Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Arriola, George

Shigeru Enomoto

Shuji Hiramatsu

Motoki Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Akitsugu Tsuchiya

Hiroshi Saito

Satoshi Hashimoto

Kenichi Imai

Toshimasa Aoki

Taku Sugawara

Toru Morita

Shunsuke Kunieda

George A Arriola

Yumiko Tanaka

Akio Ohba

Munetaka Tsuda

Shinji Kimura

Masaki Higuchi

Carsten C Schwesig

Toru Yamamoto

Kenjiro Komaki

Masakazu Suzuoki

Ryuji Yamamoto

Takahiro Fujii

Tomokazu Kake

Nobukazu Koyama

Yoshihiko Suwa

Muneki Shimada

Toyoshi Okada

Yousuke Kimoto

Hiromasa Horie

You Asakura

Keiso Shimakawa

Anahi Bagu Casas

Tyler Daniel

Yuta Kimura

Hidehisa Onai

Yuji Nakamura

Masaki Takahashi

Yasutaka Miwa

Edgar Allan Tu

Masayoshi Mizuno

Daisuke Kawamura

Takeshi Nakagawa

Syunsuke Bamba

Takashi Hatakeda

Fumikazu Hatanaka

Shunichi Soma

Michihiro Okada

Makoto Oshita

Kei Sato

Satoshi Kobayashi

Koichi Aoki

Wataru Kaneko

Tsutomu Ogasawara

Haijie Hewu

Itsuki Asanuma

Yoko Isobe

Seiichi Adachi

Marc Horne

Hidekazu Ii

Methods and apparatus provide for communications between an information processing device operated by a first user, which is connected via a network to another information processing device operated by a second user, where an application executing on the information processing device and generating an application image on a basis of operation information provided by the first user is transmitted to the other information processing device over the network.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a library icon used to search for an item of content.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Methods and apparatus provide for downloading application software from a server, including: downloading the application software from the server, where a first application software file contains only a portion of the application software, and a second application software file contains more than the portion of the application software; executing the application software and generating application images based thereon, where execution of the first application software file contains enough of the application software to execute a limited amount of the application software; and displaying the application images on a display screen based on the execution of the application software, where the acquisition unit begins downloading the second application software file in a background process after downloading the first application software file and at least partially during the execution of the first application software file.

Multiplayer video games involve multiple players playing using either a single computer system or multiple computer systems connected together. While a first player of the multiplayer game is playing the multiplayer game, the first player's actions are tracked and stored. When the first player quits or stops responding before the multiplayer game has completed, the first player is replaced by a computer-simulated version of the first player that selects its actions based on probabilities calculated from the tracked actions of the first player. The multiplayer game is thus able to continue without interruption or disruption, and the first player's playstyle is preserved.

Emulating player behavior after player departure

An information processing device includes a receiving section configured to receive an input of a usage purpose of the information processing device from a user, an identifying section configured to identify a procedure including one or more steps necessary for realizing the usage purpose, a first screen generating section configured to generate an operating screen for completing one step in the identified procedure, and a second screen generating section configured to generate an information screen including information regarding the identified procedure.

Information processing device and screen generation method

An information processing device connected to a wireless LAN constituted by an access point, the information processing device acquiring application data from another information processing device connected to the wireless LAN. The information processing device includes a device detection section and a recording processing section. The device detecting section detects the other information processing device connected to the wireless LAN. The recording processing section, after the device detecting section has detected the other information processing device connected to the wireless LAN, acquires the application data from the other information processing device via a cable.

Information processing device, data acquisition method, and program

Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.

Menu screen display method and menu screen display device

There is provided an information processing device including a holding unit configured to hold setting information regarding parental control for each user in association with user identification information, and a limit processing unit configured to limit usage of a predetermined function or device by the user on a basis of the setting information held by the holding unit.

Information processing device, server device, parental control method, profile information management method

When an acquisition unit acquires image data of a game being played on another information processing apparatus, a display processing unit displays, using the acquired image data, an image of game play. A participation processing unit allows a user to join the game being played on the other information processing apparatus, and an execution unit activates game software after it is determined that the user joins the game. While the execution unit is activating the game software, the display processing unit continues to display the image of the game play.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system for permitting a first user to join in executing game software of a second user over a network

A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.

A home screen display unit displays a home screen indicating a plurality of menus. If an execution menu of a game application is selected in the home screen, a game screen display unit displays in full screen a game screen indicating an execution result of the game application. If an execution menu of an application other than a game is selected in the home screen, a browser screen display unit displays in full screen a browser screen indicating an execution result of the application other than a game. A screen transition control unit allows a direct transition from the game screen to the browser screen if a predetermined operation is performed while the game screen is displayed, and allows a direct transition from the browser screen to the game screen if the predetermined operation is performed while the browser screen is displayed.

A mode control sectionselects power saving mode as an operation mode, and a screen control sectiongenerates a display screen. After the mode control sectionswitches the mode from power saving mode to normal mode, the screen control sectiongenerates a display screen to match the type of screen that appeared before power saving mode was selected. If an application screen appeared before power saving mode is selected, the screen control sectiongenerates the application screen after the mode is switched from power saving mode to normal mode. If a system screen appeared before power saving mode is selected, the screen control sectiongenerates a given system screen after the mode is switched from power saving mode to normal mode.

Information processor and image generation method

A login processing unit performs a login process of a user. An assignment processing unit assigns an inputting device connected to an information processing apparatus to a user. An assignment processing unit controls an assignment process of the inputting device in response to the number of users who are in a login state and executes an assignment process which is different between a case in which the number of users in a login state is one and another case in which the number of users in a login state is two or more. The assignment processing unit assigns, when the number of users in a login state is one, the inputting device connected to the information processing apparatus to the one user.

Information processing device and assignment method for input device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shigeru Enomoto