Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090285549 | Favorite program extracting device and method - Provided is a technology for recording the information of contents recorded in a recording medium, when the reproduction of the contents is instructed by a user, thereby to extract a favorite program of the user on the basis of that information. For the technology, the contents stored in the recording medium in accordance with the operation of the user are reproduced. In case the contents are reproduced, the information indicating the reproduced contents is read out and recorded as reproduction history information. A list of programs to be broadcast is received, and the program according to the reproduction history information is extracted as the favorite program of the user from that list. | 11-19-2009 |
20100031179 | Data processing apparatus and data processing program storage medium - A data processing apparatus has a processing memory section that stores plural processing sections for building a combination processing section; a construction data memory section that stores construction data for building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section used for executing a series of processing of most recently input data; and a processing construction section that reads, at a timing before data to be processed is input, plural processing sections forming the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section, based on the construction data and connects the processing sections in the same order of processing as in the latest combination processing section, thereby building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section. | 02-04-2010 |
20100046907 | SIGNAL OUTPUT DEVICE, SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD AND READABLE-BY-COMPUTER RECORDING MEDIUM - A signal output device, has an output signal generating unit | 02-25-2010 |
20100088737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing device including, a receiving unit to receive video data from a server, a reproducing unit to reproduce the received video data and to display a video on a displaying unit, and a transmitting unit to transmit, to said server, a video title of the video data reproduced by the reproducing unit and reproducing time information representing a period of reproducing time of the video data reproduced by the reproducing unit. | 04-08-2010 |
20100094779 | INFORMATION SYSTEM, SERVER, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Fee-charging unit has unit to exclude, from a fee-charging target, information that is provided for a period of non-operating time for which the receiving device is presumed, from at least the charging state, to be disabled from continuing the reception if the fee-charging target information was provided to the receiving device in the past, if there is not recorded a piece of information that the receiving device can continue to receive the information for the predetermined period of time and if there is recorded a piece of information that the charging state of the secondary battery is not sufficient for continuing the reception. | 04-15-2010 |
20100165190 | Signal output device and signal output method - A signal output device includes a signal output unit to output a video signal based on input image data, a storage unit to store the image data, a detection unit to detect whether or not the number of frames included in one set of image data stored in the storage unit satisfies a predetermined number, and a data creating unit to add, if the number of the frames included in the one set of image data does not satisfy the predetermined number, a new frame to the one set of image data so that the number of the frames included in the one set of image data satisfies the predetermined number, and to input, to the signal output unit, the one set of image data to which the new frame has been added. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172633 | SOUND SIGNAL CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD - A sound signal control device includes a change determining unit to determine a change of a reproduction speed of input data containing a moving picture signal and a sound signal; a changeover detecting unit to detect, as a changeover timing, a period in which a degree of coincidence of a moving picture is equal to or larger than a predetermined value when the change determining unit determines the change to a different reproduction speed during the reproduction; a reproducing unit to reproduce a sound and the moving picture based on the input data and, when the change determining unit determines the change of the reproduction speed, changing over the reproduction speed at the changeover timing; and a sound control unit to mute a sound output based on the sound signal at the changeover timing. | 07-08-2010 |
20100306803 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST - A receiving device for receiving digital broadcasting. The receiving device includes a receiving unit to receive broadcasting waves multiplexed with a program and attached data from a broadcasting station; a guide information extracting unit to extract guide information from the received attached data; a Web page acquiring unit to acquire, if the guide information extracted from the attached data is deficient, a Web page provided by a server by establishing a connection with the server specified by the attached data; and a complementation unit to generate further pieces of guide information from the Web page and to complement the guide information with the generated pieces of guide information. | 12-02-2010 |
20110107080 | Data broadcasting system, server and program storage medium - A data broadcasting system includes a user device and a data broadcasting server. The device includes: a transmission requesting section transmitting the own model information and a request to transmit a content; and a content reproduction section reproducing the requested encoded content by decoding the content using key information for decoding the content. The server includes: a qualification storage section storing correspondence information where model information and reproduction qualification information are associated with each other; a reproduction qualification determination section referring to the correspondence information upon receiving the model information and the request from the user device, obtaining the reproduction qualification information corresponding to the model information, and determining whether the user device is qualified to reproduce the content; and a content transmission section transmitting, to the user device, the content and the key information when the user device is determined as being qualified by the reproduction qualification determination section. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107384 | Data broadcasting system, data broadcasting server and data broadcasting program storage medium - A data broadcasting system includes a user device and a data broadcasting server. The user device includes a network connection section that provides a request to transmit link information, accompanied by its own model information. The data broadcasting server includes a content performance determination section that obtains content display performance upon receipt of the model information. The data broadcasting server further includes a secondary link information transmission section that adds, to the link information, information indicating whether the content indicated by this link information is a content requiring content display performance exceeding the content display performance of the user device, and transmits the link information to the user device. | 05-05-2011 |
20110200296 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A moving image reproducing apparatus includes a moving image obtaining part which obtains first moving image data having, luminance data representing luminance of an image, and color data representing color of the image, a color data reduction part which generates second moving image data having the same luminance data as the luminance data of the first moving image data and color data whose data volume is reduced, by reducing a data volume of the color data of the first moving image data, a moving image generation part which generates third moving image data for moving image display, on the basis of the second moving image data, and a moving image output part which outputs the third moving image data. | 08-18-2011 |
20110307962 | CONTENT SERVER DEVICE AND CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD - A content server device includes a request section for requesting a key server to transmit key data for decrypting encrypted content data to a client side in response to the content distribution request from the client side and a control unit which prohibits the transmission of the encrypted content data in response to the content distribution request when the reception number of notification received from the client side and indicating the reception of the key data from the key server is not less than the transmission number of key data to the client side by the key server and which transmits the encrypted content data in response to the content distribution request when the number of reception is not more than the number of transmission. | 12-15-2011 |
20120170918 | VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD - A video playback device includes a part to acquire a first video data at a first frame rate containing frame sequences each including a frame holding information about a background image and information about a moving object image, and second frames each holding information about position of the moving object image; and a generation part to generate, based on the first video data, a second video data to be played back at a second frame rate, the generation part includes a part to compute, with respect to each two contiguous frames in the first video content, position of a virtual moving object image situated in between two moving object images in the two contiguous frames; and a part to create, with respect to each position of the virtual moving object image, a frame image containing the background image and the motion object image placed in the computed position. | 07-05-2012 |
20120281066 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device comprising, a receiving unit to receive image data; a determining unit to determine whether the image data received by the receiving unit contain an image for three dimensional vision or not; a converting unit to convert, if the determining unit determines that the image data contain the image for the three dimensional vision, the image data into a stereoscopic image; and a display unit to display the stereoscopic image converted by the converting unit. | 11-08-2012 |