Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kabushiki Akisha Toshiba

Yoshihiro Ohmori

Toru Kambayashi

Koichiro Akiyama

Takashi Ida

Toshimitsu Kaneko

Takeshi Mita

Koji Yamamoto

Koichi Masukura

Yutaka Handa

Hidenori Takeshima

Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Yasunori Taguchi

Kenzo Isogawa

Kaoru Matsuoka

Masaaki Kikuchi

Kazushige Ouchi

Miki Yamada

Takeshi Nagai

Akira Morishita

Satoshi Ito

Osamu Hori

Hirofumi Muratani

Kazunori Imoto

Shuichi Tsujimoto

Makoto Hirohata

Hideki Tsutsui

Ichiro Tomoda

Masafumi Kondo

Hisashi Aoki

Yasukazu Higuchi

Tatsuya Uehara

Toshiya Takahashi

Toshiyuki Kito

Yuuichi Togashi

Yasuhiko Shimomura

Toyokazu Itakura

Maasaki Kikuchi

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first receiver, a second receiver, an extractor and a display module. The first receiver is configured to receive first program information for a plurality of programs from a first external apparatus connected via a network. The second receiver is configured to receive a channel identifier of a first program from a second external apparatus. The extraction module is configured to extract, from the first program information, second program information for a single program associated with a channel indicated by the channel identifier, and a time point. The display module is configured to display information that is based on the second program information.

Information processing apparatus, broadcast receiving apparatus and information processing method

According to one exemplary embodiment, a content receiving apparatus includes: a first receiver which receives a first identifier of first content from a first external apparatus; a generator which employs the first identifier to generate a second identifier of second content that corresponds to the first content but has different quality from the first content; a transmitter which transmits a content request including the second identifier to a second external apparatus different from the first external apparatus; and a second receiver which receives data of the second content transmitted from the second external apparatus in response to the content request.

Content receiving apparatus, data processing apparatus, content reception method

According to one embodiment, a search skip region setting function generation method includes estimating. The estimating includes estimating a relative position between a object and a template based on a distribution of surrounding search point similarities, and generates a function required to set a search skip region which allows to skip the object search on each model reduced-scale image based on the estimated relative position.

Search skip region setting function generation method, search skip region setting method, object search method, search skip region setting function generation apparatus, search skip region setting apparatus, and object search apparatus

A template matching apparatus includes a template input unit configured to input the template image; a signal input unit configured to input an image to be matched; a template scaling unit configured to scale the template image; a matching unit configured to match a scaled template image and an input image; a scaling factor determining unit configured to determine a scaling factor of the template image on the basis of a similarity obtained by matching; and a result output unit configured to output a result of matching when matching within a range of a predetermined scaling factor is completed.

Template matching apparatus and method thereof

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

According to one embodiment, a search skip region setting function generation method includes associating, detecting, and generating. The associating associates a template used to search a model image for an object with a designated search point on the model image, and detects a designated search point similarity between the designated search point and the template. When the designated search point similarity exceeds an object detection determination threshold, the detecting detects surrounding search point similarities between a plurality of surrounding search points around the designated search point on the model image and the template. The generating generates a function required to set a search skip region of the object based on relative positions between the object and the template, which are estimated based on a distribution of the surrounding search point similarities.

Search skip region setting function generation method, search skip region setting method, and object search method

A signal processing unit includes a feature quantity extracting unit, a segmentalizing unit, a clustering unit, an existence probability function deriving unit, an existence probability function similarity calculating unit, a cluster integrating unit and a cluster information output unit. The signal processing unit classifies the signal feature quantity which characterizes the content signal segmentalized into segments according to the similarity with respect to each other, obtains functions which indicate the existence probabilities for clusters of classified segments, and integrates the clusters whose obtained functions are at the high level of similarity.

Signal processing apparatus and method thereof

A playlist acquisition unit acquires a playlist including a view segment of contents for a user. The view segment has a start position and an end position in the contents. A copyright information acquisition unit acquires copyright information of the contents from a copyright management apparatus via a network. The copyright management apparatus manages copyright information of each content. A view right information acquisition unit acquires view right information of the user to view the contents. A viewable playlist composition unit composes a viewable playlist by editing the playlist using the copyright information and the view right information. The viewable playlist includes restriction information of the view segment.

Playlist composition apparatus, copyright management apparatus and view terminal apparatus

A method and apparatus for reproducing metadata provides a data structure in which metadata whose preferential reproduction is desired can be selected and reproduced. The metadata relevant to a moving image includes a stream data structure including one or more access units each being a data unit which can be independently processed, and each of the access units includes first data to specify an effective period defined with respect to a time axis of the moving image, object area data describing a spatio-temporal region in the moving image, second data including one of or both of data to specify a display method relevant to the spatio-temporal region and data to specify a processing to be performed when the spatio-temporal region is specified, and third data to specify, in a case where one or more access units exist on a same screen in the moving image at a time of reproduction of the metadata, reproduction priority of each of the access units.

Reproducing a moving image in a media stream

In the case where metadata refers to relevant content on a network, since the relevant content on the network can not be necessarily permanently held, it is desirable that a time limit for making reference can be set. Besides, in order to provide relevant content which can be referred to only in a limited period for promoting sales, or in order to provide relevant content which can be referred to only in a limited period such as, for example, Christmas Day every year for raising the entertainingness of the metadata, it is desirable that a reference time limit of the relevant content can be set. Then, in order to set an effective time limit of an access unit, a flag to specify the effective time limit and the effective time limit are described in each access unit.

Structure of metadata and reproduction apparatus and method of the same

There is provided a structure of metadata which can express an object of a complicated shape. There are added vcr_shape_num indicating the number of sub-planar areas constituting an object area, vcr_rule_code indicating that an integration system to integrate the sub-planar areas and to determine a final object area is written, vcr_rule_length to indicate the length of data of the integration system, and data vcr_rule to indicate the integration system, and thereafter, vcr_subregion_data of data of each sub-planar area appearing in vcr_rule is described continuously by the number indicated by vcr_shape_num.

Data structure of metadata and reproduction method of the same

A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of temporal regions, a decision unit configured to determine a cutout region corresponding to at least any one of the plurality of temporal regions on the basis of the metadata, and a cutting-out unit configured to cut out the cutout region from an image in each frame of the input moving picture.

Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing

The information reproduction device for reproducing contents information based on license information added to the contents information and required for reproducing the contents information, includes a determining section for determining whether encrypted contents information is the officially copied contents information or privately copied contents information based on the contents of the license information, and a reproduction section configured to reproduce the contents information determined as the privately copied contents information by the determining section under more severe restriction than the officially copied contents information. Thus, the contents copied by the proper route (officially copied contents) can be distributed in a more advantageous form than the contents copied without proper authorization.

Information recording device and information reproducing device

A signal receiving unit receives a signal including video data. A video data memory sequentially stores the video data. A timing decision unit decides a timing to generate a video summary by referring to the signal, and provides a generation request of the video summary at the timing. A summary method indication unit indicates a generation method of the video summary. A video summary generation unit generates the video summary from the video data by using the generation method in response to the generation request. A video summary play unit plays the video summary.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Yoshihiro Ohmori