Abstract:
The present invention is the playback apparatus 400 for (i) mounting thereon the BD-ROM 200 in which a plurality of data groups and an application program that refers to each of the data groups are stored and (ii) playing back each of the data groups by executing the application program. The playback apparatus 400 comprises: the playback processing unit 412 operable to control the execution of the application program; the network IF unit 419 operable to obtain, from an external server including therein one or more alternative data groups, an alternative data group to replace part of the data groups; and the HDD unit 418 that stores therein correspondence information showing a correspondence between a storage location where on an internal recording medium the alternative data group is stored and a storage location where on the external recording medium the part of the data groups to be replaced. Here, at a time when the application program in execution reads a data group being referred to, the playback processing unit 412 (i) judges based on the correspondence information whether an alternative data group for replacing the data group being referred to exists on the internal recording medium, and (ii) specifies, as a data retrieve destination, a storage location of the alternative data group indicated by the correspondence information when the judgment is affirmative.
Abstract:
An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning unit that is switchable between local air-conditioning and overall air-conditioning, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire state quantity data of a requester, and a control unit. The control unit calculates comfort assessment values for both the requester and a neighbor, and controls the air-conditioning unit so that the local air-conditioning is performed to an extent whereby the comfort assessment value of the neighbor is kept in a comfort range and the comfort assessment value of the requester can be within the comfort range.
Abstract:
An energy saving support device supports energy saving of an air conditioner and includes an acquiring unit, a first energy calculating unit, a second energy calculating unit, an information generating unit and a reporting unit. The acquiring unit acquires operating data regarding the air conditioner. The first energy calculating unit determines a total consumed energy or a standard consumed energy of the air conditioner as a comparison target energy based on the operating data acquired by the acquiring unit. The second energy calculating unit determines a low-COP consumed energy based on the operating data acquired by the acquiring unit. The information generating unit generates room-for-energy-saving information in order to determine a potential for energy saving based on the comparison target energy and the low-COP consumed energy. The reporting unit reports the room-for-energy-saving information.
Abstract:
A BD-ROM on which an AVClip and a Java™ application are recorded. The AVClip includes a video stream and an audio stream multiplexed therein. On the BD-ROM recorded further are management information and the Mixing_On flag corresponding to the management information. The management information indicates a playback control of the AVClip that is to be played back when the Java™ application is executed. The Mixing_On flag indicates whether or not when a user performs an operation on the Java™ application being executed while the AVClip is under the playback control, mixing of the click sound with an audio output of the AVClip is available.
Abstract:
An air conditioning control device includes an operating-unit specifying unit, an adjacent-unit specifying unit and an adjacent-unit control unit, and collectively controls the operation of an indoor unit group. The operating-unit specifying unit specifies an operating unit to perform an air conditioning operation from the indoor units included in the indoor unit group. The adjacent-unit specifying unit specifies an adjacent unit adjacent to the operating unit from the indoor units included in the indoor unit group. The adjacent-unit control unit causes the adjacent unit to perform an air flow generating operation. This air flow inhibits air conditioned by the air conditioning operation of the operating unit from diffusing from an air conditioning target space.
Abstract:
[Object] In a fishing line for capturing large fishes made by a polyvinylidenefluoride resin filament, a polyvinylidenefluoride resin filament wherein even by enhancing the tensile strength at break by enlarging the filament diameter than that of usual fishing line, an appropriate tensile elongation at break can be obtained, so that the rapid and enormous impact generated when large fishes have taken the bait can be reduced, and that has a homogenous fiber structure which generates almost no inner cavity when forming a filament with a large diameter, is developed.
Abstract:
A playback apparatus has a platform 1410 that is a program execution environment of an application 1400. When the platform 1410 initiates the application 1400, a graphics information transmission unit 1403, which corresponds to an API function, obtains graphics information and stores the graphics information in a graphics information storage unit 1413. A graphics information control unit 1414 selects graphics information to be rendered, based on a stream event obtained by a stream event reception unit 1416 and the graphics information stored in the graphics information storage unit 1413. The graphics information control unit 1414 has a graphics rendition unit 1415 render the selected graphics with a video playback timing relating to the stream event.
Abstract:
The broadcast recording and reproduction apparatus 1300 which limits loss of content to a minimum includes: a recording generation unit 2801 which records data included in a broadcast signal into a unit-region; a volume remainder detection unit 2813 which detects the remaining capacity, within the unit-region, that can be recorded into; a volume remainder insufficiency sensing unit 2802 which senses that the remaining capacity goes below a predetermined capacity; a remainder insufficiency handler which is called when it is sensed that the remaining capacity goes below the predetermined capacity; and a remainder insufficiency handler registration unit 3301 which registers the remainder insufficiency handler. The remainder insufficiency handler registered in the remainder insufficiency handler registration unit 3301 is called.
Abstract:
A recording and reproduction apparatus shifts a program which is currently being executed to a paused state, or temporarily shifts a mode of graphics drawing by an application program to an invisible mode, in order to reproduce a recorded video with trick play functionality at a reproduction speed different from a normal reproduction speed, thereby making it possible to prevent an unexpected behavior of the program even when an application program is executing a time-consuming process.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive that does not generate errors when information is read even if considerable time has elapsed after the information was written on the magnetic disk. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk has a storage area divided into a plurality of sectors ST1. Time stamps TP1 corresponding to each sector data m1 stored in the sectors ST1 are stored in a time stamp recording medium. A processor controls the magnetic disk drive to read time stamps TP2 of sector data m2 stored in any sectors ST2 of the sectors ST1 and refresh sector data m3 selected based on an elapsed time calculated from information about the time when the time stamps are read and the time stamps TP2.