Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 10,088,907 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2017
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Komori, Akihiro, Nakagawa, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Lau, Hoi
• Application Number:
  US15/581,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20170228024A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 3404071, 3404072, 345156, 345173, 434112, 434113, 367116
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/12 using electronic time-delay networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/305 Electronic adaptation of stereophonic audio signals to reverberation of the listening space H04S7/301 takes precedence

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an effect control unit configured to control an echo effect that is to be added to an output, a sound output control unit configured to control a sound output according to occurrence of an event in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to control a haptic output to which the echo effect controlled by the effect control unit is added according to the occurrence of the event.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a circuitry configured to;

obtain an user input to process an image, wherein the process corresponds to an occurrence of an event in a virtual space;

generate a signal related to a haptic output based on the process; and

add an effect to decrease an amount of the haptic output based on the process.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the effect is an echo effect.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user input is detected by a sensor.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user input is received from a controller.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to display a moving image that comprises the virtual space based on the user input.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the circuitry is further configured to control a sound output based on the user input.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the circuitry is further configured to control the displayed moving image, a sound output and the haptic output concurrently based on the user input.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user input includes one of displacement information of a controller or a distance information of a user from a display apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generated signal is transmitted to an external device.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the generated signal is transmitted to a controller.

11. An information processing method, comprising:

obtaining an user input to process an image, wherein the process corresponds to an occurrence of an event in a virtual space;

generating a signal related to a haptic output based on the process; and

adding an effect to decrease an amount of the haptic output based on the process.

12. The information processing method according to claim 11, wherein the effect is an echo effect.

13. The information processing method according to claim 11, wherein the user input is detected by a sensor.

14. The information processing method according to claim 11, wherein the user input is received from a controller.

15. The information processing method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying a moving image that comprises the virtual space based on the user input.

16. The information processing method according to claim 15, further comprising controlling the displayed moving image, a sound output and the haptic output concurrently based on the user input.

17. The information processing method according to claim 11, further comprising transmitting the generated signal to an external device.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute operations, the operations comprising:

obtaining an user input to process an image, wherein the process corresponds to an occurrence of an event in a virtual space;

generating a signal related to a haptic output based on the process; and

adding an effect to decrease an amount of the haptic output based on the process.