INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20120257021A1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kira, Satoshi, Nishimura, Kentaro, Saito, Shinya, Minegishi, Ken-Ichi, Tsuji, Takamitsu, Suzue, Naoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,477,902 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/47
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/46 Descriptors for shape, contour or point-related descriptors, e.g. scale invariant feature transform [SIFT] or bags of words [BoW]; Salient regional features colour feature extraction G06V10/56
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/56 relating to colour
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/243 using three or more 2D image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/0074 Stereoscopic image analysis

Abstract

A game apparatus includes a CPU, and in a mode of examining a flower based on an imaged image, the CPU activates two outward cameras to allow a user to image a flower. The CPU obtains color information, shape information and a size of the imaged flower from the imaged image. A shape category is obtained from the shape information, and with the shape category, data for search included in a database for search is filtered. Then, by comparing color information, shape information, and the size of the imaged flower with the data for search to be used, a score of a degree of approximation of the color information and scores of the degree of matching of the shape information and size, etc. are obtained. Then, images of flowers as candidates are presented in the descending order of the score (similarity level).

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a displayer which allows a stereoscopic display;

a plurality of imagers which are provided to be flush with each other;

a judger which judges a size of an object to be imaged on the basis of images imaged by said plurality of imagers;

a reducer which reduces the number of a plurality of search targets which are previously contained on the basis of a feature of a shape of said object to be imaged which is judged based on said images;

a calculator which calculates a similarity level between said object to be imaged and each of the search targets which are reduced in number by said reducer on the basis of the size of the object to be imaged and a feature of said images;

a candidate presenter which presents the search targets of a high similarity level calculated by said calculator as candidates; and

an information presenter which presents information including a stereoscopic image in relation to a search target selected from the search targets as candidates presented by said candidate presenter.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selector which allow a selection of a predetermined condition as to said object to be imaged; and

a deleter which deletes said search targets which do not match the predetermined condition selected by said selector from the candidates, wherein

said candidate presenter presents the search targets as candidates which are not deleted by said deleter.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said feature of the image is color information.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said feature of the image is information in relation to a shape of an object.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said judger includes a distance calculator which detects a parallax between said two imagers, and calculates a distance to said object to be imaged from a distance corresponding to the parallax and a set distance between said two imagers, and a size calculator which calculates the size of said object to be imaged from the distance to said object to be imaged calculated by said distance calculator and an angle of view of said imagers.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a similarity level increaser which increases said similarity level when the degree of encounter of said object to be imaged is high.

7. A storage medium storing an information processing program of an information processing apparatus having a displayer which allows a stereoscopic display and a plurality of imagers which are provided to be flush with each other, said information processing program causes a computer of said information processing apparatus to function as:

a judger which judges a size of an object to be imaged on the basis of images imaged by said plurality of imagers;

a reducer which reduces the number of a plurality of search targets which are previously contained on the basis of a feature of a shape of said object to be imaged which is judged based on said images;

a calculator which calculates a similarity level between said object to be imaged and each of the search targets which are reduced in number by said reducer on the basis of the size of the object to be imaged and a feature of said images;

a candidate presenter which presents the search targets of a high similarity level calculated by said calculator as candidates; and

an information presenter which presents information including a stereoscopic image in relation to a search target selected from the search targets as candidates presented by said candidate presenter.

8. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus having a displayer which allows a stereoscopic display and a plurality of imagers which are provided to be flush with each other, a computer of said information processing apparatus including steps of:

(a) judging a size of an object to be imaged on the basis of images imaged by said plurality of imagers;

(b) reducing the number of a plurality of search targets which are previously contained on the basis of a feature of a shape of said object to be imaged which is judged based on said images;

(c) calculating a similarity level between said object to be imaged and each of the search targets which are reduced in number by said step (b) on the basis of the size of the object to be imaged and a feature of said images;

(d) presenting the search targets of a high similarity level calculated by said step (c) as candidates; and

(e) presenting information including a stereoscopic image in relation to a search target selected from the search targets as candidates presented by said step (d).

9. An information processing system, comprising:

a displayer which allows a stereoscopic display;

a plurality of imagers which are provided to be flush with each other;

a judger which judges a size of an object to be imaged on the basis of images imaged by said plurality of imagers;

a reducer which reduces the number of a plurality of search targets which are previously contained on the basis of a feature of a shape of said object to be imaged which is judged based on said images;

a calculator which calculates a similarity level between said object to be imaged and each of the search targets which are reduced in number by said reducer on the basis of the size of the object to be imaged and a feature of said images;

a candidate presenter which presents the search targets of a high similarity level calculated by said calculator as candidates; and

an information presenter which presents information including a stereoscopic image in relation to a search target selected from the search targets as candidates presented by said candidate presenter.