Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Group Corporation

Lifiny Corporation

Shingo Utsuki

Hiroshi Sato

Keiichi Yoshioka

Kazuto Nishizawa

Junichi Nagahara

Daisuke Sato

Ko Kusanagi

Kenichi Moriwaki

Satoshi Kanda

Shimon Sakai

Manabu Fujiki

Yuji Ishimura

Daisuke Inaishi

Masahiro Urano

Hidetoshi Ichioka

Shinichi Wakai

Yusuke Sakai

Yasuhide Hosoda

Koji Fujita

Shigeharu Kondo

Hiroshi Takagi

Kazuhiro Hara

Yoshiaki Arishima

Ayako Nakayama

Takuro Noda

Kunihito Sawai

Mari Saito

Jun Kimura

Kenji Sugihara

Hitoshi Kimura

Shunsuke Kunieda

Kae Nagano

Ayumi Nakagawa

Miwa Ichikawa

Daisuke Kawamura

Kensuke Ohnuma

Soichiro Inatani

Takahiro Ushioda

Kazuteru Fukayama

Ai Nakada

Fumiaki Tamehiro

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. Further, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, the output control unit dynamically controls, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including, by a processor, controlling an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. The controlling further including, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, dynamically controlling, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input.

There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method that are able to audibly present, to a user, word-of-mouth information in accordance with the user's latent demand. The information processing device that includes a controller that performs control to estimate a latent demand on the basis of a current user condition, search for word-of-mouth information corresponding to the demand, and present the searched word-of-mouth information to a user.

Information processing device and information processing method for presentation of word-of-mouth information

Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.

Electronic apparatus, display controlling method for electronic apparatus and graphical user interface

A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.

Playback apparatus, playback method, and playback program

There is provided an information processing device including a page feed unit configured to continuously feed pages in contents including a plurality of pages, and a display control unit configured to change the number of the pages to be displayed on a display screen according to an operation by a user when the pages are fed by the page feed unit.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program for changing a number of pages of contents to be displayed

A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.

This application discloses systems and methods for receiving information associated with a first set of processing instructions and presenting a second icon indicating a change in status of data associated with the first set of processing instructions. A user selection of one of a first icon or the second icon may then be received. The selection of the first icon may cause execution of the first set of processing instructions, whereas selection of the second icon may cause execution of a second set of processing instructions.

Information processing apparatus, display method, and display program

There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program realizing natural scroll display and high-speed scroll. The image processing apparatus includes: a detector detecting a scroll request; and a processor, when the detector detects a high-speed scroll request, employing a blurred picture created through a blurring process as a new picture required for a subsequent update of image displayed in a scroll region, thereby generating an image to be displayed.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program

A display device includes a display section displaying instruction information to be instructed to users in an instruction information display region provided corresponding to the instruction information, a touch panel capturing an instruction represented by the instruction information displayed in the instruction information display region, in response to a users' touch operation to a touch detection region provided corresponding to the instruction information display region, and a control section performing a predetermined operation control based on the instruction information inputted through the touch panel. The instruction information display region is provided in an upward zone within the touch detection region.

Display device, display program, and display method

An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit storing content data and first group identification information for identifying first groups in which the content data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a parameter output unit outputting a parameter representing an amount of displacement of an operating object in response to an operation on the operating object which can be displaced in a predetermined range by a user's operation; a selection unit sequentially selecting the content data while the parameter is in a first range and sequentially selecting the first groups by sequentially selecting the first group identification information stored in the storage unit while the parameter is a value in a second range; and a notification unit notifying what content data is selected when the content data are selected by the selection unit and notifying what group is selected when the first groups are selected by the selection unit.

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

Information processing methods to make it possible to reserve recording of a program without imposing a large burden on a user. A server transmits program attribute information to a video recording and reproducing apparatus via a network. The program attribute information includes program attribute names and program attribute retrieval conditions. The video recording and reproducing apparatus causes a display apparatus to display a list of the program attribute names. The user selects from the list a program attribute name to which a program that the user wishes to reserve for recording seems to be most closely related. The video recording and reproducing apparatus compares the retrieval conditions corresponding to the selected program attribute name and EPG (electronic program guide) information and, when the retrieval conditions are satisfied, records a program represented by the EPG in a recording reservation list. The methods can be applied to a hard disk video recorder.

Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program

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