Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Atsushi Izumihara

Kazuyuki Yamamoto

Yusuke Sakai

Tetsuo Ikeda

Tomohiro Ishii

Daisuke Miki

Tsubasa Tsukahara

Yasushi Okumura

Takuo Ikeda

Yasuyuki Koga

Kentaro Kimura

Masayuki Yamada

Fuminori Homma

Ken Miyashita

Takayuki Sakamoto

Shoichiro Moriya

Akemi Tazaki

Osamu Shigeta

Yoshihito Ohki

Yuuji Takimoto

Maki Imoto

Koji Ihara

Shigeru Kawada

Masanari Koyama

Yohei Fukuma

Hiroaki Yokoyama

Yuki Endo

Katsuya Hyodo

Takashi Shibuya

Arinobu Ueda

Masafumi Takahashi

Tomotsugu Minamikawa

Kyouhei Suzuki

Naoki Uchida

Koichi Ogasawara

Ryusei Koike

Koji Furusawa

Fumihito Yoshikawa

Hirofumi Higuchi

Yuzuru Kimura

There is provided a mobile device that operates in order to image a subject, the mobile device including an imaging unit, a sensor that recognizes a surrounding environment, and a light emitting unit disposed on a housing in a ring shape or on the entire surface of the housing. The operation of the mobile device includes imaging, based on a set photographing plan, with the imaging unit, the subject recognized by the sensor as the mobile device moves. The light emitting unit performs a light emission expression corresponding to at least one of the photographing plan and the operation of the mobile device.

Mobile device, imaging system, and method of controlling mobile device

There is provided an information processing device that includes a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination, a generation unit configured to generate spatial image information placed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space by using captured images of a plurality of the communication destinations, and a display control unit configured to perform control so as to display the generated spatial image information on a display unit.

Information processing device and information processing method for communication using three-dimensional space

There is provided an information processing device including a movement information acquisition part acquiring information which is based on movement of an operation device, and a control information generation part generating, based on the information, control information for changing a display status continuously in a non-linear manner according to the movement.

Information processing device, information processing method and program

There is provided a display control device, display control method, and program capable of executing control such that information can be displayed more appropriately and efficiently according to an environment in which information is displayed or a situation of displayed information, the display control device including: a display control unit configured to decide a display region of a display object to be displayed on a display surface according to information regarding a real object on the display surface.

Display control device, display control method, and program

There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method capable of giving a sense of realism as if a partner connected in video communication is present in one's sight. The information processing device including a communication unit configured to transmit and receive an image to and from a communication connection destination. Further, a control unit is configured to control a display range and a position of the image, on the basis of a display size and installation position information of a display device that displays the image and distance information of a subject appearing in the image that is acquired from the image.

Information processing device and information processing method

Provided is an information processing system including an output control unit that controls a display output unit in a manner that a display object indicating a sequential passage of time is displayed. The display object indicates a playback position of content, the display object including a plurality of areas corresponding to a plurality of pieces of the content. The present technology enables a user to intuitively perceive the relationship between the plurality of pieces of content and the piece of content that is currently being played back.

Image processing system and image processing method for playback of content

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of looking back on the past two-way communication while maintaining connection between spaces in real time. The information processing apparatus controls two-way communication between a first space and a second space, and includes: a control unit that performs control to display first image information and second image information in the first space and performs control to display third image information and fourth image information in the second space, in which the first image information is current image information regarding the second space, the second image information is past image information regarding the second space, the third image information is current image information regarding the first space, and the fourth image information is past image information regarding the first space in the same time zone as that of the second image information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of aurally producing distance in a virtual three-dimensional space by using the space for a connection to a communication partner, and realizing more comfortable communication. An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; and a reproduction control unit configured to perform control such that sound data of a space of the communication destination is reproduced from a sound output unit in a space of a communication source with an output value in accordance with separation distance between the communication destination and the communication source disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, the output value being different for each sound source type.

[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of producing the distance to a communication partner by using a three-dimensional expression to connect spaces, and realizing more comfortable communication. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; a generation unit configured to generate space image information in which an image corresponding to a space of the communication destination is disposed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that the generated space image information is displayed on a display unit in a communication source.

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to provide a user interface to a user, determine whether a predetermined object is present in an input recognition area of a sensor, and determine a region of interest within the user interface. The circuitry is further configured to determine, while the predetermined object is determined to be present in the input recognition area, whether the region of interest within the user interface changes. The circuitry is further configured to perform an operation based on whether the region of interest is determined, while the predetermined object is determined to be present in the input recognition area, to change.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a video communication partner from a communication destination apparatus and a control section that controls a display of the received captured image on a display section. The control section executes image processing to display the captured image such that a line of sight of a communication partner appearing in the captured image appears to point towards a user looking at the display section, on a basis of information indicating that the communication partner appearing in the captured image is looking at the user being displayed on the communication destination apparatus.

There is provided an information processing device including a reception unit that receives data from a communication destination, a generation unit that generates spatial image information placed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space by using captured images of a plurality of the communication destinations, and a display control unit that performs control so as to display the generated spatial image information on a display unit.

There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to perform determination of execution or non-execution of a manipulation based on a pause of a manipulation position specified through a manipulation of pointing to a display plane using a manipulating body at a position apart from the display plane, and a control unit configured to issue a command corresponding to the manipulation when the determination unit determines execution of the manipulation.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Provided is an information processing device to enable a user and an outside person to communicate smoothly, the information processing device including: a necessity degree determination unit configured to determine, based on outside information indicating a situation external to a user, a degree of necessity that the user be notified of the outside information; and a notification state control unit configured to switch a notification state of the outside information with respect to the user based on the determined degree of necessity.

Information processing device, notification state control method, and program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an action recognition unit that recognizes an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user, an image processing unit that performs a process regarding an amount of information on an image photographed by a photographing unit based on an action state of the user recognized by the action recognition unit during photographing by the photographing unit carried by the user, and a transmission control unit that causes the image processed by the image processing unit to be transmitted to an image processing device used to perform image recognition.

Image processing apparatus and information processing method for reducing a captured image based on an action state, transmitting the image depending on blur, and displaying related information

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Kanagawa, Japan

Atsushi Izumihara