Abstract: In the case where an event occurs in game software being executed, an event information acquiring section acquires, from the game software, event information including an event code that identifies the event that has occurred. An update processing section updates a record associated with the acquired event information in a first memory. A transmission processing section sends the acquired event information from a communication unit to outside.

Abstract: A boundary surface setting section sets the boundary surface for delimiting a permissible region that is the region which is located inside the real space and in which the user wearing a head-mounted display is permitted to exist and an impermissible region that is the region which is located inside the real space and in which the user is not permitted to exist. A display control section causes a portion or a whole of a virtual object representing the boundary surface to be displayed on the head-mounted display. The boundary surface includes a first boundary line having a first height and a second boundary line having a second height, and a portion or all of the first boundary line is different from the second boundary line.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a device main body, a mounting band that supports the device main body and is mounted on a user's head, a circuit board that is disposed in the upper portion of the device main body and has a mounting surface on which one or more electronic components are mounted, and a cooling device disposed facing the mounting surface in the upper portion of the device main body.

Abstract: To improve the fidelity of a motion sensor, voice-induced components in signals from the motion sensor as well as haptic-induced components in signals from the motion sensor are canceled prior to outputting the final motion signal to an app requiring knowledge of device motion, such as motion of a HMD for a computer game.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the sensory stimulus generated by a head mounted display (HMD). One method includes identifying a game state of a game being executed for a current session by a computer for display on a head mounted display (HMD) for a user. Then, determining a game intensity value for said game state based on user intensity feedback received from one or more prior gaming sessions by users. The user intensity feedback describes levels of sensory stimulus obtained from the users during user play of the game via an HMD of the respective users, and the determined game intensity value is calculated by analysis of the levels of sensory stimulus received from the users. Processing the game intensity value to cause a higher rendering priority to a viewpoint of the user's gaze than regions outside of the viewpoint. The viewpoint is a portion of the display of the HMD.

Abstract: An image transmission/reception system, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, an image transmission/reception method, and a program, generate, from image data representing a downscaled image, a higher resolution image than the downscaled image and is more similar to an original image. An encoding process section generates image data representing a downscaled image obtained by downscaling the original image. An additional data generation section generates additional data on the basis of the original image, the additional data being unidentifiable by the image data alone. A data transmission section transmits the image data and the additional data. A data reception section receives the image data and the additional data. An upscaling section generates an upscaled image on the basis of the image data and the additional data, the upscaled image being higher in resolution than the downscaled image. A display control section causes the upscaled image to be displayed.

Abstract: A comment that can easily arouse viewer's interest and attention to a game video can be outputted. An attribute information acquisition section acquires viewer attribute information which indicates an attribute of a viewer who has made access to a video distribution apparatus. A comment information selection section selects at least one of a plurality of comment information items associated with a predetermined scene included in a video, on the basis of the viewer attribute information. A comment output section outputs a comment that is based on the selected comment information, together with the predetermined scene included in the video.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an image signal acquired by an image sensor, an acceptance unit that accepts operation input made by a user for driving a device carrying the image sensor, a calculation unit that calculates a movement amount of the image sensor in an entire angle of view according to the image signal and the operation input, and a correction processing unit that performs a correction process for an image constructed from the image signal, according to the movement amount.

Abstract: A substitute image generating section generates a substitute image corresponding to second image data on the basis of first image data. According to success or failure of reception of the second image data, a display control section causes either one of the to-be-displayed image generated on the basis of the second image data and the substitute image generated on the basis of the first image data to be displayed. The substitute image generating section starts the generation of the substitute image corresponding to the second image data based on the first image data before the success or failure of the reception of the second image data is confirmed.

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. A plurality of pieces of geometry of an image frame is assigned to the GPUs for geometry testing. A first GPU state configuring one or more shaders to perform the geometry testing is set. Geometry testing is performed at GPUs on the plurality of pieces of geometry to generate information regarding each piece of geometry and its relation to each of the plurality of screen regions. A second GPU state configuring the one or more shaders to perform rendering is set. The information generated for each of the plurality of pieces of geometry is used when rendering the plurality of pieces of geometry at the GPUs.

