US 12,293,453 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and display apparatus for performing a collision avoidance process for avoiding a collision of a virtual camera against a target object
Takayoshi Shimizu, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/916,397
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/016797
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/230073, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-084404 (JP), filed on May 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0154106 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06V 10/74 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 17/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06V 10/761 (2022.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
circuitry configured to
detect, based on a positional relationship between a target object that moves in a virtual space and a virtual camera that moves in the virtual space and images the target object, a proximity state of the target object and the virtual camera, and
perform, depending on the positional relationship between the target object and the virtual camera indicating that the proximity state has been detected, a collision avoidance process for avoiding a collision of the virtual camera against the target object,
wherein the collision avoidance process changes an image capture path of the virtual camera,
wherein the virtual camera initially images the target object along a preset image capture path,
wherein the circuitry performs the collision avoidance process by changing to a different image capture path from the preset image capture path in a case where the proximity state has been detected, and
wherein each image capture path is a path set so that the virtual camera passes through a plurality of relay points in order.