公开(公告)号：US20160134938A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-12

申请号：US14890211

申请日：2014-05-15

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Reiko MIYAZAKI ,  Takayuki KANEKO ,  Yukihito ONO ,  Naoki SAITO ,  Seiji SUZUKI ,  Osamu SHIGETA

IPC: H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N7/14 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N7/15 ,  G10L15/26

CPC classification number: H04N21/4788 ,  G10L15/265 ,  H04N7/142 ,  H04N7/15 ,  H04N7/157 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/42201 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/44218

Abstract: [Object] To provide a display control device that can allow users who are concurrently watching and listening to content to know the scale of the users with ease and allow the users to smoothly communicate with the other users with ease.[Solution] There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.

Abstract translation: [对象]提供一种显示控制装置，其能够允许同时观看和收听内容的用户容易地了解用户的规模，并且允许用户轻松地与其他用户平滑地通信。 [解决方案]提供了一种显示控制装置，包括：用户信息获取单元，被配置为获取关于正在使用与输出内容相同的内容的一个或多个用户的存在的信息;用户位置决定单元，被配置为确定显示位置， 具有关于用户信息获取单元获取的用户的存在的信息的用户，以及显示控制单元，被配置为基于由用户位置决定的显示位置进行控制以显示关于用户存在的信息 决策单元以用户似乎一起使用内容的方式。