Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Jeremy David Ashforth

Simon Mark Benson

Ian Henry Bickerstaff

Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal

Simon John Hall

Darren Myatt

A head mountable display (HMD) is provided that has a head motion detection function and one or more operations that depend upon detected head motion. Detected head motion is stored as motion data in memory. The way in which detected head motion is applied to a current operation depends upon the stored motion data. In one embodiment, the HMD includes a gaze detector configured to detect eye orientation of a user of the user so as to detect image regions at which the user is looking, and a detector configured to detect item data indicative of items represented by the detected image regions.

Head-mountable apparatus and system

An image processing method includes capturing an image of the head of a user of a head mountable display device. The position of the head mountable display device is detected in the image captured by a camera. A region of the user's face that is occluded by the head mountable display device is identified. The portion of the captured image corresponding to the head mountable display device is at least partially replaced with a corresponding portion of a 3D facial model, to provide a modified version of the captured image.

Image processing

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London, United Kingdom

Jeremy David Ashforth