Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristic information of a target, and a determination unit configured to determine a resolution level of illumination information to be used in rendering, based on reflection information contained in the characteristic information. The determination unit decreases the resolution level with an increase in a width, which indicates spread of a component.

Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display volumetric image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the generation of the 3-D volumetric image from measured 2-D images including the rendering parameters and styles, the choice of viewing directions and 2-D projection images based on the viewing directions, the layout of the projection images, and the formation of a video can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with sequential images making up a video displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions when reviewing Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and other volumetric mammography images.

Abstract: Method for determining a current gaze direction of a user in relation to a three-dimensional (“3D”) scene, the 3D scene being sampled by a rendering function to produce at least one projection image of the 3D scene, wherein the method comprises the steps: determining, by a reprojection means, a reprojection transformation to be applied to the projection image before being displayed so as to be visible to the user at a gaze time point; determining, by a gaze direction detection means, a physical gaze direction of the user at said gaze time point; and determining a modified gaze direction of the user at said gaze time point, the modified gaze direction being determined in relation to the 3D scene based on both the physical gaze direction and the reprojection transformation. The disclosure also relates to a system and to a computer software function.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquirer that acquires observation results obtained by image-capturing a plurality of target objects under predetermined observation conditions; and a display controller that highlights, in a display image related to a container having a plurality of storages respectively storing the plurality of target objects, storages of the container that belong to a group meeting a classification criterion selected by a user.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for tessellation processing. The tessellation forms a surface representation of a real-world 3D object. The method comprises providing a constrained tetrahedral Delaunay mesh comprising the tessellation. The mesh is conformal and comprises one or more sets of tetrahedrons, each set representing a gap between portions of the tessellation, each gap having a size lower than a predefined threshold. The method further comprises determining a set of one or more tetrahedra faces of the mesh to be added to the tessellation, includes minimizing an objective function that includes a term penalizing surface creation by face addition to the tessellation. The minimization is under the constraint that a given set of tetrahedra faces of the Delaunay mesh is to be added to the tessellation. The given set of tetrahedra faces includes, for each gap of one or more gaps, the tetrahedra faces meshing the gap.

Abstract: A video processing method includes: obtaining a video signal, a color gamut range of the video signal including at least two color zones, each of the color zones corresponding to a set of correction data; performing chromatic calibration on the video signal, including correcting image data of the video signal in a color zone using a set of correction data corresponding to the color zone; and outputting the video signal that has undergone the chromatic calibration.

Abstract: A displacement detection method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining (i) a first three-dimensional (3D) model representing a region at a first timing by 3D points and including first objects and (ii) a second three-dimensional model representing the region at a second timing by 3D points and including second objects, the second timing being different from the first timing; detecting, by use of attribute information of the first objects and the second objects, (i) first 3D points included in the first 3D model and (ii) second 3D points included in the second 3D model and associated with the respective first 3D points; performing alignment of the first 3D model and the second 3D model by use of the first 3D points and the second 3D points; and detecting displacement between the first 3D model and the second 3D model after the alignment.

Abstract: A display system includes: an operation screen information acquiring unit to acquire operation screen information indicating an operation screen for receiving an operation by an operator; an operation screen providing unit to provide the operation screen indicated by the operation screen information to the operator by displaying the operation screen on a display device; and a virtual space providing unit to provide a virtual space including a virtual operation screen simulating the operation screen indicated by the operation screen information to the operator by displaying the virtual space on a display device. When the operation screen information acquiring unit acquires the operation screen information indicating the operation screen being browsed or operated by the operator, the virtual space providing unit displays an avatar corresponding to the operator at a position in the virtual space corresponding to the virtual operation screen simulating the operation screen.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a local cache structure within a shared function of a 3D pipeline that facilitates efficient caching of resource state. In an example, the cache structure is maintained within a sub-core of a GPU. The local cache structure includes (i) an SC having entries each containing a state of a binded resource, and (ii) a DSAT having entries each containing an index into the SC. The DSAT is tagged by SBTO values representing addresses of entries of a binding table. A request, including information indicative of an SBTO pointing to an entry within the binding table, is received for a state of a particular binded resource being accessed by a shared function of the 3D pipeline. Based on the SBTO and during a single access to the cache structure, a determination is made regarding whether the state of the particular binded resource is present.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to generate and update virtual personification using artificial intelligence comprising a system configured to perform the following. Receive data associated with a person such as text files, audio files, image files, and video files. Render a virtual personification of the person and output the virtual personification to a user, such as on a display screen. Then, receiving and interpreting a user input to generate a user request, and then updating the virtual personification. The update may include generating an audio output using the text files and the audio files of the person and/or generating a video output using the image files and the video files of the person. The audio output and the video output is presented to the user by the virtual personification and it has not previously occurred by the person or thing represented by the virtual personification.

