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System to provide a guide display based on a predicted action of a subject

  • US 9,465,984 B2
  • Filed: 12/11/2013
  • Issued: 10/11/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display control system comprising:

  • a plurality of display units;

    an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject;

    an action history information acquirer configured to acquire action history information of the subject;

    a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject based on the action history information acquired by the action history information acquirer;

    a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject to a first goal according to a prediction result from the predictor; and

    a display controller configured to, based on the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject,in which the action history information acquirer is configured to recognize a reaction of the subject to the guide image displayed by the selected display unit based on a captured image from the imaging unit, and to acquire a recognized reaction as the action history information,in which the reaction of the subject is one of walking, stopping, a hand gesture, or a path selection and the action history information of the subject includes at least one of the walking, the stopping, the hand gesture, or the path selection, andin which the predictor is configured to provide an updated prediction result of the subject based on the recognized reaction acquired as the action history information and the guide image generator is configured to generate an updated guide image according to the updated prediction result to guide the subject to an updated goal which is different from the first goal so as to provide an interactive guide arrangement which enables a goal to be updated based on the recognized reaction.

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