Abstract: An application execution terminal makes a suggestion to start either an application or a profile which is associated with an event detected in reception and playback of a content on the basis of event processing rules in which a suggestion to start either an application or a profile which is to be executed in response to occurrence of each event is described, and executes either the application for which the suggestion is accepted or an application registered into the profile for which the suggestion is accepted.

Abstract: A screen generating apparatus includes an application executing unit for executing an application for displaying video information metadata or the like, which is received by a tuner, a screen layout forming unit for generating, for a video content ID, a screen layout which associates an application with an application area defined by an arrangement template downloaded by a network interface, a GUI for drawing an image generated by the application associated with the application area on the basis of the screen layout generated by the screen layout forming unit, a video output unit for displaying the image of the application, which is drawn by the GUI, on the screen while superimposing the image on a video currently being received by the tuner, and an audio output unit for mixing a sound generated by the application and an audio currently being received by the tuner, and for outputting them.

Abstract: A commercial processing apparatus which can improve an commercial effect and can arbitrarily select a means used for the improvement is provided. The commercial processing apparatus acquires an AV stream by using a tuner (2), a streaming processing unit (3), or a DVD drive (4). A demultiplexer (5) demultiplexes the AV stream to acquire commercial metadata. A web browser (7) acquires a script document in which a procedure for processing the commercial metadata is described. A JavaScript VM (6) interprets the script document acquired by the web browser (7), and performs a process on the commercial metadata demultiplexed and acquired by the demultiplexer (5) according to the description of the script document.

Abstract: A distribution apparatus has an input section 200 for receiving video or audio transmission data; a storage section 201 for storing the transmission data received by the input section 200 as playback data; a distribution request reception section 203 for accepting a distribution request message including information for designating a distribution range of the playback data from the playback apparatus 102; and a distribution section 204 for inserting data corresponding to the distribution range among the playback data stored in the storage section 201 into a response message to the distribution request message, and for distributing the data to the playback apparatus 102 originating the distribution request.

Abstract: A recording reservation common share system includes a recording schedule sharing apparatus 1A which makes a request for recording schedule information, and which acquires and checks recording schedule information provided thereto, and recording schedule sharing apparatuses 1B and 1C each of which receive a request for recording schedule information from the recording schedule sharing apparatus 1A, and provides the recording schedule information held thereby to the recording schedule sharing apparatus 1A.

Abstract: A client apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a contents list request transmitting means 401 for transmitting a request of a media server apparatus 101 to transmit a contents list which is a list of metadata of contents, a contents list receiving means 402 for receiving the contents list from the media server apparatus 101, an item list storing means 403 for storing the contents list and an item list having listed items each of which is described as metadata, an item list transmitting means 404 for transmitting the item list to a monitor server apparatus 102, a key input means 405 for receiving a key input, an input key transmitting means 406 for transmitting the key input to the monitor server apparatus 102, and an identification information receiving means 407 for receiving identification information making it possible to uniquely identify each item included in the item list.

Abstract: While a user, who registers new music CD data to a content server apparatus 10 (PC of the user's own house), comes and goes between user's own house and a car equipped with a content playback apparatus 30 (car audio system) with having a content transfer apparatus 20 (mobile phone terminal), contents registered in the content server apparatus 10 are transferred to the content playback apparatus 30 via the content transfer apparatus 20 by the wireless LAN without any particular operation of the user.

Abstract: A monitor server apparatus 102 in accordance with the present invention includes: a UI presenting means 304 for presenting a UI for displaying information and for receiving an input; a display data generating means 303 for generating display data to be displayed on the UI; an item list receiving means 301 for receiving a list of items listed each of which is described as metadata; an item list storing means 302 for storing the item list; an input key receiving means 305 for receiving a key input; and an identification information transmitting means 306 for transmitting identification information making it possible to identify each of the items included in the item list uniquely.

Abstract: A metadata storing/receiving means 206 stores metadata acquired from a metadata providing terminal by using a metadata acquisition request. A filtering means 209 selects metadata stored in the metadata storage means 206 by using at least of a degree of preference and a degree of affinity.

Abstract: A transcoder includes transcoder modules 12 and 13 which convert the formats of contents stored in servers 2 and 3 into formats which can be supported by a renderer 4, respectively, and an internal controller 11 for comparing the format of each content stored in the servers 2 and 3 with the conversion functions of the transcoder modules 12 and 13 to create a transcoder content list in which contents which can be supported are described, and for transferring a content acquisition request to acquire a content to the servers 2 and 3, the content acquisition request being transmitted thereto on the basis of the created transcoder content list.

