Information processing apparatus, information processing system and information processing method

• US 9,860,484 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2015
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sakai, Yusuke, Kondo, Masao
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US14/644,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20150222851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 25055929, 345157, 345173, 345175, 345156, 345158, 345620, 345650, 345168, 345473, 348 1403, 348 1408, 348 77, 348565, 382190, 382305, 382103, 382115, 382176, 715765, 715202, 715705, 715753, 715764, 715771, 715856, 715702, 715752, 715859, 715788, 600443, 709206, 725 10, 725 25, 725 46, 396287, 705 261, 178 1803, 353 10, 386231, 386243, 704251
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

An information processing apparatus may include a detecting unit to detect a pointing object in a captured image, and a generation unit to generate pointing information based on detection of the pointing object by the detecting unit. The pointing information may indicate a position of the pointing object determined using a pointable range set based on a user in the captured image. The apparatus may further include a communication unit to transmit the pointing information to an external apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

detect a pointing object of a user in a captured image capturing the user; and

generate pointing information based on detection of the pointing object, wherein the pointing information includes a position of the pointing object and user information, in which the user information includes identification information indicating an identity of the user, and in which the identification information is determined based on recognizing the identity of the user from stored recognition information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pointing information includes a portion of the captured image corresponding to the detected pointing object.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

an image capture unit configured to capture the captured image.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to detect a shape of the pointing object.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the identification information indicates at least one of a name or character assigned to the user.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user information includes an image of a face of the user.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

receive from an external apparatus pointing information including information of a pointing object of a user in a captured image capturing the user, wherein the pointing information includes a position of the pointing object and user information, in which the user information includes identification information indicating an identity of the user, and in which the identification information is determined based on recognizing the identity of the user from stored recognition information; and

control display on a display screen of a pointing image corresponding to the pointing information superimposed on a content image.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the pointing information includes a portion of the captured image corresponding to the pointing object, and the portion of the captured image is superimposed as the pointing image.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the pointing image is a cursor image.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the pointing information indicates a shape of the pointing object.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the pointing image is in accordance with the shape of the pointing object.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the pointing image indicates the identity of the user corresponding to the pointing object based on the shape of the pointing object.