DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160210788A1
• Filed: 08/13/2014
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KASAHARA, Shunichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,074,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/242 by image rotation, e.g. by 90 degrees
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes

Abstract

[Object] To display information that is more useful by utilizing a real object itself based on the position in which the real object included in an image is displayed or the orientation of the object.

[Solution] Provided is a display control device including: a record reference unit configured to refer to a record in which an image, an object included in the image, and a position where the object is displayed or an orientation of the object in the image are associated with one another; and a display controller configured to perform a transition from display of a first image including the object to display of a second image including the object based on the record while maintaining the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object, the second image being different from the first image.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a record reference unit configured to refer to a record in which an image, an object included in the image, and a position where the object is displayed or an orientation of the object in the image are associated with one another; and

a display controller configured to perform a transition from display of a first image including the object to display of a second image including the object based on the record while maintaining the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object, the second image being different from the first image.

2. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller changes the orientation of the object in the display of the first image to a predetermined orientation and maintains the predetermined orientation at least temporarily even after the transition to the display of the second image.

3. The display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the predetermined orientation is an orientation of facing straight ahead.

4. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller changes the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object in the display of the first image to correspond to the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object in the display of the second image and then performs the transition from the display of the first image to the display of the second image.

5. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller performs the transition from the display of the first image to the display of the second image in a manner that the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object in the display of the second image is changed to correspond to the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object in the display of the first image.

6. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein at least any one of the first image and the second image is a captured image.

7. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein at least any one of the first image and the second image is a virtually created image.

8. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller allows an option of an image a transition to which can be performed as the second image to be displayed in the first image.

9. The display control device according to claim 8,

wherein the display controller allows the option to be displayed for each attribute of the image.

10. The display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller allows an annotation assigned to the object in each of the first image and the second image to be displayed in association with the object in a cumulative manner based on the record.

11. A display control method comprising:

referring to a record in which an image, an object included in the image, and a position where the object is displayed or an orientation of the object in the image are associated with one another; and

performing a transition from display of a first image including the object to display of a second image including the object based on the record while maintaining the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object, the second image being different from the first image.

12. A program for causing a computer to execute:

a function of referring to a record in which an image, an object included in the image, and a position where the object is displayed or an orientation of the object in the image are associated with one another; and

a function of performing a transition from display of a first image including the object to display of a second image including the object based on the record while maintaining the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object, the second image being different from the first image.