Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Hidehiko Ogasawara

Hiroyuki Segawa

Akio Ohba

Toshiyuki Sekiya

Tetsugo Inada

Tetsujiro Kondo

Seiji Wada

Nozomu Ozaki

Masaaki Hattori

Yoshihiro Myokan

Hirofumi Okamoto

Akihiko Sugawara

Naoki Numaguchi

Kazuo Haraoka

Norio Nagatsuka

Ken Hayakawa

Shinji Sangawa

Akira Suzuki

Shinichi Hirata

Takayuki Ishida

Hideki Oyaizu

Masao Shimizu

Yoichi Nishimaki

Hideyuki Saito

Yuichiro Nakamura

Shinya Wada

Toshihiro Kusunoki

Yasuhiro Watari

Nodoka Tokunaga

Naoki Kaneko

Manabu Ishioka

In an imaging element, a first light detecting layerincludes an organic photoelectric conversion filmthat detects light of a predetermined wavelength band and carries out photoelectric conversion, and photoelectrically converts incident light on the imaging element and light reflected from a wire grid polarizer layer. The wire grid polarizer layerincludes polarizersin which linear materials that do not allow transmission of light therethrough are arranged at intervals shorter than the wavelength of the incident light. A second light detecting layerincludes photoelectric conversion elementsthat photoelectrically convert light transmitted through the polarizers

Imaging element, image sensor, and information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes an imaging apparatus that irradiates reference light in a predetermined wavelength band to a subject and captures reflection of the reference light from the subject to acquire data of captured images including a polarized image in multiple bearings (S). Based on the polarized image, the imaging apparatus acquires a polarization degree image representing a distribution of polarization degrees (S). The imaging apparatus extracts a region whose polarization degree falls within a predetermined range of polarization degrees as an image of the subject having a predetermined material (S). The imaging apparatus performs relevant processing on the subject image to generate output data and outputs the generated data (S).

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and material identification method

A photographed image acquiring sectionacquires data associated with a polarized image obtained through photographing of an object from an imaging apparatus, and stores the data in an image data storing section. A polarized image processing sectionof a real space recognizing sectionobtains distributions of degrees of polarization or normal vectors in an image plane by using the polarized image. A shadow area specifying sectionspecifies an area having peculiarity in the distribution of the degrees of polarization or the normal vectors in an image representing one surface of a subject as an area of a shadow. A state specifying sectionacquires information associated with a state of a real object or the shadow in the real space on the basis of the area of the image of the shadow. An output data generating sectionexecutes information processing by using state information in the real space, and outputs a processing result.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus estimates a position of interest and/or a direction of interest in which a user viewing a video displayed by a display apparatus is potentially interested, the position of interest and the direction of interest being other than a position to which a line of sight of the user is directed, and changes content of the video to be displayed by the display apparatus according to a result of the estimation.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An image generating apparatusacquires information associated with a motion of a head of a user wearing a head-mounted display. For a period of time for which the head is stopped, the image generating apparatusgenerates a display imagewith a standard resolution, and transmits the display imageto the head-mounted display, so that display imageshaving the same resolution are displayed. For a period of time for which the head is moved, the image generating apparatusgenerates display imageseach having the reduced resolution, and the head-mounted displaygenerates display imagesobtained by enlarging the display images

Image generating apparatus, method, and program for displaying image resolution with motion in head-mounted display (HMD)

During a period when a user's dominant eye is the right eye, an image generating device () generates an image for the right eye () at a standard resolution and generates a display image for the left eye () at a lower resolution. During a period when the dominant eye is the left eye, the image generating device () generates an image for the left eye () at the standard resolution and generates a display image for the right eye () at a lower resolution. In a head mounted display (), the images with the lower resolution are enlarged into display images () and (), and the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are displayed.

Image generating device, image display system, and image generating method

Data of a captured image including a polarized image is acquired (S), and space information relating to a position and a posture of a subject in a real space and the position and the posture on an imaging plane is acquired using the captured image data (S). Next, a polarization degree distribution is acquired from a polarized image of a plurality of orientations (S), and a position of a light source is acquired by specifying an image of a true light source by threshold value determination of the polarization degree (S). A reflection characteristic is acquired by applying a rendering equation under assumption that luminance of the captured image is already known (S), and a material suitable therewith is specified as a material of the subject (S). Processing according to the material is performed to generate output data and output the data (S).

