Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Shinichi Kariya

Shinichi Honda

Hiroyuki Segawa

Kouichi Matsuda

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Norio Nagatsuka

Yoshikatsu Kanemaru

Minoru Hashimoto

Kensaku Ishizuka

Jin Satoh

Taeko Neda

Provided is an information processing device including a measured torque value acquisition section and a contact event detection section. The measured torque value acquisition section acquires a first measured torque value measured by a motor that drives a joint of a housing. In a case where a threshold range is exceeded by the first measured torque value or by a value based on the first measured torque value, the contact event detection section detects a contact event that has occurred on a part of the housing that is coupled by the joint.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

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

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 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

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 inspection apparatus inspects an application that is executed in a game device and displays a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an exposure indicator acquiring unit that acquires a first index relating to the exposure of an advertisement displayed in the virtual space from the game device, the index being calculated by the application that displays the virtual space from a user's point of view; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires the virtual space, which is actually displayed on a screen on a frame by frame basis; an advertisement region extracting unit that extracts an advertisement displaying region from the image of the virtual space; an exposure indicator calculating unit that calculates a second index relating to the exposure of the advertisement based on the advertisement displaying region; and a verification unit that verifies the application by cross-checking the first index and the second index.

Inspecting apparatus and method for inspection

An inspection apparatus specifies a region for displaying an advertisement from an image of a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an image mapping unit that maps an image, which uses a color that is not used in the virtual space and where the display status of the advertisement varies in accordance with a viewpoint of a user, on a region where the advertisement is to be displayed in the virtual space; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires a virtual space that is actually displayed on a screen on a frame-by-frame basis; and an advertisement region extracting unit operative to extract, by color-filtering the acquired image of the virtual space, a region that is rendered with a color that is not used in the virtual space, as a region for displaying the advertisement perceived by a user.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

The present invention relates to a word sequence output device in which emotional synthetic speech can be output. The device outputs emotional synthetic speech. A text generating unitgenerates spoken text for synthetic speech by using text as a word sequence included in action command information in accordance with the action command information. An emotion checking unitchecks an emotion model value and determines whether or not the emotion of a robot is aroused based on the emotion model value. Further, when the emotion of the robot is aroused, the emotion checking unitinstructs the text generating unitto change the word order. The text generating unitchanges the word order of the spoken text in accordance with the instructions from the emotion checking unit. Accordingly, when the spoken text is 'Kimi wa kirei da.' (You are beautiful.), the word order is changed to make a sentence 'Kirei da, kimi wa.' (You are beautiful, you are.) The present invention can be applied to a robot outputting synthetic speech.

Word sequence output device

A tracking control apparatus of an optical disc apparatus capable of preventing unstability of the tracking control due to the deviation of balance of a tracking error signal due to a movement of the field of vision of an object lens. A hysteresis tracking error signal is generated by masking a signal of a half cycle of an off-track state of a tracking error signal at the time of a high speed feeding of a sled and the tracking servo control is carried out by using this signal. Namely, with respect to a tracking error signal calculated at a tracking error calculation circuit, a transistor is turned off by an inverted ENABLE signal indicating the state immediately after the high speed feeding of sled, thereby to make the mirror signal valid, the transistor is turned on when this mirror signal is at a high level indicating the detrack state, a hysteresis tracking error signal obtained by reducing the tracking error signal to the ground level is generated, and the tracking servo control is carried out by using this signal. The component of deviation of the tracking error signal due to the movement of the field of vision of the object lens is reduced to a half, therefore the oscillation of the tracking servo control due to an increase of the accumulation of error can be prevented.

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Chiba, Japan

Shinichi Kariya