Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yoshiaki Iwata

Kentaro Tanikawa

Kazuo Kajimoto

Toshihiko Munetsugu

Kazuhiro Nishitani

Motoji Ohmori

Masao Nonaka

Kazuhiko Yamauchi

Yuko Tsusaka

Soichiro Fujioka

Daizaburo Matsuki

Takashi Yamada

Shigeki Matsunaga

Keiji Icho

Kazuma Takeuchi

Norihiro Matsui

Tomokazu Kanamaru

Takuji Kawamoto

Yoichi Yamamoto

Hirokazu Tokuda

A video display system () includes a display device () displaying a display video image containing a transmitted background and a video image indicated by a video signal, and a video processing device () converting, based on a characteristic related to the transmitted background, the video image indicated by the video signal to be transmitted to the display device ().

Video display system

A video processing apparatus acquires audio-visual environment information that indicates an audio-visual environment of a viewer that views video. The audio-visual environment information includes information of a display size of the video that is being viewed, information of brightness around a display apparatus that displays the video, and information of a distance between the viewer and the display apparatus. The video processing apparatus corrects, depending on information indicated by the audio-visual environment information, a basic reduction amount to reduce a quantity of motion of the video that is being played back, and processes the video with use of a corrected reduction amount. In the case where the display size is large, in the case where it is dark around, or in the case where the distance from the viewer to the display apparatus is short, the reduction amount to reduce a motion is set to be large.

Video processor, video processing method, integrated circuit for video processing, video playback device

A player (content searching device) compares an acquired piece primary metadata (with running number) to a corresponding piece of primary metadata having numberin a memory unit. When no matching occurs, primary metadata with running numberis used. Then, this acquired primary metadata is compared to the piece of primary metadata having numberin the memory unit. When matching occurs, the player acquires content corresponding to running numberfrom a server and begins playback.

Content search device, content search method, program

The content copying system pertaining to the present invention is a content copying system in which multiple devices (-) cooperate to copy content to a removable recording medium (). The first device () comprises a writing unit for writing first management data which includes content identifiers (hashhash) to the removable recording medium (). A second device () storing content pieces (ep, ep) copies content pieces (ep, ep) corresponding to the content identifiers (hash, hash) included in the first management data to the removable recording medium (). Another second device () which has a content piece (ep) stored thereon copies, to the removable recording medium (), the content piece (ep) corresponding to the content identifier (hash) written to the removable recording medium ().

Content dubbing system, content recording apparatus and content dubbing method

A server stores a media content and an execution program for processing the media content, and determines a usage rule for the media content to be transmitted to a terminal. The server distributes the usage rule, the media content, and the execution program to the terminal. The terminal stores the distributed usage rule, media content, and execution program. The terminal executes the stored execution program and processes the stored media content within the bounds of the usage rule as stored. The server may perform a billing process in accordance with the determined usage rule, or select and distribute a media content or an execution program in accordance with the processing ability of the terminal or a state of communications. Moreover, the server may distribute, in addition to the execution program, middleware for constructing an operating environment for the execution program.

Media contents distribution system and method

A system, which minimizes a time delay caused by one device being unable to access a recording medium until access by another device ends, when transcoding is performed by distributed processing, includes a main device transcoding each coded piece allocated to itself from among a plurality of coded pieces of a digital stream, and writing a transcoding result onto the recording medium, in a pipeline. While the recording device is performing the transcoding and the writing, an auxiliary device transcodes each coded piece allocated to itself one by one. Having completed the transcoding of all coded pieces allocated to itself, the auxiliary device transmits its transcoding results to the recording device and has the recording device write the transcoding results onto the recording medium which is a copy destination.

Recording device, system, integrated circuit, program, and recording method

A processing apparatus that is connected with another processing apparatus via a network, receives a request for a processing from the other processing apparatus, executes the requested processing while not performing an originally intended process of the processing apparatus, and indicates that the processing apparatus is executing the requested processing, by causing an indicator to blink on and off.

Processor

A processing apparatus is connected to a network and has a content recording/playback function. The processing apparatus stores therein, in correspondence, (i) statuses of the recording/playback process and (ii) computer virus-handling processes to be performed if a detection unit detects a computer virus. If the computer virus is detected, the processing apparatus performs one of the computer virus-handling processes in correspondence with one of the statuses of the recording/playback processes.

Processor and processing apparatus performing virus protection

A given terminal of a plurality of terminals in a network system that also includes a server apparatus, the terminals respectively corresponding to characters that exist in a virtual space. The given terminal including a display unit performing, in accordance with data stored in the sever apparatus and data stored in the given terminal, a display of a scene in the virtual space in which exits a first character whose actions are determined by the given terminal and a second character whose actions are determined by another terminal Further, the given terminal including an updating unit uploading, when a user performs an operation to form a group of characters, the displayed scene, such that performance information pertaining to the other terminal is displayed in correspondence with the second character.

Client terminal for executing multiplayer application, group forming method, and group forming program

A recording device, which receives record instructions directly from a user, enables the user to give a variety of record instructions without being restricted by the recording capability of the recording device. The recording device judges whether a processing content specified in a record instruction received from the user is executable internally (step S), and if judged in the negative, selects an external device capable of executing the record instruction, based pre-collected information relating to the recording capability of one or more external devices (step S) and forwards the record instruction to the selected device (step S).

Recording device and proxy-recording device

An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a sales system including a recording medium for use in purchasing a commodity, and a register apparatus for performing processing for settlement of payment for purchase of the commodity. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a sales system including a mobile information terminal for use in purchasing a commodity, and a register apparatus for performing processing for settlement of payment for purchase of the commodity.

Sales system and recording medium

A content distribution system according to the present invention accepts content request information from a user terminal, and detects and extracts pieces of stream data of programs and commercial messages based on a keyword contained in the content request information. When splicing an extracted piece of stream data of the program with an extracted piece of stream data of the commercial message, a transition effect is added to a splicing point therebetween. A line of stream data that is generated by splicing the pieces of stream data is distributed to the user terminal.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiaki Iwata