Sony Corporation

Sony Cinema Products Corporation

Toshiaki Setogawa

Ayato Nakagawa

Tsuyoshi Oda

Masao Sasaki

Kentaro Tanaka

Kenji Takanashi

Nobuyuki Takasu

Masatoshi Ueno

Shinji Miyamori

Michael J Kohut

Jeffrey Edward Taylor

Matayasu Kubo

Kenji Mori

Kazuyasu Imahashi

Katsuichi Tachi

Teruyuki Yoshida

Satoshi Miyazawa

Toshihiko Kitazawa

Hiroyuki Yamauchi

Kozo Kaminaga

Nobuhisa Obikane

Masakazu Ohashi

Yozo Sato

A technique is disclosed which makes it possible to remotely monitor electronic apparatus which do not exist on a wide area network. Electronic apparatus which are used in a non-connected state to a wide area network are remotely monitored using a plurality of low order monitoring apparatus and a high order monitoring apparatus. Each of the low order monitoring apparatus issues, when a particular one of the electronic apparatus which makes an object of monitoring is connected thereto or a recording medium removed from the particular electronic apparatus is connected thereto, a notification of apparatus management information acquired from the particular electronic apparatus to the high order monitoring apparatus. The high order monitoring apparatus unitarily monitors the apparatus management information acquired through the low order monitoring apparatus.

Remote monitoring system, remote monitoring method for electronic apparatus, low order monitoring apparatus, notification method of apparatus monitoring information, high order monitoring apparatus, communication method of maintenance data, program and recording medium

A recording medium retaining data for menu control, a menu control method and an apparatus are provided for creating a menu highly expressive and attractive to the viewer. When operation of a menu button is determined on a menu created with a moving picture with sound, the menu button turns into action highlighting and the color of the button changes into a highlight color. In order to emphasize action highlighting of the menu button, a specific short moving picture with a sound is automatically replayed. After the replay of the moving picture, the display jumps to a chapter of a title selected with the menu button and a replay is started.

Recording medium retaining data for menu control, menu control method and apparatus

In an editing apparatus, the work efficiency can be improved comparing to a conventional apparatus. Storage means () having a plurality of input ports and at least one output port; and control means () for controlling the recording areas of the storage means, in which the different recording area is respectively assigned to each of a plurality of encoding means (to) as a recording area in which the encoded data is stored, the recording area in which the encoded data has been stored is assigned to the multiplexing unit (), and the recording area which is different from that of the encoded data is assigned as the recording area in which the multiplexed data is stored are provided, so that the storage means can be commonly used both in the encoding means and the multiplexing means. Thereby, the data transfer between encoding means and the multiplexing means does not performed. Therefore, the editing apparatus () which improves the work efficiency comparing to the convention apparatus can be realized.

Editing apparatus and data editing method

A data recording medium and a data replay apparatus are provided for allowing an automatic return to a menu at the completion point of a replay of one content and allowing an arbitrary jump to the next or previous content during a replay of one content. An entire disk of DVD for a musical product such as karaoke is made up of a single program chain (PGC) and tunes are divided into cells. An instruction to jump to a tune selection menu is written in a cell command (cell CMD) of each cell. On completion of a normal replay of a tune, the cell command is executed and the operation jumps to the tune selection menu.

Data recording medium and data replay apparatus

It is made possible to record, on a recording medium on which original image data before compression is recorded, data resulting from a first coding processing performed when coding the data by a variable rate compression and coding system and to code quickly in real time when performing a second coding processing from that recording medium. Video data is reproduced by a VTR from a master video tape on which source video data is recorded and the first coding processing is carried out at a compressing and coding apparatus The bit rate, allocation data, etc. obtained by this coding processing are stored in a predetermined region of the master video tape via the VTR When the master video tape is used, the second coding processing can be quickly carried out without reading the bit rate data etc. from another apparatus.

Wireless communication device having a reconfigurable matching circuit

A reproduction control data generating apparatus for generating reproduction control data containing control commands indicating a method of reproduction of audio and/or video data and menu screen data indicating a menu screen used for designation of a control command at the time of reproduction of the audio and/or video data, comprising an input operation screen displaying means for displaying an input operation screen used for the input operation of a control command and the menu screen data, a control command generating means for generating a control command in accordance with an operation with respect to the displayed input operation screen, a menu screen data generating means for generating menu screen data in accordance with an operation with respect to the displayed input operation screen, and a reproduction control data generating means for generating reproduction control data based on the generated control command and the menu screen data.

Reproduction control data generating apparatus and method of same

A data multiplexer and a method thereof for multiplexing audio data, video data and additional data for digital television broadcasting. Size information for such data may be obtained and supplied by way of a CPU bus to a CPU which utilizes such size information in controlling a multiplexing operation. The audio, video and additional data may be multiplexed under the control of the CPU without being supplied to the CPU. As a result, high speed multiplexing may be performed.

Data multiplexing apparatus and method thereof

An authoring system according to the present invention is constituted so that when an audio signal and a video signal are encoded by an encoder and converted to one system of serial data, operation can be smoothly executed by simple constitution, compared with heretofore and the progress of processing in each device can be grasped. A condition set by a user is stored in a file and the file is shared among the encoder and others.

Authoring system and the method

A motion picture film having digital audio data recorded in at least one sound track thereof. Such digital audio data includes a plurality of bytes of data each having 8 bits of data. Each respective bit of each byte of audio data is recorded in a sound track of the film in the film running direction and each byte is arranged side-by-side in a direction normal to the film running direction to form a compression processing block. C1 parity data is added to each such compression processing block and C2 parity data is added after a predetermined interval of plural compression processing blocks. Error correction may be performed by utilizing the C1 and C2 parity data for each compression processing block and at the predetermined interval of plural compression blocks.

Motion picture film and a technique for recording and/or reproducing

An image data processing method in a signal processing method for coding a picture sequence comprised of I-pictures, P-pictures, and B-pictures accommodated in GOP's, wherein when the pictures of a certain GOP among a series of GOP's are changed, the coding is performed replacing the first picture of the sequence of the changed pictures of the GOP with an I-picture of a picture number prescribed in accordance with the position of change so that coding is possible without existence of a picture in the preceding GOP.

Image data processing method and apparatus of same

A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are recorded with a spatial shift by a preset distance along the film running direction.

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Toshiaki Setogawa