Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Seiichi Aoyagi

Naoya Okamoto

Ken Onogi

Yasuharu Asano

Fujio Nobori

Yusuke Sakai

Hiroaki Ogawa

Jun Yokono

Keiichi Yamada

Hideki Shimomura

Kazumi Aoyama

Miyuki Tanaka

Yuji Handa

Kazuhiko Tajima

Hiroaki Dei

Toshio Oe

The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for easily acquiring information. A television receiver accesses an application server and acquires an application list therefrom. When an application is selected from the application list, the television receiver again accesses the application server and acquires the selected application therefrom. While executing a process based on the acquired application, the television receiver accesses a content server as needed and acquires content data therefrom. The acquired application and content data are deleted from a storage unit when an end of the process based on the application is designated. The present invention applies to television receivers which acquire data via a network.

Information processing device, method, and program

Provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit, an acquisition unit that acquires an application from an external storage apparatus each time processing concerning execution is started, a determination unit that determines whether the external storage apparatus acting as an acquisition source is registered, a first determination unit that determines whether to execute the application based on a user's operation if it is determined that the external storage apparatus is not registered, a communication processing unit that performs communication with an authentication server if the first determination unit determines to execute the application, a second determination unit that determines whether to execute the application based on an authentication result transmitted from the authentication server, and an execution processing unit that selectively executes the acquired application if the determination unit determines that the external storage apparatus is registered or the second determination unit determines to execute the application.

Information processing apparatus and execution control method

An information processing apparatus receives index information about an expansion function realized by being linked to a predetermined service provided by an external apparatus from a server apparatus connected via a network, displays a menu of information representing the expansion functions on a display screen, based on the index information, downloads software for executing the expansion function based on location information of the software when the expansion function being executed in accordance with a user selection on the menu on the display screen; the location information contained in the index information, and uses the downloaded software to executes the expansion function selected by an user.

Information processing apparatus and function expansion method

An information processing apparatus for performing dialogue processing. The apparatus acquires text data described in a natural language and stores a plurality of examples each including an example statement and frame information described using a frame format and corresponding to the example statement. A similarity between the text data and the example statement is calculated. An example is selected corresponding to an example statement whose similarity to the text data is the highest from among the plurality of examples in accordance with the calculated similarity. Text data is converted into the frame format in accordance with the frame information corresponding to the example selected by the example selection. Dialogue processing is performed in accordance with the text data converted into the frame format.

Information processing apparatus and method and program for controlling the same

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable easy information acquisition. A television receiver accesses an application server to acquire an application list. The television receiver accesses the application server again to acquire an application selected from the application list. While a processing based on the acquired application is being executed, the television receiver accesses a contents server to acquire contents data as needed. The acquired application or contents data is deleted from a storage section when an instruction to end the processing based on the application is made. The invention can be applied to a television receiver that acquires data through a network.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Speech of a user is recognized in a speech recognizing unit. Based on a result of the speech recognition, a language processing unit, a dialog managing unit and a response generating unit cooperatively created a dialog sentence for exchanging a dialog with the user. Also, based on the speech recognition result, the dialog managing unit collects user information regarding, e.g., interests and tastes of the user. Therefore, the user information regarding, the interests and tastes of the user can be easily collected.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A translating apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a machine translation unit, a speech synthesizing unit, and a dialog management unit. The speech recognition unit recognizes input speech, and supplies the result of the speech recognition to the machine translation unit. The machine translation unit translates the result of the speech recognition. When a Japanese-speaking user and an English-speaking user speak to each other, the dialog management unit stores a history of dialogs, and determines based on the dialog history and prestored knowledge whether the result of the translation by the machine translation unit is unnatural compared with the flow of the dialog. When the result of the translation is unnatural, the dialog management unit outputs, to the machine translation unit, information representing the unnatural result. This controls the machine translation unit to perform translation again.

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Seiichi Aoyagi