Sony Corporation

Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.

Sony Disc & Digital Solution Inc.

Akiko Inoue

Yoichiro Sako

Motoyuki Takai

Yasushi Miyajima

Toshiro Terauchi

Katsuya Shirai

Kenichi Makino

Makoto Inoue

Shunsuke Furukawa

Kaoru Kijima

Yoriaki Kanada

Koichi Nakajima

Etsuo Shibasaki

Masayoshi Miura

Masamichi Asukai

Akiya Saito

Susumu Yabe

Yoichiro; Sako

An information transmission method capable of reproducing the atmosphere of a concert hall or a live performance hall, wherein bio-information of a speaker, player, actor or conductor, who serves as a source of speech, sounds or music and/or bio-information of a performer included within an image are multiplexed with respect to information of speech or music and/or information of the image for transmission thereof. At the receiving side, sense stimulation based on the bio-information is provided to the viewer, or information of speech or music and/or information of the image are controlled on the basis of the bio-information to thereby reproduce presence or live appeal.

Information transmission method and device, information recording or reproduction method and device, and recording medium

Unique identification information is prerecorded on a disc. The identification information is registered to a server along with user's license when he or she buys the disc. When an terminal unit reproduces data from the disc, identification information is read and transmitted to the server through the Internet. The server creates a key that controls to reproduce data from the disc in accordance with the license identified by the identification information and transmits the key to the terminal unit along with the user's license information for the disc. The terminal unit controls to reproduce contents of the disc in accordance with key and license information transmitted from the server. The license for each disc is managed in accordance with the identification information. Thus, different services can be provided for individual discs.

Information service method, information service unit, recording or reproducing controlling method, and recording and/or reproducing unit

An apparatus and method to group users based on bio-information of the users. A two-dimensional bio-information space is generated from first and second dimensions which represent, respectively, first and second characteristics of the bio-information of the users. The users are arranged in the bio-information space based on the bio-information, and users are grouped based on the arrangement of the users in the bio-information space. Continuously acquired bio-information is used to re-group users.

Apparatus and method for classifying groups of users

Information transmission method, information transmission apparatus, information recording or reproducing method, information recording or reproducing apparatus and recording medium

Location information obtained from a positioning systemand environmental information such as time, temperature, air pressure and the like measured by an environmental information sensorare associated with the reproduction history of music and are recorded in a history storage RAM, and music reproduced in the past at the same location as the present location is automatically selected and the music suitable for the location is automatically selected and reproduced based on the location information.

Reproducer and method for controlling reproduction

By providing bio-information and/or environment information between a pair of users, it becomes possible for the users to understand the situation or the feeling of each other more deeply and earlier. A communication system for exchanging the situations and the feelings of both users is provided without performing optional communication operations, such as a telephone call and an e-mail. The condition or the situation on the transmitter side is to be judged and to be notified to the receiver side by inputting bio-information such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour, ambient temperature, or alternatively, by comparing, synchronizing and/or relating the bio-information and/or the environment information at present with respect to the bio-information and/or the environment information in the past. With respect to the situation of the receiver side, it is also notified similarly to the transmitter side.

Communication apparatus and communication method

There is provided a mobile phone that detects bio-information on the user and makes information communications reflecting the detected bio-information. The mobile phone () includes sensors () that detect bio-information data. The bio-information data detected by the sensors () are sent to a sensor data analyzer () in which psychology corresponding to the detected bio-information data is analyzed based on bio-information data stored in a psychology memory () and psychology of the user. The sensor data analyzer () extracts characteristic signal patterns from the bio-information data detected by the sensors () and analyzes psychology corresponding to the extracted signal patterns. The psychology includes, for example, 'pleased and delightful', 'discouraged', &#x201c;excited&#x201d;, etc. and these states of mind are stored in association with bio-information data in the psychology memory (). When the bio-information data are detected by the sensors (), psychology most matching the bio-information data is selectively read out of the psychology memory ().

Information processing terminal and communication system

In an image display system that displays the condition of a person under measurement in a visible form, the person carries a PDA (). The PDA () includes a bio-sensor () to detect bio-information on the person and an environmental information sensor () to acquire information on the environment around the person. The PDA () sends the acquired information to an image display device () which is connected to the PDA () via a network (). The image display device () includes a CPU () that judges the condition of the person on the basis of bio-information and environmental information, generates an image representing the condition of the person and displays the image on a display unit ().

Image display system, image display device, image display method

The present invention is directed to a game apparatus adapted for executing game performed by plural teams, and is adapted to acquire bio-information of players of the game by biosensors (), (), . . . () to allow bio-information to be associated with players of the game. In a control unit (), bio-information caused to be associated with respective players are analyzed to judge, by the analysis result thus obtained, teams to which respective players belong. The judged team classification result is notified to the players to thereby eliminate troublesomeness of operation such as team designation by players, thus permitting the players to sufficiently enjoy amusement of the fighting game.

Game machine and method for grouping players into teams participating matchup game

A recording medium including at least a lead-in region, a recording region in which information is recorded, and a lead-out region. In this configuration, medium information including medium identification information and relevant information is recorded in at least any one of the lead-in region, the recording region, and the lead-out region.

Recording medium, recording method, information transmission method, terminal device, and server device

A recording medium is applicable to information service system for receiving and transmitting information when a terminal device on the user's side accesses an administrative server, which is a server device, using a communication line such as the Internet. This recording medium () comprises a lead-in region (), a data recording region () positioned on an outer region than the lead-in region, and a lead-out region () positioned on an outer region than the data-recording region. In at least any one of these regions (), (), and (), multiple pieces of identification information are recorded.

Recording medium, recording method, recording device, reproduction device, data transmission method, and server device

Recording medium, recording method, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, data transmission method, and server device

First, an ID added disc is loaded. A disc ID is read from the disc at step S. The disc ID matches a hardware ID of hardware that can use software recorded on the disc. If the disc ID has not been read from the disc, an error process is performed. At step S, a hardware ID of hardware connected to a personal computer is obtained. At step S, it is determined whether or not both the IDs match. When the determined result represents that they match, at step S, an application starts. When the determined result at step Srepresents that they do not match, at step S, an error message is displayed on a display of the personal computer.

Data recording medium, program starting method, and program

On a CD-R, a UID that is unique identification information is pre-recorded. When the CD-R is loaded into an information terminal unit, the UID is read and transmitted to a management server through the Internet. The management server determines whether predetermined data can be recorded onto the CD-R in accordance with the received UID. For example, when the UID is valid, contents data is downloaded from the management server to the information terminal unit and recorded onto the CD-R. In addition, for example, when the UID is valid, a notification that represents that contents data is permitted to be copied or moved is transmitted from the management server to the information terminal unit. As a result, contents data recorded on another recording medium can be copied or moved to the CD-R.

Data recording medium, data recording method, data processing device, data distribution method, data distribution device, data transmission method, data transmission device, data distribution system, and data communication system

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Akiko Inoue