Abstract: A view controller for controlling view is described on meta data and a view history (log) of a viewer recorded at the reception side is used to judge whether the condition of the view controller is satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, the view of the received content is permitted. Moreover, the view controller controls not only the view history (log) of the viewer stored before the content is received but also the view of another content during or after the content view. Thus, it is possible to perform view control to enforce the content right information and reflect the intention of the content creator.

Abstract: Characteristics of a color encoder can be measured under the same condition as a practical operation without modifying the color encoder as a device under test. A test signal generator generates R, G and B component signals as test signals and they are applied simultaneously to the color encoder. The output amplitudes and/or output phases of the component signals from the test signal generator are adjusted such that the color encoder produces at least one of a luminance signal, an I-axis signal and a Q-axis signal in accordance with a measurement item.

Abstract: A high resolution color television system, in the transmitting device of which part of pixels are thinned out in both horizontal and vertical directions and the remaining pixels are vertically gathered in the central portion of the image screen to form an image signal, leaving upper and lower blank portions, and horizontal and vertical informations indicating the quantitative relations between the removed pixels and the vertically and horizontally adjoining pixels are treated as first and second auxiliary signals and inserted in the upper and lower blank portions to form a television signal for transmission, and in the receiving device of which the image signal and the auxiliary signals are separated from the television signal and respectively treated in a manner opposite to that in the transmitting device to recover the original image signal for display by a kinescope.

Abstract: An anti-ringing device for a television signal transmission system in which the frequency band of a luminance component of a video signal from an image device is limited to prevent visible ringing at the receiver. The device includes a signal delay circuit 2 for delaying the video signal obtained by the image device, a low-pass filter 3 capable of changing the frequency band limitation characteristics thereof, a discriminator 4 for providing an output when the luminance component of the video signal contains a source of ringing, and a switch 5 for normally connecting the output of the delay circuit to a signal processor 6. The switch is responsive to the output of the discriminator for connecting the low-pass filter to the signal processor instead of the delay circuit, whose delay time corresponds to the signal processing time required in the discriminator.

Abstract: In transmitting, on a transmission side, a laterally long image whose aspect ratio is different from a usual television screen having aspect ratio of 3:4, with a top and a bottom portions of the screen being image-free, auxiliary signal obtained by shifting a signal component corresponding to a different in frequency band determined by the number of scan lines corresponding to a height of the image and a signal component exceeding a horizontal frequency band determined by a luster line length to lower frequency sides, respectively, are inserted into the image-free portions, which are used in a receiving side. In the receiving side, the auxiliary signals are separated in time from the image signal and processed separately.

Abstract: A amplitude characteristics of TV vertical frequency signal is improved by operating amplitudes of luminance signal obtained from a horizontal scan in a field and luminance signals obtained from a preceding and a subsequent horizontal scans in the same field and those luminance signals obtained in a preceding field, simultaneously.