Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Yasunori Matsui

Katsutoshi Sakao

Hirokatsu Kimata

Masashi Nakata

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Satoru Maeda

Masayuki Miyamoto

Takashi Kitajima

In a depth image compressing section of an image processing device, a depth image operation section generates a depth image by operation using photographed stereo images. A difference image obtaining section generates a difference image between an actually measured depth image and the computed depth image. In a depth image decompressing section of a content processing device, a depth image operation section generates a depth image by operation using the transmitted stereo images. A difference image adding section restores a depth image by adding the computed depth image to the transmitted difference image.

Image processing device, content processing device, content processing system, and image processing method

An image arrangement determination apparatus, a display controlling apparatus, an image arrangement determination method, a display controlling method, and a program that can determine appropriate arrangement of an individual frame image with respect to a synthetic frame image according to a given standard are provided. A captured image acquisition section () acquires a plurality of images including a first image and a second image. A margin specification section () specifies a margin when the first image is arranged by a given first arrangement method in a region occupied by a third image that is a delivery target. An arrangement determination section () determines an arrangement method by which the second image is to be arranged in the margin as a second arrangement method based on a shape of the margin and a shape of the second image.

Image arrangement determination apparatus, display controlling apparatus, image arrangement determination method, display controlling method, and program

A wireless communication terminal is disclosed which has mass data such as stream data delivered thereto efficiently over a wireless communication network so that the overall utilization efficiency of the network is improved as well. While a wireless communication terminal () is receiving stream data for its use, a main controller () checks a radio wave reception level LB coming from a receiver unit () in the terminal. If the reception level is found to drop below a predetermined level, the main controller () causes a frequency synthesizer () to control reception frequencies fed to the receiver unit () so as to receive radio waves from a plurality of base stations in the vicinity. A search is thus made for a base station which offers a radio wave reception level higher than the predetermined level and which is delivering the stream data in question, and that base station is selected preferentially.

Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method

This invention relates to a network control verification system, a control communication terminal, a server apparatus, and a network control verification method whereby a user away from a recording apparatus is notified of information such as whether the recording apparatus has completed unattended recording of a broadcast program as reserved. Specifically, a recording/reproducing apparatusrecords a broadcast program to a recording medium in accordance with unattended recording reservation settings. The apparatusextracts one picture frame from the pictures recorded on the recording medium and turns the extracted frame into a thumbnail image. The recording/reproducing apparatusthen transmits an e-mail including a recording start date, a recording start time, a recording stop time, a broadcast channel, and a recording mode regarding the recorded broadcast program to a mobile phonetogether with an attachment of the thumbnail. By checking the e-mail sent to the mobile phone, the user can verify that the recording has been completed as reserved. This invention may be applied advantageously to networked electronic apparatuses.

Network control verification system, control communication terminal, server apparatus, and network control verification method

A system for connecting networks that can automatically avoid address clashes to maintain communication in inter-network communication, which includes a storage unit for storing a table, a comparison unit for comparing an interface address which has been set up in a first interface with a second interface address which is set up in a second interface, a network suspension unit for, in response to address clash of the addresses compared by the comparison unit, suspending connection between the second network and an apparatus for connecting networks, a readout unit for reading out addresses including a first interface address which is different from the second interface address out of the table stored in the storage unit, and an address change unit for changing the interface address which has been set up in the first interface to the first interface address included in the addresses read out by the readout unit.

Network connection apparatus, connection system, and network connection method

The present invention is intended to provide an image forming apparatus and an image forming method which are high in user-friendliness and entertainment and enhanced in convenience in viewing broadcast programs. Through a modem (), program guide data are obtained from a server arranged on the Internet, the obtained program guide data are stored in an EPG memory, and viewing log data for a selected broadcast program are stored in a viewing log memory (). On the basis of the viewing log data and the program attribute of the program guide data, the viewing period of time for each program attribute is summarized and, on the basis of the summarized data, each character image formed by the image data stored in a character data memory is altered in accordance with user's liking in viewing broadcast programs.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasunori Matsui