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20080219639 | VIDEO PLAYER, VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD, AND CONTROL TARGET APPARATUS - A video player reads, from a recording medium storing video data and control data, the control data which includes a plurality of operation control methods for a control target apparatus, each operation control method being set for one of a plurality of playback controls including a normal playback control and a special playback control, detects one of the playback controls which is requires, to obtain a detected playback control, plays back the video data in the recording medium in accordance with a playback control method corresponding to the detected playback control, and controls operation of the control target apparatus in accordance with one of the operation control methods in the control data which corresponds to the detected playback control. | 09-11-2008 |
20090244385 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An information display apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information items through a network in accordance with an acquisition script in a scenario, the scenario including a conversion script and a motion addition script, an information conversion unit configured to extract one or more parts to be displayed from each information item acquired by the information acquisition unit in accordance with the conversion script included in the scenario, a motion addition unit configured to process all or some of the parts extracted by the information conversion unit, to be displayed with changing in content automatically and/or with an audio output, respectively, in accordance with the motion addition script included in the scenario. | 10-01-2009 |
20090249425 | IMAGING DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND IMAGING DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An imaging distribution apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a distribution request for distribution of a specific program from a client apparatus via a network, a program scenario acquisition unit configured to acquire a program scenario corresponding to the specific program requested for by the distribution request, a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information contents based on the program scenario, a conversion unit configured to convert the information contents to image scene based on the program scenario, an encoding unit configured to encode the image scene, to generate a stream, and a stream distribution unit configured to distribute the stream to the client apparatus via the network. | 10-01-2009 |
20110026535 | BRIDGE APPARATUS AND BRIDGE SYSTEM - A bridge apparatus is disclosed, the bridge apparatus being connected between a first network and a second network and achieving a communication between equipment connected to the first network and equipment connected to the second network. This apparatus accepts communication from the equipment over the first network to equipment disconnected from the second network, and then, preserves contents of the communication even in the case where the equipment over the second network has been disconnected from the second network for reasons such as electric power cut. In the case where the disconnected equipment has been connected to the second network again, this apparatus transmits the accepted contents of the communication to the reconnected equipment. | 02-03-2011 |
20120242293 | ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electric power management apparatus is for controlling electric power of at least one home appliance using at least one rechargeable battery. The apparatus includes an analysis unit, a first generating unit, and a second generating unit. The analysis unit analyzes a charge residue of the rechargeable battery. The first generating unit generates a control schedule used to control the electric power of the home appliance in accordance with the charge residue. The second generating unit generates a charge/discharge schedule used to control charge and discharge of the rechargeable battery in accordance with the charge residue. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242301 | CONTROL APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a control apparatus communicable with a power measuring apparatus includes a communication unit, a threshold storage, and a controller. The communication unit acquires a usable power value from the power measuring apparatus. The threshold storage stores a threshold value. The controller changes a working state thereof in accordance with a comparison result of the usable power value and the threshold value. | 09-27-2012 |
20140157386 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a communication device including a first communication layer receiving processor to perform a receiving process on a first communication layer on data received from a first communication device. The first communication layer receiving processor includes a first key identifying unit to identify, a key required to process the data; a first attribute identifying unit to identify, pursuant to key data, first attribute information that is attribute information associated with the key as identified; and a data processor to process the data using the key as identified. The data processed by the data processor and the first attribute information are passed to a second communication layer processor configured to perform a process on a second communication layer. | 06-05-2014 |
20140184066 | Lighting Control System and Lamp - A lighting control system performs a lighting control on slave lamps under the control of a master lamp communicating with and connected to a management apparatus. The master lamp includes an adding unit that adds the slave lamps placed under the control of the other master lamp to the slave lamps under its own control, when the other master lamp fails. The master lamp includes a lighting control unit that performs the lighting control on the slave lamps, based on a command relating to the lighting control, which is received from the management apparatus. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184100 | Illumination Control Device and Illumination Control System - An illumination control system includes an illumination control device, and a plurality of illumination lamps that are connected to the illumination control device via a network and are controlled by a control signal from the illumination control device. In addition, the illumination control device includes a reception unit configured to receive route information specified by a user from a user terminal, a decision unit configured to decide a schedule in which an illumination lamp which is a control target and an illumination process executed in the illumination lamp are specified according to the route information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a control signal according to the schedule to the illumination lamp which is a control target. | 07-03-2014 |
