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20080232220 | OPTICAL DISK AND OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE - To provide an optical disk and an optical disk reproducing device capable of preventing sub information from being illegally copied and altered. | 09-25-2008 |
20080253251 | Position Detection Device, Position Detection Method, Position Detection Control Device, Position Detection Control Method, Position Detection Control Program, Access Authentication Device, Access Authentication Method, Access Authentication Control Device, Access Authentication Control Method, Access Authentication Control Program, Information Storage Device, and Optical Disk - A position detection device, a position detection method, a position detection control device, a position detection control method, a position detection control program, an access authentication device, an access authentication method, an access authentication control device, an access authentication control method, an access authentication control program, an information storage device, and an optical disk are provided, all of which make it possible to prevent illegal copying of the information recorded in a recording medium. | 10-16-2008 |
20090043681 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to achieve both security and convenience in authentication of authentication targets, which is required in various situations. An authentication system of the present invention includes: a receiving unit operable to receive first ID information from a first device, and receive second ID information from a second device; and an authority information generating unit operable to generate authority information having an authority range varying according to the number of pieces of the ID information received by the receiving unit. Accordingly, the range of authority that can be executed can be limited according to the number of pieces of authenticated ID information, and thus both security and convenience can be achieved in authentication of authentication targets, which is required in various situations. | 02-12-2009 |
20090097376 | OPTICAL DISC, ITS REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An optical disc ( | 04-16-2009 |
20090196140 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC MANUFACTURING METHOD, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION DEVICE - Sub-information necessary to reproduce main information is recorded without deteriorating the reading accuracy of the main information, so that the illegal duplication of an optical disc is prevented. An optical disc | 08-06-2009 |
20090235303 | ENCRYPTED CONTENT AND DECRYPTION KEY PROVIDING SYSTEM - Not only is it possible to let the viewers watch information that an information provider wants watched by the viewers in a reliable manner, but it is also possible to provide the viewers with information that the information provider desires. A content providing server | 09-17-2009 |
20090268590 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical storage medium can be provided by which illegal usage of the optical storage medium involving an infringement on the copyright can be prevented effectively without impairment of the functions for reproducing physical format information and optical storage medium manufacturing information. The optical storage medium includes a main information region in which encrypted data information is recorded as a pit row that is capable of being read out by means of light and a control data region. In the control data region, key information for decoding the encryption of the data information, the physical format information and the optical storage medium manufacturing information are recorded by wobbling a groove. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268598 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical storage medium can be provided by which illegal usage of the optical storage medium involving an infringement on the copyright can be prevented effectively without impairment of the functions for reproducing physical format information and optical storage medium manufacturing information. The optical storage medium includes a main information region in which encrypted data information is recorded as a pit row that is capable of being read out by means of light and a control data region. In the control data region, key information for decoding the encryption of the data information, the physical format information and the optical storage medium manufacturing information are recorded by wobbling a groove. | 10-29-2009 |
20090274026 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical storage medium can be provided by which illegal usage of the optical storage medium involving an infringement on the copyright can be prevented effectively without impairment of the functions for reproducing physical format information and optical storage medium manufacturing information. The optical storage medium includes a main information region in which encrypted data information is recorded as a pit row that is capable of being read out by means of light and a control data region. In the control data region, key information for decoding the encryption of the data information, the physical format information and the optical storage medium manufacturing information are recorded by wobbling a groove. | 11-05-2009 |
20100149399 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER, AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM - Only landmark information desired by a user out of a plurality of landmark information transmitted from a map server is displayed. An image capturing apparatus ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100169927 | PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM VIEW TERMINAL, PROGRAM VIEW PROGRAM, PROGRAM VIEW METHOD, PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION SERVER, PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION METHOD - An object of the invention is to eliminate a program having a high general preference, and recommend a program customized to a preference of a specific user. A reserved information receiver ( | 07-01-2010 |
20100283586 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device that can simplify various settings of a display device, such as a TV, that provides information regarding an object (communication device) is provided. An image capturing device ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100284253 | OPTICAL DISC, PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISC - On an optical disc, main information to be decrypted using sub information is recorded by arranging concave or convex recording marks in a spiral track and a reflective film is formed on the recording marks. First sub information is recorded as being superimposed on the main information by shifting or deforming the recording marks or altering a pattern of the recording marks. Second sub information is recorded as being superimposed on the main information by changing a reflectivity of the reflective film formed on the recording marks. The first sub information and the second sub information are recorded in an area from which the first sub information and the second sub information are to be read simultaneously. The second sub information is recorded in a manner that the second sub information is associated with the first sub information. The first sub information and the second sub information are associated with each other, and improve resistance to unauthorized copying by prohibiting content information from being read unless both the first sub information and the second sub information are read. The first sub information and the second sub information are recorded in the same area, and prevent the time taken for reading sub information from increasing. | 11-11-2010 |
