US 10,705,650 B2Granted

Information processing apparatus and display system

AssigneeDenso Corporation

InventorTakuya Osugi

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Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a position acquisition section, a point of gaze acquisition section, an amendment section, and a determination section. The position acquisition section acquires an input position to a touch panel. The point of gaze acquisition section acquires a point of gaze of a manipulator. The determination section determines whether the input position and the point of gaze satisfy at least one amendment condition. In cases that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, the amendment section amends the input position based on the point of gaze. In cases that the determination section does not determine that the amendment condition is satisfied, the amendment section amends the input position by reducing a degree of an influence of the point of gaze as compared with the cases that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising:

a position acquisition section configured to acquire an input position to a touch panel arranged on a display screen of a display apparatus which displays an image;
a point of gaze acquisition section configured to acquire a point of gaze of a manipulator who performs an input manipulation to the touch panel;
an amendment section configured to perform an amendment of the input position to the touch panel, to provide an amended input position;
a determination section configured to determine whether a predetermined amendment condition is satisfied by the input position acquired by the position acquisition section and the point of gaze acquired by the point of gaze acquisition section;
and
a condition specification section configured to specify the amendment condition,
wherein:
the amendment condition includes at least one condition that a distance between the input position and the point of gaze is less than a predetermined threshold value;
the condition specification section increases the predetermined threshold value as an angle increases, the angle being formed between (i) a sight line connecting the point of gaze with a point of eye of the manipulator and (ii) a normal line of the display screen at the point of gaze;
in a first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, the amendment section performs an amendment of the input position at least based on the point of gaze;
and
in a second case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is not satisfied, the amendment section performs either
(i) an amendment of the input position by reducing a degree of an influence of the point of gaze as compared with the first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, or
(ii) none of amendment of the input position.

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An information processing apparatus comprising:

a position acquisition section configured to acquire an input position to a touch panel arranged on a display screen of a display apparatus which displays an image;
a point of gaze acquisition section configured to acquire a point of gaze of a manipulator who performs an input manipulation to the touch panel;
an amendment section configured to perform an amendment of the input position to the touch panel, to provide an amended input position;
a determination section configured to determine whether a predetermined amendment condition is satisfied by the input position acquired by the position acquisition section and the point of gaze acquired by the point of gaze acquisition section;
and
a condition specification section configured to specify the amendment condition,
wherein:
the amendment condition includes at least one condition that the input position and the point of gaze are located at least within a predetermined range;
the condition specification section specifies the predetermined range to be a range including (i) the point of gaze and (ii) an intersecting position at which a sight line intersects with a front surface of the touch panel, the sight line connecting the point of gaze with a point of eye of the manipulator;
in a first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, the amendment section performs an amendment of the input position at least based on the point of gaze;
and
in a second case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is not satisfied, the amendment section performs either
(i) an amendment of the input position by reducing a degree of an influence of the point of gaze as compared with the first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, or
(ii) none of amendment of the input position.

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A display system comprising:

a display apparatus configured to display an image;
a touch panel arranged to a display screen of the display apparatus;
a point of gaze detection apparatus configured to detect a point of gaze of a manipulator who performs an input manipulation to the touch panel;
and
an information processing apparatus configured to execute a predetermined control according to the input manipulation to the touch panel,
the information processing apparatus comprising:
a position acquisition section configured to acquire information indicating an input position to the touch panel from the touch panel;
a point of gaze acquisition section configured to acquire information indicating the point of gaze of the manipulator from the point of gaze detection apparatus;
an amendment section configured to perform an amendment of the input position to the touch panel, to provide an amended input position;
a determination section configured to determine whether a predetermined amendment condition is satisfied by the input position acquired by the position acquisition section and the point of gaze acquired by the point of gaze acquisition section;
and
a condition specification section configured to specify the amendment condition,
wherein:
the amendment condition includes at least one condition that a distance between the input position and the point of gaze is less than a predetermined threshold value;
the condition specification section increases the predetermined threshold value as an angle increases, the angle being formed between (i) a sight line connecting the point of gaze with a point of eye of the manipulator and (ii) a normal line of the display screen at the point of gaze;
in a first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, the amendment section performs an amendment of the input position at least based on the point of gaze;
and
in a second case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is not satisfied, the amendment section performs either
(i) an amendment of the input position by reducing a degree of an influence of the point of gaze as compared with the first case that the determination section determines that the amendment condition is satisfied, or
(ii) none of amendment of the input position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/093,408Filed 14 Apr 2017
Priority: JP 2016-08223215 Apr 2016
Published: US 2019/0121485 A125 Apr 2019
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 3/013
Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality: eye tracking input arrangements
G06F 3/041
Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form: digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads,…
G06F 3/0416
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: control or interface arrangements specially adapted for…
G06F 3/0418
Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers: for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or…