Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Ikuo Yamano

Yusuke Nakagawa

Ryo Yokoyama

Hiroyuki Mizunuma

Kazuyuki Yamamoto

Osamu Ito

Tsubasa Tsukahara

Yusuke Miyazawa

Takeshi Ogita

Akihiro Komori

Shunichi Kasahara

Takuro Noda

Yoshihito Ohki

Kei Takahashi

Ken Miyashita

Yohei Fukuma

Kunihito Sawai

Shinichi Kawano

Fuminori Homma

Shinichi Hirata

Tomoya Narita

Yuichi Machida

Yuhei Taki

Tsuyoshi Ishikawa

Yasushi Okumura

Jun Kimura

Tatsushi Nashida

Takamoto Tsuda

Gen Ichimura

Shiro Suzuki

Kazuaki Toba

Tetsuo Ikeda

Kentaro Ida

Takashi Nozaki

Jun Matsumoto

Toshiyuki Nakagawa

Seiji Suzuki

Masao Kondo

Takahiro Watanabe

Reiko Miyazaki

Yosuke Matsuzaki

Yoichi Nishimaki

Ayumi Nakagawa

Takekazu Kakinuma

Ayumi Kato

Maki Imoto

Yasuyuki Koga

Tomoo Mizukami

Miwa Ichikawa

Ryu Aoyama

Shinsaku Hirano

Eisuke Nomura

Yoji Hirose

Shuichiro Nishigori

Hirofumi Takeda

Shinji Ishii

Kosuke Yoshitomi

Takurou Noda

Soichiro Inatani

Daisuke Tajima

Susumu Takatsuka

Takeshi Igarashi

Osamu Shigeta

Takuo Ikeda

Sheng Wang

Takeshi Matsui

Ayako Iwase

Keisuke Yamaoka

Hiro Iwase

Takashi Tsurumoto

Yusuke Otani

QiHong Wang

Seiji Muramatsu

Shin Shiroma

Shuhei Miyazaki

Nariaki Satoh

Ryoko Amano

Lyo Takaoka

Daisuke Hiro

Keijiroh Nagano

Yukari Konishi

Shinpei Kameoka

Takuo Watanabe

Toshihiko Fushimi

Taku Tomita

Kaneo Todoroki

Nariaki Sato

Toshiyuki Kimura

Risa Takahashi

Taha Moriyama

Yoshihiro Kawarasaki

Yugo Takeda

Masao Eriguchi

Qi Zheng

Narita Tomoya

Koga Yasuyuki

A haptic signal can be generated using an intermediate state of a plurality of generation algorithms. A plurality of haptic signal generation units that generates haptic signals using generation algorithms different from each other on the basis of a sound signal by the plurality of haptic signal generation units is included. A mixing unit mixes haptic signals generated by at least two of the plurality of haptic signal generation units to obtain an output haptic signal. For example, a control unit that controls mixing ratios of the mixing unit is further included.

Information processing device for mixing haptic signals

Provided is an information processing device that processes information regarding augmented reality. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a position and a posture, or a shape of a first part on a body of a user, and a control unit configured to control a virtual object to be displayed in a real space on a display device on the basis of the position and the posture, or the shape of the first part. When recognizing that the first part has performed a first operation for a second part on the body of the user on the basis of the position and the posture, or the shape of the first part acquired by the acquisition unit, the control unit stores an execution state of the virtual object in association with the second part, and stops display of the virtual object by the display device.

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

Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of more easily implementing interaction between a virtual object and a palm of a user in a natural expression. The information processing apparatus includes a controller that displays a virtual object on a display unit, in which the controller detects a planar area of a hand from a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a real space, the controller performs control to set a contact determination area for determining contact with the virtual object for the planar area of the hand having been detected, and the contact determination area includes at least one plane portion.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

A signal processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an information acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating a state of a user including a posture of the user, a tactile signal acquisition unit that acquires a reference tactile signal for performing tactile presentation to the user in a reference state, and an adjustment processing unit that generates an adjusted tactile signal by adjusting the reference tactile signal on the basis of the state information.

Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and signal processing system

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of displaying an effect image indicating a situation of tactile presentation caused by an object. The information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology acquires information regarding a situation of tactile presentation to at least a part of a user's body, and generates an effect image indicating the situation of the tactile presentation. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a transmissive head-mounted display (HMD).

