Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To take in and process video data and program guide information, which are take out from input data encoded by a broadcasting variable encoding format.SOLUTION: An antenna 15 receives digital bit stream showing video information which is encoded by one of a plurality of different formats and transmitted by one of the plurality of transmission channels. Processors 17, 55, 20, 25, 30 and 50 identify and take out program guide information including a plurality of channel maps. The channel map associates video channel output with the transmission channel, and associates the encoding format with the transmission channel. Adaptive decoders 35, 40 and 45 decode the bit stream and supply the video channel output in response to the program guide information.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for recovering the data content of a storage medium containing a plurality of programs consisting of packetized data.SOLUTION: A storage medium format includes packet identifiers (PIDs) that identify individual packetized datastreams constituting a program. The PIDs include a base PID for identifying one datastream and a second PID of predetermined offset value to the base PID for identifying a second datastream. The storage medium format also includes program specific information (PSI) suitable for use in demodulating the data content of a program. The PSI includes an MPEG-like program map table and an MPEG-like program association table and incorporates a parameter suitable for commanding a decoder to apply the PSI in decoding the program irrespective of the previous PSI content.
Abstract:
A digital watermark embedding method of the present invention includes: a step of sequentially obtaining each frame image of the moving image data and frame display time; a step of generating a watermark pattern using watermark information, the frame display time and watermark pattern switching information; a step of superimposing the watermark pattern onto the frame image, and combining watermark embedded frame images obtained by sequentially repeating the processes to generate watermark embedded moving image data. A digital watermark detection method includes a step of sequentially obtaining a frame image; a step of generating a difference image between the currently obtained frame image and a previously obtained frame image; and a step of performing digital watermark detection from the difference image to output digital watermark detection status, and when digital watermark detection process is continued, obtaining a new frame again to repeat the above processes.
Abstract:
A transmitter (102) includes: a transmission data generation section generating transmission data having a format of video field period as a unit including a horizontal blanking period, a vertical blanking period and an active video period which are separated by vertical synchronization signals, the active video period including a main video area and an auxiliary video area; and a transmission data transmitting section (81) transmitting, in a differential signal format, the transmission data generated in the transmission data generation section to an external device (202) through a transmission path (300) and through a plurality of channels. The transmission data generation section allocates picture data to the main video area and allocates, to the auxiliary video area, additional information relating to the picture data allocated to the main video area.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit an image and data attached to the image via an identical communication path.SOLUTION: An image transmitter which communicates with an image output device via a communication path 300 comprises a protocol acquisition unit which acquires a communication protocol of the communication path 300 and a synthesizing unit which generates synthetic data individually containing image data and attached data attached to the image data, in accordance with a format corresponding to the type of the acquired communication protocol, and the image transmitter outputs the generated synthetic data to the communication path 300.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital broadcast method and system, and broadcast station and receiver in which transmission bands are effectively utilized by transmitting video, audio or program information and additional information such as CM information while effectively utilizing a non-used area of a TS packet. SOLUTION: The present invention is characterized in that, a substantial empty area of a TS packet is set as a transport private data area, additional information is divided to generate divided additional information so as to be superimposed in the transport private data area of each TS packet, and the divided additional information items and a reconstruction information item for reconstructing the additional information from the divided additional information are sent out while being superimposed on the transport private data area. At a receiving side, the divided additional information items and the reconstruction information item are extracted from the transport private data area of the TS packet and on the basis of the reconstruction information, the extracted divided additional information is reconstructed to restore the additional information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To synchronize and transmit an image signal and a control signal without causing omission or deterioration in image quality of image data.SOLUTION: In an information processing system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter comprises a data embedding unit which embeds image data into an effective display period of an image signal in pixel units, embeds control data for controlling processing to be executed using image data, into a portion of the image signal in which the image data is not embedded, to generate the image signal. The receiver comprises a separation unit which receives the image signal from the transmitter and separates the image signal into the image data and the control data.
Abstract:
Available storage media capacity for personal video recording increases continuously. metadata can be used to organize the recordings, search for content and access specific recordings. If metadata are embedded within the multimedia content itself, like DVB specific Service Information, which are multiplexed with the audio and video streams to form a MPEG-2 transport stream, a search based on this metadata would require an inefficient and time consuming search through all multimedia content stored. According to the invention metadata information is gathered, analyzed and processed to form metadata entities, which are amended by a reference to the content itself. A descriptor stream (DS) is formed from the resulting pairs of metadata entities and references to the content and is stored separately from the files comprising multimedia content. In this way, for data of an MPEG-2 transport stream the metadata can be accessed without a need to reparse the entire stream.