Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a frame rate conversion system, and a frame rate conversion method that are capable of transmitting reference control information even when a data amount of the reference control information is large. [Solving Means] In a reproducing apparatus (151), a decode unit (152) decodes a certain amount of encoded video data. The decoded video data and reference control information (motion vector and identifier described above) obtained at a time of the decode are supplied to a transmission interface (153), and the transmission interface (153) transmits them to a display apparatus (161). The transmission interface (153) includes a first transmission channel for transmitting the decoded video data and a second transmission channel for transmitting the reference control information.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: An image compensation apparatus for use with a video display and a video camera, the video camera being arranged to capture images of a scene in front of the video display. The image compensation apparatus includes an analyzer configured to analyze successive frames of data provided to the video display, the successive frames of data being for displaying respective successive display images, a processor configured to calculate the illumination effect of the successive display images on the scene in front of the video displays and a compensator configured to apply image compensation to the successive images captured by the video camera so as to compensate for the effect of illumination by the video display of the scene in front of the video display.

Abstract: A video signal coding system for network transmission includes a video output apparatus and a signal conversion apparatus. The video output apparatus includes a decoding unit decoding an video signal encoded by a coding method using a motion vector and a superimposing unit superimposing reference control information containing at least a motion vector on a blanking period of the video signal, and outputs the video signal with the reference control information superimposed. The signal conversion apparatus includes a separating unit separating the reference control information from the blanking period, an encoding unit encoding the video signal by the coding method using the motion vector, and a motion vector converting unit converting the motion vector in the reference control information into a motion vector corresponding to the coding method in the encoding unit, and the encoding is performed using the converted motion vector.

Abstract: A program distribution system is disclosed. The system includes: a broadcast station; a recording and reproduction device that is capable of recording and reproducing data of program contents coming from the broadcast station by cable or by radio; and a content server that is capable of distributing, over a network, the data of the program contents to the recording and reproduction device through connection thereto over the network. In the system, the recording and reproduction device includes a storage section, a recording and reproduction control section, and a higher-quality data acquisition control section.

Abstract: A transmitting and receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus that delivers a main stream for performing a streaming broadcast and an auxiliary stream generated from the main stream and a receiving apparatus that receives the main stream and the auxiliary stream from the transmitting apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a main-stream storing unit, a bit-rate-reducing converting unit, an auxiliary-stream storing unit, and a delivery control unit. The receiving apparatus includes a main-stream-reception control unit, an auxiliary-stream-reception control unit, a data processing unit, and an inter-stream-error storing unit. When tuning operation by a user is received, the main-stream-reception control unit selects, from data of an auxiliary stream of a tuned broadcast, data at such a time that the auxiliary stream is possible to be switched to a main stream without shift of scenes when the auxiliary stream is switched to the main stream later and supplies the data to the data processing unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a method, and a program which can appropriately perform jump playback when content transmitted through a network is played back in real time. A terminal 3 receives stream data transmitted from a server 1, buffers the stream data, and plays back the buffered data. The terminal 3 has multiple buffers to allow content data of the positions of jump destinations that can be specified as a jump destination during jump playback to be pre-buffered in the multiple buffers. As a result, upon receiving a request for jump playback, the terminal 3 can start playback from a jump destination without delay, since the data of the jump destination has already been buffered. The present invention is applied to, for example, television receivers.

Abstract: A frame rate conversion system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a decoding unit decoding a compressed video signal encoded by an encoding method using a motion vector, and an encoding unit superimposing reference control information being output from the decoding unit and containing at least a motion vector on a blanking period of the video signal decoded by the decoding unit, and outputs the video signal with the reference control information superimposed thereon. The receiver includes a decoding unit separating the reference control information from the blanking period of the video signal input from the transmitter, and a frame rate converting unit generating an interpolated frame between frames of the input video signal using the reference control information separated by the decoding unit, and converting the input video signal into the signal of a higher frame rate.

Abstract: A transmitting and receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus that delivers a main stream for performing a streaming broadcast and an auxiliary stream generated from the main stream and a receiving apparatus that receives the main stream and the auxiliary stream from the transmitting apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a main-stream storing unit, a bit-rate-reducing converting unit, an auxiliary-stream storing unit, and a delivery control unit. The receiving apparatus includes a main-stream-reception control unit, an auxiliary-stream-reception control unit, a data processing unit, and an inter-stream-error storing unit. When tuning operation by a user is received, the main-stream-reception control unit selects, from data of an auxiliary stream of a tuned broadcast, data at such a time that the auxiliary stream is possible to be switched to a main stream without shift of scenes when the auxiliary stream is switched to the main stream later and supplies the data to the data processing unit.

Abstract: A demodulating apparatus includes a deinterleave processing unit applying deinterleave processing to supplied data for each of parameters necessary in executing deinterleave processing in a time direction, an acquiring unit acquiring parameters with which the data should be processed, and a selecting unit selecting, from the deinterleave processing unit, the data subjected to the deinterleave processing with the parameters acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, a transmission method, a reception method, and programs therefor that are capable of efficiently transmitting at least a plurality of pieces of video data included in data of a plurality of contents at the same time. [Solving Means] A switch unit (32a) of a transmission apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of video data supplied from a storage apparatus (42) in accordance with video data designated by a transmission data control unit (32i) and supplies it to an IF unit (32b). The IF unit (32b) transmits video data decoded by a decode unit (113) from a terminal (335). The compressed video data supplied from the switch unit (32a) is transmitted via a terminal (336). The terminal (335) is included in a first channel unit. In a case where the IF unit (32b) is an HDMI, for example, the terminal (335) is a terminal for a TMDS channel.

Abstract: An image compensation apparatus for use with a video display and a video camera, the video camera being arranged to capture images of a scene in front of the video display. The image compensation apparatus includes an analyser configured to analyse successive frames of data provided to the video display, the successive frames of data being for displaying respective successive display images, a processor configured to calculate the illumination effect of the successive display images on the scene in front of the video displays and a compensator configured to apply image compensation to the successive images captured by the video camera so as to compensate for the effect of illumination by the video display of the scene in front of the video display.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a playback apparatus, a method, and a program which can appropriately perform jump playback when content transmitted through a network is played back in real time. A terminal 3 receives stream data transmitted from a server 1, buffers the stream data, and plays back the buffered data. The terminal 3 has multiple buffers to allow content data of the positions of jump destinations that can be specified as a jump destination during jump playback to be pre-buffered in the multiple buffers. As a result, upon receiving a request for jump playback, the terminal 3 can start playback from a jump destination without delay, since the data of the jump destination has already been buffered. The present invention is applied to, for example, television receivers.

Abstract: An image information transmission system may include an image information transmitting apparatus, and an image information receiving apparatus. The image information transmitting apparatus may obtain primary-image transmission data, which is subjected to predetermined compression-coding including bidirectionally predictive coding, for transmitting a moving image representing a primary image, and may generate secondary-image transmission data for transmitting a secondary image to be displayed together with the primary image on a display screen. The primary-image transmission data and the secondary-image transmission data may be transmitted to the image information receiving apparatus via a predetermined network communication link.

Abstract: A television receiver is provided. The television receiver includes a display unit, a remote control signal reception unit, and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display video based on a received or inputted video signal. The remote control signal reception unit is configured to receive a remote control signal. The control unit is configured to control a display on the display unit based on the remote control signal received at the remote control signal reception unit and to determine a transmission source of the remote control signal from the received remote control signal so that the display on the display unit is selected for the determined transmission source from two or more kinds of display prepared for a function.