Abstract: Metadata for an object in video includes first and second pieces of the metadata each including object property information of the object, property identification information for the object property information, and object region information indicating a position of the object in an image. If the second piece is the same as the first piece in a property of the object property information, the property identification information of the second piece is the same as the property identification information of the first piece and the second piece does not include the property in the object property information of the second piece.

Abstract: In an information processing system in which a range of information transfer between communication devices through a network is limited within a prescribed range by registering unique information obtainable within the prescribed range into each device and permitting information transfer between devices which share common unique information, where the unique information is formed by a pair of a public unique information and a secret unique information, a bridge device is controlled such that, upon receiving a proxy check request from a reception device, whether a transmission device is another bridge device or not is judged when the public unique information registered by the reception device is registered in the bridge device and one public unique information registered in the bridge device is registered by the transmission device. Then, the secret unique information registered by the reception device is transmitted to the transmission device when the transmission device is not another bridge device.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus comprises a reading portion which reads image information stored in a disk, a reproducing portion which reproduces the image information read by the reader portion, a specifying portion which specifies an object on the reproduced image information, and a display portion which makes a display relating to the object based on extended information associated with the object specified by the specifying portion.

Abstract: An information-processing device includes a first interface configured to transmit content to a first communication unit through a network, a second interface configured to receive a first unique identification allocated to the first communication unit from a second communication unit and transmit a second unique identification allocated to the information-processing device to the second communication unit, an identification list configured to store at least one unique identification through the second interface and an identification judgment unit configured to determine whether the first unique identification received through the first interface is stored in the identification list, wherein when the identification judgment unit determines that the unique identification of the first communication unit is stored in the identification list, the first interface allows the content to be transmitted to the first communication unit.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides an information communication device for transmitting electronic data encrypted for the purpose of copyright protection, the device includes that an identification information managing unit configured to hold device identification information in connection with other information communication devices acquired through a network, an ID registration processing unit configured to register the device identification information of another connection device when the other communication device satisfies a predetermined distance condition or when common identification information that is held by both information communication devices is received from a portable device, and an authentication and key exchange processing unit configured to, for the purpose of copyright protection, complete authentication and key exchange process (AKE process) only when another information communication device whose device identification information is registered in the identification information

Abstract: A signal processing method multiplexes/arranges digital data of a specific unit to form a predetermined unit, adds an error correction code to the predetermined unit to constitute an error correction coded block, replaces a part of the error correction coded block with specific data, and outputs the error correction coded block with the specific data being replaced to a transmission medium or a recording medium.

Abstract: An information recording method for recording content information in a recording medium having at least re-readable area, comprising converting, based on a first conversion rule &phgr;1, first information including a first component for obtaining content control information, converting, based on a second conversion rule &phgr;2, second information including a second component for obtaining the first information, and writing the converted first information and the converted second information into the re-recordable area of the recording medium.

Abstract: In a signal processing system in which a data block containing encrypted main data and error correction codes is formed of symbols of M rows×N columns (M×N), one row is divided into R frames, a synchronous signal is added to each frame, data of each frame is modulated by a modulator, and the data is recorded on a recording medium or transmitted on a transmission path, an encrypted key encrypting the main data is modulated by a modulator other than the modulator of the data block signal. Copying of a recording medium, on which information for which copyright protection is required is recorded, can be easily prevented.