Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Toshihiro Morita

Kiyonobu Kojima

Mitsuyuki Hatanaka

Shin Shiroma

Susumu Morita

Taku Sugawara

Yasuhiro Shirai

Ippei Tambata

Norifumi Kikkawa

Yoshiki Tanaka

Mikiko Sakurai

Shin Ogata

Osamu Shimoyoshi

Yoshiyuki Takaku

Yoichi Kobori

Tatsuya Igarashi

Hideyuki Ono

Takayuki Kori

Takehiko Morita

Rie Usukura

Toshio Ohkouchi

Kiyoshi Aida

Yoshinori Utsumi

Mitsuru Tanabe

Noriyuki Sakoh

Kazuhiro Honda

Kumiko Sasaki

Masaaki Hamada

Atsuo Ukigaya

Ayumu Sugano

Hidetaka Nasu

Susumu c/o Sony Emcs Corporation Morita

Tomohiro Onda

An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls for displaying information for a selected attribute and for displaying, in a categorized state, information for related attributes correlated to the same category as that of the attribute on a correlation display screen. The demanding unit that demands data search by referring to the correlated attribute selected corresponding to information selected from among those displayed on the correlation display screen to an information provision device.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program for the same

A portable apparatus includes a first connector, a memory, and first circuitry. The first connector automatically receives a plurality of content data from a computer. The memory stores the plurality of content data. The first circuitry performs a mutual authentication process with the computer via the first connector, and plays back the plurality of content data. The computer includes second circuitry and a second connector. The first circuitry stores the plurality of content data to a storage medium, and provides a graphical user interface to receive an input identifying a list of the plurality of content data stored in said storage medium that are to be automatically transferred to the portable apparatus. The second connector is configured to transfer the plurality of content data stored in the storage medium to the portable apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device.

Information processing apparatus and associated method of content exchange

An apparatus and method allowing for high-quality data acquisition and playback processing based on content information transmitted from a server to a client are provided. Property information constituting meta-information corresponding to content-associated attribute information stores data-scheme information on original content held by the server, such as file format information, codec information representing an encoded-data scheme, and resolution information. In response to a content information acquisition request from the client, content information including the data-scheme information on the original content is generated and is transmitted to the client. This structure allows the client to output a content transmission request in which the optimum data scheme is determined based on the data scheme of the original content. Therefore, high-quality data acquisition and playback can be achieved.

Information processing apparatus and method, and computer program for providing transmission and reception of content in various data schemes

In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device.

An apparatus and method allowing for high-quality data acquisition and playback processing based on content information transmitted from a server to a client are provided. Property information constituting meta-information corresponding to content-associated attribute information stores data-scheme information on original content held by the server, such as file format information, codec information representing an encoded-data scheme, and reformation information. In response to a content information acquisition request from the client, content information including the data-scheme information on the original content is generated and is transmitted to the client. This structure allows the client to output a content transmission request in which the optimum data scheme is determined based on the data scheme of the original content. Therefore, high-quality data acquisition and playback can be achieved.

Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program

Information processing apparatus and method, and computer program

In an information processor which records many contents or has many contents already recorded therein, and can generate an arbitrary combination of the contents, a weight is computed for each of the contents based on either data stored in a history data file () or data stored in a display data file () and data stored in a filtering data file (), and a content is selected from the contents stored in a content file () based on the weight. The selected content is related with a package corresponding to the data stored in the filtering data file ().

Apparatus and associated methodology for automatically selecting content using stored criteria

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshihiro Morita