Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Toru Ogiso

Yuji Nakamura

Sachiyo Aoki

Keigo Tamura

Masato Mitsutake

Michiko Matsumura

Makoto Watanabe

Toshimasa Aoki

Norihiro Nagai

Akitsugu Tsuchiya

Yoshihiko Suwa

Yoshiyuki Imada

Masaki Higuchi

Tomohiro Ogawa

Toshiyuki Kurosaki

Naoki Kitahara

Tsubasa Umeki

Jaewon Bae

Tomomasa Mizuno

Shingo Mimura

An information processing device includes an operation information acquisition section, a setting screen image generation section, and a display controlling section. The operation information acquisition section acquires operation information from a controller. The setting screen image generation section generates a setting screen image for the controller. The display controlling section causes a display device to display the setting screen image for the controller. The setting screen image for the controller includes an image that indicates both a sensitivity and a dead zone of an analog stick provided on the controller in a common scale.

Information processing device for simultaneously adjusting sensitivity and dead zone of a controller

An information processing apparatus is connected to peripheral apparatuses that are to be worn or grasped and used by one or more users. At least one of the peripheral apparatuses includes a device that collects sound of surroundings and outputs a sound signal representative of the collected sound. The information processing apparatus accepts a sound signal outputted from the peripheral apparatus that is worn or grasped by the user, selects at least part of such accepted sound signal or signals on the basis of a predetermined rule, and outputs the selected sound signal or signals while cutting off any other sound signal.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program

Provided are a display control apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable developers to implement application programs without needing to be aware of a safe area. An image acquisition section () acquires an image that is drawn in a frame buffer by an application program. A safe area setting specification section () specifies the setting of a safe area in a display section. An image generation section () generates a display target image including, as a part, the image sized according to the setting of the safe area. A display control section () causes the display section to display the display target image.

Display control apparatus, display control method, and program for displaying an image overlaying a target image in a safe area of a display

An information processing apparatus is connected to a peripheral apparatus that includes sound inputting means for outputting a sound signal representative of sound of surroundings. The information processing apparatus performs control such that, in a case where sound input is required in processing of an application determined in advance, in a state in which a sound signal accepted from the peripheral apparatus is cut off, the sound signal accepted from the peripheral apparatus is accepted and the sound signal is used only in the processing of the application determined in advance.

An image transmission apparatus, an image transmission method, and a program enable a transmission destination to display an image similar to the image displayed at a transmission source. A display target image generation section generates a display target image having a display non-target region reflecting settings of a safe area of a display section. A display control section causes the display section to display an actual display image constituting a portion of the display target image. A transmission image generation section generates a transmission image that represents a portion of the display target image and excludes at least a portion of the display non-target region. A transmission section transmits the transmission image.

Image transmission apparatus, image transmission method, and program

A screen generating partgenerates an output setting screen on which a user selects settings of multiple items regarding specifications for video data to be output to a display device. A setting registering partregisters the settings selected by the user on the output setting screen. A screen generating partgenerates the output setting screen on which the user selects the settings for a first item and a second item, the first item having a first value and a second value as selectable settings, the second item having a third value and a fourth value as selectable settings. When the user selects the first value for the first item, the setting registering partregisters the first value for the first item and also registers the third value for the second item. When the user selects the fourth value for the second item, the setting registering partregisters the fourth value for the second item and also registers the second value for the first item.

Information processing apparatus and video specification setting method

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can switch display modes in accordance with conditions when a plurality of display devices are allowed to display a video. The information processing apparatus executes a program for drawing videos that a first display device browsed by a first user and a second display device browsed by a second user is individually allowed to display, switches a common display mode for drawing a common video that both of the display devices are allowed to display and an individual display mode for drawing two videos of a first video that the first display device is allowed to display and a second video that the second display device is allowed to display in accordance with contents of a process of the program, and allows the first display device and the second display device to display videos to be drawn.

Information processing apparatus

An information processing device having a novel interface for allowing a user to change the reproducing position of a video is provided. The information processing device is connected with a touch sensor (), receives a drag operation performed by the user in a predetermined direction on the touch sensor (), changes steplessly the reproducing position of the video in accordance with the amount of the drag operation, and starts to reproduce the video from the changed reproducing position.

Information processing device

Provided are a control device that prevents performance of a process different from a desired process in response to a voice input, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium. A voice acceptance section accepts voice. An output control section performs control such that voice accepted by the voice acceptance section is output to a program capable of performing a process using the voice. The output control section performs control such that if it is recognized that the voice accepted by the voice acceptance section represents given information, voice accepted by the voice acceptance section thereafter is not output to the program capable of performing the process using the voice.

Control device, control method, program and information storage medium

A GUI placement information file in which the positions of GUIs are set as the ratio to the screen size and the sizes of the GUIs are set as fixed length is prepared in association with content. In a screen having such a screen size A that the GUIs do not overlap with each other even when the setting is obeyed, the respective GUIs are displayed with the positions and sizes in accordance with the setting of the GUI placement information file (screen). In a screen having such a screen size B that GUIs become a state of overlapping with each other when the setting is obeyed, the setting of the position of the relevant GUI is invalidated and the position is so decided that these GUIs abut on each other (screen). In the case of a screen having such a screen size C that a GUI becomes a state of running off the screen when the set sizes are obeyed even in the state in which the GUIs abut on each other, the sizes of the respective GUIs are reduced depending on the screen size and the GUIs are displayed in a packed manner (screen).

Information processing device, information processing method, data structure of content file, GUI placement simulator, and GUI placement setting assisting method

An information processing device includes: an input receiving section receiving an input; a display control section changing a display screen to a first screen when the input receiving section has not received any input for a predetermined time; a registered user information retaining section retaining biological information of a plurality of users registered in the information processing device; a biological information obtaining portion obtaining biological information; and a biometric authenticating portion determining whether a user whose biological information is obtained by the biological information obtaining portion is a registered user by comparing the obtained biological information with the biological information of the plurality of users retained in the registered user information retaining section. When the biometric authenticating portion determines that the user whose biological information is obtained is a registered user, the display control section changes the first screen to a second screen.

A reproduction information acquiring unit acquires information identifying content streams reproduced by the information processing apparatus. A content information acquiring unit acquires, from a communicating terminal apparatus, information identifying the content streams being reproduced by the communicating terminal apparatus. A display processing unit generates a display screen to be displayed on a display, by using the information acquired respectively by the reproduction information acquiring unit and the content information acquiring unit. A screen display unit displays the display screen generated.

Information processing apparatus for reproducing and identifying content streams at plural network devices

An image converter converts an image rendered at a given vertical synchronous frequency into an image compatible with the specification of a display. A frame memory holds the image converted by the image converter by switching a plurality of buffers. A display controller selects one of the buffers in accordance with the vertical synchronous frequency of the display, and scans out the image from the frame memory accordingly. A switch instruction issuing unit issues a frame buffer switch instruction for designating a frame buffer to scan out from subsequently, in synchronization with the vertical synchronous frequency of the display, instead of immediately after the execution of an image converting process by the image converter.

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Toru Ogiso