Apparatus and method for rendering digital content

• US 7,490,068 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2005
• Issued: 02/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Akiyama, Koichiro, Ito, Satoshi, Aisu, Hideyuki, Hamada, Shinichiro, Kamibayashi, Tooru
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca; Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US11/076,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20060095974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,433 Days
• Field of Search: 705/59, 705/57, 705/58
• US Class Current: 705/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1073 Conversion

Abstract

An apparatus for rendering a digital content having license information defining specifics of permission of a rendering operation includes a license processor that acquires, from the license information of the digital content, a constraint defining conditions for rendering between the digital content and other digital content; an operation execution command generator that generates an operation execution command for rendering the digital content according to the constraint acquired by the license processor; and a content renderer that renders the digital content based on the operation execution command generated by the operation execution command generator.

Claims

1. An apparatus for rendering a digital content having license information, comprising:

a license processor that acquires a constraint from the license information defining specifics of permission of a rendering operation of the digital content, the constraint defining conditions between rendering of the digital content designated for rendering and rendering of a constraint content other than the digital content designated for rendering;

an operation execution command generator that generates an operation execution command for rendering the digital content designated for rendering and the constraint content according to the constraint acquired by the license processor; and

a content renderer that renders the digital content designated for rendering and the constraint content based on the operation execution command generated by the operation execution command generator, wherein

the license processor acquires, as a complementary constraint, a spatial constraint indicating a positional relationship on a rendering screen between the digital content and the constraint content, and

the operation execution command generator generates an operation execution command for arranging the digital content and the constraint content according to the positional relationship on the rendering screen defined in the spatial constraint acquired by the license processor.

2. A computer program product having a computer readable medium including programmed instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform:

acquiring a constraint from license information of a digital content, the constraint defining conditions between rendering of the digital content designated for rendering and rendering of a constraint content other than the digital content designated for rendering, the license information defining specifics of permission of a rendering operation;

generating an operation execution command for rendering the digital content designated for rendering and the constraint content according to the constraint; and

rendering the digital content designated for rendering and the constraint content based on the operation execution command, wherein

the acquiring includes acquiring, as a complementary constraint, a spatial constraint indicating a positional relationship on a rendering screen between the digital content and the constraint content, and

the generating includes generating an operation execution command for arranging the digital content and the constraint content according to the positional relationship on the rendering screen defined in the spatial constraint.