Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Shinto Holdings Co., Ltd.

Nikkindenji Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Hasegawa

Jun Yokono

Eiichi Tanaka

Kenta Kawamoto

Hirokazu Tatsuta

Keisuke Yamaoka

Shin Hasegawa

Yuki Yamamoto

Ning Zhou

Junichi Tanaka

Hiroshi Oryoji

Yuichi Araki

Yukio Oobuchi

Takayasu Kon

Masaru Shimura

Yasunori Kamada

Takefumi Nagumo

Kosuke Aio

Nobuaki Izumi

Hirotaka Suzuki

Noriyuki Yamashita

Yuki Satake

Yuichiro Koyama

Sawako Kiriyama

Goh Kobayashi

Frank Nielsen

Tooru Masuda

Tetsuya Fukuyasu

Kendai Furukawa

Eisaku Fujimoto

Tomotake Haruta

Ichiro Tsujimura

Asako Doi

Takeshi Kawahara

Masumi Sawaya

Hiromune Ishii

Provided are an information processing apparatus, a head mounted display housing, and an information processing method capable of providing a virtual reality experience suitable for individual users. Provided is an information processing apparatus that is detachably held by a housing to be usable as a head mounted display, and that includes a display unit () that displays an image; a detection unit () that detects an indicator provided in the housing; and a control unit () that controls the image displayed on the display unit based on information indicated by the indicator, the information being detected by the detection unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, head mounted display housing, and head mounted display system

There is provided an information processing device that includes a blocking detection unit to detect blocking of a communication channel to a reproduction device which reproduces content on the basis of content data, a movement calculation unit to calculate, in a case where the blocking of the communication channel is detected, an amount of movement of the reproduction device to a position that escapes the blocking, and a control unit to control generation of the content data on the basis of the amount of movement.

Information processing device and information processing method

There is provided a video reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, and a program that can suppress a decline in the degree of immersion of a viewer. A video generation apparatus of the present disclosure acquires a first 3D shape video generated from a plurality of viewpoint videos obtained by capturing images of a subject from different viewpoints, and a second 3D shape video being a video different from the first 3D shape video, and switches a frame to be reproduced, from a frame of the first 3D shape video to a frame of the second 3D shape video on the basis of a state of a viewer viewing the first 3D shape video. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to a video generation apparatus, a video processing apparatus, a video reproduction apparatus, or the like.

Video reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, and program

The present technology relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing lowering in the quality of user experience. An information processing device includes: a wireless communication unit that sends transmission information to another information processing device through wireless communication; and a control unit that controls at least one of the wireless communication performed by the wireless communication unit, encoding of the transmission information, or a processing process on the transmission information on the basis of blockage prediction period information indicating a prediction result on blockage of a communication path to the another information processing device. The present technology can be applied to a content playback system.

Information processing device and method

Provided are an information processing apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, and an information processing system that transmit a response of viewers acquired in a more natural way to a place where content is captured, enabling presentation in an easier-to-see way. The information processing apparatus receives motion information indicating motions of users watching video content and information indicating attributes of the users, and generates an excitement image by arranging information visually indicating a degree of excitement of each user determined on the basis of the motion information transmitted from a plurality of reproducing apparatuses at a position according to an attribute of each user.

Information processing apparatus and method, display control apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, and information processing system

Provided is a drawing section that generates a display image from a predetermined viewpoint by using a texture image and a depth image of a first layer and using a texture image and a depth image of a second layer in which a range of information indicated by a pixel value is different from at least one of the texture image or the depth image of the first layer.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Reproduction position information of a free viewpoint video is formatted to be easy for a viewer to understand, and managed. Words of a photographer, the words being uttered when the photographer was impressed at a time of shooting a scenery of the real world, are used as a tag of the shot video, and the words are managed in association with a viewpoint position and a viewing direction, and shooting time. Alternatively, words of the viewer viewing the free viewpoint video, the words being uttered when the viewer was impressed by a certain scene, are used as a tag of the shot video, and the words are managed in association with a viewpoint position and a viewing direction, and shooting time corresponding to the reproduction position. The viewer can cue a desired free viewpoint video by using a tag with which tagging has been performed by the viewer himself/herself or another person.

