Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Toshimoto Mitomo

Kazutoshi Serita

Masashi Takeda

Nobuhide Nishiyama

Sho Takiya

Kumiko Koyama

Jaime A Siegel

An information processing method of an information processor includes: obtaining information received from a mobile body through a wireless communication, the mobile body including a movement mechanism and an imaging unit configured to capture image data, the information received from the mobile body including captured image data obtained by the imaging unit, with the captured image data being updated periodically; and generating route guidance information for use in moving the mobile body by the movement mechanism. The captured image data is stored together with data update time information. The route guidance information includes at least two selectable routes. The route guidance information is generated based on the captured image data, position information of the mobile body, and the data update time information.

Mobile body, information processor, mobile body system, information processing method, and information processing program

A mobile body includes: an imaging unit; a movement mechanism that moves itself; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication; and an information generator that generates, on a basis of external information received from outside by the wireless communication unit, route guidance information for use in allowing the movement mechanism to move itself.

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that includes a controller that acquires one of sensing information or user context information including one of a user state, a user profile, or user environment information and generates step switching information for controlling switching of a plurality of reproduction steps of content based on one of the sensing information or the user context information.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that includes a controller that determines a user interface presented to a user among a plurality of user interfaces based on user context information containing one of a user state, a user profile, and user environment information.

A method of purchasing a soundtrack associated with A/V content. When A/V content is purchased by download or otherwise, the user is provided with an option to purchase or store the soundtrack. In one embodiment, the purchase of the motion picture secures usage rights to the soundtrack while another embodiment requires separate purchase of the soundtrack. In either case, the user is enabled to store the soundtrack as a separate file after having purchased rights to do so. The soundtrack is then stored, in some embodiments with digital rights management or copy protection to limit the number of copies that can be made of the soundtrack. The motion picture has a Table of Contents (TOC) indexing the soundtrack portions of the audio content of the motion picture to enable extraction of those portions of the motion picture forming the soundtrack.

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