Abstract: A system for optical measurement of an object includes a radiation generating device, a capturing device, and an evaluation device. The radiation generating device is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation onto the object. The capturing device includes an image sensor. The capturing device is configured to capture a measurement image as a result of an exposure of the image sensor with radiation returned from the object. The capturing device is configured to vary a focus setting (D) during the exposure. The evaluation device is configured to determine coordinates of at least one location on the object based on the captured measurement image.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a wireless communication method and an apparatus, to improve robustness of data transmission between a terminal device and a node device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: A terminal device incorrectly receives first data in a first cell, where the first cell is a first primary cell. The terminal device sends first indication information in a second cell, where the second cell is a secondary cell or a second primary cell, and the first indication information is used to indicate that the first data is incorrectly received in the first cell, or is used to request transmission of the first data in the second cell. The terminal device receives the first data in the second cell.

Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate employing a server based content recording component for recording content remotely for a client content video recording device that has limited storage and limited number of content streams to which it can access concurrently, while satisfying content rules for broadcast and re-transmission.

Abstract: Some implementations relate to methods and computer-readable media to detect inauthentic textures in a virtual environment. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) polygons associated with a texture for a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object. The method further includes combining portions of two or more 2D polygons from the plurality of 2D polygons based on a pose or shape of the 3D virtual object to obtain one or more combined 2D polygons, calculating a respective hash value for each of the combined 2D polygons, determining whether there is a match between at least one hash value of the respective hash values and a hash value of at least one reference 2D polygon associated with an authentic object, classifying the texture as an inauthentic texture if it is determined that there is the match, else classifying the texture as an authentic texture.

Abstract: An encoder and a decoder are provided that are capable of reproducing a frequency-domain envelope sequence that provides high approximation accuracy around peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal by using a small amount of code. An encoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length coding part. The periodic-combined-envelope generating part generates a periodic combined envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence based on a spectral envelope sequence which is a frequency-domain sequence corresponding to a linear predictive coefficient code obtained from an input audio signal and on a frequency-domain period. The variable-length coding part encodes a frequency-domain sequence derived from the input audio signal. A decoder of the present invention comprises a periodic-combined-envelope generating part and a variable-length decoding part.

Abstract: The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.

Abstract: A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section (1221a) for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.

Abstract: A content handling device comprises a plurality of content transformation modules that can define one or more paths from a content source module to a content sink module. The content is associated with one or more usage rules requiring one or more transformations to be applied to the content. To enforce usage rules, each content transformation module is configured to receive the content, apply a transformation to the content in accordance with the usage rules and apply a tagging operation corresponding to the transformation to the content. In some embodiments output of the content by the content sink module is prevented if all tagging operations corresponding to the usage rules have not been applied. While in some embodiments usage rule tags corresponding to the usage rules are embedded locally at the content handling device, the disclosure also extends to a content distribution system with a usage rule tag embedding functionality.

Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate employing a server based content recording component for recording content remotely for a client content video recording device that has limited storage and limited number of content streams to which it can access concurrently, while satisfying content rules for broadcast and re-transmission.

Abstract: A system for creating an output comprises a processing unit, a user input module operably connected to the processing unit, and a video monitor operably connected to the processing unit. The processing unit provides on the video monitor: a grid image comprising multiple cells, each cell representing a duration of time; and a selection area comprising multiple select icons, each select icon representing a source data file. The processing unit is configured such that a user can create a grid layout representing the correlation between individual selected source data files and one or more of the multiple cells. The processing unit produces the output based on the correlation.

Abstract: A device, method, and computer-readable medium for printing an image on an edible media. The method including receiving from an external device associated with a consumer the image, determining whether the image is of suitable quality to be printed on the edible media, transmitting a message to the external device, in response to a determination that the image is not of suitable quality to be printed on the edible media, and performing an image processing technique on the image to enhance the image for printing on the edible media, in response to a determination that the image is of suitable quality to be printed on the edible media. The method further including transmitting a request to a printer to print the enhanced image on the edible media, and transmitting a request to the printer to print a shipping label to ship the printed edible media to the consumer.