Information management apparatus and information management method, and video reproduction apparatus and video reproduction method

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Image display device and display apparatus

There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ML3D model generation section, which are applicable to a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like. The ML3D model generation section receives transmission information in which auxiliary information is added to at least one of texture information of a first layer, depth information of the first layer, texture information of a second layer or depth information of the second layer, and executes predetermined image processing using the auxiliary information for at least one of the texture information of the first layer, the depth information of the first layer, the texture information of the second layer or the depth information of the second layer.

There is provided an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image system capable of reducing discomfort of a user, such as 'VR sickness.' The image processing device includes: an image generation unit configured to generate an avatar viewpoint image according to a viewpoint of an avatar corresponding to a user in a virtual world as a first presentation image to be presented to the user, and generate a second presentation image different from the avatar viewpoint image in a case in which posture difference occurs between an actual posture of the user based on a result of detecting motion of the user and a posture of the avatar. The present technique is applicable, for example, to an image processing device etc. for generating an image to be displayed on a head mounted display.

Image processing device, image processing method, and image system

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate a texture image of high picture quality at a predetermined viewpoint using an omnidirectional image. A plurality of real cameras image a plurality of reference images at a plurality of viewpoint positions in a plurality of sight line directions. A great weight is applied to a reference image in a sight line direction close to a virtual viewpoint specified in response to a movement of a head mounted display and having a virtual viewpoint position and a sight line direction to generate a virtual viewpoint image by weighted averaging, and the virtual viewpoint image is displayed on the head mounted display. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a home server or the like that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image.

A display apparatus is provided with a framethat is mounted to the head portion of an observer, and an image display devicewhich is attached to the frame, an image display deviceis provided with an image forming device, an optical systemthat guides an image from the image forming deviceto a pupil of an observer, and a support memberthat supports the image forming device. When a direction of the support memberthat corresponds to a first direction of an image is set as an X direction, and a direction of the support memberthat corresponds to a second direction of the image, which is different from the first direction, is set as a Y direction, a support surfaceof the support memberthat supports the image forming deviceis curved along the X direction and/or the Y direction, and therefore, the image forming deviceis curved.

To provide an excellent photographing apparatus including a plurality of cameras and capable of photographing a wide angle image with less parallax. View point positions (camera positions) of video camerastoare radially arranged at predetermined angular intervals on a horizontal concentric circle about a vertical reference axis that passes a predetermined reference point. The video cameras are fixed in such a manner that camera principal-axis directions of the video cameras are individually directed outward and upward from a horizontal plane by a predetermined elevation angle T, with the result that upper end portions of a vertical angle of view overlap. Therefore, photographing can be performed uninterruptedly even in an overhead direction without providing a camera that is directed right above.

Photographing apparatus

An image display device including: an image formation device; and an optical system that brings an image from the image formation device to an eyeball of an observer. 0 (degrees)&#x2264;&#x3c9;&#x3c;&#x3c9;&#x2264;25 is satisfied where an image-formation-device first strike point is where an extended line of an optical axis of the optical system intersects with an image exit surface of the image formation device, a first normal line is normal to the image exit surface of the image formation device passing through the first strike point, an image-formation-device second strike point is where an extended line of a pupil center line of the eyeball of the observer intersects with the image exit surface of the image formation device, a second normal line is normal to the image exit surface of the image formation device passing through the second strike point.

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, a program, and an information processing system that transmit a response of viewers acquired in a more natural way to a place where content is captured, enabling presentation in an easier-to-see way. The information processing apparatus of one aspect of the present technology receives motion information indicating motions of users watching video content and information indicating attributes of the users, and generates an excitement image by arranging information visually indicating a degree of excitement of each user determined on the basis of the motion information transmitted from a plurality of reproducing apparatuses at a position according to an attribute of each user. The present technology is applicable to a server that processes information transmitted from the reproducing apparatuses of content distributed in real time via a network.

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Yuichi Hasegawa