Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Eric Yam

Seungwook Hong

Sriram Sampathkumaran

Helmut Neumann

Tanmay Agnihotri

Yang Yu

A computer includes at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor. The medium bears instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive at least one image of at least one viewer of a display on which content is presented. The instructions also cause the processor to generate a signal representative of at least one expression of the viewer made at or around the time the content was presented based on the image of the viewer, and also to receive metadata identifying the content. The instructions then cause the processor to associate the metadata identifying the content with the at least one expression of the viewer.

System and method for correlating audio and/or images presented to a user with facial characteristics and expressions of the user

A user can define a gesture-based input mode with respective input value to establish an authentication protocol to unlock a computer or govern other computer behavior. As an alternative or in addition, the user can define a second input mode based on face recognition plus IR sensing satisfying a threshold to ensure a live person is being imaged for authentication, and/or face recognition plus a particular facial expression such as a smile and wink.

Gesture- and expression-based authentication

An apparatus and method are provided for a client application to provide a video stream as well as data regarding the video stream to an output device, where the data is generated from a process performed at a layer lower than the client application layer. By this, multiple client applications can simultaneously utilize the data generated by the lower-level process while at least one client application can effect streaming of the video stream to an output device.

Method and apparatus for video streaming

A wireless intelligent switch engine (WISE) is described. The wireless intelligent switch engine provides for automatic switching between different physical wireless interfaces in mobile devices while roaming to maintain a wireless network connection. WISE functions as a bridge between a mobile device and multiple wireless network interfaces to provide automatic and seamless switching among networks while roaming. The mobile device sees WISE as a LAN interface and communicates with WISE using the TCP/IP protocol stack, thus providing a PPP-less configuration that uses the TCP/IP protocol stack regardless of the wireless interface.

Wireless intelligent switch engine

A 3D video conferencing system includes two cameras at each of two video conferencing locations. Images from the two cameras are exchanged between the locations and are combined at the receiving location in accordance with the angle at which the viewer at the receiving location is viewing an otherwise 2D display to give the illusion of depth perception.

Establishing 3D video conference presentation on 2D display

Embodiments of the present disclosure generally include a method and apparatus for minimizing acoustic echo in video conference. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for minimizing acoustic echo in video conferencing comprises determining position information wherein the position information is derivable from a video stream and processing the position information using a computer to identify at least one direction wherein the one direction minimizes acoustic echo.

Method and apparatus for minimizing acoustic echo in video conferencing

A Common Wireless Communications Protocol (CWCP) below the TCP/IP layer is a part of OSI layer(SNDCF-Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions). CWCP serves as a common Application Program Interface (API) to the upper application layers. CWCP supports different call processing standards (GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000) and provides seamless Web or e-mail interfaces using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) or Transport Layer Interface (TLI) by the CWCP interfacing with the different physical layer (3G) standards. CWCP provides interoperability between the different physical standards and provides a plug-and-play environment for different wireless devices and applications. CWCP provides interoperability at the systems level via interoperable software through the IP software layer.

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Eric Yam