Fujitsu Corporation

Sony Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sankyo Company, Limited

Sony Electronics Inc

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Ube Industries, Inc.

Yasushi Takahashi

Kiichi Sakamoto

Yoshihisa Oae

Akio Yamada

Yoshihito Fujiwara

Junichi Kai

Kimiyoshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yasuda

Shunsuke Fueki

Koichi Kobayashi

Haruo Tsuchikawa

Jinko Kudou

Toshiyuki Konosu

Nobuyuki Yasutake

Sadao Oida

Kenichi Kawashima

Teruo Tanaka

Takayuki Miyazaki

Yawara Tajima

Takeo Miyaoka

Atsushi Somada

Makoto Watanabe

Semyon B Mizikovsky

Yoshio Osakabe

Kenichi Miyazawa

Kenichi Takanashi

Tomohiko Abe

Takamasa Satoh

Soichiro Arai

Kazuo Sugiyama

Geoffrey Anderson

Kazutaka Taki

Masahiko Suzuki, Deceased

Shinji Miyaki

Takashi Saito

Takashi Seto

Tsuneo Kurotori

Koichi Emura

Ryosuke Kasahara

Tomio Kimura

Hitoshi Kimura

Yoshiaki Shibata

Issei Abe

Mikio Kamada

Fumio Kishi

Isao Kawamoto

Peter Douma

Toshiyuki Kawasaki

Hitoshi Watanabe

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Yasuo Shimoji

Masaaki Akahane

Kenji Sugishima

Moritaka Nakamura

Satoshi Ohya

Eiichi Katoh

Keiichi Tabata

Yukiko Hamano

Ichiro Honjo

Yukio Utsui

Hayato Yoshida

Nobuhiko Shibakawa

Manabu Ohno

Masami Higuchi

Shuji Morii

Naoki Moniwa

Terumasa Aoki

Yasutaka Ban

Katsuya Ishikawa

Masakuni Kutsuwada

Keiji Matsunobu

Junko Hatta

Katsuhiko Kojima

Toyotaka Kataoka

Tomiyasu Saito

Masaaki Akahanc

Peter Doums

Jun-ichi Kai

Masatoshi Miura

Etsuro Itoh

Yoshimi Fujihara, Deceased

A regular edition video of a video title is split into shots or scenes with time codes, and provided information, which is the semantic evaluation of the story, is added to the respective scenes to organize the scene score. Necessary scenes for each purpose are extracted on the basis of the scene score and a threshold value (process Pr). Video characteristic evaluation information is added for each shot constituting each of the extracted scenes so as to organize the shot score (process Pr). Optimum shots for each of the extracted scenes are selected on the basis of a predetermined rule suitable for the purpose (process Pr). The optimum shots are sequentially cut out from the regular edition video (process Pr), thus automatically organizing a preview video suitable for the purpose (process Pr).

Method for editing video information and editing device

The present invention is relative with a reproducing apparatus and a receiving apparatus for affording the impression or evaluation in line with the intention of a content supplier to the audience. The reproducing apparatus reproduces an optical disc () in which the contents and the estimated evaluation values are recorded at the outset. The estimated evaluation values recorded on the optical disc () have been set by the content supplier based on estimated impression or evaluation by the audience on the content. As the reproducing apparatus reproduces the content, the apparatus measures the reaction of the audience by a reaction value inputting unit (), calculates the impression or evaluation by the audience for the content by a recognition evaluation value calculating unit () and compares the recognized evaluation values to the estimated evaluation values read out from the optical disc () in a control evaluation value calculating unit (). Based on the results of comparison, a system controller () changes the picture brightness or the sound level in subsequent scenes or shots to vary the site or sequence of reproduction of the optical disc () to change the ensuing story development. The estimated evaluation values and/or the content can be received by a receiving apparatus over a communication network.

