Abstract: An image acquisition unit 40 acquires a subject image in which a subject is positioned in front of a background with a single color. An eye gaze information determination unit 32 determines an eye direction and a viewpoint position of a user wearing an HMD and provides the eye direction and the viewpoint position for a display control unit 50. The display control unit 50 performs chroma-key composition such that the subject included in the subject image may become a foreground image with respect to a background image and thereby generates a display image according to the viewpoint position of the user. The display control unit 50 determines an orientation of the subject such that the subject may be made to face the viewpoint position of the user, in a case where the viewpoint position has been changed.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) include: setting a VDS position for displaying a stereoscopic image of an object in a virtual scene, the VDS having a depth profile that approximates a depth profile of the object; generating the stereoscopic image for display at the VDS within the virtual scene; and controlling a configuration of the VDS based on the detected change in the viewpoint of the stereoscopic image by the viewer.

Abstract: A method of generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) position, includes setting a VDS position for a stereoscopic image for display such that the depth profile of one or more VDSs approximates the depth profile of one or more objects in a virtual scene to be displayed by that stereoscopic image, and generating the stereoscopic image for display having image parallax appropriate to the VDS position or positions set by the setting step.

Abstract: Estimation data indicating a foreground region is generated with high precision. A learning apparatus includes an input-image acquisition section that acquires a combination of a first input image representing a background and a foreground and a second input image representing the background in a mode different from that in the first input image, and a learning section that includes an estimation section to generate estimation data indicating the foreground region in the first input image in response to input of the first input image and the second input image, and that conducts learning at the estimation section on the basis of a given teacher image and the estimation data that is generated when the first input image and the second input image are inputted.

Abstract: An image acquisition unit 40 acquires a subject image in which a subject is positioned in front of a background with a single color. An eye gaze information determination unit 32 determines an eye direction and a viewpoint position of a user wearing an HMD and provides the eye direction and the viewpoint position for a display control unit 50. The display control unit 50 performs chroma-key composition such that the subject included in the subject image may become a foreground image with respect to a background image and thereby generates a display image according to the viewpoint position of the user. The display control unit 50 determines an orientation of the subject such that the subject may be made to face the viewpoint position of the user, in a case where the viewpoint position has been changed.

Abstract: A method of generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) position, includes setting a VDS position for a stereoscopic image for display such that the depth profile of one or more VDSs approximates the depth profile of one or more objects in a virtual scene to be displayed by that stereoscopic image, and generating the stereoscopic image for display having image parallax appropriate to the VDS position or positions set by the setting step.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) include: setting a VDS position for displaying a stereoscopic image of an object in a virtual scene, the VDS having a depth profile that approximates a depth profile of the object; (ii) generating the stereoscopic image for display at the VDS within the virtual scene; and (iii) controlling a configuration of the VDS based on the detected change in the viewpoint of the stereoscopic image by the viewer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device for displaying contents formed by a plurality of pages according to user operation. The information processing device includes: an operation receiving section receiving an operation of changing a page as an object of display; and a display image control section displaying a slide bar displaying a handle indicating a position of the displayed page on a bar representing the pages of a whole of the contents as a GUI on a display device with an image of the page being displayed. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation of sliding the handle, the display image control section changes display to a page corresponding to a handle reached position. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation on predetermined operating means of an input device, the display image control section changes display to a page serving as a predetermined break.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a map view is displayed. On the map view, an image which includes a thumbnail image of an image to be incorporated in a content and identification information added to the thumbnail image is applied as a processing section. Thumbnail images of images which are determined as a link source and a link destination by a link setting for image switching when a display area satisfies a link condition are connected to each other by a line. Further, an order of images between which an image is to be successively switched by an image forward feeding operation is defined by an array of thumbnail images in a sequence setting column. Further, the images are coupled using a dotted line or the like so as to represent a preceding-succeeding relationship thereof. A thumbnail image of an image or a line is operated to update a link setting file and a sequence setting file.

Abstract: First a standard image to which a link is defined is displayed. If a user operates a input device and if the viewpoint enters into the first link boundary, and if the information indicating that a resume operation is required does not exist the first frame of moving image data is read out and displayed on the display device as a still image. If the viewpoint enters into the second link boundary, playing back and displaying of the moving image and is started. If the viewpoint moves out from the second link boundary, a frame displayed when the playback of the moving image is suspended is displayed as a still image and the resume point is stored. If the viewpoint moves out of the first link boundary, a standard image is displayed.

