摘要:
A center (content supply center) (1865) for storing and managing contents, and user terminals (1861 to 1864) used by respective users are connected via networks (861 to 867). The center (1865) sends signals of contents for trial viewing/listening to the user terminals for free or at a low price. The user terminals (1861 to 1864) can receive the signals of the contents for trial viewing/listening and select and purchase only the content that the user likes from the received contents so as to reproduce the content with high quality. This enables trial viewing/listening. It is not necessary to download a large quantity of data with high quality from the content supply center or the like and there will be more opportunities of content purchase.
摘要:
A recording medium is formed of a plurality of flash memories. A recording medium controller manages the recording status of the plurality of flash memories in units of blocks. The recording medium controller controls a data recording process so that data is recorded in such a manner that one or more parallel block sets are constructed which consist of one or more blocks the number of which is determined in accordance with a minimum number of blocks required to obtain a minimum waiting time in the process of recording data in a parallel fashion into the one or more blocks of the recording medium, and the data is recorded in the parallel fashion in the one or more blocks of the one or more parallel block sets, thereby recording data on the recording medium at a high speed. The recording medium controller also controls the data recording process so that data is recorded in such a manner that one or more parallel block sets each consisting of one or more blocks used to record the data are constructed in such a manner as not to create a significant difference in the size of a writable area available for recording data among the plurality of flash memories, and the data is recorded in the parallel fashion in the one or more blocks of the one or more parallel block sets, thereby recording data on the recording medium without creating a significant difference in the writable area size.
摘要:
The simplified high-speed memory control and simplified flexible memory management are provided for an information recording/reproducing device having a recording medium having an erasure unit larger than the writing unit. A recording medium 3 is such a recording medium having an erasure unit larger than a writing unit, such as a flash memory. When recording data of a file transferred via a transfer control section 5 on a recording medium 3, a recording medium controller 2 records data beginning from the leading position of the erasure unit. Moreover, only data of a given file is recorded in one erasure unit, so that data of another file is not allowed to co-exist in one erasure unit. When re-writing file data, pre-existing files can be erased in a lump without retreating to, for example, an external buffer, thus assuring facilitated memory management, such as readout of file data.
摘要:
It is intended to remove a risk of illegal high quality restoration while enabling trial viewing of contents such as music, to make it possible to reproduce contents with high quality by acquiring a relatively small amount of data, and to make it possible to implement hardware at a lower cost. To generate trial listening data containing dummy data, a pseudo random number R is generated first. A remainder r of R divided by 128 is calculated. The remainder r is coded and incorporated into high sound quality restoration data. A bandwidth limitation region of trial listening data is replaced by dummy data starting from its rth bit. As a result, the head position of the dummy data in the trial listening data varies frame by frame, whereby the safety of the trial listening data can be increased.
摘要:
An information recording/reproducing device includes a transfer control section for carrying out input/output of transfer data, a recording medium control section for carrying out writing to/reading from a recording medium, a file management section for managing a recorded file, and a CPU for carrying out control of each constituent element. The recording medium control section includes a page counter for counting the number of pages at the time of data transfer, and address register group for designating addresses, a control circuit which includes a pointer for selecting one effective address register and a control register for designating the type of control with respect to the recording medium and is adapted for transmitting/receiving a control signal to/from the transfer control section, the CPU and the recording medium, and a recording medium selection circuit for selecting recording medium pieces. Thus, it is possible to carry out high-speed data transfer by parallel control of the recording medium pieces, restrain overhead processing in data transfer, and carry out data transfer of higher versatility.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a decoding device that decodes demodulated data obtained by demodulating a quadrature modulated signal arising from digital modulation of a carrier and detects synchronization, the decoding device including, a decoder configured to decode first demodulated data that is the demodulated data obtained by demodulating the quadrature modulated signal and is composed of in-phase axis data and quadrature axis data, and decode second demodulated data obtained by interchanging the in-phase axis data and the quadrature axis data of the first demodulated data, and a synchronization detector configured to detect a boundary between predetermined information symbol sequences from first decoded data obtained by decoding the first demodulated data and detect the boundary from second decoded data obtained by decoding the second demodulated data, the synchronization detector selecting and outputting one of the first decoded data and the second decoded data based on a result of the detection of the boundary.
摘要:
File management information for managing logical sequence of files recorded in a recording medium is formed and stored in a file management information storing unit. Block management information which includes a file number for identifying a file, sequential order number indicative of the sequential order of the block storing data of the file and page length information indicative of the size of the data stored in the block is formed and stored in a block management information storing unit. Access to the file is ensured based on the block management information, even when the file management information indicative of the logical sequence of the files is lost by accident.
摘要:
A method for processing data is provided to permit finer management and editing of data irrespective of the data structure and the components or nature of the data when managing the recording or reproduction of a variety of data and performing division, connection, deletion, and other editing. The method comprises a first recording and reproduction step of recording and reproducing the data in predetermined units, a processing step of processing the data in predetermined units, a first management data generation step of generating first management data for managing the recording and reproduction of data at the first recording and reproduction step in predetermined units, a second recording and reproduction step of recording and reproducing the data in units smaller than the predetermined units, a second management data generation step of generating the second management data for managing the recording and reproduction of data at the second recording and reproduction step in units smaller than the predetermined units, and a control step of controlling the recording and reproduction at the first recording and reproduction step and the recording and reproduction at second recording and reproduction step based on said first and second management data.
摘要:
An information transfer system comprises a random accessible recording medium, a request information input section connected to a detachable information recording device, and an information output section connected to the detachable information recording device, thus to output, through the information output section, information read out at random from the recording medium on the basis of request information input through the request information input section. The information recording device stores information input through an information input section into a temporary recording section thereafter to record a recording medium comprised of a plurality of recording medium pieces, thereby making it possible to correctly record information at a high speed even in the case where a recording medium having relatively low write speed is employed. Moreover, the information transfer system sequentially transfers information stored on the basis of an information transfer request signal which requires information transfer from information recording devices having a variety of memory structures and adapted for recording/reproducing input information. The information transfer system carries out a control to record input information in parallel in a traversing order with respect to a plurality of recording medium pieces, thereby making it possible to record information in parallel by simple control with respect to a variety of information recording devices constituted with a recording medium in which the write time is not fixed. Thus, this information transfer system makes it possible to transfer information at a high speed by simple hardware.
摘要:
A decoding device that decodes demodulated data obtained by demodulating a quadrature modulated signal arising from digital modulation of a carrier and detects synchronization, the decoding device includes, a decoder configured to decode first demodulated data that is the demodulated data obtained by demodulating the quadrature modulated signal and is composed of in-phase axis data and quadrature axis data. The decoding device decodes second demodulated data obtained by interchanging the in-phase axis data and the quadrature axis data of the first demodulated data. A synchronization detector is configured to detect a boundary between predetermined information symbol sequences from first decoded data obtained by decoding the first demodulated data and detect the boundary from second decoded data obtained by decoding the second demodulated data. The synchronization detector selects and outputs one of the first decoded data and the second decoded data based on a result of the detection of the boundary.