Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Capcom Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd.

Wataru Ikeda

Tomoyuki Okada

Hiroshi Yahata

Joseph McCrossan

Tomoki Ogawa

Yasushi Uesaka

Taiji Sasaki

Hiroaki Iwamoto

Tadamasa Toma

Masayuki Kozuka

Kazuhiko Nakamura

Masahiro Oashi

Yoshio Kawakami

Shinya Kadono Kadono

Keiichi Tanaka

Satoshi Kondo

Yoshinori Matsui

Hiroshi Hamasaka

Masayasu Iguchi

Masafumi Okubo

Takahiro Nishi

Motoji Ohmori

Masaya Yamamoto

Masato Yamamichi

Kazuhisa Watanabe

Yoshihiro Mori

Masataka Minami

Masao Nonaka

Satoshi Hashimoto

Kosuke Nishio

Tomotaka Yagi

Masahiro Sueyoshi

Atsushi Saso

Kazuhiro Mochinaga

Yuka Ozawa

Toru Kawaguchi

Nobuo Nakanishi

Koshi Watamura

Teppei Yoneyama

Akihiro Shimizu

Ogawa Tomoki

Joseph Mccrossan

Tomoyuku Okada

The present invention causes a computer to function as a virtual space generating unit, a game screen displaying unit and a fluid displaying unit. A fluid displaying unit displays pseudo three-dimensional representation of fluid in virtual space on a game screen. And the fluid displaying includes a billboard setting unit and a two-dimensional simulation unit. A billboard setting unit sets a billboard which has a plain object and which rotates around a predetermined center point in the plain object so that the plain object faces the virtual camera in the virtual space. A two-dimensional simulation unit executes a two-dimensional simulation and displays a simulation result on the plain object.

Non transitory computer-readable storage medium and method of controlling a computer

A video processing device overlays appropriate presentation data over video images, even if the size of the display area for 3D video images differs from the size of the display area for presentation data that is to be presented with the 3D video images. The video processing device generates left- and right-view images from a 3D video stream, enlarges presentation data obtained from a relevant data stream to scale its display size to match the display size of video images, applying an offset value, which is determined to cause a specific parallax, to the thus enlarged presentation data to generate left- and right-view presentation data, and overlays the left-view presentation data over the left-view images and the right-view presentation data over the right-view images to display video images resulting from the overlaying.

Video processing device and video processing method

A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right-view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in the interleaved manner, the equivalent identification number. Among Extents that constitute the interleaved transport stream file, Extents constituting the left-view or right-view video stream are identified as a normal-format transport stream file by a combination of (i) the equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in a normal manner.

Recording medium, playback device, system LSI, playback method, glasses, and display device for 3D images

An incentive provision system that contributes to expanded sales of a content service and includes a user terminal and a provision device. The provision device receives, from the user terminal, request information for requesting incentive information relating to the content service. If the request information is valid, then the provision device provides the incentive information to the user terminal. A user of the user terminal enjoys using the incentive information provided from the provision device, which, in turn, motivates the user to receive the content service.

Incentive provision system

A playback device for playing back a playlist by determining, as a current sub-playitem, a sub-playitem that is optimum for the current sub-playitem each time a current playitem changes. The playback device continues a playback of a playitem when a clip file being referred to by the current sub-playitem has been downloaded and is in an Enable state in the local storage; and stops, by issuing a DataStarved event, the playback of the playitem when the clip file being referred to by the current sub-playitem is in a missing state or an invalid state in a recording medium.

Playback device, recording device, playback method, and recording method

A base-view video stream and a dependent-view video stream are recorded on a BD-ROM. The base-view video stream includes picture data constituting a base view of a stereoscopic image. The dependent-view video stream includes offset metadata and picture data constituting a dependent view of the stereoscopic image. The offset metadata includes an offset sequence that defines an offset control of a plane memory when a graphics to be overlaid with the picture data is played back in a one-plane offset mode.

