Abstract: A rotation device includes a two-axis rotation mechanism including a first bevel gear, a second bevel gear disposed at a position where the second bevel gear coaxially faces the first bevel gear in an axial direction, a third bevel gear that meshes with the first bevel gear and the second bevel gear, a first motor for supplying rotational force to the first bevel gear, and a second motor for supplying rotational force to the second bevel gear; a one-axis rotation mechanism including a drive shaft and a third motor for supplying rotational force to the drive shaft; and an attachment member that attaches the two-axis rotation mechanism to the one-axis rotation mechanism such that a rotational axis of the drive shaft passes a point of intersection where a rotational axis of the first bevel gear and the second gear and that of the third bevel gear intersect with each other.

Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering exercise content to a user of an exercise apparatus include a database storing exercise content, data associated with a content provider and data associated with an application provider, and a platform server operable to facilitate delivery of the exercise content to the exercise apparatus. The platform server delivers for display on the exercise apparatus archived exercise classes for selection by the user, receives from the exercise apparatus a selection, transmits data representing content of the selected archived exercise class, receives performance data from the exercise apparatus based on activity by the user, and generates archived performance data representing archived user performance parameters for a plurality of other users over at least the portion of the selected archived exercise class. Data is synchronized and updated for display by the exercise apparatus to simulate the user competing with at least some of the other users.

Abstract: A machine learning (ML) model is trained using pairs of images. Each pair includes an image of a human face and a duplicate of the image with a computer game headset overlaid on the face using computer graphics. The ML model subsequently can be used to receive an image of a gamer wearing a headset and output a full-face image of the gamer for use in, e.g., social network settings related to the game.

Abstract: A method and system for efficiently executing a delegate of a program by a processor coupled to an external memory. A payload including state data or command data is bound with a program delegate. The payload is mapped with the delegate via the payload identifier. The payload is pushed to a repository buffer in the external memory. The payload is flushed by reading the payload identifier and loading the payload from the repository buffer. The delegate is executed using the loaded payload.

Abstract: Two dimensional images are converted to a 3D neural radiance field (NeRF), which is modified based on text input to resemble the type of character demanded by the text. An open-source “CLIP” model scores how well an image matches a line of text to produce a final 3D NeRF, which may be converted to a polygonal mesh and imported into a computer simulation such as a computer game.

Abstract: An HMD that suppresses a temperature rise in the apparatus main body efficiently is provided. The HMD includes a main body housing that accommodates at least a display panel, a right lens, and a left lens therein, a mounting band that supports the main body housing and is mounted on the head of a user, and a duct accommodated in the main body housing and configuring part of a flow path that discharges air in the main body housing to the outside thereof.

Abstract: A drive device (7) that unwinds, in a first direction, a wire (WR) connected to an operation target (41, 551, 552) with predetermined tension and pulls the wire in a direction opposite to the first direction to cause the operation target to perform an action includes a motor (71), a first rotating member (74) that can be rotated by the motor in a second direction and in a direction opposite to the second direction about a rotation axis (Rx5), a pulling member (TM) that is provided rotatably coaxially with the first rotating member, holds an end (WR1) of the wire, rotates in the second direction to unwind the wire in the first direction, and rotates in the direction opposite to the second direction to pull the wire in the direction opposite to the first direction, and a pulling member side urging member (77) that urges the pulling member in the direction opposite to the second direction relative to the first rotating member, in which, when the wire is moved in the first direction due to an external factor, the

Abstract: A method for reducing uneven wear of a thumbstick of a controller, the thumbstick being rotatably held within a socket of a housing of the controller, and the method comprising: pivoting a thumbstick of a controller within a socket of a housing of the controller; and rotating the thumbstick within the socket and around a pivoted central axis of the thumbstick.

Abstract: An image processing device for acquiring, with regard to a human object located in a virtual space, map data of the surface of the human object that is used in order to determine the external appearance of a region of the human object corresponding to the skin, acquiring state information indicating the state in the virtual space, and correcting a value included in the map data on the basis of the acquired state information, and the image processing device draws a spatial image illustrating an appearance of the virtual space by using the corrected map data.

Abstract: There is provided a method of providing a custom manifest for a content stream to a user electronic device, the method comprising receiving a request for a manifest file, generating a custom manifest, wherein the custom manifest defines a personalised version of the content stream, and sending the custom manifest to the user electronic device. The method further comprises providing an updated custom manifest file based on a received updated request. There is also provided a method of outputting a content stream on a user electronic device, the method comprising sending a request for a manifest file, receiving a custom manifest file, and outputting a personalised version of the content stream as defined in the custom manifest file. The method further comprises sending an updated request for a custom manifest associated with the content stream, and receiving an updated custom manifest.

