Information processing apparatus, content providing method, and computer program

• US 9,418,293 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ito, Akihiko, Maruyama, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Liew, Alex
• Application Number:
  US14/104,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20140185871A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 382/103
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a trigger recognition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information included in the captured image, and a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by the trigger recognition unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry including a central processing unit and a memory storing instructions configured to perform the following steps;

acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information of the trigger included in the captured image;

acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the recognized predetermined trigger information; and

display the acquired content including the augmented reality information superimposed on the captured image of the trigger,

wherein in case at least one other trigger linked to the trigger is present in the predetermined trigger information, the content including the augmented reality information corresponding to the trigger and the at least one other trigger is acquired and displayed on a display screen, and

wherein linking between the trigger and the at least one other trigger is registered in a database.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the content by using, as the state of content acquisition in the past, a history of the content acquired based on the image capturing of the trigger of the predetermined trigger information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to vary the acquired content, depending on whether or not a content associated with the content based on the image capturing of the trigger of the predetermined trigger information has been acquired.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to vary the acquired content, depending on whether or not an image of a trigger having identical trigger information has been captured in the past.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to vary the acquired content according to the number of times of capturing an image of a trigger having identical trigger information in the past.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the content by using, as the state at the time of capturing the captured image, information on an environment of capturing the captured image.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the content by using, as the information on an environment of capturing the captured image, information on a date and time when the captured image is captured.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the content by using, as the information on an environment of capturing the captured image, information on a place where the captured image is captured.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the content by using, as the state at the time of capturing the captured image, an attribute of a user who acquires the captured image.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquired content includes an Electronic Content Guide that comprises a plurality of thumbnail images,

wherein a thumbnail image of the plurality of thumbnail images is superimposed with another image with additional information based on the time or a place of capturing the captured image.

10. A content providing method comprising:

acquiring a captured image of a trigger and recognizing predetermined trigger information of the trigger included in the captured image;

acquiring a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the recognized predetermined trigger information; and

displaying the acquired content including augmented reality information superimposed on the captured image of the trigger,

wherein in case at least one other trigger linked to the trigger is present in the predetermined trigger information, the content including the augmented reality information corresponding to the trigger and the at least one other trigger is acquired and displayed on a display screen, and

wherein linking between the trigger and the at least one other trigger is registered in a database.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon, a set of computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform steps comprising:

acquiring a captured image of a trigger and recognizing predetermined trigger information of the trigger included in the captured image;

acquiring a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the recognized predetermined trigger information; and

displaying the acquired content including augmented reality information superimposed on the captured image of the trigger,

wherein in case at least one other trigger linked to the trigger is present in the predetermined trigger information, the content including the augmented reality information corresponding to the trigger and the at least one other trigger is acquired and displayed on a display screen, and wherein

linking between the trigger and the at least one other trigger is registered in a database.