Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Takuya Kinoshita

Masafumi Takahashi

Azusa Umemoto

Seiji Imanishi

Ryosuke Ohmae

Yohichi Eguchi

Tatsuo Sudo

Aya Enatsu

Masafumi Hirata

Keisuke Tsuji

Masayuki Etoh

Shinichi Katoh

Soichi Nitta

Kiyotaka Kashito

Katsuo Doi

Hirofumi Furukawa

Toru Ueda

Satoshi Terada

Minehiro Konya

Kenji Mameda

Mitsunori Nojima

Yohei Iwami

Hiroyuki Nakaoka

Kentaro Sakakura

Ryota Yagi

Hideyuki Otokawa

Takashi Nakajima

Satoshi Eguchi

Masaki Hasiura

Toshihide Hagawa

A wireless transmission system is provided that can minimize the control command transmission amount by operating a plurality of sink devices in conjunction with each other with respect to each group. The wireless transmission system includes: a bridge device () which wireless-transmits an AV content; and a plurality of wireless sink devices () which reproduce the wireless-transmitted AV content. The bridge device () has a group identification table which stores a group identifier for identifying a group formed by the wireless sink device (). The bridge device () adds a group identifier extracted from the group identification table to a control command for controlling the sink devices () and wireless-transmits the control command having the group identifier. The wireless sink devices () receive a control command wireless-transmitted from the bridge device () if a corresponding group identifier is added to the control command.

Wireless transmission system, relay device, wireless sink device, and wireless source device

A system () includes a monitor () and a STB (). The STB () notifies the monitor () of a request for reconnection with the monitor () with the use of a new channel in a case where it is determined that overflow has occurred. The monitor () determines whether or not underrun has occurred in a receive buffer in which video data supplied from the STB () is buffered.

Output system and display system

When reproducing AV data transmitted from a source device by multicast wireless transmission, a sink device can check the wireless connection status of other sink device which reproduces AV data from the same source device. The sink device () includes: an AV reception portion which receives AV data through multicast wireless transmission from the source device (); a reproduction portion which extracts and reproduces AV data transmitted to the sink device () from the received AV data; and a device information receiving portion that wirelessly receives a portion or whole of the sink device information managed in the source device (). The sink device information correlates identification information for identifying a plurality of sink devices (, . . . ) containing the sink device () with state information indicative of wireless connection status of the sink devices (, . . . ).

Sink device and wireless transmission system

Disclosed is a wireless transmission system provided with: a sink device which, when AV data transmitted by means of multicast wireless transmission from a source device is reproduced, performs reproduction control in accordance with the wireless connection state of another sink device that reproduces the AV data from the same source device; and the source device which is capable of determining the wireless connection state and the reproduction control state of the sink device. When the AV data obtained by means of multicast wireless transmission from the source device () is reproduced, the sink device () acquires state information indicating the wireless connection state of the other sink device and adjusts reproduction control for the AV data of the actual sink device () in accordance with this state information. The source device () acquires information on the wireless connection state and the reproduction control state of each sink device and stops or restarts transmission of the AV data on the basis of this information.

Sink device, source device and wireless transmission system

A television () includes: an image data receiving section () for receiving, from the outside, image data storing therein process specifying information; and a controlling section () for controlling an image processing section () so as to carry out a process specified by the process specifying information stored in the received image data. Thus, it is possible to cause the television () to carry out the desired process by causing the television () to receive the image data including the process specifying information for specifying the process which should be carried out by the television ().

Operating system that includes an image data receiving device and an operation device for processing image data sets

A wireless transmission system is provided that can minimize the control command transmission amount by operating a plurality of sink devices in conjunction with each other with respect to each group when performing a wireless AV transmission. The wireless transmission system includes: a bridge device () which wireless-transmits an AV content; and a plurality of wireless sink devices () which reproduce the wireless-transmitted AV content. The bridge device () has a group identification table which stores a group identifier for identifying a group formed by the wireless sink device (). The bridge device () adds a group identifier extracted from the group identification table to a control command for controlling the sink devices () and wireless-transmits the control command having the group identifier. The wireless sink devices () receive a control command wireless-transmitted from the bridge device () if a corresponding group identifier is added to the control command.

A televisionof the present invention is a televisionfor processing display data and displaying an image based on the processed display data, the display data containing the image and a control script that defines at least a function of displaying the image, wherein the televisionincludes a basic function executing sectionfor executing a basic function program called from the control script, the basic function program being stored in a basic function program storage section; and a control script executing sectionfor controlling basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to perform a first function for displaying the image, the first function being defined by the control script, the control script further defines a second function which the televisionperforms while the image is being displayed by the first function, and the control script executing sectioncontrols the basic function executing sectionaccording to the control script so as to execute the second function.

Image display apparatus, image data providing apparatus, and image display system providing a control script for executing basic functions

A control section of a slideshow display device includes a display control section. The display control sectioncauses a list of thumbnails to be displayed when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a predetermined point in time. As such, when display delay occurs, a list of thumbnails can be displayed, instead of the target image. This realizes an image display device which prevents a user from being subject to stress when display delay occurs in slideshow display.

Image display device, image display method, image display system, image data transmitting device, program, and storage medium

An information server apparatusincludes a communication portionreceiving a request for getting information including a set of information source specifying information and time specifying information from a client, a user request information analyzing portionand a table reference portionanalyzing the request for getting information and selecting information to be transmitted to the client terminal apparatus based on the result of analysis. Further, communication portionreturns the selected information to the client.

Information server apparatus, client terminal apparatus, sub-client apparatus, information processing method and storage medium having stored program therefor

When a content playback apparatus has detected a content data acquisition error in a process of acquiring title screen content serving as next content that is to be reproduced after top screen content, the content playback apparatus reproduces sub-content contained as error-handling information in the top screen content, and then displays an error screen. The error screen is contained as sub-content in the top screen content, and therefore can be changed flexibly. This makes it possible to provide a content playback apparatus capable of performing error handling flexibly in accordance with the content being reproduced.

Content playback apparatus, content playback method, and storage medium

A picture display apparatus, comprising: a synthesizing section for synthesizing divided screens to display a plurality of pictures on a single screen; a menu display section for displaying a menu in which a list of options is displayed, the options enabling a user to select a change to be made to at least one of a number, shapes, relative sizes, and relative positions of the divided screens and types of the pictures, so that the user can select from the options to switch to a corresponding screen arrangement; an icon display section for displaying an icon indicating a border between the divided screens in association with the options; and a border changing section for updating the divided screens according to a change in position of the border, wherein the icon display section displays the icon indicating a result of the change in position of the border before the border changing section updates the divided screens according to the change in position of the border. Thus, the user is informed of what the screen will look like before entering a change of the border.

Picture display apparatus with selectively divided screens, picture display method for selectively dividing screens, and storage medium

Upon receipt of operation entry for processing and editing a currently displayed slide, an operation information generating section generates operation information corresponding to this entry. An operation information reflecting section performs editing on the basis of the operation information and stores the operation information regarding the editing in a storage section. Upon receipt of slide data from the server device, the operation information reflecting section reads operation information of the past regarding this slide data, and generates a display screen in such a manner that editing corresponding to the read operation information is reflected in the received slide data. This makes it possible to display slide data stored in the server device on an image display device in a manner that a user wants, without increasing load on the server device.

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program image data transmission program, and storage medium storing an image data transmission program

Image display device, image data transmitting device, image display system, image display method, storage medium storing an image display program, image data transmission program, and storage medium storing the image data transmission program

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Chiba, Japan

Takuya Kinoshita