Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited

Hidehiko Morisada

Takayuki Shinohara

Aritoki Kawai

Tomo Matayoshi

Hiromasa Ohkubo

Yuko Nagaoka

Takashi Umeda

Takahiro Moriyama

Akitsugu Komiyama

Makoto Yamada

Ian Henry Bickerstaff

Takayuki Sakamoto

Tomohiro Oto

Andrew Damian Hosfield

Shingo Tsurumi

Kenji Yamane

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Shoichi Ikenoue

Michinari Kohno

Koji Kageyama

Shinpei Yamaguchi

Ayaka Nakatani

Nicola Orrù

Yute Lin

Estimation data indicating a foreground region is generated with high precision. A learning apparatus includes an input-image acquisition section that acquires a combination of a first input image representing a background and a foreground and a second input image representing the background in a mode different from that in the first input image, and a learning section that includes an estimation section to generate estimation data indicating the foreground region in the first input image in response to input of the first input image and the second input image, and that conducts learning at the estimation section on the basis of a given teacher image and the estimation data that is generated when the first input image and the second input image are inputted.

Learning apparatus, foreground region estimation apparatus, learning method, foreground region estimation method, and program

An image acquisition unitacquires a subject image in which a subject is positioned in front of a background with a single color. An eye gaze information determination unitdetermines an eye direction and a viewpoint position of a user wearing an HMD and provides the eye direction and the viewpoint position for a display control unitThe display control unitperforms chroma-key composition such that the subject included in the subject image may become a foreground image with respect to a background image and thereby generates a display image according to the viewpoint position of the user. The display control unitdetermines an orientation of the subject such that the subject may be made to face the viewpoint position of the user, in a case where the viewpoint position has been changed.

Information processing device and image generation method for projecting a subject image onto a virtual screen

Methods and apparatus for generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) include: setting a VDS position for displaying a stereoscopic image of an object in a virtual scene, the VDS having a depth profile that approximates a depth profile of the object; generating the stereoscopic image for display at the VDS within the virtual scene; and controlling a configuration of the VDS based on the detected change in the viewpoint of the stereoscopic image by the viewer.

Head-mountable display system

A method of generating stereoscopic images for display with respect to a virtual display screen (VDS) position, includes setting a VDS position for a stereoscopic image for display such that the depth profile of one or more VDSs approximates the depth profile of one or more objects in a virtual scene to be displayed by that stereoscopic image, and generating the stereoscopic image for display having image parallax appropriate to the VDS position or positions set by the setting step.

Disclosed herein is an information processing device for displaying contents formed by a plurality of pages according to user operation. The information processing device includes: an operation receiving section receiving an operation of changing a page as an object of display; and a display image control section displaying a slide bar displaying a handle indicating a position of the displayed page on a bar representing the pages of a whole of the contents as a GUI on a display device with an image of the page being displayed. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation of sliding the handle, the display image control section changes display to a page corresponding to a handle reached position. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation on predetermined operating means of an input device, the display image control section changes display to a page serving as a predetermined break.

Information processing device and information processing method

In an information processing apparatus, a map view is displayed. On the map view, an image which includes a thumbnail image of an image to be incorporated in a content and identification information added to the thumbnail image is applied as a processing section. Thumbnail images of images which are determined as a link source and a link destination by a link setting for image switching when a display area satisfies a link condition are connected to each other by a line. Further, an order of images between which an image is to be successively switched by an image forward feeding operation is defined by an array of thumbnail images in a sequence setting column. Further, the images are coupled using a dotted line or the like so as to represent a preceding-succeeding relationship thereof. A thumbnail image of an image or a line is operated to update a link setting file and a sequence setting file.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

First a standard image to which a link is defined is displayed. If a user operates a input device and if the viewpoint enters into the first link boundary, and if the information indicating that a resume operation is required does not exist the first frame of moving image data is read out and displayed on the display device as a still image. If the viewpoint enters into the second link boundary, playing back and displaying of the moving image and is started. If the viewpoint moves out from the second link boundary, a frame displayed when the playback of the moving image is suspended is displayed as a still image and the resume point is stored. If the viewpoint moves out of the first link boundary, a standard image is displayed.

When the user enters a request for moving a viewpoint, whether or not a displayed area is encompassed in a link area that is set for an active image is kept monitored. When the displayed area is encompassed, a corresponding link is determined to be valid, and an image of a link destination mapped to the link area is displayed. Whether or not the displayed area moves outside of a link area set for an image of a link origin is further monitored. If even a part of the displayed area moves outside of the link area, a corresponding link is determined to be invalid, and the display is switched back to the image of the link origin. If none of the above-stated conditions applies, the initial image continues to be displayed while moving the displayed area according to the movement of the viewpoint within the active image.

Image processing device for displaying content, content creation device, and image processing method

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface for a portable information terminal

Information is configured in a tree structure comprising a root node, internal nodes, and leaf nodes, and an image is prepared for each node. Links to images of internal nodes are set in a root node image. When a display area satisfies a predetermined link condition the display target is switched from the root node image to an image of an internal node. A link to a leaf node image is set in each of the internal node images. Further, an order is defined for the leaf node images so that the images can be successively accessed. When the display is switched from a link area of an internal node image to a leaf node image and the display is to return to the internal node after images of leaf nodes are accessed, the image area of the internal node is displayed according to the number of images traversed.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and data structure of content file

A viewpoint position sets, when a stereoscopic video image is provided that includes a left-eye parallax image and a right-eye parallax image having a predetermined parallax distribution and that is observed from a given viewpoint, a virtual viewpoint for observing a subject from another viewpoint. A parallax image generation unit generates a left-eye and a right-eye parallax image for providing a desired parallax distribution that are obtained when an observation is made from the virtual viewpoint, by shifting the image cut-out position of at least one of the left-eye or the right-eye parallax image. When the shift amount at the image cut-out position changes due to a position change of the virtual viewpoint, the parallax image generation unit generates a parallax image while changing the shift amount in stages from a shift amount obtained before the change to a shift amount obtained after the change.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for shifting parallax images

A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. A mediation server includes: a project information acquiring unit which acquires information on a project from a project server and stores the acquired information in a project database, the project server managing the project in which a computational processing is divided into a plurality of tasks so as to have the plurality of tasks processed by a plurality of terminals; a project information transmitter which presents the information on the project to a terminal and which transmits, to the terminal, information necessary for the terminal to access a project server of a project that the terminal desires to participate in; and an execution status management unit which receives a notification indicating that the terminal having accessed the project server using the information has executed a task assigned from the project server and which stores an execution status in a terminal database.

Mediation server, terminals and distributed processing method

A location error determination unit determines, prior to displaying on a display device stereoscopic images including a parallax image for the left eye and a parallax image for the right eye of a subject, whether the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye are stereoscopic images that can be located as three-dimensional images. An error communicating unit communicates an error when it is determined that that the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye cannot be located as stereoscopic images or when it is determined that the range of parallax between the parallax image for the left eye and the parallax image for the right eye is not accommodated within the predetermined parallax range.

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Hidehiko Morisada