Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-executable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12524907-B2
Application number	US-202318181717-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 10, 2023
Priority date	Mar 17, 2022
Publication date	Jan 13, 2026
Grant date	Jan 13, 2026

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to set, according to a determination operation of determining to designate a specific position in a brightness image indicating an object, a specific point cloud corresponding to the specific position in a three-dimensional point cloud indicating the object.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to set, according to a determination operation of determining to designate a specific position in a brightness image indicating an object, a specific point cloud corresponding to the specific position in a three-dimensional point cloud indicating the object, wherein
the circuitry is further configured to set the specific point cloud according to the determination operation of determining a position satisfying a predetermined condition in the brightness image as the specific position.

2 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the brightness image and the three-dimensional point cloud are associated with coordinates, and the circuitry is configured to set the specific point cloud based on the coordinates of the specific position.

3 . The information processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to store, in a memory, the coordinates of the specific point cloud.

4 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate a specific point cloud identification image that identifies the specific point cloud in the three-dimensional point cloud.

5 . The information processing apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit the specific point cloud identification image to an external apparatus.

6 . The information processing apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to control a display to display the specific point cloud identification image in association with the three-dimensional point cloud.

7 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to set the specific point cloud according to a designation operation of designating the specific position.

8 . The information processing apparatus of claim 7 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to set the specific point cloud based on the specific position designated on a designation reception screen that receives the designation operation, and the designation reception screen includes the brightness image.

9 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to set the specific point cloud according to the determination operation of determining a portion in the brightness image, the portion matching or being different from another brightness image, as the specific position.

10 . The information processing apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the circuitry is configured to set the specific point cloud with a portion in the brightness image corresponding to a specific portion in another brightness image as the specific position.

11 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to set multiple specific point clouds in each of which the specific position is associated with coordinates, the multiple specific point clouds including the specific point cloud.

12 . An information processing system comprising:
an information processing apparatus; and a communication terminal communicably connected to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to:
transmit, to the communication terminal, determination reception screen information relating to a determination reception screen that receives a determination operation of determining to designate a specific position in a brightness image indicating an object;
according to the determination operation received on the determination reception screen, set a specific point cloud corresponding to the specific position in a three-dimensional point cloud indicating the object; and
transmit a specific point cloud identification image that identifies the specific point cloud in the three-dimensional point cloud to the communication terminal, and
the communication terminal including another circuitry configured to:
receive the determination reception screen information and the specific point cloud identification image;
control a display to display the determination reception screen;
control the display to display the specific point cloud identification image in association with the three-dimensional point cloud; and
receive the determination operation to the determination reception screen, wherein
the circuitry of the information processing apparatus is further configured to set the specific point cloud according to the determination operation of determining a position satisfying a predetermined condition in the brightness image as the specific position.

13 . An information processing method comprising:
receiving a determination operation of determining to designate a specific position in a brightness image indicating an object; setting, according to the received determination operation, a specific point cloud corresponding to the specific position in a three-dimensional point cloud indicating the object; and displaying specific point cloud identification image in association with the three-dimensional point cloud, the specific point cloud identification image identifying the specific point cloud in the three-dimensional point cloud, wherein the specific point cloud is set according to the determination operation of determining a position satisfying a predetermined condition in the brightness image as the specific position.

14 . A non-transitory computer-executable medium storing a program storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a computer, cause the one or more processors to perform the information processing method of claim 13 .

Assignees

• Tatsuno Hibiki
• Takahashi Sadao
• Akita Yasuhiro
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tatsuno Hibiki
• Takahashi Sadao
• Akita Yasuhiro

Classifications

• G06T7/50

  Depth or shape recovery · CPC title

• G06T2207/10028

  Range image; Depth image; 3D point clouds · CPC title

• G06T2207/20092

  Interactive image processing based on input by user · CPC title

• G06T2210/56

  Particle system, point based geometry or rendering · CPC title

• G06T2207/30184

  Infrastructure · CPC title