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Granted Patent B2
US 9,886,085 · App. 15/280,316 · Granted Feb 6, 2018

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Inventor: Hiroshi Matsuike (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
G06F3/011G06F3/005G06T19/20G06T2219/2004
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Patent No.
US 9,886,085
App. No.
15/280,316
Granted
Feb 6, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a nearness computation block configured to compute a nearness between a representative position representative of a user and a position of an object; a movement determination block configured to determine a movement of the object in a virtual space with an accuracy corresponding to the computed nearness; and a drawing block configured to draw an image on the basis of the determined movement.

Claims (26)

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a nearness computation block configured to compute a nearness between a representative position representative of a user and a position of an object;

a movement determination block configured to determine a movement of the object in a virtual space with an accuracy corresponding to the computed nearness;

a drawing block configured to draw an image on the basis of the determined movement; and

a real specified position acquisition block configured to acquire a real specified position indicated by the user in a real space as the position of the object;

the representative position being a position of the user in the real space;

the movement determination block determining the movement of the object by determining a movement of a virtual specified position that is a specified position in the virtual space with the accuracy corresponding to the nearness,

wherein the movement determination block determines the movement of the virtual specified position such that, as the representative position is closer to the real specified position, a ratio of a distance between a virtual representative position representative of the user in the virtual space and the virtual specified position gets larger to a distance between the representative position and the real specified position.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the movement determination block determines a decision threshold in accordance with the nearness, detects an object in the virtual space which is smaller in distance than the determined decision threshold, and determines a movement of the detected object.

3. An image processing method comprising:

computing a nearness between a representative position representative of a user and a position of an object;

determining a movement of the object in a virtual space with an accuracy corresponding to the computed nearness;

drawing an image on the basis of the determined movement;

acquiring a real specified position indicated by the user in a real space as the position of the object,

the representative position being a position of the user in the real space;

determining the movement of the object by determining a movement of a virtual specified position that is a specified position in the virtual space with the accuracy corresponding to the nearness; and

determining the movement of the virtual specified position such that, as the representative position is closer to the real specified position, a ratio of a distance between a virtual representative position representative of the user in the virtual space and the virtual specified position gets larger to a distance between the representative position and the real specified position.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for a computer, comprising:

by a nearness computation block, computing a nearness between a representative position representative of a user and a position of an object;

by a movement determination block, determining a movement of the object in a virtual space with an accuracy corresponding to the computed nearness;

by a drawing block, drawing an image on the basis of the determined movement; and

by a real specified position acquisition block, acquiring a real specified position indicated by the user in a real space as the position of the object;

the representative position being a position of the user in the real space;

the movement determination block determining the movement of the object by determining a movement of a virtual specified position that is a specified position in the virtual space with the accuracy corresponding to the nearness,

wherein the movement determination block determines the movement of the virtual specified position such that, as the representative position is closer to the real specified position, a ratio of a distance between a virtual representative position representative of the user in the virtual space and the virtual specified position gets larger to a distance between the representative position and the real specified position.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2016
From: MATSUIKE, HIROSHI
To: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Reel/Frame 039897/0862 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-209834 · Oct 26, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170115727A1 · Apr 27, 2017