Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Koichi Ogasawara

Masayuki Imanishi

Atsushi Maruyama

Seishi Tomonaga

Hiroaki Yokoyama

Yuki Endo

Yoshiyuki Kunito

Arinobu Ueda

Yoshinobu Kure

Yasuyuki Suki

Yasuto Masuda

Junki Ohmura

Tomotsugu Minamikawa

Kyouhei Suzuki

Naoki Uchida

Fumihito Yoshikawa

Minoru Furukawa

Reiko Kirihara

Hirofumi Higuchi

There is provided a mobile device that operates in order to image a subject, the mobile device including an imaging unit, a sensor that recognizes a surrounding environment, and a light emitting unit disposed on a housing in a ring shape or on the entire surface of the housing. The operation of the mobile device includes imaging, based on a set photographing plan, with the imaging unit, the subject recognized by the sensor as the mobile device moves. The light emitting unit performs a light emission expression corresponding to at least one of the photographing plan and the operation of the mobile device.

Mobile device, imaging system, and method of controlling mobile device

Provided is a signal processing device including a control information acquiring unit configured to acquire image control information regarding control of an image, an image receiver configured to selectively receive one or more images transmitted using multicast based on the image control information, one or more image processing units configured to perform an image process on an image received by the image receiver based on the image control information, and an image sender configured to transmit an image subjected to the image process by the image processing unit based on the image control information, the image being transmitted using multicast.

Signal processing device, signal processing method, and image transmission system

Provided is an image transmission system including an image control device, and at least two signal processing devices. The signal processing devices each include an image receiver configured to selectively receive one or more images transmitted using multicast based on image control information transmitted from the image control device, one or more image processing units configured to perform an image process on an image received by the image receiver based on the image control information, and an image sender configured to transmit an image subjected to the image process by the image processing unit based on the image control information, the image being transmitted using multicast.

Transmission and display of image signals based on multicast transmission

Provided is a relay management apparatus including: a session management unit configured to perform registration of session information for multicast transmission of a data stream that is performed between one or two or more transmission apparatuses and one or two or more reception apparatuses via relay links of a relay apparatus, separately for information on a transmission apparatus side and information on a reception apparatus side; and a band reservation unit configured to perform band reservation of a relay link on the transmission apparatus side or band reservation of a relay link on the reception apparatus side, based on the registration of the session information on the transmission apparatus side or the reception apparatus side performed by the session management unit.

Relay management apparatus, relay management method, program, and relay management system

A presence information sharing apparatus is provided which includes a video acquiring unit for acquiring predetermined video contents from a content distribution server, a status information notifying unit for transmitting presence information containing acquisition source information on video contents acquired from the content distribution server to a presence server via a communication network, a status information acquiring unit for acquiring presence information transmitted by at least one another user from the presence server, a presence video acquiring unit for acquiring a video of video contents being viewed by the another user as a presence video from the content distribution server based on the acquisition source information contained in the presence information received by the status information acquiring unit, and a display controlling unit for displaying the video contents being acquired by the video acquiring unit and the presence video being acquired by the presence video acquiring unit on a display.

Presence information sharing apparatus, presence information sharing method, presence information sharing program and presence information sharing system

Disclosed herein is a content viewing system including a content viewing apparatus, and a viewing approval apparatus used by a viewing approval party to perform an approval process. The content viewing apparatus includes: a viewing approval requesting section that transmits a viewing approval request to the viewing approval apparatus when it has been determined that approval for viewing of a content is necessary; and a content viewing control section that receives, from the viewing approval apparatus, an approval/disapproval response, and, if the approval/disapproval response indicates that the viewing of the content has been approved, enables the viewing of the content. The viewing approval apparatus includes: an output section that outputs information concerning the viewing approval request; an input section that accepts input of the approval/disapproval response; and an approval/disapproval response notification section that notifies the content viewing apparatus of the approval/disapproval response.

Content viewing system, content viewing apparatus, and viewing approval apparatus

A communication control apparatus selects an optimum terminal for an authentication device among a plurality of terminals that have completed authentication of the authentication device via wireless communication. The communication control apparatus has an information acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The information acquiring unit acquires address information and capability information of each of the plurality of terminals and identification information of the authentication device from each of the plurality of terminals. The selecting unit selects the optimum terminal having a capability of handling data addressed to the authentication device among the plurality of terminals on the basis of the capability information of the plurality of terminals and the identification information of the authentication device acquired by the information acquiring unit, when the address information and capability information of the plurality of terminals are acquired by the information acquiring unit.

Communication control apparatus and communication control system

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Koichi Ogasawara