Patent ID: 7356509
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit configured to read from a recording medium degraded data and first improvement information used for improving the quality of the degraded data; an improvement-information requesting unit configured to request a second improvement information used for improving the quality of the degraded data; a quality improving unit configured to improve the quality of the degraded data according to at least both the first improvement information and the second improvement information and produce high quality data; an improvement-information-request-signal receiving unit configured to receive an improvement-information request signal indicating that another information processing apparatus requests the improvement information; and an improvement-information sending unit configured to send the improvement information to the another information processing apparatus according to the improvement-information request signal received by the improvement-information-request-signal receiving unit, wherein information amount of the high quality data is greater than information amount of the degraded data.