Abstract: An image pickup apparatus such as a video camera has the capability of automatic white balance control whereby the white balance is quickly adjusted for any object even just after an operator has turned on a power supply. An image pickup element converts an optical image of an object into an electrical image signal. The image signal is applied to a signal processing circuit and separated into a luminance signal and color signals. The separated color signals or the R and B signals are amplified by gain control circuits under the control of the correction signals supplied by a correction signal computing part, and then applied to a color-difference signal forming circuit which in turn produces color-difference signals (R−Y) and (B−Y). An encoder circuit generates a television signal in the standard form from the above color-difference signals and the luminance signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for causing either first content data transferred encrypted from a data transfer apparatus or second content data which are input unencrypted to be selectively recorded to a storage medium in a data recording apparatus. Given a command for editing the content data recorded on the storage medium, editing of the recorded data is inhibited or restricted if the data are judged to be the encrypted first content data. When the data recording apparatus is to return the encrypted first content data from the storage medium to the data transfer apparatus, the return of the first content data is inhibited if the data are judged to have been edited. Upon return of the encrypted first content data to the data transfer apparatus, a content ID held by the data recording apparatus regarding the first content data is matched against a content ID held by the data transfer apparatus regarding the same data.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to significantly reduce the content data processing and transfer times by skipping root key checking processing, when transmitting a plurality of pieces of encrypted content data stored in a primary recording medium to a secondary recording medium along with key information of these plural pieces of content data, if the key information for a piece of content data to be transmitted from the primary recording medium is the same as the key information for an already transmitted piece of content data.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus such as a video camera has the capability of automatic white balance control whereby the white balance is quickly adjusted for any object even just after an operator has turned on a power supply. An image pickup element converts an optical image of an object into an electrical image signal. The image signal is applied to a signal processing circuit and separated into a luminance signal and color signals. The separated color signals or the R and B signals are amplified by gain control circuits under the control of the correction signals supplied by a correction signal computing part, and then applied to a color-difference signal forming circuit which in turn produces color-difference signals (R-Y) and (B-Y). An encoder circuit generates a television signal in the standard form from the above color-difference signals and the luminance signal.

Abstract: A light exposing prism system for use in light exposure process for forming a phosphor plane of a color picture tube is disclosed. The prism system is arranged between a panel of the color picture tube and a linear exposing light source and includes a plurality of small prisms which are arranged transversely to an axial line extending through a center of the panel and a center of the light source and to a longitudinal axis of the light source. The prism system is adapted to be oscillated in the direction of arrangement of the small prisms. Pitch of the arrangement of the small prisms is within a range of 0.05 mm to 3.0 mm, preferably 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm.