Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Other

Denso Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Co., Ltd.

Koji Ihara

Yasushi Fujinami

Toshiya Hamada

Shusuke Utsumi

Tatsuya Kakumu

Akihiko Ueda

Yoshinori Watanabe

Tatsuya Yamamoto

Atsushi Izumihara

Maki Imoto

Atsushi Kuribayashi

Shigeru Kawada

Takeshi Tsukada

Hitomi Sahara

Takenori Ohshima

Shizue Okuda

Tomohiko Hishinuma

Nobuhiro Ozu

Yoshiyuki Mineo

Provided is an information processing device to enable a user and an outside person to communicate smoothly, the information processing device including: a necessity degree determination unit configured to determine, based on outside information indicating a situation external to a user, a degree of necessity that the user be notified of the outside information; and a notification state control unit configured to switch a notification state of the outside information with respect to the user based on the determined degree of necessity.

Information processing device, notification state control method, and program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting information changing unit adapted to change setting information for setting a presentation state of a content on the basis of viewing environment information representing an environment in which the content is to be viewed and presentation state changing information for changing the presentation state of the content in accordance with the environment in which the content is to be viewed, and a content presentation unit adapted to present, on the basis of the setting information, the content to a user via a display device.

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

A state transition of a player operation is explicitly defined to facilitate the production of interactive contents. As a player model for reproducing a disk, a model including a playerfor reproducing a stream, a platformproviding an interface between the playerand a hardware, and a script playerfor realizing a scenario intended by a content producer is conceived. The states of the playerare defined by four states defined by combinations of two states as to whether the play list reproduction is performed or not and two states as to whether the commandis accepted or not. The state transition of the playeramong the four states is generated by a methodfrom the script layer, but not by the playeritself or the command. The states of the playerare small in number, and the conditions for state transition are definite. Therefore, the interactive contents can be easily produced and mounted on devices.

Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, reproducing program, recording medium, and data structure

A data reproducing apparatus, which is capable of reproducing stream data according to time stamps without need to have an independent time counting clock. At step S, it is determined whether a received access unit has a time stamp. When the access unit has a time stamp, the flow advances to step S. At step S, a value of the time stamp is set. When the access unit does not have a time stamp. The flow advances to step S. At step S, a value corresponding to the previous pic_struct is added to the current time. Thereafter, the flow advances to step S. At step S, the current pic_struct is stored for the next process. The present invention is capable of being applied to for example a game device using a DVD.

Data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure

A variable speed reproduction is accomplished without sacrifice of picture quality. A controllercreates EP_map( ) in a clip information file with an address of RAPI extracted by an RAPI information extraction unit, PTS of an intra-picture immediately preceded by RAPI, and one of end positions of the intra-picture and second, third, and fourth reference pictured preceded by the intra-picture and stores EP_map( ) to an output server. In other words, the controllercopies a value close to a predetermined sector count (the number of sectors that can be read at a time in the encode process) of the end positions of the four reference pictures (1stRef_picture, 2ndRef_picture, 3rdRef_picture, and 4thRef_picture) to N-th_Ref_picture_copy, decides index_minus1 based on N-th_Ref_picture_copy and records it on a disc.

Data recording device, data recording method, data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure

To facilitate implementing a user operation control in a picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on a disk or the like. A picture reproducing apparatus selects and reproduces a plurality of prerecorded picture streams in the disk. A reproduction control unit is configured to reproduce the picture streams in either of two reproduction modes, i.e., a normal mode for accepting particular key inputs pertaining to picture reproduction and a menu mode for not accepting the particular key inputs. The mode in which the picture streams are reproduced may be written by contents creators in a script file which is recorded on the disk.

Picture reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium, and picture reproducing program

A reproduction apparatus has a player section, a content reproduction section, an interface section. The player section has a read section reading data from the record medium on which the content data containing at least one of a video data stream and an audio data stream and a reproduction control program controlling the reproduction of the content data are recorded, an input section accepting an input from a user, and an output section outputting the reproduced content data. The content reproduction section reproduces the content data according to the reproduction control program. The interface section interfaces among the content reproduction section, the reproduction control program, and the player section. When a command representing an end of the reproduced content data is described in the reproduction control program, the reproduction control program supplies the command to the interface section and the interface section executes a process corresponding to the command.

Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, reproduction program, record medium, and data structure

A record medium is disclosed. The record medium that is readable by a computer device and on which content data that contain at least one of a video stream and an audio stream and at least one resource file that contains a reproduction control program that controls the reproduction of the content data and data used by the reproduction control program are recorded. The file name of the resource file contains information that represents a language that is normally used when the content data are reproduced and information that represents a language attribute of the resource file.

A guide information providing apparatus, and a program, in which a marker indicating a point of interest for a user is displayed on a map image, and in which, even in case the point of interest is located in a complex of establishments, the detailed position of the point of interest in such complex of establishments may be demonstrated. A guide program may display a marker for a point specified by the latitude/longitude for the point of interest when a map image is displayed, while displaying a marker for a point specified by the floor and the coordinate of the point of interest information when an image in the complex of establishments is displayed.

Guide information providing apparatus and program

A navigation device simultaneously displays two screens of maps on a common display unit and includes a map data storage unit for storing map data and a resolution conversion unit for converting the resolution of the map data acquired from the map data storage unit. The display unit has a predetermined display area for displaying a map based on the map data with its resolution having been converted.

Navigation device, map displaying method and image display device

A navigation device including a registration unit for registering an index designated by a user's operation and data of a spot coordinate in association with each other, and a display for displaying a plurality of registered indexes as a list, the display displaying, together with the list, a digital map of a spot coordinate corresponding to an active index selected from the list of indexes.

Navigation device, digital map display system, digital map displaying method in navigation device, and program

A navigation device, an information display device, an object creating method, and a storage medium, in which a display unit, which is integrally formed with a touch panel, displays a map together with control buttons, including a mark setting button and a mark erasing button, which have specific processing associated therewith. When coordinates for a desired point on the map and a mark button are specified on the touch panel, a mark creating unit creates a mark object and displays it at a position on a map corresponding to specified coordinates.

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Chiba, Japan

Koji Ihara