INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20120139944A1
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kuriya, Shinobu, Ueno, Masatoshi, Kabasawa, Kenichi, Kawabe, Hideo, Goto, Tetsuro, Tsukahara, Tsubasa, Nakagawa, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/305,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/649
• 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 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a generation unit generating object information including at least information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to a rotation velocity, which is detected by a rotation sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based on the rotation velocity; and a changing unit changing the object information generated by the generation unit based on a pressure detected by a pressure sensor installed in the operation device.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a generation unit configured to generate object information comprising information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to a rotation velocity, which is detected by a rotation sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based at least in part on the rotation velocity; and

a changing unit configured to change the object information generated by the generation unit based at least in part on a pressure detected by a pressure sensor installed in the operation device.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the changing unit changes is configured to change the object information to make the rotation velocity of the object small when the detected pressure becomes large.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a retention unit configured to retain a maximum value of the rotation velocity detected within a predetermined period after the rotation sensor detects the rotation velocity,

wherein the generation unit is configured to generate the object information to maintain rotation of the object at a rotation velocity corresponding to the retained maximum value.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the changing unit is configured to change the object information to start rotation of the object when the detected pressure is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and to change the object information to stop the rotation of the object when the detected pressure is less than the threshold value.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a unit configured to calculate a rotation direction of the operation device,

wherein the generation unit is configured to generate the object information to rotate the object in a direction corresponding to the calculated rotation direction.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the generation unit is configured to generate the object information including information in accordance with a movement velocity, which is obtained based at least in part on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor installed in the operation device, so that the object is moved at a velocity corresponding to the movement velocity on the screen based at least in part on the movement velocity, and

wherein the changing unit is configured to change the object information generated by the generation unit so that the movement velocity of the displayed object is changed based at least in part on the pressure detected by the pressure sensor.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the changing unit changes is configured to change the object information so that the movement of the object stops when the detected pressure is less than a threshold value.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a unit configured to calculate a movement direction which, is a direction of the operation device at a movement velocity,

wherein the generation unit is configured to generate the object information so that the object is moved in the calculated movement direction.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the changing unit is configured to change the object information so that the movement direction of the object is changed in accordance with the detected rotation velocity.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the changing unit is configured to change the object information so that a size, a movement distance, or a color of the object is changed in accordance with the detected pressure.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation device includes

a base body,

three or more pressure sensors set at each of a plurality of regions partitioned from at least a part region of a surface of the base body and are installed at different vertex positions of a polygon having three or more angles, and

a plurality of plates disposed so as to cover the surface of the base body with the three or more pressure sensors interposed therebetween to correspond to each region of the base body.

12. An information processing system comprising:

an operation device which includes a rotation sensor, a pressure sensor, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information regarding a rotation velocity detected by the rotation sensor and information regarding a pressure detected by the pressure sensor and which is operated by a user;

a reception unit configured to receive the information regarding the rotation velocity and the information regarding the pressure; and

a display control apparatus which includes;

a generation unit configured to generate object information comprising information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to the received rotation velocity within a screen,. and

a changing unit configured to change the object information generated by the generation unit based at least in part on the received information regarding the pressure.

13. An information processing method comprising:

generating object information comprising information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to a rotation velocity, which is detected by a rotation sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based at least in part on the rotation velocity; and

changing the generated object information based at least in part on a pressure detected by a pressure sensor installed in the operation device.

14. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a generation unit configured to generate object information including information for displaying an object to move at a velocity corresponding to a movement velocity, which is obtained based at least in part on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based at least in part on the movement velocity; and

a changing unit configured to change the object information to change a direction of the movement velocity based at least in part on a rotation velocity detected by a rotation sensor installed in the operation device.

15. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire pressure information from a pressure sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user; and

a user operation detection unit configured to determine start and end of an operation by a toggle process to determine, the start of the operation, and the operation of the user when a pressure equal to or greater than or equal to a threshold value is acquired within a predetermined period from a time of acquiring a pressure less than the threshold value and the pressure less than the threshold value is again acquired.

16. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition configured to acquire pressure information from a pressure sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user; and

a user operation detection unit configured to start reception of the operation of the user from a time when the pressure sensor acquires a pressure greater than or equal to a threshold value and which ends the reception of the operation of the user when a pressure less than the threshold value is detected.