Device and method for setting instructed position during three-dimensional display, as well as program

• US 8,482,557 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Masuda, Tomonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kimbinh T
• Application Number:
  US13/061,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20110141108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• Field of Search: 345/419, 345/427, 348/47, 348/51, 382/154, 318/571, 318/573, 318/603, 700/253, 386/241
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An instructed position, which includes an instruction area for receiving a predetermined instruction and is displayable two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, on a display means where an instruction image is displayed is detected. Upon setting on the display means a control range corresponding to the instruction area displayed on the display means such that the control range is changed between during the two-dimensional display and during the three-dimensional display, information of a tentative instructed position is obtained by receiving an instruction directed to the instruction area during the three-dimensional display. A horizontal shift on the display means of the tentative instructed position during the three-dimensional display relative to a position of the instruction area during the two-dimensional display is calculated. The control range is changed based on the horizontal shift to make the control range coincide with a visually recognized instruction area through stereoscopic viewing during the three-dimensional display.

Claims

1. An instructed position setting device for setting an instructed position during three-dimensional display, the device comprising:

an instructed position detecting unit for detecting an instructed position instructed on a display surface of a display unit where an instruction image is displayed, the instruction image including at least one instruction area for receiving a predetermined instruction, and the instruction image being displayable two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, wherein the instructed position detecting unit detects the instructed position by receiving an input within at least one instruction area included in the instruction image by a user; and

a control range setting unit for setting on the display unit a control range corresponding to the instruction area of the instruction image displayed on the display unit, the instruction area being detected when receiving the input thereto by the user, such that the control range is changed between when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed and when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed,

wherein when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed, the control range setting unit obtains information of a tentative instructed position by receiving an instruction directed to the instruction area, calculates an amount of shift in the horizontal direction on the display unit of the tentative instructed position when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed relative to a position of the instruction area when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed, and changes a position of the control range based on the amount of shift in the horizontal direction to make the position of the control range coincide with a visually recognized position of the instruction area through stereoscopic viewing when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed.

2. The instructed position setting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit for storing an amount of shift in the horizontal direction on the display unit of the position of the control range when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed relative to the position of the instruction area when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed,

wherein the control range setting unit changes the position of the control range based on the amount of shift in the horizontal direction stored in the storing unit.

3. The instructed position setting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit for storing the calculated amount of shift in the horizontal direction with associating the calculated amount of shift with each of persons viewing the images; and

a person identifying unit for identifying a person viewing the instruction image,

wherein the control range setting unit reads out the amount of shift in the horizontal direction associated with the identified person from the storing unit, and changes the position of the control range based on the read out amount of shift in the horizontal direction.

4. The instructed position setting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the storing unit stores the amount of shift in the horizontal direction with associating the amount of shift with biometric information of each of the persons viewing the images,

the person identifying unit registers biometric information of the persons, and

the control range setting unit obtains the biometric information of the person viewing the instruction image from the person identifying unit, reads out the amount of shift associated with the obtained biometric information from the storing unit, and changes the position of the control range based on the read out amount of shift in the horizontal direction.

5. The instructed position setting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the instruction area is an area of sight in a game to compete for scores by directing a laser beam.

6. An instructed position setting method for setting an instructed position during three-dimensional display, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting with an instructed position detecting unit an instructed position instructed on a display surface of a display unit where an instruction image is displayed, the instruction image including at least one instruction area for receiving a predetermined instruction, and the instruction image being displayable two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, wherein the instructed position detecting unit detects the instructed position by receiving an input within at least one instruction area included in the instruction image by a user; and

upon setting on the display unit a control range corresponding to the instruction area of the instruction image displayed on the display unit, the instruction area being detected when receiving the input thereto by the user, such that the control range is changed between when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed and when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed, obtaining information of a tentative instructed position by receiving an instruction directed to the instruction area when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed;

calculates an amount of shift in the horizontal direction on the display unit of the tentative instructed position when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed relative to a position of the instruction area when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed; and

changing a position of the control range based on the amount of shift in the horizontal direction to make the position of the control range coincide with a visually recognized position of the instruction area through stereoscopic viewing when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program for causing a computer to carry out an instructed position setting method for setting an instructed position during three-dimensional display, the program comprising the procedures of:

detecting with an instructed position detecting unit an instructed position instructed on a display surface of a display unit where an instruction image is displayed, the instruction image including at least one instruction area for receiving a predetermined instruction, and the instruction image being displayable two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally wherein the instructed position detecting unit detects the instructed position by receiving an input within at least one instruction area included in the instruction image by a user; and

upon setting on the display unit a control range corresponding to the instruction area of the instruction image displayed on the display unit, the instruction area being detected when receiving the input thereto by the user, such that the control range is changed between when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed and when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed, obtaining information of a tentative instructed position by receiving an instruction directed to the instruction area when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed;

calculates an amount of shift in the horizontal direction on the display unit of the tentative instructed position when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed relative to a position of the instruction area when the instruction image is two-dimensionally displayed; and

changing a position of the control range based on the amount of shift in the horizontal direction to make the position of the control range coincide with a visually recognized position of the instruction area through stereoscopic viewing when the instruction image is three-dimensionally displayed.