Abstract: A detecting unit detects at least one of a position and a posture of a real object located on or near a three-dimensional display surface. A calculating unit calculates a masked-area where the real object masks a ray irradiated from the three-dimensional display surface, based on at least one of the position and the posture. A rendering unit renders a stereoscopic image by performing different rendering processes on the masked-area from rendering processes on other areas.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit acquiring number of first viewpoints and positions of the first viewpoints, and generating parallax image priority information which defines priority levels for each first viewpoint, a storage unit storing first-parallax images at the first viewpoints for first-resolution levels, a unit generating parallax image resolution information, which defines the first-resolution levels of the first-parallax images for the first viewpoints, by setting second-resolution levels to be a higher-resolution level for second viewpoints to be rendered, and by re-setting, if a sum total of data sizes of second-parallax images of the second viewpoints exceeds a threshold, the second-resolution levels of the second viewpoints with lower-priority levels to be a low-resolution level until the sum total becomes not more than the threshold, a unit reading out third-parallax images corresponding to the re-set second-resolution levels for the second viewpoints from the storage unit based on the parallax ima

Abstract: A multiview-data generating apparatus of the present invention generates, for each pixel index of each pixel included in a predetermined area, a color information group and a depth value group of a CG object corresponding to each viewpoint, derives an approximate function by approximating a relation between the viewpoint and the depth value based on the depth value group, and handles the depth value group in a state of a depth parameter array that is obtained by arranging parameters of the approximate function.

Abstract: A body frame of a two-wheeled vehicle. The body frame typically includes a head pipe to which a steering shaft extending substantially vertically is rotatably mounted. The head pipe includes an upper head pipe and a lower head pipe that are configured to be molded and to be coupled to each other. The upper head pipe includes an upper tubular portion into which the steering shaft is inserted and a main frame tongue portion that is configured to extend rearward from the upper tubular portion and is configured to support a front portion of the main frame from above. The lower head pipe includes a lower tubular portion into which the steering shaft is inserted and a down tube tongue portion that is configured to extend downward from the lower tubular portion and to support an upper portion of the down tube from forward.

Abstract: Apparatus includes unit storing CG data containing data about coordinate transformation, camera, geometry, light source, and texture, unit transforming coordinate system of CG data into camera-coordinate system, unit calculating intersections of object and ray vectors passing through sampled points, unit calculating 3D motion vectors, unit calculating color values at intersections, unit assigning object IDs of intersections at 3D coordinates to intersections, unit projecting intersections and 3D motion vectors onto plane, and calculating 2D coordinates at intersections and 2D motion vectors at intersections, unit storing 2D coordinates, 2D motion vectors, color values, and object IDs together as low-resolution video data, unit calculating intermediate-resolution video data by superimposing low-resolution video data of current frame onto low-resolution video data of frames temporally different from current frame, unit calculating high-resolution video data by filtering intermediate-resolution video data, unit

Abstract: A three-dimensional-image display system generates a first physical-calculation model generator that expresses a real object, based on both position/posture information expressing a position and posture of the real object, and attribute information expressing attribute of the real object. The three-dimensional-image display system displays a three-dimensional image within a display space, based on a calculation result of the interaction between the first physical-calculation model and a second physical-calculation model expressing a virtual external environment of the real object within the display space.

Abstract: Apparatus includes unit storing CG data containing data about coordinate transformation, camera, geometry, light source, and texture, unit transforming coordinate system of CG data into camera-coordinate system, unit calculating intersections of object and ray vectors passing through sampled points, unit calculating 3D motion vectors, unit calculating color values at intersections, unit assigning object IDs of intersections at 3D coordinates to intersections, unit projecting intersections and 3D motion vectors onto plane, and calculating 2D coordinates at intersections and 2D motion vectors at intersections, unit storing 2D coordinates, 2D motion vectors, color values, and object IDs together as low-resolution video data, unit calculating intermediate-resolution video data by superimposing low-resolution video data of current frame onto low-resolution video data of frames temporally different from current frame, unit calculating high-resolution video data by filtering intermediate-resolution video data, unit

Abstract: Shape-data-generation apparatus includes unit acquiring first-shape data of vector graphics from data source, unit storing sets of second-shape data as structured-vector-graphics data obtained by processing vector-graphics-shape data in specific format and shape number corresponding to second-shape data, unit reading second-shape data corresponding to designated shape number from first storage unit, unit reconstructing vector-graphics shape corresponding to read second-shape data, unit calculating shape-difference-evaluated-value which decreases as similarity between vector-graphics shape corresponding to first-shape data and reconstructed-vector-graphics shape increases to obtain shape-difference-evaluated values, unit calculating minimum shape-difference-evaluated value of shape-difference-evaluated values and new second-shape data corresponding to minimum shape-difference-evaluated value, unit comparing minimum shape-difference-evaluated value with threshold, and unit calculating difference-shape data repr

