INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH A COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CAPABLE OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY

• US 20130250073A1
• Filed: 07/27/2012
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: NITTA, Masahiro, Ohta, Keizo
• Application Number:
  US13/560,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20130250073A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/54
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/69 by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/308 Details of the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/695 Imported photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/139 Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing apparatus capable of stereoscopic display. The information processing apparatus includes: a display unit capable of stereoscopic display; a first creating unit for successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object; a second creating unit for creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from the input image; and a display control unit for presenting stereoscopic display on the display unit, using the right-eye image and the left-eye image.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display unit capable of stereoscopic display;

a first creating unit for successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object;

a second creating unit for creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from said input image; and

a display control unit for presenting stereoscopic display on said display unit, using said right-eye image and said left-eye image.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said second creating unit is adapted to create said right-eye image and said left-eye image by extracting first and second areas of said input image.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said second creating unit is adapted to create said right-eye image and said left-eye image from said first and second areas of said input image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said second creating unit is adapted to set said first and second areas not to overlap with each other.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

each of said first and second areas is set at least on a part of respective partial areas obtained by dividing said input image into two.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said first and second areas are set to have the same shape.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

an input unit for displaying said input image and receiving setting of scopes of said first and second areas on the displayed input image;

wherein

said second creating unit is adapted to change the scopes for creating said right-eye image and said left-eye image in accordance with the setting received by said input unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said target object includes an image having a first image presenting an object from a first point of view and a second image representing said object from a second point of view other than said first point of view, arranged next to each other on one plane.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said second creating unit is adapted to generate said right-eye image and said left-eye image by respectively extracting first and second color components included in said input image.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

said first and second color components are selected to be complementary colors to each other.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising

an adjusting unit for adjusting chroma of said right-eye image and said left-eye image.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claims 9, wherein

said target object includes an image having a first image presenting an object from a first point of view mainly in said first color component and a second image representing said object from a second point of view other than said first point of view mainly in said second color component, arranged overlapped on one plane.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, configured to be portable.

14. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program and executable by a computer including a display unit capable of stereoscopic display, said information processing program adapted to cause said computer to execute:

the first creating step of successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object;

the second creating step of creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from said input image; and

the display step of presenting stereoscopic display on said display unit, using said right-eye image and said left-eye image.

15. An information processing system, comprising

a display device capable of stereoscopic display;

a first creating unit for successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object;

a second creating unit for creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from said input image; and

a display control unit for presenting stereoscopic display on said display device, using said right-eye image and said left-eye image.

16. An information processing method executed by a computer having a display unit capable of stereoscopic display, comprising:

the first creating step of successively creating an input image by periodically picking-up an image of a target object;

the second creating step of creating a right-eye image and a left-eye image from said input image; and

the display step of presenting stereoscopic display on said display unit, using said right-eye image and said left-eye image.