Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information providing medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsJunichi Nagahara, Norio Fujimori, Takahiko Sueyoshi
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus comprising an image-sensing means for sensing an image of a subject, an extracting means for extracting predetermined feature data from the image sensed by the image-sensing means, a setting means for setting sound data to be reproduced and a reproducing means for reproducing the sound data set by the setting means according to the feature data extracted by the extracting means.
Claims24
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a setting means for setting sound data to be reproduced and for setting a respective mesh parameter to a respective value for each of two or more distinct meshes;
- an image-sensing means for sensing an image of a subject, wherein each of said two or more distinct meshes corresponds to a respective portion of said sensed image;
- an extracting means for extracting respective predetermined feature data from each of said two or more distinct meshes within said sensed image;
- a comparison means for comparing the extracted feature data for a mesh to the value of the mesh parameter for that mesh for one or more of said two or more distinct meshes;
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- a reproducing means for reproducing said sound data according to the result of the one or more comparisons of said extracted feature data and said mesh parameters.
An information processing method comprising:
- setting sound data to be reproduced;
- for each of two or more distinct meshes, setting a respective mesh parameter to a respective value;
- image-sensing an image of a subject, wherein each of said two or more distinct meshes corresponds to a respective portion of said sensed image;
- extracting respective predetermined feature data from each of said two or more distinct meshes within said sensed image;
- for one or more of said two or more distinct meshes, comparing the extracted feature data for the mesh to the value of the mesh parameter for that mesh;
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- reproducing said sound data according to the result of the one or more comparisons of said extracted feature data and said mesh parameters.
An information providing medium for providing a program readable by a computer for making an information processing apparatus execute processing including:
- setting sound data to be reproduced;
- for each of two or more distinct meshes, setting a respective mesh parameter to a respective value;
- image-sensing an image of a subject, wherein each of said two or more distinct meshes corresponds to a respective portion of said sensed image;
- extracting respective predetermined feature data from each of said two or more distinct meshes within said sensed image;
- for one or more of said two or more distinct meshes, comparing the extracted feature data for the mesh to the value of the mesh parameter for that mesh;
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- reproducing said sound data set in the setting step according to the result of the one or more comparisons of said extracted feature data and said mesh parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.