20110004891 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The invention provides an information recording device, an information reproducing device, and an information recording medium capable of securely protecting copyright of main information, and preventing illegal access to the recorded main information. The information recording device ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110007616 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL DISC - An optical disc recording apparatus ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110007901 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110103214 | DATA RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANAGING USE OF DATA RECORDING MEDIUM - A server device without a means for accessing an IC memory included in a data storage medium can check whether or not a data storage medium includes an IC memory. A portable optical disc medium ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110156879 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Setting and operation of a TV, a mobile terminal, and the like are extremely complex to an ordinary user. Even when part of the setting and operation is automatically done, still a change needs to be performed so as to meet the needs of the user according to a use status. In view of this, a RFID tag ( | 06-30-2011 |
20110299371 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, OPTICAL DISK CONTROL METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - To provide an optical disk device, an optical disk control method and an integrated circuit, which are capable of writing a recordable mark by changing the reflectance ratio of a reflective film formed on concave-convex pits without using an industrial special device or a high-power laser light source. A data reproduction controller ( | 12-08-2011 |
20110312278 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication device ( | 12-22-2011 |
20120002517 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC MANUFACTURING METHOD, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An optical disc includes a reflective film formed on concave and convex marks after the concave and convex marks are synchronized with the integral multiple of a channel bit length and formed in accordance with modulated main information. Thereafter, continuous or intermittent laser light synchronized with the integral multiple of the channel bit length is irradiated at intervals longer than the longest one of the concave and convex marks in accordance with a spiral track formed in a circumferential direction of the concave and convex marks, whereby an optical characteristic of the reflective film is changed to form a recordable mark and sub-information necessary to reproduce the main information is recorded in a superimposition manner. | 01-05-2012 |
20120019674 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120096326 | OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION METHOD, REPRODUCTION PROCESSING DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an optical disk reproduction apparatus capable of preventing information that is different from the original sub information from being subjected to error correction erroneously, and of stably reproducing the sub information. The optical disk reproduction apparatus ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120134250 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC MANUFACTURING METHOD, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An optical disc includes a reflective film formed on concave and convex marks after the concave and convex marks are synchronized with the integral multiple of a channel bit length and formed in accordance with modulated main information. Thereafter, continuous or intermittent laser light synchronized with the integral multiple of the channel bit length is irradiated at intervals longer than the longest one of the concave and convex marks in accordance with a spiral track formed in a circumferential direction of the concave and convex marks, whereby an optical characteristic of the reflective film is changed to form a recordable mark and sub-information necessary to reproduce the main information is recorded in a superimposition manner. | 05-31-2012 |
20120164944 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus (M | 06-28-2012 |
20120171952 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A relay device ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120178367 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An NFC device according to the present invention includes the following units. An antenna unit receives radio waves from a reader/writer by NFC. A first power source unit generates power from the radio waves. A second power source unit is a drive power source. A power-supply state holding unit holds information indicating a power-supply state of the second power source unit. An NFC unit performs NFC via the antenna unit to transmit the information indicating the power-supply state of the second power source unit. A power source switch unit switches the second power source unit to the first power source unit according to the power-supply state of the second power source unit, in order to supply power to activate at least the NFC unit and the power-supply state holding unit. | 07-12-2012 |
20120302166 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus that communicates with a mobile apparatus includes a near-field communication unit that receives time-of-day information from the mobile apparatus through near-field communication, a use history information generation unit that extracts operation information of the terminal apparatus, and generates use history information on the basis of the time-of-day information received by the near-field communication unit, the use history information including time-of-day information associated with the detected operation information and indicating the time of day at which the corresponding operation was performed, and a main memory that stores the generated use history information. | 11-29-2012 |
20120309311 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A repeater apparatus includes a network communication unit that acquires, from a server through a network, first terminal identification information for identifying a terminal to be controlled and control information for controlling the terminal to be controlled, a near-field communication unit that acquires, by near-field communication from the terminal, second terminal identification information for identifying the terminal and stored in the terminal, and a comparison unit that decides whether the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. The near-field communication unit transmits the control information to the terminal by near-field communication, in the case where the comparison unit decides that the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120322374 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a communication apparatus and a communication method that can easily indicate the position of the antenna incorporated in the communication apparatus to a user and can align the antenna of the communication apparatus with the antenna of an external device. A portable device ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130063253 | RFID DEVICE, HOST, RFID-EMBEDDED APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RFID DEVICE - A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode. | 03-14-2013 |
20130097088 | WARRANTY EXPIRATION DATE DETERMINING DEVICE AND WARRANTY EXPIRATION DATE DETERMINING METHOD - A warranty expiration date determining device includes: a receiving unit which receives owner information, appliance information, and operating information of a device; an obtaining unit which obtains, from an information database in which at least owner information, appliance information, and operating information of appliances are registered in association with respective owners of the appliances, operating information associated with a specific owner inferred among the owners of the appliances, based on the owner information and the appliance information of the device received, a usage period estimating unit which estimates a usage period of the appliance based on the obtained operating information and the received operating information; and a warranty expiration date determining unit which determines a first day of use of the appliance by extending back the estimated usage period from current time and date, and determines the warranty expiration date of the appliance. | 04-18-2013 |
