Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Isamu Terasaka

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Norihiro Nagai

Masaomi Nishidate

Shinpei Yamaguchi

Shinya Tsukizaki

Toshimitsu Ohdaira

Hideki Sakamoto

Junko Sano

An audio confirmation system includes a voice acquiring section configured to acquire a voice contained in a motion picture; a voice text producing section configured to produce a voice text based on the acquired voice; a determining section configured to determine whether or not the produced voice text and a caption text that is embedded in an image contained in the motion picture correspond to each other; and an outputting section configured to output a result of the determination of the determining section.

Audio confirmation system, audio confirmation method, and program via speech and text comparison

A music production apparatus includes a melody data storage operative to store music data for a plurality of melody elements forming music, a condition storage operative to store a condition for combining melody elements and a condition related to an attribute applicable when playing the melody element, an element selector operative to determine, at a predetermined point of time, whether a melody element should be allocated to a track where no melody elements are allocated, and to select, when it is determined that a melody element should be allocated to the track, a melody element that should be allocated to the track by referring to the condition for combining melody elements stored in the condition storage, an attribute determination unit operative to determine an attribute applicable when playing the selected melody element, and a sound production unit operative to read music data for the selected melody element from the melody data storage, to apply the attribute determined by the attribute determination unit, and to produce a sound signal that should be output to a speaker, using the music data for the melody element allocated to the track.

Music production apparatus and method of producing music by combining plural music elements

Digital sound data is encrypted and recorded in a recording medium. Informationrequired for decoding the encrypted digital sound datais recorded in a programfor controlling the reproduction of sound data separately from the digital sound data. This can prevent PCM sound data recorded in the recording medium as a part of a content, from being reproduced separately from the content.

Recording medium having encrypted sound data recorded therein and information processor

In order to form an image by projecting a textureat an arbitrary angle to an arbitrary position on a surface of an objectrepresented as a 3D model, texture datais divided into texture lineshaving a width of one dot and a length equal to the number of dots on one side of the texture. Then, supposed is a stereoscopic objectbased on one texture linethat the texture line is extended in a light travel direction while possessing color information from an arrangement relationship between the texture line, object modeland virtual light source in the three dimensional space. The intersecting partbetween the stereoscopic objectand the surface of the object modelis defined as a region for rendering the texture line, and thereby a stereoscopic objectis rendered onto the defined region.

Texture rendering method, entertainment apparatus and storage medium

On a screen display, a specialized image effect is easily attained in which near images are made to appear clearly while distant images are seen as blurred. An image is formed on a screen in which for an image pertaining to a background containing far-distance object group for which the depth amount thereof is comparatively large, the source image is made as a semi-transparent processed image for which a two pixel portion thereof is shifted in an upward direction, for an image pertaining to a mid-distance object group the source image is made as a semi-transparent formation processed image for which a one pixel portion thereof is shifted in an upward direction, and for an image pertaining to a near-distance object an upward shifting processing is not performed. For an image after such processing is performed, a near image appears distinctly, a middle-degree distant image appears somewhat blurred and a far-distant image appears still more blurred.

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Tokyo, Japan

Isamu Terasaka