Image processing apparatus, content processing system, and image processing method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorMasashi Nakata
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a hand recognizing section configured to recognize a state of a hand of a user, an item image superimposing section configured to superimpose images of items as selection targets attached to the fingers of the hand that are assigned to the items on either an image of the hand being displayed or an image representing the hand being displayed, and a selecting operation detecting section configured to detect that one of the items is selected on the basis of a hand motion performed on the images of the items before performing processing corresponding to the detected selection.
Claims11
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a hand recognizing section configured to recognize a state of a hand of a user;
- an item image superimposing section configured to superimpose images of merchandise items as selection targets attached to the fingers of the hand that are assigned to the merchandise items on either an image of the hand being displayed or an image representing the hand being displayed;
- and
- a selecting operation detecting section configured to detect that one of the merchandise items is selected on a basis of a hand motion performed on the images of the merchandise items before performing processing corresponding to the detected selection,
- wherein the processing includes purchase of the selected merchandise item by the user, and
- wherein the selecting operation detecting section detects that an operation is performed to either increase or decrease a number of merchandise items to be purchased in accordance with a predetermined hand motion performed on the image of the selected item.
A content processing system comprising:
- an image processing apparatus including
- a hand recognizing section configured to recognize a state of a hand of a user,
- an item image superimposing section configured to superimpose images of merchandise items as selection targets attached to the fingers of the hand that are assigned to the merchandise items on either an image of the hand being displayed or an image representing the hand being displayed, and
- a selecting operation detecting section configured to detect that one of the merchandise items is selected on a basis of a hand motion performed on the images of the merchandise items before performing processing corresponding to the detected selection,
- wherein the processing includes purchase of the selected merchandise item by the user, and
- wherein the selecting operation detecting section detects that an operation is performed to either increase or decrease a number of merchandise items to be purchased in accordance with a predetermined hand motion performed on the image of the selected item;
- and
- a server configured to transmit data of the images of the merchandise items to the image processing apparatus and to acquire information regarding the merchandise item selected by the image processing apparatus, thereby accepting purchase of the item.
An image processing method comprising:
- recognizing a state of a hand of a user;
- superimposing images of merchandise items as selection targets attached to the fingers of the hand that are assigned to the merchandise items on either an image of the hand being displayed or an image representing the hand being displayed;
- and
- detecting that one of the merchandise items is selected on a basis of a hand motion performed on the images of the merchandise items before performing processing corresponding to the detected selection,
- wherein the processing includes purchase of the selected merchandise item by the user;
- and
- detecting that an operation is performed to either increase or decrease a number of merchandise items to be purchased in accordance with a predeteremined hand motion performed on the image of the selected item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.