Abstract: A stereoscopic image generating device comprising: a display device to include a plurality of pixels which emit brightness and non-brightness-emitting portions in the peripheries of the pixels; a lattice unit to be installed in parallel with a display surface as well as being adjacent to the display surface of the display device and to include a brightness-emitting portion which covers the non-brightness-emitting portions; and an optical unit to be installed in parallel with the lattice unit as well as being adjacent to the lattice unit and to include lens portions which form images of the light coming from the pixels at predetermined image-forming points.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device comprising: a display device to include a display surface; a first optical unit to be installed in parallel to the display surface adjacently to the display surface of the display device, one surface including a first convex portion via which to form an image of light emerging from the display surface at a first image forming point and a first flat surface portion, and the other surface being a flat surface; and a second optical unit to be installed in parallel to the first optical unit adjacently to the first optical unit, one surface including a second convex portion via which to form the image of light emerging from the display surface at a second image forming point different from the first image forming point and a second flat surface portion, and the other surface being the flat surface.

Abstract: An information processing device comprising, a receiving unit to receive image data; a determining unit to determine whether the image data received by the receiving unit contain an image for three dimensional vision or not; a converting unit to convert, if the determining unit determines that the image data contain the image for the three dimensional vision, the image data into a stereoscopic image; and a display unit to display the stereoscopic image converted by the converting unit.

Abstract: Fee-charging unit has unit to exclude, from a fee-charging target, information that is provided for a period of non-operating time for which the receiving device is presumed, from at least the charging state, to be disabled from continuing the reception if the fee-charging target information was provided to the receiving device in the past, if there is not recorded a piece of information that the receiving device can continue to receive the information for the predetermined period of time and if there is recorded a piece of information that the charging state of the secondary battery is not sufficient for continuing the reception.

Abstract: A video playback device includes a part to acquire a first video data at a first frame rate containing frame sequences each including a frame holding information about a background image and information about a moving object image, and second frames each holding information about position of the moving object image; and a generation part to generate, based on the first video data, a second video data to be played back at a second frame rate, the generation part includes a part to compute, with respect to each two contiguous frames in the first video content, position of a virtual moving object image situated in between two moving object images in the two contiguous frames; and a part to create, with respect to each position of the virtual moving object image, a frame image containing the background image and the motion object image placed in the computed position.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a processing memory section that stores plural processing sections for building a combination processing section; a construction data memory section that stores construction data for building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section used for executing a series of processing of most recently input data; and a processing construction section that reads, at a timing before data to be processed is input, plural processing sections forming the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section, based on the construction data and connects the processing sections in the same order of processing as in the latest combination processing section, thereby building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section.

Abstract: A content server device includes a request section for requesting a key server to transmit key data for decrypting encrypted content data to a client side in response to the content distribution request from the client side and a control unit which prohibits the transmission of the encrypted content data in response to the content distribution request when the reception number of notification received from the client side and indicating the reception of the key data from the key server is not less than the transmission number of key data to the client side by the key server and which transmits the encrypted content data in response to the content distribution request when the number of reception is not more than the number of transmission.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection section for detecting that the information processing apparatus is started for the first time, a selection section for selecting at least one kind of the setting information from among a plurality of kinds of the setting information where it is detected by the detection section that the information processing apparatus is started for the first time, and a processing section for performing an initial setting process for the information processing apparatus using the setting information selected by the selection section. Consequently, the necessity for a user to perform inputting of the setting information is eliminated thereby to enhance the convenience, and also the fabrication source can reduce the management cost for the setting information.

Abstract: A moving image reproducing apparatus includes a moving image obtaining part which obtains first moving image data having, luminance data representing luminance of an image, and color data representing color of the image, a color data reduction part which generates second moving image data having the same luminance data as the luminance data of the first moving image data and color data whose data volume is reduced, by reducing a data volume of the color data of the first moving image data, a moving image generation part which generates third moving image data for moving image display, on the basis of the second moving image data, and a moving image output part which outputs the third moving image data.

Abstract: A system is provided with which a user of an information processing apparatus is requested to pay only the license charges of the necessary functions of the pre-installed software and an information processing apparatus vendor or the like is also not requested to pay unwanted license fees to the licensors. An information processing apparatus, which has pre-installed at least one software providing a plurality of functions to which each license fee is charged respectively and enables selection of use or no use of the relevant functions, comprises a software storage unit for storing the pre-installed software, a function selection processing unit for executing only the function selected from the stored software, and a network communication unit for transmitting, via the network, the selected function information including the information indicating correspondence between the software name and selected function.

