Data file processing apparatus, remote control apparatus for data file processing apparatus and control method for data file processing apparatus

• US 7,457,966 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2003
• Issued: 11/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dental Ventures of America, Inc., Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shinada, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Moazzami; Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): YALEW, FIKREMARIAM A
• Application Number:
  US10/376,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20030177369A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,094 Days
• Field of Search: 713/185, 713/167
• US Class Current: 713/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself

Abstract

A data file processing apparatus and a remote control apparatus and a control method for a data file processing apparatus are disclosed wherein a user can simply and easily find out a data file or the like recorded by the user itself from among a large number of data files recorded on a recording medium. In the data file processing apparatus, a user who operates a remote control apparatus is identified and an identification code is set based on a result of the identification, and a file is recorded together with the identification code.

Claims

1. A data file processing apparatus, comprising:

accepting means for accepting an instruction to record the data file issued from a user through a terminal apparatus;

content acquiring means for acquiring content to be recorded as the data file;

user identification means for identifying the user who issued the instruction to record the data file;

file recording means for setting, based on a result of the identification by said user identification means, an identification code for identifying the user who issued the instruction to record the data file and recording the data file resulting from the instruction from the user to record a data file in correspondence with the identification code which corresponds to the user who issued the instruction to record the data file on a randomly accessible recording medium,

wherein said user identification means includes;

information acquisition means for acquiring information representative of a physical characteristic of the user through the terminal apparatus, the information acquired by said information acquisition means being distinct from the content acquired by the content acquiring means; and

user authentication means for specifying the user based on the information acquired by said information acquisition means.

2. A data file processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is image information of part of the body of the user, and said user authentication means specifies the user based on a result of analysis of the image information.

3. A data file processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is voice information of the user, and said user authentication means for discriminating a voice print of the user based on the voice information to specify the user.

4. The data file processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data file resulting from the instruction is able to be stored in correspondence with only a single identification code corresponding to a single user.

5. A data file processing system comprising:

a remote control apparatus comprising;

user identification means for acquiring information regarding a user who issued an instruction to record a data file and for identifying the user based on the information, and transmission means for transmitting an identification code for identifying the user who issued the instruction to record the data file based on a result of the identification by said user identification means to said data file processing apparatus;

a data file processing apparatus comprising;

accepting means for accepting the instruction to record the data file issued from the user through the remote control apparatus a, content acquiring means for acquiring content to be recorded as data file, the content acquired by the content acquiring means being distinct from the information acquired by the user identification means, and file recording means for setting, based on a result of the identification by said user identification means, an identification code for identifying the user who issued the instruction to record the data file and recording the data file resulting from the instruction from the user to record a data file in correspondence with the identification code with correspond to the user who issued the instruction to record the data file on a randomly accessible recording medium, wherein said user identification means includes;

information acquisition means for acquiring information representative of a physical characteristic of the user, and user authentication means for specifying the user based on the information acquired by said information acquisition means.

6. The data file processing system according to claim 5, wherein said the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is image information of part of the body of the user, and said user authentication means specified the user based on a result of analysis of image information.

7. The data file processing system according to claim 5, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is voice information of the user, and said user authentication means discriminate a voice print of the user based on the voice information to specify the user.

8. A control method for data file processing apparatus, comprising:

receiving an instruction from a user through a terminal apparatus to record the data file;

acquiring content to be recorded as the data file;

acquiring information representative of a physical characteristic of the user through the terminal apparatus, the information being distinct from the acquired content;

specifying the user based on the information acquired by the information acquisition;

identifying the user who issued the instruction based on the acquiring and the specifying; and

setting, based on a result of the identification by the user identification step, an identification code for identifying the user and recoding the data file resulting from the instruction from the user to record the data file in correspondence with the identification code which corresponds to the user who issued the instruction to record the data file on a randomly accessible recording medium, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is image information of part of the body of the user, and the user authentication step specifies the user based on a result of analysis of the image information.

9. The control method for a data file processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is voice information of the user, and the user authentication step discriminates a voice print of the user based on the voice information to specify the user.

10. A remote control method for a data file processing apparatus, comprising:

receiving an instruction from a user through a terminal apparatus to record the data file;

acquiring content to be recorded as the data file;

acquiring information regarding the user who issued the instruction to record the data file;

an information acquisition step of acquiring information representative of a physical characteristic of the user;

a user authentication step of specifying the user based on the information acquired by the information acquisition step;

identifying the user who issued the instruction using the acquired information, the acquired information being distinct from the acquired content;

setting, based on a result of the identification by the user identification step, an identification code for identifying the user and recording by a remote control signal the data file resulting from the instruction from the user to record the data file in correspondence with the identification code which corresponds to the user who issued the instruction to record the data file on a randomly accessible recoding medium; and

transmitting the identification code for identifying the user to said data file processing apparatus based on a result of the identification.

11. The remote control method for a data file processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is image information of part of the body of the user, and the user authentication step specifies the user based on a result of analysis of the image information.

12. The remote control method for the data file processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the information representative of a physical characteristic of the user is voice information of the user, and the user authentication step discriminates a voice print of the user based on the voice information to specify the user.