Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Junji Ooi

Naoki Fujisawa

Yasuhiko Kato

Satoshi Fujimura

Kiyonobu Kojima

Takashi Sasai

Syuji Yonekura

Yusuke Sakai

Shingo Tsurumi

Shinichi Hayashi

Yuichi Iida

Yutaka Hasegawa

Keigo Ihara

Tomohiko Gotoh

Junichi Tsukamoto

Asako Tadenuma

Junichiro Sakata

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Yasushi Miyajima

Takanori Nishimura

Tetsuya Kohno

Junko Fukuda

Akitsugu Tsuchiya

Tota Hasegawa

Daijiro Sakuma

Tomoe Tanaka

Shuji Yonekura

Provided is a display device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range in an image display direction, a moving body detection unit that detects whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in the image display direction, an image analysis unit that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit to detect whether or not a face is present, and a power control unit that controls power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes that are set by combining whether or not the face detected by the image analysis unit is present and whether or not the moving body detected by the detection unit is present.

Display device and control method

An image display device and controlling method capable of optimizing a state of the image display device for a user at a desired position. The display device includes: an imaging section that takes an image of a predetermined range of a dynamic image with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzing section that analyzes the dynamic image taken by the imaging section and calculates a position of a user; a system optimization processing section that calculates system control information for optimizing a system based on the position of the user calculated by the image analyzing section; and a system controlling section that optimizes the system based on the system control information calculated by the system optimization processing section.

Display device and controlling method

The present invention relates to a sending apparatus that efficiently sends content provided by a viewer/listener to a sender and that performs live distribution using the content. Program content to be live-distributed by a user terminal () serving as the sender and sender specific information for specifying the user terminal () on the Internet () are distributed to a client terminal () via a streaming distribution server (). Content provided by the client terminal () is directly sent to the user terminal () on the basis of the sender specific information. The user terminal () performs live distribution using the content that has been sent from the client terminal ().

Transmission apparatus, transmission method, content delivery system, content delivery method, and program

Communication connection for peer-to-peer communication is established as follows. One personal computer, which wants to commence communication, transmits an electronic mail attached with an IP address of one personal computer to another personal computer, which is a desired destination. Another personal computer opens the transmitted electronic mail and obtains the IP address attached to the electronic mail, thereby establishing the communication connection. Information necessary for establishing the communication connection in peer-to-peer communication can be easily acquired.

Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium product, and program

In an arrangement wherein a first personal computer and a second personal computer perform peer-to-peer communication, and the first personal computer has an additional function module which the second personal computer does not have, the first personal computer and the second personal computer can perform peer-to-peer communication based on the additional function module. Accordingly, the functions of a function module can be used for communication even in the event that not all terminals communicating have the function module.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information exchanging method, recording medium, and program

A picture-information transmission apparatus including a file select means for selecting a predetermined file saved in a state of associating picture information with word information upon detection of execution of a predetermined operation, and a transmission-information creation means for creating transmission information for transmitting information of a predetermined file selected by the file select means to a predetermined partner, wherein the transmission information is created at the same time as the predetermined file is selected in a batch operation when the predetermined operation is executed.

Method and system for creating an e-mail by automatically constituting a text and an attached file of the e-mail basing on at least one words or sentences and picture stored in a single picture file

The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to the voice, a word-collating means for collating the first word generated by the word-generating means with pieces of information on a communication destination stored in advance and outputting a specific piece of information on a communication destination corresponding to the first word, a program-activating means for confirming the fact that the second word generated by the word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating a communication program corresponding to the predetermined word, and a communication-destination-setting means for adopting the specific piece of information on a communication destination output by the word-collating means as information on a communication destination of the communication program activated by the program-activating means. In the communication apparatus, data for identifying a communication partner can be set with ease.

Communication apparatus, communication method and program storage medium

The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to the voice, a word-collating means for collating the first word generated by the word-generating means with pieces of information on a communication destination-stored in advance and outputting a specific piece of information on a communication destination corresponding to the first word, a program-activating means for confirming the fact that the second word generated by the word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating a communication program corresponding to the predetermined word, and a communication-destination-setting means for adopting the specific piece of information on a communication destination output by the word-collating means as information on a communication destination of the communication program activated by the program-activating means. In the communication apparatus, data for identifying a communication partner can be set with ease.

According to the present invention, when displaying a jog-dial window menu on a liquid crystal display, hierarchically-structured menu items are displayed with a hierarchy icon, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize whether or not that menu item is hierarchically structured and improving the operation of menu selection. Furthermore, scroll display of a character string indicating a menu item is performed in an identification frame, thereby enabling the user to read the entire character string from beginning to end for easy recognition thereof and improving the operation of menu selection. Still further, a character string of a menu selected from among a plurality of menu items is displayed in a different color from other character strings, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize the selected menu item and improving the operation of menu selection.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium for controlling and displaying a menu

An information processing apparatus including an image-sensing controller controlling image-sensing so as to take a picture upon detection of execution of a first operation, a word generator recognizing speech upon detection of execution of a second operation and generating a word or a phrase corresponding to the recognized voice, and a portion associating the word or a phrase with the picture. Accordingly a word, a generated phrase or the like can be easily associated with an image-sensed still picture (with ease).

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Kanagawa, Japan

Junji Ooi