Maintaining multiple views on a shared stable virtual space

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9310883-B2
Application number	US-201414260216-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2014
Priority date	Mar 5, 2010
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for controlling a view of a virtual scene with a handheld device are presented. In one method, images of a real world scene are captured using a device. The method further includes operations for creating an augmented view for presentation on a display of the device by augmenting the images with virtual reality objects, and for detecting a hand in the images as extending into the real world scene. In addition, the method includes operations for showing the hand in the screen as detected in the images, and for generating interaction data, based on an interaction of the hand with a virtual reality object, when the hand makes virtual contact in the augmented view with the virtual reality object. The augmented view is updated based on the interaction data, which simulates on the screen that the hand is interacting with the virtual reality object.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a handheld device, remote images of a remote real world scene sent by a remote device, the remote device being operated by a remote player communicating with the handheld device as operated by a user;
capturing local images of a local real world scene using the handheld device;
creating an augmented view for presentation on a display screen of the handheld device by combining the remote images with the captured local im…

Assignees

• Sony Comp Entertainment Us

Inventors

• Weising George
• Miller Thomas

Classifications

• H04N23/6812

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G09G2320/0261

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/017

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/012

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04815

  Physics · mapped topic