Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation of America

Sony Electronics Inc

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Hideaki Nishino

Hiroki Kato

Tohru Kurata

Shin Yanai

Masayuki Ebisawa

Tatsuya Koeda

Masayuki Chatani

Tetsuya Kohno

Junichi Nagahara

Ryutaro Sakai

Tadashi Adachihara

There is provided a client device including a storage section which stores content data, a control section which acquires content identification information for identifying the content data stored in the storage section, and a transmission section which transmits, to a server device, a registration request including user identification information for identifying a user who uses the client device and the content identification information acquired by the control section, and which, when the server device holds the content data identified by the content identification information, causes the server device to hold information obtained by associating the user identification information with the content identification information as user-specific registration information.

Client device, information processing method, and information processing system

An advertisement inserted in contents of, for example, a game does not serve its purpose after a while. An advertisement-information reception unit () receives an advertisement-space definition file (). The advertisement-space definition file () is a file that defines an advertisement space for an advertisement to be inserted when contents are displayed and an advertising agency is assigned to the advertisement space. An assignment changing unit () cancels the assignment of an advertising agency, whose license has expired, to the advertisement space even when the advertising agency is assigned to the advertising space in the advertisement-space definition file (). An advertisement downloading unit () downloads advertisement data to be inserted in the advertisement space from the server of the advertising agency validly assigned to the advertisement space. A rendering engine () inserts, when displaying the contents on a screen, the downloaded advertisement in the advertisement space and displays accordingly.

Content display processing apparatus and method of displaying advertisement in contents

Provided is a method capable of suppressing generation of data that needs to undergo a complicated copyright process for redistribution thereof. The method includes: executing a program and outputting and displaying a screen generated by the program; reproducing and outputting user-acquired audio acquired arbitrarily by a user; recording the screen output during a specified period along with the user-acquired audio, as video data; and restricting recording of the video data while the user-acquired audio is being output.

Screen recording device, screen recording method, and information storage medium

This invention is relative with a text displaying terminal unit used for preparation, transmission/reception and display of a text message. A text message entered by a user is collated to a keyword and, if there is a keyword in the text, displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image are added to the text to send the resulting text added by the displaying attributes to a server (). Alternatively, the server may collate the text to the keyword to add the displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image to the text. A receiving side terminal unit receives an XML document (), added by the displaying attributes, from the server to display the XML document added by the displaying attributes as a motion text message. This motion text message may also be provided by the server to the user as the Web information.

Text display terminal device and server

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Hideaki Nishino