Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Ryoko Kato

Yoichi Kuroda

Yasuji Nakamura

Yuichiro Mori

Daisuke Hara

Shoji Hatta

Kosuke Hosoi

Yohei Aoki

A network game system includes a server apparatus and a plurality of video game apparatuses connected to the server apparatus. A party includes player characters of a plurality of players. When the party battles with an opponent character, the server apparatus simultaneously transmits movie playback information to each video game apparatus for starting playback of a movie. Each of the players can skip the movie at a desired timing. A screen is displayed on each video game apparatus that has skipped the movie until the battle starts. When information is received from each video game apparatus that indicates playback of the movie has ended, the server apparatus simultaneously transmits battle start information to each video game apparatus.

Network game system for executing event in network game

A dome-type camera includes a camera lens capable of rotating in a tilt direction, a dome cover for covering the camera lens, and an aperture control unit for controlling the amount of aperture of the camera lens. The amount of aperture is set to become smaller from an open value toward a closed value in accordance with the tilt angle of the camera lens becoming smaller from a zenith direction of the dome cover toward a horizontal direction. According to this dome-type camera, a desirable low tilt angle image with a reduced blur may be obtained even with a megapixel dome camera.

Dome-type camera and aperture control method

A camera device () includes an imaging unit () which outputs a long exposure signal and a short exposure signal in one field period. A face detection unit () detects a face area from an image captured by the imaging unit (). The weighting processing unit () applies a weighting process to luminance data of the long exposure signal in the detected face area using a weighting constant for reducing the luminance level of the long exposure signal. If the luminance level of the weighting-processed long exposure signal rises to a predetermined saturation level or higher, an exposure control unit () performs exposure control using the long exposure signal and the short exposure signal. This can suppress occurrence of a noise due to a short exposure signal (flickering) in the face area, thereby improving visibility in the face area.

Camera device, exposure control method, and program

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryoko Kato