Sony Corporation

Shinya Ohtani

Kei Tateno

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Mari Saito

Yoshihiro Wakita

Haruto Takeda

Rika Horinaka

Masahiro Fujita

Hiroaki Ogawa

Jun Yokono

Atsushi Okubo

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Yasuharu Asano

Seiichi Takamura

Tsuyoshi Takagi

Hideki Shimomura

Kazumi Aoyama

Ryoki Honjo

Katsuyoshi Kanemoto

Yuya Hirano

Yukiko Yoshiike

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the basis of first information about a user that is acquired by a first apparatus from around a body of the user, and second information about a user that is acquired by a second apparatus different from the first apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

There is provided an information processing apparatus to divide an amount of contribution to a plurality of creators in association with content into a first part and a second part on the basis of a certain division ratio, the first part being distributed on the basis of a first distribution ratio, the second part being distributed on the basis of a second distribution ratio, and to calculate distribution amounts of the contribution to the respective creators on the basis of an amount corresponding to the first part, an amount corresponding to the second part, the first distribution ratio, and the second distribution ratio.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for division of contribution

A server, a client, a control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that can promote social interactions of users attending a specific event. The server includes a communication unit configured to receive a profile of a user or an interest signal indicating interest in a specific event along with identification information of the user from a client; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the profile of the user in association with the identification information of the user; and a control unit configured to control the identification information to be stored in the accumulation unit in association with the specific event according to the interest signal, to search for a user having a profile similar to the received profile based on the identification information and create a group users of similar interests, and transmit information of the created group to the client before an opening of the specific event.

Server, client, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program thereof

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a contribution action detecting unit configured to detect a contribution action representing a contribution from a user to a target, a contribution degree giving unit configured to give the user a contribution degree in accordance with the contribution action, a virtual distance setting unit configured to set a virtual distance which is a virtual distance between the user and the target on the basis of an integrated value of the given contribution degree of the user, and a contribution degree notification screen display control unit configured to control a display of a contribution degree notification screen in which the set virtual distance is visually expressed.

Providing content to a user based on amount of user contribution

An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide graphical trends of posts regarding a posting subject and additional information. The apparatus includes a collector that collects posts regarding a posting subject that proceeds over time. A counting unit is included that counts a number of collected posts for each of different classes of posts. A display controller causes graphs to be displayed along a time-axis illustrating time-wise trends in the posts for each class together with additional information. The additional information is information that includes at least one of posts at respective times and information regarding the posting subject.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product

An information processing device includes: a clustering standard selection unit selecting a clustering standard, from clustering standards categorizing items into a plurality of clusters, including a first number or more known type clusters in which the probability that an item belonging to a cluster is known to a user is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and a second number or more unknown type clusters in which the probability is equal to or less than a second threshold value which is less than the first threshold value; and an exhibit control unit controlling the exhibit of a cluster or an item based on the selected clustering standard.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes a face detecting unit that detects a face area included in image data, a face-component detecting unit that detects a face component from the face area detected by the face detecting unit, and a line-of-sight discriminating unit that executes line-of-sight discrimination processing for a face image from which the face component is detected by the face-component detecting unit. The line-of-sight discriminating unit executes processing for discriminating whether a line of sight of the face image data from which the face component is detected is in a positive state in which a line of sight is directed in a camera direction or a negative state in which a line of sight is not directed in a camera direction according to collation processing for a line-of-sight discrimination dictionary in which learning data including classification data corresponding to the respective states are stored and input face image data.

Apparatus and method for determining line-of-sight direction in a face image and controlling camera operations therefrom

A robot can make a dialog customized for the user by first storing various pieces of information appendant to an object as values of the corresponding items of the object. A topic that is related to the topic used in the immediately preceding conversation is then selected. Then, an acquisition conversation for acquiring the value of the item of the selected topic or a utilization conversation for utilizing the value of the item of the topic that is already stored is generated as the next conversation. The value acquired by the acquisition conversation is stored as the value of the corresponding item.

Dialog control device and method, and robot device

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus for carrying out processes in response to how a user behaves. The information processing apparatus includes a sensor device, operator probability computation means, and processing means. The sensor device is configured to sense conditions. The operator probability computation means is configured to compute an operator probability representing how likely each of at least one target is to be an operator operating the information processing apparatus on the basis of an output of the sensor device, the target being the user staying close to the apparatus. The processing means configured to perform a predetermined process based on the operator probability.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program based on operator probability using sensors

A behavior control system for a robot apparatus that operates autonomously. The behavior control system includes a plurality of behavior description sections for describing motions of the robot and an external environment recognition section. The system also includes an internal state management section for managing an internal state of the robot in response to the recognized external environment and/or a result of execution of a behavior, and for managing emotions. A behavior evaluation section evaluates execution of behaviors in response to the external environment and/or the internal state.

Robot behavior control system, behavior control method, and robot device

A memory system and a method as well as robotic apparatus are strong against noise and excellent in memory capacity, volume of calculation, quantity of physical memory, and memory responsiveness. It is designed to store, in the frame form, the first information on a symbol as well as the second information on a symbol supplied separately from a variety of inputs in relation to competitive neurons corresponding to the symbol in a way to strengthen the connection between relevant input neurons and competitive neurons in response to the input patterns of a variety of inputs for each symbol with the use of a competitive neural network having a set of input layers composed of a plurality of input neurons and a set of competitive layers composed of a plurality of competitive neurons.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shinya Ohtani