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20110123171 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a content reproduction control system equipped with: a signal characterizing quantity sequence extraction means that, for each content item stored in a content group storage unit that stores at least more than one content item, extracts a signal characterizing quantity sequence which is the sequence of the signal characterizing quantities associated with the content positions on the time axis; a common section group detection means that detects, as a common section group in the signal characterizing quantity sequence for each content item, a common section group for which the signal characterizing quantities for different content items are similar to each other; a content reproduction quality information collection means that, for each common section group, collects content reproduction quality information which indicates the reproduction quality of the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs; and a content reproduction control means that, when the content contained in the content group storage unit is reproduced, switches the content reproduced for the content to be reproduced for the sections included in the common section group and performs reproduction such that the reproduction quality of the content will be higher, based on the content reproduction quality information for the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs. | 05-26-2011 |
20110153609 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TOPICALITY, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system for determining content topicality comprises a feature value extracting means which extracts feature values of a plurality of contents from the contents; a content grouping means which compares the feature values of the plurality of contents extracted by the feature value extracting means, obtains identical contents and derived contents created using the contents, both of which are included in the plurality of contents, and groups the identical/derived contents, thereby computing identical/derived content grouping information; and a topicality determining means which totals viewing frequencies of the contents determined to be the identical/derived contents from viewing history information and the identical/derived content grouping information relating to the plurality of contents, computes total viewing frequencies of each of the identical/derived contents, and determines the topicality of the identical/derived contents according to the total viewing frequency. | 06-23-2011 |
20110211631 | MOVING IMAGE DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, ITS METHOD, AND ITS PROGRAM - A moving image data distribution system for distributing reproduction content data that is hierarchically structured so that lower layer data is synthesized with upper layer data to form high quality data. The moving image data distribution system includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a transmission data storing unit that stores the reproduction content data, an upper layer first data length determining means for determining a data length of the upper layer first data based on a reproduction delay time from when the receiving apparatus receives only the upper layer data to when the receiving apparatus reproduces the reproduction contents, an upper layer first data transmitting means for reading upper layer first data determined based on the upper layer first data length from the storing unit, and transmitting the upper layer first data to the receiving apparatus, and an upper layer subsequent data transmitting means for reading upper layer subsequent data subsequent to the upper layer first data from the storing unit, and transmitting the upper layer subsequent data to the receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes a lower layer data storing unit that stores the lower layer data, a hierarchical data synthesizing means for synthesizing the lower layer data with the upper layer first data or the upper layer subsequent data, and a reproducing means for reproducing high quality data synthesized by the hierarchical data synthesizing means. | 09-01-2011 |
20110310098 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image display apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention that is capable of providing an image display apparatus is able to efficiently achieve 2D/3D mixed representation while suppressing data transmission amount. The image display apparatus refers to shape information | 12-22-2011 |
20130058403 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a moving picture encoding method based on hierarchical encoding. The method includes the step of encoding a time filtering lower hierarchical signal belonging to a lower hierarchy among signals of respective hierarchies which have been subjected to time-direction filtering and then to hierarchical division and an upper hierarchy time filtering signal obtained by performing time-direction filtering on a signal corresponding to the upper hierarchy of the aforementioned lower hierarchy signal. Thus, decoded signals of all the hierarchies can have image quality equivalent to the decoded image when encoding is performed with a single hierarchy. | 03-07-2013 |
20130103752 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, SCRIPT GENERATION DEVICE, TERMINAL, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - A content distribution system comprises a script generation unit. The script generation unit determines a distribution request time, which is the time when the terminal issues a request to a server for the distribution of the items of content, and a reproduction start time, which is the time when the terminal starts reproduction of the content included in the content list, at which it is anticipated, on the basis of a content list which is a list of content to be reproduced at a terminal and on the basis of the distribution state of the content, that the content included in the content list can be reproduced at the terminal without interruption. The script generation unit then generates a script which describes the distribution request time and the reproduction start time that have been determined, and transmits the generated script to the terminal. | 04-25-2013 |