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20080287135 | COMMUNICATION SCHEME WITH ARBITRATION MECHANISM FOR CASES OF ADDRESS INITIALIZATION AND SERVER SETTING - The other communication devices are prohibited to transmit the address initialization request for a prescribed period of time since one communication device transmitted the address initialization request for an address managed by a control protocol, so that the conflict of the initialization requests for the same address will not occur and the problem of assigning the address in overlap to the communication devices will not arise. Also, the other communication devices are prohibited to transmit the address server detection request packet for a prescribed period of time since one communication device transmitted the address server detection request packet, so that the conflict on the network by a plurality of address server detection requests will not occur, and it is possible to determine the MAC address server uniquely. | 11-20-2008 |
20100180203 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE AND CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD - A content item recommendation device includes; a storage which stores information of a plurality of content items describing identifiers and usage characteristics of the resources used in the content items; a first specifying unit which specifies first content items which use at least S number of resources in common with a specified content item; a second specifying unit which specifies second content items which use at least K number of resources in common with each of the first content items; a calculator which calculates relationship levels between the specified content item and each of the second content items; a selector which selects recommended content items from the second content items based on the relationship levels. | 07-15-2010 |
20100198945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes unit storing scripts includes a tree structure, each of the scripts including at least one of a child-node script and content, unit selecting a parent-node script among the scripts, and acquiring to analyze a child-node script if the child-node script exists, unit acquiring content if content exists, unit retrieving substitute content if the acquisition of content ends in failure and if content indicates retrieving substitute content, unit retrieving the substitute-child-node script if the acquisition of the child-node script ends in failure and if the child-node script indicates retrieving the substitute-child-node script, and retrieving the substitute-parent-node script when content or the child-node script shows retrieving the substitute-parent-node script, unit acquiring substitute content when substitute content is found, unit acquiring the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script when the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script are found, respectively, and unit acquiring a change script. | 08-05-2010 |
20100241730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus has an information acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of pieces of information over a network in accordance with an acquisition script included in a scenario, an information converting unit which extracts portions represented to a user from the respective pieces of acquired information in accordance with a conversion script included in the scenario, a movement adding unit which processes all or part of the presented portion so that display contents can be presented in such a form as to change and/or be accompanied with the sound output in accordance with a movement adding script included in the scenario, a statistics recording unit which records processing cost for each of the information acquiring unit, the information converting unit and the movement adding unit, an extraction unit which extracts dependency information showing a dependency relationship between the processes from the scenario, and a control unit which determines the priority of the processes to be carried out on the basis of the scenario, the dependency information and the processing cost, and controls the information acquiring unit, the information converting unit and the movement adding unit. | 09-23-2010 |
20120043813 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a power control apparatus includes a calculation unit, a detection unit, a storage unit, a selection unit and an execution unit. The calculation unit calculates a spare power capacity and a total spare power capacity. The detection unit detects whether a required spare capacity is short, based on the required spare capacity and each of the spare power capacity and the total spare power capacity. The storage unit stores power control operation items. The selection unit selects power control operation items if the required spare capacity is short. The execution unit executes application operation of one or more the power control operation items until the required spare capacity becomes available, and executes waiting operation of one or more power control operation items executing the application operation if the required spare capacity is available. | 02-23-2012 |
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20150119999 | Communication Apparatus, Communication System and Communication Method - A communication apparatus according to the embodiment, which is capable of receiving a control command from an operation terminal and transmitting the control command to at least one equipment, includes a communication unit that receives the control command which controls the equipment, an equipment state determination unit that determines whether the equipment is in a state of being able to execute the control command, and a control unit that, if the equipment state determination unit determines that the equipment is not in the state of being able to execute the control command, does not transmit the control command to the equipment, and if the equipment state determination unit determines that the equipment is in the state of being able to execute the control command, transmits the control command to the equipment. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120006 | Communication Apparatus, Communication Relay Apparatus and Communication System - Provided are a communication apparatus, a communication relay apparatus, a communication method and a communication system, which prevent an apparatus from continuing to operate in an undesired operation state, if a communication failure occurs when remote control is performed. | 04-30-2015 |