Abstract: An integrated circuit for video/audio processing in which design resources obtained by development of video/audio devices can also be used for other types of video/audio devices. The integrated circuit includes a microcomputer that includes a CPU, a stream input/output for inputting/outputting a video and audio stream to and from an external device, a media processor that executes the media processing including at least one of compressing and decompressing the video and audio stream inputted to the stream input/output, an AV input/output that converts the video and audio stream subjected to the media processing by the media processor into video and audio signals and outputting these signals to the external device. A memory interface controls a data transfer between the microcomputer, the stream input/output, the media processor and the AV input/output and an external memory.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for video/audio processing in which design resources obtained by development of video/audio devices can also be used for other types of video/audio devices. The integrated circuit includes a microcomputer that includes a CPU, a stream input/output for inputting/outputting a video and audio stream to and from an external device, a media processor that executes the media processing including at least one compressing and decompressing the video and audio stream inputted to the stream input/output, an AV input/output that converts the video and audio stream subjected to the media processing by the media processor into video and audio signals and outputting these signals to the external device. A memory interface controls a data transfer between the microcomputer, the stream input/output, the media processor and the AV input/output and an external memory.

Abstract: A terminal positioning device receives, from each terminal, network path information listing intermediary device identifiers that identify each intermediary device in the network on the path from the terminal to a path search target device. The terminal positioning device creates, in accordance with the network path information received from each terminal, terminal position information representing connections between routers and connections between routers and the terminals.

Abstract: An editing server is a multimedia content editing server that generates multimedia content including: media data including an image; and a media control script for controlling a reproduction scenario that includes at least one of a layout, a reproduction order, and a reproduction effect of the media data. The editing server includes: a script generation unit that generates the media control script, according to processing capability information that indicates a processing capability of a terminal for the media control script; and a multimedia content generation unit that generates the multimedia content including the media control script.

Abstract: A silicon-wafer processing fluid used for processing a silicon wafer contains a friction modifier containing a nitrogen-containing compound, pH of the nitrogen-containing compound being in a range from 2 to 8 when a mass ratio with water (i.e. nitrogen-containing compound/water) is 1/99. The nitrogen-containing compound is preferably a heterocyclic compound. The silicon-wafer processing fluid restrains an abrasion of abrasive grains rigidly attached to a wire and generation of hydrogen.

Abstract: A main LSI includes a plurality of master circuits transmitting access requests to a SDRAM, and includes an input interface receiving an access request from a master circuit in a sub LSI. Further, the main LSI includes an arbitration circuit receiving the access requests from the internal master circuits and from the input interface, sequentially selecting, in accordance with a predetermined arbitration rule, a master circuit to be allowed to access the SDRAM, and determining output timings for addresses pertaining to the data transfers from the sequentially selected master circuits. The main LSI also includes an access signal generation circuit causing the sequentially selected master circuits to access the SDRAM in accordance with the corresponding output timings.

Abstract: Provided is a water-containing working fluid for a brittle material and a hard material, which includes (A) water, (B) a water soluble polymeric compound having an oxygen-containing group and a number average molecular weight of 6,000 to 3,000,000, and (C) a nonionic surfactant having a clouding point of 10 to 70° C. in a 1% by mass aqueous solution. In a loose-abrasive grain method, the working fluid allows a slurry thereof to be supplied into the working gap sufficiently and has excellent abrasive grain dispersion stability and excellent properties to wash and disperse cutting swarf. In a method using a fixed-abrasive grain wire saw, the working fluid rarely causes detachment of the fixed abrasive grains and has excellent properties to wash and disperse cutting swarf.

Abstract: A terminal positioning device (150) receives, from each terminal (501-506), network path information listing intermediary device identifiers that identify each intermediary device in the network on the path from the terminal to a path search target device (100). The terminal positioning device (150) creates, in accordance with the network path information received from each terminal (501-506), terminal position information representing relations of connection between routers and relations of connection between routers and the terminals (501-506).

Abstract: A DMA control device and a data transfer method, which make it possible to use a DMA channel independent of an operation mode of a processor and realize the protection of DMA control parameters during DMA operation (during a data transfer), while reducing the number of shift of an operating mode of the processor as small as possible, are provided. In requesting a DMA start by locking an access to a ch-0 DMA control register 114 in a secure mode, a CPU 101 instructs an unlock set register 118 to release an access lock when the transfer is completed. Then, when a parameter controlling circuit 119 receives a notification of transfer completion from a ch-0 state managing circuit 116, such parameter controlling circuit instructs a lock set register 115 to release the lock in accordance with the setting of the unlock set register 118.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods for properly correcting a frequency of a standard clock, receiving apparatuses, reproducing apparatuses, and programs in broadcasting data receiving systems comprising a receiving apparatus and a reproducing apparatus, in which the broadcasting data received at the receiving apparatus is transmitted to a reproducing apparatus via bus. In the broadcasting data receiving systems stated above, when the receiving apparatus detects the broadcasting-side time information that reflects the encoding standard clock, the extraction of the broadcasting-side time information is transmitted in a form of status change signal to the reproducing apparatus via the dedicated line, and the content of the broadcasting-side time information is transmitted to the reproducing apparatus via bus.

