Abstract: System, process, and device configurations are provided for eye tracking and interactive game control. A method can include detecting eye tracking data for at least one user during the presentation of the gaming content and determining a player engagement parameter for the gaming content based on the eye tracking data. Presentation of the gaming content may be updated using the player engagement parameter. Embodiments can include use of the player engagement parameter for one or more of identifying game play objects of interest, player engagement level, user effect of the gaming content, player type, player profiles and audio immersion preferences. The player engagement parameter can be used to update gaming content, audio output and control sound output for gaming content.

Abstract: An entertainment system includes circuitry configured to generate a virtual environment comprising a virtual character, where actions performed by the virtual character are associated, according to a control scheme, with input signals from an input device operable to produce a haptic output, obtain a haptic output signal corresponding to a state of the virtual environment, determine a characteristic of the virtual character, determine, based on the characteristic of the virtual character, a haptic adjustment property, perform processing to adjust the haptic output signal, responsive to the haptic adjustment property, and output the adjusted haptic output signal to the input device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an image control unit that controls a communication image including an image of a performer or an avatar and displayed on a display unit installed in a separated space and having a vertical direction as a longitudinal direction; and a hand control unit that controls movement of a robot hand that provides an experience by a tactile sense to an experiencing person who has visually recognized the image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for: generating a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of applications executed in parallel and storing the plurality of images in a frame buffer; reading out the plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of applications from the frame buffer at different timings for each application and coding the plurality of images that have been read out; and when the reading and coding completes coding of an image corresponding to a first application and initiates coding of an image corresponding to a second application, saving context regarding the first application from the reading and coding to a storage section and setting context regarding the second application from the storage section in the reading and coding, without an intermediary of processing of software that manages the plurality of applications.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that calculates a distance between images taken by a camera at multiple camera stations in a three-dimensional space. The information processing apparatus includes region setting means for setting, as a target region for each camera station, a range of a predetermined shape in a projection plane at a distance determined by a predetermined method relative to the camera within a frustum of the camera at each camera station, on the basis of information regarding a posture of the camera at each camera station, and calculation means for calculating, as a distance value, a proportion in which, given a pair of the images targeted for the distance calculation, the target region for the camera station from which one of the images is taken is included in the target region for the camera station from which the other image is taken.

Abstract: Not only cooling performance for an integrated circuit such as a central processing unit (CPU) but also cooling performance for a power supply unit is improved. An electronic apparatus includes a first heat sink and a power supply unit including a power supply unit case having an intake air wall in which a plurality of air intake holes are formed. The intake air wall is located in front of the first heat sink. The intake air wall has an external surface being inclined with respect to both a front-rear direction and a left-right direction and facing the first heat sink. A cooling fan is disposed to feed air toward the intake air wall.

Abstract: A system and method for creating and/or administering operation of replayable activities for interactive content titles. The replayable activities may be competitive in nature and may be used to determine a ranking. A first set of data associated with an interactive content title may be received. The first set of data associated with the interactive content title may be received from an interactive content source server. The interactive content title may be is at least partially hosted at the interactive content source server. The first set of data may be associated with a replayable activity for the interactive content title. A score may be determined based on the first set of data for an associated user account. The associated user account may be placed in the ranking based on scores of other user accounts and respective sets of data associated with the replayable activity for the interactive content title.

Abstract: A video game system includes a video server system (VSS) having a first network address. The VSS pairs a game controller having a second network address with a display system having a third network address. The VSS receives controller data packets directed to the first network address from the game controller over a first communication channel. The controller data packets include the second network address and information for updating a game state of a video game. The VSS decodes the controller data packets and directs generation of an updated game state of the video game using information within the controller data packets. The VSS generates a video stream of the video game using the updated game state. The VSS transmits the video stream to the display system at the third network address over a second communication channel. The first and second communication channels differ by at least one network segment.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an image display apparatus worn on a head of a user, including: producing a planar image representing virtual objects in a virtual world, wherein the planar image includes characteristics that require the image display apparatus to be a non-see-through image display apparatus that does not allow the user to visually recognize real world objects outside the virtual world; and displaying the planar image on the image display apparatus in a display mode that changes a shape of the planar image as a function of a change in position and/or orientation of the image display apparatus, wherein the change in the shape of the planar image includes presenting the planar image in an orientation other than a front direction of the user.

Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board includes a plurality of conductive layers formed by a conductive material, in which a blank region with the conductive material removed is formed in at least part of at least an intermediate conductive layer that is formed inside the multilayer printed circuit board, among the plurality of conductive layers, a plurality of island regions are formed by the conductive material included in the intermediate conductive layer in the blank region, and each of the plurality of island regions is not electrically connected to other regions included in the intermediate conductive layer and is disposed so as to be dispersed from one another.

Abstract: An image obtaining section of an information processing apparatus obtains polarized light images in a plurality of directions from an imaging device provided to a moving body. A polarization degree obtaining section of an image analyzing section obtains a degree of polarization on the basis of direction dependence of luminance of polarized light. A high polarization degree region evaluating section detects the peripheral edge of a play field on which the moving body is present, by evaluating the shape of a high polarization degree region having degrees of polarization higher than a threshold value in a state in which the high polarization degree region is overlooked. An output data generating section generates and outputs output data for avoiding movement to the peripheral edge.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes input circuitry to receive audio data for a plurality of respective dialogue recordings for a video game, classification circuitry comprising one or more machine learning models to receive at least a portion of the audio data for each dialogue recording and trained to output classification data indicative of a quality classification of a dialogue recording in dependence upon one or more properties of the audio data for the dialogue recording, and storage circuitry to store identification data for one or more of the plurality of dialogue recordings in dependence upon the classification data.

Abstract: A system and method provide application assistance with a mobile device including running an application on a computer system. A challenging application state of the application is detected. An assistance for the challenging application state may be determined wherein the assistance includes display of one or more assistance frames on the mobile device. Information regarding the determined one or more assistance frames is sent to the mobile device.

Abstract: Techniques for improving a graphical user interface are described. In an example, a computer system receives an activity identifier of an activity in a video game and correlated locations. It builds a map of the locations from completion data indicating completion of the activity, and location data indicating where the activity was completed in the video game by other players. The identifier can be predefined in program code of the video game. Data is processed to determine where the likely location is for completing the activity in the video game. This likely location is shown as a graphical user interface element in a map.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes storage circuitry to store animation data for a computer generated environment, the animation data specifying animations of animated objects of the computer generated environment for a period of time, selection circuitry to receive an animation data request and to select a portion of the animation data in dependence on the animation data request, and output circuitry to output the portion of the animation data.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus for determining description data for describing content includes: a video captioning model to receive an input comprising at least video images associated with the content, wherein the video captioning model is trained to detect one or more predetermined motions of one or more animated objects in the video images and determine one or more captions in dependence on one or more of the predetermined motions, one or more of the captions comprising respective caption data comprising one or more words for describing one or more of the predetermined motions, the respective caption data comprising one or more of audio data, text data and image data; and output circuitry to output description data in dependence on one or more of the captions.

Abstract: A graphics rendering apparatus, comprising: a rendering unit configured to render image content for display on a display screen; an input unit configured to receive one or more images of one or both eyes of a user; and a gaze tracking unit configured to determine, based on one or more of the received images, a region of the display screen towards which a gaze of the user is directed; wherein the rendering unit is configured to execute, in dependence upon the determined region of the display screen, one or more computational processes that are expected to cause a visual discontinuity to occur within at least a part of the image content, wherein the rendering unit is configured to execute the one or more computational processes with respect to one or more parts of the image content that correspond to one or more regions of the display screen that are different from the determined region of the display.

Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus for generating one or more images of a virtual environment. The apparatus includes a rendering processor configured to render a first part of the one or more images; a communication processor configured to request, from a remote computing device, data for rendering a second part of the one or more images; and an output image processor configured to generate the one or more images for display at least in part based on the rendered first part of the one or more images and the data for rendering the second part of the one or more images.

Abstract: Apparatus includes a set of two or more user-operable control devices each configured to provide one or more respective data processing control functions, in which the control functions provided by the set of user-operable control devices are collectively configurable to provide a predetermined set of control functions; in which each user-operable control device comprises a wireless power interface to receive operative electrical power from a wireless power source; and a wireless power source configured to concurrently provide electrical power to the set of the user-operable control devices.

Abstract: In an image displayed on a display under a normal condition, the locations where items to choose from are located are indicated by icons. When a user touches a contact point, icons located within a predetermined range from the contact point are detected from among the icons. Then the locations of the detected icons are varied such that they are located on a circle, with the circle's center at the contact point, at equal spaces between the detected icons. A pointer graphic that indicates the original position of each icon in the original image is added to each icon.