Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKoichi Horiike
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Abstract
[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus which can make mutual communication smooth when a surgery is carried out while sharing an image between a plurality of users. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to change a pointer attribute of a pointer displayed in accordance with a position designated by a user on a display region of a head mounted display, on the basis of a user attribute of the user who wears the head mounted display.
Claims18
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to
- control display, on plural head mounted displays, respectively, of an identical image acquired from a perspective and shared between the plural head mounted displays,
- display a plurality of a pointer icons on the identical image, wherein each of the plurality of pointer icons is associated with a respective one of a plurality of users wearing a respective one of the plural head mounted displays, and a position of each of the plurality of pointer icons on the identical image is determined by a visual line of the respective one of the plurality of users, and
- change a display attribute of a first pointer icon of the plurality of pointer icons based on a user attribute of a respective first user of the plurality of users, wherein the user attribute is authority information of the first user.
An information processing method comprising:
- controlling display, on plural displays located in front of a left eye and a right eye of a respective user, of an identical image acquired from a perspective and shared between the plural displays;
- displaying a plurality of pointer icons on the identical image;
- acquiring a user attribute associated with a display of the plural displays;
- and
- changing, on the basis of the user attribute, a pointer attribute of a first pointer icon of the plurality of pointer icons displayed in a designated position on the identical image displayed on the plural displays, wherein each of the plurality of pointer icons is associated with a respective one of the plural displays, and a position of each of the plurality of pointer icons on the identical image is determined by a visual line of the respective user of the respective one of the plural displays,
- wherein the user attribute is authority information of the user.
An information processing system comprising:
- a display;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to
- control display, on the display, of an identical image acquired from a perspective and shared between plural displays, and
- display a plurality of pointer icons on the identical image, wherein each of the plurality of pointer icons is associated with a respective one of a plurality of users wearing a respective one of the plural displays, and a position of each of the plurality of pointer icons on the identical image is determined by a visual line of the respective one of the plurality of users, and
- change a display attribute of a first pointer icon of the plurality of pointer icons based on a user attribute of a respective first user of the plurality of users, wherein the user attribute is authority information of the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.