Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Nec Corporation

Kimura Kohki Co., Ltd.

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Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Ishida

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Akira Suzuki

Yasuhiro Watari

Hiroki Kato

Shinya Wada

Yoshinori Shimizu

Keiichi Chono

Tomokazu Kake

Keiichi Kimura

Kazuya Goto

Akio Ohba

Hiroyuki Segawa

Akira Hasegawa

Yoshiharu Dewa

Hidekazu Sato

Seiichi Takamura

Masayoshi Mizuno

Osamu Ota

Akihiko Sugawara

Takahiro Ichikawa

Mitsuo Morita

Kensuke Shimofure

Suguru Nagayama

Naoya Tsuji

Megumi Nozu

Kenji Ogawa

Tetsugo Inada

Masayuki Chatani

Takayuki Shinohara

Hideaki Watanabe

Hiroyuki Kawano

Masao Shimizu

Hidehiko Ogasawara

Katsuhiro Urano

Taner E Ozcelik

Yuichiro Nakamura

Osamu Akimoto

Toshihiro Kusunoki

Takahiro Mochizuki

Manabu Ishioka

Masa Tanaka

Toshihiko Orii

Shigeharu Sato

Pattabiraman Subramanian

Toshihiko Mochida

Cem I Duru&ouml;z

Takeru Sankou

Masahiro Ueshima

Kimura Keiichi

A play time acquisition unitacquires a play time of an activity by a plurality of players from event data indicating a start of the activity and event data indicating an end of the activity that are recorded in an event data recording unit. A distribution generation unitdivides the plurality of players who have executed the activity into a plurality of groups according to the play time. A class sorting unitsorts a player into any one of a plurality of classes according to the skill value of the player. A percentage derivation unitderives a percentage occupied by the players of each class in each of the plurality of groups. A type determination unitdetermines the type of the activity on the basis of the derived percentage.

Server device and event data processing method

Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the display control section specifies a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.

Display control apparatus and display control method

An image obtaining section of an information processing apparatus obtains polarized light images in a plurality of directions from an imaging device provided to a moving body. A polarization degree obtaining section of an image analyzing section obtains a degree of polarization on the basis of direction dependence of luminance of polarized light. A high polarization degree region evaluating section detects the peripheral edge of a play field on which the moving body is present, by evaluating the shape of a high polarization degree region having degrees of polarization higher than a threshold value in a state in which the high polarization degree region is overlooked. An output data generating section generates and outputs output data for avoiding movement to the peripheral edge.

Information processing apparatus and play field deviation detecting method

In an information processing apparatus, a captured image acquiring section acquires data of an image captured of a reference object while part of incident light applied thereto is being blocked. An incident light information acquiring section acquires, according to a predetermined model equation, a brightness distribution of partial incident light in each of light-blocked states on the basis of the image of the reference object, and acquires a brightness distribution of overall incident light by calculating brightness distributions of partial incident light. A target information acquiring section acquires the shape and material of a target by using the brightness distribution of overall incident light.

Incident light information acquisition method, incident light information acquisition system, and information processing device

An image acquisition section of an information processing apparatus acquires, from an imaging apparatus, polarization images in a plurality of orientations. A normal acquisition section of an image analysis section detects a surface of a subject by acquiring a normal vector on the basis of orientation dependence of polarization luminance. A surface assumption section assumes the presence of an undetected surface continuing from the detected surface. A subject detection section confirms whether or not the assumed surface is present using a normal vector estimated for the assumed surface. An output data generation section generates and outputs output data using information regarding the detected surface.

Information processing apparatus and object detection method

Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the generating includes specifying, as a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, a direction in which a first position in the virtual space is seen from the newly selected viewpoint position, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.

An air conditioning system includes: an intake unit configured to take in return air of an indoor space from a ceiling of the indoor space; an outdoor air processing unit configured to supply outdoor air while exhausting the return air taken in via the intake unit to outdoors; an air conditioner configured to supply, as air-conditioning air, mixed air of the return air taken in via the intake unit and the outdoor air supplied by the outdoor air processing unit; and at least one radiation unit disposed in the indoor space in a manner to surround the intake unit, the radiation unit being configured to radiate heat of the air-conditioning air supplied by the air conditioner while discharging the air-conditioning air to the indoor space.