An information processing apparatus () is an information processing apparatus causing a user of a head mounted display to perceive a depth position of a virtual object by controlling display positions of a right-eye image and a left-eye image related to the virtual object, the information processing apparatus including: a determination unit () that determines an opened/closed state of an eye of the user on the basis of a detection result of a sensor () that detects a visual recognition state of both eyes of the user; a calculation unit () that calculates a display position in a depth direction of the virtual object; and a display control unit () that, in a case where it is determined that the display position in the depth direction is within a first distance indicating a predetermined short distance and both eyes of the user are opened, reduces visibility of the right-eye image and the left-eye image related to the virtual object, and in a case where it is determined that the display position in the depth direction is within the first distance and only one eye of the user is opened, increases the visibility reduced at least with respect to display of the one eye.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit that detects a skill level difference between a first user and a second user on the basis of sensing data regarding the first user and sensing data regarding the second user having a skill level lower than a skill level of the first user, and a presentation unit that dynamically changes and presents, during performance, skill level difference suppression information that reduces the skill level difference to at least one of the first and second users on the basis of the skill level difference detected. The sensing data is acquired through at least performance and the like performed by moving at least a part of a body of the users and other performance performed in the past with respect to the performance.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

There is provided a transmission signal to enable tactile presentation at more positions than the number of channels of a tactile vibration signal that can be transmitted. The transmission signal includes audio signals of a predetermined number of channels and tactile presentation signals of a predetermined number of channels and to which metadata designating the tactile presentation position targeted by each of the tactile presentation signals of the predetermined number of channels is added is generated. The transmission signal is transmitted to a reception side via a predetermined transmission path. For example, the metadata is dynamically changed to dynamically change the tactile presentation position targeted by each of the tactile presentation signals of the predetermined number of channels.

Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, and reception method for designating tactile presentation positions

An information processor () includes a control unit (). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device () and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (), the control unit () generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.

Information processor, information processing method, and program

An information processing device includes: a control unit that generates, on the basis of control information relating to tactile stimulation to be perceived by a second user as configured by a first user and on the basis of characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the second user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit and which serves to cause the second user to perceive the tactile stimulation indicated by the control information.

Information processing device and information processing method for tactile stimulation

There is provided a control device according to the present technology to improve an accuracy of force sense presentation while preventing hindrance to a free motion of a target part when a user does not touch a virtual object. The control device includes a control unit that controls a force sense presentation apparatus, which includes a first member that is displaced mechanically in conjunction with a motion of a target part of a user, a second member that is displaceable in a direction of coming into contact with or separating from the first member, and a drive part that drives the second member and performs force sense presentation with respect to the target part, such that a driving state of the second member is changed according to a positional relationship between a virtual object and the target part in a virtual space in which the virtual object is arranged.

Control device, force sense presentation apparatus, and control method

Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, where the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, and where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, and (iii) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal and apply a force to the movable part in an opposite direction of the force applied by the finger of the user.

Operation device and method for controlling the same

Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a generation unit that generates, on the basis of characteristic information items of a plurality of haptic presentation units having different characteristics, preparation information items to be used by the plurality of haptic presentation units to perform haptic presentation to a user. The plurality of haptic presentation units having different characteristics performs the haptic presentation to the user on the basis of the preparation information items generated on the basis of the characteristic information items of the plurality of haptic presentation units.

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to assist deaf and hard-of-hearing people in viewing a video when the video is being played back. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller generates at least one of an oscillation signal corresponding to sound-effect caption data or an oscillation signal corresponding to vocalization caption data on the basis of a waveform of sound data using a result of analyzing caption information and sound information that are included in a video file, the sound-effect caption data being used to represent a sound effect in the form of text information, the vocalization caption data being used to represent a vocalization of a person in the form of text information, the sound-effect caption data and the vocalization caption data being included in caption data that is included in the caption information, the sound data being included in the sound information.

Provided are a detection device and a detection method that more reliably detect attitudes of fingers of a user. The detection device of the present disclosure includes: a first sensor that is disposed in a space between a thumb and an index finger and detects first information obtained by sensing a first finger that is a finger included in a first detection area; and a second sensor that is disposed on a palm and detects second information obtained by sensing a second finger that is a finger included in a second detection area.

Finger detection device and method providing increased reliability detecting attitudes of fingers

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Tokyo, Japan

Ikuo Yamano