Positioning system and positioning method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorYoshio Miyazaki
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Abstract
An object of the present disclosure is to enable an operation device to acquire the position of a user holding the operation device. A positioning system (1) includes a wearing fixture (30) that is worn by a user and is capable of communicating with an operation device (20) held by the user, and a communication device (40) that is capable of wirelessly communicating with the wearing fixture (30) and is arranged apart from the user. The wearing fixture (30) or the communication device (40) calculates the position of the wearing fixture (30) on the basis of the communication between these devices. The wearing fixture (30) transmits information related to the calculated position of the wearing fixture (30) to the operation device (20).
Claims10
A positioning system comprising:
- a wearing fixture that is worn by a user and is capable of communicating with an operation device held by the user;
- and
- a communication device that is capable of wirelessly communicating with the wearing fixture and is arranged apart from the user, wherein
- the wearing fixture or the communication device calculates a position of the wearing fixture on a basis of the communication between the wearing fixture and the communication device, and the wearing fixture transmits information related to the position of the wearing fixture calculated by the wearing fixture or the communication device to the operation device.
The positioning system, wherein
- the operation device is an operation device operated in a state of being held by the user with hands,
- the wearing fixture is attached to a hand or a wrist of the user, and
- the operation device acquires a position of the operation device on a basis of information related to the position of the wearing fixture.
A wearing fixture that is worn by a user and is capable of communicating with an operation device held by the user and a communication device arranged apart from the user, wherein
- a position of the wearing fixture is calculated on a basis of the communication between the wearing fixture and the communication device, and
- information related to the calculated position of the wearing fixture is transmitted to the operation device.
A positioning method performed in a positioning system including a wearing fixture that is worn by a user and is capable of communicating with an operation device held by the user, and a communication device that is capable of wirelessly communicating with the wearing fixture and is arranged apart from the user, wherein the wearing fixture or the communication device calculates a position of the wearing fixture on a basis of the communication between the wearing fixture and the communication device, and the wearing fixture transmits information related to the position of the wearing fixture calculated by the wearing fixture or the communication device to the operation device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.