Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for updating information. The method includes, in an Always On Display (AOD) mode, determining a target update information format corresponding to a type of a content to be updated, wherein the type of the content to be updated includes time and/or picture, and different update information formats correspond to different types of contents to be updated; generating, based on the content to be updated and the target update information format, update information corresponding to the content to be updated; and controlling a screen to update the content to be updated based on the update information and to display the updated content.

Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to a pipeline that enables real time engines such as gaming engines to leverage high quality simulations generated offline via film grade simulation systems. In one implementation, a method includes: obtaining simulation data and skeletal mesh data of a character, the simulation data and skeletal mesh data including the character in the same rest pose; importing the skeletal mesh data into a real-time rendering engine; and using at least the simulation data and the imported skeletal mesh data to derive from the simulation data a transformed simulation vertex cache that is usable by the real-time rendering engine during runtime to be skinned in place of the rest pose.

Abstract: Techniques related to estimating accurate face shape and texture from an image having a representation of a human face are discussed. Such techniques may include determining shape parameters that optimize a linear spatial cost model based on 2D landmarks, 3D landmarks, and camera and pose parameters, determining texture parameters that optimize a linear texture estimation cost model, and refining the shape parameters by optimizing a nonlinear pixel intensity cost function.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for visualizing media content includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory, storing a content visualization software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the content visualization software code to receive a media file, parse the media file to identify a primary content and metadata describing the primary content, and analyze the metadata to determine representative features of the primary content. The hardware processor further executes the content visualization software code to generate a circular visual representation of the primary content based on the metadata and the representative features, the circular visual representation having a non-linear correspondence to at least one of the representative features. The circular visual representation includes a central circle having a central radius, and multiple, at least semicircular segments, each having a respective radius greater than the central radius.

Abstract: Provided is a an augmented reality providing device including: a sensing unit configured to sense a body part of a user; a display unit configured to display an image; a semi-transparent mirror unit disposed spaced from the display unit and configured to reflect light incident from the user to emit the reflected light to the user, and transmit light incident from the display unit to provide the transmitted light to the user; and a control unit configured to determine a position at which the image is displayed on the display unit based on the sensed body part.

Abstract: When rendering a scene that includes a complex object made up of many individual primitives, rather than processing each primitive making up the object in turn, a bounding volume which surrounds the complex object is generated and the scene is then processed using the bounding volume in place of the actual primitives making up the complex object. If it is determined that the bounding volume representation of the object will be completely occluded in the scene (e.g. by a foreground object), then the individual primitives making up the complex object are not processed. This can save significantly on processing time and resources for the scene.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing device and an information processing method. The information processing device (100) comprises a processing circuit (110) configured to eliminate partial details of at least one part of a three-dimensional model on a condition that a shape semantics of the at least one part is maintained unchanged, so as to generate a modified version of the three-dimensional model. The processing circuit (110) is further configured to control to send the modified version and recovery information to a recipient, wherein the recovery information is used to restore the modified version to the original version of the three-dimensional model.

Abstract: Various embodiments enable low frequency calculation of derived uniform values. A compiler can identify one or more portions of a shader that calculate a derived value based on an input value. For example, this portion may include instructions that use constant values, or the results of prior functions that used constant values. The constant values may include hardcoded values provided by the program (e.g., immediates) and/or other constant values. This portion of the shader can be extracted by the compiler and compiled into a first program. The compiler can compile the remainder of the shader into a second program that receives the derived uniform values from the first program. By extracting the portion(s) of the program that calculates a derived value into a separate program, the derived uniform value or values can be calculated at a lower frequency than if they were calculated for each pixel.

Abstract: Provided is an augmented reality method with a frame region recording and reproduction technique based on object tracking, which superimposes a 3D virtual image received from a server on a physical object of captured actual image information.

Abstract: In an augmented reality method capable of identifying a plurality of similar objects when the similar objects are detected from actual image information captured by a terminal, an augmented reality method with space and object recognition according to the present invention comprises obtaining the actual image information capturing a plurality of objects; detecting a plurality of objects of the actual image information; classifying at least two or more objects with a predetermined similarity among the plurality of detected objects as similar objects; determining a region with an image difference learned by subtracting actual image information of the two or more similar objects from each other as an additional recognition region; assigning a unique identifier to the similar object based on the image difference of the additional recognition region; matching the similar object to which the unique identified has been assigned to a virtual object assigned to the additional recognition region, unique identifier, and

Abstract: A display device includes a display unit and a controller. The display unit displays an image thereon. The controller is capable of, when the image is displayed as being moved, controlling the display unit to execute moving-manner correction processing in which pixels forming the image to be moved are displayed in display colors determined by corrected R, G, and B values obtained by adding RGB correction values to color component values provided as R, G, and B values that indicate red, green, and blue color components of respective display colors of corresponding pixels forming the image while the image has been stopped. Each of the RGB correction values has been previously determined in common for the color component values of a corresponding display color.

