Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Masahiro Hara

Satoshi Hiroi

Hiroshi Nagatani

Takeshi Matsuzawa

Hiroyuki Mitsubori

Yukio Ichikawa

Yasushi Nakajima

Hiroshi Horiki

Kouhei Fujimoto

Yumi Sato

Sakae Houjou

Marie Suzuki

Mingshan Yang

Toshiaki Kusakabe

Norifumi Kikkawa

Yasunori Nagatomo

Atsushi Onoe

Mariko Yoshida

Mitsuo Okumura

Satoshi Akagawa

Satoshi Fujimura

Yoshiyasu Kubota

Masanori Nomura

Shigeya Yasui

Yuichi Kageyama

Masachika Sasaki

Yasuaki Honda

Junichi Nakata

Tatsuo Kuroiwa

Yuki Murata

Gen Hamada

Shinpei Kameoka

Hisashi Hosaka

Yukiko Sakata

Masahide Sumiyoshi

Bin Lin

An information processing apparatus receives a user selection of content to be reproduced by an external device connected to the information processing apparatus. A request to reproduce the user selected content is sent to the external device. Information indicating whether the external device has started reproducing the selected content is received from the external device. In response to the external device having started reproduction of the selected content, a thumbnail image is reproduced that corresponds to the content being reproduced by the external device.

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

The present invention provides an information processing device that processes a voice-based agent interaction, and an information processing method, and provides an information processing system. The information processing device is provided with: a communication unit that receives information related to an interaction with a user through an agent residing in a first apparatus; and a control unit that controls an external agent service. The control unit collects the information that includes at least one among an image or a voice of the user, information related to operation of the first apparatus by the user, and sensor information detected by a sensor with which the first apparatus is equipped. The control unit controls calling of the external agent service.

Information processing device and information processing method, and information processing system

Systems and methods for controlling presentation of a menu over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-providing apparatus over the network, an input unit configured to receive input from a user of the information-processing apparatus, a storage unit storing one or more menus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive, via the input unit, a selection of information for processing, to retrieve, from the storage unit, a first menu associated with the selected information, to receive, via the communication unit, a second menu associated with the selected information from the information-providing apparatus over the network, and to generate a third menu associated with the selected information based on the first menu and on the second menu.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, information providing device, and information processing system

Systems and methods for managing form data representing a form are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information-providing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-processing apparatus over a network, a storage unit storing a container, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive, via the communication unit, a request to access the container from the information-processing apparatus, to retrieve, from the container, form data representing a form, to send, via the communication unit, the form data to the information-processing apparatus, and to receive, via the communication unit, a form execution request from the information-processing apparatus, the form execution request including an identification of the container and user-supplied information added to the form date. The processing unit is further configured to execute the form execution request based on the identification of the container and on the user-supplied information.

Systems and methods for executing forms

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information generating means; collecting means; and distributing means.

Information processing apparatus and method and program

An information processing system including, a client capable of receiving and reproducing content from a media server, and a collecting server for receiving content management information on the content from the media server and managing the content management information.

Information processing system, collecting server, information processing method and program

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a content information acquisition unit that acquires content related information related to content data managed by a content management server from the content management server managing the content data, a selection unit that selects content from a content list which is a list of the content based on the content related information, and an externally connected device control unit that notifies, when the selected content is executed by an externally connected device connected externally, the externally connected device of location information of content data corresponding to the selected content and acquires reproduction state information representing a reproduction state of content when the externally connected device reproduces the selected content from the externally connected device.

An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image, display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.

Information processing apparatus, method and program

In a metadata collection system comprising a plurality of content management servers each capable of managing content and content metadata as local content and managing content metadata stored in another content management server as reference content and a metadata collection apparatus connected with the plurality of content management servers to collect metadata from the plurality of content management servers, the metadata collection apparatus collects metadata from the individual content management servers based upon server information held at the content management servers and category identifiers appended to tree structures generated at the content management servers by individually referencing the plurality of content management servers.

Metadata collection system, content management server, metadata collection apparatus, metadata collection method and program

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Masahiro Hara