Abstract: A portable language learning device which automatically provides language learning data adapted to an event stored in a schedule book of the learner in accordance with the event thereby to improve learning efficiency. The device comprises a schedule storage section (102) where a schedule is stored, a date/time measuring section (103) for measuring the current time and the date, a teaching material storage section (106) where teaching materials associated with a scene or a keyword are stored, a teaching material selecting section (104) for extracting the nearest event corresponding to the measurement by the date/time measuring section (103) from the schedule stored in the schedule storage section (102), comparing the scenes or keywords of the teaching material stored in the teaching material storage section (106), and selecting a teaching material most suitable for the event, and a teaching material reproducing section (105) for reproducing the selected teaching material.

Abstract: Distributed data is not edited at a distributing end but is edited in a terminal apparatus, thereby reducing the cost. The terminal apparatus can quickly retrieve necessary information. In the apparatus, a cell ID extracting part (104) extracts all the cell IDs that can be currently received. A data receiving part (105) extracts distributed data. A data sorting part (106) compares the cell ID related to the distributed data with the cell IDs that can be currently received, and adds priorities to the distributed data in such a manner that a “high” priority is given to the distributed data related to the same cell ID as the local cell, while the lower priorities being given to the distributed data related to the cell IDs of other cells that are farther from the local cell. A display part (108) sequentially displays the distributed data in decreasing order of the priority.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus capable of easily selecting a most appropriate product as a gift for each gift receiver by displaying product information in consideration of the gift receiver. In this apparatus, product information reception section (103) extracts product information including attribute information from a received signal, so that it is possible to obtain receiver information, genre information and adequacy level information included in the attribute information. Storage section (104) stores personal information which is information indicating features of predetermined gift receivers such as “birthday”, “sex” and “age.

Abstract: A media receiving apparatus capable of preventing media from being positioned in an invalid display area or a program from being temporarily stopped, even if the vertical/horizontal ratio of the resolution of the display section is switched while a broadcast or streaming program is being displayed. In this apparatus there are a plurality of display sections D1 and D2 with different resolutions, and a display directive section (303) directs a display section to be set as active in accordance with the mode of use of the user.

Abstract: The present invention allows the transmitting side to transmit a plurality of pieces of layout information that determines a display layout of at least one media and media data making up this layout information and allows the receiving side to receive the layout information and media making up this layout information transmitted from the transmitting side, select one out of a plurality of different pieces of layout information based on a reception state of this media and represent the media using the selected layout information.

Abstract: In the present invention, a content receiving section 107 receives content from a content server 101 by means of broadcasting or communication, and playback by a playback section 109 is switched by a playback control section 108 between stored content stored in a storage section 103 and content received by content receiving section 107 based on at least one of stored content playback conditions and reception conditions of content received by means of broadcasting or communication.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to realize a screen configuration according to a propagation environment and display capability by causing a server to transmit a plurality of pieces of screen configuration information describing a spatial arrangement of contents to a reception terminal and select, when the reception terminal receives a plurality of pieces of screen configuration information, screen configuration information and display the contents according to the propagation environment of the reception terminal and conditions such as display capability.

Abstract: In the present invention, with respect to content that is predicted to be referred to after moving based on a current position, moving direction and/or moving speed of a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus inquires of a communication information area managing section whether a position associated with the content is in a communication area, and when the position is outside the communication area, selects at least one communication section with communication-capable channel quality, and acquires and stores the content predicted to be referred to using the selected communication section. It is thereby possible to refer to the content when a position in response to the content predicted to be referred to is outside a communication-capable area.

Abstract: In the present invention, content is comprised of a plurality of items of data, and a transmission cycle and others of data composing the content are varied corresponding to the importance and/or necessity and purpose of the data. In this way, for example, it is possible to set a shorter transmission cycle on high-necessity data than the transmission cycle of the low-necessity data, and to set a shorter transmission cycle on information such as summary information requiring fast viewing than the transmission cycle of detailed information.

