Abstract: A method is provided which may download and reproduce contents depending on the performance of an information communication device such as a mobile phone or a PDA. A method for downloading contents from a server containing contents in an information communication device with camera includes: at the information communication device, imaging an image including additional information with said camera, and transmitting the imaged image data to a server; and at the server, extracting additional information from the imaged image data being received, determining the performance of the information communication device based on the imaged image data, selecting contents corresponding to the extracted additional information and depending on said performance of the information communication device, and transmitting the contents to the information communication device.

Abstract: Packets received through a network interface 104 is stored into a receiving buffer 108. Are production controller 106 checks the current state of receiving buffer 108 and performs a reproduction process mentioned below. The data in receiving buffer 108 is transferred to a decoder 109 in accordance with instruction from reproduction controller 106 and decoded as voice sound, D/A converted by a D/A converter 110 and then output as voice sound from a speaker 102. The clock for D/A conversion is supplied from a reproduction clock CLK 107. This configuration is free from overflow and underflow of the receiving buffer due to difference in clocks between the transmitting and receiving ends, and prevents the occurrence of packet jitter so as to avoid voice sound breaks.

Abstract: A wireless communication circuit in accordance with the present invention, is the wireless communication circuit having an amplifier for amplifying a signal, includes an amplification route in which the signal passes through the amplifier; a bypass route for bypassing the amplifier; and a route-selector for selecting one of the amplification route and the bypass route. This arrangement prevents an amplification of a signal, being transmitted or being received, when a communication counterpart is in a close distance, thereby reducing an unnecessary power consumption.

Abstract: The present invention provides a moving picture re-encoding apparatus, which can generate correct reproducible encoded data by a light-load simple process when encoded moving picture data are converted or edited. It is provided with: a decoding means 12 that decodes frames of a moving picture from an encoded bit stream; a frame selecting means 15 that selects a frame to be re-encoded from the decoded frames; an encoding means 14 that re-encodes only the selected frame; and an interval notifying means 13 that calculates a frame interval, after the re-encoding of a frame, between the frame and a next frame to be re-encoded to notify the decoding means of the calculated frame interval. The decoding means 12 decodes the bit stream for time based on the notified frame interval after the notification from the interval notifying means 13. The frame selecting means 15 selects the last frame as the next frame to be re-encoded among the frames until the time passes.

Abstract: A device which is capable of storing moving picture data received from each terminal and providing each terminal with video information to be reproducible by rapidly forwarding or reversing at any desired speed independent of usable terminals. A video storage type communication device 30 with a receiving portion 35 and a transmitting portion 38 transmits and receives video data over a communication network 10 to and from each terminal 1–n. A coded video data received from terminals 1–n is stored as it is in a first storage portion 32 and, at the same time, the data converted into specially reproducible video information is stored in the second storage portion 33. At the time of reproducing, the reproduction control portion 35 controls the reproduction selector switch 36 to obtain the video data from the first storage portion 32 or the second storage portion 33, changing the reproduction mode from ordinary to the rapid forwarding/reversing and vice versa.

Abstract: A wireless communication circuit in accordance with the present invention, is the wireless communication circuit having an amplifier for amplifying a signal, includes an amplification route in which the signal passes through the amplifier; a bypass route for bypassing the amplifier; and a route-selector for selecting one of the amplification route and the bypass route. This arrangement prevents an amplification of a signal, being transmitted or being received, when a communication counterpart is in a close distance, thereby reducing an unnecessary power consumption.

Abstract: A device which is capable of storing moving picture data received from each terminal and providing each terminal with video information to be reproducible by rapidly forwarding or reversing at any desired speed independent of usable terminals. A video storage type communication device 30 with a receiving portion 35 and a transmitting portion 38 transmits and receives video data over a communication network 10 to and from each terminal 1-n. A coded video data received from terminals 1-n is stored as it is in a first storage portion 32 and, at the same time, the data converted into specially reproducible video information is stored in the second storage portion 33. At the time of reproducing, the reproduction control portion 35 controls the reproduction selector switch 36 to obtain the video data from the first storage portion 32 or the second storage portion 33, changing the reproduction mode from ordinary to the rapid forwarding/reversing and vice versa.

