Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorTakayoshi Shimizu
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Abstract
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of further enhancing the entertainment value of image capturing experience in a virtual space. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, when an imaging trigger for imaging a subject in a virtual space is detected, generates a captured image obtained by imaging the subject, and performs control to arrange the generated captured image in the virtual space as a virtual object.
Claims24
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- control to capture an image or a moving image of a subject in a field of view of a user in a virtual space;
- and
- control to display, at a predetermined area in a display, the captured image or the captured moving image in the virtual space,
- wherein the captured image or the captured moving image is based on less than an entirety of the field of view of the user viewing the virtual space,
- wherein the predetermined area is less than an entirety of an area of the display and the predetermined area is at a position defined by a predetermined relative positional relationship with respect to a position of the user in the virtual space, and
- wherein the circuitry is further configured to maintain the captured image or the captured moving image being displayed at the predetermined area in the display in response to the field of view of the user changing.
An information processing method comprising:
- controlling to capture an image or a moving image of a subject in a field of view of a user in a virtual space;
- and
- controlling to display, at a predetermined area in a display, the captured image or the captured moving image in the virtual space,
- wherein the captured image or the captured moving image is based on less than an entirety of the field of view of the user viewing the virtual space,
- wherein the predetermined area is less than an entirety of an area of the display and the predetermined area is at a position defined by a predetermined relative positional relationship with respect to a position of the user in the virtual space,
- wherein the displaying of the captured image or the captured moving image includes maintaining displaying of the captured image or the captured moving image at the predetermined area in the display in response to the field of view of the user changing.
An information processing system comprising:
- a display device;
- a controller;
- and
- an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to:
- control to capture an image or a moving image of a subject in a field of view of a user in a virtual space;
- and
- control to display, at a predetermined area in a display, the captured image or the captured moving image in the virtual space,
- wherein the captured image or the captured moving image is based on less than an entirety of the field of view of the user viewing the virtual space,
- wherein the predetermined area is less than an entirety of an area of the display and the predetermined area is at a position defined by a predetermined relative positional relationship with respect to a position of the user in the virtual space, and
- wherein the displaying of the captured image or the captured moving image includes maintaining displaying of the captured image or the captured moving image at the predetermined area in the display in response to the field of view of the user changing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.