Abstract: An entertainment device, method and computer program, the entertainment device includes processing circuitry to process a game state of a game and to generate, based on a plurality of game assets, an image of a scene, and output circuitry to output the image for display. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on the plurality of game assets, whether the scene includes at least one character communicating using sign language, to adjust the generation of the image in dependence on whether the scene comprises the at least one character communicating using sign language.

Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting resistance on an exercise cycle having a frame and a flywheel include calibration, homing and auto-follow routines. A resistance apparatus comprising an actuator is configured to selectively position the resistance apparatus relative to the flywheel, wherein a distance between the resistance apparatus to the flywheel corresponds to resistance applied to the flywheel. Control components are configured to control operation of the resistance system in response to instructions, and a computing device is configured to output media for an exercise class to a user, the exercise class comprising one or more target resistance ranges corresponding to a segment of the exercise class. The computing device is further configured to selectively implement auto-follow logic configured to determine a target resistance value for a current segment of the exercise class and instruct the control components to adjust the resistance system to the target resistance value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data collection section, a relation learning section, and a map generation section. The data collection section collects a feature quantity of a physical movement of a user and situation information indicating a situation of the user when the physical movement is made. The relation learning section creates a learned model for classification of the feature quantity of the physical movement according to the situation information, by learning a relation between the feature quantity of the physical movement and the situation information. The map generation section generates, on the basis of the learned model, a map that is capable of associating the situation information with the feature quantity of the physical movement.

Abstract: The application provides a computer-implemented method for simulating a reflected audio path in a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising a source, a receiver, an obstacle, and a sound-reflective boundary, the reflected audio path associated with reflection at the sound-reflective boundary, and the method comprising: simulating, by an image-source method, the reflected audio path between the source and the receiver, the image-source method comprising: generating, by mirroring the source in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image source, and determining a simulated reflected audio path along a line segment between the receiver and the mirror image source; generating, by mirroring the obstacle in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image obstacle; performing a line-of-sight check between the receiver and the mirror image source; and, when at least one of the obstacle and the mirror image obstacle lies along the line segment between the mirror image source and the receiver, performing a

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for processing information for a head-mounted display for blocking out an outside world from a user's vision when worn by the user to present a video, by carrying out actions comprising: measuring outside world information related to a boundary of an area within which user movement is acceptable; presenting, at a user interface, the outside world information; detecting, based on the outside world information, a change to the boundary; generating, based on the change, notification information about at least one of the boundary or the user movement relative to the boundary; and presenting, at the user interface or a different user interface, the notification information as a notification.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus capable of updating a frame image at a variable refresh rate executes a drawing process of a frame image, transmits the drawn frame image to the display apparatus, measures a drawing time period required for a drawing process of the frame image, and changes an operation condition of the drawing process according to the measured drawing time period.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of training a deep learning model for use in synthesis of a head-related transfer function, HRTF, is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a training dataset comprising a plurality of timbre features, each timbre feature comprising an HRTF measurement of a subject at a particular measurement angle, where the HRTF measurement has been processed to remove localisation perception features of the HRTF; training an autoencoder model, that is conditioned using the measurement angle, to encode the input timbre feature into a latent vector space and reconstruct the input timbre feature from the latent vector space, thereby learning a latent vector space that encodes timbre information independent of the measurement angle, such that the latent vector space is usable to synthesise a timbre component of an HRTF. The method allows for generating a personalised timbre component of an HRTF to provide better personalisation of an HRTF, thereby providing improved binaural audio.

Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a transmission determining section that determines whether or not to transmit an event signal output from a vision sensor which is of an event-driven type and which includes a plurality of sensors constituting a sensor array, on the basis of position information for each of the sensors in the sensor array.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus which executes an application program to draw, according to a processing content of this application program, a frame image to be displayed on a screen of a display apparatus capable of updating the frame image at a variable refresh rate and determines a permissible rate range permitted as a refresh rate, according to an operation condition of the display apparatus assumed by the application program, to cause the display apparatus to execute refresh at a variable refresh rate within the determined permissible rate range.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that accepts an input of an emulation setting relating to a function of a display monitor as a target of emulation and executes a display output of an image rendered by executing an application program to a display monitor actually connected, in such a manner as to emulate a state in which a display monitor with a function represented by the accepted emulation setting is virtually connected.