Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

Kan Ebisawa

Yoichiro Sako

Masamichi Asukai

Taiji Ito

Masaaki Tsuruta

Hidehiko Sekizawa

Akinobu Sugino

Nozomu Ozaki

Keiji Kimura

Yonetaro Totsuka

Gary M Zalewski

Hiroo Takahashi

Ken Kutaragi

Masayuki Chatani

Glen Van Datta

Shinji Kaneko

Shinichi Okamoto

Kenji Hori

Keiso Shimakawa

Makoto Kubo

Hiroki Nagakita

Yutaka Kagiwada

Andrew House

Kazumichi Hatate

The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display deviceor a display device), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display deviceor and image pickup device), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device. Thus, a user of the display device can see images of viewing scenes watched by other people, for example, images of viewing scenes seen from a car, an electric train, and the like, or images of viewing scenes seen from an animal, a bird, and the like.

Display apparatus for displaying image data received from an image pickup apparatus attached to a moving body specified by specification information

Display control that extends a user's visual ability is accomplished. By wearing an eyeglass-type or headgear-type mounting unit, he or she is allowed to see display means disposed in front of his or her eyes. By causing a part of a screen area of the display means to be in a through-state and a display with a display image signal to be executed, the user can see an image of a scene different from a scene that he or she ordinarily sees with a display of the display image signal while he or she can see the ordinary visual scene with the through-state area.

Display method and display apparatus in which a part of a screen area is in a through-state

Image display system, image display apparatus, and image display method

Image display system, display device and display method

Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: imaging means for imaging a scene that is in a direction in which a user sees to obtain image data of the scene; temporary storage means for storing the image data obtained by imaging by the imaging means; and control means for controlling the temporary storage means to store the image data obtained by imaging by the imaging means, and, when a predetermined storage condition has been satisfied, extracting image data to be stored from the temporary storage means and adding metadata to the extracted image data to perform a storage process.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

This game machine system includes a set top boxas a receiving unit for receiving digital data distributed using a broadcast system or a communication system. In a game dedicated devicestarting of a game software item is inhibited until a software start enable signal is received by the receiving unit. Next to the software start enable signal, data for substitution or insertion for data of part of the game software is sent. This data can be commercial ads. The game dedicated machinecan judge whether or not the commercial ads have been introduced into and are in operation in the game software and, if the commercial ads are not in the game software, the game dedicated machinecan be made so as to be out of operation.

Encrypted start signal for game with data substitution in original data and means for limiting execution

An optical communication apparatus is disclosed. The optical communication apparatus includes a light transmission section, a light reception section, and a control section. The light transmission section causes a light emitting portion which outputs light in a visual line direction of a user to transmit information. The light reception section causes a light receiving portion which receives light from the visual line direction of the user to receive information. The control section determines whether or not another optical communication apparatus is an information communication target based on identification information when the light reception section has optically received communication request information and the identification information from the other optical communication apparatus and causes the light transmission section to optically transmit communication response information to the other optical communication apparatus when the control section has determined that the other optical communication apparatus be the information communication target.

Optical communication apparatus and optical communication method

Various apparatus, methods and systems for insertion of advertisements in various environments are provided. Apparatus, methods and systems for profiling users, registering advertisement impressions and generating feedback in response to advertisement viewing are also disclosed.

Advertisement insertion, profiling, impression, and feedback

An image capturing and displaying apparatus is disclosed. The image capturing and displaying apparatus includes an image capturing section, a display section, a user's information obtaining section, and a control section. The image capturing section captures an image such that a direction in which a user sees a subject is a direction of the subject. The display section is disposed in front of eyes of the user and displays the image captured by the image capturing section. The user's information obtaining section obtains information about a motion and a physical situation of the user. The control section controls an operation of the image capturing section or an operation of the display section corresponding to information obtained by the user's information obtaining section.

Image capturing and displaying apparatus and image capturing and displaying method

A game system which is operable to update advertisements that are displayed when a game program is executed. The system stores a game program in a memory, receives (i.e., downloads), at predetermined times of operation, for example, on each new day the game program is executed or each time the game program is executed, updated advertising data that relates to at least one advertisement, stores the received advertising data in the memory, executes the game program stored in the memory, and outputs during the execution of the game program display data which corresponds to the stored advertisement data in accordance with the game program code. Further, instead of downloading new advertisements, plural advertisements may be prestored with the game program and only advertisement selection codes are downloaded to update the advertisements that are displayed when the game program is executed.

Apparatus and method for executing a game program having advertisements therein

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kan Ebisawa