Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090080869 | BROADCAST PROGRAM DISPLAYING APPARATUS, BROADCAST PROGRAM DISPLAYING METHOD, AND BROADCAST PROGRAM DISPLAYING SYSTEM - A TV is provided for enabling a viewer to continuously watch a program which has been received even though a TV broadcast receiver is switched from a TV tuner to an apparatus for external input. A TV ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090119418 | CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROLLED DEVICE - The invention provides a control device and a controlled device capable of reducing a management burden on a manufacturer by means of an easy-to-use method. A TV is a control device which controls a DVD recorder, including: a device ID acquisition unit which requests the DVD recorder to transmit a device ID, and receives the device ID from the DVD recorder; a device ID determination unit which determines whether or not the device ID is an initial value; a device ID generation unit which generates a new device ID in the case where the device ID is determined to be the initial value; a device ID update unit which requests the DVD recorder to update to the new device ID; a device ID/attribute information storing unit which stores the new device ID as the device ID of the DVD recorder; and a connected device control unit which controls the DVD recorder by using the device ID stored in the device ID/attribute information storing unit. | 05-07-2009 |
20090157885 | ADDRESS MANAGING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus ( | 06-18-2009 |
20090322964 | BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE - A broadcast receiving device capable of easily setting area information. A control unit of a DVR transmits an acquisition request for area information to a TV. When the control unit receives a response to the acquisition request from the TV, the control unit extracts area information from the received response and performs a channel presetting using the extracted area information. A control unit of the TV has area information stored therein. When the control unit receives an acquisition request for area information from the DVR, the control unit transmits, as a response to the request, the stored area information to the DVR. | 12-31-2009 |
20100178040 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which receives a digital broadcast, and includes: a broadcast receiving unit that receives a digital broadcast; an extraction unit that extracts a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit that identifies, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command. | 07-15-2010 |
20100223370 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND CONNECTION STATE DETERMINING METHOD - A network system according to an implementation of the present invention involves: determining whether or not a matching address is found by comparing (i) an apparatus address, of an apparatus connected to an HDMI network, which is obtained via the HDMI network with (ii) an apparatus address, of an apparatus connected to another network, which is obtained via the other network (S | 09-02-2010 |
20100225828 | AUDIO VIDEO SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - When a conventional audio video system is used, it is necessary to identify an input source of audio video information. For this reason, complicated operations and slow operation times have been a problem. A control apparatus ( | 09-09-2010 |
20100233457 | FOAM DUSTPROOFING MATERIAL WITH A MICRO CELL STRUCTURE - To provide a dustproofing material having superior dustproofness and having such superior flexibility as to fit in a further minute clearance typically of 0.10 to 0.20 mm. | 09-16-2010 |
20100315279 | WIRELESS CONTROL SYSTEM - To easily ensure that appropriate recognition information is used. A remote control system ( | 12-16-2010 |
20100315553 | AUDIO-VIDEO DATA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, VIDEO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AND AUDIO-VIDEO OUTPUT SYSTEM - To provide an audio-video data synchronization method whereby an increase in the amount of control message transmission can be suppressed and the video output can be prevented from being interrupted. The audio-video data synchronization method includes: obtaining, by the audio output device, a first latency that is a period of time taken for the video output device to output the video, by receiving the display identification data that includes information indicating the first latency from the video output device when the indication of the connection validity status information changes from Invalid to Valid; adjusting, by the audio output device, timing of outputting the audio according to the first latency; obtaining, by the video output device, a second latency which is a period of time taken to output the video in the outputting; notifying the audio output device of the second latency by sending a control message from the video output device when the connection validity status information indicates Valid, the control message including information that indicates the second latency obtained in the obtaining of a second latency; and adjusting, by the audio output device, timing of outputting the audio according to the second latency. | 12-16-2010 |
20110037687 | PEEL TESTER, METHOD FOR EVALUATING IMPACT PEEL CHARACTERISTICS, ADHESIVE TAPE AND MOBILE DEVICE - An object is to provide a peel tester that continuously detects the characteristics of an adhesive tape from the moment an impact is applied to an adherend until the adherend is peeled, and a new method for evaluating the impact peel characteristics of an adhesive tape, which enables quantitative evaluation for the impact peel characteristics by using the test result obtained by the peel tester. Provided is a peel tester | 02-17-2011 |
20110052141 | AUDIO-VIDEO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE, AUDIO-VIDEO REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AUDIO-VIDEO DATA REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, AND AUDIO-VIDEO DATA REPRODUCTION METHOD - In the case where (i) audio-video data is unidirectionally transmitted between any device, where (ii) control messages are bidirectionally transmitted between all of the devices, and where (iii) a connection between the devices for transmitting and receiving the audio-video data becomes valid when unidirectional transmission of audio reproduction capability information of the reception device from the data reception device to the data transmission device becomes available, the TV ( | 03-03-2011 |
20120008052 | METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION - A wireless transmission method includes: receiving a location specification message indicating a location of a source device (S | 01-12-2012 |
20120008911 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AV NETWORK SYSTEM, REPRODUCTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A BD player ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120042346 | INPUT AND OUTPUT SWITCHING DEVICE AND INPUT AND OUTPUT SWITCHING METHOD - In the wireless HDMI converter, appropriate audio data input switching is performed, and, when an instruction is received, an audio data extraction unit extracts audio data from video and audio data received by an HDMI input interface from an STB, and an optical audio output interface outputs the extracted audio data to a home theater, thereby avoiding failure of wireless communication by a wireless interface or deterioration of the quality of such wireless communication. | 02-16-2012 |
20120280802 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROLLER - In one aspect, when a user directs a remote controller ( | 11-08-2012 |
20130100353 | AUDIO VIDEO SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - When a conventional audio video system is used, it is necessary to identify an input source of audio video information. For this reason, complicated operations and slow operation times have been a problem. A control apparatus includes: an instruction receiving unit for receiving an instruction to be provided to an audio video supplying apparatus which is an input source of audio video information currently outputted from an output apparatus that outputs the audio video information; a determination unit for determining one of the audio video supplying apparatuses to be the input source of the audio video information currently being outputted from the output apparatus; and a control information sending unit for outputting control information to the audio video supplying apparatus determined by the determination unit, the control information corresponding to the instruction received by the instruction receiving unit and being used for controlling the audio video supplying apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
20140351849 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - An information display device includes: a display unit, an information obtaining unit which obtains program-related information related to a video program displayed on a video display device following the video program; and a terminal control unit which causes the display unit to display the program-related information obtained by the information obtaining unit. When the information obtaining unit is unable to obtain first program-related information related to a first video program currently displayed on the video display device following the first video program, the terminal control unit causes the display unit to display (i) second program-related information distributed before the first video program is displayed on the video display device, or (ii) third program-related information related to the second video program displayed before the first video program is displayed on the video display device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140359658 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An information display device includes: a communication interface which obtains program-related information items related to a video program a user is viewing; a display unit including a metadata display area and a outside-of-time-range advertisement display area; and a control unit which (i) selects, from among the program-related information items obtained by the communication interface, a first program-related information item associated with the video program, and causes the first program-related information item to be displayed in the metadata display area, and (ii) selects, from among one or more of the program-related information items other than the program-related information item selected as the first program-related information item, a second program-related information item, and causes the second program-related information item to be displayed in the outside-of-time-range advertisement display area. | 12-04-2014 |