INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20140185871A1
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ITO, AKIHIKO, MARUYAMA, TETSUO
• Granted Patent: US 9,418,293 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/103
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a trigger recognition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information included in the captured image, and a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by the trigger recognition unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a trigger recognition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information included in the captured image; and

a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by the trigger recognition unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the content acquisition unit acquires the content by using, as the state of content acquisition in the past, a history of the content acquired based on the image capturing of the trigger of the predetermined trigger information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the content acquisition unit varies the acquired content, depending on whether or not a content associated with the content based on the image capturing of the trigger of the predetermined trigger information has been acquired.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the content acquisition unit varies the acquired content, depending on whether or not an image of a trigger having identical trigger information has been captured in the past.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the content acquisition unit varies the acquired content according to the number of times of capturing an image of a trigger having identical trigger information in the past.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the content acquisition unit acquires the content by using, as the state at the time of capturing the captured image, information on an environment of capturing the captured image.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the content acquisition unit acquires the content by using, as the information on an environment of capturing the captured image, information on a date and time when the captured image is captured.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the content acquisition unit acquires the content by using, as the information on an environment of capturing the captured image, information on a place where the captured image is captured.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the content acquisition unit acquires the content by using, as the state at the time of capturing the captured image, an attribute of a user who acquires the captured image.

10. A content providing method comprising:

acquiring a captured image and recognizing predetermined trigger information included in the captured image; and

acquiring a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by a trigger recognition unit.

11. A computer program for causing a computer to execute:

acquiring a captured image and recognizing predetermined trigger information included in the captured image; and

acquiring a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by a trigger recognition unit.