. A switch selects the output of a scrambled digital signal from a stage prior to the descrambler, or a descrambled digital signal from a stage subsequent to the descrambler, depending on the changeover control signal from the CPU. Thereby, a scrambled digital signal output or descrambled digital signal output can automatically be changed over depending on a program provider's policy.

Digital broadcast transmitting and receiving system and transmitting and

An apparatus and a method for receiving television signals can display a television signal of a novel signal format, even at a low cost, without addition of any hardware. The apparatus and a method for receiving a television signal employs a data input unit for receiving video data encoded by any one format among multiple kinds of encoding formats, a video data memory for storing the video data from the data input unit, a decoding process program memory for storing multiple kinds of decoding process programs for decoding processes corresponding to received video data having multiple kinds of encoding formats, a programmable logic device which can vary the hardware constitution for the decoding process, a logic device varying unit for varying the hardware constitution for the decoding process, a decoding control unit for varying the circuit constitution of the programmable logic device via the logic device varying unit depending on the encoding format of the input video data and decoding the video data stored in the video data memory into a video signal which may be displayed depending on the decoding process program, and a display for displaying the decoded video signal.

Video decoder/converter with a programmable logic device which is

There is disclosed a compatible television receiver capable of receiving and reproducing both the standard system television signal and the high definition television signal and capable of confining the degradation of picture quality of the high definition television signal to the minimum, in which the received standard system television signal and high definition television signal are respectively converted to non-interlace signals, and scanning is selectively performed with either of non-interlace video signals to display images. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises a first conversion circuit for receiving an interlace standard system television signal and converting it into a non-interlace television signal, a second conversion circuit for receiving an interlace high definition television signal and converting it into a non-interlace televison signal, a circuit for discriminating whether the received signal is the standard system television signal or the high definition signal, and a circuit for selecting either of outputs of the first and second conversion circuits on the basis of the result obtained in the discrimination circuit.

Television receiver compatible with both standard system television

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Yokohama, Japan

Takumi Okamura