Abstract: A system and method for providing positional error correction for particles of destructible objects in a three-dimensional volume in a virtual space includes electronic storage to store center-of-mass information of a set of objects, using a high-precision floating point format. Prior to runtime and/or interactive manipulation of the set of objects, a texture map is generated that includes positional information in a floating point format having less precision than the high-precision floating point format. A simulation uses this texture map to determine simulated center-of-mass information of the set of objects. This simulated center-of-mass information is compared with the previously stored center-of-mass information to determine which objects have positional errors, and which offsets are needed to correct the positional errors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus provides for enhanced processing of 3D graphics data such as image-based 3D graphics data. The image-based 3D graphics data may include data defining texture, bump, normals, displacement, etc for underlying objects. In one example, the method and apparatus compresses image-based 3D graphics data as one or more frames contained in one or more videos and decompresses the compressed 3D graphics data using video acceleration hardware provided by a GPU. In another example the method and apparatus may also selectively control caching of image-based 3D graphics data. Before so cached, the image-based 3D graphics data may be compressed as one or more frames contained in one or more videos using video acceleration hardware provided by the GPU to achieve efficient usage of cache space.

Abstract: A mobile device is fitted with a camera and an extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system. Via the XR software application program, various techniques are performed for manipulating virtual objects in an XR environment. In a first technique, the XR software application program facilitates the movement of a virtual object from a first location to a second location. In a second technique, the XR software application program facilitates the rotation of a virtual object. In a third technique, the XR software application program facilitates the scaling of a virtual object along one or more axes.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to project voxels from a point cloud data set into an n-DoF space, and define successively less granular supervoxels at successively higher layer of abstraction in a view of the point cloud data set, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A driving method for display includes: acquiring an original gray scale data group of each of pixel units of a content to be displayed in a preset display area; determining average gray scales of each of hues in the preset display area according to the original gray scale data group; acquiring original light source intensities of each of the hues of the content to be displayed in the preset display area; dividing the original gray scale data group into a first gray scale data group and a second gray scale data group according to the original gray scale data group of each of the pixel units, the average gray scales of each of the hues, and the original light source intensities, and determining driving light source intensities of each of the hues in the preset display area.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for displaying a portion of data so as to not obstruct a portion of a central visual field. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include a display configured to display data and a processing device coupled to the display. The processing device may be configured to determine a position of an eye of a viewer with respect to the display, define a first region of the display substantially corresponding with a peripheral vision field of the eye, define a second region of the display substantially corresponding with a central visual field of the eye, send a first portion of the data to be displayed at the first region, and send a second portion of the data to be displayed at the second output region such that a portion of the central visual field is unobstructed by the second portion of the data.

Abstract: A method and system of computer graphics rendering implemented upon a processor in communication with a memory device storing a data comprises: loading a data structure representing at least a part of a scene in world space for display into the processor; a transform module transforming the data structure from world space to clip space; a dividing module subdividing the data structure in clip space so as to form child data structures; and a testing module testing which of the plurality of child data structures are within a viewing frustum, so that child data structures outside of the viewing frustum are discarded and a plurality of remaining nodes are retained. The plurality of remaining data structures are subsequently subdivided and tested until the plurality of remaining data structures do not overlap with the viewing frustum. A display module processing the plurality of remaining data structures for generation of an image on a display device.

Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.

Abstract: A model of a human subject's head may be generated to assist in a therapeutic and/or diagnostic procedure. A treatment and/or diagnostic system may generate a fitted head model using a predetermined head model and a plurality of points. The plurality of points may include facial feature information and may be determined using a sensor, for example, an IR or optical sensor. One or more anatomical landmarks may be determined and registered in association with the fitted head model using the facial feature information, for example, without the use of additional image information, such as an MRI image. The fitted head model may include visual aids, for example, anatomical landmarks, reference points, marking of the human subject's MT location, and/or marking of the human subject's treatment location. The visual aids may assist a technician to perform the therapeutic and/or diagnostic procedure of the human subject.