Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoyasu Yoshikawa

Tomoyuki Ohno

Katsuhiro Miyamoto

Shuntaro Aratani

Teruki Kikkawa

Takashi Yamamoto

Yasushi Shikata

Tomoya Asanuma

Satoshi Hanamitsu

Koji Mito

Osamu Yonishi

Manabu Yamauchi

Keizo Isemura

Ichiro Sasaki

Naoto Watanabe

Takashi Yoshida

Yuichi Matsumoto

Hiroto Nishihara

Noriaki Matsui

Kenji Fukushi

Shinsuke Ubayashi

Tetsu Fukuda

Masahiro Kurahashi

Mitsuo Nimura

Ikuo Takeuchi

Satoshi Okawa

Katsuhiro Ito

Takashi Nakanishi

Masaki Tamura

Masatsugu Sasaki

Tomoki Kuroda

Kiyohiro Uemura

Kinshirou Suzawa

A recorder control apparatus which controls execution of broadcast program recording in a plurality of recorders connected thereto, comprises an acceptance unit configured to accept a request to execute broadcast program recording, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from each recorder, reservation information related to reserved program recording to be executed by the recorder after a point at which the execution request is accepted, a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of recorders, a recorder capable of executing broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request for a longest duration, based on the reservation information, and a request unit configured to request the recorder selected by the selection unit to execute broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request.

Recorder control apparatus and control method

A recording control apparatus is connected to and in communication with a recording apparatus capable of recording a broadcasting video image on a storage unit and has two or more operating state levels that differ in power consumption. The recording control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire program information about a program currently being viewed, a determination unit configured to determine a user's recording tendency level as to a program currently being viewed based on the program information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to issue a command to control the operating state level of the recording apparatus based on the recording tendency level determined by the determination unit.

Recording control apparatus and method for controlling recording control apparatus

An image control apparatus is configured to input a plurality of image data associated with a plurality of image sources and to display a plurality of images on a same screen based on the plurality of image data. The image control apparatus includes an image quality determining unit configured to determine respective image qualities of the plurality of images based on a combination of image information associated with attributes of the plurality of image sources, and an image processing unit configured to process the plurality of image data to cause the plurality of images to have the respective image qualities determined by the image quality determining unit.

Image control apparatus and image control method

A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and a location of one of the indexes in the table at which no image data is registered is searched in an ascending order of the indexes. According to the table, the images are arranged so that the focal position of each image differs from the unexposed part at the display position of the image.

Image display method, program, and image display apparatus

In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.

Television apparatus and method for controlling the same

To select a recording device for recording a program in a digital television receiver to which a plurality of recorders (recording devices) are connected, control is performed to acquire image quality information about the program to be recorded and to compare the program image quality to be recorded with the recording image quality of a recording medium for each connected recording device. Based on the result of this comparison, a recorder is selected that can secondarily record the program onto a recording medium without compromising the program image quality.

Recording control apparatus and control method for the same

A control unit, after sending information that should be displayed on a sub-display to a sub-control unit, turns power to itself off and enters a standby state. When returning to a power-on state from standby state, first a sub-control unit is started up and a power-on request is made to a main display unit, then, in the interval before completion of start-up of the main control unit, information received from the main control unitwhen it entered standby state is caused to be displayed on the sub-display.

Display apparatus and a control method therefor

An image display method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of items of moving image data on a screen include determining a virtual radius of a circular display area displaying one item of moving image data, and determining display positions of the plurality of items of moving image data on the screen such that another item of moving image data is not displayed within a circular display area having the determined radius centered at a display position of one item of moving image data. Each of the plurality of items of moving image data is displayed at the determined display positions.

Image display apparatus and method

A process time is shortened while a face detection precision is maintained high. A face detection unit for extracting a face area of a photographic subject from an image taken with a digital camera or the like includes a unit for acquiring focussing area information in an image area from image data and accessory information of image data regarding photographic conditions and the like, a unit for determining a face detection area in the image area in accordance with the focussing area information, and a unit for executing a face detection process not for a whole image area but partially for a face.

Face detecting apparatus and method

To improve ease of operation with which a user selects an image when many images are simultaneously displayed on a screen, a frame, which divides many images into 12 areas, is superimposed and displayed on a screen displaying thumbnail exhibition thereon. For example, the press of a channel key allows selecting one of the areas and moving to the selected area a focus frame indicating a candidate image for selection, and then the presses of cursor keys allow moving the focus frame to a desired image to be selected. The number of areas can be changed and displayed according to the number of channel keys when a television remote control is used, or according to the number of numeric keys when a mobile telephone is used.

Image display method and program with usage of numeric keys and cursor keys

Image display method and program with limiting of range of candidate images for selection or with automatic rotation of slant-displayed image

The present invention enables to select necessary metadata from presumed metadata candidates that are more likely to be added and to easily select metadata desired by a user, thereby reducing working load on a user largely, and facilitating the operation of adding shooting scene information even to a large amount of shot data recorded in a large-capacity recording medium. A processing process of detecting metadata associated with second contents data from the second contents data which is in a same category as first contents data, and a processing process of selectably outputting candidates of non-time information metadata to be stored, associated with the first contents data, in a storing section, based on time information metadata and non-time information metadata associated with the second contents data and time information metadata associated with the first contents data which is to be added metadata, are performed.

Metadata processing method, metadata storing method, metadata adding apparatus, control program and recording medium, and contents displaying apparatus and contents imaging apparatus

An image display controlling apparatus includes a memory for storing attention area information and date and time information for each set of image data of a plurality of images to be displayed on an image display. The attention area information is evaluated based on standard date and time information and the stored date and time information, and protection area information is produced for a protection area set within the attention area. Also an adjustment is made for listing and displaying the plurality of the images with a superimpostion controlled based on the protection area information.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tomoyasu Yoshikawa