Abstract: An apparatus for correcting an image according to the disclosure includes a color difference detector displaying color difference test images and obtaining color difference recognition information of a user with respect to the color difference test images, a color correction data generator displaying color correction test images based on the color difference recognition information and generating color correction data for correcting color coordinates using the color correction test images, and an image correction data generator generating image correction data for correcting color coordinates for each grayscale of the image displayed by the display device based on the color difference recognition information and the color correction data.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium which can more appropriately arrange a virtual object. By providing the information processing apparatus including a control unit that restricts a size of an environment map data in which a virtual object is arranged, on the basis of a detection result by a sensor of a real space associated with the environment map data, it is possible to more appropriately arrange a virtual object. For example, the present technology can be applied to an AR HMD.

Abstract: A method and system for processing graphics in tile-based rendering mode are disclosed. The system includes: a geometry processing system configured to perform geometry processing on primitives to tile visible primitives into a plurality of tiles M in screen view space; and a fragment processing system configured to render the plurality of tiles M and generate rendered images of the plurality of tiles M, where the fragment processing system includes a post-processing module configured to: start to perform pixel filtering on pixels in a first pixel set Pin0 of a target tile M0 in the plurality of tiles M at a first time after a rendered image of the target tile M0 is generated and before all the rendered images of the plurality of tiles M are generated. The present disclosure can effectively improve processing efficiency of overall image pixel filtering, without generating additional pixel shading workload.

Abstract: The invention provides a three-dimensional (3D) image display method and a display device with a 3D image display function. The 3D image display method includes the following. A display device coordinate system is established. First volume data is obtained, and multiple first coordinates of multiple voxels of the first volume data in an absolute space coordinate system are defined. The multiple first coordinates of the multiple voxels of the first volume data are converted to the display device coordinate system to generate second volume data. Display data is generated according to the second volume data. An image is displayed according to the display data through the display device, and the image forms a 3D image with a 3D object image in human eyes, in which the 3D object image changes equally or proportionally in response to a change desired by a user through an input unit.

Abstract: Reference based digital content stylization techniques are described that enable generation of stylized digital content from a plain text input based on visual style attributes of reference digital content. A content processing system, for instance, receives input digital content including text and reference digital content with a particular visual style. The content processing system determines visual style attributes of the reference digital content, such as a text size, color, font, etc. The content processing system generates an input content classification scheme that includes semantic structure identifiers to classify text of the input digital content, e.g., as a header, subheader, paragraph, and so forth. Based on the input content classification scheme, the content processing system generates stylized digital content by applying the visual style attributes of the reference digital content to the text of the input digital content.

Abstract: The display device includes a first liquid crystal panel that displays a first image, a second liquid crystal panel that faces a rear surface of the first liquid crystal panel and displays a second image synchronized with the first image, and an image enlargement processing unit configured to generate the second image to be displayed on the second liquid crystal panel by enlargement from a predetermined enlargement center position toward at least one end portion of the second liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for spatial locating. The method includes: acquiring feature area information and a current image captured by a camera (102); searching the current image for a feature area of an interactive device based on the feature area information, to determine position information, the position information being used to indicate the position of the feature area in the current image (104); determining first pose information associated with the position and attitude of the feature area relative to the camera (106) based on the position information; calculating a re-projection error of the feature area in the current image (108) based on the feature area information and the first pose information; and if the re-projection error is less than or equal to a preset threshold, determining current pose information associated with the position and attitude of the interactive device currently in a global coordinate system (110) based on the first pose information.

Abstract: A method for facilitating provision of food product information is provided. The method comprises providing a food package, wherein the food package is provided with a visual marker, capturing, by a camera of a user device, authentic image data depicting the visual marker, extracting marker data from the authentic image data, retrieving artificial image data linked to the marker data from an artificial image database, wherein the artificial image data depicts at least one food product component of a food product held in the food package, determining an artificial image spatial reference point based on the visual marker, generating augmented image data by combining the authentic image data, the artificial image data and the artificial image spatial reference point, providing the augmented image data to a screen of the user device.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for generating a stylized icon automatically. After a query text inputted by a user is obtained, a trained generator is used to generate a structured icon that can characterize a structure of an object, and then the structured icon is stylized, such as performing color padding or adding other styles, so as to generate a high-quality stylized icon for the user. In embodiments of the present disclosure, a structured icon and a stylized icon are generated respectively at two stages, where the structured icon can clearly characterize the structure of the object, while the stylized icon can be richer in color and style. Therefore, the stylized icon generated according to embodiments of the present disclosure has a higher quality and is more realistic, thereby improving the user experience of icon generation.

Abstract: Provided are a font generating system and a font generating method. The font generating system and the font generating method of the present disclosure are provided to include a component decomposer which has at least one character input thereto and decomposes the input character into at least one component, a component converter which converts the at least one component into a component with a predetermined font to generate at least one imaging component, and a component recomposer which recomposes the at least one imaging component to generate a fonted character.