Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yohei Kawamoto

Tomoyuki Asano

Taizo Shirai

Ken Miyashita

Atsushi Okubo

Yu Tanaka

Masakazu Ukita

Shiho Moriai

Masanobu Katagi

Seiichi Matsuda

Asami Yoshida

Koichi Sakumoto

Takuya Hirano

Yoshihiro Wakita

Kuninori Shino

Kazuya Kamio

Ryo Namiki

An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light source section, a detector, and a determination section. The light source section irradiates light onto a body site of a user. The detector includes a plurality of light detectors and outputs a plurality of detection signals on the basis of reflected light that is reflected off the body site. The determination section determines a movement of the user on the basis of information regarding a speckle generated due to the light being irradiated onto the body site, the information regarding a speckle being included in the plurality of detection signals.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method to identify gesture operation of a user

To perform high-speed and efficient processing of determining a correlation between vectors. An information processing system includes: a first information processing device having k number of vectors including secure data as an element; and a second information processing device having m number of vectors including secure data as an element. The first information processing device receives vector information regarding a vector Y selected from the m number of vectors, as encrypted data, from the second information processing device. A data processing unit of the first information processing device sequentially calculates element-based sample identifiers each having a specific common value for each of a plurality of different vectors Y selected from the m number of vectors to one vector X selected from the k number of vectors retained by the first information processing device, and sequentially determines the correlation between the one vector X and each of the plurality of different vectors.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method to determine correlation of data

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a memory that retains a first secret key corresponding to a first public key, and a processor that requests a change of a usage state of a second public key registered by a second apparatus in a first apparatus that retains a public key corresponding to a secret key from the first apparatus according to authentication using the first public key associated with the second public key and the first secret key.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for public key scheme based user authentication

To be capable of guaranteeing security without dependency on a distance of wireless communication while maintaining convenience of a key apparatus, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a key storage unit configured to retain one or more secret keys corresponding to one or more respective public keys; and a key use permission state storage unit configured to store presence or absence of use permission of each of the one or more secret keys. For at least any of the one or more secret keys, a switch between the presence and absence of the use permission stored by the key use permission state storage unit is possible.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program

There is provided an information processing device including a query generation unit configured to generate, on the basis of a table in a database and any query with regard to the table, one or more different queries, and a table search unit configured to search for the number of tables that are different from the table and in which a result of the different query generated by the query generation unit is not in conflict with a result of the any query.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing system comprising interface circuitry configured to receive message-independent information, the message-independent information having been generated by another apparatus and transferred to the interface in advance of a digital signature being generated, send message-dependent information to an external device, and receive a digital signature from the external device; and processing circuitry configured to generate the message-dependent information from a message and at least a part of the message-independent information, and associate the digital signature with the message.

Authentication using electronic signature

There is provided an information processing device including an information storage unit configured to store information about a state in which a first secret key used during authentication is held in devices, and information about connection between the devices, and a communication unit configured to send the first secret key so that the first secret key is delivered to the devices based on the information stored in the information storage unit.

Information processing device and information processing method to maintain secret key for authentication

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first computation protocol generation unit configured to generate a first computation protocol that does not include a confidentiality securing protocol that is executed in order to maintain confidentiality of a plurality of input values on the basis of a secure computation protocol in which a plurality of operation processing apparatuses compute an output value on the basis of the input values, and a second computation protocol generation unit configured to generate a second computation protocol by arranging the confidentiality securing protocol to a position at which the confidentiality is secured in the first computation protocol.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

There is provided an analysis server including a first verifying unit that analyzes data acquired from a local power management system composed of an electronic appliance provided with a sensor and a power management apparatus managing power supply to the electronic appliance connected to a power network, by using history information of the local power management system or data acquired from another local power management system with a power usage state similar to that of the local power management system, a second verifying unit that analyzes the data acquired from the local power management system, by using an estimated value calculated by simulation using characteristics information and/or specification information of the electronic appliance, and a control unit that controls the first verifying unit and the second verifying unit.

System and method for securing a power management apparatus from an attack by verifying acquired data based on statistical processing, data simulation, and watermark verification

A terminal device, which includes an encrypting section encrypting input data in a fully homomorphic encryption scheme to generate encrypted data. The terminal device includes an encrypted data transmission section transmitting the encrypted data generated by the encrypting section to a server. The terminal device includes an encrypted data reception section receiving the encrypted data on which the server implements a predetermined process and a decrypting section decrypting the encrypted data on which the predetermined process is implemented.

Terminal device, server, data processing system, data processing method, and program

There is provided a power management system including a power receiving unit for receiving power from outside according to consumption of power, an electrical storage unit for storing the power received by the power receiving unit, and a discharge control unit for controlling a second power amount discharged from the electrical storage unit so that a first power amount provided by the power receiving unit attains a predetermined time-series pattern.

Power management system, power management apparatus, and power management method

Provided is a quantum encryption communication apparatus of a transmission side which performs a communication process based on quantum encryption, including: a light source unit which generates a light pulse; a polarization modulating unit which performs polarization modulation of the light pulse by using a variable wavelength plate; and a controller which drives the variable wavelength plate to convert a polarization state of the light pulse to one of a plurality of predetermined polarization bases at random.

Quantum encryption communication apparatus, quantum encryption communication method, and quantum encryption communication system

There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, a control unit controlling operation of the managed appliance and supplying of power to the managed appliance, a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring, from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance, and an appliance state judging unit judging a state of the managed appliance based on the managed appliance information acquired by the managed appliance information acquiring unit.

Apparatus and method for managing power of an electronic appliance

There is provided a power management apparatus including a game service providing unit providing, to an electronic appliance, a service using game contents whose theme is power. The game service providing unit includes a game control unit controlling execution of the game contents, a real world constructing unit constructing a setting of a game reflecting a real-world environment, based on managed appliance information stored in a database, and a virtual world constructing unit constructing a setting of the game reflecting a virtual environment, based on a setting set in advance in the game contents. The game control unit is operable to initialize the game contents by combining the setting of the game constructed by the real world constructing unit and the setting of the game constructed by the virtual world constructing unit.

Power management apparatus, and method of providing game contents

There is provided an electronic watermark generating apparatus including an appliance characterizing information generating unit that generates appliance characterizing information that characterizes an electronic appliance, by using physical data acquired by a sensor that measures characteristics of the electronic appliance, an electronic watermark generating unit that generates, in relation to the appliance characterizing information, electronic watermark information that is used for detecting whether information has been tampered with or not, an embedded position deciding unit that analyzes the appliance characterizing information, and decides an embedded position for the electronic watermark information in the appliance characterizing information, and an electronic watermark embedding unit that embeds the electronic watermark information generated by the electronic watermark generating unit in a position on the appliance characterizing information decided by the embedded position deciding unit.

Electronic watermark generating apparatus, electronic watermark verifying apparatus, method of generating electronic watermark, and method of verifying electronic watermark

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Yohei Kawamoto