Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Jianing Wu

Shunichi Homma

Yoshiaki Iwai

Jun Yokono

Sayaka Watanabe

Natsuko Ozaki

Masaki Fukuchi

Shinichiro Abe

Tatsuki Kashitani

Akihiko Kaino

Jingjing Guo

Masataka Shinoda

Kenichirou Ooi

Tatsuhito Sato

Taketo Akama

Midori Kawano

Kenichiro Oi

Takaaki Kato

Yuya Hanai

An information processing apparatus executes a recognition learning process of an object in the first image captured by a camera, detects from the first image an object region in which the object is present, extracts feature amounts of feature points associated with the object region, creates an object model based on the extracted feature amounts, discriminates the object in the first image based on the object model, assesses a progress status of the recognition learning process of a target region of the object based on a discrimination result, generates an image signal in which a second image that represents the target region and the progress status is superimposed on the first image captured by the camera, and outputs the image signal to a display device to present the target region and the progress status to the user.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for object recognition learning

An information processing device including: an information obtaining unit that obtains environmental information from sensor information obtained by a sensor with which an autonomous moving body is provided; an extraction unit that extracts, from the environmental information, specific environmental information to be saved; and an action control unit that controls an action of the autonomous moving body so as to output the specific environmental information to the outside.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing device includes: a joint detection unit that detects a joint of a person striking a pose to imitate a pose of a robot device including a joint; a human body joint angle estimation unit that estimates an angle of the joint of the person; and a mapping learning unit that learns mapping between the angle of the joint of the person and an angle of the joint of the robot device in the pose.

More natural communication and interaction are enabled. The autonomous system () includes an action decision unit () that decides, based on an attention level map () in which an attention level indicating the degree of attention for each position in a predetermined space is set, the action which a drive mechanism is caused to perform.

Information processing device, action decision method and program

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit () that controls a motion of an autonomous moving body (), in which, when transmitting/receiving internal data related to the autonomous moving body, the motion control unit causes the autonomous moving body to express execution of the transmission/reception of the internal data by an action.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reality determiner that determines whether an object detected on the basis of sensing data is a real object or an unreal object, and a controller that performs predetermined control on the basis of a result of the determination made by the reality determiner.

Information processing apparatus and method for processing information

There is provided an information processing device including an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a real space from an image capture device, a setting unit that sets, in association with the real space, an augmented reality space that virtually augments the real space depicted in the captured image, the augmented reality space differing according to related information that relates to the captured image, and a control unit that causes an image of a virtual object placed for each user within the augmented reality space to be displayed on a screen.

Information processing device, client device, information processing method, and program

Methods and apparatus for analyzing embryonic development images. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of embryonic development images captured in a time series, determining, for at least one of the plurality of embryonic development images, a time series of evaluation values for each of a plurality of evaluation items associated with the plurality of embryonic development images, and evaluating a characteristic of cells represented in one or more of the plurality of embryonic development images based, at least in part, on the time series of evaluation values for the plurality of evaluation items.

An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit for executing the instructions to send signals to display, for a user, a first virtual image superimposed onto a representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to identify a potential source of interest for the user, the potential source of interest being outside of a user focus area in the representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to notify the user of the potential source of interest.

Information processing to notify potential source of interest to user

There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for guiding a user to a vicinity of a viewpoint

There is provided an information processing device including an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a real space from an image capture device, a setting unit that sets, in association with the real space, an augmented reality space that virtually augments the real space depicted in the captured image, and a control unit that determines a target position for an action executed within the augmented reality space, on a basis of a positional relationship between an object within the augmented reality space and an optical axis of the image capture device.

There is provided an information processing device including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an input image of a real space captured with an imaging device, a user interface unit configured to display the input image on a screen of a display device and detect a designated position designated by a user on the screen, a computation unit configured to compute a three-dimensional position of a virtual object in an augmented reality space from the designated position detected by the user interface unit, and an authoring unit configured to associate the three-dimensional position of the virtual object computed by the computation unit with the virtual object to store the three-dimensional position in a storage medium.

Information processing device, authoring method, and program

An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control display of parts information of a plurality of items, to generate search information according to feedback from a user for the parts information, and to control display of a search result according to the search information.

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Jianing Wu