Patent ID: 7760156
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A transmitting apparatus for transmitting data to a receiving apparatus, comprising: receiving means for receiving control information transmitted from the receiving apparatus; controlling means for controlling the resolutions in at least two directions of a temporal direction, a spatial direction, and a level direction of the data transmitted to the receiving apparatus corresponding to the control information; transmitting means for transmitting the data of which the resolutions in at least two directions have been controlled corresponding to the control information to the receiving apparatus; said receiving apparatus outputting the data transmitted from said transmitting means; analyzing means for analyzing the preferences of the user of the receiving apparatus, wherein said controlling means controls the resolutions of the data corresponding to the analyzed result of said analyzing means; and wherein said controlling means contains a considered point of the data that is output to the receiving apparatus, and wherein said analyzing means analyzes the preferences of the user corresponding to the considered point; said analyzing means including categorizing means for categorizing the data corresponding to a considered area that contains said considered point; wherein said analyzing means analyzes the preference of the user corresponding to the analyzed result of said categorizing means; and wherein said data is picture data, and said analyzing means further includes: still area and moving area determining means for determining whether the considered area of the picture data is a still area or a moving area; and continuity determining means for determining whether the considered point is continuous in the temporal and spatial directions of the considered point, and wherein said categorizing means categorizes the picture data corresponding to the determined results of the still area and moving area determining means and said continuity means.