INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20180096461A1
• Filed: 02/03/2016
• Published: 04/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: OKAYAMA, TAKAHIRO, KONDO, KAZUOMI, FUKAZAWA, RYO
• Granted Patent: US 10,559,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0147 comprising a device modifying the resolution of the displayed image
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/10 Segmentation; Edge detection motion-based segmentation G06T7/215
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/174 Facial expression recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0232 Special driving of display border areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas

Abstract

[Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a user information obtaining unit and a high-image-quality area control unit. The user information obtaining unit is configured to obtain detected user information on a user, the user information excluding gaze information. The high-image-quality area control unit is configured to determine a high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, a quality of an image displayed in the high-image-quality area being higher than a quality of an image displayed in an area other than the high-image-quality area in an entire area of a display viewed by the user.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain detected user information on a user, the user information excluding gaze information; and

a high-image-quality area control unit configured to determine a high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, a quality of an image displayed in the high-image-quality area being higher than a quality of an image displayed in an area other than the high-image-quality area in an entire area of a display viewed by the user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the high-image-quality area control unit is configured to determine a size of the high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the user information includes at least one of biological-body information on a user, behavior information on a user, and environment information on an environment around a user.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an image-quality control unit configured to determine an image quality of a surrounding area on the basis of the user information, the surrounding area being an area of the entire area excluding the high-image-quality area.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a gaze information obtaining unit configured to obtain gaze information on a user; and

a point-of-gaze calculating unit configured to calculate a point-of-gaze on the display on the basis of the gaze information, wherein

the high-image-quality area control unit is configured to calculate a position of the high-image-quality area on the basis of the point-of-gaze.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

at least one of resolution, frame rate, bit color, and speed of an image displayed in the surrounding area is lower than at least one of resolution, frame rate, bit color, and speed of an image displayed in the high-image-quality area.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a rendering unit configured to render a high-quality image displayed in the high-image-quality area, and render a low-quality image displayed in the surrounding area.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the rendering unit is configured to change at least one of resolution, frame rate, bit color, and speed depending on a kind of a rendered image to thereby render a low-quality image displayed in the surrounding area.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the high-image-quality area control unit is configured to

calculate a position of a first high-image-quality area on the basis of the point-of-gaze,

calculate a position of a second high-image-quality area on the basis of a center point of the display,

calculate a size of at least the first high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, and

calculate, as the high-image-quality area, an area at least including the first high-image-quality area and the second high-image-quality area.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the high-image-quality area control unit is configured to

calculate a position of a first high-image-quality area on the basis of the point-of-gaze,

calculate a position of a second high-image-quality area on the basis of a previous point-of-gaze,

calculate a size of at least the first high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, and

calculate, as the high-image-quality area, an area at least including the first high-image-quality area and the second high-image-quality area.

11. An information processing method, comprising:

obtaining detected user information on a user, the user information excluding gaze information; and

determining a high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, a quality of an image displayed in the high-image-quality area being higher than a quality of an image displayed in an area other than the high-image-quality area in an entire area of a display viewed by the user.

12. A program, that causes a computer to operate as:

a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain detected user information on a user, the user information excluding gaze information; and

a high-image-quality area control unit configured to determine a high-image-quality area on the basis of the user information, a quality of an image displayed in the high-image-quality area being higher than a quality of an image displayed in an area other than the high-image-quality area in an entire area of a display viewed by the user.