Abstract: An image generation apparatus generates an image whose background region on which a virtual object appearing in the real space is not superimposed is drawn in a background color having a predetermined luminance so as to make a region of a shadow of the virtual object look relatively dark. A rendering section renders the shadow of the virtual object appearing in a mesh structure in the real space by rendering not only the virtual object but also the mesh structure in the real space. A pixel value conversion section heightens colors of all pixels such that the background region uniformly takes on a background color having a predetermined luminance. A shadow/background processing section identifies the region of the shadow of the virtual object, sets the background region other than the shadow to the background color, and sets the shadow region to a color whose luminance is equal to or lower than that of the background color.

Abstract: A method for predicting eye movement in a head mounted display (HMD). The method including tracking movement of an eye of a user with a gaze tracking system disposed in the HMD at a plurality of sample points. The method including determining velocity of the movement based on the movement of the eye. The method including determining that the eye of the user is in a saccade upon the velocity reaching a threshold velocity. The method including predicting a landing point on the display of the HMD corresponding to a direction of the eye for the saccade.

Abstract: An input device includes a case body and a plurality of markers 30d, 30e, and 30p configured to emit light to the outside of the case body. When an angle difference between the normal directions of the two markers 30d and 30e is less than a predetermined threshold value, a distance between the two markers 30d and 30e is equal to or greater than a predetermined first distance. When an angle difference between the normal directions of the two markers 30d and 30p is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, a distance between the two markers 30d and 30p is equal to or greater than a predetermined second distance, and the second distance is shorter than the first distance.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus, a transmission method, and a program that can reduce the number of times that useless transmission of image data is performed due to a failure in reception of image data indicating a reference destination. A transmission failure likelihood data management section checks the likelihood of a failure in transmission of first image data. Second image is an image rendered in a frame buffer for the first time after a timing when a predetermined time has elapsed since the transmission of the first image data. An encoding processing section controls whether or not to generate second image data requiring no reference destination, depending on the likelihood of the failure in the transmission of the first image data at a timing of encoding the second image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving, at at least one game server, an execution request for execution of a game program from a user terminal over a network and, in response, loading and executing the game program, where the execution request is associated with a play point in a video that shows previously played content of the game program; transmitting the video, by way of at least one of the at least one game server and at least one video server, to the user terminal over the network, where the video is displayed to a user of the user terminal and the execution request is initiated by the user; obtaining, at the at least one game server, certain game situation data that is identified based on the play point associated with the execution request, from a storage unit that stores respective game situation data which indicate respective situations of the game program that are associated with respective play points in the video; starting executing the game program, by the at least one game server, from a

Abstract: A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo. User options may be provided to alter the character or game.

Abstract: An application execution unit executes a first application on the basis of operation information of a first inputting device by a first user to generate image data of the first application. A communication processing unit transmits operation information of a second inputting device by a second user to an external information processing device. An acquisition unit acquires image data of a second application from the external information processing device, the operation information of the second inputting device being reflected on the image data of the second application. A display processing unit displays a screen image of the first application and a screen image of the second application on a display device.

Abstract: An input device for controlling a computing system includes one or more sensors configured to sense a change in weight distribution of a user positioned on the input device in use, and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal based on the sensed change in weight distribution, for use in a virtual joystick input to a computing system.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a head-mounted display to be worn by a user located within a physical environment and for engaging in an interactive experience; an entertainment device including a processing section that executes an interactive application that is manipulated in part through receiving inputs from the user; a communication partner operating to relay video and audio signals outputted from the entertainment device to the head-mounted display; continuously acquiring information of the environment at a predetermined frame rate; at least one camera on the head-mounted display, which captures images of the physical environment, where the communication partner is connected to the entertainment device with wired communication, and the communication partner is connected to the head-mounted display with wireless communication.

Abstract: To provide a game presenting system having a plurality of game systems for each executing a process of a game in which a plurality of users participate, and a game presenting machine for presenting a situation of the game executed by the game system, wherein the game presenting machine obtains a motion image related to the game executed by each of the plurality of game systems, and produces a game presenting screen image showing, as a list, at least some of the plurality of motion images obtained.

