INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140292810A1
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TSURUMI, Shingo
• Granted Patent: US 9,552,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of a real object, and a display control unit configured to display a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of a real object; and

a display control unit configured to display a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the motion state based on an image captured by an imaging unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the motion state based on sensor data detected by a sensor.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the sensor is provided to the real object.

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

a movement control unit configured to vary the motion state of the real object according to a relative positional relationship between the imaging unit and the real object.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the movement control unit varies the motion state in accordance with a distance between an optical axis of the imaging unit and the real object.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the movement control unit varies the motion state according to a relative positional relationship between a reference for displaying the virtual object and the imaging unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit infers change in the acquired motion state based on the motion state and displays the virtual object based on an inference result.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit infers change in a position of the real object based on the acquired motion state and displays the virtual object based on an inference result.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires motion states of a plurality of the real objects, and

wherein the display control unit displays the virtual objects according to the acquired motion states of the plurality of real objects.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the display control unit infers relative positional relationships of the plurality of real objects according to the acquired motion states of the plurality of real objects, and displays the virtual objects based on inference results.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires a variation of motion of the real object as the motion state.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit acquires a variation in a motion direction of the real object, as the motion state.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays the virtual object relative to a reference recognized from an image captured by the imaging unit.

15. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring a motion state of a real object; and

displaying a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored therein, the program causing a computer to execute:

acquiring a motion state of a real object; and

displaying a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.