Sony Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Masafumi Matsuda

Toru Sasaki

Yoichiro Sako

Takatoshi Nakamura

Masamichi Asukai

Mitsuru Takehara

Toshiro Terauchi

Makoto Inoue

Yasushi Miyajima

Kosei Yamashita

Motoyuki Takai

Katsuya Shirai

Yuichi Sakai

Akira Tange

Kentaro Nakamura

Sanae Fujita

Yoshinari Shirai

Tessei Kobayashi

Yasue Kishino

Masaki Kasahara

Kumiko Tokuhara

Yongjin Jung

An index value assignment device comprises: a selection unit that prompts a user to select, from a sentence, one or more words that the user feels to have a same degree of a predetermined index value with respect to one or more first words for which the index value is known; a validation unit that validates the selection result by the user on a basis of the index value of a second word for which the index value is known from among the one or more words included in the selection result; and a determination unit that determines the index value with respect to a third word for which the index value is unknown from among the one or more words selected by the user, on a basis of the index value of the first word according to the selection result for which the selection result is determined to be valid. Consequently, the efficiency of assigning word familiarity is increased.

Index value giving apparatus, index value giving method and program

A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.

Communication method and apparatus

An information processing device includes: a control section that displays, in response to an operation of an operation section, a piece of map information on a display section and acquires, in accordance with the piece of map information displayed on the display section, a list of content related to the piece of map information.

Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program

A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data.

Playlist sharing methods and apparatus

A data communication apparatus capable of creating a new type of communication is provided. Motion information obtaining meansobtains information on the motion of an arbitrary apparatus. An other-party apparatus motion determination sectionmakes a determination as to the motion of the arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the information on the motion of the arbitrary apparatus, the information being obtained by the motion information obtaining means. A communication determination sectiondetermines whether or not communication is to be performed with an arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the motion determination output by the other-party apparatus motion determination section. When it is determined by the communication determination sectionthat communication is to be performed, predetermined data communication is started with the arbitrary apparatus.

Data communication apparatus, data communication method, and data communication packet

To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material databaseis replayed, a controlleracquires the metadata added to the audio data to be replayed from the material database, refer to the metadata of image data based on the above metadata to thereby search image data intimately related to the audio data, controls a voice replay system such as an audio decoderand the like and an image replay system such as an image decoderand the like, and replay the audio data to be replayed and the searched image data in relation with each other.

Contents replay apparatus and contents replay method

A communication terminal includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a communication terminal of an intended counterparty; a detector configured to detect information reflecting a status of a user of the own communication terminal; a condition checker configured to check whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by comparing information reflecting a status of a user of the communication terminal of the counterparty, received via the communication unit, with the information detected by the detector; and a controller configured to exercise control so that a communication circuit is established with the communication terminal of the counterparty via the communication unit when it is determined by the condition checker that the condition is satisfied.

Communication terminal, communication system, server apparatus, and communication connecting method

A data processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a reproducing element for reproducing each of a plurality of content data items, a reproduction status detecting element for detecting status of each content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element, a selecting element for selecting the content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element depending on the reproduction status of the content data item detected by the reproduction status detecting element a content identification data generating element for generating content identification data for identifying the content data item selected by the selecting element from the plurality of content data items, and a transmitting element for transmitting to a second data processing apparatus the content identification data generated by the content identification data generating element.

System, method and apparatus enabling exchange of list of content data items

A data processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a reproducing element for reproducing each of a plurality of content data items a reproduction status detecting element for detecting status of each content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element a selecting element for selecting the content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element depending on the reproduction status of the content data item detected by the reproduction status detecting element a content identification data generating element for generating content identification data for identifying the content data item selected by the selecting element from the plurality of content data items and a transmitting element for transmitting to a second data processing apparatus the content identification data generated by the content identification data generating element.

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Masafumi Matsuda