Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Fumikazu Hatanaka

Toshiyuki Kaimi

Mayuko Sato

Shigeru Enomoto

Hiroaki Yamaguchi

Nobuki Furue

Ayako Iwase

Ryo Takaoka

Yoshihiko Suwa

Kenjiro Komaki

Syunsuke Bamba

Makoto Oshita

Kei Sato

Itsuki Asanuma

Chiho Tsuchiya

Seiichi Adachi

Marc Horne

Hidekazu Ii

There is provided an information processing device including a holding unit configured to hold setting information regarding parental control for each user in association with user identification information, and a limit processing unit configured to limit usage of a predetermined function or device by the user on a basis of the setting information held by the holding unit.

Information processing device, server device, parental control method, profile information management method

There is provided an image pickup apparatus including: a main body provided with an image pickup section; a viewfinder capable of performing state transition between a housed state in which the viewfinder is housed in the main body and a usage state in which the viewfinder projects from the main body; a first detection section configured to detect use of the viewfinder unit by a user; and a control section configured to turn on or turn off the first detection section based on the state transition.

State transitions of viewfinder in image pickup apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes: a main body provided with an imaging section; a viewfinder that makes a state transition between a housed state in which the viewfinder is housed in the main body and a usage state in which the viewfinder is projected from the main body; and a control section that turns on or turns off power in response to the state transition.

Imaging apparatus

There is provided an imaging unit, including: a body; a display section provided on the body and pivotable on an axis on the body between a first state in which a display surface is oriented backward of the body and a second state in which the display surface is oriented forward of the body; and a display control section configured, when the display section is in the second state, to cause the display section to display a levelness indicator that indicates an inclination of the body, and to cause the display section to display predetermined shooting information inversely in top-bottom and left-right directions with respect to display directions of the predetermined shooting information on the display section in the first state.

Imaging unit to control display state of shooting information

There is provided an image pickup apparatus including: a main body provided with an image pickup section; a viewfinder having a main body part and a movable part, the viewfinder being capable of performing state transition in which the movable part moves in a first direction with respect to the main body part, to reach a usage state; and a control section configured to perform processing based on the state transition.

Image pickup apparatus to perform a process based on state transition of viewfinder

An image pickup apparatus of the disclosure includes a body, a display section, and a display controller. The display section is pivotable on the body between a first state in which a display surface is oriented to rear surface side of the body and a second state in which the display surface is oriented to front surface side of the body. The display controller varies an arrangement state of a predetermined icon depending on orientation of the body, when the display section is in the second state. The predetermined icon is displayed on the display section.

Image pickup apparatus

An image capturing device includes an assistant image synthesizing unit that changes a degree of transparency of a first assistant image in a transparent background area set in a second assistance image, when generating a synthesized assistant image by synthesizing the first and second assistant images providing assistance information for capturing, and a display control unit that overlaps the synthesized assistant image with a captured image and displays the image on a display unit.

Image capturing device and associated methodology for displaying a synthesized assistant image

A imaging control device includes a scene recognition section which recognizes scenes showing a subject by analyzing obtained image data, a display section which displays the obtained image data, an imaging mode selection section which prepares a plurality of imaging modes where a parameter which adjusts image characteristics according to each scene is set in advance and which automatically selects an imaging mode corresponding to the recognized scene from a plurality of imaging modes, a first operation section which generates a first operation signal which locks the imaging mode at a current imaging mode during the operation of automatically selecting the imaging mode, and a second operation section which generates a second operation signal which adjusts a portion of the parameter in a state where the imaging mode is locked, where an adjustment range using the second operation section is within a range limited by the locked imaging mode.

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Tokyo, Japan

Fumikazu Hatanaka