Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Taek-Joo Lee

Seung-Hyun Lee

Hisayuki Kunigita

Ju-Yeong Ji

He-Jin Cheong

A game executing sectionperforms a game program. A status data notifying sectionnotifies a download processing sectionof status data indicative of the status of game execution of the currently executed game program. A request transmitting sectiontransmits to a content server a search request including the status data as metadata. A candidate image generating sectiongenerates images regarding a plurality of content candidates resulting from search through the server. A content image generating sectiongenerates an image of the selected content.

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

The time in the host device and the time in the client device are synchronized. The host device and the client device download content data from a content distribution server using progressive downloading. The host device controls playback processes in the host device and the client device so as to be synchronized, in accordance with a download status in the host device and the client device.

Information processing system and information processing devices

Disclosed herein is an information processor that allows for manipulation of raw data to a certain extent with an application program while protecting the content of raw data. The information processor acquires encrypted media data, decodes the encrypted media data to generate raw data, scrambles the raw data to generate scrambled data, descrambles the scrambled data to generate the raw data, and outputs the raw data to a player.

Information processor

A moving image reproduction apparatus is provided with a reproduction unit that decodes pictures included in a chunk of a video stream and displays the decoded pictures and a control unit that gives an instruction to start the reproduction process. When a reproduction target is switched to a second video stream that corresponds to a second bit rate during the reproduction of a first video stream that corresponds to a first bit rate, the reproduction unit continues to reproduce a chunk of the first video stream that is being reproduced. The control unit instructs, when pictures included in a chunk of the second video stream overlap with pictures included in the chunk that is being reproduced, the reproduction unit to hide the overlapping pictures in a reproduction process performed on the chunk of the second video stream.

Moving image reproduction apparatus, information processing apparatus, and moving image reproduction method

A playback processing unit executes a playback process of content data. A control unit defines a display area for a communication tool to be executed, based on display instruction information that is defined in association with playback time information of the content data. The display processing unit uses a content image processed and played back and a text chat window of which a display area is defined, and generates an image for a display.

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Seoul, South Korea

Taek-Joo Lee