Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: A communication system includes a device and a server connected to the Internet, which transfers communications between the device and a terminal connectable to the Internet via the server. The device periodically transmits a notice packet to the server. The server transmits a connection request packet to the device in reply to the notice packet when a transfer to the device is requested from the terminal. The device transmits a TCP connection request to the server when receiving the connection request packet from the server. The server accepts the TCP connection request transmitted from the device to the server in reply to the connection request packet, to establish the TCP connection. Thus, the server transfers communications between the terminal and the device on the TCP connection after the TCP connection is established.

Abstract: A communication system including: a terminal (121); and a device (111), a device (112), and a device (113) existing within a LAN (110) connected to the terminal (121) through the Internet. The terminal (121) includes: a representative device preference storing unit (14) that stores information about processing performed by plural devices; a terminal control unit (15) that determines a representative device serving as a representative from among a plural devices based on information stored in the representative device preference storing unit (14); and a terminal side communication unit (10) that transmits a request for information about the devices within the LAN (110) to the representative device and receives a response to the request from the representative device.

Abstract: A server apparatus selects one of communication equipment that has a waiting and reception capability as a waiting and receiving side communication equipment based on waiting and reception capability information on the respective communication equipments, and selects another communication equipment as a connection side communication equipment. The waiting and receiving side communication equipment sets a router apparatus connected to the waiting and receiving side communication equipment so that the router apparatus receives a signal having a destination of waiting and receiving address information, and transfers the received signal to the waiting and receiving side communication equipment. The connection side communication equipment transmits a packet having the destination of the waiting and receiving address information to the waiting and receiving side communication equipment.

Abstract: A system includes electronic equipment, an information processing device and a server device. The electronic equipment sends first address change confirmation information containing first address information to the information processing device. The information processing device sends second address change confirmation information obtained by writing second address information in the received first address change confirmation information. The server device determines that the first address information and the second address information, which are contained in the received second address change confirmation information, agree with each other, and updates the address information to new one when the first address information and the second address information do not agree with each other. With such a system, electronic equipment can hold up-to-date address information of the information processing device with extremely light processing at the side of the server device and with small load of communication.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a control system which controls an apparatus using a network such as an IEEE 1394 high-speed serial bus, and aims at making it possible for an old control apparatus to control a new controlled apparatus even when the new controlled apparatus is connected to the old control apparatus which does not support control of the new controlled apparatus. An HDR 4 is controlled by a first DTV 1 and a second DTV 2 via an IEEE serial bus 5, an HDR 45 performs a predetermined operation, a main subunit 40 activates the HDR 45 in response to an instruction which is from one or a plurality of the first DTV 1 and the second DTV 2 and directed to the HDR 4, and an auxiliary subunit 42 disguises as if it were an apparatus other than the HDR 4 and directly or indirectly activates the HDR 4 in response to an instruction which is from the first DTV 1, the second DTV 2 and is directed to an apparatus other than the HDR 4.

Abstract: A communication system includes a device and a server connected to the Internet, which transfers communications between the device and a terminal connectable to the Internet via the server. The device periodically transmits a notice packet to the server. The server transmits a connection request packet to the device in reply to the notice packet when a transfer to the device is requested from the terminal. The device transmits a TCP connection request to the server when receiving the connection request packet from the server. The server accepts the TCP connection request transmitted from the device to the server in reply to the connection request packet, to establish the TCP connection. Thus, the server transfers communications between the terminal and the device on the TCP connection after the TCP connection is established.

Abstract: At least three heads are mounted on a rotary drum. Between the first and third heads which are located in close proximity to each other and have different azimuth angles, a minute height difference is formed in the rotation shaft direction of the rotary drum. Signals of a plurality of data rates are recorded and reproduced by using the first and second heads or the first and third heads. Two heads having the same azimuth angle are disposed on the rotary drum so as to be opposed each other at a central angle of 180°. In search speed reproduction, search data are reproduced by the two heads. Tracks are divided in the unit of plural tracks so as to form track sets. Search data areas of each track set are disposed at a position of each track which is separated from the edge of a tape by a predetermined distance. In search speed reproduction, the phases of the tracks and the heads are controlled, and all effective data of the search data areas are reproduced by plural scans of the heads.

Abstract: At least three heads are mounted on a rotary drum. Between the first and third heads which are located in close proximity to each other and have different azimuth angles, a minute height difference is formed in the rotation shaft direction of the rotary drum. Signals of a plurality of data rates are recorded and reproduced by using the first and second heads or the first and third heads. Two heads having the same azimuth angle are disposed on the rotary drum so as to be opposed each other at a central angle of 180°. In search speed reproduction, search data are reproduced by the two heads. Tracks are divided in the unit of plural tracks so as to form track sets. Search data areas of each track set are disposed at a position of each track which is separated from the edge of a tape by a predetermined distance. In search speed reproduction, the phases of the tracks and the heads are controlled, and all effective data of the search data areas are reproduced by plural scans of the heads.