Device for reproducing content such as video information and device for receiving content

A wide-angle lens is disclosed that includes a front lens group and a rear lens group that are arranged in order from an object side to an image side with an aperture being arranged between the front lens group and the rear lens group. The front lens group includes at least two lenses arranged toward the object side that have negative powers, and at least one lens arranged toward the image side that has a positive power. The rear lens group includes at least one lens having a positive power. One of the lenses of the front lens group arranged second in order from the object side has a lens face that is arranged into an aspheric surface. The front lens group, the aperture, and the rear lens group make up an image forming system having an angle of view greater than 180 degrees.

Wide-angle lens and image capturing apparatus

Video information editing method and editing device

A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on the basis of answers on daily items of the user, typical situation dependent keyword(s) of the user in one or more individual typical situations previously prepared is(are) created in accordance with the degree of typical liking tendency of the user and typical situation dependent keyword(s) is(are) revised in accordance with the habitual situation characteristics of the user, so that keyword(s) according to the actual situation of the user can be created.

Keyword creation method and its apparatus

The present invention extracts information related to rendering from structured scenario descriptionthat describes information related to objects and the rendering, extracts a rendering setup corresponding to information related to the extracted rendering from rendering knowledge base, extracts a moving picture corresponding to the objects described in structured scenario descriptionfrom moving picture component databaseand produces rendering on the extracted moving picture using the extracted rendering setup, and can thereby create a moving picture subjected to effective rendering.

Apparatus and method for creating moving picture

A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on the basis of answers on daily items of the user, typical situation dependent keyword(s) of the user in one or more individual typical situations previously prepared is (are) created in accordance with the degree of typical liking tendency of the user and typical situation dependent keyword(s) is (are) revised in accordance with the habitual situation characteristics of the user, so that keyword(s) according to the actual situation of the user can be created.

Based on a user's own basic selection tastes, the priority order of the information is determined, so that an information retrieval method and the apparatus which can retrieve the information desired by the user easily among from a huge amount of programs can be realized.

Information retrieval method and apparatus

A feature video image vdt and a thumbnail picture sdt read from a receiving section Care recorded onto a mass storage medium Mand meta information mdt is recorded into a high-speed storage unit CSemantic browser means Cextracts a partial video image from the feature video image on the basis of the meta information mdt so as to organize a preview video image, and also displays a semantic graph and a current position on the screen on the basis of the meta information and replays the feature video image or the preview video image from that position when there is a position designation input. Furthermore, when there is a browsing instruction input, the semantic browser means Ccarries out browsing between the feature video image and the preview video image, or browsing within the feature video image or within the preview video image. An accounting section Ccarries out accounting processing.

Screen control method

In an information retrieval method and apparatus, a specific user model is formed for a specific user based at least upon the specific user's own selection data. A plurality of specific user models formed for respective users are registered, and a group user model is formed on the basis of the plurality of specific user models. Information is subsequently retrieved based on the group user model. The group user model may be formed by selecting a maximum, minimum or average value of the plurality of specific user models.

There is provided an information processor and an information processing method for effectively utilizing EPG data. Identification codes for identifying specific character parts such as names of the cast of a program described in a description text describing the detail of the program in EPG data are inserted within the description text and are transmitted by a transmitter. Based on the identification codes inserted in the EPG data, the specific character parts are sampled from the description text and predetermined processing steps are performed based on the sampled result in a receiver. That is, the display color of the specific character parts is differentiated from that of the other part in displaying the description text on a monitor for example. Or, a list of the names of the cast of the program is displayed as the sampled specific character parts and when the user selects a certain player, EPG of the program in which the player appears is displayed.

Information processor, information processing method as well as broadcasting system and broadcasting method

An information display method comprises a first display step of displaying information icons EY for guiding respective information on a part of a display screen as the base units of an information guide; a second display step of displaying the summaries of information corresponding to the information icons EY in the forms of titles TY at display positions corresponding to the information icons EY; and a third display step of displaying the explanation of the contents of the information which corresponds to the information icons EY at positions respectively corresponding to the information icons EY and the displays of the titles TY. The respective display steps can be switched or changed by a viewer or a user, so that desired information can be more readily and understandably retrieved.

Information display method

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