Abstract: Rendering apparatus includes input unit inputting vector graphics data, computation unit computing shape feature quantity related to vector graphics data, acquisition unit acquiring, as rendering parameters, position of shape on screen, and matrix indicating affine transformation to position, computation unit computing number of pixels, first conversion unit converting vector graphics data into bitmap texture data when number of pixels is smaller than shape feature quantity, first rendering unit rendering bitmap texture data, second conversion unit converting vector graphics data into polygon model data attached with a curve-parameter when the number of pixels fails to be smaller than shape feature quantity, second rendering unit rendering polygon model data, selection unit selecting one of first and second conversion units and one of first and second rendering units by comparing number of pixels with shape feature quantity, and presentation unit presenting selected one of rendered bitmap texture data and ren

Abstract: A broadcasting receive apparatus includes a digital broadcasting receiving unit that receives a digital broadcasting, a program table obtaining unit that obtains a program table of an analog broadcasting, a channel correspondence storing unit that stores a channel correspondence, the channel correspondence relating a channel of the digital broadcasting to a channel of the analog broadcasting, and a program converting unit configured to convert the program table to a compatible program table with the digital broadcasting according to the channel correspondence.

Abstract: Apparatus includes unit storing CG data containing data about coordinate transformation, camera, geometry, light source, and texture, unit transforming coordinate system of CG data into camera-coordinate system, unit calculating intersections of object and ray vectors passing through sampled points, unit calculating 3D motion vectors, unit calculating color values at intersections, unit assigning object IDs of intersections at 3D coordinates to intersections, unit projecting intersections and 3D motion vectors onto plane, and calculating 2D coordinates at intersections and 2D motion vectors at intersections, unit storing 2D coordinates, 2D motion vectors, color values, and object IDs together as low-resolution video data, unit calculating intermediate-resolution video data by superimposing low-resolution video data of current frame onto low-resolution video data of frames temporally different from current frame, unit calculating high-resolution video data by filtering intermediate-resolution video data, unit

Abstract: A body frame of a two-wheeled vehicle. The body frame typically includes a head pipe to which a steering shaft extending substantially vertically is rotatably mounted. The head pipe includes an upper head pipe and a lower head pipe that are configured to be molded and to be coupled to each other. The upper head pipe includes an upper tubular portion into which the steering shaft is inserted and a main frame tongue portion that is configured to extend rearward from the upper tubular portion and is configured to support a front portion of the main frame from above. The lower head pipe includes a lower tubular portion into which the steering shaft is inserted and a down tube tongue portion that is configured to extend downward from the lower tubular portion and to support an upper portion of the down tube from forward.

Abstract: A controlling member (a controlling pin 10) is inserted through an insertion hole 7 of a mold 1 and projected into a cavity 6. After a pipe P as an insert member is arranged at a predetermined position in the cavity 6, the pipe P is held in the cavity 6 by inserting a tip of the controlling pin 10 into a hole h of the pipe P at the end p1, or by inserting the end p1 of the pipe P into a cave 21 of the controlling member. A molten aluminum alloy is then poured through a gate 5 into the cavity 6 under such the condition, to enclose the pipe P with the aluminum alloy. Dislocation of the pipe P caused by kinetic and thermal energies of the poured aluminum alloy is suppressed by the controlling pin 10 or block 20 at the end p1. Since the enclosed pipe P has its end p1 opened at a predetermined position, a cast product obtained in this way can be used as a brake caliper or the like having an inner hydraulic circuit.

Abstract: A controlling member (a controlling pin 10) is inserted through an insertion hole 7 of a mold 1 and projected into a cavity 6. After a pipe P as an insert member is arranged at a predetermined position in the cavity 6, the pipe P is held in the cavity 6 by inserting a tip of the controlling pin 10 into a hole h of the pipe P at the end p1, or by inserting the end p1 of the pipe P into a cave 21 of the controlling member. A molten aluminum alloy is then poured through a gate 5 into the cavity 6 under such the condition, to enclose the pipe P with the aluminum alloy. Dislocation of the pipe P caused by kinetic and thermal energies of the poured aluminum alloy is suppressed by the controlling pin 10 or block 20 at the end p1. Since the enclosed pipe P has its end p1 opened at a predetermined position, a cast product obtained in this way can be used as a brake caliper or the like having an inner hydraulic circuit.

Abstract: A process for refining aluminum using a segregation solidification process under a positive pressure inert gas protecting atmosphere comprising, maintaining the temperature of molten aluminum in the vessel by a plurality of electric heater sections arranged around the periphery of said vessel in vertically superposed relationship to each other, cooling a narrow peripheral portion of the inner surface of said vessel beneath the level of the molten aluminum therein by means of a peripheral cooling section arranged around the periphery of said vessel between adjacent heater sections to crystallize the molten aluminum onto said peripheral portion of the inner surface of said vessel, scraping off the refined and solidified aluminum on said peripheral portion by scraping and tamping means having a cross-sectional configuration complementary to that of the inner surface of said vessel, tamping the heaped aluminum by said scraping and tamping means, and deenergizing some of said heater sections located at positions a