ACTION EVALUATION APPARATUS, ACTION EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20180053438A1
• Filed: 02/24/2016
• Published: 02/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: MORIGUCHI, Masakazu
• Granted Patent: US 10,593,223 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/24 Use of tools
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/00 Simulators for teaching or training purposes for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

An action evaluation apparatus 10 includes: an action detection unit 11 that detects an action of a target person; an action evaluation unit 12 that determines whether or not the detected action matches a specific action set in advance; and a visual representation addition unit 13 configured to, if it is determined by the action evaluation unit 12 that the detected action matches the specific action, specify a part of the person associated with the specific action in advance and add a visual representation to the part associated with the specific action on the person or an object representing the person displayed on a screen.

Claims

1. An action evaluation apparatus comprising:

an action detection unit configured to detect an action of a target person;

an action evaluation unit configured to determine whether or not the detected action matches a pre-set specific action; and

a visual representation addition unit configured to, if it is determined by the action evaluation unit that the detected action matches the specific action, add a visual representation to a portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the person or an object representing the person displayed on a screen.

2. The action evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a virtual space construction unit configured to construct a virtual space,

wherein the virtual space construction unit creates the object representing the person in the virtual space and causes the object to act in accordance with the action detected by the action detection unit, and

the visual representation addition unit adds the visual representation to the portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the object representing the person displayed on a screen.

3. The action evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the visual representation addition unit adds a dot cluster as the visual representation.

4. An action evaluation method comprising:

(a) a step of detecting an action of a target person;

(b) a step of determining whether or not the action detected in the step (a) matches a pre-set specific action; and

(c) a step of, if it is determined in the step (b) that the detected action matches the specific action, adding a visual representation to a portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the person or an object representing the person displayed on a screen.

5. The action evaluation method according to claim 4, further comprising:

(d) a step of constructing a virtual space; and

(e) a step of creating the object representing the person in the virtual space and causing the object to act in accordance with the action detected in the step (a),

wherein in the step (c), the visual representation is added to the portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the object representing the person displayed on a screen.

6. The action evaluation method according to claim 4, wherein in the step (c), a dot cluster is added as the visual representation.

7. A non transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program including commands for causing a computer to execute:

(a) a step of detecting an action of a target person;

(b) a step of determining whether or not the action detected in the step (a) matches a pre-set specific action; and

(c) a step of, if it is determined in the step (b) that the detected action matches the specific action, adding a visual representation to a portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the person or an object representing the person displayed on a screen.

8. The non transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the program further includes commands for causing the computer to execute:

(d) a step of constructing a virtual space; and

(e) a step of creating the object representing the person in the virtual space and causing the object to act in accordance with the action detected in the step (a), and

in the step (c), the visual representation is added to the portion associated with the specific action in advance, on the object representing the person displayed on a screen.

9. The non transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein in the step (c), a dot cluster is added as the visual representation.