Position detecting system and position detecting program

• US 10,115,373 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2014
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Shigeru, Sawano, Takao, Yamazaki, Hitoshi, Kawada, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Mandeville, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/472,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20140375556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,523 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-158, 345162, 345169, 345 11- 13, 345 21- 23, 345 31
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/10 Special adaptations of display systems for operation with variable images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/00 Aspects of data communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players

Abstract

A plurality of positional information transmitters, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal transmits to a server current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.

Claims

1. A position detecting system comprising:

an information transmission device, comprising a plurality of transmitters, for transmitting predetermined information;

a mobile terminal for receiving the predetermined information; and

a control device capable of communicating with the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal including;

a display for displaying a first image and a second image, wherein the second image is part of the first image;

first receiver circuitry for receiving the predetermined information transmitted from the information transmission device;

an image processing unit for changing the first image in accordance with the predetermined information received by the first receiver circuitry;

a pointing device for accepting an input by a user, wherein

the input by the user comprises a selection of a predefined course comprising course data, wherein the course data includes predetermined coordinates of a series of predetermined destination positions of the mobile terminal associated with the selected course; and

transmitter circuitry for transmitting, to the control device, current positional information corresponding to the predetermined information received by the first receiver circuitry and operation information indicating the input entered by the user through the pointing device,

the control device arranged separately from the mobile terminal and the information transmission device and including;

second receiver circuitry for receiving the current positional information and the operation information transmitted from the mobile terminal;

provider circuitry for providing feedback information to a user of the mobile terminal, wherein

the image processing unit changes the second image in accordance with the current positional information, and

the provider circuitry provides the feedback information based on the operation information and the received current positional information transmitted by the mobile terminal, wherein

the image processing unit changes a display form of the second image between a first display form indicating the second image is selectable by the user and a second display form indicating the second image is not selectable by the user when the current positional information indicates a predetermined destination position of the series of predetermined destination positions associated with the selected course, and wherein

the display form indicates that the second image is selectable when the current positional information indicates the predetermined destination position.

2. An information processing system, comprising:

an information transmission device; and

an information processing device including at least one display for displaying a first image, a pointing device for receiving an input from a user, wherein the input by the user comprises a selection of a predefined course comprising course data, wherein the course data includes predetermined coordinates of a series of predetermined destination positions of the information processing device associated with the selected course, and at least one processor, the information processing device configured to;

receive position information from the information transmission device, and

receive an input entered by the user through the pointing device, wherein the at least one processor changes a display form of the first image in the display between a first display form indicating the first image is selectable by the user and a second display form indicating the first image is not selectable by the user when the received current position information indicates a predetermined destination position of the series of predetermined destination positions associated with the selected course, wherein

the first display form indicates that the image is selectable when the current positional information indicates the predetermined destination position.