20130151703 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information notification apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives a first state change notification indicating that the operating state of an electrical appliance has changed to a first state, a transmission unit that transmits a state notification indicating that the operating state of the electrical appliance is the first state to an information terminal, and a second reception unit that receives an acknowledgement notification. The first reception unit further receives a second state change notification indicating that the electrical appliance has been changed to a second state from the electrical apparatus. The transmission unit calculates a correlation value for each of information terminals and transmits the state notification to an information terminal having a calculated correlation value higher than a threshold value, the correlation value indicating a degree of likelihood that the owner of the information terminal has performed an operation corresponding to the second operating state. | 06-13-2013 |
20130196591 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer. | 08-01-2013 |
20130247117 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile device includes a position sensing unit, a remote control information obtainment unit, and a storage unit. Position information obtained by the position sensing unit is stored in the storage unit in association with remote control information. The mobile device further includes a directional space obtainment unit and an apparatus specification unit. The mobile device recognizes a direction pointed by a user using the mobile device, and enables operation of a terminal apparatus existing in the pointing direction. | 09-19-2013 |
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20140065971 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, FAULT DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD - A state updating unit updates first information stored in a storage unit whenever the state of a control unit transitions from an idle state to an active state or from the active state to the idle state. A second power supply unit induces electric power from radio waves received by the antenna unit. An information acquiring unit operates after receiving the supply of electric power from the second power supply unit, acquires second information indicating whether electric power is supplied from the first power supply unit, acquires the first information from the storage unit, and transmits the acquired first and second information to the control device. A diagnosing unit diagnoses faults in the terminal device based on the first and second information transmitted from the information acquiring unit of the terminal device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140066045 | TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION MODULE FOR THE SAME - A terminal device includes: a terminal controller which interprets only one of command schemes of a wireless communication unit and a near-field communication unit, and controls a function of the terminal device; and a control unit which controls communications between the wireless communication unit and the terminal controller and between the near-field communication unit and the terminal controller. The control unit includes: an identification number addition unit which adds an identification number to a command from the near-field communication unit or the wireless communication unit; and a command converting unit which converts a command of the other command scheme into a command of one command scheme, using a command conversion table. | 03-06-2014 |
20140105397 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device, which can simplify various setting processes, transmits, to a server via a network, external device information received from an external device by using proximity wireless communication. The communication device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication with the external device; a proximity wireless communication unit communicating with the external device via the antenna to receive the external device information from the external device; an external device storage unit storing the external device information received by the proximity wireless communication unit; a registration information generation unit generating registration information to be registered in a database in the server based on (a) the external device information stored in the external device storage unit and (b) communication device information including communication device identification information for identifying the communication device; and a server communication unit transmitting registration information to the server via the network. | 04-17-2014 |
20140152856 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer. | 06-05-2014 |
20140285325 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND SERVER - A generation unit generates a command based on operation history information read from a storage unit and operation status information obtained by an obtainment unit when power is supplied from a first power source unit to a communication apparatus, and generates the command based on the operation history information read from the storage unit when the power is not supplied from the first power source unit to the communication apparatus, when power is supplied from a second power source unit to each of the storage unit, the generation unit, and a proximity wireless communication unit. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292806 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD - An image display method including: obtaining (S | 10-02-2014 |
20140315488 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A repeater apparatus includes a network communication unit that acquires, from a server through a network, first terminal identification information for identifying a terminal to be controlled and control information for controlling the terminal to be controlled, a near-field communication unit that acquires, by near-field communication from the terminal, second terminal identification information for identifying the terminal and stored in the terminal, and a comparison unit that decides whether the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. The near-field communication unit transmits the control information to the terminal by near-field communication, in the case where the comparison unit decides that the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317233 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, APPLIANCE CONTROL METHOD, AND APPLIANCE CONTROL DEVICE - A communication method including: generating image data of an item on which an electric appliance performed processing; obtaining setting information of the electric appliance which indicates the processing performed on the item; converting the obtained setting information into reference setting information that is setting information in a general format; generating combined data by adding the converted reference setting information to the generated image data; and transmitting the generated combined data to a storage server. For instance, in the communication method, setting information of the electric appliance when the processing was performed on the item is obtained by performing proximity wireless communication with the electric appliance. | 10-23-2014 |
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