Abstract: An acquisition unit 104 acquires from a server a status of a friend user. A menu image generation unit 110 generates a menu image including an icon. A user image placement unit 116 places, on the periphery of the icon, images of friend users whose statuses acquired by the acquisition unit 104 are related to the icon. The icon is an icon representing content, and the user image placement unit 116 places, on the periphery of the icon, an image of a friend user currently performing the content.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a movement estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of a first timestamp provided to an image captured by synchronous scanning, an event signal generated corresponding to an intensity change of light at one or a plurality of pixels of the image, and a second timestamp that is provided to the event signal and is in synchronism with the first timestamp, a movement of an imaging target in the image, an inverse filter generation unit that generates an inverse filter on the basis of the movement, and a filter application unit that applies the inverse filter to the image.

Abstract: A method including rendering graphics for an application using graphics processing units (GPUs). Responsibility for rendering of geometry is divided between GPUs based on screen regions, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known. First pieces of geometry are rendered at the GPUs during a rendering phase of a previous image frame. Statistics are generated for the rendering of the previous image frame. Second pieces of geometry of a current image frame are assigned based on the statistics to the GPUs for geometry testing. Geometry testing at a current image frame on the second pieces of geometry is performed to generate information regarding each piece of geometry and its relation to each screen region, the geometry testing performed at each of the GPUs based on the assigning. The information generated for the second pieces of geometry is used when rendering the geometry at the GPUs.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a main screen image including a main content, displays a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image, receives a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received, and displays the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.

Abstract: A positional and postural accuracy of stereo cameras 30 is maintained. A camera support structure (100) includes a support frame (130) that is mounted on a housing (110) of a head-mounted display 1 and supports stereo cameras (30), and at least one rubber member (40) that is interposed between the housing (110) and the support frame (130) and has at least a portion elastically deformable between the housing (110) and the support frame (130) upon deformation or displacement of the support frame (130).

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: generating image data for an application to be displayed on an output device; recording the image data generated by the image generating unit; and receiving operation information from an input device, where the recording includes storing the image data for an application for a predetermined period of time up to the point in time at which operation information is received during the receiving operation information from a specific input unit provided in the input device while displaying an application image.

Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main assembly, a mounting unit mounted on a head of a user and supporting the main assembly, a display unit housed in the main assembly and displaying images, a first lens and a second lens housed in the main assembly and guiding image light from the display unit to right eye and left eye, respectively, of the user, a first light reducer including an annular first end base disposed in the main assembly in surrounding relationship to edge of the first lens and a tubular first wall extending from the first end base in rearward direction of the main assembly, and a second light reducer including an annular second end base disposed in the main assembly in surrounding relationship to edge of the second lens and a tubular second wall extending from the second end base in the rearward direction of the main assembly.

Abstract: A game device that is an exemplary display control device includes an image generation section configured to generate an image of a virtual three-dimensional space, an object control section configured to control an object disposed in the virtual three-dimensional space, the object including a plurality of particles, a player character control section configured to control a player character disposed in the virtual three-dimensional space, the player character being operatable by a player, a determination section configured to determine whether or not the player character has touched the object, and an absorption control section configured to execute, in a case where the determination section determines that the player character has touched the object, an action representing that the plurality of particles included in the object that the player character has touched are absorbed by the player character.

Abstract: A system and method for dynamic generation and display of play data for a media is provided. One or more sets of object data may be associated with the media. One or more media-object bindings between the one or more sets of object data and the media may be formed and stored in one or more databases. The one or more sets of object data may include data about an aspect displayed during at least the portion of the media. One or more object-object associations between the one or more sets of object data and one or more named objects of a metadata reference container, which may maintain a common schema based on commonly experienced characteristics, may be formed and stored the one or more databases. Play data may be dynamically generated based on the one or more media-object bindings and/or one or more object-object associations.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that performs control to output information regarding an image of a user viewpoint in a virtual space, in which the control unit performs control to switch a display corresponding to a performer included in the image between a live-action image generated based on a captured image of the performer and a character image corresponding to the performer, according to a result of detecting a state of at least one user in the virtual space or a state of the virtual space.

