Information processing device and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10572003-B2
Application number	US-201916406320-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 8, 2019
Priority date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication date	Feb 25, 2020
Grant date	Feb 25, 2020

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to perform a process of generating preparation information on the basis of first output information regarding a first target acquired from a sensor that senses a predetermined range of an actual space and second output information regarding a second target acquired from a device carried by a user. The preparation information is used to generate operation information on the basis of third output information acquired from the sensor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing device, comprising:
a processing unit configured to:
detect a first movement vector of a first target based on first output information associated with the first target, wherein
the first output information is acquired from a first sensor, and
the first sensor senses a first range of an actual space;

detect a second movement vector of the first target based on second output information associated with the first target, wherein
the second output information is acquired from a second sensor, and
the second sensor senses a second range of the actual space; and
 generate preparation information based on:
the first output information, the second output information, and third output information associated with a second target, and
the detected first movement vector that is same as the detected second movement vector,
wherein the third output information is acquired from a user carried device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to:
establish a communication with the second sensor; and
generate the preparation information based on the established communication.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to generate the preparation information based on a change of a disposition of the second sensor.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processing unit is further configured to generate the preparation information based on a reliability of the second sensor, and
the reliability of the second sensor is equal to or less than a specific threshold.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to set the reliability of the second sensor based on an elapsed time from an association with a specific coordinate system.

6. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein
the processing unit is further configured to set the reliability of the second sensor based on a period, and
the period is associated with a specific user action.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processing unit is further configured to generate the preparation information based on a reliability of the second sensor, and
the reliability of the second sensor is less than a specific threshold.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processing unit is further configured to end the generation of the preparation information, and
the generation of the preparation information is ended based on the detected first movement vector that is different from the detected second movement vector.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the first sensor is associated with a specific coordinate system.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to:
generate conversion information that indicates correspondence between first absolute spatial coordinates and second absolute spatial coordinates, wherein
the first absolute spatial coordinates corresponds to fourth output information associated with a reference sensor, and
the second absolute spatial coordinates corresponds to fifth output information associated with a target sensor; and

associate the second sensor with the specific coordinate system based on the conversion information.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to associate the second sensor with a specific coordinate system based on the first output information and the second output information.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to associate each of the first sensor and the second sensor with a specific coordinate system based on the preparation information.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the first target is related to the second target.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein a motion of the second target is based on a motion of the first target.

15. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is further configured to aperiodically generate the preparation information.

16. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first target and the second target is one of hands or arms.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the user carried device is a device wearable on one of a hand or an arm.

18. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first sensor and the second sensor is an image sensor.

19. An information processing method, comprising:
in an information processing device:
detecting a first movement vector of a first target based on first output information associated with the first target, wherein
the first output information is acquired from a first sensor, and
the first sensor senses a first range of an actual space;

detecting a second movement vector of the first target based on second output information associated with the first target, wherein
the second output information is acquired from a second sensor, and
the second sensor senses a second range of the actual space; and

generating preparation information based on:
the first output information, the second output information, and third output information associated with a second target, and
the detected first movement vector that is same as the detected second movement vector,

wherein the third output information is acquired from a user carried device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute operations, the operations comprising:
detecting a first movement vector of a first target based on first output information associated with the first target, wherein
the first output information is acquired from a first sensor, and
the first sensor senses a first range of an actual space;

detect a second movement vector of the first target based on second output information associated with the first target, wherein
the second output information is acquired from a second sensor, and
the second sensor senses a second range of the actual space; and

generating preparation information based on:
the first output information, the second output information, and third output information associated with a second target, and
the detected first movement vector that is same as the detected second movement vector,
wherein the third output information is acquired from a user carried device.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Yoshikawa Kiyoshi
• Okubo Atsushi
• Miyashita Ken

Classifications

• G06F3/011 Primary

  Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00) · CPC title

• G06F3/0304

  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) · CPC title

• G06F3/01

  Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer (G06F3/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/005

  Input arrangements through a video camera · CPC title