Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9274605-B2
Application number	US-201113198628-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 4, 2011
Priority date	Aug 31, 2010
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing device comprising:
a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen that is a direction substantially perpendicular to the display screen, and having a center region configured to include a first plurality of objects being displayed therewithin and a peripheral region located around the center region and configured to include a second plurality of objects being displayed therewithin; and
an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user,
wherein a selection is made between objects displayed at different positions along the depth direction of the virtual three-dimensional space, based on the movement of the body of the user in a real space along the depth direction to change at least a distance between a detected position of the body of the user and a location at which the objects are displayed,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which the first plurality of objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region, and the range of the depth direction in which the second plurality of objects are displayed is set to a second range in the peripheral region, the second range being narrower than the first range,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which objects are displayed is set for respective regions around the center region to be narrower the farther the respective region is located from the center region,
wherein the objects in the center region are displayed in a stack, and
wherein the display control section and the acquisition section are each implemented via at least one hardware processor.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the peripheral region is set on one or both sides of the center region in a horizontal direction of the display screen.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional space has a middle region between the center region and the peripheral region, and
in the middle region, the range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set between the first range and the second range.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein in the middle region, the range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set such that the range changes in stages between the first range and the second range.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein in the middle region, the range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set such that the range changes continuously between the first range and the second range.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the second range is set to zero.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a notification section configured to notify the user that an operation in the depth direction on the objects located in the peripheral region has been acquired.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control section displays the objects arranged in the center region such that the objects are spread more in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction of the display screen than the objects arranged in the peripheral region.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the display control section displays the objects arranged in the peripheral region such that the objects are spread more in the vertical direction of the display screen than the objects arranged in the center region.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the acquisition section acquires a position of the user with reference to the display screen, and
the center region is set as a region corresponding to the position of the user.

11. The information processing device according to claim 10 , wherein the number of the center region is set to more than one when the number of the user is more than one.

12. An information processing method comprising:
displaying objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen that is a direction substantially perpendicular to the display screen, and having a center region configured to include a first plurality of objects being displayed therewithin and a peripheral region located around the center region and configured to include a second plurality of objects being displayed therewithin; and
acquiring an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user; and
selecting between objects displayed at different positions along the depth direction of the virtual three-dimensional space, by moving the body of the user in a real space along the depth direction to change at least a distance between a detected position of the body of the user and a location at which the objects are displayed,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which the first plurality of objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region, and the range of the depth direction in which the second plurality of objects are displayed is set to a second range in the peripheral region, the second range being narrower than the first range,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which objects are displayed is set for respective regions around the center region to be narrower the farther the respective region is located from the center region, and
wherein the objects in the center region are displayed in a stack.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:
displaying objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen that is a direction substantially perpendicular to the display screen, and having a center region and a peripheral region configured to include a first plurality of objects being displayed therewithin located around the center region and configured to include a second plurality of objects being displayed therewithin; and
acquiring an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user; and
selecting between objects displayed at different positions along the depth direction of the virtual three-dimensional space, by moving the body of the user in a real space along the depth direction to change at least a distance between a detected position of the body of the user and a location at which the objects are displayed,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which the first plurality of objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region, and the range of the depth direction in which the second plurality of objects are displayed is set to a second range in the peripheral region, the second range being narrower than the first range,
wherein the range of the depth direction in which objects are displayed is set for respective regions around the center region to be narrower the farther the respective region is located from the center region, and
wherein the objects in the center region are displayed in a stack.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the range of the depth direction is a spacing in the depth direction between objects displayed at a same horizontal po

Assignees

• Noda Takuro
• Komori Akihiro
• Satoh Nariaki
• Shigeta Osamu
• Yamamoto Kazuyuki
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Noda Takuro
• Komori Akihiro
• Satoh Nariaki
• Shigeta Osamu
• Yamamoto Kazuyuki

Classifications

• H04N13/128

  Adjusting depth or disparity · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/017 Primary

  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

• G06F3/04815 Primary

  Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3D], e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object · CPC title

• G06F3/011

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