Abstract: A device which is capable of storing moving picture data received from each terminal and providing each terminal with video information to be reproducible by rapidly forwarding or reversing at any desired speed independent of usable terminals. A video storage type communication device 30 with a receiving portion 35 and a transmitting portion 38 transmits and receives video data over a communication network 10 to and from each terminal 1-n. A coded video data received from terminals 1-n is stored as it is in a first storage portion 32 and, at the same time, the data converted into specially reproducible video information is stored in the second storage portion 33. At the time of reproducing, the reproduction control portion 35 controls the reproduction selector switch 36 to obtain the video data from the first storage portion 32 or the second storage portion 33, changing the reproduction mode from ordinary to the rapid forwarding/reversing and vice versa.

Abstract: A device which is capable of storing moving picture data received from each terminal and providing each terminal with video information to be reproducible by rapidly forwarding or reversing at any desired speed independent of usable terminals. A video storage type communication device 30 with a receiving portion 35 and a transmitting portion 38 transmits and receives video data over a communication network 10 to and from each terminal l-n. A coded video data received from terminals l-n is stored as it is in a first storage portion 32 and, at the same time, the data converted into specially reproducible video information is stored in the second storage portion 33. At the time of reproducing, the reproduction control portion 35 controls the reproduction selector switch 36 to obtain the video data from the first storage portion 32 or the second storage portion 33, changing the reproduction mode from ordinary to the rapid forwarding/reversing and vice versa.

Abstract: If received coded video-data includes data with an error unable to be decoded or data disagreeing with ITU-T recommendation H.261 (e.g., the number of bits per frame exceeds the limit defined by the recommendation), it must be stored with due countermeasures taken against error and inadaptable data, which allows the stored data to be effectively reproduced. Received coded video-data is decoded by a transmission-line decoding portion and divided into frames by a data dividing portion. Thereafter it is decoded by an information-source decoding portion and then intraframely encoded by a intraframe coding portion. According to a signal from a bit-counting portion showing that the number of bits in one frame of coded video-data exceeds the limit defined by ITU-T recommendation H.

Abstract: A video storage type communication device stores video data received from a terminal and reproduces required video information by rapid forwarding or reversing at any desired frame rate at the terminal independent of the terminal specification. A video storage type communication device includes a transmitting portion for transmitting video data and a receiving portion for receiving video data over a communication line. A video storage portion stores received video data. A communication control portion carries out video communication by controlling the above-mentioned portions. A refresh image detecting portion judges, from the received video data, whether the received video data is a refresh image. A storage control portion adds inter-frame or intra-frame prediction coded information to the received video data in accordance with the determination by the refresh image detecting portion and stores the received video data in the video storage portion.

Abstract: A connection control equipment can connect a plurality of calls originating from a terminal to a private side terminal by identifying the calling terminal. Each of the user terminals sets a calling number and a calling sub-address or a user-to-user information for identifying the terminal in a call-setting message. A switching system of the connection control equipment receives the call-setting message and stores the calling number and the calling sub-address or the user-to-user information of the message, and connects the call to a private side terminal with which the same user terminal issuing the just received call is communicating. The switching system can connect calls from the same user terminal to the same private terminal, allowing for any user terminal to freely transmit a plurality of calls without considering how to access a host computer.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a system capable of easily reproducing an image from interframe predictive signals conventionally used for, e.g., visual telephone communications. Video and audio signals multiplexed by first separating and multiplexing device are assembled into packets proportional to a bit rate of the multiplexed data by a packet separating-multiplexing device and completed with information on the multiplexing conditions, i.e., packet structure. The packets are then stored and when the stored packets are reproduced, the packet separating-multiplexing device judges the structure of the packet according to the information of the multiplexing conditions and disassembles the packets into individual data and decodes the video and sound signals.