Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus capable of easily obtaining information which has few dropout and is necessary for variable speed reproduction at the time of variable speed reproduction. An image group dividing unit divides input image data into a plurality of image groups on a unit image basis, thereby forming plural divided data. After the formed divided data is temporarily stored into an image data temporary storing unit, the divided data is outputted as image data which is a data stream of the divided data in a predetermined image unit to a disk array apparatus via an HDD output interface unit. Each disk array apparatus records the divided data into HDDs so as to periodically change the relation between the HDDs and the groups of data to be recorded to the HDDs in a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: When a controller controls a target, a useless communication is eliminated, and control is made easier at the same time. When a personal computer sends a command demanding a VTR to execute ‘REWIND’, the VTR returns a response notifying of an OK for the demand and starts ‘REWIND’ in an inside recording/playback system at the same time. When the mechamode changes from ‘REWIND’ to ‘STOP’, the VTR generates an event and reports the change to the personal computer. Upon receipt of this event, the personal computer immediately sends a command demanding to set the mechamode to ‘PLAY’ to the VTR. Upon receipt of this command, the VTR returns a response notifying of an OK for the command and also sets the mode of the recording/playback system to ‘PLAY’.

Abstract: An oscillation sensing device includes a magnetised member mounted on a substrate. A magneto-electrical material is mounted on the substrate such that the magneto-electrical material is subjected to the magnetic field generated by the magnetised member. A movable member is mounted for oscillation in response to an oscillating force. Oscillation of the movable member causes a change in the magnetic field experienced by the magneto-electrical material and an electrical property of the electro-electrical material changes in response to changes in the magnetic field experienced by the magneto-electrical material due to oscillation of the movable member.

Abstract: A content searching/providing system searching a record content from a randomly accessible memory storing contents and providing the record content to a user is provided. The system comprises: a content classification unit classifying the record contents of the memory in accordance with a predetermined rule; a channel assignment unit assigning a virtual channel to each classification; a content arrangement unit arranging the record contents classified into the same classification on the corresponding virtual channels; a user operation receiving unit receiving a user operation for commanding channel selection and content search on a channel; and a content providing unit acquiring a record content from a selected virtual channel in response to the user operation received via the user operation receiving unit and providing the record content.

Abstract: A demodulation method and apparatus applicable to e.g., digital broadcast in accordance with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (OFDM), in which synchronization of carrier frequency correction control of OFDM signals can be maintained in stability. Based on the information indicating the demodulation reliability, such as the result of cumulative addition of CP values, supplied from the wide range fc error—CPE calculating circuit (10), or the transmission control signal detection information, supplied from the transmission control information demodulating communication (17), a holding circuit (14) verifies whether or not the wide range fc error—CPE calculating circuit (10) is making an erroneous detection operation. If the wide range fc error—CPE calculating circuit (10) is making an erroneous detection operation, the holding circuit (14) outputs the wide range fc error output in the previous symbol, without updating the information on the wide range fc error.

Abstract: A robot apparatus causes the emotion in a feeling part (130) to be changed based on the information acquired by a perception part (120) to manifest the behavior of information acquisition as autonomous behavior. The robot apparatus includes a behavior control part for causing the robot apparatus to manifest a language acquisition behavior and a meaning acquisition part. The robot apparatus also includes a control part for performing the behavior control of pointing its object of learning. The robot apparatus causes changes in internal states, which are ascribable to the object, to be stored in a memory part in association with the object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a feature parameter detector for detecting feature parameters based on a plurality of input data, a normalizer for normalizing the feature parameters detected by the feature parameter detector while maintaining their feature components, and an integration unit for integrating the feature parameters normalized by the normalizer. In the information processing apparatus, feature parameters from a plurality of input data are normalized based on learning normalization coefficients, and distances from each of the normalized feature parameters and to a normal parameter are calculated. Based on the calculated distances, time-series normalization coefficients for performing speech recognition are determined for the feature parameters. Therefore, optimal normalization coefficients for recognizing the feature parameters at each point of time can be obtained.

Abstract: The present mechanism is equipped with a function of transmitting an electronic mail at a date designated by a user when the electronic mail is transmitted, and the designation of the transmission date can be intuitively and easily performed by using a calendar screen. According to the present mechanism, a mail transmission date can be easily set by merely selecting a mail transmission date setting screen from an electronic mail creating screen and designating a date column and a time column of a calendar having a scheduler function of the mail transmission date setting screen.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus for processing the output signal of a CCD area sensor having a color filter with a Bayer arrangement of red, green, and blue primary colors, a VH-correlation detecting section calculates, according to four pieces of pixel information in four directions of the right and left directions (horizontal direction) and the upper and lower directions (vertical direction) from a pixel to be interpolated, correlation values in the four directions, for example, for green. According to these correlation values, interpolation coefficients are determined. Interpolation data is multiplied by the interpolation coefficients in multipliers and the results are summed up in adders to implement interpolation processing.

Abstract: An authenticating pattern is disposed on a cover and an authenticating device is disposed in a robot apparatus for authenticating the cover on the basis of the authenticating pattern of the fitted cover. An information holding device for holding inherent information is disposed in the cover and a reading device for reading out the inherent information from the information holding device is disposed in the robot apparatus. A function of detecting an amount of influence due to the cover and changing manifesting patterns of motions as occasion demands on the basis of the detection result is disposed in the robot apparatus.

