Sony Corporation

Wi-fi One, LLC

Sony Group Corporation

Hideki Iwami

Tomoya Yamaura

Osamu Yoshimura

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Sho Amano

Katsutoshi Itoh

Kenzo Nishikawa

Hideyuki Suzuki

Yoshihiko Ikenaga

Satoshi Futenma

Shigeru Sugaya

Masanori Sato

Hiroaki Takahashi

Eisaburo Itakura

Chihiro Fujita

Natsuki Itaya

Daisuke Kawakami

Yasushi Katayama

Tamotsu Munakata

Satoshi Tsubaki

Tomonari Yamagata

Yasushi Ihara

Kei Kakitani

Yasuhiko Mizoguchi

Jun Iwasaki

Satoshi Konya

Hideaki Murayama

Taketoshi Yamane

Hiroshi Okawa

Provided is an information processing device capable of operating in accessibility mode of guaranteeing browsing corresponding to disability or functional degeneration of a body of an operator. A source device checks whether each sink device is in accessibility mode at the time of connection, and determines whether or not metadata for supporting disability (for example, audios, videos, texts, vibration information, or the like) is added to the sink device in the accessibility mode at the time of transmission of original image/audio data. The source device changes a metadata transmission method in accordance with whether the accessibility mode of each sink device is turned on or off.

Information processing device

To appropriately wirelessly connect information processing devices. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs media transmission to another information processing device. Further, the control unit that performs control to exchange information in a device discovery process or a capability checking process in a case where the media transmission is newly performed to the second information processing device during the media transmission to the first information processing device. This information is used for deciding a communication path for performing the media transmission to a first information processing device and a second information processing device or a data transmission format used when the media transmission is performed.

Information processing device and information processing method

To be able to perform proper scalability transmission rate control. An information processing device receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device by using wireless communication, the information processing device including a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication to exchange capability information regarding the information processing device and capability information regarding the other information processing device with the other information processing device. The control unit performs scalability transmission rate control of the stream related to the other information processing device based on the capability information regarding the other information processing device and a use of the information processing device.

Provided is a mechanism capable of maintaining the security level while simplifying the WPS protocol. A device includes a processing unit that notifies an access point of a message used to instruct the access point to establish a connection for infrastructure communication with another device on condition that a connection for P2P communication with the other device is established, a connection for infrastructure communication with the access point is established or there is a history in which the connection has been established, and a connection for infrastructure communication between the other device and the access point is not established.

Device and method for maintaining a security level

An information processing apparatus is appropriately connected wirelessly. The information processing apparatus has a wireless communication unit and a controller. The wireless communication unit performs data transmission with another information processing apparatus. It is assumed, while data transmission is being performed between the information processing apparatus and a first information processing apparatus which plays the role of a group owner of a network made up of at least the information processing apparatus and the first information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus is to newly perform data transmission with a second information processing apparatus. In such a situation, the controller performs a control process to exchange information to change roles for carrying out each data transmission to the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, and information processing method that change data transmission roles of different devices

To cause image information to be appropriately displayed among a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit is configured to perform real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) Certified Miracast specification. The control unit is configured to perform control in a manner that second image information to be displayed on a non-display region included in first image information transmitted from the other information processing device is acquired, and a combined image in which the first image information is combined with the second image information is displayed on a display unit.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

Provided is an image that is comfortably viewed and operated by a user. An electronic device acquires user information related to a relative position between a user and a display unit. Then, the electronic device transmits the user information to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives the user information related to the relative position of the user and a display unit which is acquired by the electronic device from the electronic device. Further, the control unit performs control to decide a display mode of an image transmitted from a source device on the display unit on the basis of the user information received from the electronic device.

Information processing device, communication system, information processing method

Appropriate control is performed when communication is performed between a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing device performs real-time image transmission with another information processing device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that setting request information for performing a setting related to the real-time image transmission is received from the other information processing device via an access point. The control unit performs control such that a setting request for performing the setting based on the setting request information is transmitted to the other information processing device through direct communication.

To provide an information processing apparatus that receives image data through wireless communication. By newly providing an RTSP parameter having high affinity with Miracast Release1, resources on a wireless section are reduced and the communication sequence in which a user does not feel the waiting time is achieved in the communication sequence in which a medium setting value of a source apparatus is changed in response to a request from a sink apparatus. Further, in a multi-source topology environment in which a plurality of images based on image data transmitted from a plurality of source apparatuses are displayed on a display unit of the sink apparatus, it is possible to present a band control method in which a data transmission rate is assigned as much as possible.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and source apparatus

There is provided a decoding apparatus that includes a wireless communication unit configured to establish a wireless connection with a plurality of encoding apparatuses, a decoding unit configured to decode pieces of content received from the plurality of encoding apparatuses via the wireless communication unit, a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the plurality of pieces of content decoded by the decoding unit, and a control unit configured to control an encoding condition of each of the plurality of encoding apparatuses for content in a manner that a required decoding capability required by a set of the pieces of content to be reproduced by the reproduction unit does not exceed an actual decoding capability of the decoding unit.

Decoding apparatus, decoding method, encoding apparatus, and encoding method

An information processing device receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device by using wireless communication, the information processing device including a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication to exchange capability information regarding the information processing device and capability information regarding the other information processing device with the other information processing device. The control unit performs control in a manner that multi-reception diversity of the stream related to the other information processing device is set based on the capability information regarding the other information processing device and a use of the information processing device.

Information processing device and information processing method to communicate based on capability information

To perform a process related to group formation rapidly. An information processing device includes a wireless communication and a control unit. The wireless communication unit is a wireless communication unit configured to interchange a stream for outputting image information from a first information processing device by using wireless communication, the first information processing device belonging to a first group to which one or more information processing devices including the own device belong. In addition, The control unit is a control unit configured to perform control such that capability information regarding the one or more information processing devices is exchanged with a second information processing device belonging to a second group which is a new group other than the first group when the second group is formed.

An image that can be easily viewable for a user is provided. An information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus including a control unit. The control unit included in this information processing apparatus controls performing displaying an image on the basis of image information transmitted from at least one first information processing apparatus by using radio communication in one area of a display unit for each first information processing apparatus. In addition, the control unit included in this information processing apparatus performs control of performing and determining a display form of the image corresponding to the first information processing apparatus in the display unit on the basis of a positional relation between a user associated with the first information processing apparatus and the display unit.

Information processing apparatus, communication system, and information processing method

To improve manipulability. An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs real-time image transmission with at least one sink device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The control unit performs control related to the real-time image transmission based on control information for controlling the information processing device according to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification, the control information being received from the at least one sink device. The control unit performs control such that on-off switching of a UIBC for transmitting manipulation information in the sink device that has transmitted the control information is performed when a plurality of pieces of control information are received.

An information processing device is an information processing device that receives a stream for outputting image information from another information processing device through wireless communication, and includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs communication with another information processing device so as to exchange the capability information about the information processing device and the capability information about the other information processing device. The control unit sets a power consumption mode in the other information processing device based on the capability information about the other information processing device.

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Hideki Iwami