Abstract: A data broadcasting system includes a user device and a data broadcasting server. The device includes: a transmission requesting section transmitting the own model information and a request to transmit a content; and a content reproduction section reproducing the requested encoded content by decoding the content using key information for decoding the content.

Abstract: A data broadcasting system includes a user device and a data broadcasting server. The user device includes a network connection section that provides a request to transmit link information, accompanied by its own model information. The data broadcasting server includes a content performance determination section that obtains content display performance upon receipt of the model information. The data broadcasting server further includes a secondary link information transmission section that adds, to the link information, information indicating whether the content indicated by this link information is a content requiring content display performance exceeding the content display performance of the user device, and transmits the link information to the user device.

Abstract: A receiving device for receiving digital broadcasting. The receiving device includes a receiving unit to receive broadcasting waves multiplexed with a program and attached data from a broadcasting station; a guide information extracting unit to extract guide information from the received attached data; a Web page acquiring unit to acquire, if the guide information extracted from the attached data is deficient, a Web page provided by a server by establishing a connection with the server specified by the attached data; and a complementation unit to generate further pieces of guide information from the Web page and to complement the guide information with the generated pieces of guide information.

Abstract: A sound signal control device includes a change determining unit to determine a change of a reproduction speed of input data containing a moving picture signal and a sound signal; a changeover detecting unit to detect, as a changeover timing, a period in which a degree of coincidence of a moving picture is equal to or larger than a predetermined value when the change determining unit determines the change to a different reproduction speed during the reproduction; a reproducing unit to reproduce a sound and the moving picture based on the input data and, when the change determining unit determines the change of the reproduction speed, changing over the reproduction speed at the changeover timing; and a sound control unit to mute a sound output based on the sound signal at the changeover timing.

Abstract: A signal output device includes a signal output unit to output a video signal based on input image data, a storage unit to store the image data, a detection unit to detect whether or not the number of frames included in one set of image data stored in the storage unit satisfies a predetermined number, and a data creating unit to add, if the number of the frames included in the one set of image data does not satisfy the predetermined number, a new frame to the one set of image data so that the number of the frames included in the one set of image data satisfies the predetermined number, and to input, to the signal output unit, the one set of image data to which the new frame has been added.

Abstract: Fee-charging unit has unit to exclude, from a fee-charging target, information that is provided for a period of non-operating time for which the receiving device is presumed, from at least the charging state, to be disabled from continuing the reception if the fee-charging target information was provided to the receiving device in the past, if there is not recorded a piece of information that the receiving device can continue to receive the information for the predetermined period of time and if there is recorded a piece of information that the charging state of the secondary battery is not sufficient for continuing the reception.

Abstract: An information processing device including, a receiving unit to receive video data from a server, a reproducing unit to reproduce the received video data and to display a video on a displaying unit, and a transmitting unit to transmit, to said server, a video title of the video data reproduced by the reproducing unit and reproducing time information representing a period of reproducing time of the video data reproduced by the reproducing unit.

Abstract: According to the present invention, is allowed to store, in a hard disk drive, only a driver and an application which are necessary for a peripheral device connected a personal computer, the area in use of the hard disk drive is reduced.

Abstract: A signal output device, has an output signal generating unit 23 generating the output signals based on the input data, an output control unit 21 outputting the output signals to a reproducing device, a detecting unit 27 which detects missing of the input data, and a substitute data generating unit 28 generating, when the detecting unit 27 detects the missing of the input data, with the exception of a portion with the missing detected, substitute data by averaging at least any one of input data posterior to the missing portion and input data anterior to the missing portion, as data for a period of reproducing time obtained by adding a period of reproducing time related to the input data to a period of reproducing time related to the missing portion, and the output signal generating unit 23 generates the output signals based on the substitute data.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a processing memory section that stores plural processing sections for building a combination processing section; a construction data memory section that stores construction data for building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section used for executing a series of processing of most recently input data; and a processing construction section that reads, at a timing before data to be processed is input, plural processing sections forming the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section, based on the construction data and connects the processing sections in the same order of processing as in the latest combination processing section, thereby building the same combination processing section as the latest combination processing section.