Information processing device and material specifying method

A captured image acquisition sectionacquires from an imaging apparatusdata of a polarized image captured of a target object and stores the image data into an image data storage section. A region division sectionin a normal line information acquisition sectiondivides a plane of the image into regions according to a predetermined criterion such as a polarization degree or luminance. A normal line calculation sectionobtains a distribution of normal lines of each region by applying either a specular reflection model or a diffuse reflection model thereto. An integration sectionintegrates the distributions of normal lines of the regions into a normal line distribution of the entire image. An output data generation sectionperforms information processing using the normal line distribution and outputs the result of the processing.

Information processing apparatus and normal line information acquisition method

A captured image acquisition sectionacquires, from an imaging apparatus, data of a polarized image obtained by capturing a target object and stores the data into an image data storage section. A region extraction sectionof a target object recognition sectionextracts a region in which a figure of the target object is included in the polarized image. A normal line distribution acquisition sectionacquires a distribution of normal line vectors on a target object surface in regard to the extracted region. A model adjustment sectionadjusts a three-dimensional model of the target object stored in a model data storage sectionin a virtual three-dimensional space such that the three-dimensional model conforms to the distribution of the normal line vectors acquired from the polarized image to specify a state of the target object.

Information processing apparatus and target object recognition method

A captured image acquisition sectionacquires, from an imaging apparatus, data of a polarized image obtained by capturing a target object and stores the data into an image data storage section. A normal line distribution acquisition sectionof a region segmentation sectionacquires a distribution of normal line vectors of a subject surface using the polarized image. A region decision sectionevaluates the distribution of normal line vectors with a predetermined criterion indicating stability such as a dispersion and determines a region in which the stability is high as a region of a figure of a subject to segment the image. An output data generation sectioncarries out various processes using a result of the segmentation to generate output data.

Information processing apparatus and image region segmentation method

A mat for an image pickup apparatus, where the image pickup apparatus operates to recognize a real object, the mat includes: a play field that defines a bottom region of a space in which the real object is placed; and a calibration chart located in the space and having a plurality of color regions in which respective luminances thereof differ from one another, where: the image pickup apparatus: (i) obtains data of a picked up image of the space in which the real object is located; and (ii) evaluates the picked up image and adjusts at least one of an image pickup condition in which the picked up image of the space is taken, and a processing condition in which the data are analyzed to recognize the real object, and at least one of the image pickup condition and the processing condition are adjusted based on color information in the data of the picked up image resulting from the plurality of color regions of the calibration chart.

Image pickup apparatus, information processing system, mat, and image generation method

An image data generating blockof an image capturing apparatusgenerates polarized images having two or more resolutions from luminance of polarization in two or more directions acquired by a luminance data acquiring block. A pixel value converting blockgenerates new image data with a predetermined parameter being a pixel value on the basis of the polarized luminance in two or more directions. A transmission image generating blockconnects image data of two or more types on a predetermined pixel line basis and then crops the requested data, thereby stream-transferring the cropped data from a communication block. A target object recognizing blockof an information processing apparatusrecognizes the state of a target object by use of the transmitted data and an output data generating blockgenerates output data by use of the recognized state. A communication blockrequests the image capturing apparatusfor the data including type, resolution, and region corresponding to the state of the target object.

Image capturing apparatus, information processing system, information processing apparatus, and polarized-image processing method

A distance-measuring device includes first and second stereoscopic cameras each to be used to measure the distance to an object included in an imaging range. The first stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a first direction, and the second stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a second direction. The second direction is defined as a direction which intersects a plane containing the first direction and an imaging direction of the first stereoscopic camera.

Distance-measuring device

In an imaging element, a first light detecting layerincludes organic photoelectric conversion filmsandoriented in a prescribed axial direction so that it detects a polarized component of incident light which is directed parallel to the orientation axis. The first light detecting layeralso has an organic photoelectric conversion film oriented in another axial direction which is arranged in a prescribed pattern on a two-dimensional plane. A second light detecting layerdisposed under the first light detecting layerincludes photoelectric conversion elementsandand detects a polarized component which has passed through the first light detecting layerand which is directed perpendicularly to the orientation axis of the organic photoelectric conversion filmsand

Imaging element, image sensor, imaging apparatus, and information processing apparatus

An image of a block or the like entering a space above a play mat is picked up by an image pickup apparatus, and an information processing apparatus detects and recognizes the block on the basis of a picture of the block in a picked up image and performs information processing. The play mat includes a play field that defines a detection space for the block, and a calibration chart including at least a plurality of regions of colors of different luminances. The image pickup apparatus adjusts an exposure time period, a gain value for each color component and a correction rule upon gamma correction on the basis of the picture of the calibration chart in the picked up image.

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