Abstract: A client terminal includes a super-resolution processing section and a display control section. The super-resolution processing section 48 of the client terminal executes a super-resolution process for an inputted image on the basis of scene information indicating a feature in the image. The display control section of the client terminal outputs, to a display panel, the image having undergone the super-resolution process at the super-resolution processing section. The scene information is acquired in a process prior to a super-resolution process for a super-resolution process target image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first reception section, a second reception section, an association processing section, an object detection section, and a process execution section. The first reception section receives image information acquired by an image sensor. The second reception section receives sound information that is acquired by one or plural directional microphones and that is generated for at least a partial region in a field of the image sensor. The association processing section associates the sound information with a pixel address of the image information indicating a position in the field. The object detection section detects, from the image information, at least a part of an object that is present in the field. The process execution section executes a predetermined process on the object on the basis of a result of the association performed by the association processing section.

Abstract: An exercise machine with a movable belt includes a guard assembly with a flexible guard that extends towards the rear axis and is spaced apart from the movable belt by a first gap and is exposed by the housing body, a rigid guard positioned downstream of the flexible guard with respect to a moving direction of the belt and spaced apart from the movable belt by a second gap, and a channel disposed between the flexible guard and the rigid guard. The guard assembly protects the user from injury and prevents damage to the exercise machine.

Abstract: An accessibility computer game controller includes a central control button on a round base and peripheral control buttons on the base surrounding the central control button. The peripheral control buttons can have distinct sizes and shapes. An analog stick unit is reciprocatingly engaged with the base and includes a control portion rotatable relative to the base.

Abstract: A method of recording a seamless customised video recording of a video game, the method comprising the steps of: video recording a first run-through of at least a part of the video game; saving a saved-game state of a first game state of the video game, the saved-game state enabling a game state of the video game to be reset to the saved-game state that is at least visually identical to the first game state; detecting, in response to the saving of the saved-game state, a time within the video recording of the first run-through corresponding to the time the saved-game state is saved; video recording, when the game state is reset to the saved-game state, another run-through from the saved-game state; and editing the video recording of the first run-through by replacing some or all the video recording of the first run-through recorded from the detected time with the video recording of the other run-through when the other run-through meets a predetermined preference criterion.

Abstract: Techniques for optimizing which LEDs in a HMD to use, the brightness of those LEDs, and camera exposure are divulged based on the particular function to be performed. For instance, one set of optimization parameters may be implemented for eye tracking purposes while a different set of optimization parameters may be implemented for eye-based authentication purposes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, where the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, and where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, and (iii) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal and apply a force to the movable part in an opposite direction of the force applied by the finger of the user.

Abstract: A method of virtual character modelling includes: ofdefining a damage map for all or part of a virtual character, the damage map having a form corresponding to a texture map applied to the all or part of the virtual character, with points on the damage map corresponding to points on the virtual character; assigning initial damage values to each point on the damage map; recording on the damage map damage caused by a spatial interaction of a virtual damage agent at one or more of the points on the virtual character corresponding to the points on the damage map by altering the damage values that those points; and modifying an aspect of the virtual character in response to the recorded damage.

Abstract: Provided is a system that performs proper display under recognition of vocalizer in conversation. An explanation support system 1 includes a display unit 3, a material storage unit 5 that stores an explanation material and a plurality of keywords related to the explanation material, a display information storage unit 7 that stores display information displayed on the display unit 3 based on a combination of the keywords, a voice analysis unit 9 that analyzes voice terms that are terms included in voice information related to the explanation material and vocalizers of the voice terms, and a display control unit 11 that identifies which of the plurality of keywords the voice term of a specific vocalizer analyzed by the voice analysis unit 9 is, reads out the display information from the display information storage unit 7 using information related to the identified keyword, and causes the display unit 3 to display the display information.

Abstract: A method for rendering 3D audio is provided. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-output audio signal, wherein the to-be-output audio signal comprises one or more audio layers; selecting a to-be-filtered audio layer from the one or more audio layers; selecting a rendering Head-Related Transfer Function, HRTF, from a database of HRTFs; applying the rendering HRTF to the to-be-filtered audio layer to generate a filtered audio layer, such that the to-be-output audio signal comprises the filtered audio layer and is a 3D audio signal. In this way, 3D effects are only applied to specific audio layers of an audio signal, thereby efficiently rendering 3D audio without unnecessarily impacting the timbre of the audio signal.