Abstract: A method includes identifying, using a machine learning algorithm, a recording device in a first image in a stream of images of a scene captured by a camera. The method also includes determining that the recording device is likely recording a protected resource based on a positioning of an aperture of the recording device and information associated with the recording device in the stream of images. The method additionally includes, in response to determining that the recording device is likely recording the protected resource, removing any content designated as protected content from a display screen.

Abstract: A job processing apparatus receives from a user an instruction to log into the job processing apparatus. Further, when an auto logout time elapses, the job processing apparatus causes the user logged into the job processing apparatus to log out of the job processing apparatus. The job processing apparatus sets a logout time so that a time until the user whose login instruction is received in a state where another user is logged into the job processing apparatus is caused to log out of the job processing apparatus is shorter than a time until the user whose login instruction is received in a state where another user is not logged into the job processing apparatus is caused to log out of the job processing apparatus.

Abstract: A setting unit of an apparatus sets, for an image represented by an image file, an area to be displayed in an electronic photo album and stores information representing the set area. A laying out unit of the apparatus determines whether a slot of interest in the page of interest is a slot has a predetermined property. If the slot of interest has the predetermined property, the laying out unit locates, in the slot of interest, an image assigned to the slot of interest without using the stored information set by the setting unit. If the slot of interest does not have the predetermined property, the laying out unit locates, in the slot of interest, a partial image corresponding to the area represented by the information out of the image assigned to the slot of interest.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising a reading unit reading out a movie file including RAW image data from a recording medium, an image development unit developing the RAW image data, a display control unit controlling a display unit to display the RAW image data that were developed, and an operation unit instructing a display rate of an image displayable by the display unit, wherein the image development unit executes image development by switching between first image development processing and second image development processing, the image development unit switches image development processing of the RAW image data from the first image development processing to the second image development processing in response to an instruction to lower the display rate while the RAW image data developed by the first image development processing is being displayed.

Abstract: A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section (1221a) for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.

Abstract: A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section (1221a) for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.

Abstract: There is described a method for providing a video signal to a user, comprising: sampling said video signal at a user specific sampling rate, thereby obtaining temporally organized sample amplitudes; removing a time interrelation between said temporally organized sample amplitudes, thereby obtaining sample amplitudes having no time interrelation; transmitting said sample amplitudes having no time interrelation to said user; and reconstructing said video signal by inserting a user-specific sampling interval between successive ones of said sample amplitudes, said user-specific sampling interval corresponding to said user-specific sampling rate.

Abstract: In the present invention, a content distribution server distributes a content key, encrypted content encrypted using the content key, and playback control information describing a playback mode restriction for a specific section of content, to a content playback terminal, and the content playback terminal refers to the playback control information, and decodes and plays back encrypted content in the case of a playback mode in which the specific section of content is not restricted. By this means, the playback mode of a specific section of content can be restricted based on playback control information.

Abstract: A control chip for controlling a player with a multimedia playback function and a data processing function is provided. The control chip includes: a multimedia playback module, being adapted to drive the multimedia playback function, configured to generate multimedia playback information associated with multimedia data that has been played; a data processing module, being adapted to drive the data processing function, configured to generate data processing information associated with data that has been processed; and a data protection module, configured to control at least one of the multimedia playback module to stop the multimedia playback function and the data processing module to stop the multimedia playback function according to the multimedia playback information and the data processing information.

Abstract: A device is provided for use with a digital content provider and a content purchaser. The content provider can provide digital content and a first digital key, wherein the digital content has quantified digital rights associated therewith. The device includes a receiving portion, a security portion, a content database, an interface portion and a transmitting portion. The receiving portion can receive the digital content and the first digital key. The security portion can access the digital content with the first digital key. The content database can store the digital content. The interface portion can offer to the content purchaser the digital content and can enable the content purchaser to purchase the digital content in accordance with purchased quantified digital rights. The security portion can further encrypt the digital content with a digital key such that the content purchaser may use the purchased digital content.

