INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160055675A1
• Filed: 03/10/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KASAHARA, Shunichi, REKIMOTO, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US14/779,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20160055675A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0141 characterised by the informative content of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• 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 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally

Abstract

Provided is a display control device including: a display control unit configured to control a first display unit included in a first terminal device. The display control unit selects a criterion for disposition of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the first display unit from positional information of the real space and a real object in the real space.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a display control unit configured to control a first display unit included in a first terminal device,

wherein the display control unit selects a criterion for disposition of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the first display unit from positional information of the real space and a real object in the real space.

2. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit selects the criterion for disposition of the virtual object according to a kind of the virtual object.

3. The display control device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit disposes the virtual object using the positional information of the real space as the criterion when the virtual object displays a direction or a viewpoint in the real space.

4. The display control device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit disposes the virtual object using the real object as the criterion when the virtual object is related to the real object.

5. The display control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a manipulation acquisition unit configured to acquire information based on a user manipulation on an image displayed on a second display unit included in a second terminal device,

wherein the display control unit decides disposition of the virtual object according to the user manipulation.

6. The display control device according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit controls the second display unit to display a user interface image for setting the disposition of the virtual object.

7. The display control device according to claim 6,

wherein the display control unit displays the virtual object disposed using the positional information of the real space as the criterion and the virtual object disposed using the real object as the criterion in the user interface image, and

wherein the manipulation acquisition unit acquires the user manipulation of selecting one of the displayed virtual objects.

8. The display control device according to claim 7, wherein the display control unit adds a display effect for visually separating the virtual object disposed using the positional information of the real space as the criterion from the real object in the user interface image.

9. The display control device according to claim 7, wherein the display control unit adds a display effect indicating a position of the virtual object disposed using the positional information of the real space as the criterion in a depth direction in the real space in the user interface image.

10. The display control device according to claim 6,

wherein the display control unit displays the virtual object disposed using the positional information of the real space as the criterion in the user interface image, and

wherein the manipulation acquisition unit acquires the user manipulation of adjusting a position of the virtual object.

11. The display control device according to claim 10, wherein the manipulation acquisition unit acquires the user manipulation of adjusting the position of the virtual object in a depth direction in the real space.

12. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls the first display unit to display the virtual object disposed using the real object as the criterion along with the virtual object disposed using the positional information of the real space as the criterion.

13. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit changes disposition of the virtual object for which the real object is used as the criterion to track movement of the real object in the real space.

14. A display control method comprising:

selecting, by a processor configured to control a first display unit included in a first terminal device, a criterion for disposition of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the first display unit from positional information of the real space and a real object in the real space.

15. A program causing a computer configured to control a first display unit included in a first terminal device to realize:

a function of selecting a criterion for disposition of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the first display unit from positional information of the real space and a real object in the real space.