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| 20080235268 | System, apparatus, method and program for processing information - Incidental content as metadata contains one of primary content and usage editing material content information. The primary content has been used directly as an editing material in a secondary usage mode fashion in order to produce the incident content data and the usage editing material content information indicates the incidental content. A generation structure is recognized by back-tracking content serving as a parent by referencing usage editing material content starting with given incidental content, based on the usage editing material content information of each incidental content. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235356 | System, apparatus, method and program for processing information - In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080256086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system configured to include at least an open server apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicable with each other through a network is disclosed. The system includes: an opening mode setting means for setting an opening mode; a transmitted content information creating means for creating content information including at least body information and predetermined additional information; a content information storing means for storing content information; a content information upload control means for transmitting content information; and an opening mode determining means for determining an opening mode of the content information stored in the content information storing means. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080282021 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data management apparatus for managing data stored in a predetermined storage area includes a reader configured to communicate with a plurality of objects each having a memory storing an address indicating a storage area and to read the address from the memory of an object with which communication is to be performed by a user among the plurality of objects; a data obtaining unit configured to obtain data to be stored in the storage area; and a storage controller configured to cause the data obtained by the data obtaining means to be stored in the storage area indicated by the address read by the reader. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080295028 | Content display method, content display apparatus, recording medium, and server apparatus - A content display method includes the steps of acquiring an icon image corresponding to a data content set composed of a plurality of data contents, generating a plurality of specific icons which are different from each other and correspond to the data contents, on the basis of the icon image and a predetermined generation rule, and displaying the specific icons on a display. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080312949 | Information processing apparatus and method and program - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including a taker and a display controller. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090094331 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, CONTENT PROVIDING SERVER, COMMUNICATION RELAY SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD - An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display control for reproducing the content data on a display portion; and a bidirectional communication portion which carries out bidirectional communication with other information processing unit connected to the content providing server, in which, when the content data is reproduced, the bidirectional communication portion selects a communication message to be received from communication messages sent from the other information processing unit corresponding to an execution state of the bidirectional communication. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094548 | Information Processing Unit and Scroll Method - An information processing unit according to the present invention, includes: a display portion in which part of plural object display regions which function as an object when object data is displayed is displayed; an object data display control portion which allocates the object data to the plural object display regions so as to display the object data; and an object display region move control portion which scrolls the object display region displayed in the display portion in a scroll direction based on an inputted scroll direction while scrolling the object display region not displayed in the display portion so as to display the object display region in the display portion. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090100355 | Information processing system, service providing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program - Systems and methods are provided which can be used to control electrical household appliances connected to a home network by use of a GUI having an entertainment-oriented virtual space capability. A virtual space is arranged with a mascot dedicated to the user of an information processing apparatus. An icon can be clicked to control a real world device existing in the home of a user. A user can participate in a virtual space belonging to another user through sharing. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090106261 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for obtaining subsidiary content information configured having at least playback control information and having a subsidiary content identifier corresponding to itself and an editing history identifier; an editing processing unit for executing editing processing with secondary usage of at least one of primary content information and subsidiary content information; a subsidiary content information creating unit for creating subsidiary content information; an editing history identifier managing unit for generating the editing history identifier; and a subsidiary content identifier managing unit for generating a subsidiary content identifier to be correlated with subsidiary content information and providing this to subsidiary content information. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106700 | Information Processing Unit, Content Providing Server, Information Processing Method and Content Providing Method - An information processing unit according to the present invention includes: a content information acquiring portion which acquires meta data containing a thumbnail of a content corresponding to the content data and information indicating presence/absence of a preview of the content and the content data; a display control portion which displays a list of the content thumbnails on a display portion; and an operation detecting portion which detects the operation of a position specifying object for specifying the content to be reproduced from the displayed thumbnail, wherein if the position specifying object stays in the thumbnail corresponding to the content whose preview is present in a predetermined time interval, the content information acquiring portion acquires content data relating to the preview, and the display control portion automatically reproduces the acquired content data relating to the preview. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090119273 | SERVER DEVICE, CLIENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090212923 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program - An information processing apparatus includes an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information that is contained in a tag whose registration has been instructed by a user and that identifies the tag from among a plurality of tags indicating user feelings; a registration information generation unit configured to acquire information corresponding to a user feeling indicated by the tag whose registration has been instructed by the user and to generate registration information including the information corresponding to the user feeling added in association with the identification information; and a display unit configured to display a list of images of tags corresponding to identification information contained in the registration information and display information corresponding to a user feeling added in association with identification information corresponding to a tag selected from the list of the images of the tags, on the basis of the generated registration information. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090295998 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a first content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce first content data, a second content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce second content data, a display control unit to generate a multiple image for displaying a first image reproduced by the first content reproduction unit and a second image reproduced by the second content reproduction unit on one screen, a display unit to display the multiple image generated by the display control unit, and an operation processing unit to cause the display control unit to change at least one of a position, a size and a transparency of the first image or the second image according to operation information input by a user. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090299823 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090299981 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300004 | CONTENTS DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD - Based on a content attribute serving as a coordinate axis of which the setting input is performed from an operation input unit, and the content identifier of a content of interest, a metadata storage unit is searched to select one or multiple other contents relating to the content of interest. The strength of relationship between each of the selected other contents and the content of interest is calculated based on the content attribute set as a coordinate axis, and information indicating correlation. The layout relations of other contents with the content of interest as the origin are calculated based on the content attribute serving as a coordinate axis, and the calculated strength of relationship. The display image of each of the other contents is disposed in accordance with the calculated layout relations. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100005393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for making easier-to-understand evaluations of contents. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100053441 | Video display device, video display method and system - There is provided a video display device including a content control unit for displaying a video content on a display screen; a user specifying unit for specifying a user viewing a video content displayed on the display screen; and an image quality adjustment unit for adjusting the image quality of the display screen according to the user specified by the user specifying unit. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100058389 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A client device includes a display control unit for setting a current time line indicating a current time on the display screen to divide the display screen into a fixed region and a moving region across the current time line as boundary, for moving a program object set in the moving region toward the current time line at a predetermined speed to set, among program information contained in the EPG data obtained by the EPG data obtaining unit, a program object describing therein program identification information contained in the program information on certain program information whose program start time is earlier than a current time, which is contained in the program information, at a position reaching the current time line in the moving region when the program start time comes, and for, when the program object reaches the current time line, shifting the program object to the fixed region. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070873 | Image display device, server, mobile terminal, image display method, and system - The image display device includes a content control section for making a display screen display image content, a terminal information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information sent by a mobile terminal, a user information storage section in which user information indicating an attribute of a user of the mobile terminal is stored, and a terminal information control section for making the display screen display the terminal information acquired by the terminal information acquisition section, based on the user information of the mobile terminal that sent the terminal information. Thereby, an image display device, a server, a mobile terminal, an image display method, and a system that enable more effective information sharing among a specific group can be provided. | 03-18-2010 |
