Abstract: A server system includes: a reception section that receives captured image information and metadata from a terminal device connected to the server system through a network, the captured image information being information about a captured image captured using the terminal device, and the metadata being added to the captured image; an insertion image selection section that selects an insertion image based on the received metadata, the insertion image being an image differing from the acquired captured image; and an image set generation section that generates image set information in which the insertion image is inserted into the captured image information.

Abstract: A server system includes: a reception section that receives captured image information and metadata from a terminal device connected to the server system through a network, the captured image information being information about a captured image captured using the terminal device, and the metadata being added to the captured image; an insertion image selection section that selects an insertion image based on the received metadata, the insertion image being an image differing from the acquired captured image; and an image set generation section that generates image set information in which the insertion image is inserted into the captured image information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured comprising a necessary/unnecessary determination data generating unit configured to generate necessary/unnecessary determination data; an image encoding unit assigning identification information respectively to, and recording, in a recording unit, each piece of data after division of each moving image of a moving image after encoding, a necessary/unnecessary determining unit configured to determine an unnecessary moving image frame based on necessary/unnecessary determination data; and a moving image file managing unit configured to rewrite information indicating a state of data at a recording unit in the recording unit corresponding to a moving image frame determined as unnecessary moving image frame by the necessary/unnecessary determining unit into information that there is no data.

Abstract: An information processing device (first processing device) includes a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image from an imaging section (imaging device), a trimming range setting section that sets a trimming range to the captured image acquired by the captured image acquisition section, the trimming range corresponding to an image processing target area that is processed by a server system (second processing device), and a communication section that transmits image information to the server system via a network, the image information being information about an area of the captured image that has been set as the trimming range by the trimming range setting section.

Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display section that displays a display image, and a display control section that performs a control process that displays the display image on the display section. The display control section displays an unlocking screen on the display section, the unlocking screen being used by the user to unlock the head-mounted display, and displays an unlocked state notification screen on the display section when the head-mounted display has been unlocked using the unlocking screen, the unlocked state notification screen notifying the user that the head-mounted display has been unlocked.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured comprising a necessary/unnecessary determination data generating unit configured to generate necessary/unnecessary determination data; an image encoding unit assigning identification information respectively to, and recording, in a recording unit, each piece of data after division of each moving image of a moving image after encoding, a necessary/unnecessary determining unit configured to determine an unnecessary moving image frame based on necessary/unnecessary determination data; and a moving image file managing unit configured to rewrite information indicating a state of data at a recording unit in the recording unit corresponding to a moving image frame determined as unnecessary moving image frame by the necessary/unnecessary determining unit into information that there is no data.

Abstract: A server system includes: a reception section that receives captured image information and metadata from a terminal device connected to the server system through a network, the captured image information being information about a captured image captured using the terminal device, and the metadata being added to the captured image; an insertion image selection section that selects an insertion image based on the received metadata, the insertion image being an image differing from the acquired captured image; and an image set generation section that generates image set information in which the insertion image is inserted into the captured image information.

Abstract: An information processing device (first processing device) includes a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image from an imaging section (imaging device), a trimming range setting section that sets a trimming range to the captured image acquired by the captured image acquisition section, the trimming range corresponding to an image processing target area that is processed by a server system (second processing device), and a communication section that transmits image information to the server system via a network, the image information being information about an area of the captured image that has been set as the trimming range by the trimming range setting section.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided with an imaging optical system (imaging lens), an image sensor for picking up a subject image formed by the imaging optical system, and a view division optical system (first mirror) which divides a view picked up by the image sensor into an environment imaging side view and an eyeball imaging side view.

Abstract: Embodiments of a method for controlling access to a shared communications medium by a plurality of nodes are disclosed. The method may comprise predicting, for each node of the plurality of nodes, whether an event will occur within a sensing field of that node at a future time and adapting a communications schedule of each node in response to the prediction regarding that node. Wireless sensor networks and computer readable media implementing embodiments of a method for controlling access to a shared communications medium by a plurality of nodes are also disclosed.

Abstract: A calibration apparatus which estimates a calibration parameter of an image acquisition apparatus, comprises a calibration jig which includes at least two planes and in which calibration markers having known three-dimensional positions are arranged in each plane based on a predetermined rule. The calibration apparatus further comprises a calibration marker recognition section configured to measure and number in-image positions of the calibration markers in at least one image obtained by photographing the calibration jig by the image acquisition apparatus, and a parameter estimate section configured to estimate the calibration parameters of the image acquisition apparatus by the use of the three-dimensional position and the in-image position of the calibration markers numbered by the calibration marker recognition section.

