Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Keigo Tamura

Toshimasa Aoki

Nodoka Tokunaga

Tomohiro Ogawa

Shoichi Ikenoue

Masahiro Fujihara

Akitsugu Tsuchiya

Yoshihiko Suwa

Masaki Higuchi

Toru Ogiso

Tomoki Takaichi

Yuji Takeuchi

Yuji Nakamura

Masaki Takase

Ikuo Kobayashi

Akira Miyashita

Fumiaki Hisamatsu

Takenori Oshima

An imaged image obtaining section obtains an imaged image from a camera. A face recognizing section detects the face images of a plurality of users in the imaged image. A display user determining section has a function of determining a user to be included in a display image. When an instruction receiving section receives a changing instruction, the display user determining section changes a user included in the display image. A face image clipping section clips a region including the face image of the determined user from the imaged image. A display image generating section generates the display image including the clipped region.

Information processing device

There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section () receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section () arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.

Entertainment device, display control method, program, and information storage medium

A replay data acquisition section acquires replay data for reproducing a play status of a game. A replay image generation section generates a replay image of a game scene on the basis of the acquired replay data. A user determination section determines a user to be included in a combined image. A user image acquisition section acquires a user image obtained by imaging the determined user. A combination processing section generates the combined image by combining the acquired user image with the replay image.

Program and information processing device

Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium that are configured, if an execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled, to make a user recognize that, if recognition of an accepted speech is successful, the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled. A speech acceptance block accepts a speech. An execution block executes processing according to a result of recognition of the speech. An output control block executes control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted. In accordance with success in the recognition of the speech, one of the execution of the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech and the output control of the information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is executed.

Control apparatus, control method, program, and information storage medium

A picked up image displaying unit displays a picked up image on a display unit. A face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in the picked up image using face identification data retained in a registered user information retaining block. A position designation image processing unit displays a position designation image for designating a position of an object for the detected registered user on the display unit. An object authentication unit detects that an object image is included in the region designated by the position designation image.

Information processing apparatus

Provided are a control device that prevents performance of a process different from a desired process in response to a voice input, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium. A voice acceptance section accepts voice. An output control section performs control such that voice accepted by the voice acceptance section is output to a program capable of performing a process using the voice. The output control section performs control such that if it is recognized that the voice accepted by the voice acceptance section represents given information, voice accepted by the voice acceptance section thereafter is not output to the program capable of performing the process using the voice.

Control device, control method, program and information storage medium

An image obtaining sectionobtains an imaged image from an imaging device. A face authenticating sectiondetects a face image of a registered user present in the imaged image using face identifying data retained in a registered user information retaining section. A damage determining sectiondetermines whether or not the face identifying data read from the registered user information retaining sectionby a face data reading sectionis damaged. If the face identifying data is determined to be damaged, a notifying sectionnotifies that the face identifying data is damaged.

Provided is a user interface having improved usability when, in a period in which information relating to a state of a game which is being executed by a game device is being distributed to another game device, users exchange messages regarding the game being distributed. The game device executes a game application, distributes the information relating to the state of the game being executed to the another game device, receives from a distribution-destination game device a message input by the user of the distribution-destination game device regarding the distributed information, and controls display means to display a game image representing the state of the game along with the received message.

Game device

A communication section receives a connection request from a game controller to connect the game controller with an information processing apparatus. A registered user information holding section holds biometric information of a user registered in the information processing apparatus. A biometric authentication portion compares biometric information of a user included in a taken image with biometric information held in the registered user information holding section to determine whether the imaged user is a user registered in the information processing apparatus. After the imaged user is found to be a user registered in the information processing apparatus, a login controller executes login processing of the user, or to be more specific, stores information for identifying a device included in the taken image and information for identifying the user into a login user storage portion by relating these items of information with each other.

Information processing apparatus for determining registered users in a system

A taken-image display unit displays a taken image on a display. By use of face identification data held in a registered user information holding section, a face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in a taken image. A face frame processing unit displays a face frame on the display for the detected registered user. If, when the face frame is being displayed, the face authentication unit detects by use of the face identification data held in the user information holding section that the face image of the registered user is included in the face frame, a login processing unit lets this user log in.

An information processing device includes: an input receiving section receiving an input; a display control section changing a display screen to a first screen when the input receiving section has not received any input for a predetermined time; a registered user information retaining section retaining biological information of a plurality of users registered in the information processing device; a biological information obtaining portion obtaining biological information; and a biometric authenticating portion determining whether a user whose biological information is obtained by the biological information obtaining portion is a registered user by comparing the obtained biological information with the biological information of the plurality of users retained in the registered user information retaining section. When the biometric authenticating portion determines that the user whose biological information is obtained is a registered user, the display control section changes the first screen to a second screen.

Disclosed herein is an information processor configured to register user face identification data, the information processor including: a captured image display section adapted to display part of a captured image on a display; a guidance display section adapted to display, on the display, guidance prompting a user to rotate his or her face relative to an imaging device; and a registration processing section adapted to register face identification data based on user's face image included in the captured image after or while the guidance is displayed.

Information processor

A display control apparatus includes: a voice message acceptance block configured to accept a voice message; an option identification block configured to identify, from among a plurality of options related with information indicative of voice messages, in accordance with acceptance of a voice message by the voice message acceptance block, an option of attention that is an option related with information indicative of the accepted voice message and an alternative option other than this option of attention identified on the basis of the information indicative of this voice message or this option of attention; and a display control block configured to display information indicative that the option of attention is in a selected state and information indicative of a voice message by which the option identification block identifies the alternative option as the option of attention in accordance with the acceptance by the voice message acceptance block.

Display control apparatus, display control method, program, and information storage medium

The client apparatusis connected to a network and includes a communication packet reception unitand a texture processing unit. The communication packet reception unitreceives image data, audio data, and image type information designating type of the image data, which are transmitted from another client apparatus connected to the network. The texture processing unitrenders an image for the received image data. Moreover, the texture processing unitsubjects the image for the image data to a predetermined processing when the image type information received by the communication packet reception unitis information of a predetermined image.

Communication system, communication apparatus, communication program, and computer-readable storage medium stored with the communication program

A matching server, when a chat room specified by participation request information received from a client terminal device is registered in a room storage region, associates and registers that client terminal device to the chat room, and when the chat room specified by the participation request information is not registered, associates the client terminal device and the chat room with each other and registers them newly in the room storage region. When a chat room specified by leave request information received by the client terminal device is registered in the room storage region, it cancels registration of the client terminal device for the chat room, and when there is no client terminal device registered to the registered chat room, it cancels registration of the chat room.

Chat system, server device, chat method, chat execution program, storage medium stored with chat execution program, information processing unit, image display method, image processing program, storage medium stored with image processing program

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Tokyo, Japan

Keigo Tamura