Abstract: A player identification system for identifying players from recorded video content, the system including a video content analysis unit operable to analyse one or more frames of video content, a player name identification unit operable to identify player names in one or more analysed frames of the video content, and a data generation unit operable to generate data relating to the video in dependence upon one or more identified player names.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a user with a content selection screen including a plurality of types of content as content options and that presents the user with, in the case where one of the content options is selected while the content selection screen is presented, a preview screen including a video which represents a state of a screen watched by another user who is actually using the selected content option.

Abstract: A board shield (52) covers a region in which an electronic part is mounted on a lower surface of a circuit board (50). A memory housing chamber (R1) capable of housing a semiconductor memory is secured on the lower side of the circuit board. The board shield (52) includes a shield wall (52e) along the memory housing chamber (R1). With this, it is possible to protect the semiconductor memory while suppressing an increase in the number of parts.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device coupled to a device which a user operates with a hand of the user and on the surface of which a plurality of sensors that each output information associated with a spatial positional relation with the surface of the hand of the user are arranged, the information processing device being configured to receive output from each of the sensors included in the device and generate an image in which an image element having been drawn with a pixel value determined on the basis of a value represented by the output from each of the sensors is arranged at a position corresponding to a position at which each of the sensors is arranged, on a mapping space obtained by plane-unfolding a portion that constitutes the surface of the device and on which the sensors are arranged, Further, the information processing device is configured to, upon receipt of input of the generated image, estimate information associated with the position of each of joints of the hand of the user who operat

Abstract: A communication device is configured to wirelessly connect to an electronic apparatus. The communication device comprises a first communication unit and a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit and a control unit configured to control the first communication unit and the second communication unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a communication situation of the first communication unit with electronic apparatus and another communication situation of the second communication unit with electronic apparatus. The control unit is configured to execute an allocation process for determining a connection destination of an electronic apparatus to the first communication unit or the second communication unit based on the communication situations.

Abstract: A leakage of electromagnetic waves is suppressed effectively on the periphery of a heat radiating device. A heat radiating device (80) includes a plurality of fins (81) that are arranged on the inside of an opening (52a), a heat pipe (83) that includes a connecting portion (83a) being located between the plurality of fins (81) and a circuit board (50) and extending in a left-right direction along the circuit board (50), and a base plate (82) that supports the plurality of fins (81). The base plate (82) includes a plate left portion (82c). The plate left portion (82c) covers a lower surface of the heat pipe (83), the lower surface facing a side of a board shield (52), and closes a gap (G1) between a left end of the plurality of fins (81) and a left edge of the opening (52a) of the board shield (52).

Abstract: A display modification system for use with a display device, including a camera operable to capture images of at least a portion of the display device, an image analysis unit operable to derive the value of one or more parameters associated with the display of images by the display device in dependence upon the captured images, a modification determination unit operable to determine a modification to be applied to a content display process associated with the display device, where the modification includes changes to a content rendering process for generating content to be displayed by the display device and/or one or more display settings associated with the display device, and a modification communication unit operable to transmit information identifying the determined modification to one or both of the display device and a processing device operable to render content for display by the display device.

Abstract: To reduce the possibility of occurrence of problems such as missing frames and an increase in display delay even if a disturbance occurs in a communication path. A reception device includes a reception unit that sequentially receives image information transmitted by a transmission device at a given first interval by wireless communication, a display unit that sequentially displays frame images on the basis of the image information in accordance with a display clock and generates display time information indicating a time corresponding to the update time of the frame image, and a control unit that calculates a second interval indicating an interval at which the frame images are displayed on the basis of plural pieces of the display time information and controls the update cycle of the frame image in accordance with the display clock such that the second interval approximates to the first interval.

Abstract: A method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a human includes obtaining at least one colour image and corresponding depth image of a scene comprising a human subject that is at least partially occluded by one or more items. The regions in the at least one colour image corresponding to a human subject are identified. A point cloud of the scene is generated based on the at least one colour image and corresponding depth image. One or more parameters of a parametric model are then adjusted based on the regions of the point cloud identified as corresponding to the human subject. The adjusted parametric model is then used to generate a 3D reconstruction of the human subject; where the parametric model provides an estimate for points in the point cloud corresponding to the occluded parts of the human subject. A corresponding system is also provided.