Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Shinichi Honda

Hiroyuki Segawa

Kosei Yamashita

Akio Ohba

Kouichi Matsuda

Nobuo Sasaki

Yoshikazu Takahashi

Akira Suzuki

Hidetoshi Kabasawa

Shinichi Kariya

Norio Nagatsuka

Kaoru Yamanoue

Yoshikatsu Kanemaru

Masakazu Yajima

Takayuki Hirabayashi

Tomokazu Kake

Morio Usami

Hideo Niikura

Akihiko Sugawara

Takashi Toyoda

Katsu Saito

Kohei Shimizu

Megumi Kikuchi

Shinichiro Kondo

Takashi Satake

Masanori Fukumoto

A feature acquiring sectionobtains feature data of a target person. A matching degree deriving sectionderives a matching degree between the feature data and feature data of a registered user stored in a feature amount database. An identifying sectiondetermines that the target person is the registered user in a case where the matching degree is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and determines that the target person is not the registered user in a case where the matching degree is less than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold. An action management sectionsets an action mode of an acting subject according to the matching degree.

Information processing device and action mode setting method

A feeling deduction unitdeduces a user's feeling. An internal state management unitmanages an internal state of an object and an internal state of a user on the basis of the deduced user's feeling. An action management unitdetermines an action of the object on the basis of the internal state of the object. An output processing unitcauses the object to perform the action determined by the action management unit

Object control system and object control method

An information processing apparatus determines, on the basis of a speech of a user to be evaluated, a reference feature quantity representing a feature of the user's speech at normal times, acquires audio feature quantity data of a target speech to be evaluated made by the user, and evaluates the feature of the target speech on the basis of a comparison result between the audio feature quantity of the target speech and the reference feature quantity.

Information processing apparatus

A captured image obtaining unitof an output control deviceobtains a captured image such as a polarization image from an imaging device. A space information obtaining unitobtains a normal line and a position of a surface of an actual object in a space and a sound absorption coefficient at the surface. A correction coefficient obtaining unitcalculates energy of sound reaching a listener including sound reflected at the actual object and obtains a correction coefficient to be given to a level of a sound signal on the basis of the sound energy. An output unitadjusts the sound signals by using the correction coefficientand outputs the adjusted sound signals to speakersand

Output control device, output control system, and output control method

An information processing apparatus by which smooth communication with a user by voice can be implemented is provided. The information processing apparatus presents a plurality of choices to the user, recognizes utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices, and specifies the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance.

An information processing apparatus identifies, by using an audio signal acquired by collecting a user's voice, evaluation target time that includes at least either time not including the user's voice or time during which the user is producing a meaningless utterance and produces an output appropriate to the identified evaluation target time.

Disclosed herein is an information processor including: a behavioral data acquisition section adapted to acquire behavioral data about behaviors performed by a user of interest including dates and times of the behaviors; a feature quantity calculation section adapted to calculate feature quantities indicating features of the behaviors performed by the user of interest at least during each of first and second periods which are different from each other by using the acquired behavioral data; and an evaluation section adapted to evaluate similarity between the user of interest and other users by using at least some of the calculated feature quantities.

Information processor device, information processing system, content image generating method, and content data generating method for automatically recording events based upon event codes

An authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing according to power generation information from a power generation unit configured to generate electric power from ambient energy.

Authentication apparatus, authentication method, authentication system, and container system

An information processing system in which an object corresponding to each of two or more users are arranged in a virtual space and moving image information indicative of a moving image indicative of a manner in which the virtual space is viewed from a predetermined viewpoint arranged in the virtual space is generated, this information processing system comprising activity information acquisition means for sequentially acquiring activity information indicative of an action of at least one of the two or more users, arrangement region determination means for determining a partial region in the virtual space, in the partial region of which the object is arranged in accordance with the acquired activity information, motion data acquisition means for acquiring motion data stored as related with the activity information in accordance with the acquired activity information, and object control means for making the object act in the partial region in accordance with the acquired motion data.

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

To provide a technology for offering new communication and entertainment options using speakers that are flexible enough to change their shapes. There is provided an electroacoustic transducer including an oscillator formed in a film shape, a detection section adapted to detect the apparent change in shape of the oscillator resulting from a user's act, and an audio output section adapted to output audio based on audio data stored in a given storage area via the oscillator if the change in shape is detected.

Electroacoustic transducer and information processor

An information processing apparatus has login information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of pieces of login information with user IDs for identifying users related with terminal IDs for identifying terminals for use by the users; terminal ID registration means for registering the acquired login information by relating each of the user IDs with the plurality of terminal IDs; delivery information generation means for generating different pieces of delivery information to be delivered to each terminal that are identified by the plurality of terminal IDs for each of the user IDs; and delivery means for delivering the generated different pieces of delivery information to the each terminals.

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

An image display field, a whole map display field, a cursor are displayed on the music data selection screen. In the image display field is displayed an array of images which belong to one partition that can be displayed at a time and which are included in an array of images which represent whole audio data and is defined fixedly in advance. In the whole map display field is displayed a whole map indicating a display-area guide which shows where a partition being displayed now is located in the whole array and indicating a trajectory line which represents the trajectory of the cursor in the past. A plurality of pieces of music data represented by an image, which the cursor indicates, and images located around the image are reproduced concurrently.

Audio reproducing apparatus, information processing apparatus and audio reproducing method, allowing efficient data selection

In a user terminal, a reproducing unit reads out from a music file memory unit a music file selected and input by a user and reproduces the music file. In a normal reproduction, an output unit outputs the reproduced sound as an audio. When a notification information reception unit receives information that needs to be noticed such as an e-mail or a phone call, a notification information analysis unit analyzes the setting of the information or notification sound and determines the degree of importance. A frequency band allocation unit selects from allocation patterns of frequency bands stored in an allocation information memory unit a pattern for the music and for the notification sound according to the degree of importance and the frequency band of the notification sound. An audio processing unit extracts and synthesizes the components of the frequency bands allocated to music and the notification sound, and the output unit outputs accordingly.

Information processing apparatus processing notification sound and audio-based contents, and information processing method thereof

A user selects a plurality of pieces of music data desired to be reproduced concurrently, at an input unit of an audio processing apparatus, from music data stored in a storage device. A reproducing apparatus reproduces selected music data respectively and generates a plurality of audio signals under the control of a control unit. An audio processing unit performs allocation of frequency band, extraction of a frequency component, time-division, periodic modulation, processing and allocation of a sound image, to respective audio signals under the control of the control unit. Then the audio processing unit attaches segregation information of audio signals and information on the degree of emphasis to respective audio signals. The down mixer mixes a plurality of audio signals and outputs as an audio signal having a predetermined number of channels, then an output unit outputs the signal as sounds.

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