US 7,551,301 B2
Receiving apparatus, print system, and mobile telephone
Takehito Yamaguchi, Hirakata (Japan); and Shigeki Matsunaga, Kadoma (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/502,743
PCT Filed Jan. 20, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/00400
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jul. 28, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/071795, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 28, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-048862 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0151881 A1, Jul. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.15  [358/296; 725/133; 725/141; 725/153; 348/473; 348/552; 348/553; 348/14.01; 348/14.02; 455/557] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A receiving apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit operable to receive data distributed via a transmission line;
a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;
a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture identified in the print instruction, as a picture to be printed, the picture to be printed being specified from among the data received by the receiving unit, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, and (iii) specify first additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified first additional information, the first additional information being specified in association with the specified picture to be printed only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high; and
an output unit operable to output the specified picture to be printed and the specified first additional information associated therewith as print data to be printed on a single print paper.