Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Takeshi Ogita

Ryo Yokoyama

Ikuo Yamano

Osamu Ito

Yohei Fukuma

Ayumi Nakagawa

Yusuke Nakagawa

Takamoto Tsuda

Susumu Takatsuka

Ayumi Kato

Hiroshi Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Ishikawa

Kentaro Nakamura

Takeshi Matsui

Yusuke Otani

Seiji Muramatsu

Shuhei Miyazaki

Ryoko Amano

Yosuke Matsuzaki

Shin Takanashi

Taku Tomita

Takuma Domae

Takao Yagi

Risa Takahashi

Taha Moriyama

Mari Shikama

Yugo Takeda

A notification control device according to the present technology includes a control unit that controls a notification mode by a notification device that performs a notification of detection of an environmental sound, on a basis of an arrangement state of the notification device or a state of a user of the notification device.

Notification control device, notification control method, and notification system

An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit () configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit () configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit () configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user.

Information processing device, information processing terminal, and program

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit that detects a skill level difference between a first user and a second user on the basis of sensing data regarding the first user and sensing data regarding the second user having a skill level lower than a skill level of the first user, and a presentation unit that dynamically changes and presents, during performance, skill level difference suppression information that reduces the skill level difference to at least one of the first and second users on the basis of the skill level difference detected. The sensing data is acquired through at least performance and the like performed by moving at least a part of a body of the users and other performance performed in the past with respect to the performance.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

An information processor () includes a control unit (). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device () and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (), the control unit () generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.

Information processor, information processing method, and program

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to assist deaf and hard-of-hearing people in viewing a video when the video is being played back. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller generates at least one of an oscillation signal corresponding to sound-effect caption data or an oscillation signal corresponding to vocalization caption data on the basis of a waveform of sound data using a result of analyzing caption information and sound information that are included in a video file, the sound-effect caption data being used to represent a sound effect in the form of text information, the vocalization caption data being used to represent a vocalization of a person in the form of text information, the sound-effect caption data and the vocalization caption data being included in caption data that is included in the caption information, the sound data being included in the sound information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

A vibration presentation apparatus () including: a connection plate (); and a plurality of cells () spaced apart from each other on the connection plate (), in which the cells () each include: a vibration device (); a first elastic body (); a vibration presentation plate () on which the vibration device () and the first elastic body () are disposed; and a support member () that is interposed between the first elastic body () and the connection plate (), and supports the vibration presentation plate () through the first elastic body ().

Vibration presentation apparatus and vibration presentation method

An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit () configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit () configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit () configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the tactile control signal corresponds to at least one of a presentation timing, frequency, interval, waveform, presentation time, and intensity of the tactile stimulus.

A control device according to an embodiment includes: a winding unit () that unwinds a wire having one end movably held by a user in a direction of the one end and winds the wire by an elastic force in a direction away from the one end, a wire lock unit () that locks unwinding of the wire from the winding unit, and a control unit () that controls an operation by the wire lock unit of locking the unwinding according to a relationship between a position of a virtual object disposed in a virtual space and a position, in the virtual space, corresponding to a position of the one end in a real space.

Control device, control method, and control system

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which can curb occurrence of howling at the time of outputting vibration in response to an input sound. The information processing apparatus of one aspect of the present technology is an apparatus that generates, at the time of outputting vibration in response to an input sound from the outside, a vibration signal representing the vibration having a frequency different from a frequency of the input sound. The present technology can be applied to, for example, smartphones, smart watches, wearable apparatuses, cushions, and music experience apparatuses that vibrate in response to input sounds.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit () configured to acquire a control command, inputted by a first user, including positional information for designating a presentation position at which to present a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus, a generation unit () configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation position in response to the control command, and a first distribution unit () configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the first distribution unit distributes, according to a predetermined rule, the tactile control signal related to the control command inputted by each of a plurality of the first users to the tactile presentation device.

Information processing device and information processing terminal

A control device includes a detection unit, a specifying unit, and a phase offset control unit. The detection unit detects a contact position on a display provided with a plurality of drive units that performs tactile presentation. The specifying unit specifies, based on the contact position detected by the detection unit, a target phase offset, which is a phase offset being an acquisition target of a plurality of drive signals each of which drives each of the plurality of drive units. The phase offset control unit adjusts the phase offset of the plurality of drive signals so as to obtain the target phase offset specified by the specifying unit.

Control device and control method

The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing video and sound in a synchronized state. An information processing device includes a determination unit that determines whether it is content in which sound is delayed with respect to video, and a processing unit that delays the video by a predetermined period and plays the video when the determination unit determines that it is the content in which the sound is delayed with respect to the video. The processing unit delays and plays the video so that the video when a sound source produces the sound is synchronized with the sound. The predetermined period corresponds to a period by which the sound is delayed. The present technology can be applied to an information processing device that processes video.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing apparatus capable of controlling vibration in accordance with a situation in a case where the vibration is generated on the basis of an audio signal. The information processing apparatus can include: a vibrator; and a controller configured to detect a state of the information processing apparatus and control a state of the vibrator based on a detection result, in which the controller controls vibration the vibrator in accordance with reproduction of content while the content is being reproduced in the information processing apparatus, and, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, restricts vibration of the vibrator even while the content is being reproduced in the information processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product for controlling vibration

The present disclosure relates to a system () that performs generation and reproduction of control data of a haptic presentation device assuming that a control is performed in synchronization with a reproduction content, and there is provided an information processor (), which makes it possible to achieve reduction in a burden of processing and improvement in convenience, including a control unit () that generates a script in which time information on the reproduction content and a control command of the haptic presentation device are associated with each other, in which the control command includes position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in the haptic presentation device, and haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus.

Provided are an information processing apparatus, a method for processing information, and a program capable of adjusting a perceptual position of a tactile stimulus even with one tactile stimulus unit. The information processing apparatus () includes an output control unit () that performs output control of a vibration on at least one tactile stimulus unit (), in which the output control unit changes a frequency of the vibration to be output from the tactile stimulus unit depending on a position of the tactile stimulus unit and predetermined positional information.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Ogita