Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Group Corporation

Noboru Murabayashi

Hiroshige Okamoto

Keiji Kanota

Takao Takahashi

Masaru Miyamoto

Masami Tomita

Shunji Yoshimura

Masashi Ohta

Taro Suito

Toshiya Akiba

Tsutomu Seki

Naohisa Arai

Hideo Nagasaka

Sho Murakoshi

Katsunari Miyata

Masashi Ota

Tomonori Misawa

Koichi Kawana

Nobuyoshi Miyokawa

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Okada

Masahiko Enari

Kenji Nakano

Teruhiko Kori

Keitaro Yamashita

Tsuyoshi Takagi

Takahito Seki

Toshimichi Hamada

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Koichi Chotoku

Hideaki Okamura

Daisuke Negi

Shoji Nemoto

Kenichi Nagaoka

Yoshinari Shirata

Akihiro Tsubaki

Takeshi Tokita

There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.

Display control device, recording control device, and display control method

An information processing apparatus includes: a gaze position detection section that detects a gaze position of a user with respect to a display screen; a position information acquisition section that acquires position information of the user; and a control section that judges, based on the detected gaze position, a scene and an object in the scene that the user focuses in a content displayed on the display screen, and generates search information from the judged object and the acquired position information.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing apparatus includes a content reproduction unit, a content part specification unit, a clustering unit, a class detection unit, a common class extraction unit, and a content retrieval unit. The content reproduction unit is configured to reproduce a reproduction content. The content part specification unit is configured to specify a plurality of content parts included in the reproduction content. The clustering unit is configured to classify the plurality of content parts into a plurality of clusters. The class detection unit is configured to detect a class from the plurality of content parts included in each of the plurality of clusters. The common class extraction unit is configured to extract a common class common to the plurality of clusters from the classes detected by the class detection unit. The content retrieval unit is configured to retrieve a content corresponding to the common class.

Information processing apparatus, program, and information processing method

A moisture-proof structure includes: a sealing layer surrounding or covering a moisture-proof target between a first base material and a second base material; a moisture-proof material provided in contact with an outer side of the sealing layer and in a peripheral section of the first base material and the second base material, in which the peripheral section is located outside the sealing layer; and an uneven structure provided in a part of the first base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material and in a part of the second base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material.

Moisture-proof structure and display device

There is provided a power management system including a detecting apparatus configured to detect electromagnetic waves generated in relation to an operation of an appliance and a receiving apparatus including an appliance determining unit configured to determine a type of the appliance based on a power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, an operation determining unit configured to determine the operation of the appliance based on the power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, and a power estimating unit configured to estimate power consumption of the appliance based on the type and operation of the appliance.

Power management system and power management method

An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.

Information processing system, recording apparatus, portable device, information processing method, and program

There is provided a video recording apparatus including a content accumulation part accumulating video content, a feature extraction processing part extracting an image or voice as a feature from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part, and obtaining word information from the extracted image or the extracted voice, a word information acquisition part acquiring sorted word information obtained using clustering processing on word information identified from an image captured by a camera, and a content retrieval part retrieving relevant video content from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part based on the sorted word information acquired by the word information acquisition part and the word information acquired by the feature extraction processing part.

Video recording apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium

An electronic device includes: a communication unit to connect to a different device on a network, the different device storing contents; an output unit to connect to a display apparatus; a control unit; an operation input unit; and a reproduction unit. The control unit searches for contents stored in the different device on the network, generates a list of thumbnail images indicating the searched contents, estimates an error rate when each of the contents is received and reproduced, and outputs the list to the display apparatus, the control unit changing a state of each of the thumbnail images in the list according to the estimated error rate. The operation input unit receives reproduction instruction operation with respect to the content indicated by each of the thumbnail images. The reproduction unit receives the content, which is subjected to the reproduction instruction operation, from the different device, and reproduce the content.

Electronic device, content reproduction method, and program therefor

A recording apparatus includes: a parallax detecting unit detecting a parallax between L and R images included in 3D contents to be recorded; and a recording control unit recording both of the L and R images at a first section at which the parallax between the L and R images is greater than a threshold value and recording one of the L and R images at a second section at which the parallax between the L and R images is less than the threshold value.

Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, program, and recording/producing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes: accepting means for accepting user's input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; setting means for setting a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the accepting means to a user's remarkable scene; acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating the remarkable scene contents; and display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents on the basis of the additional information and display of a list screen including an arrangement of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents for each remarkable scene.

Information processing apparatus, method, and program

An information signal processing method is provided which is to be used for special playback operations to make summary (digest) playback of image/voice data signals of a broadcast program. The method includes the steps of detecting a voice level or predetermined voice characteristic of each predetermined section from a predetermined image/voice information signal or an image/voice information signal resulted from predetermined band compression of the predetermined image/voice information signal and processing the voice signal as a predetermined segment section correspondingly to the result of detection and a predetermined set value; extracting predetermined characteristic data of each section of an image signal from the image/voice information signal and generating predetermined characteristic data indicative of an image feature of the predetermined section from the characteristic data; segmenting the image/voice information signal correspondingly to the image characteristic data, a signal resulted from segmentation of the voice and a predetermined time length or section length setting data; and recording a predetermined voice characteristic signal extracted from the voice signal on the basis of a segment of the image/voice information signal and the image feature data into a predetermined recording medium or predetermined data memory.

Information signal processing method and apparatus, and computer program product

A display controller includes an extraction unit for extracting a characteristic of at least one of image data and sound data of content; a detection unit for detecting a predetermined scene of the content on the basis of the characteristic extracted by the extraction unit; a reproduction unit for reproducing the content; and a display control unit for displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a two-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position of a section of the predetermined scene detected by the detection unit and displaying an image of the content so as to be recognized as a three-dimensional image when the reproduction position of the content is a position outside the section of the predetermined scene.

Display controller, display control method, program, output device, and transmitter

An information signal processing apparatus comprises: data playback unit for playing back data from a recording medium on which featured data is recorded according to the setting of a first parameter series; information file playback unit for playing back the video/audio information files by selecting from the recording medium; parameter setting unit for selecting one of the played back information files and setting parameter data corresponding to the information file and to the first or second parameter series; playback period processing unit for determining the playback period of the video/audio data recorded on the recording medium according to the featured data and either initialization parameter data set in advance in accordance with the first and second parameter series or the parameter data adjusted by the parameter setting unit; and playback control unit for performing playback control according to the signal from the playback period processing unit.

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

There is provided an information signal processing method used when performing a special reproduction operation for digest reproduction of a video/audio information signal of a broadcast program. The method includes: a step for reading data from the video/audio characteristic data of each predetermined section of a predetermined video/audio information signal and additional information data concerning the video/audio information signal or a predetermined recording medium containing these data; a step for creating a predetermined first information meaning for each predetermined section of the video/audio information signal from the read data; a step for connecting a plurality of sections for which the first predetermined meaning has been created so as to perform creation of a predetermined second information meaning or a predetermined evaluation processing for a predetermined section according to the signal of the first meaning creation processing; and a step for setting a predetermined reproduction section or a predetermined reproduction time according to the signal subjected to the evaluation processing.

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Saitama, Japan

Noboru Murabayashi