Abstract: An image on the original to be printed on a print sheet Pin by a printing machine is scanned by a scanner, and the data is edited by an editing section. The edited data is converted from the data dependent on the device (printing machine) to data not dependent on the device with the use of a device profile P1 which a converter has. A luminous-environment conversion circuit compensates the data sent from the converter according to the data corresponding to surrounding light, output from a sensor S1, and data related to the paper color of the print sheet Pin, output from the sensor S2. Another luminous-environment conversion circuit compensates input data according to the paper color of a print sheet Pout in a printer or surrounding-light data, output from sensors S3 and S4. Another converter converts the output of the luminous-environment conversion circuit to data dependent on the printer and the data is printed on the print sheet Pout by the printer.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for identifying a signal transmitting source detects a switching of a signal on the reception side thereby to prevent a transmission error from occurring when a signal is switched. The apparatus for identifying a signal transmitting source comprises a transmitting source identifying code extracting circuit for extracting a transmitting source identifying code provided in a SDDI format header of a received signal, a preceding transmitting source identifying code holding circuit for detecting a change of the transmitting source identifying code, and a transmitting source identifying code comparing circuit for detecting a switching of a transmitted signal based on the transmitting source identifying code thus changed, thereby detecting a switching of the transmitting source.

Abstract: Based on a control object, a result of the detection of driving of an actuator and a response from a standard mathematical model of the actuator, the actuator is controlled, or in a servo system that controls the angle of a joint, etc., the control value is corrected so that the response from the thing to be driven and the response from the model of the thing to be driven are set to coincide with each other, and also based on a result of the correction of the control value, at least the moment of inertia of the thing to be driven is detected. Thereby, the moment of inertia of the driver and the like can be detected in real-time without providing a special sensor.

Abstract: The stability of attitude of a robot can be recovered by an ambulation control apparatus and an ambulation control method if it is lost in the course of a gesture for which the upper limbs take a major role. The apparatus and the method obtain the pattern of movement of the entire body for walking by deriving the pattern of movement of the loins from an arbitrarily selected pattern of movement of the feet, the trajectory of the ZMP, the pattern of movement of the trunk and that of the upper limbs. Therefore, a robot can determine the gait of the lower limbs so as to realize a stable walk regardless if the robot is standing upright or walking. Particularly, if the robot is made to gesture, using the upper body half including the upper limbs and the trunk while standing upright, it can determine the gait of the lower limbs so as to make a stable walk in response to such a gait of the upper body half.

Abstract: There is disclosed an image photographing apparatus which makes it possible to electrically perform inversion/non-inversion of positional relation of a captured image according to the kind of an optical lens. The image photographing apparatus of the present invention includes an optical lens for converging an image of an object to be captured, CCDs for receiving the image converged by the optical lens and for converting it into an electric signal, and an image processing portion for electrically performing, on the basis of an inversion/non-inversion control signal, an inversion/non-inversion processing of positional relation which is in the electric signal obtained through conversion at the CCDs and which is at the time when the image was received.

Abstract: A technique for modifying a web site generated in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry; generating a multi-dimensional description of the web site based on the determined characteristics; retrieving web site data according to the generated multi-dimensional description of the web site; generating the web site based upon the generated multi-dimensional description of the web site and the retrieved web site data; receiving modification data modifying at least one of the determined characteristics; and regenerating the description of the web site based upon the modified characteristics.

Abstract: A data processing method for a data processing system having: a server comprising an application program constructed from a plurality of objects, an execution environment constructed from a plurality of objects for specifying operations of the application program and an application program interface for specifying an interface between the application program and the execution environment; and a client for being downloaded with the application program from the server, the data processing method comprising the steps of: having the server execute a check whether or not the client has the execution environment for the application environment to be downloaded when the application program is to be downloaded to the client; and having the server download the application program to the client in accordance with the results of the check.

Abstract: A camera apparatus for encoding a video signal received from a photographing unit in MPEG video format or equivalent format, encoding an audio signal received from an audio inputting unit in MPEG audio format or equivalent format, multiplexing the encoded MPEG video signal and the encoded MPEG audio signal, storing the multiplexed data to a memory is disclosed, that comprises an I picture generating unit for encoding the video signal received from the photographing unit corresponding to an intra-frame encoding process so as to generate an I picture in the MPEG video format or equivalent format, and a controlling unit for controlling a storing process of the multiplexed data to the memory, wherein said controlling unit generates a P picture or a B picture in the MPEG video format or equivalent format in such a manner that moving vectors of all macro blocks thereof are 0 and the chronologically preceding picture is copied as an encoded picture, wherein said controlling unit encodes the audio signal received fro

Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding device and encoding method, decoding device and decoding method, information processing device and information processing method as well a medium, encoding device to perform encoding of a first information according to a second information, comprising receive means to receive the first and the second information, and encoding means to encode the first information according to the second information so that decoding can be performed by utilizing the energy deflection possessed by the first information.

Abstract: Recording control with additional information superposed on data and recording control in response to a type of a recording medium on which data are recorded are disclosed. A recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium includes an identification data detection section for detecting identification data for identification of data from the data, a copying count data detection section for detecting copying count data for limiting the number of times of copying the data from the data, and a recording control section for controlling recording of the data onto the recording medium based on the identification data detected by the identification data detection section and the copying count data detected by the copying count data detection section.