Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Keitaro Shimizu

Hitomi Mizutani

Masato Takada

Tomohiko Sasaki

Mitsuhiko Hirose

Kazuhiro Ohba

Tetsuyuki Osaki

An information processing apparatus includes a partial image generator configured to generate a partial image having a point-of-interest designated by a user, from a 360-degree image, a user interface (UI) unit configured to receive an indication of the point-of-interest via a UI screen for displaying the partial image, and a point-of-interest registering unit configured to register the point-of-interest, in response to a request from the user via the UI screen. The information processing apparatus also includes an interpolation line calculator configured to calculate an interpolation line for interpolating between a most recently registered point-of-interest and a current point-of-interest, and an interpolation line registering unit configured to register an interpolation line between the designated point-of-interest and a point-of-interest designated immediately prior to the designated point-of-interest.

Information processing apparatus and recording medium

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to register at least a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint designated next to the first viewpoint as viewpoints in a full-view spherical image with an order designated by a user, set a transition path of the viewpoints from the first viewpoint to the second viewpoint by interpolating between the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint in the full-view spherical image, generate a first partial image having a center that matches the first viewpoint, and a second partial image having a center that matches the second viewpoint, and play animation by sequentially displaying the first partial image and the second partial image with the order designated by the user while transiting the viewpoints from the first viewpoint to the second viewpoint along the set transition path.

Information processing apparatus for creating an animation from a spherical image

An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a data generation method, and a recording medium storing program code. The information processing apparatus and data generation method include displaying a spherical image obtained by an imaging apparatus, reproducing three-dimensional audio data obtained by the imaging apparatus in association with the spherical image, accepting designation of a displaying direction on the spherical image, generating two-dimensional image data that corresponds to the displaying direction, based on data of the spherical image, and generating two-dimensional audio data that corresponds to the displaying direction, from the three-dimensional audio data. The information processing system includes the information processing, and an image processing server connected to the information processing apparatus through a communication network. The image processing server generates two-dimensional audio data that corresponds to the displaying direction, based on the three-dimensional audio data.

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