Continuation of research and development activities

「Total R&D expenses for the interim accounting period were ¥39 million. There were no material changes in the status of the company's R&D activities during the interim accounting period.」

「Total R&D expenses for the interim accounting period were ¥44 million. There were no material changes in the status of the company's R&D activities during the interim accounting period.」

「The total R&D expenses incurred by the Group during the consolidated fiscal year were ¥79 million, up 3.9% from the previous consolidated fiscal year. Deep learning is an AI-related technology that has attracted particular attention in recent years and is expected to have a very broad range of applications. The Group is conducting research into its use for more efficient 3D data processing and other purposes. It is also researching 3D map generation for digital twin applications and new rendering techniques for animation.」

「Total R&D expenses for the cumulative first quarter were ¥20 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative first quarter.」

「The total R&D expenses incurred by the Group during the consolidated fiscal year were ¥76 million, up 34.1% from the previous consolidated fiscal year.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative third quarter.」

「Total R&D expenses for the cumulative second quarter were ¥34 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative second quarter.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「Total R&D expenses for the cumulative third quarter were ¥45 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative third quarter.」

「Total R&D expenses for the cumulative second quarter were ¥31 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative second quarter.」

「Total R&D expenses for the cumulative first quarter were ¥16 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's R&D activities during the cumulative first quarter.」

「The total R&D expenses incurred by the Group during the consolidated fiscal year were ¥54 million, up 12.1% from the previous consolidated fiscal year.」

「In research and development, we completed development of a major update to Enlighten, middleware that processes global illumination in real time, and released it in September.」

「The Group is developing Enlighten 4.0, a major update to the Enlighten middleware for real-time processing of global illumination, also known as indirect lighting. Ahead of its planned release this autumn, the Group exhibited at Game Stack Live, an online event for game developers held in April and hosted by Microsoft Corporation, and introduced the new features to be added to Enlighten 4.0 through videos and technical materials.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first quarter of the fiscal year were ¥10 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「In the Group's research, deep learning has been used to accelerate the rendering of human faces, which requires enormous and complex processing. Global illumination, which represents soft indirect light, involves more complex calculations than direct lighting. However, machine learning now enables fast, photorealistic rendering by estimating global illumination results from the results of simple direct lighting alone.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first three quarters of the fiscal year were ¥36 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first three quarters of the fiscal year.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first two quarters of the fiscal year were ¥23 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first two quarters of the fiscal year.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first quarter of the fiscal year were ¥10 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「Regarding the Mizuchi rendering engine, which provides high-end CG technology, the company has continued research and development into high-quality real-time CG. It has also advanced research into a wide range of expressions, including clouds, raindrops and various weather conditions, as well as real-time ray tracing, and has become able to generate real-time CG comparable to live-action imagery in an increasing number of scenes. In addition, it developed the authoring tool Mizuchi extension for Maya, which works with Maya, a DCC (Digital Content Creation) tool. This provides an authoring environment capable of significantly reducing production time. Regarding Enlighten, a global illumination system that delivers high-quality lighting effects, including indirect lighting, the company released version 3.10 in November 2019 as a result of its ongoing research and development.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first three quarters of the fiscal year were ¥29 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first three quarters of the fiscal year.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first two quarters of the fiscal year were ¥24 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first two quarters of the fiscal year.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first quarter of the fiscal year were ¥9 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「The Mizuchi rendering engine, which provides high-end CG technology, continued to be applied in non-gaming fields such as automobiles, manufacturing and housing equipment, and video production, as in the previous year. The company has continued researching improvements to rendering technology capable of producing a wide range of real-time CG expressions suited to each application, from imagery so realistic that it could be mistaken for live action to non-photorealistic, anime-style imagery.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first three quarters of the fiscal year were ¥18.068 million. There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first three quarters of the fiscal year.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first two quarters of the fiscal year.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「The new predictive data analytics platform YOKOZUNA data was released as a product and service during the previous fiscal year. Research and development has continued since its release, and in August 2017, at the IEEE 2017 Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games held in New York, US, the company won both of the 2 categories in the game data-mining contest, achieving 2 titles.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first three quarters of the fiscal year.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first two quarters of the fiscal year.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「The next-generation CG middleware Mizuchi, which provides CG technology, was used in its first adopted title, Gundam Breaker 3, released by Bandai Namco Entertainment.」

「There were no material changes in the status of the Group's research and development activities during the first three quarters of the fiscal year.」

「Total research and development expenses for the first two quarters of the fiscal year were ¥70.178 million.」