Abstract: When the user enters a request for moving a viewpoint, whether or not a displayed area is encompassed in a link area that is set for an active image is kept monitored. When the displayed area is encompassed, a corresponding link is determined to be valid, and an image of a link destination mapped to the link area is displayed. Whether or not the displayed area moves outside of a link area set for an image of a link origin is further monitored. If even a part of the displayed area moves outside of the link area, a corresponding link is determined to be invalid, and the display is switched back to the image of the link origin. If none of the above-stated conditions applies, the initial image continues to be displayed while moving the displayed area according to the movement of the viewpoint within the active image.

Abstract: Information is configured in a tree structure comprising a root node, internal nodes, and leaf nodes, and an image is prepared for each node. Links to images of internal nodes are set in a root node image. When a display area satisfies a predetermined link condition the display target is switched from the root node image to an image of an internal node. A link to a leaf node image is set in each of the internal node images. Further, an order is defined for the leaf node images so that the images can be successively accessed. When the display is switched from a link area of an internal node image to a leaf node image and the display is to return to the internal node after images of leaf nodes are accessed, the image area of the internal node is displayed according to the number of images traversed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device for displaying contents formed by a plurality of pages according to user operation. The information processing device includes: an operation receiving section receiving an operation of changing a page as an object of display; and a display image control section displaying a slide bar displaying a handle indicating a position of the displayed page on a bar representing the pages of a whole of the contents as a GUI on a display device with an image of the page being displayed. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation of sliding the handle, the display image control section changes display to a page corresponding to a handle reached position. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation on predetermined operating means of an input device, the display image control section changes display to a page serving as a predetermined break.

Abstract: A viewpoint position sets, when a stereoscopic video image is provided that includes a left-eye parallax image and a right-eye parallax image having a predetermined parallax distribution and that is observed from a given viewpoint, a virtual viewpoint for observing a subject from another viewpoint. A parallax image generation unit generates a left-eye and a right-eye parallax image for providing a desired parallax distribution that are obtained when an observation is made from the virtual viewpoint, by shifting the image cut-out position of at least one of the left-eye or the right-eye parallax image. When the shift amount at the image cut-out position changes due to a position change of the virtual viewpoint, the parallax image generation unit generates a parallax image while changing the shift amount in stages from a shift amount obtained before the change to a shift amount obtained after the change.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a map view is displayed. On the map view, an image which includes a thumbnail image of an image to be incorporated in a content and identification information added to the thumbnail image is applied as a processing section. Thumbnail images of images which are determined as a link source and a link destination by a link setting for image switching when a display area satisfies a link condition are connected to each other by a line. Further, an order of images between which an image is to be successively switched by an image forward feeding operation is defined by an array of thumbnail images in a sequence setting column. Further, the images are coupled using a dotted line or the like so as to represent a preceding-succeeding relationship thereof. A thumbnail image of an image or a line is operated to update a link setting file and a sequence setting file.

Abstract: A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. A mediation server includes: a project information acquiring unit which acquires information on a project from a project server and stores the acquired information in a project database, the project server managing the project in which a computational processing is divided into a plurality of tasks so as to have the plurality of tasks processed by a plurality of terminals; a project information transmitter which presents the information on the project to a terminal and which transmits, to the terminal, information necessary for the terminal to access a project server of a project that the terminal desires to participate in; and an execution status management unit which receives a notification indicating that the terminal having accessed the project server using the information has executed a task assigned from the project server and which stores an execution status in a terminal database.

Abstract: Information is configured in a tree structure, and an image is prepared for each node. To an image 152 of a root node, links to images of internal nodes are set. When a display area satisfies a predetermined link condition by a viewpoint moving operation to a link area “R1,” the display target is switched from the image 152 to an image 154a of an internal node. To each of images 154a, 154b and 154c of internal nodes, a link to one of images 156 of leaf nodes is set. Further, an order is defined for the images of the leaf nodes so that the image can be successively fed between the leaf nodes. When the display is switched from a link area “b1” of the image 154b of the internal node to an image “b1” of a leaf node and the display is to return to the internal node after the images are successively fed to progress to an image of “c1,” the area “c1” from within the image 154c is displayed.