Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Saturn Licensing LLC

Tsunayuki Ohwa

Tomohiko Gotoh

Miruka Ishii

Satoshi Akagawa

Daisuke Mochizuki

Mark Earl Plutowski

Chiranjit Acharya

Takashi Usuki

Satoru Inoue

Tamaki Kojima

Nariaki Satoh

Takayuki Usami

Osamu Hanagata

Daiki Ito

Shinji Yuhara

Hideaki Watanabe

Ritsuko Kano

Miwa Ichikawa

Katsuhiro Takematsu

Khemdut Purang

Atsushi Hashizume

Tsutomu Ogasawara

Chao Xu

Masashi Hatta

Misa Tamura

Mashashi Hatta

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a presentation section which presents an action log that is an action result of a third party, and a schedule adjustment section which incorporates the action log selected from the presented action log by a user as a schedule of schedule information of the user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program for scheduling activities modelled from activities of third parties

An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a course setting unit that sets a course containing at least one place associated with positional information, a course information generation unit that generates first course information regarding the course on the basis of first user behavior information generated from a behavior of a first user having visited the course, and a course information provision unit that provides the first course information to a second user different from the first user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer-readable storage medium for generating course information

A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information.

Photography apparatus, control method, program, and information processing device

An information processing apparatus displays, for each group, images that are divided into groups so that each group contains at least one of the images. The apparatus includes an image-data storing unit that stores image data of the images, a group-attribute-information storing unit that stores attribute information of the groups, a display controlling unit that controls processing for displaying the images for each group, a search-key extracting unit that extracts a search key when the display controlling unit issues an instruction for starting the processing for displaying the images for each group, and a searching unit that searches for the groups associated with the extracted search key. The display controlling unit controls display of a library of the groups so that the groups associated with the search key and found by the searching unit are displayed at a top side in the library.

Information processing apparatus and method, and storage medium storing program for displaying images that are divided into groups

Photography apparatus, control method, program, and information processing device using image-data templates

When a plurality of items of data are sequentially read and reproduced from a data storing means which stores the data, data suited to a user's mood at the moment or a situation is selected to be reproduced without needing any complex operation. A data reproducing apparatus for sequentially reading and reproducing a plurality of items of data from a data storing unit () which stores the data includes: a reproduction history storing unit () that stores reproduction history including identification information of data at least a part of which has been reproduced; an identification information reading unit () that reads the identification information of some or all of the data from the reproduction history storing unit (); a reproduction characteristic information generating unit () that generates, based on the characteristic information of data identified by the read identification information, reproduction characteristic information regarding a predetermined situation; and a reproducing order setting unit () that sets a data reproducing order based on the reproduction characteristic information and characteristic information of a part or all of the data stored in the data storing unit ().

Data reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method and information storing medium

An information processing apparatus displays image data and plays back music data such that background music (BGM) is applied to a collection of content such as photographic data, the BGM being reminiscent of the time when the photographic data was acquired. When a command to display a scrapbook or similar plurality of image data is issued, a search unit searches for music metadata that is related to the image metadata of the image data. A display controller then controls the display of the specified plurality of image data, while in parallel, a playback controller controls the playback of the music data corresponding to the music metadata found by the search unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program therefor

Disclosed herein is a content management apparatus, including: content inputting means for inputting a content with which position information is associated; position information acquisition means for acquiring the position information associated with the content inputted by the content inputting means; tree production means for producing binary tree structure data corresponding to a binary tree having leaves to which contents inputted by the content inputting means correspond based on the position information of the contents acquired by the position information acquisition means; and determination means for extracting a node which satisfies a predetermined condition from among nodes of the binary tree structure data produced by the tree production means and determining those of the contents which belong to the extracted node as one group.

Content management apparatus, image display apparatus, image pickup apparatus, processing method and program for causing computer to execute processing method

An information processing apparatus includes clustering means for performing clustering on multiple images so as to more strongly connect the images at a closer distance based on the distances determined by metadata of the images, and grouping means for grouping the images such that the number of images of each group can be equal to or lower than a predetermined number of images in accordance with the strength of connection among the images.

Information processing apparatus, method and program

An information processing apparatus for grouping plural contents into clusters, the apparatus includes: an acquisition portion configured to acquire metadata of each of the plurality of contents; and a clustering portion configured to group the plural contents into the clusters based on the metadata, such that each of the clusters has N or less contents, N being a predetermined number. The clustering portion calculates a distance d(n) according to a predetermined distance scale between an nth content and an (n+1)th content with respect to first N+1 contents in a content sequence, and determines a greatest distance d(k), groups first k contents in the content sequence into one cluster, and with a (k+1)th content in the content sequence as a new top content in the content sequence, repeats the determining of the greatest distance d(k) and the grouping of the first k contents in the content sequence into one cluster.

An information processing apparatus includes feature extraction means for extracting features of a designated image in plural images which are associated with each other, image determination means for determining whether the designated image is an image of the face of a certificate, a receipt, a ticket or a note on which a character string is written based on the extracted features, and metadata addition means for adding the first metadata which is character string data of the character string to another image in the plural images, when it is determined that the designated image is an image of the face of a certificate, a receipt, a ticket or a note on which a character string is written.

Information processing apparatus, method, and program product

A computerized method of representing a dataset with a taxonomy includes representing a plurality of records within a dataset as a plurality of clusters in an initial taxonomy layer; generating a hierarchy of cluster sets based on clusters within the initial taxonomy layer, wherein the structure of the hierarchy is independent of the order of the records within the dataset; and labeling clusters within the hierarchy.

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Tsunayuki Ohwa