Sony Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Yoshiaki Shibata

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Takayoshi Kawamura

Nobuhiro Kotaka

Masaki Hirose

Minoru Kawahara

Takumi Yoshida

Hiroaki Deguchi

Yasushi Takahashi

Katsumi Tahara

Takao Suzuki

Hisao Tanaka

Tatsushi Bannai

Hitoshi Kimura

Fumihiro Nagasawa

Mikio Kamada

Hideaki Mita

Tetsuya Narita

Seiji Kawa

Tsuyoshi Kawabe

Junzo Tokunaka

Ryosuke Hayashi

Hiroshi Saitou

Manabu Hatakenaka

Yuuichi Motomura

Yusuke Kitamura

Masatoshi Miura

Hiroshi Kajita

Kazuhiko Sayama

A video signal generating apparatus is disclosed which includes: a camera configured to generate a video signal; an operating device configured to operate at least either the camera or an apparatus configured to receive the video signal; a text data generating device configured to generate text data including a meaningful term in response to the operation performed on the operating device; and a text data inserting device configured to insert the text data generated by the text data generating device into the video signal in a corresponding manner.

Video signal generating apparatus, video signal receiving apparatus, and video signal generating and receiving system

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a receiving unit which receives event information capable of specifying a type of an event; a template acquiring unit which acquires a template of the event of the type specified by the event information received by the receiving unit as a template which becomes a source of an editing list of a plurality of scenes; an editing list creating unit which creates the editing list of the plurality of scenes based on the template acquired by the template acquiring unit; and a digest creating unit which creates data of the plurality of scenes included in the editing list created by the editing list creating unit from one or more photographed materials acquired from another information processing apparatus and creates a digest by combining the created data of the plurality of scenes.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and information processing system

A recording apparatus is provided. The recording apparatus divides a material including video and/or audio information and records divided materials onto a plurality of recording media. The recording apparatus includes a control unit configured to divide the material into a plurality of divided materials and to prepare, for each of the divided materials, reproduction procedure information including recording information for the divided materials; an interface configured to attach the plurality of recording media; and a recording device configured to record the divided materials and the reproduction procedure information including recording information for the divided materials onto separate recording media for the respective divided materials.

Recording apparatus, recording method, reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, recording and reproduction apparatus, recording and reproduction method, image capturing and recording apparatus, and image capturing and recording method

To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update processthat updates video data and audio data recorded on a discis executed, an index file management sectionmanages and updates an index file held in an index file hold sectionas the video data and audio data are updated. At this point, a search sectionsearches disc internal IDs assigned to clips or edit lists contained in the index file for the maximum value. A disc internal ID generation sectiongenerates a disc internal ID according to the maximum value. An index file management sectionupdates the index file with the disc internal ID generated by the disc internal ID generation section

Information process apparatus and method, program, and record medium

The present invention provides a file structure analyzing apparatus for analyzing a file including a group of structured data formed into a tree structure by having a plurality of distinct element packets referenced externally, each of the distinct element packets including a unique identifier for identifying the distinct element packet in question and an external referrer for indicating an external reference destination at which to reference externally another distinct element packet using the unique identifier of the latter packet, the file structure analyzing apparatus including: a distinct element packet input section; an external referrer holding section; a unique identifier holding section; and a reference relationship analysis section.

File structure analyzing apparatus, file structure analyzing method, and program

An editing apparatus for performing editing in which a second video is added to or inserted into a first video, includes: an editing unit performing the editing; a generating unit generating a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of the first video, as an edited video electronic mark, which is an electronic mark indicating characteristics of an edited video obtained as the result of the editing; a detecting unit detecting, of the first electronic marks, a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of a first video corresponding to an editing section, as an invalid electronic mark; and a deleting unit deleting the invalid electronic mark from the edited video electronic marks.

Editing apparatus, editing method, and program

There is provided a recording device for generating and coding metadata, the recording device including a metadata describing part for describing the metadata; and a coding part for coding the metadata described in the metadata describing part in a binary format, and generating coded data; wherein the metadata describing part describes alternative information for embedding alternative data to the coded data when data is not present for a non-essential item in the metadata; and the coding part performs coding with the alternative data embedded when the alternative information is described.

Recording device, recording method, computer program, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein setting data to be used in image pickup can be set precisely to perform desired image pickup. The information processing apparatus may include a recording control section configured to control recording of image data obtained by image pickup and setting data used in the image pickup, and a reproduction section configured to reproduce the setting data. The information processing apparatus may further include an acceptance section configured to accept a variation amount to a value corresponding to the setting data inputted by a user, and a variation section configured to vary the setting data reproduced by the reproduction section based on the variation amount accepted by the acceptance section. The recording control section may control recording of the setting data varied by the variation section. The invention can be applied typically to a personal computer.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method as well as program

A video signal processing apparatus capable of flexibly handling metadata having various notation formats is provided. The video signal processing apparatus has metadata notation format identification block for identifying a metadata notation format written in a predetermined language; a conversion table selection block for selecting a conversion table corresponding to the identified metadata notation format from among one or more conversion tables prepared in advance; a metadata notation format conversion block for converting the metadata notation format into a notation format compatible with the video signal processing apparatus on the basis of the selected conversion table; and a metadata application processing block for controlling the processing associated with video signals on the basis of the metadata whose notation format has been converted.

Video signal processor, video signal recorder, video signal reproducer, video signal processor processing method, video signal recorder processing method, video signal reproducer processing method, recording medium

A transmitter-receiver system, an information processing apparatus an information processing method and a program are provided. A transmitter-receiver system includes: a transmitting apparatus configured to transmit an edited result obtained by editing data in a plurality of files; and a receiving apparatus configured to receive the edited result from the transmitting apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store the files and editing information about the edited result; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the editing information from the storage unit; a read unit configured to read data in the files based on acquired editing information; a creating unit configured to create a single file as an edited result from read data; a transmitting unit configured to transmit the edited result to the receiving apparatus, and the receiving apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the edited result from the edited result transmitting unit.

Transmitter-receiver system, information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

A shooting apparatus includes a shooting section that shoots a subject, an acquiring section that acquires sound of surroundings, and an assigning section that assigns an electronic mark indicating a characteristic feature of the sound to a position in the image with sound corresponding to the sound, in each of a case when a level of the sound has become equal to a first threshold or more for a first period of time or more, and a case when, thereafter, the level of the sound has become less than a second threshold for a second period of time or more.

Shooting apparatus and shooting method, and program

A system and method to protect uniquely extended metadata by others, while maintaining compatibility of metadata. An information processing apparatus determines if items included in entered metadata are defined in advance, and reproduces only items that are included in the metadata and determined as defined in advance, and rewrites or transfers the entered metadata when the metadata is rewritten or transferred.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiaki Shibata