Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205857 | RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - To select a recording device for recording a program in a digital television receiver to which a plurality of recorders (recording devices) are connected, control is performed to acquire image quality information about the program to be recorded and to compare the program image quality to be recorded with the recording image quality of a recording medium for each connected recording device. Based on the result of this comparison, a recorder is selected that can secondarily record the program onto a recording medium without compromising the program image quality. | 08-28-2008 |
20080226257 | RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS - A recording control apparatus is connected to and in communication with a recording apparatus capable of recording a broadcasting video image on a storage unit and has two or more operating state levels that differ in power consumption. The recording control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire program information about a program currently being viewed, a determination unit configured to determine a user's recording tendency level as to a program currently being viewed based on the program information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to issue a command to control the operating state level of the recording apparatus based on the recording tendency level determined by the determination unit. | 09-18-2008 |
20080226258 | RECORDER CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A recorder control apparatus which controls execution of broadcast program recording in a plurality of recorders connected thereto, comprises an acceptance unit configured to accept a request to execute broadcast program recording, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from each recorder, reservation information related to reserved program recording to be executed by the recorder after a point at which the execution request is accepted, a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of recorders, a recorder capable of executing broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request for a longest duration, based on the reservation information, and a request unit configured to request the recorder selected by the selection unit to execute broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request. | 09-18-2008 |
20090129692 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When an image processing apparatus capable of connecting to a digital camera is to perform image-correction processing on irreversible-compression encoded image data acquired from the digital camera, it is determined whether the image-correction processing can be executed by the connected digital camera. When the processing can be executed, it is confirmed whether or not RAW data that corresponds to the irreversible-compression encoded image data is present in the digital camera. If the corresponding RAW data is present in the digital camera, the digital camera is requested to execute the image-correction processing based on the RAW data. This makes it possible to suppress degradation in the image quality more than when directly correcting an irreversible-compression encoded image. | 05-21-2009 |
20090195706 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When a video output apparatus ( | 08-06-2009 |
20100053471 | TELEVISION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones. | 03-04-2010 |
20100141845 | AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE CONNECTABLE WITH PLURALITY OF DEVICES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a television device (audio output device), audio output performance information of the television device is pre-stored in an EDID-ROM. When an AV amplifier is connected to the television device, a control unit rewrites “2ch” audio output performance information of the television device stored in the EDID-ROM of an HDMI port which is different from the HDMI port to which the AV amplifier is connected, to “5.1ch” audio output performance information of the AV amplifier. | 06-10-2010 |
20110066759 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DEVICE CONTROL METHOD IN VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF CONNECTED DEVICES - A device control apparatus in a video image display system including a plurality of connected devices. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a logical address of a first device connected to the device control apparatus as a control object, a specifying unit which specifies the device type of the first device if the obtained logical address of the first device is not a logical address according to the device type, a selection unit which selects a second device which is connected to the device control apparatus and is of the same device type as the first device, and a control unit which controls a logical address assigned to the selected second device according to the device type thereof so that the first device obtains a logical address. | 03-17-2011 |
20120218469 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When a video output apparatus ( | 08-30-2012 |