Abstract: A mobile terminal 100 holds identification information indicating specific content which the user has been viewing and listening to, and a playback position of the content. When receiving a request for continuous playback of the specific content from the user, the mobile terminal 100 acquires the storage location of the specific content in a content server terminal A or B (200a or 200b), and sends information indicating this storage location and an instruction for continuous playback of the content to a content playback terminal 300. The content playback terminal 300 then reads the specific content from the storage location of the content server A or B (200a or 200b), and carries out a continuous playback of the content.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes: a content identifier conversion table for holding channel numbers designated via an input device, and information about content identifiers corresponding to the channel numbers; a channel selection control section for converting a designated channel number to a corresponding content identifier with reference to the content identifier conversion table; and a display control section for receiving the content identifier passing through the conversion, for instructing, when the content identifier is a channel of the television broadcasting, the television broadcasting receiving section to receive a program of the channel, for instructing, when the content identifier is an identifier of contents on the communication network, the content acquiring section to acquire the contents, and for supplying to an output device the acquired television program or the contents on the communication network.

Abstract: Provided is a transferring and molding method capable of forming a molded article on which a pattern is transferred in a prescribed position by automatically correcting a shift when there is produced a molded article on which the pattern is transferred with a shift. When the pattern of a molded article has a shift, the shift dimension and the shift direction of the pattern of the molded article as digital values, are detected and positional correction by automatically moving the transfer film by the detected shift dimension toward the side opposite from the detected shift direction and thereafter transfers the pattern in the prescribed position of the molded article that has undergone the transferring and molding is carried out.

Abstract: When carrying out program recommendation between friends and acquaintances, only information necessary for identifying a recommendation program rather than the program content itself is transmitted from a program recommending terminal to a program recommended terminal. This enables recommendation of the program without using a wide communication band. Besides, a problem of copyright involved in transmitting the program contents can be circumvented.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver, referring to program information obtained by a program information acquiring section (9), identifies icons associated with programs, and displays the icons on a user interface screen with establishing correspondence with the arrangement of a ten-digit keypad (21) of a remote control (13).

Abstract: A coil-shaped fastener element is comprised of a coupling head bulging to both sides, upper/lower leg portions adjacent the coupling head and a connecting portion for connecting the upper and lower leg portions. With providing a stepped portion in a center of the upper leg portion, a portion of the fastener element on a side of the coupling head is formed thick while a portion thereof on a side of the connecting portion is formed thin. A coupling space is provided between the upper and lower leg portions. A protruded portion protruded into the coupling space is provided in a back of the stepped portion of the upper leg portion. A slope portion is formed such that the coupling space is expanded from an inside of an upper portion of the coupling head to a base portion of the protruded portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a slide fastener spiral continuous element row wherein a monofilament is carried on a mandrel while ensuring an accurate pitch of elements even in a high-speed operation and a stepped form of an upper leg portion can be accurately formed at a predetermined portion of each the element. In order to continuously manufacture the slide fastener spiral element row from the continuous monofilament made of synthetic resin, the monofilament transferred continuously is wound spirally around the mandrel and carried while being retained between screw grooves of opposed screws. Then, a coupling head is formed by hitting a portion of the spiral monofilament carried on the mandrel by a pressing roller, the portion corresponding to the coupling head. After that, a stepped upper leg portion is formed by pressing a portion of the spiral monofilament by a rotary hammer at a predetermined position on the mandrel, the portion corresponding to the upper leg portion.

Abstract: A punch blade depresses the coupling heads of a length of successive filamentary coupling elements toward a knockout blade while sandwiching stringer tapes between upper and lower grippers. The punch blade is lowered until lower legs of the coupling elements are cut off by cutter blades. The punch blade and the knockout blade are then lifted while gripping the severed coupling elements therebetween to forcibly remove the coupling elements out of engagement with sewing threads on the stringer tapes. The upper grippers have confronting steps for engaging the sewing threads so that the severed coupling elements can be detached reliably and smoothly from the stringer tapes without unduly tensioning the sewing threads and stringer tapes. The punch blade may have a vertical reinforcement member attached to at least one side edge thereof and having a lower tooth projecting downwardly beyond a lower edge for being pressed against the coupling elements.

Abstract: A method of forming a so-called space where fastener elements have been removed from a slide fastener chain in which fastener elements of synthetic resin have been woven into the edges of fastener tapes comprising disengaging right and left stringers from each other, setting each stringer on a working bed, keeping fixed all fastener elements in the space forming area of each stringer on the working bed by respective press pieces at their engaging heads, cutting at least the connecting threads extending through the legs of each fastener element at the front and rear end of the space forming area of each stringer, then pulling the fastener tapes away from the respective press pieces and thus pulling out the binding warp threads, core string and connecting threads from the fastener elements, so as to remove the fastener elements from each fastener tape and keep the binding warp threads, core string and connecting threads extended along the space forming area in the weft loops.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for forming a space section in a pair of concealed-slide-fastener stringers, with a pair of tapes gripped with interengaged coupling elements disposed at the upper side of the tapes, a pair of continuous concealed-slide-fastener stringers is pushed upwardly from the under side of the tapes by a pair of laterally spaced and vertically movable dies until head portions of a series of the interengaged coupling elements are exposed to the dies and supported thereon. A punch is then lowered to cut upper legs of certain interengaged coupling elements supported on the raised dies. Finally, an ejector is raised through the dies to clamp the cut coupling elements against the punch and continues to be moved upwardly together with the punch to pull the cut coupling elements out of sewn stitches.