Recording medium, playback device, integrated circuit

A pair of main-view and sub-view video streams, a graphics stream, and playlist information are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. The sub-view video stream includes metadata arranged in each GOP. The metadata includes a correspondence table associating offset identifiers and offset information. The offset information defines offset control for each picture in a GOP. Offset control is processing to provide a left offset and right offset for the horizontal coordinates in a graphics plane to generate a pair of graphics planes that are respectively combined with main-view and sub-view video planes. The playlist information includes a stream selection table for each playback section. When the stream selection table associates a stream number with a packet identifier of a graphics stream, one of the offset identifiers is further allocated to the stream number.

Recording medium, recording device, encoding device, integrated circuit, and reproduction output device

The application managerconducts 'application signaling' when a first disc is replaced with a second disc. At this point, an application is continued if it is written in an application management table assigned to a Title played last on a first disc and also written in an application management table assigned to a Title to be played first on a second disc. On the other hand, an application is ended is it is written in the application management table assigned to the Title played last on the first disc but not written in the application management table assigned to the Title to be played first on the second disc.

Readout apparatus, readout method, and recording method

A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each of which changes from a normal state to a selected state, and from the selected state to an active state, according to a user operation. In the three Button State groups in the graphics stream, the first-order group (N-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent normal states of the buttons, the second-order group (S-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent selected states of the buttons, and the third-order group (A-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent active states of the buttons.

Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, and recording method

A moving image encoding method of encoding a moving image while switching between variable-length encoding schemes. In this method, a continuous unit to be continuously reproduced is determined (S), a stream is generated by encoding the moving image without switching between variable-length encoding schemes in the continuous unit (S), and management information is generated that includes a first flag information indicating that a variable-length encoding scheme is fixed in the continuous unit (S, and S).

Generation apparatus generating a stream including a flag, mode information and an encoded picture, and a generation method performing the same

A playback device for playing back a graphics stream in accordance with a stream selection table recorded on the recording medium. A procedure means determines a playback type of a graphics corresponding to the current stream number, based on the playback capability indicated by the capability register. The playback of graphics streams falls into two types, one of which is a first playback type in which a monoscopic graphics stream is used and the other is a second playback type in which a pair of left-eye graphics stream and right-eye graphics stream is used to perform a stereoscopic playback. The capability register indicates whether or not a capability to perform the stereoscopic playback by using the pair of left-eye graphics stream and right-eye graphics stream is present in the graphics decoder.

Playback device, integrated circuit, recording medium

A Browsable SlideShow is recorded on a BD-ROM. The Browsable SlideShow includes a video stream, an audio stream and PlayList information. The video stream and the audio stream are recorded on separate areas on an optical disc. The PlayList information includes a plurality of pieces of PlayItem information, each of which has an In_time and an Out_time which specify a single piece of picture data in the video stream and a Still_time indicating a period during which the piece of picture data is still-displayed. A still period indicated by the Still_time is a length of time that is longer than or equal to a VBV-delay when reading a subsequent piece of picture data to an Elementary Bufferof a playback apparatus. The VBV-delay is based on the time required for seeking between the separate areas and reading the audio stream.

Recording method and recording medium playback system

Provided is a recording medium that enables seamless connection between preceding playitems which are stream data arranged prior to a position where a long jump occurs, such as a layer boundary, and succeeding playitems which are stream data arranged subsequent to the position where the long jump occurs. A block exclusively for 2D playback Lnis arranged succeeding a 3D extent block in which a depth map data block, a right-view data block, and a left-view data block are arranged in an interleaved manner. A 3D extent block including a block exclusively for 3D playback Lis arranged between the block exclusively for 2D playback and a long jump point LB. The block exclusively for 2D playback and the block exclusively for 3D playback are identical in content.

Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit

The image encoding device of the present invention is an image encoding device that encodes a still image and a moving image, the device including: a determination unit that determines a first upper limit and a second upper limit, the first upper limit indicating an upper limit of the amount of code per picture of still images, and the second upper limit indicating an upper limit of the amount of code per picture in a moving image; an encoding unit that encodes each of the still images and the moving image in such a manner that the first and second upper limits are satisfied; a multiplexing unit that generates a stream by multiplexing the encoded still images and the encoded moving image; a generation unit that generates management information that identifies the first and second upper limits; and an output unit that outputs the stream and the management information.

Image encoding device, and image decoding device

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Osaka, Japan

Wataru Ikeda