Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Takuro Noda

Kazuyuki Yamamoto

Makoto Sato

Ryouhei Yasuda

Ikuo Yamano

Osamu Shigeta

Yoriko Komatsuzaki

Akihiro Komori

Hiroyuki Mizunuma

Maki Imoto

Nariaki Satoh

Tomoya Narita

Tsubasa Tsukahara

Yasushi Okumura

Eisuke Nomura

Seiji Suzuki

Takuo Ikeda

QiHong Wang

Yoshiyuki Takaku

Yukihiko Aoki

Akiko Terayama

Sayaka Watanabe

Yoshiaki Takenaka

Tatsuya Igarashi

Yuki Yamamoto

Kenji Suzuki

Tetsuo Ikeda

Hiraku Inoue

Yoshiaki Iwai

Kenji Sugihara

Hidenori Karasawa

Hiroshi Kakuda

Miwa Ichikawa

Yousuke Kawana

Tetsuyuki Miyawaki

Ryo Ogawa

Yuki Mamishin

Takeshi Maeda

Hisato Shima

Seiji Wada

Shingo Tsurumi

Kunihito Sawai

Jun Kimura

Kenichi Okada

Ken Miyashita

Tomohiko Gotoh

Tamaki Kojima

Masayuki Yokoyama

Yuuji Takimoto

Tomohisa Tanaka

Atsushi Koshiyama

Eijiro Mori

Takayoshi Shimizu

Soichiro Inatani

Kayo Sugimoto

Shinichi Haseno

Kana Matsuura

Nariaki Sato

Kenta Katagata

Ai Nakada

Shingo Utsuki

Provided is an information processing apparatus which includes a line-of-sight estimator, a correction amount calculator, and a registration determination section. The line-of-sight estimator calculates an estimation vector obtained by estimating a direction of a line of sight of a user. The correction amount calculator calculates a correction amount related to the estimation vector on the basis of at least one object that is within a specified angular range that is set using the estimation vector as a reference. The registration determination section determines whether to register, in a data store, calibration data in which the estimation vector and the correction amount are associated with each other, on the basis of a parameter related to the at least one object within the specified angular range.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

To provide a line-of-sight detection device capable of further improving line-of-sight detection accuracy, achieving low latency, and achieving low power consumption. Provided is a line-of-sight detection device that includes an imaging element having an event-driven function, a first mode generation unit that generates a Purkinje detection mode, a second mode generation unit that generates a pupil detection mode, and a third mode generation unit that generates an event-driven mode.

Line-of-sight detection device, display device, and method for sensing eyeball

There is provided an imaging control device, an imaging control method, a program, and an imaging system that enable easy change of a direction in which an image of a subject is captured in a case where imaging is performed using an optical member whose observation optical axis is inclined with respect to a central axis. The imaging control device includes: a rotation axis setting unit that sets a rotation axis on the basis of a pivot point and a point of interest on the subject, the pivot point serving as a fulcrum of the rod-shaped optical member whose observation optical axis is inclined with respect to the central axis and being not positioned on the observation optical axis; and a posture control unit that rotates the optical member around the rotation axis. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an endoscope system.

Imaging control device, imaging control method, program, and imaging system

A line-of-sight detection device capable of achieving further improvement in line-of-sight detection accuracy, achieving low latency, and achieving low power consumption is provided. A line-of-sight detection device includes an imaging element, an illumination unit that illuminates an eyeball with a plurality of beams of illumination light, an optical element that guides respective beams of reflected light in a plurality of directions from the eyeball caused by the plurality of beams of illumination light to a direction of the imaging element, an optical system that causes the imaging element to non-selectively receive the beams of reflected light in the plurality of directions from the eyeball, and a calculation unit that converts, on the basis of the beams of reflected light in the plurality of directions from the eyeball received by the imaging element, the beams of reflected light into information of eyeball movement and/or positional information of a pupil.

Line-of-sight detection device and display device

An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section and a processor. The acquisition section acquires eye information regarding an eye of a user. The processor determines a first line-of-sight direction on the basis of the eye information using a first method, determines a second line-of-sight direction on the basis of the eye information using a second method that is different from the first method, calculates reliability information regarding at least one of reliability of the first line-of-sight direction or reliability of the second line-of-sight direction, and determines a line-of-sight direction of the user on the calculated reliability information.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.

An information processing device includes an eyeball information acquisition section, a sightline estimation section, a display control section, a gesture information acquisition section, and a mode switching section. The eyeball information acquisition section acquires position and posture information of eyeballs of a user from a first sensor. The sightline estimation section estimates a sightline vector on the basis of the position and posture information of the eyeballs. The display control section controls a display device in such a manner that the display device displays a guide image for showing a gaze state based on the sightline vector. The gesture information acquisition section acquires gesture information, which is different from the position and posture information of the eyeballs, from a second sensor. The mode switching section switches between a first mode and a second mode according to mode switching input provided by the user with regard to the guide image, the first mode being a mode of reflecting the position and posture information of the eyeballs in the guide image, the second mode being a mode of correcting the gaze state on the basis of the gesture information.

Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An information processing apparatus capable of executing calibration for improving accuracy of gaze detection without causing a user to feel stress. The information processing apparatus, includes a marker control unit that changes, during calibration of an eyewear terminal, a display position of a point-of-regard marker displayed on a display unit of the eyewear terminal; a computational processing unit that computes an optical axis vector expressing a gaze direction of a user by a pupil-corneal reflection method, on a basis of a captured image that includes a user's eye imaged when the eye of the user wearing the eyewear terminal is irradiated with light from a light source, and the point-of-regard marker is displayed at a calibration point; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a variation of the optical axis vector computed for a plurality of the calibration points.

Provided is an information processing device including an arithmetic processing unit that executes arithmetic processing related to calibration of detection of a sight line toward a display unit. The arithmetic processing unit determines calibration executability for each of both eyes based on acquired sight line data and uses only the sight line data of an eye for which calibration is determined to be executable when executing calibration for the eye.

Information processing device and information processing method

It is desired to provide a technology capable of controlling an object so as to improve user convenience. An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an object control unit that: suppresses a movement of a first object, on the basis of a first line-of-sight movement in which a gaze point of a user moves toward a first part of the first object or has moved to the first part; and moves the first object such that the first object leaves away from the gaze point of the user, on the basis of a second line-of-sight movement in which the gaze point of the user moves toward a second part of the first object different from the first part or has moved to the second part.

There is provided an operation processing device including an input direction acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an input direction according to a direction generated in response to an operation indicating the direction which is performed on an input unit to which the operation is input, an output direction indication unit configured to indicate, to a display unit configured to display an image, an output direction that is a direction in which the image of the display unit is changed in response to the operation on the input unit, and a determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the output direction with respect to the input direction according to a relative position relationship between the input unit and the display unit.

Operation processing device and operation processing method for controlling display unit based on change in output direction of display unit

Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a movement history acquiring section that acquires a movement history, based on an absolute coordinate, of a gazing point of a first user that gazes at a display region, in which the absolute coordinate is in a three-dimensional space displayed in the display region. The information processing apparatus further includes a display controller that controls a display unit that displays the display region to visualize, to a second user, the movement history of the gazing point. This allows the gazing point of the first user to be shared with the second user without hiding a target object.

There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a virtual object useful for a user while suppressing a reduction in visibility of a real object. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a user and position information of a destination; and a display control unit that adds a first virtual object in association with a position of the destination within a visual field of the user on the basis of the position information of the user and the position information of the destination, in which the display control unit controls transparency of a predetermined virtual object within the visual field on the basis of the position information of the user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided that enable displaying predetermined contents at the user-intended timing. The information processing device includes a viewpoint information obtaining unit that obtains viewpoint information related to the viewpoint of a user; a position-related information obtaining unit that obtains position-related information related to the position of the user and the position of a predetermined object; a head rotation information obtaining unit that obtains head rotation information related to the angular velocity accompanying the rotation of the head region of the user and related to the changes in the angular velocity; and a determining unit that, based on a gazing score which is calculated for each object according to the position-related information and the head rotation information and which indicates the extent of gazing of the user with respect to the object, determines whether or not the user is gazing at the object.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program for determining a user gaze

There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

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Takuro Noda