Abstract: The image transmission system executes the following five steps. The first step is acquiring a first image by capturing a first person present in a first area by a first camera. The second step is generating a first person silhouette image representing a silhouette of the first person shown in the first image. The third step is projecting or displaying the first person silhouette image on a second object installed in a second area that is different from the first area. The fourth step is determining whether or not the first person performs a first trigger action based on the first image. Fifth step is when the first person performs the first trigger action, projecting or displaying a first person detailed image on the second object, wherein the first person detailed image is closer to a real image of the first person than the first person silhouette image is.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.

Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator acquires a virtual space image by imaging a virtual space from a virtual user position corresponding to a real user position. The VR simulator draws the virtual space image on a curved screen installed at a position distant from a user. A virtual screen position in a virtual space corresponds to the installation position of the curved screen. An inverse curved screen is placed at the virtual screen position and curved inversely to the curved screen. The VR simulator acquires a first virtual space image by imaging the virtual space from the virtual user position, and draws the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen. Further, the VR simulator acquires a second virtual space image by imaging the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen from the virtual user position, and draws the second virtual space image on the curved screen.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a stereoscopic image represented by a collection of polygons. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire a plurality of distance images from a plurality of distance image sensors that capture an object, generate a plurality of 3D polygon models based on the plurality of distance images, divide a virtual space surrounding the object to generate a plurality of divided spaces, compare a number of vertices of polygons in the plurality of 3D polygon models in each divided space, select vertices of the 3D polygon model with a highest number of vertices in each divided space as vertices in the divided space, and integrate the selected vertices to generate the stereoscopic image.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller receives, from another terminal apparatus, information for generating a 3D model that represents a participant who participates in an event in a virtual space using the other terminal apparatus, generates the 3D model in a form corresponding to a role of the participant in the event, and outputs information for displaying an image obtained by rendering the virtual space in which the 3D model is arranged.

Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator acquires a virtual space image by imaging a virtual space from a virtual user position corresponding to a real user position. The YR simulator draws the virtual space image on a curved screen installed at a position distant from a user. A virtual screen position in a virtual space corresponds to the installation position of the curved screen. An inverse curved screen is placed at the virtual screen position and curved inversely to the curved screen. The VR simulator acquires a first virtual space image by imaging the virtual space from the virtual user position, and draws the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen. Further, the YR simulator acquires a second virtual space image by imaging the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen from the virtual user position, and draws the second virtual space image on the curved screen.

Abstract: A communication system according to the present disclosure includes a camera configured to be able to photograph a user who is a communication partner and a microphone configured to be able to form a beam-forming in a specific direction. The control unit identifies a position of the mouth of a user using an image of the user taken by the camera and controls a position of a head part so that the identified position of the mouth of the user is included in a region of the beam-forming.

Abstract: A dialogue apparatus includes a display unit, a first dialogue control unit configured to display a first character on the display unit and simulate a speech function of an external communication robot capable of having a dialogue to conduct the dialogue with a user, a second dialogue control unit configured to display a second character on the display unit and conduct the dialogue so as to mediate the dialogue between the user and the first dialogue control unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the external communication robot, dialogue information about the dialogue conducted by the first dialogue control unit and the second dialogue control unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a virtual space sharing system capable of outputting a virtual image in which a plurality of users share a virtual space between the plurality of users in a two-way direction. A first exemplary aspect is a virtual space sharing system includes: a motion acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion of a user present in each of a plurality of spaces; an image generation unit configured to generate a virtual image in which avatars corresponding to the respective users operate in a virtual space shared in the plurality of spaces based on the motions of the respective users; and an output unit configured to output a virtual image in which avatars of other users operate in the virtual space to a display unit disposed in each of the plurality of spaces.

Abstract: A communication device includes a calculation unit which calculates class probabilities that are probabilities an input speech belongs to a plurality of respective classified classes previously defined as types of speech contents, a plurality of response generation modules provided for respective types of responses each generates a response speech corresponding to the type, a determination unit which selects one of the plurality of response generation modules based on association probabilities and the class probabilities calculated by the calculation unit and determines the response speech generated by the selected response generation module as an output speech to be emitted to the user, the association probabilities being set for each of the plurality of response generation modules, and the association probabilities each indicating a level of association between the response generation module and each of the plurality of classified classes, and an output unit which outputs the output speech.