Air conditioning system

An input information acquiring section accepts a user's operation. A texture region acquiring section acquires a region of a display image to be presented by use of a texture. A velocity acquiring section acquires for each pixel a movement velocity vector of the texture on a plane of the display image. A texture referencing section adjusts a reference range in an axial direction of the velocity vector in keeping with a magnitude of the movement velocity, before sampling texel values. A pixel value determining section determines a pixel value on the basis of the texel values. An output section outputs the display image.

Image processing apparatus and display image generating method

A captured image acquisition section of an information processing apparatus acquires polarization image data including polarization information in a plurality of azimuths. An imaging apparatus information acquisition section acquires information regarding a position and posture of an imaging apparatus. A viewpoint control section of a subject information acquisition section controls a plurality of viewpoints from which polarization images are captured. A point-of-interest information acquisition section sets a pixel of interest having a degree of polarization equal to or higher than a threshold in a polarization image of a first viewpoint, identifies a pixel representing the same point of interest in a polarization image of a second viewpoint, and then obtains a line of intersection between incident planes acquired for the respective viewpoints as a normal vector. An output data generation section generates output data based on results thereof and outputs the data.

Information processing apparatus and subject information acquisition method

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a phase modulator, a lighting system, and a projector that allow for improving diffraction efficiency in a light phase modulation element. The phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a light phase modulation element that has a plurality of pixels arranged with the pixel pitches p being different from each other to have a pixel structure suppressing occurrence of high-order diffraction light and that modulates a phase of light with respect to each of the pixels. Moreover, the phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a capturing optical system that captures a plurality of fluxes of high-order diffraction light generated in each of the pixels.

Phase modulator, lighting system, and projector

A point-of-interest information acquisition section of an information processing apparatus acquires, by using a polarization image captured from a viewpoint of an imaging apparatus, an incident plane relative to the viewpoint at a point of interest 'a' on a subject. A viewpoint control section determines a direction of movement of the imaging apparatus in such a manner as to suitably acquire an angle formed with the incident plane and presents the direction to a user. When the post-movement viewpoint of an imaging apparatus is determined to be appropriate, an incident plane at the point of interest 'a' is acquired by using the captured polarization image, and a line of intersection with the incident plane is assumed to be a normal vector n of the point of interest &#x2018;a.&#x2019;

A display control apparatus includes a display control section that generates a virtual space image by specifying a viewpoint position and a direction of line of sight and displays the image on a head-mounted display. The display control section can specify a plurality of positions in the virtual space as viewpoint positions and can change the viewpoint position to a position determined from among the plurality of positions in accordance with an attitude of the head-mounted display, and when the viewpoint position is changed, the display control section specifies, as a direction of line of sight, the direction in which a first position in the virtual space is seen from the changed viewpoint position.

An operation object includes a polyhedron. The polyhedron includes characteristic surfaces formed by cutting each vertex of a cube at different angles. An information processing apparatus acquires a normal vector of each surface from a polarized image thereof. Further, the information processing apparatus identifies the characteristic surface by defining, as a characteristic amount, an angle formed by an average vector Nof normal vectors N, N, and Nof reference surfaces that orthogonally intersect each other and a normal vector Nof the characteristic surface surrounded by the reference surfaces. The specification result and the normal vectors thereof are used to acquire the position and orientation of the operation object.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, operation object, and information processing method

In an information processing device, a photographed image acquiring unit acquires an image which has been photographed by a camera attached to a head mount display. A region determining unit predicts a region which a user gazes at in a display image. An image analyzing unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former analyzing a region corresponding to the gaze region in the photographed image with a higher fineness than the latter. An information processing unit performs information processing by using the result of analysis. An image generating unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former generating a display image on the gaze region with a higher fineness than the latter. An output unit sends data of the display image to the head mount display.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method

In a video encoding device, a transmission section sets a value corresponding to characteristics specified by ITU-R BT.709 to 1 in the transfer characteristics syntax when the dynamic range of the video signal is a SDR (Standard Dynamic Range), and sets a value corresponding to one of characteristics specified by HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) to 18 or a value corresponding to one of characteristics specified by PQ (Perceptual Quantizer) to 16 when the dynamic range of the video signal is a HDR (High Dynamic Range).

Video encoding method, video encoding device, video decoding method, video decoding device, program, and video system

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Takayuki Ishida