Image processing apparatus
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorYoshinori Ohashi
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus connected with a display apparatus used by a user wearing the apparatus at a head portion thereof. The image processing apparatus acquires information on a reality space around the user, detects positions of objects in the reality space based on the acquired information on the reality space, and configures information on a virtual space by disposing a virtual body at a position in the virtual space corresponding to the detected position of each of the objects. The image processing apparatus further generates an image of the configured virtual space and outputs the generated image to the display apparatus.
Claims10
An image processing apparatus connected with a display apparatus used by a user wearing the apparatus at a head portion thereof, comprising:
- information acquisition means for acquiring information on a reality space around the user;
- virtual space configuration means for detecting positions of objects in the reality space based on the acquired information on the reality space,
- wherein the objects include a floor, a ceiling, walls, and obstruction objects,
- and configuring information on a virtual space by disposing a virtual body at a position in the virtual space corresponding to the detected position of each of the objects
- wherein a first object type is disposed at a position of the floor,
- wherein a second object type is disposed at a position of each wall, and
- wherein, for each obstruction object, an object type is selected matching a mesh surface shape or a concavity of the obstruction object;
- image generation means for generating an image of the virtual space configured by the virtual space configuration means;
- and
- output means for outputting the image generated by the image generation means to the display apparatus,
- wherein the image processing apparatus is non-transmissive.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program for an image processing apparatus connected with a display apparatus used by a user wearing the apparatus at a head portion thereof, the program comprising:
- information acquisition means for acquiring information on a reality space around the user;
- virtual space configuration means for detecting positions of objects in the reality space based on the acquired information on the reality space,
- wherein the objects include a floor, a ceiling, walls, and obstruction objects,
- and configuring information on a virtual space by disposing a virtual body at a position in the virtual space corresponding to the detected position of each of the objects,
- wherein a first object type is disposed at a position of the floor,
- wherein a second object type is disposed at a position of each wall, and
- wherein, for each obstruction object, an object type is selected matching a mesh surface shape or a concavity of the obstruction object;
- image generation means for generating an image of the virtual space configured by the virtual space configuration means;
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- output means for outputting the image generated by the image generation means to the display apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.