Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Digital Vision Laboratories Corporation

Resonest Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Hiroki Kato

Takayuki Ishida

Yoshiharu Dewa

Hiroyuki Yasuda

Jun Hiroi

Tooru Hiraga

Akio Ohba

Hiroyuki Segawa

Tetsugo Inada

Masayuki Chatani

Shin Iima

Koji Kageyama

Shinichi Kariya

David Gaxiola

Vivek Chopra

Megumi Nozu

Kazuhito Ikemoto

Kenji Yamane

Takayuki Saito

Hideaki Watanabe

Takashi Nozaki

Takayuki Sakamoto

Hideki Matsumoto

Seiichi Takamura

Akira Sassa

Hidehiko Morisada

James E Marr

Michinari Kohno

Toshiya Ikenaga

Stephen Cain Detwiler

Yasuhiko Yokote

Osamu Ota

Jin Satoh

Norio Nagatsuka

Kazufumi Oyama

Natsuo Koda

Noriyuki Murata

Yoshiaki Sawada

Nicholas Szeto

Yoichiro Serita

Yuichi Kobayakawa

Yoichi Numata

Tetsuhiro Chiba

Keiko Ikemoto

Matsumoto Hideki

A machine control device is configured to include a measurement unit that measures regarding a state of a controlled object handled by a machine apparatus, a determination unit that determines a constraint determination value by comparing the measurement result by the measurement unit with a predetermined constraint condition, control units and that perform operation control for the machine apparatus based on the constraint determination value determined by the determination unit according to the relationship set for the constraint determination value and the operation control, and a learning unit that reconfigures the relationship between the constraint determination value and the operation control when the constraint determination value changes due to the operation control performed by the control units.

Machine control device, machine control program, and machine control method

An information processing device includes an interface configured to receive authentication information from an electronic device. The device also includes circuitry configured to identify an execution range of an association operation program executed by the electronic device, the execution range being indicative of an authentication of an association between the electronic device and another electronic device.

Electronic device, server, electronic device controlling method, information processing method and recording medium

An electronic device controller, in order to link various electronic devices without requiring troublesome installation of applications, drivers, etc., is capable of wirelessly communicating with at least one of a plurality of electronic devices that can be wirelessly communicated, and connected to a server device via a network, the controller being configured to receive device identification information of the plurality of electronic devices that can be wirelessly communicated; to transmit the plurality of device identification information to the server device via the network; to receive instruction information transmitted from the server device, regarding a linkage operation of the electronic devices, the instruction information being associated with the plurality of device identification information; and performs control to make the electronic devices perform linkage operation according to the instruction information by transmitting an operation instruction to the electronic devices according to the instruction information, via the wireless communication.

Electronic device controller, electronic device control method, and electronic device control program

There is provided an electronic device connected to a network, including a transmission unit which transmits device identification information of the electronic device and at least one other electronic device to a server over the network, a reception unit which receives association operation programs for the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device from the server over the network, and a control unit which controls the electronic device according to the association operation program.

There is provided an encoding control apparatus including a scene change detector that detects occurrence of scene change in frame images generated in real time by a renderer, and an encoder controller that controls an encoder that encodes each of the frame images in any of a first scheme in which another frame image is not referred to and a second scheme in which the other frame image is referred to, the encoder controller causing the encoder to encode a frame image after the scene change in the first scheme when the occurrence of the scene change is detected.

Encoding control apparatus and encoding control method

There is provided a server device including a streaming processing unit configured to generate a frame image in real time, encode the frame image to generate encoded data, and transmit the encoded data to a client device over a network, the client device being configured to decode the encoded data and output the frame image, and a controller configured to receive information related to an output timing of the frame image in the client device from the client device and control a process timing of the frame image in the streaming processing unit so that a predetermined relationship is maintained between the output timing and the process timing.

Server device and information processing method

The workload is heavy in the development of an application program that controls the task distribution in consideration of the variety of the execution environment. In a system where the processing is distributed to SPUs serving as plural processing entities so as to execute the computer program, the data processing is broken into plural units of processing by referring to the script code in which the content of the data processing is written, and the units of processing are assigned to the plural SPUs. Then, the whole computer program is executed when the SPUs execute the assigned process.

