Abstract: An in-vehicle camera control device 1 includes an evaluator 11 for evaluating an image capturing condition with reference to an image captured by an in-vehicle camera 2, an image capture suitability determiner 12 for determining whether to continue image-capturing in accordance with evaluation results generated by the evaluator 11, and a drive controller 14 for outputting a drive signal to a drive unit 22 of the in-vehicle camera 2 causing the drive unit 22 to move the in-vehicle camera 2 when the image capture suitability determiner 12 determines that the in-vehicle camera 2 is unsuitable for the image-capturing. Thus, it is possible to move the in-vehicle camera 2 to a position where a normal image can be captured when wipers etc. fail to improve the image capturing conditions.

Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes: a plurality of broadcast receiving units that receive program images and broadcast information; an image selecting/combining unit that selectively combines program images as a main-screen and a sub-screen; a plurality of monitors that display program images; a control unit that includes an idle-state detecting unit for detecting the broadcast receiving unit of idle-state, an idle-state establishing unit for controlling the broadcast receiving unit to halt receiving broadcast waves and controlling the image selecting/combining unit to output the program image received by other broadcast receiving unit to a monitor as a main-screen when an instruction of receiving broadcast information is accepted and when there is no broadcast receiving unit of idle-state, and a broadcast information acquisition instructing unit that control the broadcast receiving unit of idle-state to acquire the broadcast information when the instruction of receiving broadcast information is accepted.

Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes: a plurality of broadcast receiving units that receive program images and broadcast information; an image selecting/combining unit that selectively combines program images as a main-screen and a sub-screen; a plurality of monitors that display program images; a control unit that includes an idle-state detecting unit for detecting the broadcast receiving unit of idle-state, an idle-state establishing unit for controlling the broadcast receiving unit to halt receiving broadcast waves and controlling the image selecting/combining unit to output the program image received by other broadcast receiving unit to a monitor as a main-screen when an instruction of receiving broadcast information is accepted and when there is no broadcast receiving unit of idle-state, and a broadcast information acquisition instructing unit that control the broadcast receiving unit of idle-state to acquire the broadcast information when the instruction of receiving broadcast information is accepted.

Abstract: A mobile communication device is mounted on a vehicle, and has a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information, a distributed cache restoration unit for restoring the distributed cache into original information, a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache.

Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes a subtitle monitoring unit 21 for continuously monitoring as to whether a received signal obtained by receiving a digital broadcast contains subtitles or not; a subtitle analyzing unit 22 for analyzing, when the monitoring detects that the subtitles are contained, the subtitles to generate subtitle information; an external image input unit 11 for receiving an external image from outside; a video layout unit 24 for deciding, as to the external image and a subtitle presenting image generated from the subtitle information, display size and display position of each of the subtitle presenting image and the external image in such a manner as to avoid overlaps between them; a graphics creating unit 23 for creating from the subtitle information the subtitle presenting image conforming to the decision made by the video layout unit; and a video synthesizing unit 23 for combining the subtitle presenting image created and the external image, and displays a synthesized image.

Abstract: Respective broadcast program videos from a plurality of broadcast reception units 10, 20 are distributed by a video distribution unit 51. Video synthesis units 54, 55 set at least one of the distributed program videos as a master screen, set another program video subjected to reduction processing by video reduction units 52, 53 as a slave screen, and synthesize the program video set as the master screen with the program video set as the slave screen. A video constituted by the synthesized master screen and slave screen is then displayed on each of a plurality of monitors 92, 97.

Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes a broadcast reception and reproduction unit 1 for reproducing a program video image included in a received broadcast, a broadcast information collection unit 14 for collecting broadcast information included in the received broadcast in parallel with the reproduction of the program video image by the broadcast reception and reproduction unit, a collection status generation unit 19 for generating a collection status of the broadcast information collected by the broadcast information collection unit 14, and an output control unit 7 for displaying both the program video image reproduced by the broadcast reception and reproduction unit and the collection status of the broadcast information generated by the collection status generation unit.