Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Kenichiro Yokota

Shoichi Ikenoue

Hiroshi Mikami

Sachiyo Aoki

Takeshi Nakagawa

Atsushi Takizawa

Takakazu Ikeda

Takashi Yamamoto

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Takashi Yoshida

Kazumasa Ito

Keisuke Inoue

Junichi Sakamoto

Hideshi Yamada

Masaharu Yoshimori

Jin Satoh

Shin Watanabe

Tanio Nagasaki

Masaaki Hamada

Minoru Takahata

Shinsuke Koyama

Hideki Takeuchi

Yute Lin

Makoto Izawa

Mikako Hatakenaka

An image generation deviceprocesses content to draw an image (step S), and corrects the image as needed for display (step S). When drawing the image, the image generation deviceadjusts a tone curve according to a user operation for adjusting the brightness expressed by pixel values (step S). A head-mounted displaygenerates a drive voltage corresponding to the pixel values of image data acquired from the image generation device(step S) and drives a display panel to display the image (step S). When generating the drive voltage, the head-mounted displaydecreases the drive voltage to a ratio based on a user operation for reducing light emission brightness of the display panel (step S).

Image display system, head-mounted display, and image display method with brightness adjustment control

A condition information acquisition section of an image generation device acquires a condition of communication and condition information of a head-mounted display. An image generation section generates a display image including distorted images for a left eye and a right eye. A reduction processing section converts the display image to data in which different regions have different reduction ratios in accordance with the condition of communication, etc., and transmits the data through an output section. An image size restoration section of the head-mounted display restores the transmitted data to the display image in an original size to cause the display image to be displayed by a display section.

Image display system and image display method

A state information acquisition section of an image generation apparatus acquires state information of the head of a user. An image generation section generates a display image corresponding to a visual field. A down-sampling section down-samples image data and transmits the down-sampled image data from a transmission section. A distortion correction section of a head-mounted display performs, after an up-sampling section up samples the data, correction according to aberration of the eyepiece, for each primary color and causes the resulting data to be displayed on a display section.

Image displaying system, display apparatus, and image displaying method

Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered. A resizing section resizes the game image to the resolution of the delivery target two-dimensional image so as to generate a resized game image. An image generation section generates an image that combines the resized game image with the delivery target two-dimensional image.

Image generation apparatus, image generation method, and program indicating game play status

Provided are an image generating apparatus, an image generating method, and a program that are capable of saving the storage capacity of a frame buffer for storing pixel values of pixels determined in advance to have a predetermined value as their pixel values. An acquisition management data storing unit stores acquisition management data. A pixel value storing unit stores a pixel value of a pixel determined to have a pixel value acquired from the pixel value storing unit. An acquisition determining unit determines, based on the acquisition management data, whether or not to acquire a pixel value of each of pixels from the pixel value storing unit. A pixel value determining unit determines, with regard to the pixel determined to have the pixel value acquired from the pixel value storing unit, a pixel value acquired from the pixel value storing unit as the pixel value of the pixel. The pixel value determining unit determines, with regard to a pixel determined to have a pixel value not acquired from the pixel value storing unit, a predetermined value as the pixel value of the pixel.

Image generating apparatus, image generating method, and program for generating an image using pixel values stored in advance

Provided is a head-mounted displayfor displaying images transmitted from a rendering device. An orientation sensordetects an orientation of the head-mounted display. An HDMI transmission/reception unitreceives frame data of an image to be displayed on the head-mounted displayand predicted orientation information of the head-mounted displaythat is transmitted synchronously with the frame data of the image. A re-projection unitcorrects the frame data of the image on the basis of a difference between a latest orientation information detected by the orientation sensorand the predicted orientation information so that the frame data of the image suits a latest orientation of the head-mounted display

Rendering device, head-mounted display, image transmission method, and image correction method

An image processing apparatus for generating data of an image and outputting the generated data to a display device, includes a meta data acquiring unit configured to acquire meta data used for a correcting process for correcting the image in the display device, a corrector configured to perform at least part of the correcting process on the image, using the meta data, and an image output unit configured to acquire data of the corrected image from the corrector and output the acquired data to the display device.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: an image data acquisition section configured to acquire data of an image; a luminance conversion section configured to convert a luminance range composing a pixel value of the image so as to correspond to the luminance range capable of an output as a display image; and an output section configured to output the data of the image in which a luminance after the conversion is defined as the pixel value. The luminance conversion section acquires information regarding a linear luminance range capable of an output in the luminance that is proportional to a setting luminance in a display and determines a conversion rule at least on a basis of the information.

