Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories

About: Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories is a company organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Layer (electronics). The organization has 38708 authors who have published 63864 publications receiving 865637 citations.

Copyright management apparatus, copyrighted-work distribution apparatus, and copyrighted-work distribution and receiving system

Abstract: A TV music broadcasting program is distributed from a distribution apparatus through a ground station and a satellite, and a musical-piece program is also distributed through a plurality of audio channels. A subscriber looks for the desired musical piece from a musical-piece list displayed on the screen of a TV receiver and downloads it into a storage device. A pay-per-view method is employed in which accounting is performed in units of musical pieces. At downloading, a purchase record is stored in an IC card placed in a receiving apparatus and it is periodically sent to a customer management center. The customer management center calculates the viewing fee and issues a bill to the subscriber. A copyright management apparatus in the distribution apparatus obtains the purchase record of a musical piece from the customer management center to calculate a copyright fee to be paid to the copyright holder.

Remote controller, transmitting and receiving apparatus and method

Abstract: In a system, tabulated information on broadcasting programs is supplied through a network. When a user selects information on a desired program from the tabulated information of programs, supplemental information attached to the individual program information is converted into an remote control signal to remote-control a user's receiver to receive the desired program.

Direct service launch on a second display

Abstract: Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for using a second display with a network-enabled television. In one implementation, this feature allows the native application on the second display to directly launch the second display application with a requested search term so that the user is immediately brought to a search page with relevant search results. The search term may be derived from the native application which in turn derives from the context of the IP TV. Such a context could be metadata from a currently playing BD from a BD player or TV channel. The second display application may be a web application or a native remote controller application. The second display could be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, or a laptop or tablet PC, a desktop PC, or the like.

Head-mounted display

Abstract: There is provided a mounting apparatus for dispersing a weight of a device, the mounting apparatus comprising a main body configured to support the device and configured to mount on a head of a user and a support mechanism, connected to the device and the main body, comprising an elastic member configured to have a first length when the mounting apparatus is not mounted on the head of the user such that a first biasing force is applied; and have a second length larger than the first length when the mounting apparatus is mounted on the head of the user such that the weight of the device is dispersed by applying a second biasing force,which is greater than the first biasing force, with a force component in the vertical direction to the device

Recording and reproducing apparatus

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus which can prevent deterioration of the picture quality from being caused by an overshoot, a ringing or a noise component when, using a video tape recorder which can process two kinds of video signals having different aspect ratios, a video signal having a greater one of the aspect ratios is reflected on a television set The recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a peaking circuit for adding an overshoot or a ringing to a video signal, a noise canceller circuit for cancelling noise from the video signal and a comb line filter for removing noise from the video signal The peaking circuit, the noise canceller circuit and the comb line filter are capable of changing over the peaking frequency, the noise cancelling characteristic and the comb line filter characteristic thereof, respectively, in accordance with an aspect ratio of the video signal