Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A holding unit is configured to hold a communication parameter to be used to perform communication with a storage device configured to store a content. A storage unit is configured to store a content. A memory unit is configured to store a record of change for the content stored in the storage unit. A deletion unit is configured to delete, from the memory unit, the record of change used to synchronize the content stored in the storage unit with the content stored in the storage device in accordance with deletion of the communication parameter used to perform the communication with the storage device from the holding unit.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus is configured to transmit identification information for referring to a content and/or a sub directory included in a directory designated by a receiving apparatus to the receiving apparatus via a network.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus is configured to transmit identification information for referring to a content and/or a sub directory included in a directory designated by a receiving apparatus to the receiving apparatus via a network. The transmission apparatus includes a loading unit configured to load a content, a generation unit configured to generate identification information for referring to a new directory for referring to the content loaded by the loading unit so that the new directory is referred to as a sub directory included in the directory designated by the receiving apparatus, an addition unit configured to add the identification information generated by the generation unit to the content information included in the designated directory, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the content information to which the identification information generated by the generation unit has been added by the addition unit to the receiving apparatus.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus is configured to transmit identification information for referring to a content and/or a sub directory included in a directory designated by a receiving apparatus to the receiving apparatus via a network. The transmission apparatus includes a loading unit configured to load a content, a generation unit configured to generate identification information for referring to a new directory for referring to the content loaded by the loading unit so that the new directory is referred to as a sub directory included in the directory designated by the receiving apparatus, an addition unit configured to add the identification information generated by the generation unit to the content information included in the designated directory, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the content information to which the identification information generated by the generation unit has been added by the addition unit to the receiving apparatus.

Abstract: A content providing apparatus, which provides content to a playback apparatus, acquires digital data, performs a plurality of processing types to generate content from the acquired digital data, and transmits, to the playback apparatus in response to a request from the playback apparatus, content information for enabling the playback apparatus to recognize the plurality of processing types that the content providing apparatus can perform and a processing type that has been set when the digital data is acquired from among the plurality of processing types, so as to enable the playback apparatus to determine processing to be performed from among the plurality of types of processing that the content providing apparatus can perform.

Abstract: An attribute apparatus is connected to a management apparatus that manages a directory for storing contents and a request apparatus that requests attributes of contents, and configured to store an identifier of the directory and identifiers of the contents. The attribute apparatus acquires attribute data of the contents in response to a request, and provides the acquired attribute data and the identifier of the directory stored corresponding to the identifiers of the contents whose attribute data have been acquired, to the request apparatus.

Abstract: An information delivery system in which in a display device (2) for displaying a first content and a second content, a user's operation to the display device is analyzed when the user views the first content and when the operation is performed to change the first content, the second content is delivered from an information delivery device (1) that receives a delivery request to the display device and displayed. Therefore, the desired second content is provided without interrupting a user's viewing and hearing of the first content.

Abstract: An information delivery system in which in a display device (2) for displaying a first content and a second content, it is detected whether or not the displayed first content is changed to other content that is different from the first content and when the change is the predetermined change that is set in advance, the second content is delivered from an information delivery device (1) that receives a delivery request to the display device and displayed. Therefore, the desired second content is provided without interrupting a user's viewing of the first content.

Abstract: A first data-recording device (400) includes a network interface, a recording unit, and a group recording reservation notifying unit. The network interface acquires a group recording reservation instruction containing a recording reservation data and requesting that a recording reservation be set. The recording unit sets the recording reservation in accordance with the recording reservation data contained in the group recording reservation instruction that the network interface has acquired. The group recording reservation notifying unit distributes data same as the recording reservation data, to a second data-recording device (401) or a third data-recording device (402) through a network (200).

Abstract: An information device (300) includes: first judgment elements (304) for judging whether an information recording device specified by circumstances information (400a) recorded on a second recording medium (100) coincides with the information recording device which has performed MOVE process; and control elements (307) for controlling display elements (305, etc.) so as to display that the first content information (HD content) can be reproduced if the coincidence is confirmed by the first judgment elements, controlling the content information generation elements (308, etc.) so as to generate first content information according to the circumstances information, and controlling the reproducing elements (310, etc.) so as to reproduce the generated first content information.

Abstract: A CPU 290 of a recording/reproducing device 200 acquires automatic video recording request information, and generates, based on EPG data previously acquired, new automatic reservation information incorporating basic video recording information with video recording start date and time or video recording finish date and time for contents corresponding to a keyword in the automatic video recording reservation request information and priority information indicating that the priority is “intermediate”.