Abstract: The present invention generates watermark from ID information that uniquely identifies a program distribution destination, inserts the generated watermark in a program, and prevents the program from operating correctly if the watermark is tampered with, and also inserts the same watermark verification code in a program regardless of the distribution destination. By this means, it is possible to prevent detection of watermark verification code constituting a watermark by means of collusion attack.

Abstract: In the present invention, with respect to content that is predicted to be referred to after moving based on a current position, moving direction and/or moving speed of a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus inquires of a communication information area managing section whether a position associated with the content is in a communication area, and when the position is outside the communication area, selects at least one communication section with communication-capable channel quality, and acquires and stores the content predicted to be referred to using the selected communication section. It is thereby possible to refer to the content when a position in response to the content predicted to be referred to is outside a communication-capable area.

Abstract: Provided is a content classifying section 203 for classifying and bundling to-be-transmitted contents on the basis of any piece of information of media kind, IP address, port number and session identifier. A packet header compressing section 204 carries out header compression on the transmission packet. Due to this, because contents can be packet-transferred with efficiency and excellent error resistance by the use of a communication and broadcast network, it is possible to realize, even on the Internet for broadcast in a broadcast form, a quality broadcast free of image or sound discontinuity as the terrestrial-wave TV broadcast.

Abstract: There is provided a transmitting section for receiving program information representative of an outline and receiving condition of a receivable program and further receiving a program on the basis of the program information, and a zone-change determining section for detecting a change of the program information. The program selecting section causes the transmitting section to suspend program reception and to switch a communication port, on the basis of a determination of a change of program distribution area by the zone-change determining section. Due to this, the transmitting section is allowed to continuously receive the program so far received. This, in the case a program is provided at a communication port different based on each region, makes it possible to correctly receive a program even if moving traversing a region.

Abstract: In a broadcast using packet transmission, zapping-data and program data are packet-transmitted from a transmitting apparatus. A receiving apparatus receives and stores the data and zapping-data. Until the program data selected upon program reproduction becomes reproducible, zapping-data is reproduced, whereby the viewer can know the information about a program without waiting for a lapse of reproduction wait time after switching a program channel.

Abstract: In the present invention, a cable network upstream from base stations is constructed in MPLS, and when a radio communication terminal moves from an area of a base station currently communicating with the terminal to an adjacent area of another base station and enters a diversity areas of the two base stations, a communication network control apparatus provides paths of MPLS to the two base stations, and copies a packet to the radio communication terminal to forward to the two base stations. Then, when the radio communication terminal moves out of the diversity area and enters an area of either of the base stations, the apparatus disconnects the path (LSP) to the base station whose area the terminal moves out of. It is thereby possible to assure QoS to the radio communication terminal, while eliminating the packet loss due to handover.

Abstract: In the present invention, an information distribution terminal adds an ID of the terminal and ID of a user of the terminal to transmission information to relay and distribute in relying and distributing the transmission information including an electronic coupon, and an information compiling server that finally receives the transmission information refers to IDs of terminals or users of the terminals added successively due to relay, and provides benefits to the users corresponding to the IDS.

Abstract: A semiconductor element having a surface coating consisting of, for example, a silicon nitride film and a silicon oxide film covering different surface portions of a semiconductor substrate of, for example, silicon so that such surface coating can be utilized for selective diffusion of impurities such as gallium and antimony. In a semiconductor device thus formed, the surface coating acts as a satisfactory surface protective film against external atmosphere, and the backward characteristics of the PN junction can be improved because the end edge of the PN junction terminating at the substrate surface is covered with the silicon nitride film.

Abstract: A method of diffusing an impurity into semiconductor wafers, wherein the semiconductor wafers and sources of the impurity are arranged in a pressure-reduced vessel or a vacuum vessel with their surfaces opposed, and the vessel is heated to deposit the impurity on the surfaces of the semiconductor wafers and to diffuse the impurity into the wafer surfaces in a separate open vessel, whereby the dispersion or variation of the surface impurity concentrations of the semiconductor wafers is lessened.