Sony Group Corporation

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Sony Corporation

National Institute of Advance Industrial

Tomoya Ishikawa

Gaku Narita

Takashi Seno

Yohsuke Kaji

Takeshi Kurata

Masakatsu Kourogi

Takashi Okuma

Tomu Tahara

A content display device that functions as an information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires template data defining relative relationships between a first real object, a second real object, and a virtual object. The determination unit determines the relative relationship between the first real object and the second real object from three-dimensional data of a real space detected by the sensor. The display control unit controls the display device to arrange the virtual object on or near the first real object so as to face the second real object, based on the relative relationships and the template data.

Information processing device and information processing method

A template AR content can be favorably used in an application scene different from the scene at the time of creation. An environment map of an augmented reality application scene is generated. An abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is generated on the basis of the environment map of the augmented reality scene. The abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is compared with an abstract representation of a template augmented reality generated on the basis of a template augmented reality environment map, and template augmented reality content is mapped to the augmented reality application scene on the basis of a result of the comparison. Thus, augmented reality content for display is generated. For example, the abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene or the abstract representation of the template augmented reality can be edited.

Information processing apparatus and information processing

An information processing device includes: a storage unit that stores first information indicating at least one of a structure or a physical property of a first object obtained by capturing a real physical body into a virtual space; and a specifying unit that specifies an arrangement of a second object indicating a virtual object in the virtual space so that the arrangement is capable of expressing an interaction with the first object, based on an arrangement condition of the second object and on the first information.

A configuration that causes an agent such as a character in a virtual world or a robot in the real world to perform actions by imitating actions of a human is to be achieved. An environment map including type and layout information about objects in the real world is generated, actions of a person acting in the real world are analyzed, time/action/environment map correspondence data including the environment map and time-series data of action analysis data is generated, a learning process using the time/action/environment map correspondence data is performed, an action model having the environment map as an input value and a result of action estimation as an output value is generated, and action control data for a character in a virtual world or a robot is generated with the use of the action model. For example, an agent is made to perform an action by imitating an action of a human.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling display of AR content that has been generated for a predetermined environment and is applied to the real environment. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology generates a template environment map showing the environment of a three-dimensional space that is to be a template and in which a predetermined object exists, and generates template content that is a template to be used in generating display content for displaying an object superimposed on the environment of a real space, the template content including information about the object disposed at a position in the three-dimensional space, the position having a predetermined positional relationship with the predetermined object. The present technology can be applied to a transmissive HMD, for example.

There is provided an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system that reduce processing in a case where images based on an equidistant cylindrical image are projected using a plurality of projectors. The image processing device of an aspect of the present technology generates a second equidistant cylindrical image whose center pixel is equal to a center pixel of each of projection regions of a plurality of projectors in a first equidistant cylindrical image and that includes pixels within an angle range including the each of the projection regions, as an image used to generate each of projection images that are projected from the plurality of projectors. The present technology is applicable to a computer that causes the plurality of projectors to project images.

Image processing device, image processing method, program, and projection system

An angle offset judging device () includes: an azimuth histogram generating section () for obtaining an appearance frequency of estimated azimuths; and an evaluating section () for making an evaluation of whether or not the appearance frequency thus obtained shows a tendency which is observed in a case where an azimuth is properly estimated under a binding condition concerning an advancing direction of a movement of a moving body.

Estimated-azimuth-angle assessment device, mobile terminal device, computer-readable storage medium, control method for estimated-azimuth-angle assessment device, and positioning device

The present invention provides a device and method for estimating a travel direction of a moving body, the device and method allowing highly accurate estimation of the travel direction even in the case where the positional relationship between the moving body and the self-contained sensing device or the posture is changed freely. The travel direction estimating device includes (i) a gravitational direction vector estimating sectionfor estimating a gravitational direction vector on the basis of respective outputs of an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor, (ii) a tentative travel direction vector generating sectionas a candidate of travel direction vector, (iii) a walk frequency estimating sectionfor estimating a walk frequency from component data resulting from projecting acceleration component data for the gravitational direction vector, and (iv) a travel direction vector determining sectionfor determining an objective function and a phase difference on the basis of a frequency component of a component Af resulting from projecting the acceleration component data for a travel direction vector, a frequency component of a component An resulting from projecting the acceleration component data for a side-to-side direction vector, a frequency component of a component Ws resulting from projecting angular velocity component data for the travel direction vector, a frequency component of a component Wn resulting from projecting the angular velocity component data for the side-to-side direction vector, a walk frequency, and the phase of the walk frequency, selecting as travel direction vectors, tentative travel direction vectors with which the phase difference is within a predetermined range and each of which maximizes the value of the objective function, and determining the side of the travel direction.

Device for estimating moving object travel direction and method for estimating travel direction

A moving body positioning device includes a sensor group that outputs a motion velocity vector of a moving body, a motion velocity vector estimation processing device that measures a motion velocity vector and outputs an output sequence of the motion velocity vector together with a measured time, a monitoring camera, an image analysis processing device that analyzes the image of the monitoring camera to measure a position of feet of the moving body measures a motion velocity vector at the position of the feet, and outputs an output sequence of the motion velocity vector with a measured time, and a motion velocity vector collation processing device that collates the output sequence of the motion velocity vector estimation processing device with the output sequence of the image analysis processing device and outputs its collation result as a TRUE or a FALSE signal.

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Tomoya Ishikawa