Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Masato Kimishima

Kosei Yamashita

Hideyuki Matsunaga

Tatsuhito Sato

Toru Amano

Naoyuki Onoe

Tetsuro Sato

An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to restrict, on the basis of movement amount information obtained from a motion sensor, output of the movement amount information.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Provided is an information processing device and an information processing method that enable simple and appropriate calibration. When a pen-type device incorporating an inertial measurement unit such as an IMU is moved and a drawn image corresponding to a track is displayed, calibration is implemented on the basis of a measurement value of the inertial measurement device in one stationary attitude and a latitude and an absolute azimuth of the inertial measurement device at that time when the pen-type device is inserted into a pen stand to be fixed in a predetermined direction.

Information processing device and information processing method that enable simple calibration

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and a method for enabling obtainment of a more appropriate compensation for a service. An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive health state information regarding a health state of a user, a calculation unit configured to calculate a compensation for a service on the basis of the health state information before getting-in to a vehicle by the user or before presenting the compensation for the service regarding the getting-in to a vehicle to the user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the compensation for the service. The present technology can be applied to automobile insurance services.

Information processing apparatus and method

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that make it possible to properly report the reliability of information that is available with use of an inertial sensor. The information processing apparatus includes a state estimation section that estimates a state of a predetermined object and an output controller that controls, on the basis of the estimated state of the object, output of reliability information indicating the reliability of object information of the object, the object information of the object being available with use of an inertial sensor. The present technology is applicable to a portable information terminal such as a smartphone or a wearable device, for example.

There is provided an information processing device including a control unit that determines reliability of positioning information of a user calculated on a basis of sensed information output from a sensing unit built in a portable information processing device. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to determine the reliability of positioning information. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.

Information processing device and information processing method

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an absolute position acquiring section that acquires an absolute position of a user, an acquiring section that acquires a first value indicating a walking tempo of the user who is walking, a calculation section that calculates a second value indicating a step or a traveling speed of the user by using, as a trigger, movement of a predetermined distance based on the absolute position, and a learning section that learns a correspondence between the first value and the second value by using the second value calculated.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method for acquiring precise position in autonomous navigation system

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus a method for enabling obtainment of a more appropriate compensation for a service. An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives health state information regarding a health state of a user, a calculation unit that calculates a compensation for a service on the basis of the health state information before getting-in to a vehicle by the user or before presenting the compensation for the service regarding the getting-in to a vehicle to the user, and a transmission unit that transmits information indicating the compensation for the service. The present technology can be applied to automobile insurance services.

An information processing apparatus includes a distance calculation unit to calculate a moving distance of a user by using an absolute position of the user measured by an absolute positioning unit and a control unit to perform control to turn off the absolute positioning unit in a case where the moving distance becomes a predetermined distance.

Information processing apparatus and control method

To be capable of realizing a technique which enables a measurement error of a magnetic sensor to be obtained with higher accuracy, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a fluctuation measuring unit configured to measure temporal fluctuation of a magnetic value measured by a magnetic sensor during movement of at least the magnetic sensor or information obtained based on the magnetic value, and a measurement error acquiring unit configured to obtain a measurement error of the magnetic sensor based on the fluctuation.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

The present technique relates particularly to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which can improve sleep efficiency. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technique has: an acquisition unit which acquires information which indicates an action schedule of a user; and a first determination unit which determines whether the user needs to wake up or sleep, and determines the degree of necessity of waking up when determining that the user needs to wake up and the degree of necessity of sleeping when determining the user needs to sleep, according to the action schedule of the user. The present technique is applicable to a mobile device such as a mobile telephone, a PDA and a digital camera.

Information processing to improve sleep efficiency

There is provided a positioning device including a geomagnetism detection section which detects geomagnetism, an acquisition section which acquires a matching area obtained by checking values of a total magnetic intensity and a magnetic dip of the geomagnetism detected by the geomagnetism detection section against geomagnetic information including values of a total magnetic intensity and a magnetic dip which are associated with an absolute position, and an identification section which identifies a current location based on the area acquired by the acquisition section.

Positioning device, positioning method, program, and recording medium

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a speed calculating section configured to calculates a traveling speed of a user based on a signal received from a positioning signal transmitter, a walking tempo acquiring section configured to acquire a walking tempo of the user, and an evaluating section configured to evaluate, based on the walking tempo and the traveling speed, reliability of information calculated by using the signal received from the positioning signal transmitter.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An angular velocity correction device includes a horizontal angular velocity detection unit to detect horizontal axis angular velocity, that is mounted on a main unit attached to a moving object that moves along a predetermined movement surface, and that is made up of angular velocity around the horizontal axis which is orthogonal to the advancing direction of the moving object, occurring according to the inclination angle of the movement surface; a correction value generating unit to generate a correction value for correcting the horizontal axis angular velocity, based on the horizontal axis angular velocity that satisfies predetermined horizontal determining conditions of the horizontal axis angular velocity in the past; and a correction unit to correct the horizontal axis angular velocity using the correction value.

Angular velocity correction device, angular velocity correction method, navigation device, and cellular phone having navigation function

A navigation device includes a measuring unit to measure the current position; a geomagnetism sensor that is provided on a predetermined main unit, and is to detect geomagnetism; an orientation calculation unit to calculate the orientation of the main unit, upon setting correction values for correction detection values of the geomagnetism, based on the detection values and the correction values; a presenting unit to present measurement results by the measuring unit and the calculation results of the orientation to a user; an operating state switchover unit to switch between a normal operating state that executes the presenting processing and a suspended state that maintains a portion of processing state while stopping at least the calculation processing of the orientation; and an initialization processing unit to initialize the correction values, in the case of having switched from the suspended state to the normal operating state by the operating state switchover unit.

Wireless communication device with navigation functions for accurately detecting orientation by a geomagnetism sensor and displaying maps with the current orientation

A navigation apparatus including a geomagnetic sensor that detects a geomagnetic field of the navigation apparatus, an orientation calculation unit that calculates an orientation of the navigation apparatus based on the detected geomagnetic field, a cradle detection unit that detects that the navigation apparatus is connected to a cradle, and outputs a signal indicating that the navigation apparatus is connected to the cradle, and an operation control unit that receives the signal output from the cradle detection unit, and controls the orientation calculation unit to not detect the orientation of the navigation apparatus based on the detected geomagnetic field.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masato Kimishima