Abstract: A video system, comprising includes a video reproduction device that retrieves a predetermined subset of video and audio data from a server. The video reproduction device then starts reproduction of the video and audio data based on the predetermined subset of video and audio data. The predetermined subset of video and audio data includes sufficient data to cause the video reproduction device to determine that all of the video and audio data has been received and that reproduction can be started.

Abstract: A movie-screening management device includes: a mutual-state monitoring unit monitoring mutual states by periodically performing communication with other parties connected through a network to exchange information when being logged; a content/playlist synchronization management unit sharing contents and playlists with the other parties; and a key management unit comprehensively managing keys necessary for reproducing the contents with respect to the other parties.

Abstract: A video system, comprising includes a video reproduction device that retrieves a predetermined subset of video and audio data from a server. The video reproduction device then starts reproduction of the video and audio data based on the predetermined subset of video and audio data. The predetermined subset of video and audio data includes sufficient data to cause the video reproduction device to determine that all of the video and audio data has been received and that reproduction can be started.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to improve the efficiency in software development, modification, and maintenance by efficiently designing a user interface with designs which differ among a plurality of execution environments and efficiently outputting source code and GUI display data from the editing result, in a source code generating device for generating source code and GUI display data for displaying a GUI. Positions, sizes, component attributes, and event actions which differ among execution environments are managed for each of user interface components and are allowed to be independently edited. With this configuration, a piece of information which varies according to execution environment and a piece of information common to execution environments are edited, and pieces of source code and pieces of GUI display data for a plurality of execution environments are generated.

Abstract: A source code is generated efficiently without the need to newly create a script each time a function is added or a request is made to change a function on the part of a device in which a generated source code is utilized, thereby reducing the cost for the development of a script. A method includes a first step of reading from a script file a plurality of scripts for generating a source code, a second step of generating a source code adapted to each script by executing the scripts that have been read, a third step of analyzing each of the source codes that have been generated, and a fourth step of combining the source codes that have been analyzed while sharing a redundant portion thereof, thereby outputting a combined source code.

Abstract: A chromaticity meter measures chromaticity of light output for each of picture elements selected. Calculated from the measurement is corrective data on each of RGB colors, which in turn used to calculate corrective data on each of RGB at unselected picture elements. In this method, original video signals for each of RGB colors will be correctively modulated based on the thus obtained corrective data. A projected image displaying apparatus is constructed such that adjustment of chromaticity as to white as well as to black from the measurement by the chromaticity meter of chromaticity throughout the entire image, is carried out uniformly and reliably by automatic control using a microcomputer so as to determine optimal condition for correctively modulating the original video signal. This apparatus further includes means for storing the thus obtained optimal condition in a non-volatile memory.

Abstract: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display for driving source lines of an active-matrix type liquid crystal display having a thin film transistor matrix array comprising a shift register circuit for sequentially storing digital video signals for one line, each of the digital video signals being comprised of pixel data of a series of predetermined bits, a latch circuit for holding for one horizontal period the digital video signals for one line stored in the shift register circuit, a conversion circuit for classifying each pixel data constituting the digital video signals for one line outputted from the latch circuit into upper and lower bits, selecting adjacent two different DC voltages according to a value designated by the upper bits, performing pulse width modulation between the two different DC voltages according to a value designated by the lower bits and supplying analog video signals to the corresponding source lines of the matrix array, and a comparison data generating circuit for outputting compar

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel comprising pixels in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines corresponding respectively to odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines of a video signal. During the odd-numbered field, a video signal for the odd-numbered field is supplied to the pixels in the odd-numbered lines and a black-level signal is supplied to the pixels in the even-numbered lines, whereby the image of the odd-numbered field can be displayed by the pixels in the odd-numbered lines while a black image can be displayed by the pixels in the even-numbered lines. During the even-numbered field, a video signal for the even-numbered field is supplied to the pixels in the even-numbered lines and a black-level signal is supplied to the pixels in the odd-numbered lines, whereby the image of the even-numbered field can be displayed by the pixels in the even-numbered lines while a black image can be displayed by the pixels in the odd-numbered lines.

Abstract: An aqueous vesicle dispersion having surface charge comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of at least one ethoxylate selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene castor oil ethers and polyoxyethylene hydrogenated castor oil ethers, (B) 3 to 30 parts by weight of at least one sorbitan polyester of long-chain fatty acid, and (C) at least one ionic surfactant. The components (A), (B), and (C) are dispersed in an aqueous medium in such a manner that the components (A) and (B) form vesicle particles in the aqueous medium and the components (C) provides a surface charge on the vesicle particles.This aqueous vesicle dispersion has an improved dispersion stability and adsorpability of the vesicle particles and can include a hydrophilic or hydrophobic effective component in a state isolated from an aqueous dispersion medium. The aqueous vesicle dispersion can be utilized in the fields of a humectant, a bath salt composition, and a release-controlled topical agent composition.

Abstract: A nonionic surfactant type vesicle dispersion comprising vesicles, dispersed in an aqueous medium, composed of (A) 100 parts by weight of at least one ethoxylate selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene castor oil ethers and polyoxyethylene hardened castor oil ethers and (B) 3 to 30 parts by weight of sorbitan polyesters of long-chain fatty acids.This nonionic surfactant type vesicle dispersion can include a hydrophilic or hydrophobic effective component in a state isolated from an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A multiple emulsion having a dispersing form of water-phase/oil-phase/water-phase and a process for preparation thereof, and a multiple emulsion type cosmetics utilizing said multiple emulsion as a fundamental form, said multiple emulsion consisting of a dispersed phase and a dispersion medium, of which the dispersed phase is a water-in-oil type emulsion formed by dispersing water phase into oil phase which consists of an oil component and a oil-soluble emulsifier having such a hydrophile-lipophile balance that the oil component forms a dispersion medium of the water-in-oil type emulsion, and of which the dispersion medium is an aqueous solution which contains an water-soluble emulsifier having such a hydrophile-lipophile balance that the oil component forms a dispersion medium of an oil-in-water type emulsion and having such concentration that the oil-soluble emulsifier does not dissolved therein.