An information processing apparatus is provided for communicating with another information processing apparatus in a different site by using at least one of a plurality of communication platforms. The information processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a transmission image that has been transmitted from the another information processing apparatus in the different site; a displaying unit configured to display on a display device the transmission image that has been received by the receiving unit; and a reading unit configured to read an image to be displayed from an image storing unit configured to store the image to be displayed. For at least a certain period while the one of the communication platform is being switched to another one, the displaying unit displays, in place of the transmission image, the image to be displayed that has been read by the reading unit.

A virtual object display system includes a plurality of head-mounted displays 1 each having a virtual object acquisition unit 22 that acquires a virtual object, a display information acquisition unit 23 that acquires display information used to display the virtual object, and a display control unit 24 that causes a display unit to display the virtual object on the basis of the display information, and enables switching between of first display control for causing the virtual object to be displayed on the basis of display information acquired by each of the plurality of head-mounted displays 1 and second display control for causing the virtual object having an identical orientation to an orientation of the virtual object displayed on the basis of display information acquired by another head-mounted display 1 to be displayed.

An information processing method includes defining a virtual space for immersing a user wearing a head mounted display (HMD). The virtual space includes a viewpoint of the user, a sound collecting object separated from the viewpoint of the user, and a sound source object. The method includes processing sound data based on a relative positional relationship between the sound collecting object and the sound source object. The method includes instructing a sound outputting unit to output a sound based on the processed sound data. The method includes determining whether or not the viewpoint of the user is moved without synchronization with the movement of the HMD. In response to a determination that the viewpoint of the user is moved without synchronization with movement of the HMD, moving the sound collecting object so that the distance between the moved viewpoint of the user and the sound collecting object is decreased.

A graphics processing system comprises at least one memory device storing a plurality of pixel command threads and a plurality of vertex command threads. An arbiter coupled to the at least one memory device is provided that selects a pixel command thread from the plurality of pixel command threads and a vertex command thread from the plurality of vertex command threads. The arbiter further selects a command thread from the previously selected pixel command thread and the vertex command thread, which command thread is provided to a command processing engine capable of processing pixel command threads and vertex command threads.

A method of a wearable device displaying icons is provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of circular icons comprising a first circular icon located in a center area of a touch display in a first size and a second circular icon located outside of the center area of the touch display in a second size smaller than the first size, and based on a direction of a touch input received on the touch display, moving the plurality of circular icons such that the first circular icon is moved to a first position located outside of the center area of the touch display and the second circular icon is moved from a second position located outside the center area of the touch display to the center area of the touch display and enlarged in size from the second size to the first size.

An application processor includes a reconfigurable hardware scaler which includes dedicated circuits configured to perform different scaling techniques, respectively and a shared circuit configured to be shared by the dedicated circuits. One of the different scaling techniques is performed by one of the dedicated circuits and the shared circuit.

Disclosed are an electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The electronic apparatus includes: a display; and a processor configured to: control the display to display an image on the display, identify a screen mode of the display displaying an image among a plurality of screen modes having different aspect ratios, and provide information on content corresponding to the identified screen mode among a plurality of pieces of content.

Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal; a signal processor configured to process the received video signal; a display configured to display a first image based on the processed video signal; and a controller configured to control the signal processor to increase grayscale of the video signal corresponding to the first image if ambient illumination is equal to or higher than an illumination threshold and grayscale of the first image is equal to or lower than a first grayscale threshold, and to control the display to display a second image based on a video signal increased in the grayscale. Thus, it is possible to minimize and/or reduce glare due to optical reflectivity.

A standby power controller (SPC) supplies power to an appliance such as a television, and cuts power to the appliance if the appliance is going unused. The SPC includes first and second sensors, each detecting a type of user activity (such as user presence and remote control usage), and a switch which controls power to the appliance in dependence on the detection status of the first and second sensors, and also preferably in dependence on the prior detection status of at least one of the sensors at one or more points of time in the past.

A display processing apparatus connected to a plurality of information processing terminals through a network, displays first image data received from a first information processing terminal of the information processing terminals on a display in a full-screen display mode in response to a switching request, transmits response information that includes non-display information indicating non-display of image data to a second information processing terminal other than the first information processing terminal in the full-screen display mode, and receives an update request from the second information processing terminal in response to the response information, the update request not including second image data to be transmitted from the second information processing terminal and including predetermined information having a data amount smaller than a data amount of the second image data.