Abstract: A combined fingerprint is generated for a video that can match two near-identical videos that differ only in their aspect ratios or formats. A transformation strategy is selected by selecting a first and a second aspect correction method. A first transformed video is generated by applying the first aspect correction method to the video. A second transformed video is generated by applying the second aspect correction method to the video. A first fingerprint is generated using the first transformed video. A second fingerprint is generated using the second transformed video. The combined fingerprint is generated by combining the first half of the first fingerprint with the second half of the second fingerprint.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit which performs communication with a management server; and a data processing unit which performs copy processing for recording recorded data of a first medium in a second medium, wherein the data processing unit performs processing for displaying a content list having a data entry compatible with a copy unit included in recorded data of the first medium on a display unit on the basis of the received information from the management server, and the data processing unit displays a data entry in which the data form of each copy unit is identifiable in accordance with selection information included in the received information from the management server.

Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments relate to video content analysis based in part upon the detection of shot transitions. In some embodiments, a process and computer system for detecting shot transitions in a video is used to separate a video sequence into a series of “shots” having multiple frames. These shots may then be used for additional processing, e.g., content detection within the video frames.

Abstract: A terminal device determines whether a clock is a secure clock or a self-running clock. If the clock is the self-running clock, the device stores a clocking time of the clock as a timestamp file in a memory card in recording content. In playing back the content, the device determines validity of a clocking time using the timestamp file to play back the content and also updates the stored time of the stored time as the timestamp file to a content playback start time. In contrast, if the clock is the secure clock, the device stores the timestamp file indicating a recording time of the content in the memory card only in recording the content and omits updating the stored time as the timestamp file in playing back the content.

Abstract: An information processing device comprising: a data processing unit configured to load a disk, which stores content that is divided into content usage control units, and to execute processes for reading the content; and a local storage unit configured to store subsequential data obtained and/or generated subsequentially, wherein the data processing unit is configured to perform processes to: select a title that is an index for reading the subsequential data from dummy titles stored in advance on the disk; set the title as a title for the subsequential data; and store the subsequential data in the local storage unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section storing subsequent data subsequently acquired or generated as data corresponding to a medium stored content, a control section executing a management process of managing subsequent data with respect to the storage section, the control section being configured to execute, as the management process of the subsequent data, a process of generating and recording subsequent data descriptive information including medium identification information corresponding to subsequent data and title identification information at a time of executing a process of recording subsequent data in the storage section, a process of generating display data based on the subsequent data descriptive information, and a process of reproducing or deleting subsequent data based on user designation information for the display data based on the subsequent data descriptive information.

Abstract: Reformatting a media stream to include auxiliary data, the method including: receiving the auxiliary data to be inserted into the media stream; determining the amount of data in the auxiliary data; identifying media data in the media stream to be reduced in size; reformatting the media stream to reduce the amount of data in the media data such that the amount of data removed from the media data is at least equal to the amount of data in the auxiliary data while providing minimal impact to the quality of the media data; and adding the auxiliary data to the media stream which maintains a consistent size.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for modifying an analogue video signal to impair its conversion to a digital signal by an analogue to digital converter. The resulting modified signal may prevent the operation of the analogue to digital converter altogether, or even if a digital signal can be output and recorded, may result in a signal which is difficult to view due to a reduction in quality on playback. The modifications made to the signal include altering the amplitude of the horizontal synchronization pulses in the original signal, and/or modifying the level of the back porch, or the region of the signal adjacent the back porch. Additionally, methods are contemplated for the use of specific response models for target analogue to digital converters, and display devices.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing secure playback of media content are described. One embodiment, among others, is a method for performing secure playback of video in a hardware protection module. The method comprises receiving media content from a media player comprising video data, audio data, and navigation data. The method further comprises receiving digital rights management (DRM) information relating to the media content, removing a portion of the video data from the media content, forwarding the audio data, navigation data, and a remaining portion of the video data to the media player for decoding, and decoding, in the hardware protection module, the portion of the video data.

