Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yasukazu Higuchi

Isao Mihara

Yasunobu Yamauchi

Masahiro Sekine

Norihiro Nakamura

Masaaki Kikuchi

Takashi Nakamura

Daisuke Ajitomi

Masayuki Okamoto

Yoshihiro Ohmori

Takahisa Yoneyama

Takehide Yano

Yuuichi Togashi

Yoshihisa Kizuka

Toshihiro Fujibayashi

Toyokazu Itakura

Hitoshi Saijo

Sayoko Tanaka

Mieko Miyazawa

A first content is selected by a user as a processing object. A change of at least a part of the first content is detected based on a time information from a timer. After the change is detected, a second content as a next processing object, a third content related to the first content, and a fourth content related to the second content, are acquired from a content information database. The second content, the third content and the fourth content, are symbolically laid out in a virtual space. The virtual space is visually presented to the user via a display.

Apparatus and method for presenting content

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes]: a connected device information management module; a connected device information sending module; an operation state sending module; and a connected device operation module. The connected device information management module is configured to manage function information of an external device connected to the electronic device. The connected device information sending module is configured to send the function information of the external device to a portable terminal in response to a transmission request from the portable terminal. The operation state sending module is configured to send an operation state of the electronic device with respect to the external device in response to the transmission request from the portable terminal. The connected device operation module is configured to perform a functional operation of the external device specified by a request sent from the portable terminal.

Electronic device, portable terminal, computer program product, and device operation control method

Encrypted video data is decrypted as first image data. If a first image processing module includes an output processing to an outside of a first secure memory which an access from an outside of an apparatus is restricted, the first image processing module is converted to a second image processing module including the output processing invalidated. The first image data is processed using the second image processing module, by accessing the first secure memory, and second image data is generated. If a first rendering module includes an output processing to an outside of a second secure memory which an access from the outside of the apparatus is restricted, the first rendering module is converted to a second rendering module including the output processing invalidated. The second image data is rendered using the second rendering module, by accessing the second secure memory.

Image processing apparatus and method

A graphic object is rendered by means of managing a processing sequence and data, both of which pertain to a vector to be processed included in a vector data group to become inputs; extracting data pertaining to data to be processed from the vector data group which are to become inputs, in accordance with management information; computing sequence of processing of the extracted vector data; notifying management of a target point to be processed and completion of processing of a target vector, through use of the computed processing sequence information; determining whether or not fill-in of the target point to be processed is enabled, on the basis of management information about the target point to be processed, to thus compute fill-in information; and rendering a graphic object through use of the computed fill-in information.

Graphics-rendering apparatus

According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and relation item information indicating a plurality of items involved in calculating the relation and display areas each corresponding to one of the items. In the list information, pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information.

Display processing apparatus, display processing method, and computer program product

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display controller, a communication module and a determination module. The display controller is configured to display an operation screen, which is used for operating another electronic apparatus, on a display. The communication module is configured to transmit an operation signal, which indicates an operation in accordance with the operation screen, to the another electronic apparatus. The determination module is configured to determine that a function of the another electronic apparatus is activated in response to transmission of the operation signal. The display controller includes an object generation module configured to generate an object representing an operation button for activating a function of the another electronic apparatus with one operation and to arrange the generated object on the operation screen, when the determination module determines that the function is activated through a plurality of operations.

Electronic apparatus and method for assisting in remote control

Graphics-rendering operation is performed by a procedure including: inputting a vector data group representing the shape of a graphic object to a vector data group management unit; inputting, to a rendering attribute data management unit, rendering attribute data representing information pertains to internal attributes of the graphic object; inputting resource information indicating a usage status into a resource information management unit; reading the managed vector data group from the vector data group management unit; computing a feature indicating the geometrical feature of the input graphic object by means of the feature computing unit; reading the computed graphic feature level and the resource information managed by the resource information management unit; effecting switching to generation of optimum rendering data; reading the vector data group managed by the vector data group management unit and the rendering attribute data managed by the rendering attribute data management unit; generating rendering data; reading the generated rendering data and the rendering attribute data managed by the rendering attribute data management unit; and performing rendering operation.

The video input unit inputs video data. The reference data input unit inputs a plurality of reference data relating to the video data. The extraction condition determining unit determines, from the identification information of the plurality of reference data, an item of identification information in correspondence with a period of time elapsed after receipt of an output request. The reference data extracting unit extracts the reference data having the determined identification information. The analyzing unit calculates the level of similarity between the frames in the input video data and the reference data, and extracts frames whose level of similarity is greater than a first threshold value. The video generating unit generates output video data that includes the extracted frames. The output unit outputs the generated output video data.

Apparatus and method for outputting video images, and purchasing system

A display apparatus includes: a first memory to store a plurality of contents and pieces of content information including a plurality of elements; an element selector to select at least part of the plural elements correspond to a first content; a determine unit to determine whether or not the selected element matches the plural elements correspond to the contents; a generator to generate corresponding information for each of the contents based on a result of the determination; a second memory to store pieces of the corresponding information; a content selector to select a second content; a calculator to calculate degrees of association to the second content; a deciding unit to decide a arrangement positions of the plural contents except the second content according to the degrees of association calculated by the calculator; and a display unit to display the contents at the arrangement positions decided by the deciding unit.

Data display apparatus, method, and program

A display controlling apparatus stores therein first position information of pieces of data in a predetermined n-dimensional virtual space displayed on a display device, specifies second position information in the virtual space indicating positions of the pieces of data obtained after performing a rearranging process thereon, specifies intermediate position information indicating positions in a m-dimensional virtual space corresponding to a period during which the data is rearranged from the first-position-information positions into the second-position-information positions, the m being smaller than the n by 1 or more, calculates first transition paths in transitions from the first-position-information positions to the intermediate-position-information positions, calculates second transition paths in transitions from the intermediate-position-information positions to the second-position-information positions, and outputs display screen information containing the pieces of data that go through the transitions in the virtual spaces according to the first and the second transition paths.

Display controlling apparatus and display controlling method

A comprehensive degree of relevance of other moving picture contents with respect to a moving-picture content to be processed is calculated by using any one of or all of content information, frame information, and image characteristics, to display a virtual space in which a visualized content corresponding to a moving picture content to be displayed, which is selected based on the degree of relevance, is located at a position away from a layout position of the visualized content corresponding to the moving picture content to be processed, according to the degree of relevance.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasukazu Higuchi