Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

• US 9,552,653 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsurumi, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Ryan R
• Application Number:
  US14/169,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20140292810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: 345/633
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of a real object, and a display control unit configured to display a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

acquire a motion state of a real object;

infer changes in a position of the real object based on the acquired motion state;

display a virtual object according to the inference; and

vary the motion state in accordance with a distance between an optical axis of the information processing apparatus and the real object.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry acquire the motion state based on an image captured by the information processing apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry acquire the motion state based on sensor data detected by a sensor.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the sensor is provided to the real object.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to infer change in the acquired motion state based on the motion state and displays the virtual object based on an inference result.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to acquire motion states of a plurality of the real objects, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to display the virtual objects according to the acquired motion states of the plurality of real objects.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to infer relative positional relationships of the plurality of real objects according to the acquired motion states of the plurality of real objects, and display the virtual objects based on inference results.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to acquire a variation of motion of the real object as the motion state.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to acquire a variation in a motion direction of the real object, as the motion state.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to display the virtual object relative to a reference recognized from an image captured by the information processing apparatus.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the real object is a target object being manipulated by a user and the virtual object is an object animating a condition of the target object.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the condition of the target object represents at least a change in a speed of the real object.

12. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

acquiring a motion state of a real object;

inferring changes in a position of the real object based on the acquired motion state;

displaying a virtual object according to the inference; and

varying the motion state in accordance with a distance between an optical axis of the information processing apparatus and the real object.

13. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

acquire a motion state of a real object;

infer changes in a position of the real object based on the acquired motion state; and

display a virtual object according to the inference, wherein the real object is a target object being manipulated by a user and the virtual object is an object animating with expressions of being tired a condition of the target object, wherein the expressions indicate at least a decrease in a rotational speed of the target object.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the real object is a top.