Abstract: A reproduction apparatus includes: a signal reading section for reading a signal recorded on a recording medium, the signal including a digital signal and an analog signal; a control signal reading section for reading a control signal recorded on the recording medium and including information representing a time mode indicating a run speed of the recording medium; a first determination section for determining the time mode based on an output of the control signal reading section; and a second determination section for determining whether the signal read by the signal reading section is a digital signal or an analog signal after the time mode is determined by the first determination section.

Abstract: At least three heads are mounted on a rotary drum. Between the first and third heads which are located in close proximity to each other and have different azimuth angles, an intentionally provided minute height difference is formed in the rotation shaft direction of the rotary drum. Signals of a plurality of data rates are recorded and reproduced by using the first and second heads or the first and third heads. Two heads having the same azimuth angle are disposed on the rotary drum so as to be opposed each other at a central angle of 180.degree.. In search speed reproduction, search data are reproduced by the two heads. Tracks are divided in the unit of plural tracks so as to form track sets. Search data areas of each track set are disposed at a position of each track which is separated from the edge of a tape by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A data recording/reproducing apparatus of the invention records data in a plurality of tracks on a tape like recording medium by using a head unit mounted on a rotational cylinder and reproduces recorded data from the tracks, the tracks having at least two azimuth angles different from one another, and the tracks of the different azimuth angles being alternately located on the recording medium, the apparatus including: a formatter for providing, to each of the tracks, a normal data region to be used in normal reproduction and at least one search data region to be used in reproduction at a standard variable reproduction speed; for grouping the plurality of tracks into track sets each having a predetermined number of tracks, each search data region being located in the same position on a corresponding track included in the track set, and for placing identical search data in the search data region of each track included in the track set.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording digital signals to plural tracks formed sequentially on a tape using plural heads includes a first selector for selecting the first through n track sets, continuous tracks within the plural tracks formed on the tape. A disposer disposes the first through k separated high speed reproduction data areas to the same positions in each of the m tracks comprising the first through n track sets. A first recording unit records the same high speed reproduction data to the same track position in at least the tracks having the same azimuth within the m*k high speed reproduction data areas belonging to the same track set. A second selector selects the n+1 through n+N, each track set comprising M tracks selected from among the tracks to which the high speed reproduction data areas are not disposed. A second disposer disposes a continuous very-high speed reproduction data area to the same position in each of the M tracks forming the n+1 through n+N track sets.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus for an input encoded data stream having two different bit rates N.sub.1 and N.sub.2, where N.sub.1 <N.sub.2. The recording and reproducing apparatus includes: an input interface for outputting the input encoded data stream to two channels; recording processors, connected to the outputs of the input interface, for converting the input encoded data stream into a signal suitable for writing onto a magnetic tape by a recording head; a tape speed controller for varying the speed of the magnetic tape in accordance with the bit rates of the input encoded data stream; a reproducing head for reading the signal from the magnetic tape; reproducing processors for processing a reproduced signal; and an output interface. The input interface divides and outputs the input encoded data stream to both of the two channels when the bit rate of the input encoded data stream is N.sub.

Abstract: A magnetic head driving apparatus makes it possible to effect a correct positioning operation at the assembly of the magnetic head, and also, to effect the correct measurement of the gap positions of the magnetic head. Also, the magnetic head is immune to the influence of the leakage flux of the magnetic circuit. Coil bobbins are mounted in a first gimbal spring and a second gimbal spring and the head has a projection in its lower end portion. The projection portion is extended through the hole of the first yoke. The head base is secured with a fixing member in the projection portion. A head base extending portion extending in a radial direction is formed in one portion of the external periphery of the head base with a magnetic head being mounted on its tip end. A sensor object showing the gap position of the magnetic head is formed in one portion of the head base extending portion.

Abstract: A rotary head for use in a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a fixed cylinder, a rotary cylinder opposed to the fixed cylinder, two electrically controllable movable elements mounted on the rotary cylinder so as to be 180.degree. apart from each other, at least two magnetic heads secured to the movable elements, respectively, at least one reference surface provided on the rotary cylinder, and a vertical position detector element for detecting the vertical position of the movable elements and that of the reference surface. The rotary head further includes a control system for controlling the movable elements in response to an output from the vertical position detector element so that the magnetic heads may be located at a predetermined vertical position with respect to the vertical position of the reference surface.

Abstract: A tracking apparatus for helical scan video tape recorders comprises four movable video heads situated on a scanning drum such that phase compensation information can be determined using the scanner rotational information, the tape speed, and tape position. The phase compensation information is used to adjust the video heads thereby reproducing high quality video signals with smooth movement pictures from varying speed helical scan video tape recorders.

Abstract: A servo system for controlling the rotational speed of a rotating body or the moving speed of a moving body to be a desired speed. The system comprises a voltage source which generates at least two predetermined voltages, a comparator which compares a voltage of an AC signal containing a speed information of the moving body with each of the voltages generated by the voltage source and outputs at least two output signals in each half period of the AC signal, a counter for counting reference clock signals, a memory for storing a count value of the counter when the comparator outputs each of the output signals, a processor for producing a speed error signal from the count value stored in the memory, and a driver for supplying a driving power to the moving body in accordance with the speed error signal thereby to keep a desired speed of the moving body. Further, an error compensator may be provided for compensating a voltage shift of the predetermined voltages.