US 11,995,740 B2
Image processing device and image processing method
Shunitsu Kohara, Tokyo (JP); Hidenori Aoki, Tokyo (JP); Hirotake Ichikawa, Tokyo (JP); Shintaro Tsutsui, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Matsuyama, Tokyo (JP); Hajime Wakabayashi, Tokyo (JP); and Atsushi Ishihara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/781,212
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/040442
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 31, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/117366, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-222614 (JP), filed on Dec. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414945 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 13/00 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 11/00 (2013.01) [G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 13/00 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)] 16 Claims
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1. An image processing device, comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU) configured to:
detect a real object in a real world;
generate an AR image visually recognized in such a manner that a virtual object exists in a same space as a real object and output the AR image to a display screen; and
in a case where a position of the real object detected by the real object detection unit is on a near side in a depth direction with respect to a position where the virtual object to be displayed on the display screen is arranged, output an additional virtual object to the display screen on the near side in the depth direction with respect to the position of the real object to hide at least a partial region of a boundary region between the virtual object and the real object.