Apparatus configured to issue warning to wearer of display, and method therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakuya Kotoyori, Takashi Shiozawa
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a display device in use by a user, a region estimation unit configured to estimate a region where the user exists, based on the position of the display device, an input unit configured to input a position of an object, a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the position of the object and the region, and a warning unit configured to issue a warning to the user based on the distance.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a display device in use by a user;
- a region estimation unit configured to estimate a region where the user exists, based on the position of the display device;
- an input unit configured to input a position of an object;
- a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the position of the object and the region;
- and
- a warning unit configured to issue a warning to the user based on the distance.
An information processing method comprising:
- acquiring a position of a display device in use by a user;
- estimating a region where the user exists, based on the position of the display device;
- inputting a position of an object;
- calculating a distance between the position of the object and the region;
- and
- issuing a warning to the user based on the distance.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as:
- a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a display device in use by a user;
- a region estimation unit configured to estimate a region where the user exists, based on the position of the display device;
- an input unit configured to input a position of an object;
- a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the position of the object and the region;
- and
- a warning unit configured to issue a warning to the user based on the distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.