Abstract: An interaction system capable of making a user form an attachment to a particular interaction model is provided. A first interaction model is configured so that a communication function expressed to a user is improved from an initial state through communication with the user. A second interaction model is configured to interact with the user by a communication function better than the initial state of the first interaction model, and to make a speech for the user, the speech being made so as to support the improvement of the communication function of the first interaction model.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that can improve communication quality is provided. A communication apparatus including a face unit for achieving a configuration simulating right and left eyes by a mechanical movement or a display. The communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a distance to and a direction of a communication partner, and a control unit configured to control the mechanical movement or the display of the configurations in such a way that viewpoints of the right and left eyes are directed to the distance and the direction detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: An interactive apparatus includes: acquisition means for acquiring profile information in which a topic in a user's speech and the number of predetermined parts of speech of words included in the speech are associated with each other; topic selection means for setting the probability that the topic is selected in such a way that topics whose numbers of predetermined parts of speech are larger are selected with a higher probability from among topics set in the profile information based on the profile information acquired by the acquisition means, and selecting the topic in accordance with the probability of the selection that has been set; and response generation means for generating a response to the user based on the topic that has been selected by the topic selection means.

Abstract: A communication system according to the present disclosure includes a camera configured to be able to photograph a user who is a communication partner and a microphone configured to be able to form a beam-forming in a specific direction. The control unit identifies a position of the mouth of a user using an image of the user taken by the camera and controls a position of a head part so that the identified position of the mouth of the user is included in a region of the beam-forming.

Abstract: An interaction system capable of making a user form an attachment to a particular interaction model is provided. A first interaction model is configured so that a communication function expressed to a user is improved from an initial state through communication with the user. A second interaction model is configured to interact with the user by a communication function better than the initial state of the first interaction model, and to make a speech for the user, the speech being made so as to support the improvement of the communication function of the first interaction model.

Abstract: A communication device including: an utterance acquisition part configured to acquire an utterance of a user to a character; an information acquisition part configured to acquire information different from the utterance; a voice generation part configured to generate a response voice to be emitted by the character based on a content of the utterance acquired by the utterance acquisition part; and an expression generation part configured to generate a response expression to be expressed by a face portion of the character based on the content of the utterance acquired by the utterance acquisition part, wherein when the information is acquired from the information acquisition part, the expression generation part generates the response expression using the information together with the content of the utterance, the response expression generated when the information is acquired being different from a response expression generated when the information is not acquired.

Abstract: A communication device includes a calculation unit which calculates class probabilities that are probabilities an input speech belongs to a plurality of respective classified classes previously defined as types of speech contents, a plurality of response generation modules provided for respective types of responses each generates a response speech corresponding to the type, a determination unit which selects one of the plurality of response generation modules based on association probabilities and the class probabilities calculated by the calculation unit and determines the response speech generated by the selected response generation module as an output speech to be emitted to the user, the association probabilities being, set for each of the plurality of response generation modules, and the association probabilities each indicating a level of association between the response generation module and each of the plurality of classified classes, and an output unit which outputs the output speech.

Abstract: A dialogue apparatus includes a display unit, a first dialogue control unit configured to display a first character on the display unit and simulate a speech function of an external communication robot capable of having a dialogue to conduct the dialogue with a user, a second dialogue control unit configured to display a second character on the display unit and conduct the dialogue so as to mediate the dialogue between the user and the first dialogue control unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the external communication robot, dialogue information about the dialogue conducted by the first dialogue control unit and the second dialogue control unit.

Abstract: A communication robot controls a line-of-sight direction by changing at least one of an orientation of a head part and a position of a black eye. In the communication robot, in order to direct the line-of-sight direction to a reference direction of a communication target, when the reference direction is included in a specified range previously determined for a current line-of-sight direction, a control unit directs the line-of-sight direction to the reference direction by changing the position of the black eye without changing the orientation of the head part, whereas when the reference direction is not included in the specified range, the control unit directs the line-of-sight direction to the reference direction by changing both the orientation of the head part and the position of the black eye.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that can improve communication quality is provided. A communication apparatus including a face unit for achieving a configuration simulating right and left eyes by a mechanical movement or a display. The communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a distance to and a direction of a communication partner, and a control unit configured to control the mechanical movement or the display of the configurations in such a way that viewpoints of the right and left eyes are directed to the distance and the direction detected by the detection unit.