Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11868517-B2
Application number	US-202217893496-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2022
Priority date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2024
Grant date	Jan 9, 2024

Abstract

An information processing apparatus including circuitry that acquires information indicating a spatial relationship between a real object and a virtual object, and initiate generation of a user feedback based on the acquired information, the user feedback being displayed to be augmented to a generated image obtained based on capturing by an imaging device, or augmented to a perceived view of the real world, and wherein a characteristic of the user feedback is changed when the spatial relationship between the real object and the virtual object changes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A head mount display, comprising:
a sensor configured to acquire positional information that indicates a position of a user hand associated with the head mount display; and
a processor configured to:
control the head mount display to:
display a virtual object over a view of a real world; and
display a virtual indicator; and

control, based on a distance between the user hand and the virtual object, a size of the virtual indicator, wherein
a first size of the virtual indicator for a first value of the distance is larger than a second size of the virtual indicator for a second value of the distance, and
the first value of the distance is larger than the second value of the distance.

2. The head mount display according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual indicator has a ring shape.

3. The head mount display according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to control a radius of the virtual indicator such that sharpness of the virtual indicator increases as the distance decreases.

4. The head mount display according to claim 1 , wherein the positional information indicates the position of a finger of the user hand.

5. The head mount display according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to control the head mount display to display the virtual indicator corresponding to the position of the finger.

6. The head mount display according to claim 4 , wherein the size of the virtual indicator is smallest in a case where the finger touches the virtual object.

7. The head mount display according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to control the virtual indicator such that a line of the virtual indicator is sharper as the distance decreases.

8. The head mount display according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor is a distance sensor.

9. A method, comprising:
acquiring, from a sensor of a head mount display, positional information that indicates a position of a user hand associated with the head mount display;
controlling the head mount display to:
display a virtual object over a view of a real world; and
display a virtual indicator; and

controlling, based on a distance between the user hand and the virtual object, a size of the virtual indicator, wherein
a first size of the virtual indicator for a first value of the distance is larger than a second size of the virtual indicator for a second value of the distance, and
the first value of the distance is larger than the second value of the distance.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the virtual indicator has a ring shape.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising controlling a radius of the virtual indicator such that sharpness of the virtual indicator increases as the distance decreases.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the positional information indicates the position of a finger of the user hand.

13. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising controlling the head mount display to display the virtual indicator corresponding to the position of the finger.

14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the size of the virtual indicator is smallest in a case where the finger touches the virtual object.

15. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising controlling the virtual indicator such that a line of the virtual indicator is sharper as the distance decreases.

16. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the sensor is a distance sensor.

Assignees

• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Ishihara Atsushi
• Ishikawa Tsuyoshi
• Aga Hiroyuki
• Kawasaki Koichi
• Nishibe Mitsuru
• Kusano Yuji

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

• G02B27/0172

  characterised by optical features · CPC title

• G02B27/0176

  characterised by mechanical features · 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

• G06F3/147 Primary

  using display panels · CPC title