US 12,438,885 B2
Image processing device, image processing method, and medium
Tomoyuki Shishido, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed by JVCKENWOOD Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/466,866.
Application 18/466,866 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/009316, filed on Mar. 4, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-046053 (JP), filed on Mar. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0007477 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/107 (2013.01) [G06T 11/00 (2013.01); H04L 63/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); G06T 2210/62 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
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1. An image processing device that performs image processing for a virtual space, the image processing device comprising:
a positional information obtainment unit that obtains information on a position of a first avatar that is an avatar of a first user in the virtual space and a position of a second avatar that is an avatar of a second user in the virtual space, the positions being in the virtual space;
a boundary region obtainment unit that obtains information on a first boundary region set for the first avatar, the first boundary region being a region in the virtual space and around the first avatar;
a relation obtainment unit that obtains relational information indicating a relation between the first user and the second user; and
an image processing unit that generates image data for the virtual space such that a first mode of display of the first avatar for when the second avatar is positioned in the first boundary region is made different from a second mode of display of the first avatar for when the second avatar is positioned outside the first boundary region, in a case where the relation does not satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein
the image processing unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied in a case where the relation indicates that the first user and the second user have a friendship with each other, and
the image processing unit changes the first boundary region according to a level of the friendship, and when the first avatar and a third avatar that is an avatar of a third user in the virtual space are communicating with each other, changes the first boundary region.