Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Tomohiro Hasekura

Eiichi Nishina

Kenji Kaido

Shohei Konno

Keigo Tsuchiya

Hajime Yoshikawa

Takamasa Shichisawa

Takafumi Fujisawa

Hiroshi Tamate

Yukitada Maruyama

Methods and apparatus provide for a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Communication system, communication method, program and information storage medium

The present invention is to facilitate finding of a user expected to have a high relevance among other users present in the same living area when identification information of these other users is displayed as a list. A location information acquirer acquires location information showing a location measured in an information processing terminal. A display controller () carries out control to make identification information of a plurality of users be displayed on a specific terminal. The display controller () carries out control to make the identification information of the plurality of users be displayed in order according to timing when a reference location is measured by the specific terminal or the number of times of existence of a location shown by location information acquired from the information processing terminal corresponding to a user as a subject of display control in an area including the reference location about a case in which the location shown by the location information acquired from the information processing terminal corresponding to the user as the subject of the display control exists in the area including the reference location.

Information processing system, information processing terminal, information processing method, program, and information storage medium

Provided is a communication system for allowing a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section () for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section () for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section () obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Provided is an information processing device that provides a user with a trajectory of positions calculated by positioning unit in a user-friendly way without displaying a map. The device includes a positioning section () repeatedly calculates a position, a position coordinate storage section () that stores a plurality of positions calculated by the positioning section, and an other-user information providing section () that displays letter strings indicating the positions stored in the position coordinate storage section () in an order that the positions are calculated. The positioning section () stores, in a case where a newly calculated position is at a given distance or more from the position last stored in the position coordinate storage section (), the newly calculated position into the position coordinate storage section ().

Information processing device, display control method, a program, and an information storage medium

A position coordinate receiving section obtains a position from a user terminal. A nearby user distributing section provides information about a source user terminal to a recipient user terminal. The nearby user distributing section controls whether or not to provide the information about the source user terminal to the recipient user terminal based on a position that is obtained from the recipient user terminal and a position obtained from the source user terminal. The position obtained from the source user terminal that is used in the control is a position outside an area set by a user of the source user terminal. Accordingly, a user is provided a way to prevent other users from knowing that the user is in a place specified by the user.

Methods and apparatus for transmitting position information among user terminals

A composite device, including a first control section; a second control section; and a storage section having a common area and a dedicated area, the common area can be accessed by both the first control section and the second control section, and the first control section prohibits the second control section from accessing the dedicated area, when activated in a first mode, the first control section converts data stored in the dedicated area into a predetermined format and stores the converted data in the common area, and when activated in a second mode, the second control section by sending a request to the first control section, obtains the converted data from the common area of the storage section via the first control section, and carries out a process using the converted data.

Music composition reproduction device and composite device including the same

A music piece reproduction device comprises a recording section () for recording a plurality of music piece data each possessing a sound data file and a beat guide file containing information on the sound data file, and a control section () for controlling so as to connect the sound data files recorded in the recording section (), using a predetermined method. A command comment, indicating what kind of editing is capable of being performed and at which position in the music piece, is added to the beat guide file, and the control section successively reproduces a preceding music piece and a subsequence music piece based on the command comments of these two music pieces.

An image is freely enlarged/reduced in accordance with a user's control instruction to be displayed by reducing noises such as jaggy. An image processing device includes an affine transforming unit for affine transforming coordinates of a control point based on at least an enlarging ratio or a reducing ratio, a number of divisions setting unit for obtaining a ratio of a drawing range of a B'ezier curve after the affine transformation to an actual drawing range and setting the number of divisions of the parameter of the B'ezier curve in accordance with the obtained ratio, a B'ezier curve calculating unit for obtaining the number of curve defining points corresponding to the number of divisions on the basis of the set number of divisions and a coefficient based on a degree and the Bernstein base function, and a B'ezier curve drawing unit for drawing the B'ezier curve to an image memory based on the obtained curve defining point. Particularly, subsequent calculation of the B'ezier curve is canceled, when the actual drawing range does not include the B'ezier curve.

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Tomohiro Hasekura