Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090249410 | CONTENT SWITCHING APPARATUS AND CONTENT SWITCHING METHOD - The content switching apparatus includes at least a position identifying unit ( | 10-01-2009 |
20090249411 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In the case where the receiving apparatus 1 obtains, from a content archive, and reproduces a first video content having the same content as a program being broadcast, the difference of the ending time between the first video content being played and the program being broadcast is detected (S | 10-01-2009 |
20100095327 | TELEVISION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A television apparatus includes a plurality of receiving units. The television apparatus includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a channel which broadcasts a program whose video image is displayed on a display unit, a second receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of channels while the video image is being displayed, a program information management unit configured to store genre information about programs broadcasted on the plurality of channels, and a control unit configured to determine a periodic check order of receiving the plurality of channels based on the genre information about the programs read by the program information management unit and to control the second receiving unit to periodically check and receive the plurality of channels according to the periodic check order. | 04-15-2010 |
20100125870 | CONTENT PLAYER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A content player which receives a broadcast content and an information content and plays back a video image concerning a content, comprises a channel selection unit configured to select a channel to view the broadcast content; an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of an information content corresponding to the broadcast content on the channel selected by the channel selection unit; a detection unit configured to detect that the broadcast content on the selected channel has been viewed starting halfway; a determination unit configured to, if the detection unit has detected that the broadcast content has been viewed starting halfway, determine whether to notify that it is possible to view, from the beginning, the broadcast content that has been viewed starting halfway; and a notification unit configured to generate a notification image for notification when the determination unit has determined to notify. | 05-20-2010 |
20100202763 | VIDEO RECORDING AND PLAYING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A video recording and playing apparatus for recording and playing a broadcast program, according to the present invention, the apparatus comprises a recording unit to record broadcast programs on a storage unit, and a deletion unit to automatically delete a broadcast program recorded on the storage unit. The deletion unit determines, from among a plurality of broadcast programs recorded on the storage unit, a broadcast program which becomes a target of deletion, based on an audio signal or a rating of each broadcast program, in cases where a video recording capacity of the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined value. | 08-12-2010 |
20130002619 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus that can execute single unit calibration that is performed by displaying an image stored in the display apparatus in advance, and link calibration that is performed by displaying an image based on an image signal which is input from an external apparatus, comprises an execution unit that performs periodic calibration in which the single unit calibration and the link calibration are periodically executed and a determination unit that determines whether an image signal from the external apparatus is input or not, wherein the execution unit executes the link calibration during a period in which the determination unit determines that an image signal from the external apparatus is input, when the link calibration could not be executed during the periodic calibration. | 01-03-2013 |
20130016119 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFAANM Ukawa; SatoshiAACI Komae-shiAACO JPAAGP Ukawa; Satoshi Komae-shi JP - A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a measuring unit that measures an image displayed on a screen; a first determining unit that determines a first display setting by executing a single unit calibration; a second determining unit that determines a second display setting by executing a link calibration; and a determining unit that determines, during display of an external input image, which is an image based on an image signal input from an external apparatus, whether or not an output setting of the external apparatus or the second display setting differs from a setting during display of a previous external input image. The second determining unit executes the link calibration when the determining unit determines that the output setting of the external apparatus or the second display setting differs from the setting during display of the previous external input image. | 01-17-2013 |
20130155039 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image generating apparatus according to the present invention is an image generating apparatus that generates pattern image data including a pattern component image for inspecting display quality of an image display apparatus in which an emission brightness of a backlight can be controlled for each block obtained by dividing a screen. The image generating apparatus according to the present invention comprises a detecting unit that detects a block in which display quality is estimated to be degraded, from among the blocks of the image display apparatus, as a degradation estimation region; and a generating unit that generates pattern image data such that the pattern component image is displayed in a block detected as the degradation estimation region by the detecting units when an image based on the pattern image data is displayed by the image display apparatus. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162686 | IMAGE BROWSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE IMAGE BROWSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An image browsing apparatus for displaying an image by using image data of an image group including a plurality of images at different focal lengths, detects an operation of changing a position of a displayed area, when a partial area in one of the images included in the image group is displayed, determines whether to revise the displayed image to another image of the image group on the basis of a focal position in a display area which is based on the position change, in response to the detection of the operation, selects another image with the focal position in the display area based on the position change, in a case where it is determined to revise the image to another image, and displays the display area based on the position change, of the selected image. | 06-27-2013 |
20140340374 | CALIBRATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A calibration apparatus including: a measuring unit configured to measure optical characteristics at a measurement position on a screen of an image display apparatus; a storing unit configured to store information on correspondence determined in advance among the optical characteristics at the measurement position and optical characteristics at a plurality of prescribed positions on the screen; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a representative position of an image displayed on the screen; and a calibrating unit configured to perform calibration based on the measurement value measured by the measuring unit, information on the correspondence, and a positional relationship among the plurality of prescribed positions and the representative position. | 11-20-2014 |