INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: WATANABE TAKAFUMI, NAKAMURA NAOHITO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 17.08.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

To achieve control of the operation of virtual objects favorable for a user in moving a virtual viewpoint in a space including the virtual objects.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus has: acquisition means that acquires the position and attitude of a virtual viewpoint and the positions and attitudes of one or more virtual objects; moving means that moves the virtual viewpoint; control means that controls whether to interlock each of the one or more virtual objects with the movement of the virtual viewpoint based on if the virtual object satisfies a predetermined condition; and creation means that creates a virtual image including the one or more controlled virtual objects at the moved viewpoint.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】仮想物体を含む空間において仮想視点を移動する際に、ユーザにとって好適な仮想物体の動作制御を実現する。【解決手段】仮想視点の位置姿勢、及び１以上の仮想物体の位置姿勢を取得する取得手段と、前記仮想視点の移動を行う移動手段と、前記１以上の仮想物体の其々に対して、所定の条件を満たすかに基づいて、前記仮想視点の移動に連動させるかを制御する制御手段と、前記移動された視点での、前記制御された前記１以上の仮想物体を含む仮想画像を生成する生成手段と、を有することを特徴とする。【選択図】図２