Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

S.m.n. Corporation

Kei Tateno

Mari Saito

Masahiro Sueyoshi

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Fumio Kubono

Tomohiro Tsunoda

Seiichi Takamura

Shinya Ohtani

Mitsuhiro Miyazaki

Katsuyuki Teruyama

Hideyuki Matsunaga

Ryo Mukaiyama

Yoshiaki Hirano

Masahiro Yoshida

Takuo Ikeda

Kazuto Mugura

Nobuki Furue

Shingo Takamatsu

Takashi Kitao

Naofumi Hanaki

Akira Honjo

Kazuo Omori

Wataru Tajika

Meng Ni

Takatoshi Ono

Takuma Udagawa

Hayato Sakata

An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can present appropriate content that can be used as a reference for content creation to content creators. The information processing apparatus includes a content generating unit configured to generate new content on the basis of input information and status information indicating a status of a consumer when the consumer has consumed content, and to-be-presented content determining unit configured to determine any one of or both of the new content and existing content as to-be-presented content that is presented to a creator of the content.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

A processing unit includes a contribution-degree calculation unit configured to calculate contribution degrees that indicate respective degrees by which a plurality of attribute items included as predetermined attributes of one target contribute to a predicted intervention effect, the calculating being performed on a basis of an estimation model for estimating the predicted intervention effect from the predetermined attributes of the one target. The predicted intervention effect on the one target is a numerical value corresponding to an increase in gain to a beneficiary, the gain being expected to be larger in a case where an intervention is implemented to the one target than in a case where the intervention is unimplemented to the one target.

Apparatus, method, and program for assisting creation of contents to be used in interventions, and computer-readable recording medium

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

A server, a client, a control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that can promote social interactions of users attending a specific event. The server includes a communication unit configured to receive a profile of a user or an interest signal indicating interest in a specific event along with identification information of the user from a client; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the profile of the user in association with the identification information of the user; and a control unit configured to control the identification information to be stored in the accumulation unit in association with the specific event according to the interest signal, to search for a user having a profile similar to the received profile based on the identification information and create a group users of similar interests, and transmit information of the created group to the client before an opening of the specific event.

Server, client, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program thereof

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a link feature amount selecting unit that selects a link feature amount that is a feature amount for linking a first item with another item, an item selecting unit that selects one or more candidates of a second item to be linked with the first item, on the basis of the selected link feature amount, a provision control unit that controls provision, to a user, of the first item, the link feature amount, and the one or more candidates of the second item, and a link creating unit that selects the second item and creates a link of the first item and the second item.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including an evaluation information extraction section configured to extract evaluation information including an object targeted to be evaluated and an evaluation of the object targeted to be evaluated from a linguistic expression given as information expressed linguistically by a user of interest; an identification section configured to identify whether the evaluation information is of a first type regarding content or of a second type regarding another user; and an evaluation prediction section configured to predict the evaluation by the user of interest regarding the content, based on the evaluation information of the first type given by the user of interest and on the evaluation information given by the other user in the evaluation information of the second type given by the user of interest.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for prediction model generated based on evaluation information

A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content related to a first content in accordance with at least part of metadata attached to each of the first content and the second content, a generating unit for generating a three-dimensional display model, the three-dimensional display model including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having one of a first image and a first character representing the first content arranged therewithin, and the second layer having one of a second image and a second character representing the second content arranged therewithin, and a display control unit for controlling displaying one of the first image and the first character and one of the second image and the second character using the three-dimensional display model.

Display control apparatus, display method, and computer program

An information processing apparatus includes a specific-evaluation information acquisition unit that acquires an evaluation of a predetermined content item as a specific evaluation, the evaluation having been input by a user in accordance with an ordinal scale; a language-evaluation information extraction unit that acquires a language evaluation from language information regarding an evaluation sentence in which an evaluation of the predetermined content item is expressed in a language, the evaluation sentence having been input by the user; and a recommendation unit that recommends a content item that matches the user's preference in accordance with whether the specific evaluation is a positive or negative evaluation and whether the language evaluation is a positive or negative evaluation.

Information processing apparatus, method for processing information, and program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation giving unit that gives an evaluation based on a second user to an item in a list created on a basis of a first user, and a display control unit that controls display of the list, on a basis of the evaluation based on the second user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for evaluating content

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a statistical amount selecting unit that selects, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts, a priority setting unit that sets priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount, and a display control unit that controls display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

There is provided an information processing device including a theme setting unit that sets a theme to generate an item list including one or more items, an item list editing unit that adds an item designated for the theme by at least a user irrelevant to a setting of the theme to the item list in which the theme is set, and an output control unit that controls an output of the item list.

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Kei Tateno