Abstract: The image generation device includes distance calculation means for calculating a distance between a space model and an imaging device arrangement object model which is a model such as a vehicle having a camera mounted, according to viewpoint conversion image data generated by viewpoint conversion means, captured image data representing captured image, a space model, or mapped space data. When displaying an image viewed from an arbitrary virtual viewpoint in the 3D space, the image display format is changed according to the distance calculated by the distance calculation means. When displaying a monitoring object such as a vicinity of a vehicle, a shop, a house or a city as an image viewed from an arbitrary virtual viewpoint in the 3D space, it is possible to display the monitoring object in such a manner that the relationship between the vehicle and the image of the monitoring object can be understood intuitionally.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects a distance to an object located in a predetermined detection range; an imaging unit which generates an image signal group corresponding to a predetermined imaging field; a calculating unit which calculates the distance to the object located in the imaging field based on the image signal group; and an interpolating unit which either interpolates a detection result by the detecting unit by using a calculation result by the calculating unit, or interpolates the calculation result by the calculating unit by using the detection result by the detecting unit.

Abstract: A user activity support agent in a user support apparatus includes a target detection evaluation module configured to detect demand, desire, and/or instruction of the user in the form of a target based on a user's activity state and/or an environment situation detected by a sensor group, and to ask the user whether or not the target is desired by the user via a user information providing device to evaluate the user's reaction to the information, and an activity plan evaluation module configured to plan the detected target in such a manner as to realize the target by the user's activity group, and to provide the user with information suggesting the activity group via the user information providing device to perform monitoring and/or evaluation with respect to the user's reaction to the information from the user's activity state and/or the environment situation.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided with an imaging optical system (imaging lens), an image sensor for picking up a subject image formed by the imaging optical system, and a view division optical system (first mirror) which divides a view picked up by the image sensor into an environment imaging side view and an eyeball imaging side view.

Abstract: A motion detection apparatus includes an inertia motion detection section which detects an inertia motion of an object to be measured by using at least one of an acceleration sensor or an angular velocity sensor. An image pickup section which picks up a peripheral image of the object to be measured. An image comparison section which compares images picked up at different points in time by the image pickup section. A camera position and posture acquiring section which detects a position and a posture of the object to be measured by using a result of comparing the images by the image comparison section. A spatial position and posture acquiring section which detects a position and a posture in space of the object to be measured on the basis of information obtained by the inertia motion detection section and the camera position and posture acquiring section.

Abstract: An image generation method for generating a viewpoint-modified image is carried out based on camera information sensed by one or a plurality of image sensing unit sensing an image around an image sensing unit-disposed object. The image generation method comprises displaying an image sensing unit-disposed object model on the viewpoint-modified image, detecting the change of the movable member of the image sensing unit-disposed object and transforming/displaying the relevant part of the image sensing unit-disposed object model in the viewpoint-modified image. The image generation method can also comprise transforming/displaying the virtual viewpoint position of the viewpoint-modified image, according to the amount of change of the movable member of the image sensing unit-disposed object.

Abstract: In this stereo optical module, a constituent member is arranged in at least one of a circuit arrangement space which exists substantially behind a front lens unit and above a primary deflecting mirror and a secondary deflecting mirror and a circuit arrangement space which exists substantially behind a front lens unit and below a primary deflecting mirror and a secondary deflecting mirror.

Abstract: A movement detection device includes a self-sustaining movement detection unit which is attached to an operator's body and detects a movement or a posture of an attached part of the operator's body. An image pickup section picks up a projected image from an optical system which simultaneously inputs a peripheral image. An image conversion section converts an all azimuth image picked up by the image pickup section into a cylindrical panorama image. An image recognition section includes cylindrical panorama images at different times. A camera posture estimation section acquires movement information of the image pickup section based on a comparison result of the image recognition section. A space sensor posture estimation section acquires a position/posture of the attached part in a space based on information of the self-sustaining movement detection unit and the camera posture estimation section.

Abstract: There is provided a particle-group movement analysis system which is capable of detecting from a plurality of objects in a form of a particle, an object in the form of a particle which moves in a manner different from the other objects in the form of a particle, a particle-group movement analysis method, and a program.