Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100281500 | AV DEVICE AND UI DISPLAY METHOD - To solve the problems that it is necessary to perform an overlapped operation even if final viewing is to be decided while a plurality of contents included in a specified list of UI are compared (selected for a plurality of times) and that extra operation burden is given to a user in conventional technology. An AV device for giving priority to the list of a viewing source device to which the content outputted at present belongs and displaying it in UI at the time of receiving a list request of the content from the user is provided. | 11-04-2010 |
20100284669 | AV SERVER DEVICE, TV RECEIVER INCORPORATING AV SERVER AND PERSONAL COMPUTER INCORPORATING AV SERVER - There is provided an AV server device in a home network for enabling transmission/reception of an AV content between digital AV apparatuses connected with communication interfaces of different standards while protecting copyright. The AV server device includes an HDD ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100299403 | GRAPHIC INSTRUCTION TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR GRAPHIC INSTRUCTION TRANSMISSION - In related art, it takes time on a client to receive or draw a graphic element that is not important as data constituting graphics. Optimum graphic data is not transmitted to the client. To solve the above-described problems, the present invention proposes a graphic instruction transmitter having functions of selecting respective instructions constituting entire graphics according to information, such as client instruction execution capability information and information about graphic importance, and transmitting an instruction group generated on the basis of the selected instructions to the client. | 11-25-2010 |
20100302283 | GRAPHIC DISPLAY DEVICE - When a user carries out a specific operation at high speed in a conventional display device and the like, information stored in advance at a memory is not sufficient to display but it is necessary to acquire the information required for displaying from a server on a network, an external electronic apparatus, such as an HD, or an internal long term memory device of a display device every time it happens. Because of this, a user is kept waiting until desired information is displayed, so that it is hard to smoothly reflect a high speed operation on a graphic display. In order to solve the problem, the present invention proposes a display device characterized in caching graphic information that has the possibility to be used for display in the future in response to a user's operation history of graphics. | 12-02-2010 |
20100325648 | CONTENTS WATCHING DEVICE AND CONTENTS RECOMMENDING METHOD - A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute. | 12-23-2010 |
20120136867 | CONTENT NOTIFYING DEVICE, NOTIFYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit. | 05-31-2012 |
20120324508 | PROGRAM INFORMATION SEARCH DEVICE - A program information search device provides an improved operability of genre search. The device includes means for creating an electronic program table which displays information on programs, a genre search screen; means for acquiring information on a program where a cursor is located in the electronic program table, and detecting a genre of the program from the information; and a cursor control means for setting an initial position of a genre cursor for designating a genre on the genre search screen to the detected genre. Upon receiving an instruction to display the genre search screen, the electronic program table creating means extracts programs in the genre detected by the program information acquiring means, creates the genre search screen based on the extracted programs and the initial position of the genre cursor, and causes the display means to display the genre search screen. | 12-20-2012 |
20150149619 | USER STATE CONFIRMATION SYSTEM, USER STATE CONFIRMATION METHOD, SERVER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL COMPUTER PROGRAM - In order to remotely confirm a state of monitored person without using monitoring sensors, a user state confirmation system ( | 05-28-2015 |