System and method for distributing data processes among resources

Provided is an information processing system with which a new function can be added without altering an application program itself. The information processing system includes: a first execution information obtaining unit configured to obtain first execution information which indicates an execution state of a first execution unit configured to execute an application program; an execution information storing unit configured to store the first execution information; and the first execution unit or a second execution unit configured to execute the application program, in which the first execution unit or the second execution unit uses the stored first execution information to execute the application program.

Information processing system, information processing method, information processing program, computer-readable recording medium on which information processing program is stored

An information providing system for accurately providing a user with information that matches the user at a small calculating cost. The system includes a feature vector generating unit for generating a feature vector of each of a plurality of persons, and a user cluster generating unit for classifying the plurality of persons into a plurality of clusters based on the feature vector of each of the plurality of persons. The system selects at least one of the plurality of clusters based on a feature vector of a specified person, and outputs information related to the selected cluster.

Information providing system, information providing method, information providing device, program, and information storage medium

A range having a predetermined width close to a display margin is defined in an image as a restriction area. When the display area enters the restriction area, the moving speed determination unit reduces the speed of moving the display area in accordance with the extent that the display area enters the restriction area. When the request for moving the display area is suspended while the display area enters the restriction area, the bouncing speed determination unit determines the moving speed so that the display area is bounced in a direction away from the restriction area at a speed determined by the extent that the display area enters the restriction area. A frame coordinate computation unit computes frame coordinates of a display area that should be newly displayed, based on the moving speed determined by the moving speed determination unit and the bouncing speed determination unit.

Device for displaying movement based on user input and rendering images accordingly

An inspection apparatus inspects an application that is executed in a game device and displays a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an exposure indicator acquiring unit that acquires a first index relating to the exposure of an advertisement displayed in the virtual space from the game device, the index being calculated by the application that displays the virtual space from a user's point of view; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires the virtual space, which is actually displayed on a screen on a frame by frame basis; an advertisement region extracting unit that extracts an advertisement displaying region from the image of the virtual space; an exposure indicator calculating unit that calculates a second index relating to the exposure of the advertisement based on the advertisement displaying region; and a verification unit that verifies the application by cross-checking the first index and the second index.

Inspecting apparatus and method for inspection

Systems and methods for mediation of online trading services are provided. Supplemental content related to a content title may be listed in a market or store for content. A client device sends a mediated communication to a trading server; the mediated communication may include mediation data and a request concerning the transfer of supplemental content. A user account associated with the client device is identified and the supplemental content may then be assigned to the user account. A report regarding activity associated with the assignment of the supplemental content may be generated in accordance with mediation data.

Management of online trading services using mediated communications

A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. A mediation server includes: a project information acquiring unit which acquires information on a project from a project server and stores the acquired information in a project database, the project server managing the project in which a computational processing is divided into a plurality of tasks so as to have the plurality of tasks processed by a plurality of terminals; a project information transmitter which presents the information on the project to a terminal and which transmits, to the terminal, information necessary for the terminal to access a project server of a project that the terminal desires to participate in; and an execution status management unit which receives a notification indicating that the terminal having accessed the project server using the information has executed a task assigned from the project server and which stores an execution status in a terminal database.

Mediation server, terminals and distributed processing method

When a single page of a newspaper article or a magazine is displayed using hierarchical data, a guidance area (indicated by a line in the hierarchical data) for each article is defined in a scenario definition file. A plurality of guidance areas are defined in the layer below, i.e., the layer having a resolution of a level that allows characters to be legible, so that the viewer can track the article from start to end. The displayed image is initially guided to the guidance area upon a user request for enlargement. Upon a further request for enlargement, the displayed image is guided to the guidance area at the head of the article. When the user having read the sentence in the guidance area provides an input by indicating a direction or pressing a predetermined button, the displayed image is guided to the guidance area showing the continuation of the sentence.

Image processing device, information processing device, image processing method, and information processing method

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Hirotoshi Maegawa