Abstract: A recorder or the like that ensures a free space in a hard disc while recording a broadcast program in an optimum storage form according to a user's preference is provided. The recorder or the like includes a broadcast receiver 6 to receive information on the broadcast program, a program managing unit 8 to determine a user's preference degree for the broadcast program, a reencoding unit 9 to reencode the information on the broadcast program according to the user's preference degree, and a disc drive 10 to record the reencoded information about the broadcast program on an optical disc 10a.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of running properly, with automatically executing a backup OS program or a default OS program, from an automatic judgment in a case that a current OS program does not run properly, in which a state flag is disposed in a flash ROM in order to indicate whether or not the current OS program runs properly at the previous time, and a state of the state flag is checked when the current OS program is executed, the current OS program is executed in the case that the current OS program runs properly at the previous time, and the backup OS program is executed in the case that the current OS program does not run properly at the previous time.

Abstract: A CPU 290 of a recording/reproducing device 200 make a recording section 251 record contents reserved by a user for video recording in an HDD 270, and sets remaining time until the contents is automatically deleted. The CPU 290 determines, when a period T is over, whether access to the contents has been carried out or not, and adds additional time D to the remaining time when the CPU 290 determines that the access has been made, and subtracts the period T from the remaining time when the CPU 290 determines that the access has not been made. The CPU 290 executes the afore-mentioned processing once in each period T, and automatically deletes the contents from the HDD 270 when the CPU 290 recognizes that the remaining time is zero or below.

Abstract: A CPU 290 of a recording/reproducing device 200 acquires automatic video recording request information, and generates, based on EPG data previously acquired, new automatic reservation information incorporating basic video recording information with video recording start date and time or video recording finish date and time for contents corresponding to a keyword in the automatic video recording reservation request information and priority information indicating that the priority is “intermediate”.

Abstract: When request information for receiving or reproducing contents data of a TV program of a predetermined detail due to an input on an input unit 260 of a recording/reproducing device 200 is recognized, a genre or a keyword for the requested contents data is recognized. A basic program information about the genre or the keyword is searched based on a program information table generated from EPG data. By generating history information in which the genre and the keyword are associated, and computing an appearance frequency of the combination, a user's preference can be judged. The contents data is received based on the basic program information including requested genre or information and corresponding to the history information with high appearance frequency.

Abstract: A recording system (100) has a terminal unit (300), a recording device (400) for recording a broadcast program, and a network (200) connecting the terminal unit (300) and the recording device (400) to enable communication therebetween. The terminal unit (300) is provided with a storage for storing geographic information, and a communication line connecting section (310) transmitting destination information indicating a specific position in the geographic information to the recording device (400) through the network (200). The recording device (400) is provided with a network interface (440) for receiving the destination information transmitted from the terminal unit (300), the program associated information acquirer (472) for acquiring program associated information related to the broadcast program, and a timer recording unit (473) acquiring a target program information from the program associated information based on the received destination information.

Abstract: A data recording-and-reproducing apparatus includes a content recording part to record content data on a recording medium, a typical still image generation part to generate a typical still image on basis of the content data, a typical still image storage part to store the typical still image which has been generated, a generation control part to control interruption and resumption of generation of the typical still image, an interruption position information storage part to store interruption position information showing an interruption position in the content data when the generation of the typical still image is interrupted, and a resumption part to resume the generation of the typical still image on basis of the interruption position information when the generation of the typical still image is resumed.

Abstract: There are provided a DVD drive for recording information being able to be reproduced in a DVD, a designated information generator (431) for generating a play list, a designated information transmitter (432) for transmitting the play list to destination(s) being set, a destination information register (434) in which destination information has been registered, a designated information receiver for receiving a play list transmitted from other device(s) for information processing, an information existence judging section (435) for judging whether information being specified by the information specifying data of the received play list has been recorded in the DVD or not, and an information reproducer (436) for reproducing information based on the received play list, in the case that the information existence judging section (435) confirmed that the information had been recorded.

Abstract: A first data-recording device (400) includes a network interface, a recording unit, and a group recording reservation notifying unit. The network interface acquires a group recording reservation instruction containing a recording reservation data and requesting that a recording reservation be set. The recording unit sets the recording reservation in accordance with the recording reservation data contained in the group recording reservation instruction that the network interface has acquired. The group recording reservation notifying unit distributes data same as the recording reservation data, to a second data-recording device (401) or a third data-recording device (402) through a network (200).