Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yuri Iwano

Jiro Kiyama

Takayoshi Yamaguchi

Masafumi Hirata

Hideaki Kizuki

Tomoya Shimura

Akira Tojima

Motohide Nishimura

Natsuko Ikeda

A voice recognition terminal is provided to be able to communicate with a server capable of voice recognition for recognizing voice, and includes a voice input acceptance portion accepting voice input from a user, a voice recognition portion carrying out voice recognition of the voice input accepted, a response processing execution portion performing processing for responding to the user based on a result of voice recognition of the voice input accepted, and a communication portion transmitting the voice input accepted by the voice input acceptance portion to the server and receiving a result of voice recognition in the server. The response processing execution portion performs the processing for responding to the user based on the result of voice recognition determined as more suitable, of the result of voice recognition by the voice recognition portion and the result of voice recognition received from the server.

Voice recognition terminal, server, method of controlling server, voice recognition system, non-transitory storage medium storing program for controlling voice recognition terminal, and non-transitory storage medium storing program for controlling server

The objective of the present invention is to manage reference movies using an index file, without causing the user to be perplexed. The reference movies are generated because of, for instance, the upper limit of the file size. The index file manages sets of information regarding the files being managed. Examples of these sets of information are information for determining whether or not a file is presented to the user, information for determining whether or not a file is original, and information indicating whether or not nondestructive editing has been done. Based on such information, the erasure, displaying a list, and so on are carried out. Thus, it is possible to manage the reference movies using the index file, without causing the user to be perplexed.

Data recording method, data erasure method, data display method, storage device, storage medium, and program

An original stream file and an after-recording data file are managed as different files. In the original stream file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CU) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. Likewise, in the after-recording data file, data is made up of sets of partial data (CA) divided in accordance with a predetermined interval. These sets of data are recorded onto a disc such that the after-recorded data (CA) is recorded in a region adjacent to a relevant original stream (CU). This allows reproduction and real-time after-recording with the use of a general MPEG-2 PS/TS decoder. Moreover, this allows realization of data recording that causes less interruption of reproduction when non-destructive editing is carried out with respect to an after-recorded result.

Method for recording AV data and associated data, AV data recording apparatus, AV data reproducing apparatus and method, and recording medium

The objective of the present invention is to manage reference movies using an index file, without causing the user to be perplexed. the reference movies are generated because of, for instance, the upper limit of the file size. The index file manages sets of information regarding the files being managed. Examples of these sets of information are information for determining whether or not a file is presented to the user, information for determining whether or not a file is original, and information indicating whether or not nondestructive editing has been done. Based on such information, the erasure, displaying a list, and so on are carried out. Thus, it is possible to manage the reference movies using the index file, without causing the user to be perplexed.

Data management method using a table, and related storage device, storage medium and program

A system records an AV stream composed of a plurality of record units (RUs) containing independently reproducible video units (VUs) of at least video or audio and program information (Movie atom) managing the AV stream, onto a recording medium. The program information contains a piece of information (Edit list atom) that manages a point of junction between the record units or between AV streams. In decoding the AV stream, decoding is halted or decoders are switched at the point of junction, based on the management information on the points of junction, for example.

Data recording method, data editing method, data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor

Method for recording AV data, AV data recording apparatus, data recording medium, program and program recording medium

Data recording method, data editing method, and data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor

Areas are hierarchically ensured as directories for data to be recorded in advance. Therefore directories and files are continuously arranged as much as possible on a disk, and the number of seeks during data read, which is conventionally large because other data is mixed in the same area, is decreased as few as possible. When the files and directories belonging to directory(DIR) and directory(DIR) are recorded on a disk and when the files and directories belonging to directory(DIR) are recorded in an area-ensuring mode, an area on a disk for the files and directories belonging to the directory(DIR) is ensured previously. The positions where lower-order Filesand directories of the directory(DIR) are recorded in an area concerning the directory(DIR) as in the case of File-, File-, and File. Fileof the directory(DIR) is not recorded in continuous areas for the directory(DIR).

Disk medium managing method having recording areas predefined on the disk medium as directories

A management system for a recording medium recorded with a multimedia data stream wherein in a first data made up of video and sound, an amount of data for a predetermined playback period is managed as a first unit (EU), an individually reproducible minimum unit of data in the first unit (EU) is managed as a second unit (VU), each of the first units (EUs) is adapted to have an equal period of playback time to others, and each of the second units (VUs) is adapted to have an equal period of playback time to others. In this management system, the positional information of the second unit (VU) on the recording medium is held as management information for every second unit, so that the positional information of the first unit (EU) on the recording medium is calculated based on the positional information of the second unit (VU) on the recording medium.

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Yuri Iwano