Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Toshimasa Aoki

Takeshi Igarashi

Masaho Morita

Kazuyoshi Enomoto

Tomoki Takaichi

Hiroshi Saito

Shigeru Enomoto

Satoshi Hashimoto

Kenichi Imai

Takahiro Fujii

Takeshi Matsuzawa

Keigo Tamura

Kiyobumi Matsunaga

Ikuo Kobayashi

Masaki Higuchi

Kosuke Suzuki

Tetsuya Yano

Steven Patrick Trombetta

Shoichi Ikenoue

Akitsugu Tsuchiya

Norikazu Okada

Akinori Ito

Tomohiro Ogawa

Nodoka Tokunaga

Toru Ogiso

Jonathan Warren Webb

Takashi Enokihara

Takaaki Shirai

Atsuki Iwata

Takuma Kasai

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Satoshi Mimura

Homare Ehara

Ryohta Kubokawa

Shuntaroh Nakayama

A power control apparatus includes a power detection circuit to detect DC power converted from AC power supplied from a power supply and to be supplied to a control board of an image forming apparatus. The power control apparatus includes circuitry configured to, in response to a first printing operation performed by the image forming apparatus, calculate fluctuations in the DC power in each preset control period from a start of the first printing operation until stabilization of the DC power. The power control apparatus includes, in response to a printing operation subsequent to the first printing operation performed by the image forming apparatus, determine allocation of the AC power to a fixing device of the image forming apparatus in a next preset control period based on power obtained by adding, to the DC power, an average of the fluctuations in a plurality of preset control periods.

Power control apparatus, image forming apparatus, power control method, and non-transitory computer-executable medium

Methods and apparatus provide for communications between an information processing device operated by a first user, which is connected via a network to another information processing device operated by a second user, where an application executing on the information processing device and generating an application image on a basis of operation information provided by the first user is transmitted to the other information processing device over the network.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

Methods and apparatus provide for: generating image data for an application to be displayed on an output device; recording the image data generated by the image generating unit; and receiving operation information from an input device, where the recording includes storing the image data for an application for a predetermined period of time up to the point in time at which operation information is received during the receiving operation information from a specific input unit provided in the input device while displaying an application image.

Information processing apparatus and inputting apparatus for sharing image data

In order to reduce influences of light from indoor lighting equipment or the like on the accuracy in detecting the position of an operating device, an operating device () includes: left and right hold sections to be held by a user, each of which is provided with an operating member at an upper surface thereof; a central section () which is a section between the left and right hold sections; and a light emitting surface () adapted to emit light to be captured by an information processing apparatus through a camera, the light emitting surface () provided at a front surface of the central section (). The central section () includes a portion which is located over the light emitting surface () and is located on a more forward side than the light emitting surface ().

Operating device

A light emission control apparatus, an operation device, a light emission control method, and a program are provided that enable richer expression of an execution status of a program based on light emission from the operation device. A particular-light-emitting-area identifying section identifies, on the basis of information corresponding to an execution status of a program, a particular light emitting area that is a part of a light emitting area set on an operation device, the part corresponding to the information. A light emission control section causes at least part of the light emitting area to enable a particular light emitting area to be recognized.

Light emission control apparatus, operation device, light emission control method, and program

Methods and apparatus provide for downloading application software from a server, including: downloading the application software from the server, where a first application software file contains only a portion of the application software, and a second application software file contains more than the portion of the application software; executing the application software and generating application images based thereon, where execution of the first application software file contains enough of the application software to execute a limited amount of the application software; and displaying the application images on a display screen based on the execution of the application software, where the acquisition unit begins downloading the second application software file in a background process after downloading the first application software file and at least partially during the execution of the first application software file.

An information processing apparatus connected to a manipulation device including manipulation members, the apparatus including: a main program executing section executing a main program to display a main screen image; a sub-program executing section executing a sub-program around the same time as the main program to display a sub-screen image together with the main screen image; and a manipulation receiving section switching an operation mode in which a manipulation by a user for predetermined some manipulation members of the manipulation members is received as a manipulation for the main program, and an operation mode in which a manipulation by the user for the predetermined some manipulation members is received as a manipulation for the sub-program and in which a manipulation for a manipulation member different from the predetermined some manipulation members is received as a manipulation for the main program over to each other according to a given manipulation.

Information processing apparatus

There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section () receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section () arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.

Entertainment device, display control method, program, and information storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes a heater, first control circuitry, second control circuitry, and a detector. The heater is configured to heat an inside of the apparatus. The first control circuitry is configured to cause the apparatus to be in a standby state, a sleep state having smaller power consumption than the standby state, or a deep sleep state having smaller power consumption than the sleep state. The second control circuitry is configured to control an operation of the heater. The detector is configured to detect humidity of the inside of the apparatus. The first control circuitry causes the apparatus in the deep sleep state to periodically and temporarily return to the sleep state, and the second control circuitry operates the heater according to the humidity detected by the detector in the sleep state to which the apparatus has returned from the deep sleep state.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An input device for transmitting operation information of a user to an information processing device, includes: a housing having an upper surface; a left grip part located proximate to a left side of the upper surface of the housing, and sized and shaped to be gripped by a left hand of the user; a right grip part located proximate to a right side of the upper surface of the housing, and sized and shaped to be gripped by a right hand of the user; a first input part located proximately to the left grip part such that the user provides inputs to the first input part with the left hand; a second input part located proximately to the right grip part such that the user provides inputs to the first input part with the right hand, where the inputs from one of the first input part and the second input part cause system software of the information processing device to take action.

When an acquisition unit acquires image data of a game being played on another information processing apparatus, a display processing unit displays, using the acquired image data, an image of game play. A participation processing unit allows a user to join the game being played on the other information processing apparatus, and an execution unit activates game software after it is determined that the user joins the game. While the execution unit is activating the game software, the display processing unit continues to display the image of the game play.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system for permitting a first user to join in executing game software of a second user over a network

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshimasa Aoki