INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20110215995A1
• Filed: 01/27/2011
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shigeta, Osamu, Noda, Takuro
• Granted Patent: US 9,465,433 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042

Abstract

An information processing device includes a capture section capturing an image of an object, an acquisition section acquiring the image captured by the capture section, a calculation section calculating vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by the acquisition section, a determination section determining a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by the calculation section, and a control section executing predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by the determination section.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

capture means configured to capture an image of an object;

acquisition means configured to acquire the image captured by the capture means;

calculation means configured to calculate vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by the acquisition means;

determination means configured to determine a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by the calculation means; and

control means configured to execute predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by the determination means.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein when the vibration command is generated by the determination means within a predetermined time period after the completion of moving of the information processing device, the control means prohibits execution of the predetermined processing.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the calculation means calculates the vibration information on the basis of the positions and the velocity vectors of feature points in the image acquired by the acquisition means.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the calculation means calculates the frequency of the vibration, and

wherein the determination means determines that the vibration is a vibration for a vibration command when the frequency is greater than or equal to a threshold.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the acquisition means further acquires a gesture performed by a user, and

wherein, when the determination means determines that a vibration for the vibration command has not been generated, the control means does not execute the predetermined processing but executes processing corresponding to the gesture, and when the determination means determines that a vibration for the vibration command has been generated, the control means invalidates the gesture.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5,

wherein the determination means determines that a vibration for the vibration command has been generated when the ratio of the number of feature points having the velocity vectors of the same direction is greater than or equal to a threshold.

7. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

capturing of an image of an object;

acquiring of the image captured by processing of the capturing step;

calculating of vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by processing of the acquiring step;

determining of a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by processing of the calculating step; and

controlling to execute predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by processing of the determining step.

8. A program configured to cause a computer to execute the steps of:

acquiring of an image captured by capture means;

calculating of vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by processing of the acquiring step;

determining of a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by processing of the calculating step; and

controlling to execute predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by processing of the determining step.

9. An information processing device comprising:

a capture section capturing an image of an object;

an acquisition section acquiring the image captured by the capture section;

a calculation section calculating vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by the acquisition section;

a determination section determining a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by the calculation section; and

a control section executing predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by the determination section.