INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120047466A1
• Filed: 08/11/2011
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Noda, Takuro, Komori, Akihiro, Satoh, Nariaki, Shigeta, Osamu, Yamamoto, Kazuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,507,414 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/848
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user, a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector, and a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user;

a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector; and

a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the correction section corrects the direction of the acquired operation vector to any of one or a plurality of directions determined in advance for the process.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the correction section corrects the direction of the operation vector when an angle is less than a first threshold, the angle is an angle between the direction of the acquired operation vector and any of the one or the plurality of directions determined in advance for the process.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition section acquires the operation vector as a vector going from a start point to an end point of a movement of the body part in a unit time based on which the acquisition section performs the process.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the correction section corrects the direction of the acquired operation vector when a magnitude of the acquired vectors is greater than a second threshold.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the acquisition section acquires a position of a center part of the body of the user, and

the correction section corrects the direction of the acquired operation vector for a movement of the body part in a region whose distance from the position of the center part of the body is greater than a third threshold.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the acquired operation vector is a three-dimensional vector containing components in at least one of a width direction, a height direction, and a depth direction of a three-dimensional space in which the user is located.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7, further comprising a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual tree-dimensional space, wherein the process execution section moves the object displayed by the display control section in accordance with the corrected operation vector.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein the correction section corrects the direction of the acquired operation vector to any of the width direction, the height direction, and the depth direction of the virtual three-dimensional space.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9, wherein the correction section corrects the direction of the operation vector when the direction of the acquired operation vector makes an angle that is less than a forth threshold with one of the width direction, the height direction, and the depth direction of the virtual three-dimensional space.

11. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user;

correcting a direction of the acquired operation vector; and

executing a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.

12. A program for causing a computer to function as:

an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user;

a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector; and

a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.