Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshikazu Shibamiya

Yasushi Shikata

Yuichi Matsumoto

Shuntaro Aratani

Hirofumi Urabe

Shigeki Mori

Tetsu Fukuda

Masaki Kutsuna

Kazuhiro Matsubayashi

Chika Masuda

Teruki Kikkawa

Koji Mito

Kazuna Maruyama

Daisuke Takayanagi

Tomoyuki Ohno

Katsuhiro Miyamoto

Shigeru Mizoguchi

Akihiko Sukigara

Takashi Yoshida

Kazumi Suga

Atsushi Mizutome

Osamu Asakura

Michihiro Izumi

Yoshio Uchikata

Kenji Kawazoe

Takashi Yamamoto

Osamu Yonishi

Tomoyuki Ono

Noriyoshi Ohshima

Tatsuya Nakajima

Yuzo Wada

Kenji Inoue

Eisaku Tatsumi

Tadashi Hanabusa

Hideo Fushimoto

Noboru Shimoyama

Toshihide Wada

Kenichiro Ono

Kazuyoshi Odagawa

Tomoko Maruyama

Satoshi Mitsumura

Katsuhiro Watanabe

Kenzo Ina

Yuichi Watanabe

Masayuki Sawada

Atsushi Morita

Osamu Iketa

Joji Kamahara

Kazuaki Sugai

Ko Hasegawa

Atsushi Sakakibara

The present invention resides in an image display apparatus for displaying an image on the basis of image data; the image display apparatus comprising light emitting unit having a plurality of light sources for performing light emission that can be independently controlled respectively; setting unit which sets light emission control blocks for controlling one light source or the plurality of light sources with a common brightness; brightness determining unit which determines the light emission brightness of each of the light emission control blocks on the basis of the image data; and control unit which controls the light emission of the light emitting unit for each of the light emission control blocks in accordance with the light emission brightness determined by the determining unit; wherein the setting unit sets a size of the light emission control block of the light emitting unit depending on an amount of motion of the image.

Image display apparatus and method for controlling the same

A broadcast receiving apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus includes selecting a channel from a plurality of channels included in a broadcast signal, an outputting channel selection information specifying a selected channel, outputting video of the selected channel to a display device, outputting channel information related to the selected channel to the display device, and controlling selection of the channel and outputting of the channel information based on the outputted channel selection information specifying a selected channel and a predetermined condition.

Broadcast receiving apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

In a television device (audio output device), audio output performance information of the television device is pre-stored in an EDID-ROM. When an AV amplifier is connected to the television device, a control unit rewrites '2ch' audio output performance information of the television device stored in the EDID-ROM of an HDMI port which is different from the HDMI port to which the AV amplifier is connected, to '5.1ch' audio output performance information of the AV amplifier.

Audio output device connectable with plurality of devices and method of controlling the same

A DTVgenerates a composite image by composing image data stored in a memory cardand displays this on a display unitin a slideshow. When the DTVreceives a print instruction via a user interface unitduring the slideshow, the DTVdisplays on the display unita print image selection window, which includes the composite image and the images that constitute the composite image. The DTVprints the composite image or the image that has been selected via the print image selection window

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

When a video output apparatus () is connected, a video display apparatus () obtains information of content data stored in the video output apparatus (). Then, based on the obtained information, the video display apparatus () determines whether the content data is decodable with respect to itself. If it is not decodable, it requests the video output apparatus () to decode the content data before transferring the content data using a data transfer method specified. By doing this, an appropriate transfer protocol is selected automatically when transferring content data between the video display apparatus () and the video output apparatus ().

Video display apparatus and control method thereof, and video output apparatus and control method thereof

When an image processing apparatus capable of connecting to a digital camera is to perform image-correction processing on irreversible-compression encoded image data acquired from the digital camera, it is determined whether the image-correction processing can be executed by the connected digital camera. When the processing can be executed, it is confirmed whether or not RAW data that corresponds to the irreversible-compression encoded image data is present in the digital camera. If the corresponding RAW data is present in the digital camera, the digital camera is requested to execute the image-correction processing based on the RAW data. This makes it possible to suppress degradation in the image quality more than when directly correcting an irreversible-compression encoded image.

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

During a display of a slideshow of a composite image comprising a plurality of images, a user operates a print bookmark, resulting in composite images and individual images that can be printed being set and stored as print candidate images. By displaying, in a list, stored candidate images on a display unit as print candidate images, an image processing apparatus is provided which enables the user to specify a desired image for printing.

Apparatus, method, program and storage medium for selecting a display image from multiple images

A reproduction control method includes steps of converting first program data accumulated in a first apparatus into second program data reproducible in a second apparatus, transferring the converted second program data to the second apparatus, and converting the first program data accumulated in the first apparatus into reconstructable reproduction-disabled data.

Reproduction control method, reproduction apparatus, and television set

A control system includes a control apparatus and a controlled apparatus, wherein the control apparatus is remotely controlled by a remote controller. The controlled apparatus transmits a control panel to the control apparatus. The control panel includes icons used to control the controlled apparatus. The controlled apparatus includes (a) a communication unit which receives, from the control apparatus, remote control information including information about operation keys included in the remote controller, the remote control information being received before the controlled apparatus transmits the control panel to the control apparatus, and (b) a modifying unit which modifies a position of the icons included in the control panel according to the remote control information. The communication unit transmits the control panel to the control apparatus after the modifying unit modifies the position of the icons included in the control panel according to the remote control information.

Data communication system, apparatus and control method therefor

A device control apparatus in a video image display system including a plurality of connected devices. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a logical address of a first device connected to the device control apparatus as a control object, a specifying unit which specifies the device type of the first device if the obtained logical address of the first device is not a logical address according to the device type, a selection unit which selects a second device which is connected to the device control apparatus and is of the same device type as the first device, and a control unit which controls a logical address assigned to the selected second device according to the device type thereof so that the first device obtains a logical address.

Device control apparatus and device control method in video image display system including a plurality of connected devices

Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, program and storage medium

If there are program-related associated Web pages, a TV receiveracquires the content information of the associated Web pages from a Web serverand stores it in a Web page storage unit. The correspondence between the stored content information and recorded program is stored in a correspondence information holding unit. The data of the program is outputted to a TV program recorder, where it is recorded. The user can configure the timing, at which the storage of the associated Web pages is carried out.

Content storage control apparatus and control method therefor

Partial data related to information data is received, image data corresponding to the received partial data is generated by sequentially processing the received partial data, and the generated image data is output to a display unit. Before output of the image data corresponding to the partial data to the display unit is completed, reception of the information data is started. Then, image data corresponding to the information data is generated by processing the received information data, and image data to be displayed on said display unit is switched to the image data corresponding to the information data from the image data corresponding to the partial data after the reception of the information data is started.

Receiving apparatus and method

A classification information setting method for classifying contents into series comprises: a similarity determination step for determining a similarity between first contents classified into a series and second contents unclassified yet; and a classification setting step for setting, in case the similarity exists, classification information related to the first contents, as classification information for the second contents. At the similarity determination step, the similarity is determined by comparing text data contained in the first contents and text data contained in the second contents.

Classification information setting method, and television

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Yoshikazu Shibamiya