Abstract: A head-mounted display, a display control method, and a program that facilitate a user to understand proximity between the user and an object around the user are provided. A display block (36) is arranged in front of the eyes of the user wearing a HMD (12). In accordance with proximity between the user and an object around the user, the HMD (12) controls the display block (36) so as to have the user visually recognize a forward direction of the display block (36).

Abstract: A visual perception assistance apparatus includes a rendering unit configured to render, for display, a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising one or more virtual elements; a selection unit configured to select one or more of the virtual elements; and an adapting unit configured to, for a given selected virtual element, adapt one or more aspects associated with an appearance of the given selected virtual element in dependence upon a distance between the given selected virtual element and a predetermined location within the virtual environment.

Abstract: Computer animation involving monocular pose prediction is disclosed. A plurality of candidate pose sequences of a three-dimensional model of an animation character is generated such that each candidate pose of each sequence has a segmentation map that matches a segmentation map of a corresponding character derived from a corresponding frame of a video. A distance between candidate poses at each time step is maximized. An optimum pose sequence is determined and used to generate a corresponding sequence of frames of animation.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets a target display range, uses information of the set target display range to execute a rasterization process based on image data to generate a bitmap image of a size represented by integerized information, and draws the generated bitmap image in the set target display range.

Abstract: Responsive to a zoom command when presenting a first video, a second video is combined with the first video and presented. The first and second videos are generated from substantially the same camera location as each other at substantially the same time with substantially the same resolution. However, the second video is generated by a physical or virtual lens having a field of view (FOV) smaller than the FOV of a physical or virtual lens used in generating the first video. The technique gives the appearance of zooming without loss of resolution.

Abstract: A haptic feedback method includes: providing a wearable haptic feedback device comprising one or more bone-conduction haptic feedback units, and driving the one or more bone conduction haptic feedback units with at least a first signal processed using a bone conduction head related transfer function, ‘bHRTF’.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive one or more pairs of first and second frames of a video image to be output for display; determine a first value indicative of a brightness of one or more pixels of the first frame in each pair; determine a second value indicative of a brightness of a corresponding one or more pixels of the second frame in each pair; based on a difference between the first and second values of each pair, adjust a pixel value of the one or more pixels of the first frame in each pair or adjust a pixel value of the corresponding one or more pixels of the second frame in each pair to reduce the magnitude of the difference between the first and second values of each pair; and output the first and second frames of each pair with the adjusted pixel value of the one or more pixels of the first frame or with the adjusted pixel value of the corresponding one or more pixels of the second frame for display.

Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus in which different pieces of predetermined parameter information regarding acoustic transfer in a head of a listener are retained as preset candidates, a parameter information list including the retained preset candidates is presented, to prompt a user to select parameter information, and an audio signal for the user is generated by using the user-selected parameter information.

Abstract: Incorporating camera through (CT) or augmented-reality (AR) vision into a display of a headset, including: displaying the CT or AR vision on a view screen of the display of the headset, when the CT or AR vision is selected by a user; prompting the user to enter or select at least one object to be highlighted on the view screen in a CT or AR vision mode; and highlighting the at least one selected object on the view screen.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a measured torque value acquisition section and a contact event detection section. The measured torque value acquisition section acquires a first measured torque value measured by a motor that drives a joint of a housing. In a case where a threshold range is exceeded by the first measured torque value or by a value based on the first measured torque value, the contact event detection section detects a contact event that has occurred on a part of the housing that is coupled by the joint.

Abstract: Provided is a server device including one or more processors including hardware, in which the one or more processors acquire pieces of meta information of a plurality of players, use the pieces of meta information of the plurality of players to generate a plurality of groups with different play styles, acquire meta information of a user who is playing a game, use the meta information of the user to identify a corresponding one of the groups to which the user belongs, and provide the user with information concerning the group to which the user belongs.

Abstract: Provided is a server device including one or more processors having hardware. The one or more processors derive remaining time left until a user ends game play, specify an activity that is predicted to be completed by the user in the derived remaining time, and provide information regarding the specified activity to the user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a server device including one or more processors having hardware. The one or more processors obtain praise information indicating that a player has praised another player, award points to the player who has praised the other player, on the basis of the praise information, award points to the other player who has been praised, on the basis of the praise information, count the points awarded by praising and the points awarded by being praised, for each player, and conduct evaluation regarding praise on the basis of the counted points.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the display control section specifies a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.

Abstract: An audio personalisation method for a first user includes: testing a first user on a calibration test, the calibration test comprising requiring a user to match a test sound to a test location, either by controlling the position of the presented sound or controlling the position of the presented location, for a sequence of test matches, each test sound being presented at a position using a default head related transfer function ‘HRTF’, receiving an estimate of each matching location from the first user, and calculating a respective error for each estimate, to generate a sequence of location estimate errors for the first user; and comparing at least some of the location estimate errors for the first user with estimate errors of the same locations previously generated for at least a subset of a corpus of reference individuals; identifying a reference individual with the closest match of compared location estimation errors to those of the first user; and using an HRTF, previously obtained for the identified refe

Abstract: A method of memory allocation in a host computer includes: allocating one or more regions of physical working memory for use by an application, the regions individually including contiguous physical memory segments, but the regions not necessarily being contiguous between themselves; generating a segment address table having at least as many entries as the total number of physical memory segments allocated to the application; populating entries of the segment address table sequentially and contiguously with the physical addresses of the physical memory segments across the or each region in order; presenting to the application a contiguous virtual addressable space having at least as many virtual memory segments as the total number of physical memory segments allocated to the application; and mapping from virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses by reference to the segment address table.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a region extraction part extracts an image of the sky as an image of a target object not included in an object of interest in a moving image of content, on the basis of at least any of changes in pixel values, a frequency at which a line of sight is directed, a distance from a camera, registered information designating the target object, and the like. In the extracted region, a different image presentation part displays an image indicative of a magnified image of a player and character information for cheering as an image different from the sky image.

Abstract: To facilitate backwards compatibility, a computing device may respond to a call from an application for information regarding a processor on the computing device by returning information regarding a different processor than the processor on the computing device, including one or more of processor model, processor family, cache capabilities, translation lookaside buffer capabilities, processor serial number, processor brand, processor manufacturer, thread/core topology, cache topology, extended features, virtual address size, or physical address size that differs when the processor determines that the application is a legacy device application.

Abstract: A method for game allocation in a game cloud system. The method including tracking state of a plurality of compute nodes of a data center, wherein the plurality of compute nodes is distributed across a plurality of rack assemblies. The method including tracking a plurality of popularity valuations of a plurality of video games. The method including determining a distribution of one or more video games from the plurality of video games across the plurality of rack assemblies based on the plurality of popularity valuations of the plurality of video games. The method including storing the one or more video games from the plurality of video games across the plurality of rack assemblies based on the distribution of the one or more video game that is determined.

Abstract: A skeleton model updating apparatus, a skeleton model updating method, and a program by which time and effort for changing the pose of a skeleton model to a known standard pose can be reduced. A target node identifying section identifies target nodes from among a plurality of nodes included in a skeleton model that is in a pose other than a standard pose. A reference node identifying section identifies a reference node that is positioned closest to the side of the target nodes, from among nodes that are connected to all of the target nodes via one or more bones. A position deciding section decides positions of the target nodes such that relative positions of the target nodes with respect to the position of the reference node are adjusted to predetermined positions.