Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jorge Pelaez

Tatsuro Hori

Pacharapon Leewanichakul

A transmission apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a reception apparatus, and a controller configured to acquire a depth image obtained by at least one depth camera measuring distances to a subject within a measurement range, identify, with reference to the acquired depth image, a window corresponding to a position of the subject from among a plurality of windows set within the measurement range and aligned in a depth direction, transmit a window identifier identifying the identified window to the reception apparatus via the communication interface, and for each pixel of the depth image, convert a measured distance into a relative distance within the window and transmit a resulting converted value as pixel data to the reception apparatus via the communication interface.

Transmission apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and reception apparatus that reduce the pixel data size of the depth image

A terminal apparatus includes an imager configured to capture an image of a user, a display including a display plane configured to output light rays constituting respective element images of a plurality of viewpoint positions with respect to a stereoscopic image for displaying the stereoscopic image, toward each viewpoint position, and a controller configured to control the display to output light rays constituting a first number of element images when a distance of the user from the display plane, which is obtained from the captured image of the user, is a first distance, and to output light rays constituting a second number of element images when the distance of the user is a second distance larger than the first distance, the second number being smaller than the first number.

Terminal apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for displaying stereoscopic images using light field display

An education support apparatus, which is configured to support online education conducted by connecting, via a network, respective terminal apparatuses used by an instructor and a plurality of students who are present in spaces separate from each other, includes a communication interface configured to communicate via the network, and a controller configured to receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of individual images including an image of the instructor and an image of a second student different from a first student among the plurality of students, generate, using the received plurality of individual images, a composite image representing the second student as being present in the same space as the instructor, and control a terminal apparatus used by the first student to display the generated composite image.

Education support apparatus, communication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and education support method

A terminal apparatus includes an input/output screen including a rectangular input/output area configured to accept touch input and display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with another terminal apparatus including the input/output area having a different longitudinal direction, and a controller configured, upon input of an image to the input/output area of the terminal apparatus, to transmit to the another terminal apparatus an output image that contains the image and corresponds to a first square area having one short side of the input/output area as one side and to cause the another terminal apparatus to display the output image in a second square area having one short side of an input/output area of the another terminal apparatus as one side. The controller is configured to set an area other than the first square area in the input/output area of the terminal apparatus as a new input/output area.

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Kawaguchi, Japan

Jorge Pelaez