Fujitsu Corporation

Naoko Hayashida

Kenji Suzuki

Hideaki Kuzuoka

A determination apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors configured to perform, on the basis of data detected by a sensor that measures a first user who operates a first avatar, detection of a first behavior of the first user, determine a first type of behavior corresponding to the detected first behavior by referring to information indicating correspondence between a plurality of behaviors and a plurality of types of behavior, and perform, on the basis of a behavior tendency of the first user determined in accordance with the first type of behavior, control of an output to an environment where the first avatar exists.

Determination apparatus and determination method

An image generation method, for displaying avatars. The method includes identifying a tendency in a predetermined temporal interval of a social behavior performed by a second user to a first user if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user, of the users performing communications by way of avatars. The method may also include controlling the social behavior selected based on the identified tendency such that the social behavior is presented to the first user by way of the avatar of the second user, if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user.

Image generation program, image generation device, and image generation method

An action control method includes when a first state of a first user in communication with a first machine avatar is detected, specifying a first action of the first machine avatar for changing a state of the first user from the first state to a second state that is more desirable than the first state based on history information indicating changes in states of users in response to actions of machine avatars or different users in communication with the users, and causing the first machine avatar to perform the first action.

Action control method and device

An image generating apparatus, including a memory storing avatar data representing a motion of an avatar in a virtual space and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain sensor information that represents a motion of a person in a real space acquired from at least one sensor, determine a first value that indicates an impression of the person based on the obtained sensor information, determine a type of the motion based on the obtained sensor information, select at least one candidate data set corresponding to the type of the motion from the memory, determine a second value that indicates impression of the avatar for each of the selected at least one data set, select a representative data set based on the determined first value and the determined second value, and generate an avatar image based on the representative data set.

Image generating apparatus, image generating system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An information processing method relating to movement of eye positions includes: identifying, for each of plural users, transition of movement directions of an eye gaze of the user, from movement history of the eye gaze of the user on a display screen; and extracting a minor user among the plural users based on the transition of the movement directions of the eye gaze, which is identified for each of the plural users.

Information processing technique for eye gaze movements

A method of processing information includes: identifying a time span in a period of viewing a content based on detection results of the behavioral viewing states of the user viewing the content, the time span being a period, during which a behavioral viewing state of the user is not determined to be a positive state or a negative state; extracting a time period during which an index indicating one of the positive state and the negative state of the user has an unordinary value with respect to values of the other time periods in the time span; and estimating a time period, during which the user has quite possible been in at least one of the positive state and the negative state, based on the time period extracted by the extracting.

Method of processing information, and information processing apparatus

A content providing program causing a computer to execute content provision processing including, acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided; registering, on the basis of the first viewing situation, as feedback desirable content, missed content in a time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content; estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.

Content providing program, content providing method, and content providing apparatus

An information management unitof an information management apparatusrepresents a device as an object by a service provided and data stored in the apparatus. The information management unitfurther sends and receives an object by a communication unitand manages a surrounding apparatus as a similarly modeled object. A device policy creating unitdefines from objects what kind of device state is desirable when the surrounding environment is constituted by a plurality of devices in particular states as a device policy, and changes a setting of the information management apparatusaccording to the device policy.

Information management apparatus, information management method, and information management program

A perceptual reaction analyzer transmits content to the terminals, receives the perceptual reaction information, generates perceptual reaction change information, estimates the presence/absence of interest of the users based on the perceptual reaction change information to classify the users into groups corresponding to the presence/absence of the interest, generates a certainty level which indicates a degree of certainty of the presence/absence of interest, and tries, for a low certainty user, an operation on the content corresponding to the perceptual reaction by which the same presence/absence of interest of the low certainty user is estimated again, based on the perceptual reaction information of a user of which presence/absence of interest is the same as the low certainty user. The perceptual reaction information receiving, the perceptual reaction change information generating and the user grouping are performed after the trial processing, so as to re-estimate the presence/absence of interest of the low certainty user.

Perceptual reaction analyzer, and method and program thereof

Biometric information registered for each user is held, user information being a plurality types of attribute information associated with each user is held, a possibility that the user requests authentication is predicted and a predicted value is calculated for each user by using the plurality types of attribute information contained in the held user information. When biometric information for an authentication request is accepted, the accepted biometric information is matched against the biometric information for a plurality of users determined based on calculated predicted values, and it is determined based on the result of the matching whether a person having entered the accepted biometric information is authenticated as the user.

User authentication device and user authentication method

An information management apparatus includes a first control information setting unit that sets first control information for permitting use of information within a destination terminal to the information; a second control information setting unit that sets second control information for permitting the destination terminal to forward the information to the information; a displaying permitting unit that controls, when information set with the first control information is received from a source terminal, to permit the information to be used locally within an apparatus; and a forwarding permitting unit that controls, when information set with the second control information is received from a source terminal, to permit the information to be forwarded.

Information management apparatus, information management method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A personal-information managing apparatus includes: a usage permission policy managing unit to manage usage permission policy in which a boundary between usage permission and usage prohibition of personal information is defined; a personal information request receiving unit to receive a request for the personal information from the personal-information handling apparatus; a usage-permission issuing unit to obtain the usage permission policy corresponding to the received request via the usage permission policy managing unit, and to issue a usage permit corresponding to the usage permission policy and the requested personal information to the personal-information handling apparatus; a usage permit issue history managing unit to manage the issued usage permit and usage permission issue history relating to the personal information; and a credibility establishing unit to establish credibility of information exchange with the personal-information handling apparatus in relation to the issuing of the usage permit and the personal information.

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Yokohama, Japan

Naoko Hayashida