A method of accommodating a payload and determining a working environment in a robotic system is disclosed. The method is directed to using a motor current measurement taken at the axis motors of a robotic system to calculate various parameters including payload balance, mass, moment of inertia, friction force and traction force. This measurement is based on the known relationship between motor current and motor torque.

According to an embodiment, provided is a communication device that performs communications of an image and audio. The communication device includes: a storage unit that stores therein arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for the image; an arrangement-information setting unit that sets arrangement information in the storage unit; and a display control unit that refers to the arrangement information and causes a plurality of display devices to display the image. The display control unit causes a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point and causes a second display device to display an image supplied from an image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

According to an embodiment, provided is a communication device that performs communications of an image and audio. The communication device includes: a storage unit that stores therein arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for the image; an arrangement-information setting unit that sets arrangement information in the storage unit; and a display control unit that refers to the arrangement information and causes a plurality of display devices to display the image. The display control unit causes a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point and causes a second display device to display an image supplied from an image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

This shooting system includes a plurality of cameras capable of capturing a subject that moves on a course from different directions, and a controller that receives a setting made by the user regarding a switch order of the plurality of cameras that temporally share continuous shooting of the subject that moves on the course, and switches output videos of the plurality of cameras in accordance with the set switch order.

This shooting system includes a plurality of cameras capable of capturing a subject that moves on a course from different directions, and a controller that receives a setting made by the user regarding a switch order of the plurality of cameras that temporally share continuous shooting of the subject that moves on the course, and switches output videos of the plurality of cameras in accordance with the set switch order.

Systems and methods are provided for generating calibration information for a media projector. The method includes tracking at least position of a tracking apparatus that can be positioned on a surface. The media projector shines a test spot on the surface, and the test spot corresponds to a known pixel coordinate of the media projector. The system includes a computing device in communication with at least two cameras, wherein each of the cameras are able to capture images of one or more light sources attached to an object. The computing device determines the object's position by comparing images of the light sources and generates an output comprising the real-world position of the object. This real-world position is mapped to the known pixel coordinate of the media projector.

A video recording method is disclosed. The method includes receiving video recording instructions; monitoring an object distance between an object to-be-recorded and a lens of a camera; if the object distance between the object to-be-recorded and the lens is within a first range, controlling a first camera to focus based on the object distance, wherein different object distances within the first range correspond to different focus points; and if the object distance between the object to-be-recorded and the lens is within a second range, controlling a second camera to focus at a hyperfocal length, wherein different object distances within the second range correspond to a same focus point.

A computer implemented system for generating one or more data structures is described, the one or more data structures representing an unseen composition based on a first category and a second category observed individually in a training data set. During training of a generator, a proposed framework utilizes at least one of the following discriminators—three pixel-centric discriminators, namely, frame discriminator, gradient discriminator, video discriminator; and one object-centric relational discriminator. The three pixel-centric discriminators ensure spatial and temporal consistency across the frames, and the relational discriminator leverages spatio-temporal scene graphs to reason over the object layouts in videos ensuring the right interactions among objects.

This disclosure describes methods and systems for managing video frame rate at a video production site. A video processor of a first video production site may process received video frames received via a network with dynamic transmission properties. A frame rate controller may monitor at an output buffer of the site, an average rate of processed video frames received from the video processor, and may detect that the average rate of processed video frames received from the video processor has decreased to a level below a predefined output frame rate for transmitting processed video frames to a third video production site. The frame rate controller may increase a rate of video frames being provided to the video processor, to a level above the predefined output frame rate to restore the average rate of processed video frames received from the video processor, to the predefined output frame rate.

An imaging apparatus including an incline detection device configured to detect an incline of the imaging apparatus, an image display device configured to display an image based on the image information, an incline computation device configured to compute an incline information that corresponds to a magnitude of the incline, an information storage device configured to store the incline information that is computed by the incline computation device, and a display processing device configured to display the image and an incline guide display corresponding to the incline information upon a screen of the image display device. The display processing device is configured to change a display format of the incline guide display in accordance with the magnitude of the incline.