Abstract: A vehicle control device acquires a camera image obtained by capturing an image of surrounding circumstances of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, judges whether or not a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is judged that an abnormality has occurred, calculates, when it is judged that the preceding vehicle is present, a margin for the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode, and causes the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode for a period of time indicated based on the margin.

Abstract: This correction method comprises: acquiring, by means of a processing circuit of a head-mounted display, projection angles via a photographic lens of dots of a correction test pattern corresponding to dots of a reference test pattern, the angle being calculated on the basis of the correction test pattern obtained by photographing the reference test pattern with the photographic lens through a correction lens that corrects the user's visual characteristics, the reference test pattern including one dot placed at a reference point and at least one dot placed on each of a plurality of straight lines extending in different directions from the reference point; and correcting, by means of the processing circuit, distortion in a virtual space image caused by the adjustment lens on the basis of projection angles corresponding to the dots of the reference test pattern.

Abstract: A video display system includes: an observation device, a data obtainment unit that obtains data related to a movement direction of the capturing unit, and a metadata composition unit that obtains metadata based on the obtained data; and a VR device including: a reception unit that receives the metadata; an orientation estimation unit that estimates an orientation of the display device; a differential calculation unit that calculates a relative movement direction of the capturing unit based on a difference between the orientation of the display device and the movement direction of the capturing unit in the metadata; a presentation unit that presents the calculated relative movement direction to a user of a display device; a video generation unit that generates a display video; and a VR device including a display device that displays the display video.

Abstract: This system for improving realistic sensations in VR comprises: a VR video generation unit for generating VR video data that includes perceived temperature information on the basis of VR space data in which the perceived temperature information is embedded; a temperature detection unit for extracting the perceived temperature information from the VR video data generated by the VR image generation unit; an XR control unit for controlling XR goggles so as to display a VR video on the basis of the VR video data; and a low-temperature device control unit for controlling a low-temperature device that adjusts the perceived temperature of a VR-experiencing person wearing the XR goggles, on the basis of the perceived temperature information extracted by the temperature detection unit.

Abstract: A video display system includes: an observation device including a capturing unit that generates a wide-angle video, and a data obtainment unit that obtains data related to a position and/or direction of a target in the wide-angle video to be gazed at by a user of a display device and cue information for informing of a change in the state of the observation system; and a VR device including a reception unit that receives the data and the cue information, and a differential calculation that calculates a relative position and/or direction of the gazing target relative to the position and/or direction of the display device in the wide-angle video, based on a difference between the position and/or direction of the display device in the wide-angle video and the position and/or direction of the gazing target in metadata.

Abstract: A video display system for displaying a display video via a display device includes: a VR device including the display device that displays the display video; an observation device proved in a mobile object to give the observation device mobility and including a capturing unit configured to capture video, a data obtaining unit configured to obtain data related to a movement speed of the capturing unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, together with the data, the video captured; a reception unit configured to receive video and the data; a video generation unit configured to generate the display video including the video received; and a presentation unit configured to cause the video generation unit to generate and output a graphic corresponding to the movement speed from the data received and superimpose the graphic to present the movement speed of the capturing unit.

Abstract: A video display system includes: a VR system including a display that displays a VR space to a participant who participates in a VR experience, and an audio processor that receives and outputs voice; an explainer terminal that receives and outputs voice from and to an explainer who provides an explanation to the participant in the VR space; a video distributor that distributes a 360-degree video for the VR space to the VR system; an audio conversation unit that assists an audio conversation between the participant and the explainer; and a controller that manages an operation mode that selectively takes a first state in which questions from the participant to the explainer are not allowed, a second state in which questions are allowed, and a third state in which a question is being asked, and causes the VR system to display information specifying the operation mode on the display.

Abstract: This method for manufacturing a catheter involves manufacturing a catheter that includes a braided body having a first element wire and a second element wire intersecting the first element wire, and an outer layer provided on the outer circumference of the braided body, the method comprising: a coating step in which the outer-circumferential side of the braided body is coated with a laser-light-transmissive coating member; a cutting step in which a portion of the first element wire and/or the second element wire in the braided body is irradiated with laser light from the outer side of the coating member and the element wire is cut, said portion being positioned further toward the distal-end side than an intersecting part; and a removal step in which the coating member is removed from the outer-circumferential side of the braided body.

Abstract: A vehicle control device acquires a camera image obtained by capturing an image of surrounding circumstances of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, judges whether or not a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is judged that an abnormality has occurred, calculates, when it is judged that the preceding vehicle is present, a margin for the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode, and causes the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode for a period of time indicated based on the margin.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first lens barrel in a shape of a bottomed barrel and including, as a bottom portion, a first display device that displays a first image; a second lens barrel in a shape of a bottomed barrel and including, as a bottom portion, a second display device that displays a second image; a support member that supports the first and second lens barrels; and an eye cup that is in a barrel shape and is provided at an open end of each of the first and second lens barrels along the open end. The eye cup includes two or more ventilation paths through which inside and outside of the eye cup communicate with each other in an intersecting direction that intersects a barrel axis direction of the first and second lens barrels and an arrangement direction in which the first and second lens barrels are arranged.

