Abstract: To provide an image display device capable of carrying out a data reading process in advance on data of a plurality of images in an order according to the likelihood of becoming a display target.

Abstract: A broadcast program processing device includes video content recording unit. The video content recording unit causes a storage unit to store a plurality of pieces of video content each of which includes at least one advertisement video. The broadcast program processing device changes the advertisement video included in a piece of video content stored in the storage unit to a substitute advertisement video before being instructed to play any one of the pieces of video content and plays the piece of video content whose advertisement video has been changed if instructed to play any one of the pieces of video content.

Abstract: Video data and output data that need to be output in synchronization therewith are synchronized. When an output of video data is later than an output of output data synchronized with the video data, at step S273, a process for one access unit is caused to be skipped. At step S275, it is determined whether the video data are referenced when other video data are decoded according to au_ref_flag of video data of the access unit whose process has been caused to be skipped. When the video data of the access unit whose process has been caused to be skipped are not referenced when the other video data are decoded, at step S277, the access unit whose process has been caused to be skipped is skipped. The present invention can be applied to for example a game device that uses a DVD.

Abstract: A progressive-scanned picture is displayed without a loss of its vertical resolution. In a picture encoding apparatus 101, a determined result that represents whether an encoding target picture is an interlace-scanned picture or a progressive-scanned picture is set to a scanning flag. Information that represents a display system of a picture is set to display system designation information. Encoded data of which the picture, the scanning flag, and the display system designation information have been multiplexed are output. A picture decoding apparatus 102 recognizes a picture on the basis of the scanning flag and the display system designation information of the encoded data. When the picture is an interlace-scanned picture, the picture is interpolated with fields. As a result, a frame picture is generated and output.

Abstract: In a video game system and a game controller, discrepancy ween the manipulation of the user and the display position on screen, etc., can be prevented, without adding adjusting ponents after forwarding them from the factory. The digitized log manipulation information which have been obtained from the ipulation information generating means are calibrated by the ipulation information calibrating means provided in the game troller, and then the digitized and calibrated analog ipulation information which have been obtained by calibration transmitted to the game processing device.