Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yuichiro Koyama

Kazuya Tateishi

Kenta Kawamoto

Hirokazu Tatsuta

Akira Takahashi

Hiroaki Ogawa

Hideaki Watanabe

Toshiyuki Sekiya

Akira Fukui

Yuki Takeda

Yoshinori Maeda

Ryosuke Sawata

Noriko Totsuka

Kan Kuroda

Chie Kamada

Yuya Hirano

Emiru Tsunoo

Yuki Yamamoto

Takayasu Kon

Masaru Shimura

Yuichi Hasegawa

Shinako Matsuyama

Eiichi Tanaka

Takeshi Asakawa

Emiro Tsunoo

An information processor including: an operation control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on the basis of recognition processing, in a case where a target sound that is a target voice for voice recognition processing is detected, the operation control unit moving the autonomous mobile body to a position, around an approach target, where an input level of a non-target sound that is not the target voice becomes lower, the approach target being determined on the basis of the target sound.

Information processor, information processing method, and program

Provided is a device that includes a user spoken voice extraction unit that extracts a user spoken voice from a microphone input sound. The user spoken voice extraction unit analyzes a sound source direction of an input sound, determines whether the input sound includes an external apparatus output sound on the basis of sound source directions of external apparatus output sounds recorded in a database, and removes a sound signal corresponding to a feature amount, for example, a frequency characteristic of the external apparatus output sound recorded in the database, from the input sound to extract a user spoken voice from which the external apparatus output sound has been removed upon determining that the input sound includes the external apparatus output sound.

Information processing device, information processing system and information processing method

An information processing device presents first information indicating that voice input for the voice operation is possible and second information representing a domain of utterance in which voice operation is possible in response to an occurrence of a predetermined state transition, and performs voice recognition for voice input by a user.

Information processing device to stop the turn off of power based on voice input for voice operation

The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.

Information processing device and information processing method

Provided is an information processing apparatus that has an utterance function or controls the utterance function. The information processing apparatus includes a sending unit that sends interactive information regarding a voice agent, a receiving unit that receives interactive information regarding another voice, and a control unit that controls an utterance timing of the voice agent on the basis of the interactive information regarding another voice agent received by the receiving unit. The control unit causes utterance by the voice agent to stand by on the basis of the interactive information received from another voice agent. Moreover, the control unit causes the interactive information to be continuously sent during the utterance by the voice agent and during interaction between the voice agent and a user.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus includes a voice acquisition section, a reliability generation section, and a processing execution section. The voice acquisition section acquires an ambient voice. The reliability generation section generates reliability indicating a degree in which the acquired voice is uttered from the particular position on the basis of a predetermined transfer characteristic. As the predetermined transfer characteristic, a phase difference or acoustic characteristic of the voice can be assumed. The processing execution section executes a process according to the generated reliability. As the process according to the reliability, a notification according to the reliability or a predetermined command can be assumed to be executed.

Method, apparatus and computer program for detecting voice uttered from a particular position

[Object] To make it possible to estimate the position of a sound source resulting from a wearing displacement, even in the case where the wearing displacement occurs in a wearable device. [Solution] A sound source position estimation device according to the present disclosure includes: a spectrum acquisition unit configured to acquire a frequency spectrum of a sound source on the basis of a sound obtained by a plurality of microphones provided for a ring-like wearable device; a distance computing unit configured to compute respective distances from the plurality of microphones to the sound source on the basis of the frequency spectrum; and a sound source position computing unit configured to, approximating the ring-like wearable device to a circle and assuming that the sound source is located on a cylindrical surface including the ring-like wearable device, obtain an intersection between the cylindrical surface and spherical surfaces whose radii are the respective distances to compute a position of the sound source.

Sound source position estimation device and wearable device

[Object] To collect a target sound in a more suitable aspect even under an environment in which noise occurs at random. [Solution] An information processing device including: a sound collection unit; and a holding member configured to have a projection portion with a streamline shape in at least a part and hold the sound collection unit so that the sound collection unit is located at a front end or near the front end of the projection portion.

Information processing device

[Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of causing a device which is desirable to the user among a plurality of devices to give a response. [Solution] An information processing device including: an input unit configured to obtain information related to a voice of a user and device information of each of a plurality of devices; and a selecting unit configured to select a device from the plurality of devices on the basis of an aspect specified by at least one of the information related to the voice and the device information obtained by the input unit and the device information.

A wide angle image to be displayed on a screen fixed on the head or the face of a user is processed. When a display view angle reaches a boundary of an original wide angle image, an indicatorindicating reaching the boundary is added to a free viewpoint image. The indicatoris a part of the free viewpoint imagewhich is in contact with a boundaryof the wide angle imageor protrudes from the boundaryand is displayed as a black-painted frame. By observing such the indicator, the user can intuitively understand that the display area reaches the limit of the wide angle image.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and image display system

Provided is an image display device configured to display a free viewpoint image that tracks a movement of observer's head and trunk. The line-of-sight direction and trunk orientation of the user are individually oriented in a free viewpoint space displayed on a display devicebased on posture information of the user's head and trunk, which are respectively obtained from a head motion tracking deviceand a trunk motion tracking deviceA behavior that is natural in real space can be represented by moving a line of sight to a front direction of the trunk on a space in a state where the line of sight does not match the front direction of the trunk. An unnatural UI that goes straight to the line-of-sight direction is prevented regardless of orientation of the trunk.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer program, and image processing system

[Object] To process an image captured by a camera mounted on a moving object device or a user to be suitable for display on an image display device fixed to the head or face of the user. [Solution] The image rendering processor, in the beginning, corrects the user's head posture angle qusing the camera posture angle q(F), and clips a display angle of view depending on the corrected user's head posture angle q* from the captured image to render a free viewpoint image (F). Then, the image processing devicetransmits the free viewpoint image rendered by the image rendering processorto the display devicevia the communication unit, and the image is displayed on the display device(F).

Displaying images according to head posture and camera posture

A wide angle image to be displayed on a screen fixed on the head or the face of a user is processed. When a display view angle reaches a boundary of an original wide angle image, an indicatorindicating reaching the boundary is added to a free viewpoint image. The indicatoris apart of the free viewpoint imagewhich is in contact with a boundaryof the wide angle imageor protrudes from the boundaryand is displayed as a black-painted frame. By observing such the indicator, the user can intuitively understand that the display area reaches the limit of the wide angle image.

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Yuichiro Koyama