INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20170075548A1
• Filed: 05/15/2015
• Published: 03/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: IZUMI, Akihiko, FUKAZAWA, Ryo, TORII, Kuniaki, HYODO, Katsuya, SATO, Naoyuki, KAWASAKI, Koichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,732,808 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

There is provided a display control device, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of presenting information in a suitable mode according to a positional relationship between a display region and a user, the display control device including: a calculation unit configured to specify a first region in which a user is a reference point; and a display control unit configured to control display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.

Claims

1. A display control device comprising:

a calculation unit configured to specify a first region in which a user is a reference point; and

a display control unit configured to control display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.

4. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the calculation unit specifies the first region on the basis of a field of view of the user.

5. The display control device according to claim 4, wherein the calculation unit estimates the field of view of the user on the basis of a position and an orientation of the user.

6. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the calculation unit corrects the first region according to a detected state of the user.

7. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the calculation unit corrects the first region according to control information set in association with the user.

8. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit specifies the first region for each of a plurality of users, and

the display control unit controls the display of the display object on the display unit on the basis of first regions corresponding to the plurality of users and the second region.

9. The display control device according to claim 8, wherein the display control unit controls the display of the display object on the display unit on the basis of an overlapping region in which the first regions corresponding to the plurality of users overlap each other and the second region.

10. The display control device according to claim 8, wherein the display control unit controls the display of the display object for each of the plurality of users according to control information set for each of the plurality of users.

11. The display control device according to claim 10, wherein the display control unit presents the display object to the plurality of users in a mode according to the control information common among the plurality of users.

12. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls display of another display object different from the display object according to a display state of the display object in an overlapping region in which the first region and the second region overlap.

13. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit specifies a third region specified on the basis of a position of the user with respect to an operation device and a fourth region based on a field of view of the user as the first region, and

the display control unit selects one of the third region and the fourth region according to a process associated with the display object and controls the display of the display object on the display unit on the basis of the selected region and the second region.

14. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit limits the second region according to a position of a real object overlapping a region in which the display unit displays information,

15. The display control device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls the display of the display object on at least one of a plurality of the display units according to the first region and the second region corresponding to each of the plurality of the display units.

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

the display unit.

17. The display control device according to claim 16, wherein the display unit is provided to extend in a horizontal direction.

2. The display control device according to claim I, wherein the calculation unit specifies the first region on the basis of a position of the user with respect to an operation device.

3. The display control device according to claim 2, wherein the calculation unit specifies the first region according to the position of the user with respect to the operation device and a type of the operation device.

18. A display control method comprising:

specifying a first region in which a user is a reference point; and

controlling, by a processor, display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.

19. A program for causing a computer to execute:

specifying a first region in which a user is a reference point; and

controlling display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.