Abstract: A harassment detection apparatus includes: an executing unit configured to execute a session of a shared environment; an input unit configured to receive biometric data, the biometric data being associated with a plurality of users participating in the executed session of the shared environment; a generating unit configured to generate, based on at least a part of the biometric data, emotion data associated with the plurality of users, the emotion data comprising a valence value and/or an arousal value associated with each of the plurality of users; a detection unit configured to detect, responsive to at least a first part of the emotion data satisfying one or more of a first set of criteria, one or more first users associated with the at least first part of the emotion data; and a modifying unit configured to modify, responsive to the detection of the one or more first users, one or more aspects of the shared environment.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a first signal indicative of one or more words communicated from a first user of online content to one or more second users of online content; classify the one or more words using the first signal; receive one or more second signals indicative of one or more physiological characteristics of the first user within a time period of a start of the communication of the one or more words; classify the one or more physiological characteristics using the one or more second signals; based on a classification of the one or more words and a classification of the one or more physiological characteristics, generate an action signal indicating that an action associated with the first user of the online content is to be taken, the action signal indicating a characteristic of the action determined based on a combination of the classification of the one or more words and the classification of the one or more physiological characteristics; and output the act

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a first signal indicative of one or more words communicated from a first user of online content to one or more second users of online content; classify the one or more words using the first signal; receive one or more second signals indicative of one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users in response to the communicated one or more words; classify the one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users using the one or more second signals; determine, based on a classification of the one or more words and a classification of the one or more physiological characteristics of the one or more second users, whether to generate an action signal, the action signal indicating that an action associated with the first user of the online content is to be taken; and when it is determined an action signal is to be generated, generate and output the action signal.

Abstract: A method for predicting eye movement in a head mounted display (HMD). The method including tracking movement of an eye of a user with a gaze tracking system disposed in the HMD at a plurality of sample points. The method including determining velocity of the movement based on the movement of the eye. The method including determining that the eye of the user is in a saccade upon the velocity reaching a threshold velocity. The method including predicting a landing point on the display of the HMD corresponding to a direction of the eye for the saccade.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus, a transmission method, and a program that can reduce the number of times that useless transmission of image data is performed due to a failure in reception of image data indicating a reference destination. A transmission failure likelihood data management section checks the likelihood of a failure in transmission of first image data. Second image is an image rendered in a frame buffer for the first time after a timing when a predetermined time has elapsed since the transmission of the first image data. An encoding processing section controls whether or not to generate second image data requiring no reference destination, depending on the likelihood of the failure in the transmission of the first image data at a timing of encoding the second image.

Abstract: An application execution unit executes a first application on the basis of operation information of a first inputting device by a first user to generate image data of the first application. A communication processing unit transmits operation information of a second inputting device by a second user to an external information processing device. An acquisition unit acquires image data of a second application from the external information processing device, the operation information of the second inputting device being reflected on the image data of the second application. A display processing unit displays a screen image of the first application and a screen image of the second application on a display device.

Abstract: An image generation apparatus generates an image whose background region on which a virtual object appearing in the real space is not superimposed is drawn in a background color having a predetermined luminance so as to make a region of a shadow of the virtual object look relatively dark. A rendering section renders the shadow of the virtual object appearing in a mesh structure in the real space by rendering not only the virtual object but also the mesh structure in the real space. A pixel value conversion section heightens colors of all pixels such that the background region uniformly takes on a background color having a predetermined luminance. A shadow/background processing section identifies the region of the shadow of the virtual object, sets the background region other than the shadow to the background color, and sets the shadow region to a color whose luminance is equal to or lower than that of the background color.

Abstract: An input device includes a case body and a plurality of markers 30d, 30e, and 30p configured to emit light to the outside of the case body. When an angle difference between the normal directions of the two markers 30d and 30e is less than a predetermined threshold value, a distance between the two markers 30d and 30e is equal to or greater than a predetermined first distance. When an angle difference between the normal directions of the two markers 30d and 30p is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, a distance between the two markers 30d and 30p is equal to or greater than a predetermined second distance, and the second distance is shorter than the first distance.