Sony Corporation

Masato Shimakawa

Seiji Suzuki

Naoyuki Sato

Hirotake Ichikawa

Keiichi Yamada

Makoto Akabane

Erika Kobayashi

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Nobuhide Yamazaki

Tomoaki Nitta

Yasuharu Asano

Seiji Miyama

Atsuo Hiroe

Junichi Rekimoto

Kazuo Ishii

Hiroaki Ogawa

Hiroaki Kitano

Osamu Shigeta

Takuya Ikeda

Kentaro Ida

Satoshi Fujimura

Hiroshi Kakuda

Maki Imoto

Hitoshi Honda

Yousuke Kawana

Satoshi Hiroi

Yoshihiro Manabe

Tetsuya Kagami

Tsugutomo Enami

Kazuko Yamada

Yuji Matsuyama

Bao Hongchang

Kazunori Sasano

Takashi Koyanagawa

An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a generation control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image of a target object. The generation unit is able to execute each of a first generation process and a second generation process different from the first generation process as a generation process of generating a model of the target object on the basis of the acquired image of the target object. The generation control unit controls switching of execution of the first generation process and execution of the second generation process by the generation unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method, capable of appropriately restricting viewing of content based on a result of sensing a real space. The information processing device includes a viewing restricting unit configured to restrict, on the basis of a predetermined condition, viewing of a part of content corresponding to a partial space of a real space among content of a free viewpoint generated based on a sensing result for the real space.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing device including a decision unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, a shared object arranged in a virtual space that is generated for communication between a first user and a second user on the basis of a sensing result of a first real space including at least one first actual object in relation to the first user and a sensing result of a second real space including at least one second actual object in relation to the second user.

Information processing device and information processing method capable of deciding objects arranged in virtual space generated based on real space

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of appropriately restricting the use of content in a situation in which a certain user ends the use of the content. The information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating an end of use of content of a free viewpoint by a first user, which is provided on the basis of sensing of a real space and shared by at least the first user and a second user; and a use restricting unit configured to set restrictions related to the use of the content of the free viewpoint on the basis of the information indicating the end of the use and first setting information.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a control authority managing unit configured to change a control authority for a device by a first user on a basis of whether or not a status is a monitored status. The monitored status is a status in which the device or the first user is under supervision of a second user having a management authority for the device, and the first user does not have the management authority for the device.

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that provide a mechanism with which the display location of the operation object is able to be operated with a sensation of displacing an actual object. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of an operation object for a device to be operated; and a reference control unit that controls a reference of a location at which the operation object is displayed such that the operation object is able to be visually recognized, on the basis of a predetermined operation performed to the operation object by an operation subject of the device to be operated.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for controlling a location at which an operation object for a device to be operated is displayed

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit is capable of communicating with another information processing apparatus via a relay server in a network. The controller is capable of obtaining communication environment information indicating a communication environment of the communication unit, the communication environment information including attribute information on a communication relay apparatus relaying communication between the communication unit and the relay server. Further, the controller is capable of calculating a sending interval to send maintenance signals to maintain connection with the relay server based on the obtained communication environment information. Further, the controller is capable of controlling the communication unit to send the maintenance signals to the relay server at the calculated sending interval.

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

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with a service on a network in which a plurality of users are capable of participating and devices of the plurality of the users. The storage unit stores user information on the plurality of users and device information on the devices of the plurality of users in relation to each other. A controller controls the communication unit so that the communication obtains, from the service, social graph information, generates group information on a group consisting of a plurality of users, generates a partial network including devices of users in the group based on the generated group information, the stored user information, and the stored device information, and controls communication between the devices in the generated partial network.

Controlling communication based on relationship between a plurality of devices

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit is capable of connecting to, via a fourth network, a first server and a first device existing in a first network, a second server and a second device existing in a second network, and a relay server that exists in a third network and stores connection information with respect to the first server and the second server. The controller is capable of controlling the communication unit to receive the connection information from the relay server and controlling data transmission processing between the first device and the second device via the first server and the second server using the connection information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

[Object] To reduce the trouble of the authentication process necessary for cooperation between a plurality of devices or network services. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with a first device, a second device, and a service on a network, the service having a resource on a user of the first device. The controller controls the communication unit so that the communication unit transmits, based on a request for obtaining an access right to the resource from the first device and permission information representing permission by the user with respect to the obtaining of the access right, a request for issuing an access token to the service, the access token representing the access right, and receives, from the service, the access token issued by the service. Moreover, the controller controls the storage unit so that the storage unit stores the received access token safely, and the communication unit so that the communication unit accesses the resource using the stored access token in response to a request from the second device associated with the user.

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

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit; and a controller configured to control the communication unit to perform one of transmission and reception of second identification information for communication through a predetermined communication path with a different apparatus, and to establish connection with the different apparatus by using the second identification information, during an audio call with the different apparatus, the audio call using first identification information for an audio call, the second identification information being associated with the first identification information.

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage, and a controller. The communication unit is capable of communicating with a server. The storage is capable of storing data used for predetermined processing. The controller is capable of controlling the communication unit to receive notification information from the server, the notification information containing current version information and updated version information, the current version information indicating a current version of the data, the updated version information indicating an updated version of the current version of the data, and acquire the updated version from a predetermined storage location after waiting for a standby time optionally determined within a predetermined maximum standby time. Further, the controller is capable of controlling the storage to update the stored data to the acquired updated version after an elapse of the maximum standby time.

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

A natural language processing apparatus includes an input section for inputting natural language, a representation converting section for converting representation of the natural language, a display section for displaying, for confirmation, sentence converted at the representation converting section, a machine translation section for carrying out machine translation of the confirmed sentence, and a control section for controlling these respective sections, thus to provide natural language processing in which confirmation operation of user is reduced.

Natural language processing apparatus and natural language processing method

Various sensors detect conditions outside a robot and an operation applied to the robot, and output the results of detection to a robot-motion-system control section. The robot-motion-system control section determines a behavior state according to a behavior model. A robot-thinking-system control section determines an emotion state according to an emotion model. A speech-synthesizing-control-information selection section determines a field on a speech-synthesizing-control-information table according to the behavior state and the emotion state. A language processing section analyzes in grammar a text for speech synthesizing sent from the robot-thinking-system control section, converts a predetermined portion according to a speech-synthesizing control information, and outputs to a rule-based speech synthesizing section. The rule-based speech synthesizing section synthesizes a speech signal corresponding to the text for speech synthesizing.

Speech synthesizing apparatus, speech synthesizing method, and recording medium using a plurality of substitute dictionaries corresponding to pre-programmed personality information

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Masato Shimakawa