Sony Corporation

Tsutomu Seki

Noboru Murabayashi

Hiroshige Okamoto

Sho Murakoshi

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Hideaki Okamura

Tatsuya Narahara

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Toshiharu Yabe

Masaru Miyamoto

Daisuke Negi

Shunji Yoshimura

An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.

Information processing system, recording apparatus, portable device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select programs that are interesting to the user and are current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first setting section for extracting a keyword from article information described in an RSS format and being delivered to the user, and giving a ranking to the extracted keyword; and a second setting section for acquiring at least one of program information on a program being received and program information on a recorded program, and giving a ranking to the program including, in the program information, the same keyword as a keyword having as far as a predetermined ranking among the keywords having rankings given by the first setting section.

Information processing apparatus, method and program

An information processing apparatus includes a first display control section, a first input section, and a second display control section. The first display control section controls displaying of a plurality of content representative pictures so that the content representative pictures are displayed and arranged in a first direction. The content representative pictures represent a plurality of titles of content. Each of the titles of content is made up of a plurality of structural units. The first input section inputs a first user's operation to select one content representative picture from the displayed content representative pictures. The second display control section controls displaying of structural unit representative pictures so that the structural unit representative pictures are displayed and arranged in a second direction starting from the selected content representative picture when the first user's operation is input. The structural unit representative pictures represent the structural units of the title of content.

Information processing apparatus, display method thereof, and program thereof

Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including a first feature detection unit configured to detect a plurality of first feature data each representing a different feature from video and audio signals of a content; a setting unit configured to set a weight for each of the plurality of first feature data detected by the first feature detection unit, the weight corresponding to the feature for detecting data on the basis of said first feature data, the weight being varied either from one content to another or from one content genre to another; and a second feature detection unit configured to detect a plurality of second feature data each representing a different feature on the basis of the plurality of first feature data for which the weights have been set by the setting unit.

Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus detects, from time-sequential information continuously supplied for a given period of time, associated information regarding a time at which a piece of information satisfying a predetermined condition is supplied within the given period of time. A dividing section divides the time-sequential information into a plurality of temporally successive information units at predetermined time intervals. A feature value detecting section temporally successively detects feature values of the plurality of temporally successive information units. A change-information detecting section stores the temporally successively detected feature values for a predetermined period of time, and detects a plurality of temporally successive pieces of feature-value-change information on the basis of the stored feature values and a currently detected feature value. The change-information detecting section outputs the plurality of temporally successive pieces of feature-value-change information in sequence to output time-sequential associated information as the associated information.

Information processing apparatus and method for detecting associated information from time-sequential information

An image processing apparatus that can display a predetermined content as a predetermined main screen or predetermined sub-screens includes a displaying unit operable to display a main-content on the main screen and sub-contents on the sub-screens; a detecting unit operable to detect characteristic amounts of the sub-contents displayed on the sub-screens; and a control unit operable to switch the display on the main screen based on the characteristic amounts of the sub-contents detected by the detecting unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program

An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select information on a predetermined program as programs interesting to the user and current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first selection section for extracting a keyword from program information of a predetermined program selected from at least one of a program being received and a recorded program, and selecting article information including the same keyword as the extracted keyword among article information described in an RSS format and being delivered to a user; and a display controller for displaying the article information selected by the first selection section simultaneously with an image of the predetermined program.

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Chiba, Japan

Tsutomu Seki