摘要:
Disclosed herein is a transmission/reception system including a providing apparatus and a recording apparatus. The providing apparatus has a generating section, and a providing section. The recording apparatus has a management section, and a restriction section.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an appropriate interactive television program guide system. SOLUTION: The interactive television program guide system is provided in which targeted advertisements may be presented to a user and targeted actions may be taken in the program guide based on the user's interests. The program guide monitors the user's interactions with the program guide to determine the user's interests. Interactions that may be monitored include interactions that indicate the categories of programs that interest the user (e.g., movies, sports, children's programs, etc.), setting a reminder for a program, purchasing a program, requesting information on a program, browsing program listings for a particular time or channel, etc. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording apparatus capable of increasing the free space of a storage unit by erasing content data of at least one channel that constitutes a multi-view content, and to provide a control method therefor. SOLUTION: In the recording apparatus 100, program contents of a recording object in a form of partial TS are stored in a storage unit 106. when the storage unit 106 has not enough available recording capacity, a control unit 108 searches for multi-view contents among the program contents stored in the storage unit 106 and selects one multi-view content. A packet extraction/channel deletion unit 104 extracts TS packets corresponding to a main channel from partial TSs of the multi-view content and deletes unnecessary data corresponding to a sub-channel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the number of channels that is scheduled to be recorded during the same time period through interlocking of recording functions of two systems in a recorder for automatically recording multiple or all channels without depending upon user designation. SOLUTION: This recorder of television broadcasting includes a program reserving and recording function by user designation and an automatic recording function for programs of multiple channels. When a reservation is designated by user designation while exceeding the number of channels in which programs are reserved, the recorder includes a program recording control means for recording record data of a program that is automatically recorded by the automatic recording function for programs of multiple channels as record data by the program reserving and recording function by user designation in a recording means for a reservation for a program that is not reserved nor recorded by user designation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data transfer system for reducing the load of processing relating to encryption/decryption and transfer of information associated with content data. SOLUTION: In the data transfer system, a host device 112 encrypts partial usage information out of a plurality of pieces of usage control information associated with content data and transfers the partial usage information to a storage device 240 and generates extracted usage control information resulting from eliminating partial information included in remaining usage control information and encrypts and transfers the extracted usage control information. The storage device 240 decrypts partial usage information UCI and extracted usage control information DUCI and decodes the extracted usage control information DUCI on the basis of information included in the transferred partial usage control information UCI to generate remaining usage control information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract more appropriate representative frame images from video data included with a plurality of time-sequential frame images. SOLUTION: A face detector detects human face patterns from predetermined frames of video data, and outputs the detection result. A face tracer searches the human face patterns detected by the face detector from the following frames, and outputs face area information and face sequence time sections from the trace result. A representative frame extraction part extracts one or more frames that excellently indicate the content (images) in predetermined time sections, and an extraction method selector changes an evaluation rule (extraction reference) for representative frame images based on the output of a face sequence generator. An object section representative frame extraction part extracts an optional number of representative frame images that excellently indicate human images from frame images included in face sequences. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT