Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Masayoshi Mizuno

Naoyuki Miyada

Akira Hasegawa

Yoshinori Shimizu

Takayuki Ishida

Takashi Karimoto

Toshiyuki Kurosaki

Hideaki Iwaki

Youji Kita

Motoki Kato

Toru Chinen

Kazuo Yamamoto

Yuki Kobayashi

Shigeru Enomoto

Manabu Nishizawa

Mitsuru Katsumata

Kensaku Ishizuka

Shunsuke Kunieda

Hiromasa Naganuma

Hiroyuki Kawahara

Kiyoto Shibuya

Shigeho Ogawa

Tatsuto Suetomi

Hideki Yanagisawa

Mamiko Ishida

Naoki Egawa

Tsuyoshi Takagi

A control systemincludes an application processor that executes a first operating system to process an application, a sensor processor that executes a second operating system to process image data acquired by an image sensor, and a motion controlling processor that executes a third operating system to control motion of a movable part of a robot. The first operating system, the second operating system, and the third operating system are different from each other.

Robot controlling system

In combination, a detection section detects a target based on a first image signal from a first image sensor, a setting section sets an area of interest in which at least part of the target is included, a calculation section calculates, based on a second image signal from a second image sensor that asynchronously generates an image signal when a change in intensity of light incident on each of pixels is detected, a distribution of the second image signal in the area of interest, a tracking section tracks the detection target in the area of interest on the basis of at least one of the first image signal and the second image signal, a tracking controlling section discerns a movement of the detection target in the area of interest based on the tracking, and an information outputting section outputs a result of the tracking by the tracking section.

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

An application processor processes an application. A sensor processor acquires image data from an image sensor and analyzes the image data. A motion controlling processor controls motion of a movable part of a robot. The motion controlling processor provides posture information for specifying an orientation of the image sensor to the sensor processor, not via the application processor. The posture information includes information for specifying a position of the image sensor.

An information processing device is provided with a relation learning section that learns the relation between a first image of an object having a plurality of joints and coordinate information which indicates positions of the plurality of joints and which is defined in a range expanded to be larger than the angle of view of the first image, thereby constructing a trained model for estimating coordinate information of at least one joint located outside the angle of view of a newly-acquired second image of an object.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An application processor processes an application. A sensor processor acquires image data from an image sensor and analyzes the image data. The application processor acquires an image analysis result obtained by the sensor processor and posture information for specifying an orientation of the image sensor. The application processor acquires posture information obtained when the image sensor acquires image data to be analyzed by the sensor processor.

Robotic device having an image analysis system

A device and method capable of performing image following type audio control or image non-following type audio control are implemented. Images in different directions are selectively displayed on the display unit, and an output audio is controlled in accordance with an image display. A data processing unit executes image following type audio control of moving an audio source direction in accordance with movement of the display image of the display unit and image non-following type audio control of not moving the audio source direction in accordance with the movement of an image in units of individual controllable audio elements. The data processing unit acquires audio control information from an MP4 file or a media presentation description (MPD) file and executes either the image following type audio control or the image non-following type audio control in accordance with the acquired audio control information in units of individual controllable audio elements.

A connection sectionis connected to a client apparatus through a network. A service providing unit provides a service of reception/distribution of a digital broadcast in accordance with a service providing request supplied from the client apparatus. A client information storage sectionstores therein information associated with the client apparatus connected to the connection section. When the service providing request is supplied from a second client apparatus while the service providing unit provides an exclusive service to a first client apparatus, a client information presentation sectionpresents information associated with at least one client apparatus to the other client apparatus. An arbitration sectioncauses at least one of the first client apparatus and the second client apparatus to select whether or not to stop the service for the first client apparatus and to start the provision of the service to the second client apparatus.

Server, client apparatus, arbitration method, service requesting method, and data distribution system

In a storage system, client devices and storage devices are connected to a network. An application for controlling the recording function of the storage device is installed on the client device. The client device, which accesses the storage device, is provided with a user interface with which a user operates the storage device. The storage device has a network attached storage (NAS) function and a recording function, and the storage device has no interface of its own with which to operate. A plurality of the storage devices are connectable to the network. When the client device registers the plurality of storage devices connected to the network, the client device accesses the plurality of storage devices registered and provides the user with a single user interface.

