Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080263249 | Access Arbiter and Arbitrable Condition Verification Device - A priority control value, which is smaller as the priority of access by each of requesters is higher, decreases with the lapse of time when an access request is issued. When the access is completed, the priority control value increases by a priority decrease value (PERIOD). When there is no access request, the priority control value decreases to a reference priority value (TMIN) and is then maintained at the reference priority value. Access permission is given to the one of the requesters issuing requests which has the smallest priority control value. As a result, proper arbitration is performed at a high speed with a simple hardware configuration. | 10-23-2008 |
20080320046 | VIDEO DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - Feature amount information of video data in a hard disk is calculated by a decoder and a feature amount extraction section. An icon reflecting the feature amount information is generated by an icon generation section and is presented to the user. A feature amount index control section pairs the feature amount information received from the feature amount extraction section with a position in the hard disk of the video data, and records the pair as index information, so that the speed of image retrieval is improved. | 12-25-2008 |
20090052873 | RECORDING/PLAYBACK TERMINAL - In a recording/playback terminal used for recording, on a recording medium, a plurality of target contents sent from a content server in which a plurality of contents are accumulatively stored such that each of the target contents is stored in a compressed state, a capacity determining section for determining a compression mode of each of the target contents to be recorded so that all the target contents can fit on the recording medium is provided. A content obtaining section for obtaining, from the content server, the target contents each of which is compressed in the compression mode determined by the capacity determining section is further provided. The target contents obtained by the content obtaining section are recorded on a recording medium. | 02-26-2009 |
20090097372 | Content data recording/reproducing device - Even in the case of copying contents data on a recording medium not compliant with copyright protection, in order to enable the data to be moved to a recording medium compliant with copyright protection, key data to encrypt the contents data is generated per contents data and held in a contents encrypting key memory section 106 in the recording/reproducing device. The contents data is encrypted by the key data in a contents encrypting section | 04-16-2009 |
20090109810 | RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A recording/reproduction apparatus includes a first recording medium (a flash memory) having a first time that is required for the first recording medium to go from a low-power consumption state to a state in which recorded video data can be read out, and a second recording medium (an HDD or a DVD drive) having a second time that is required for the second recording medium to go from a low-power consumption state to a state in which recorded video data can be read out, where the second time is longer than the first time. When a video content is reproduced from the second recording medium in the low-power consumption state, the first recording medium is caused to go to a readable state while the second recording medium is not in a readable state, and a leading portion of the content is reproduced from the first recording medium. Thereby, a start-up time of the second recording medium that is required until reproduction is permitted is concealed from the user, and the user's reproduction request is immediately responded. | 04-30-2009 |
20090129759 | Format Converter, Format Conversion Method and Moving Picture Decoding System - A format converter for converting the format of input contents data from a first format standard to a second format standard includes an extraction section ( | 05-21-2009 |
20110050963 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS - On an operation monitor, a portion of an image captured by a wide-angle optical system which is to be zoomed in is selected, and an image in the area is captured by a telephoto optical system. Then, both of the images are multiplexed in a signal processor, and the multiplexed images are recorded on a recording medium. | 03-03-2011 |
20110147472 | REMOVABLE MEDIUM AND MEDIUM MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A removable medium includes a data separator configured to separate data input from a digital camera which is an external apparatus into storage data and display data, a data storage configured to store the storage data as a content, and a medium information display configured to display the display data as an image. The medium information display includes, for example, electronic paper in order to, even after the removable medium is removed from the digital camera, continue to display an image as it was displayed immediately before the removal of the removable medium. The removable medium further has a function of outputting the display data of the medium information display to the outside. | 06-23-2011 |