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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2010
Ichiro Ogata, Kanagawa, JP;
Ichiro Ogata, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reception apparatus includes: a data reception unit receiving compressed/encoded data from external apparatuses; a decoding unit decoding the compressed/encoded data to obtain received data; a data processing unit performing data processing so that information based on the received data obtained from the decoding unit is displayed on corresponding display windows, respectively; a window size setting unit setting sizes of the display windows respectively corresponding to the external apparatuses; an encoding bit rate determination unit determining an encoding bit rate of each external apparatus corresponding to the size of the display window based on a correspondence relation between the size of the display window and the encoding bit rate; an information transmission unit transmitting information regarding each of the encoding bit rates to each of the corresponding external apparatuses; and a size/bit rate correspondence relation setting unit setting the correspondence relation for each of the external apparatuses.