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US 10,120,441 B2Granted
Controlling display content based on a line of sight of a user
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMaki Imoto, Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
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Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
Claims19
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a display screen;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- acquire a captured image that includes a plurality of users;
- detect a plurality of face regions that correspond to the plurality of users in the captured image;
- determine an operator from the plurality of users included in the captured image, based on a position of a line of sight of a first user of the plurality of users in a specific region on the display screen and based on a size of each of the plurality of face regions;
- and
- control a first process based on first information associated with the line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
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An information processing method, comprising:
- in an information processing apparatus:
- acquiring a captured image that includes a plurality of users;
- detecting a plurality of face regions that correspond to the plurality of users in the captured image;
- determining an operator from the plurality of users included in the captured image, based on a position of a line of sight of a user of the plurality of users in a specific region on a display screen and based on a size of the plurality of face regions of the plurality of users;
- and
- controlling a process based on information associated with the line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.