Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Yoichiro Iino

Hiroshi Nakano

Toshiki Moriwaki

Atsushi Hamano

Shinichi Tanaka

Jun Saito

Masaharu Sakai

Provided is an imaging element that includes a photoelectric conversion section. The photoelectric conversion section includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material, and a second electrode that are stacked, an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is formed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and when a composition of an inorganic oxide semiconductor material included in the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is represented by MaNbSncO (where M denotes an aluminum (Al) atom, and N denotes a gallium atom (Ga) or a zinc (Zn) atom, or a gallium (Ga) atom and a zinc (Zn) atom), a+b+c=1.00, 0.01≤a≤0.04, and b<c are satisfied.

Imaging element, stacked imaging element and solid-state imaging device, and inorganic oxide semiconductor material

An image pickup elementincludes a first electrode, a charge accumulation electrodethat is arranged apart from the first electrode, a photoelectric conversion unitthat contacts the first electrodeand is formed above the charge accumulation electrodevia an insulation layer, and a second electrodeformed on the photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion unitincludes, from the second-electrode side, a photoelectric conversion layerA, and an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layerB including InGaSnO, and 0.30≤b/(a+b+c)≤0.50 and b≥c are satisfied.

Image pickup element, stacked image pickup element, and solid-state image pickup apparatus that exel in characteristics of transferring an electric charge accmlarted in photoelectric conversion layer

A virtual capacity acquisition unit acquires a size of virtual capacity of a save data area from an application. A storage capacity acquisition unit acquires a size of save data of the application. A writing control unit prohibits the application from writing the save data exceeding the virtual capacity in a recording device. A free space acquisition unit acquires a size of free space of the recoding device, and the writing control unit prohibits the writing of save data whose size is larger than that of the free space.

Electronic device and save data recording method

A certain process included in a first execution space requests a local resource manager to allocate a resource. The local resource manager obtains the authentication ID of the process issuing the request and determines whether or not the resource can be allocated. If the resource can be allocated and the resource previously secured in the execution space can suffice the request, the local resource manager allocates the resource to the process. If the resource is insufficient, the local resource manager requests a global resource manager to allocate the resource. The global resource manager obtains the authentication ID of the first execution space issuing the request and determines whether or not the resource can be allocated. If it is determined that the resource can be allocated, the resource is allocated to the first execution space.

Method and apparatus for reservation and reallocation of surplus resources to processes in an execution space by a local resource manager after the execution space is generated succeeding the initialization of an application for which the execution space is created and the resources are allocated to the execution space by a global resource manager prior to application execution

Information processing method and information processing apparatus

A data communicating method is disclosed for use with a user terminal, the method preventing both members of a given group including the terminal and nonmembers from intercepting, tampering with or falsifying data communicated between the members without recourse to a plurality of encryption keys. In a first step, validity verification data is generated by the terminal. In a second step, the validity verification data and an attestation identity public key certificate are sent from the terminal to a group management device. In a third step, the group management device determines whether the terminal is valid. If the terminal is found valid, then a group name, a member ID and a group-shared key are supplied to the terminal in a fourth step, and a member ID list is further supplied in a fifth step. Thereafter the terminal is allowed to communicate with other members of the same group. The disclosed method can be applied advantageously to video game machines for network-based games.

Data communicating apparatus, data communicating method, and program

A ticket issuing device issues a highly convenient electronic ticket. The electronic ticket is formed of validity data and information to be validated. The validity data includes a secret key to which an algorithm whose presence is verifiable without being exposed is applicable. The information to be validated includes a public key corresponding to the secret key for verifying the presence of the secret key. The information is validated by the validity data. A ticket storage device generates a digital signature for verifying the presence of the secret key in the validity data, and sends the digital signature together with the information to be validated to a ticket checking device. The ticket checking device determines the presence of the secret key in the ticket storage device by using the digital signature from the ticket storage device and the public key contained in the information to be validated.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoichiro Iino