Storage system

A reception unit receives data whose bit rate varies. A signal processing sectionconverts the data received by the reception unit into data of a data format to be transmitted to a client apparatus and stores the data obtained by the conversion into a buffer. When data is stored by a given amount into the buffer, a transmission section streaming-distributes the data to the client apparatus. A control sectionadditionally stores, when data is not stored by the given amount into the bufferin a given transmission period, dummy data into the bufferuntil the given amount is reached, and controls the transmission section to transmit the resulting data.

Server, client apparatus, data distribution method, and data distribution system

A receiver receives a stream of program data that includes: an image signal including a plurality of frames; a sound signal; and a playback timing signal used for synchronized playback of the image signal and the sound signal. A clock signal generation unit generates a clock signal that is independent of the playback timing signal. A reception timing signal acquisition unit acquires a reception timing signal indicating a receiving time of the program data. An analysis unit analyzes a trend of time-dependent variation in a detected difference between the reception timing signal and the playback timing signal. An adjustment amount generation unit generates an adjustment amount of the clock signal, which causes the difference between the reception timing signal and the playback timing to be constant, by referring to a trend of time-dependent variation analyzed by the analysis unit.

Synchronization signal adjustment device, synchronization signal adjustment method, image display device, and synchronization signal generation device

Reduction of wasteful power consumption is envisaged. A power supply function-equipped electronic apparatus () is configured to be capable of supplying power to a battery device () incorporating a battery () by use of a cable () connecting the apparatus () with the device (). A detection section () detects whether charging of the battery () incorporated in the battery device () is complete through the cable (). When charging of the battery () is detected to be complete, a power control section () turns off power of the power supply function-equipped electronic apparatus (). This invention can be applied illustratively to gaming machines and the like each composed of a gaming machine body and its controller.

Electronic device, control method and program

There is provided an information processing device enabling a content of 3D image to be appropriately reproduced from a recording medium. A virtual extent read out from a recording medium recorded with interleaved data obtained by dividing each of a base stream and an enhanced stream into extents Extand Ext, and arranging the Extand Extin an interleaved manner so that the Extand Extare adjacent to each other, and a file entry of a 2D reproduction file in which the Extis stored in a reproducing order, and a 3D type 1 reproduction file in which the virtual extent is stored in a reproducing order, with a set of Extand Ext, which are adjacent to each other in the interleaved data, as the virtual extent, is divided into the Extand Extusing the file entry of the 2D reproduction file.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, and data structure

A playback method that plays video data and audio data associated with the video data, includes the steps of: calculating, in the video data, a difference between a playback interval and an interval of the audio data; performing first conversion that converts the length of the playback interval in accordance with the difference; and performing second conversion that alternately outputs each frame repeatedly three times and repeatedly two times on the video data and converts the video data at a first frame frequency to the video data at a second frame frequency in a two-to-five relationship with the first frame frequency, wherein the first conversion is configured such that the frame difference after the conversion can be equal to or lower than one between the frame group based on the frame output repeatedly three times and the frame group based on the frame output repeatedly two times.

Playback method, playback program and playback apparatus

A reproducing apparatus simultaneously reproduces a first video signal and a second video signal reproduced at any timing against the first video signal. A first (second) converting section outputs the first (second) video signal having a first frame frequency alternately for three successive frames and two successive frames to convert the first (second) video signal having the first frame frequency into the video signal having a second frame frequency. They have a relationship of 2 to 5. A controlling section performs control such that timing at which a field group of the three successive frames of the first video signal having the second frame signal is changed to a field group of the two successive frames thereof matches timing at which a field group of the three successive frames of the second video signal having the second frame signal is changed to a field group of the two successive frames thereof.

Apparatus and associated methodology for generating a picture-in-picture display from two video screens

An image processing method for converting the frame frequency of a video signal includes a first step for subjecting a video signal having a first frame-frequency to three-times-repeat output and two-times-repeat output of a frame to convert the video signal having the first frame-frequency into a video signal having a second frame-frequency holding a relation of 2:5 as to the first frame-frequency; and a second step for converting the video signal having said second frame-frequency converted in said first step into a video signal having a third frame-frequency holding a relation of 1000:1001 or 1001:1000 as to the second frame-frequency, wherein the second step performs the conversion such that the difference of the number of frames after conversion becomes one or less between a frame group based on the three-times-repeat output frame in the first step, and a frame group based on the two-times-repeat output frame in the first step.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayoshi Mizuno