IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20130027430A1
• Filed: 04/06/2011
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Kouichi, Fukuchi, Masaki
• Application Number:
  US13/640,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00

Abstract

A method is provided for superimposing schedule data on a temporal measurement object. The method comprises receiving image data representing an input image. The method further comprises detecting the presence of a temporal measurement object in the input image based on features of the temporal measurement object detected in the image data. The method further comprises providing, in response to detection of the presence of the temporal measurement object in the input image, schedule data for superimposing on a user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving image data representing an input image;

a detecting unit for detecting the presence of a temporal measurement object in the input image based on features of the temporal measurement object detected in the image data; and

an output device for outputting, in response to detection of the presence of the temporal measurement object in the input image, schedule data for superimposing on a user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the temporal measurement object is a calendar object, and the schedule data comprises schedule data associated with a user.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, comprising:

an analyzing unit for analyzing the image data to detect calendar features corresponding to calendar objects stored in a storage unit.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the calendar features comprise calendar features corresponding to a plurality of viewing angles of the user.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein a perspective of the superimposed schedule data is selected to correspond to an angle of the user'"'"'s view of the calendar object.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the user'"'"'s view of the calendar object is determined in accordance with positions of the detected calendar features.

7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the user is a first user and the apparatus comprises:

a communication unit for sharing the data with the second user by communicating the schedule data to a receiving apparatus associated with a second user.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the communication unit communicates the schedule data to the receiving apparatus in response to detecting a gesture of at least one of the first user or the second user toward the calendar object.

9. A method comprising:

receiving image data representing an input image;

detecting the presence of a temporal measurement object in the input image based on features of the temporal measurement object detected in the image data; and

providing, in response to detection of the presence of the temporal measurement object in the input image, schedule data for superimposing on a user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.

10. A tangibly embodied non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by a processor, causes a computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving image data representing an input image;

detecting the presence of a temporal measurement object in the input image based on features of the temporal measurement object detected in the image data; and

providing, in response to detection of the presence of the temporal measurement object in the input image, schedule data for superimposing on a user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a first receiving unit for receiving image data representing an input image, the input image including a temporal measurement object;

a second receiving unit for receiving schedule data for superimposing on a user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object; and

a generating unit for generating display information for displaying the received schedule data superimposed on the user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.

12. A system comprising:

an image processing unit configured to obtain image data representing an input image, and to generate display information of schedule data superimposed on a user'"'"'s view of a temporal measurement object; and

a detecting unit configured to detect the presence of a temporal measurement object in the input image based on features of the temporal measurement object in the image data, and to provide, in response to detection of the presence of the temporal measurement object in the input image, schedule data to the image processing apparatus for superimposing on the user'"'"'s view of the temporal measurement object.