Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965029-B2
Application number	US-201514672341-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a setting unit configured to set a display mode corresponding to a posture of a user on the basis of posture information indicating the posture of the head of the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
acquire posture information indicating an upward movement of a head-mounted display device or a downward movement of the head-mounted display device from at least one of an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor;
change a display mode from a first display mode to a second display mode on the basis of the upward movement of the head-mounted display device;
change the display mode from the first display mode to a third display mode on the basis of the downward movement of the head-mounted display device;
control, on the basis of the first display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a first image;
control, on the basis of the second display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a second image, the second image including at least one image different from the first image; and
control, on the basis of the third display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a third image, the third image being a three-dimensional bird's eye view map image,

wherein the first image and the third image each comprises the same content but displayed differently.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to change a first position of the first image in at least one of a horizontal direction or a vertical direction on the basis of a result that the upward movement of the head-mounted display device goes over a predetermined threshold.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the predetermined threshold is a fixed value.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the predetermined threshold is variable on the basis of action information indicating a movement condition of the head-mounted display device.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein the movement condition corresponds to at least one of walking, running, walking up and down stairs, traveling by a vehicle or a bicycle, a static state, and a level based on a speed of the head-mounted display device.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the movement condition includes a first movement condition and a second movement condition having a higher action level than the first movement condition, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to make the first position of the first image harder to change in the second movement condition than in the first movement condition.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the movement condition includes a first movement condition and a second movement condition having a higher action level than the first movement condition, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to prohibit the first position of the first image from changing in the second movement condition.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first image includes a plurality of first images,
wherein the second image includes a plurality of second images,
wherein the plurality of second images include at least one image of the plurality of first images, and
wherein a number of the plurality of second images is larger than a number of the plurality of first images.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to move a position of the first image against a movement of the head-mounted display device in the horizontal direction.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to place the first image above the three-dimensional bird's eye view map image.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 10 ,
wherein the first image corresponds to at least one object having positional data indicating a position of the at least one object on the three-dimensional bird's eye view map image, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control the head-mounted display device to place the first image above the three-dimensional bird's eye view map image on the basis of the positional data.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 11 ,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the head-mounted display device to place, as the first image, an image of a first user and an image of a second user above the three-dimensional bird's eye view map image to represent a positional relationship of the first user and the second user in the real space.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second image displayed in the second display mode is rotated relative to a vertical direction with respect to the first image displayed in the first display mode.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the head-mounted display device to center the three-dimensional bird-view map image around the location of the user.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second image, based on the upward movement, displays content that is different from the content of the first image and the third image.

16. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the three-dimensional bird's eye view map image is based on a posture of a head of a user indicated by the posture information.

17. An information processing method that is executed by an information processing apparatus, comprising:
acquiring posture information indicating an upward movement of a head-mounted display device or a downward movement of the head-mounted display device from at least one of an acceleration sensor or an angular velocity sensor;
changing a display mode from a first display mode to a second display mode on the basis of the upward movement of the head-mounted display device;
changing the display mode from the first display mode to a third display mode on the basis of the downward movement of the head-mounted display device;
controlling, on the basis of the first display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a first image; and
controlling, on the basis of the second display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a second image; and
controlling, on the basis of the third display mode, the head-mounted display device to display a third image, the third image being a three-dimensional bird's eye view map image,
wherein the first image and the third image each comprises the same content but displayed differently.

18. 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:
acquiring posture information indicating an upward movement of a head-mounted display device or a downward movement of the head-mounted display device from at least one of an acceleration sensor or an angular velocity sensor;
changing a display mode from a first display mode to a second display mode on the basis of the upward movement of the head-mounted display device;
changing the display mode from the first display mode to a third display mode on the basis of the downward movement of the head-mounted display devi

Assignees

• Sony Corp
• Sony Network Entertainment Int Llc

Inventors

• Kimura Jun
• Tsukahara Tsubasa
• Rogers Anthony

Classifications

• G02B2027/014

  comprising information/image processing systems · CPC title

• G02B27/0179

  Display position adjusting means not related to the information to be displayed · 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

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title

• G02B27/017

  Head mounted · CPC title