Abstract: A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to be output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium. The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents.

Abstract: A transmission control device generates, based on a content stream acquired from an external source, auxiliary information necessary for at least one of recording and playback of a content in the content stream and transmits a transmission target stream to an external device. The transmission target stream includes a first stream portion based on the content stream and a second stream portion based on the generated auxiliary information.

Abstract: A time clock 10, capable of outputting a datum to an USB memory 100 connected thereto, includes a controller authenticating whether or not the USB memory 100 is valid an external apparatus as an output destination to which the datum is output, and determining whether or not the datum is output on the basis of the authentication result. Further, the controller 25 authenticates an external apparatus on the basis of an authentication datum stored in the USB memory 100. The controller 25 performs the authentication on the basis of an identification datum of the time clock and an identification datum included in the authentication datum stored in the external apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting copy protection included in an input video signal is described. Two types of copy protection are particularly addressed, including techniques that imbed copy protection pulses and copy protection phase flips in the video signal. A method for preserving copy protection is also presented, where the input video signal is first examined to determine if copy protection has been included in the input video signal. The input video signal then converted to component video data, which removes any copy protection present. An output video signal is then generated from the component video data, and when it was determined that the input video signal includes copy protection, the copy protection is recreated in the output video signal.

Abstract: A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to be output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium. The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents.

Abstract: Various systems and methods may benefit from determination of environmental signatures in recordings. For example, such signatures may aid forensic analysis and alignment of media recordings, such as alignment of audio or video recordings. A method can include reading data representative of sensed light in a visual track of a video recording. The method can also include extracting an electric network frequency signal from the data representative of sensed light.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit which performs copy processing for recording recorded data of a first medium in a second medium, wherein the data processing unit receives three-dimensional image restriction information as copy restriction information of a three-dimensional image from a management server, and when a three-dimensional image is included in copy data from the first medium, performs processing for referencing the three-dimensional image restriction information, determining whether or not the copy processing is permitted, and copying recorded data of the first medium to the second medium under the condition it is determined that the copy processing is permitted.

Abstract: To provide a playback device capable of requesting for a content generated in a format compatible with its processing capability and playing back the content, with no need of user input of a user ID or the like. A playback device for playing back contents reads, from an external recording medium, a playback right of a content to play back one or more contents that each have been generated based on a content and in a format compatible with a processing capability different for each playback device, and transmits the playback right and capability information indicating a processing capability of the playback device to a server device. The playback device acquires, from the server device, one of the one or more contents corresponding to the playback right in a format compatible with its processing capability indicated by the capability information, and plays back the acquired content.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for generating a moving image, and an apparatus and a method for reproducing a moving image are provided. The present moving image generating apparatus includes a script parsing unit which analyzes script information, a composer which generates a script to define a moving image, and a storage management unit which includes and stores setting information regarding the moving image in the script. Accordingly, a user may prevent the consumption of unnecessary resources as a moving image defined in a script is generated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for video stream processing is implemented in a monitor scaler chip (MSC). The MSC receives the video stream and determines whether the video stream includes copy protected content. The MSC routes the video stream based upon the determination.

Abstract: When a recording programming time is reached, a recording device of the present invention determines whether or not an automatic conversion setting is previously made on an item of content to be recorded. If the automatic conversion setting is made, a recording processing portion (11a) records, in a DR mode, the content programmed to be recorded. Then, the format conversion portion (11b) is instructed to perform format conversion according to the number of times and a format specified in the automatic conversion setting. The format conversion portion receiving this instruction performs the format conversion according to the number of times and the format specified in the automatic conversion setting, and records post-conversion content in a specified record destination.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying an anti-copy protection signal for use with switchable head recorders, such as Video Hi-Fi recorders, is described. A high frequency pulsed signal is added to an original signal. The pulses interfere with the compensator circuitry such that the switching of the record head cannot adequately be masked on recording of a signal. On playback, the switching of the recording heads can subsequently be heard. In Video Hi-Fi recorders, the effect of the high frequency signals also interferes with the compressor-expander circuits to worsen the sound of the head switching.

