Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Corporation

Information Broadcasting Laboratories, Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Other

Panasonic Corporation

Yasuaki Yamagishi

Naohisa Kitazato

Jun Kitahara

Yoshiharu Dewa

Tatsuya Igarashi

Kazuyuki Takahashi

Kazuhiko Takabayashi

Taketoshi Yamane

Yoshihisa Gonno

Fumihiko Nishio

Mark Eyer

Kazuo Haraoka

Masahito Mori

Norifumi Kikkawa

Tomohiro Tsunoda

Yuka Kiyama

Tomohisa Shiga

Akihiro Uetake

Ichiro Kubota

Kazuhiro Hara

Hideo Terasawa

Katsunori Hashimoto

Noboru Fujii

Ikuo Tsukagoshi

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Masaya Yamamoto

Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi

Kouji Miura

Hitoshi Nakamura

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Takashi Tsurumoto

Keiji Yuzawa

Tetsuo Maruyama

Katsumi Tokuda

Tsuneo Furuya

Yasuhiro Yukawa

Hiroshi Kuno

Hirokazu Tsuchiya

Yoshimoto Muratsubaki

Masami Yamashita

Eiji Yoshida

Fujiyuki Fukamatsu

There is provided a reception apparatus including a first acquisition unit which acquires, preceding text format second signaling data to be transmitted in a lower-level layer than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of an IP transmission system and containing control information independent of a service identified by an IP address, binary format first signaling data containing a flag indicating whether the second signaling data exists in digital broadcast using the IP transmission system, a second acquisition unit which acquires the second signaling data on the basis of the first signaling data, and a control unit which controls operation of the units which perform various types of processing on the basis of the second signaling data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver.

Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method

This information processing apparatus includes: a media reproduction unit that acquires and reproduces video data including a service object, for which a service that processes a request from a user through voice is available; and a controller that adds an additional image for informing the user about the service object to the reproduced video and saves identification information of the video data and information of a start time and an end time of the additional image, as a bookmark that is optionally selected by the user and is provided to a scene with the additional image.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for presenting reproduced video including service object and adding additional image indicating the service object

An information processing device () includes a control unit. The control unit acquires each piece of resource information related to a plurality of different resources to be used when uplink data is transmitted by streaming. The control unit selects a resource to be used by a device () that performs the streaming on the basis of the resource information that has been acquired and performs reservation for use of the resource that has been selected. The control unit generates combination information related to a combination of resources that have been reserved for use.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

An apparatus and a method by which a content such as an advertisement corresponding to a user at the reception apparatus side can be selectively outputted to the reception apparatus are provided. A transmission apparatus transmits signaling data (MPD) having a user information setting region, a control information file capable of being accessed or generated applying user information-set data generated by a process for the MPD, and a user information-corresponding advertisement capable of being acquired and reproduced on the basis of description data of the control information file. The reception apparatus sets user information to the user information setting region of the MPD, applies the generated user information-set data to acquire a control information file of a user information-corresponding advertisement, applies the description data of the acquired control information file to acquire the user information-corresponding advertisement, and outputs the user information-corresponding advertisement.

Reception apparatus, transmission apparatus, and data processing method

A reception device is provided that comprises processing circuitry configured to extract, from a digital broadcast signal based on an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme, a signaling packet that includes a service table including tuning information and bootstrap information for accessing service signaling information. The processing circuitry is further configured to extract, from the signaling packet during an initial scanning process, the tuning information and the bootstrap information, store the tuning information and the bootstrap information extracted during the initial scanning process, and control a tuning process based on the tuning information stored. The signaling packet is received based on a first protocol layer of the IP transmission scheme and the service signaling information is received based on a second protocol layer of the IP transmission scheme.

Reception device, reception method, transmission device, and transmission method

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus enabling services using broadcasting and communication to be more flexibly served, a client apparatus, and a data processing method. An information processing apparatus inserts identification information for identifying the identity of a source of content into a request for the content to more flexibly serve services using broadcasting and communication. For example, the present technology can be applied to a gateway apparatus connected to a network such as home LAN or a client apparatus capable of reproducing content.

Information processing apparatus, client apparatus, and data processing method

Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid.

Reception apparatus, reception method, program, and information processing system

The present technology relates to a reception device, a transmission device, and a data processing method that enable a flexible operation of a service using an application that accompanies content. A reception device includes: a reception unit that receives content; an acquisition unit that acquires an application in accordance with acquisition source information indicating an acquisition source of the application accompanying the content, the acquisition source information being included in control information transmitted together with the content; and a control unit that instantly starts the acquired application. The present technology can be applied to a television set capable of receiving digital broadcasts, for example.

Reception device, transmission device, and data processing method

The present disclosure relates to a network control method and a data processing system for reducing traffic in a network and reducing a processing load of an application that performs data processing. A network connection device determines, on the basis of a manifest, an optimal location for execution of an application that processes sensor data generated by a sensor device, from among the sensor device and a device on a path in a network connected to the sensor device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a network control method of cloud computing.

Network control method and data processing system

The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method with each of which it becomes possible to perform transmission of control information according to an operation form. The reception device receives first data that includes control information, which includes information necessary for channel selection of a service, and transmission sequence information indicating a sequence in which the control information is transmitted and that is transmitted in a transmission sequence corresponding to the transmission sequence information, and controls processing on second data, which includes data of a component included in the service, on the basis of the control information acquired according to the transmission sequence information. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method

The present technology relates to a receiver for efficiently acquiring a component configuring a service, a reception method, a transmitter, and a transmission method. The receiver acquires first signaling data distributed on a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting in an IP transmission system, acquires broadcast signaling data as second signaling data, acquires communication signaling data as the second signaling data when flag information included in the broadcast signaling data indicates that the communication signaling data is provided from a server over the Internet together with the broadcast signaling data, and connects to a stream of a broadcast component or a stream of a communication component thereby to control reproduction of the component on the basis of at least one of the broadcast signaling data and the communication signaling data. The present technology is applicable to TV receivers, for example.

Receiver, reception method, transmitter, and transmission method

The present technology relates to a reception device. The disclosure includes processing circuitry in the reception device configured to tune to receive a digital broadcasting stream using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme, perform a filtering process on packets on the digital broadcasting stream to identify signaling packets that include tuning information and setting information for accessing a description of a particular service, extract, from the identified signaling packets during an initial scanning process, the tuning information, store the tuning information extracted during the initial scanning process in a memory, and after the tuning information is stored, perform a tuning operation for a service and control a tuning process executed by the circuitry based on the tuning information stored in the memory.

A receiving device is provided. The receiving devices includes circuitry that is configured to execute an application related to a program or a channel, The circuitry is configured to set, based on the application, broadcast reception data from a broadcast as a media source object corresponding to a processing object of media reproduction. The circuitry is configured to obtain, based on the application, broadcast content segment information of broadcast content in the broadcast reception data that is stored in a buffer associated with the media source object. The circuitry is configured to perform, based on the application and the broadcast content segment information of a segment of the broadcast content to be replaced being obtained, replacement or appendance of the broadcast content in the broadcast reception data stored in the buffer with network content in application reception data received via a network.

Receiving device, transmitting device, and data processing method

The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which channel selection information can be acquired more efficiently. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; a communication unit that receives first signaling information for acquiring broadcast content transmitted by the broadcast wave through communication with a server via a network; an acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the first signaling information, a physical parameter used in a physical layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of the physical parameter, operations of respective units that perform channel selection processing. The present technology is applicable to a portable receiver that is movable, for example.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuaki Yamagishi