Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony France S.a.

Chisato Numaoka

Masayuki Chatani

Go Igarashi

Haruo Oba

Junya Suzuki

Shigeru Tajima

Keiichi Totsuka

Motoyuki Koike

Etsuro Sakamoto

Takeru Kojima

Junichi Rekimoto

Kohei Asada

Masahiro Fujita

Ken Kutaragi

Naoki Shinmen

Kazunobu Ookuri

Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Nubuyuki Matsushita

There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a preprocessing unit that determines whether or not to permit provision of a service based on emotion recognition on the basis of a predetermined criterion, an emotion estimation processing unit that performs the emotion recognition for a user by using an artificial intelligence function, and a service providing processing unit that provides a service based on an emotion recognition result by the emotion estimation processing unit, in which, when the preprocessing unit determines to permit the provision of the service, the emotion estimation processing unit performs the emotion recognition or the service providing processing unit provides the service.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and artificial intelligence model manufacturing method

Provided is an acoustic reproduction system capable of setting a sound image localization service area at an arbitrary position even in a case where a sound production direction of a directional sound cannot be changed. An acoustic reproduction system according to the present technology includes a sound producing device that emits a directional sound and a sound reflector positioned between a viewer and a viewing target by the viewer and having a sound reflecting surface that reflects the directional sound emitted by the sound producing device.

Acoustic reproduction system, display device, and calibration method

Provided is an information processing device that controls and presents sound information in an appropriate form to a user who acts in an environment on the basis of situation recognition including recognition of the environment and recognition of the actions of the user. The information processing device includes: a sensor that detects an object; an open ear style earpiece that is worn on an ear of a listener, and includes an acoustics generation unit, and a sound guide portion that transmits a sound generated by the acoustics generation unit into an earhole; and a processing unit that processes sound information of a sound source, the sound information being generated by the acoustics generation unit, the processing unit acquiring the sound information of the sound source corresponding to the object detected by the sensor, and a process of localizing a sound image of the acquired sound source while varying a position of the sound image in accordance with a position in a three-dimensional acoustic space, the position in the three-dimensional acoustic space corresponding to a position of the detected object.

Information processing device and information processing method

An RFID aggregate storage stores a radio-frequency ID aggregate structure. The RFID aggregate structure is an aggregated data structure of a plurality of RFIDs, in which each RFID is associated with a location and time read out from a RFID tag, and RFID related information, hierarchically constructed by classifying RFIDs based on the readout location and further by classifying them based on the readout time. A proximity evaluator evaluates the proximity between the first user's RF ID aggregate and the second user's RFID aggregate. A user classifier classifies the first user and the second user in one group when the proximity is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.

User grouping apparatus and methods based on collected wireless IDs in association with location and time

A computer including at least two processors is used to preferably perform a secure data communication. Data containing a processor ID identifying one of the at least two processors provided for a first computer (computer) is transmitted from the first computer to a second computer (a node at the other party) (S, S). The second computer returns data containing the processor ID contained in the data transmitted in Sand Sand a public key certificate relating to the second computer. The first computer receives the data returned from the second computer, acquires, from the received data, the processor ID contained therein, and causes a processor (SPE), which is identified by the processor ID, to process the received data. At this moment, the processing of the data is restricted according to a content of the public key certificate contained in the received data.

Data communication method, computer and information storing medium

An advertisement space auction apparatus enabling for a more strategic and open auction transaction to be realized is provided. The advertisement space auction apparatus using a network, comprising a memory storing advertisement space information and being accessible by a plurality of entities connected to the network, a bid data communication unit receiving a bid data submitted via the network from at least one of the plurality of entities, the bid data corresponding to the advertisement space information stored in the memory; and a winning bidder determination unit determining a winning bidder of an advertisement space designated by the advertisement space information, on the basis of the bid data received by the bid data communication unit.

Advertisement space auction method, apparatus and storage medium

An advertisement space auction apparatus enabling a more strategic and open auction transaction to be realized using a network, including a memory storing advertisement space information and being accessible by a plurality of entities connected to the network, a bid data communication unit receiving bid data submitted via the network from at least one of the plurality of entities, the bid data corresponding to the advertisement space information stored in the memory; and a winning bidder determination unit for determining a winning bidder of an advertisement space designated by the advertisement space information, on the basis of the bid data received by the bid data communication unit.

In distributed processing on a network, improvement of resource management and high efficiency of task scheduling are becoming the goals that need to be achieved. In a multiprocessor computer, a sub-processor included in a multiprocessor brings a resource manager into operation, while the resource manager being loaded in local memory, which receives resource information that can be provided from a computer on a network via a network and manages the resource information, and processes provision of the resource being managed when a request for use of the resource is received. Other sub-processors bring a resource scheduler into operation, while the resource scheduler being loaded in the local memory, which receives a request for use of a resource from a computer on a network and manages the request for use of a resource, and allocates a resource provided by the resource manager as a mediator in response to the request for use of the resource.

Multiprocessor computer and network computing system processing use and provision of hardware resource via a network

User grouping apparatus and user grouping method

The RFID reader reads out an RFID stored in an RFID tag in the vicinity through wireless communication. The clock acquires an RFID readout time. The location sensor acquires an RFID readout location. The memory stores the RFID in association with the readout time and the readout location. The communication I/F acquires RFID-related information from a server asynchronously with readout of the RFID. The processor generates in the memory an RFID aggregate structure, which is a data structure of RFID aggregates constructed by classifying a plurality of RFIDs stored in the memory based on the readout time and the readout location and in which RFID-related information is stored in association with the constructed RFIDs.

Wireless ID management apparatus, wireless ID management method, and wireless ID recorder

A system for executing personal authentication processing by communication through a human body, in which authentication corresponding to a service to be furnished can be executed efficiently. The authentication processing between a portable equipment worn by a user and a service furnishing terminal is executed by a human body touching a contact point of the service furnishing terminal. The processing occurs with a real physical feeling of user contact. A user-native identifier and a user-variable identifier generated from user to user depending on the service presented by a service terminal are stored in a user equipment. Responsive to the service identifier transmitted from the service terminal, service-native user identification data, derived at least from the user variable identifier, is generated in the portable equipment and forwarded to the service terminal. A variety of user management operations, such as user-based assessment operations, depending on service contents, are carried out.

Authentication information communication system and method, portable information processing device and program furnishing medium

A portable audio listening apparatus includes, for example, a portable audio playback apparatus serving as a portable transmission apparatus and a headphone serving as a portable receiving apparatus. The portable audio playback apparatus has an electrode at its side. The headphone includes an ear pad made from an electrically conductive material and an electric-circuit unit. The ear pad serves as an electrode and is connected to the electric-circuit unit by wiring. The electric-circuit unit includes a signal processing circuit and a battery. When the user wears the portable audio playback apparatus and the headphone, a transmission path is formed through the body of the user. A signal reproduced by the portable audio playback apparatus is sent through the body of the user and the ear pad to the electric-circuit unit of the headphone.

Portable audio listening apparatus

An image processing apparatus and method and a provision medium arranged to perform image learning and image recognition in a short time. An image difference detector computes a differential image between an image stored in a frame buffer and an image stored in another frame buffer, and also computes the centroid of the differential image. A information collector forms RGB histogram data and binary data of a peripheral area about the centroid obtained by the image difference detector. A category former formed by a Kohonen network forms a category based on the RGB histogram data and binary data. A category statistic processor performs statistical processing of the categories output from the category former, and outputs a processing result to a learner formed by a recurrent neural network.

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