Abstract: In some embodiments, privacy protection may be achieved for video streams that are recorded on a substantially ongoing basis, for example for gesture recognition purposes. The address of recorded groups of pixels making up the video stream may be shuffled in memory. That is, instead of changing the data, successive pixels are not written successively into the memory but instead the data may be shuffled so that whatever is in memory is unrecognizable.

Abstract: Provided is a content playback apparatus that generates a GUI corresponding to various pieces of restriction information to restrict playback of a content when displaying the GUI for causing a user to select a content to be played back, and that can respond to a new piece of restriction information. The content playback apparatus generates content lists for the various pieces of restriction, and generates a GUI which can display each content list for each piece of restriction information by switching. When a content to which the new piece of restriction information has been attached is added, setting information for the new piece of restriction information is obtained from a content distribution server and the like by referring to an ID attached to the content, or an ID of the restriction information having been attached to the content, and a content list for the newly obtained restriction information is generated and displayed.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating digital cinema content and an apparatus and method for playing digital cinema content. The method of playing digital cinema content using a digital cinema package (DCP) including frame data having a first resolution and length information about frame data having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, and a key delivery message (KDM) includes obtaining a material exchange format (MXF) file and a decryption key by parsing the DCP and the KDM, extracting an encrypted triplet from the MXF file, extracting the length information about the second-resolution frame data using the encrypted triplet and the decryption key, decrypting an amount of data required to decrypt the second-resolution frame data in the first-resolution frame data using the length information about the second-resolution frame data, and decoding the decrypted second-resolution frame data.

Abstract: A bytecode processing unit provided in a playback device is platform unit 20 that reads and runs a bytecode application recorded on read-only medium 105. The playback device includes: playback control unit 10 for controlling AV playback of digital streams; and machine unique function control unit 33 for performing machine unique functions unique to the playback device, to perform a control onto a content. APIs used by the bytecode application include API for playback control function, and API for socket communication. When the bytecode application requests playback control unit 10 to control the playback, it calls the playback control API to can instruct playback control unit 10 to execute the process. When the bytecode application requests execution of a machine unique function of the playback device, it instructs a machine unique function control unit to perform the process via a function call by the socket communication API.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system, computer readable medium, and method for recording and distributing video content based on DRM parameters. For example, in one embodiment, a set-top box is disclosed that includes a processor for executing a set of instructions. The set-top box also includes memory in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions to receive user input to record a video content; determine DRM parameters associated with the video content, wherein the DRM parameters are established by at least of a content owner and a communications service provider, the DRM parameters indicating designated portions of the video content that is recordable; and record the video content based on the DRM parameters.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and method for recording media content. For example, in one embodiment, a method for recording media content is disclosed that includes communicating with a home gateway to determine whether a device connected to the home gateway has enough free storage space to store a media content in response to a determination that an internal data storage unit of a set top box does not have sufficient free storage space to store the media content. In one embodiment, the method routes the storage of the media content to the device via the home gateway in response to a determination that the device connected to the home gateway has sufficient free storage space to store the media content.

Abstract: A media player may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include a media analysis component to identify one or more valid portions of the recording medium containing media content and one or more invalid portions of the recording medium without media content. In one embodiment, the media player includes an archival component to store the media content from the one or more valid portions in a storage medium and a playback component to play back the one or more valid portions of the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the identification of the one or more valid portions by the media analysis component and the storage of the media content by the archival component.

Abstract: A method and system to store user data are provided. A system to store user data may include a video recorder device. The video recorder device may include a video receiver to receive video data. The video recorder device may also include a memory device. The memory device may include at least one protected memory region to store video data received via the video receiver. The memory device may also include at least one unprotected memory region. The video recorder device may be adapted to prevent user copying of video data stored at the protected memory region and to allow user copying of data stored at the unprotected memory region.