Sony Corporation

Taro Suito

Masashi Ohta

Toshiya Akiba

Masami Tomita

Takao Takahashi

Toshimichi Hamada

Koichi Chotoku

Katsunari Miyata

Noboru Murabayashi

Naohisa Arai

Tadafusa Tomitaka

Takayuki Sakamoto

Masakazu Koyanagi

Naoyasu Hosonuma

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Tatsuya Narahara

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Ryo Takaoka

Masayoshi Miura

Koji Kageyama

Takuma Morita

Takashi Karimoto

Kazuhiro Yanase

Yukihiro Isono

Yasuhiro Muramatsu

Yoshiaki Arishima

Kei Hisano

Takeshi Yamauchi

Masanori Muroya

Rui Sugiuchi

Takashi Murayama

Yasuaki Yorikane

An information processing apparatus includes: a content-list creating unit for selecting, on the basis of a predetermined subject, contents out of recorded program contents, information contents concerning receivable program contents, contents acquired from an outside, and contents stored in the information processing apparatus in advance to thereby create a content list; a content-list selecting unit for selecting out of plural content lists created by the content-list creating unit, on the basis of at least one of contents of the content lists and a situation during user operation, plural content lists to be displayed; and a display control unit for causing a predetermined display unit to display the plural content lists selected by the content-list selecting unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program for generating content lists

Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or not a static picture extracted by the extracting means can be used as a representative picture; and setting means for setting the static picture as a representative picture in accordance with an outcome of a judgment formed by the judgment means.

Video-signal recording and playback apparatus, video-signal recording and playback method, and recording medium

An image data processing apparatus includes recording means for recording contents data containing moving image data, which is encoded by a first scheme, moving image decoding means for loading the contents data recorded in the recording means and decoding the moving image data, still image encoding means for obtaining image data, which corresponds to the image to be displayed at a predetermined time, as data of a still image of image data, which is the moving image data decoded by the moving image decoding means and encoding the image data by a second scheme, and time information creating means for creating information on the time when the still image is shot based on information added to the encoded moving image data.

Image data processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium

An information processing apparatus capable of accurately detecting commercials included in a television broadcast. A commercial candidate section detector detects a commercial candidate section based on the characteristics of transitions between a program and a commercial and based on the characteristics of commercials. Transitional criteria include quiet sections, scene change points and changes in the audio multiplex mode. A commercial block detector detects a commercial block, which is composed of a plurality of commercial sections and is interposed between program portions, in conformity with the number of frames of the individual commercial candidate sections detected by the commercial candidate section detector, and then outputs to a switch a control signal based on the result of such commercial block detection.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and distribution media

A video signal processing apparatus and a video signal processing method are capable of outputting a display having a high picture quality by effectively utilizing an output resolution. A microcomputer controls a shrinkage filter, a memory and an enlargement filter to carry out a resolution conversion process of converting the signal format of a video signal into a selected output signal format depending on the output format setting of a D terminal of the video processing apparatus, and outputs the video signal.

Video signal processing apparatus and method

By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal. The additional signal is then recorded in the free area instead of being inserted into the point of insertion. Since the free area is larger in size than the length of the additional signal, the rest of the free area is filled up with a portion of the existing signal adjacent to the point of insertion.

Signal reproducing method and apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal reproducing method & apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method and apparatus, signal recording / reproducing method and apparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method and apparatus, signal recording/reproducing method and appparatus and signal recording medium

Signal recording method & apparatus, signal recording / reproducing method & apparatus and signal recording medium

The invention provides a broadcast signal recording and playback apparatus and method which can detect a CM included in a television broadcast signal with certainty without an error. A CM candidate period detection section detects a CM using an audio mode signal outputted from a tuner, a sound absence discrimination output from a sound absence detection section and a scene change detection output from a scene change detection section as basic materials. A detection operation discrimination section limits operation of the CM candidate period detection section when it is known that the broadcast signal includes no CM or when the electric field is weak.

Broadcast signal recording and playback apparatus and method as well as recording medium

Recording method and apparatus for continuous playback of fragmented signals

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