Abstract: According to one embodiment, a recording management system including, a retaining module configured to independently retain, information on a program recorded by a first recorder and information on a program recorded by a second recorder independent of the first recorder, a list creating module configured to create a combined recorded program list, the combined recorded program list including a combination of the information on the program recorded by the first recorder and the information on the program recorded by the second recorder that are retained by the retaining module, and a managing module configured to create a list of the programs reproducible by a reproducer from the combined recorded program list retained by the list creating module in response to a request from the reproducer for the list of the programs reproducible by this reproducer, the managing module sending back the generated reproducible program list to the reproducer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a recorder/player including, a section identifying module configured to set a section designated by an initial point and an end point in an image being played back and to provide identification information to identify the section, a playlist creating module configured to set a playback order of playing back the section set by the section identifying module in accordance with an arrangement of the identification information or in accordance with descriptions of the identification information corresponding to the playback order, and a storage configured to retain the identification information set by the section identifying module.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, directed to an information reproduction apparatus and an information reproduction method, which extracts the type of a reproducible medium and the type of a reproducible content, displays the extracted medium type in a first display region, displays the extracted content type in a second display region, and emphasizes and displays the display region which has accepted a selecting instruction with respect to the display region which is not selected in the first and second display regions, whereby the visibility of a file improves, and easy selection is enabled.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display control apparatus includes a memory, an output module, and a setting module. The memory is configured to store first menu configuration information to compose a first menu screen and second menu configuration information to compose a second menu screen. The output module is configured to output first menu screen display information to display the first menu screen based on the first menu configuration information and content data in response to a selection operation of the first menu screen, and to output second menu screen display information to display the second menu screen based on the second menu configuration information and content data in response to a selection operation of the second menu screen. The setting module is configured to set one of the first menu screen and the second menu screen as a top menu displayed at a startup timing.

Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising a pixel array section and a drive section that drives the pixel array section, wherein the pixel array section includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines arranged in rows, signals lines arranged in columns, pixels that are provided where the first scanning lines, the second scanning lines, and the signal lines meet and that are arranged in rows and columns, a power line that supplies power to each of the pixels, and an earth line. The drive section includes a first scanner that sequentially line scans the pixels in rows by sequentially supplying a first control signal to each of the first scanning lines, a second scanner that sequentially supplies a second control signal to each of the second scanning lines in conjunction with the sequential line scanning, and a signal selector that supplies a video signal to the columns of signal lines in conjunction with the sequential line scanning.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate separated from the first substrate by a predetermined gap, an electro-optical layer located within the gap, a diffusing reflection layer having a plurality of adjacent polygonal columns, and electrodes formed on at least one of the first substrate and second substrate for application of voltage to the electro-optical layer. The polygonal columns comprise upper end sloping surfaces having a maximum inclination angle of less than 12°.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a diffusing reflector which assures high diffusion efficiency and excellent reflection characteristic for the lighting. First, a resin film having photosensitivity is formed on a substrate 2. Next, gathering of pillar-shaped bodies isolated each other by the patterning of resin film with the photolithography is provided. Subsequently, the uneven surface layer having the maximum inclination angle under 12° is formed by gently deforming individual pillar-shaped bodies with the heat treatment. Moreover, the gently deformed uneven surface layer is coated with the resin and the flat openings between pillar-shaped bodies arranged discretely are buried to ease the inclination angle. Finally, a metal film 13 formed on the gently deformed uneven surface layer.

Abstract: A chapter is made automatically, using a location at which recording is paused and then resumed, as a chapter border.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus for recording video information conforming to a first format comprises generation section for generating conversion compatibility information indicating the compatibility of conversion of video information conforming to the first format into video information conforming to a second format, and recording section for recording the video information conforming to the first format with the conversion compatibility information. The conversion compatibility information is typically contained in title information and it is possible to know the convertibility of the video information in advance on the basis of the conversion compatibility information.

Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising a pixel array section and a drive section that drives the pixel array section, wherein the pixel array section includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines arranged in rows, signals lines arranged in columns, pixels that are provided where the first scanning lines, the second scanning lines, and the signal lines meet and that are arranged in rows and columns, a power line that supplies power to each of the pixels, and an earth line. The drive section includes a first scanner that sequentially line scans the pixels in rows by sequentially supplying a first control signal to each of the first scanning lines, a second scanner that sequentially supplies a second control signal to each of the second scanning lines in conjunction with the sequential line scanning, and a signal selector that supplies a video signal to the columns of signal lines in conjunction with the sequential line scanning.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method in which a recording section configured to record an external input signal, and a display signal output section configured to output a display signal based on at least one of the external input signal and a reproduction signal from the recording section are used. Here, when the display signal output section outputs the external input signal as the display signal, and a predetermined temporary interruption state is set at this time, the external input signal is recorded in the recording section.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a first medium, a first recording/reproducing section which can record information on or can reproduce information from the first medium, a second recording/reproducing section which can record information on or can reproduce information from a second medium, and a display signal output section. The apparatus is configured to compose input information, being subjected to recording of the first recording/reproducing processing section, with a reproduction signal, being reproduced by the first recording/reproducing processing section. A result of composition is then output to the display signal output section.

Abstract: Input programming data items are recorded into a memory contained in an apparatus. That one of the programming data items recorded in the memory, which is requested to be recorded in a recording medium, is read from the memory, transferred to the recording medium and recorded thereon. Programming data for usual record programming and for record programming using a specified recording medium can be managed in a centralized manner by referring to the programming data items recorded in the memory.

Abstract: The remaining capacity of a recording medium is calculated when picture recording reservation is made so as to permit the user to easily understand the reservation status and whether the reservation recording is possible or not. An apparatus of this invention can record and reproduce compressed video information on a contained hard disk in a format of the same DVD standard and can record and reproduce compressed video information on a removable DVD. Further, it is possible to specify a disk and make picture recording reservation and a reservation table thereof is stored in a memory. Then, picture recording reservation time information and the remaining capacity of the disk are calculated and whether or not reservation picture recording can be made can be displayed in a list form.

Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus reproducing image information, having a reproduction processor reproducing the image information stored in the recording medium, a key input section having a skip key, a first skip processor, when the skip key is pressed one time, skipping the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor for a first predetermined period and resuming the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor after the first predetermined period is passed, and a second skip processor, when the skip key is pressed twice in a certain period, skipping the reproduction for a second predetermined period having the first predetermined period and a third predetermined period which is longer than the first predetermined period and resuming the reproduction of the image information by the reproduction processor after the second predetermined period is passed.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate separated from the first substrate by a predetermined gap, an electro-optical layer located within the gap, a diffusing reflection layer having a plurality of adjacent polygonal columns, and electrodes formed on at least one of the first substrate and second substrate for application of voltage to the electro-optical layer. The polygonal columns comprise upper end sloping surfaces having a maximum inclination angle of less than 12°.

Abstract: To collect user preference information at a high accuracy, information processing is carried out corresponding to information such as keyword, weighting, content title and the like of user preference detected from user usage condition. At this time, the user preference is detected from one or more of the following items: reservation, recording or watching of a broadcasting program, reproduction of a recorded program, dubbing of a recorded program, reproduction of a title distributed in the form of a package software, recording of the content title, purchase of a product, and application for rental.

Abstract: In an image recording/reproducing apparatus capable of handling a hard disk and an optical disk, when just-recording on the hard disk has been requested, if a residual recording capacity of the hard disk is more than a residual recording capacity of the optical disk that is in a non-recorded state, a compression encoding rate for image information is set by regarding the residual recording capacity of the hard disk as being equal to the residual recording capacity of the optical disk in the non-recorded state.

Abstract: A recording rate automatic setting recording device which, a microcomputer block, detects a recording time on the basis of recording reservation information, and detects an entire capacity and a remaining capacity of a first recording surface of an information recording medium, and assumes that a capacity which is at least half of the entire capacity of the first recording surface is a remaining capacity of a second recording surface of the information recording medium, and calculates an entire remaining capacity by adding together the remaining capacity of the first recording surface and the remaining capacity of the second recording surface, and sets a recording bit rate from the entire remaining capacity and a reservation recording time.

Abstract: When a program (title) is divided into a plurality of chapters, an actual program is reproduced in a moving picture reproduction region. When a chapter boundary is determined, and an Enter key of a remote controller is operated by pointing a cursor to “divide” in a button region, a thumb nail is displayed in a thumb nail display region. In this manner, a chapter can be easily visually created.