Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Spny Corporation

Masaomi Nishidate

Norihiro Nagai

Yoshinori Ohashi

Kiyoto Shibuya

Peter Rae Shintani

Gregory Carlsson

Hideki Mori

Morio Usami

Keiichiro Suzuki

Kae Nagano

Shinpei Kameoka

Isamu Terasaka

Norihiro Takahashi

Ryuichi Okayama

Keisuke Ai

A comment that can easily arouse viewer's interest and attention to a game video can be outputted. An attribute information acquisition section acquires viewer attribute information which indicates an attribute of a viewer who has made access to a video distribution apparatus. A comment information selection section selects at least one of a plurality of comment information items associated with a predetermined scene included in a video, on the basis of the viewer attribute information. A comment output section outputs a comment that is based on the selected comment information, together with the predetermined scene included in the video.

Video distribution apparatus, video distribution method, and video distribution program

An App image includes a display target area displayed on a cylindrical screen, a left margin area, and a right margin area. When a particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the right margin area, a display apparatus arranges, in the left margin area, a particle in the same mode as the mode of the particle such that the particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the left margin area. The display apparatus generates a plurality of images such that as the particle moves out to the right margin area from the display target area, the particle enters the display target area from the left margin area.

Display apparatus, display method, and computer program

An audio confirmation system includes a voice acquiring section configured to acquire a voice contained in a motion picture; a voice text producing section configured to produce a voice text based on the acquired voice; a determining section configured to determine whether or not the produced voice text and a caption text that is embedded in an image contained in the motion picture correspond to each other; and an outputting section configured to output a result of the determination of the determining section.

Audio confirmation system, audio confirmation method, and program via speech and text comparison

A contact determination section determines whether or not there is any contact between a body part of a user and an object in a real world. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space including a portion of the object in the real world, the portion having been contacted by the body part, and that is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.

Image generation apparatus and image generation method for generating augmented reality images based on user interaction

A moving-object position and orientation acquisition section acquires a position and an orientation of a moving object detected by a tracker provided in the moving object to be moved by a user. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space occupied by the moving object in a real world and viewed from a viewpoint of the user. The moving object is configured to be moved by the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.

Image generation apparatus and image generation method for augmented reality images based on object interaction

A head-mounted display that displays an image representing appearance obtained when an object is viewed from a point of view disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, includes a detecting section that detects rotation of the head-mounted display and a display control section that carries out control to cause displaying of an image representing appearance obtained when the object is viewed from the point of view that has relatively revolved in the direction of the detected rotation while the position of a point of gaze is kept in response to the detection of the rotation by the detecting section.

Head-mounted display, information processing device, display control method, and program

To enhance the sound quality in the case where a directional speaker is used to allow a user to hear sounds coming from various directions. An information processing apparatus includes sound data acquisition means for acquiring data indicative of one piece of audio including treble audio and bass audio, volume determination means for determining a volume of the bass audio and a volume of the treble audio on the basis of a distance from a reflection position at which a sound from a high directional speaker is reflected to a user and a distance from a low directional speaker lower in directionality than the high directional speaker to the user, and speaker control means for making the low directional speaker output the bass audio and the high directional speaker output the treble audio on the basis of the determined volumes.

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

An information processing device includes: a reflecting surface determining section configured to determine a reflecting surface as an object for reflecting a sound; a reflecting surface information obtaining section configured to obtain reflecting surface information indicating a reflection characteristic of the determined reflecting surface; and an output control portion configured to output a directional sound according to the obtained reflecting surface information to the determined reflecting surface.

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

Audio spatial effects are provided using a spherical array of ultrasonic speakers, with the azimuth angle and, if desired, elevation angle demanded by a control signal from, for example, a game console being matched to the sonic axis of one of the speakers in the array to activate the matching speaker.

Ultrasonic speaker assembly for audio spatial effect

A game device includes: an input position acquiring unit for acquiring the position of an input entry to a touch panel capable of concurrently detecting input entries at a plurality of points; a drawing start determination unit for determining, when the respective positions of concurrent input entries to the touch panel at two points are acquired, to start drawing a graphic if a distance between the two points is within a first range; a drawing unit for drawing, while the input entries at the two points continue to be input after drawing a graphic is started, a graphic calculated based on the respective movement trajectories of the two points and displaying the graphic on a display device; and a drawing end determination unit for determining to end drawing the graphic when the input of the input entries at the two points ends.

Drawing device, drawing control method, and drawing control program for drawing graphics in accordance with input through input device that allows for input at multiple points

A table-top game device includes a lobby control unit and a room control unit. The lobby control unit displays an image of a lobby, a virtual space where a plurality of users exchange information, and displays objects associated with the plurality of users at predetermined positions in the lobby. The room control unit displays an image of a room, a virtual space where the users in the lobby can enter, along with the image of the lobby so that the user entering the room can know the objects in the lobby.

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Masaomi Nishidate