Image processing apparatus, display apparatus, and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes a calibration section acquiring luminance characteristics of a display apparatus on a basis of a user manipulation for a calibration screen image displayed on the display apparatus, a luminance transforming section transforming a range of luminance composing a pixel value of an image into a range of luminance with which the image can be outputted as a display image on a basis of the luminance characteristics, and an output section outputting data associated with an image having the luminance after the transformation as a pixel value. The calibration section adjusts an initial state of the calibration screen image on a basis of information peculiar to the display apparatus, and then causes the calibration screen image to be displayed on the display apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, calibration method, and computer program

A luminance space conversion section of an information processing apparatus converts an image signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an SDR into a signal represented in a luminance space corresponding to an HDR, and outputs the converted signal to a synthesis processing section that performs alpha blend processing on an HDR image. In an adjustment mode, a parameter adjustment section allows a display apparatus to display an adjustment image represented in the SDR and adjusts a parameter used for a conversion of the luminance space so that a change in a display image is made small before and after converting the luminance space. The parameter is stored in a conversion parameter storage section after the adjustment and is used when a luminance signal conversion section performs conversion processing.

Information processing apparatus and image processing method

An information processing apparatus generates a reference image including information to be presented to a user in accordance with a first attitude of an HMD identified at a first point in time. Based on the difference between the first attitude and a second attitude of the HMD identified at a second point in time after the first point in time, the information processing apparatus generates from the reference image a display image to be displayed on the HMD. Upon generation of the display image, the later the timing for displaying a specific image in the display image displayed on the HMD, the larger the amount of displacement is made by the information processing apparatus between the position of the specific pixel in the display image and the position of a corresponding image in the reference image serving as the source from which to set the pixel value of the specific pixel.

Information processing apparatus and image generation method

An image generating system includes a first attitude data obtaining unit obtaining first attitude data indicating an attitude of a head-mounted display in first timing; a reference image generating unit generating a reference image showing a state of looking at a virtual three-dimensional space from a viewpoint, a position and a sight line direction of the viewpoint being identified on a basis of the first attitude data; a second attitude data obtaining unit obtaining second attitude data indicating the attitude of the head-mounted display in second timing; a corresponding position identifying unit identifying a corresponding position for each pixel within a display image to be displayed on the head-mounted display; a pixel value identifying unit identifying a pixel value of the pixel within the display image, the pixel being associated with the corresponding position; and a display image generating unit generating the display image.

Image generating system, image generating method, and information storage medium

An intermediate command generation unit generates intermediate commands, which are intermediate rendering commands having model data for rendering an object. A graphics command conversion unit converts the generated intermediate commands into a graphic command sequence for execution by a graphics processor. An identity determination unit determines whether a state of a graphics command to be generated from an intermediate command is the same as a state of the graphics command generated previously. A graphics command generation unit generates a graphics command determined by the identity determination unit as not having the same state, and does not generate a graphics command determined as having the same state, defining the command as a redundant command.

Graphics command generation device and graphics command generation method

An information processing apparatus including: a plurality of data processing functional blocks each used for carrying out individual data processing; a flow control section configured to execute control of data flows among the data processing functional blocks; and a control section configured to carry out a setting process to set the data processing functional blocks and the flow control section. The control section acquires configuration information in accordance with a task list for data processing to be carried out; carries out the setting process to set the data processing functional blocks and the flow control section on the basis of the acquired configuration information; and constructs a data processing configuration adapted to various kinds of data processing to be carried out.

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Kenichiro Yokota