Abstract: A support catheter includes: a distal shaft shaped as a tube into which a therapeutic catheter is insertable, the distal shaft including an inner layer and a reinforcing layer, the reinforcing layer being shaped as a tubular mesh including metal wires wound in first and second opposite directions; and a proximal shaft connected to the distal shaft. The reinforcing layer includes welds at intersections of the metal wires wound in the first and second directions. The welds are located in a limited region in a circumferential direction of the distal shaft. A covering member is located outside the welds.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition section configured to acquire still image data obtained by imaging, a generator configured to generate, from the still image data acquired by the acquisition section, a logically single data unit including first still image data and second still image data different from each other in luminance dynamic range and reproducible independently from each other, and an output section configured to output the data unit generated by the generator.

Abstract: A video display apparatus includes: a tone mapping processor that performs a tone mapping process of converting a luminance of a video by using conversion characteristics according to a maximum luminance of the video; and a display that displays the video that has undergone the tone mapping process. The tone mapping processor switches between a first tone mapping process of dynamically changing the conversion characteristics according to a time-dependent change in the maximum luminance of the video and a second tone mapping process that is performed using constant conversion characteristics irrespective of the time-dependent change in the maximum luminance of the video.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a speech obtainer which obtains speech of a user; a first controller which, when the first controller recognizes that the speech obtained by the speech obtainer is a first activation word, outputs a speech signal corresponding to a second activation word different from the first activation word; and a second controller which performs an activation process for starting transmission of the speech signal of the speech obtained by the speech obtainer to a VPA cloud server when the second controller recognizes that the speech signal output by the first controller indicates the second activation word.

Abstract: A video display system includes: a tone mapping processor; a display; and a metadata processor that generates first dynamic metadata that indicates a maximum luminance that is constant over a plurality of time intervals by using static metadata. The video display system switches between: a first operation of (i) generating the first dynamic metadata by using the static metadata, performed by the metadata processor and (ii) performing the tone mapping process by using the first dynamic metadata, performed by the tone mapping processor; and a second operation of performing the tone mapping process by using second dynamic metadata in which the maximum luminance varies over the plurality of time intervals, performed by the tone mapping processor.

Abstract: A video processing system includes: an acquirer that acquires video data including a main video; a format acquirer that acquires a display format that indicates a luminance dynamic range format displayable by a video display apparatus; a generator that generates first characteristics information that indicates first dynamic luminance characteristics that correspond to the display format by using the video data when a luminance dynamic range format of the main video indicated by the video data is different from the display format, the first dynamic luminance characteristics being dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the main video; and a video transmitter that outputs the first characteristics information generated by the generator.

Abstract: A video display system includes: a tone mapping processor that performs a tone mapping process of converting a luminance of a video by using conversion characteristics according to a maximum luminance of the video; and a display that displays the video that has undergone the tone mapping process. The tone mapping processor switches between a first tone mapping process of dynamically changing the conversion characteristics according to a time-depend change in the maximum luminance of the video and a second tone mapping process that is performed using constant conversion characteristics irrespective of the time-depend change in the maximum luminance of the video. When the tone mapping process used is switched from the second tone mapping process to the first tone mapping process, the conversion characteristics used is changed gradually or stepwise from the constant conversion characteristics to dynamically changing conversion characteristics over a plurality of frames.

Abstract: A video display system includes: a tone mapping processor that performs a tone mapping process of converting a luminance of a video by using conversion characteristics according to a maximum luminance of the video; and a display that displays the video that has undergone the tone mapping process. The tone mapping processor switches between a first tone mapping process of dynamically changing the conversion characteristics according to a time-dependent change in the maximum luminance of the video and a second tone mapping process that is performed using constant conversion characteristics irrespective of the time-dependent change in the maximum luminance of the video.

Abstract: A video display apparatus includes: a tone mapping processor that converts, by using dynamic metadata indicating a maximum luminance of a video in each of a plurality of time intervals included in a predetermined period, a luminance of the video in each time interval based on conversion characteristics according to the maximum luminance of the video in the time interval; and a display. The tone mapping processor switches between: a first operation of performing the tone mapping process by using first dynamic metadata that indicates the maximum luminance that is constant over the plurality of time intervals, the first dynamic metadata being generated by using static metadata that indicates a maximum luminance of the video in the predetermined period; and a second operation of performing the tone mapping process by using second dynamic metadata in which the maximum luminance varies over the plurality of time intervals.

Abstract: Provided is a display method of displaying, on a display device, video of video data where luminance of video is defined by a first EOTF corresponding to HDR. The method includes: acquiring the video data; performing first conversion where the luminance of the video is converted to a luminance corresponding to a dynamic range of a third EOTF, where, with regard to a second EOTF that is part of the first EOTF and is the part of a luminance range where the peak luminance indicated by the peak luminance information included in the acquired video data is maximum luminance, the dynamic range of luminance of the second EOTF is reduced with maximum luminance of the second EOTF matching displayable luminance of the display device, while maintaining the relative relationship of luminance of the second EOTF; and displaying the video on the display device using the result of the first conversion.