Abstract: A content reproduction apparatus functioning to (a) reproduce broadcast program content (“BC”), being image, sound, and other data, that has been received, (b) store commercial content (“CC”), being data such as commercials, announcements, and the like, and (c) cancel the reproduction of the CC during specified broadcast programs.

Abstract: A main LSI includes a plurality of master circuits that transmit access requests to an SDRAM, an input interface that receives an access request from a master circuit in a sub LSI, an arbitration circuit that receives the access requests from the internal master circuits and from the input interface, sequentially selects, in accordance with a predetermined arbitration rule, a master circuit to be allowed to access the SDRAM, and determines output timings for addresses pertaining to the data transfers from the sequentially selected master circuits, and an access signal generation circuit that causes the sequentially selected master circuits to access the SDRAM in accordance with the corresponding output timings.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated circuit for video/audio processing in which the design resources obtained by the development of video/audio devices can be used also for other types of video/audio devices. The integrated circuit comprises a microcomputer block 2 including a CPU, a stream I/O block 4 for inputting/outputting video and audio streams to and from an external device, a media processing block 3 for executing the media processing including at least one of the compression and decompression of the video and audio streams, etc. inputted to the stream I/O block 4, an AV IO block 5 for converting the video and audio streams subjected to the media processing in the media processing block 3 into video and audio signals and outputting these signals to the external device, etc, and a memory IF block 6 for controlling the data transfer between the microcomputer block 2, the stream I/C block 4, the media processing block 3 and the AV IO block 5 and an external memory 9.

Abstract: A broadcast system has digital receiving apparatuses that imitate deteriorated reproduction that is observed in analog receiving apparatuses when a transmission path failure occurs, thus preventing the audiences, who are accustomed to the analog broadcasting, from sensing discomfort at the digital broadcasting. A transmission apparatus causes encoding units 11 and 12 to generate low- and high-quality streams based on the same contents, and transmits these streams onto a transmission path while delaying the high-quality stream. In the receiving apparatuses, a reproduction unit 25 reproduces the high-quality stream in a normal state, while packets of the low-quality stream received during a time period T until the current time are accumulated in an accumulation unit 22. If a transmission path failure occurs, a reproduction control unit 26 causes the reproduction unit 25 to reproduce, instead of the high-quality stream, the accumulated packets of the low-quality stream.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed that allows a viewer to estimate the value of unknown content, and pay a fee relative to the estimated value. A cost corresponding to the value of each section is output for each of a plurality of sections that compose the received content. The recipient estimates the value of each section by referencing the cost of each section. Accordingly, the balance between the value and price of the section viewed on a trial basis does not produce a situation markedly different from that anticipated by the recipient, thus preventing dissatisfaction relating to the cost of the section viewed on a trial basis. A benefit is that, since the recipient views the section on a trial basis while having anticipated the value of the section, the recipient is more inclined to trial view unknown content, and the recipient can be expected to view more content by the content producer.

Abstract: A content reproduction apparatus functioning to (a) reproduce broadcast program content (“BC”), being image, sound, and other data, that has been received, (b) store commercial content (“CC”), being data such as commercials, announcements, and the like, and (c) cancel the reproduction of the CC during specified broadcast programs.

Abstract: A system integrated circuit that identifies the cause of a malfunction even if the number of output terminals of a system LSI to be assigned to internal buses in the system LSI is strictly restricted. Comparators 11 to 15 are connected to any of a plurality of buses. Each comparator judges whether a certain expected value matches data transferred on a bus connected to the comparator. The selector unit 10 selects one of the plurality of buses in accordance with the judgement result of the comparator, and outputs data transferred on the selected bus to outside the system integrated circuit so that an observer can observe internal state of the system integrated circuit from outside.

Abstract: A broadcast system has digital receiving apparatuses that imitate deteriorated reproduction that is observed in analog receiving apparatuses when a transmission path failure occurs, thus preventing the audiences, who are accustomed to the analog broadcasting, from sensing discomfort at the digital broadcasting. A transmission apparatus causes encoding units 11 and 12 to generate low- and high-quality streams based on the same contents, and transmits these streams onto a transmission path while delaying the high-quality stream. In the receiving apparatuses, a reproduction unit 25 reproduces the high-quality stream in a normal state, while packets of the low-quality stream received during a time period T until the current time are accumulated in an accumulation unit 22. If a transmission path failure occurs, a reproduction control unit 26 causes the reproduction unit 25 to reproduce, instead of the high-quality stream, the accumulated packets of the low-quality stream.

Abstract: Even when an address, which is output from a processor to a memory via an address bus, is scrambled, the address that the processor accesses immediately after reset can be obtained by monitoring the bus, and so there was a possibility that a scrambling key used for scrambling could be deciphered relatively easily. In this invention, a non-encoded area is set in which addresses are not encoded, in an address space. An encoding unit encodes the input address based on the input address and set non-encoded area. For example, addresses that can be obtained easily by monitoring the bus are placed in this non-encoded area. By doing this, security is improved.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide methods for properly correcting a frequency of a standard clock, receiving apparatuses, reproducing apparatuses, and programs in broadcasting data receiving systems comprising a receiving apparatus and a reproducing apparatus, in which the broadcasting data received at the receiving apparatus is transmitted to a reproducing apparatus via bus.